A/N- okay everyone, first off, on a personal note, my sister has just informed me she was talking to people who's IM screen name she found in profiles. She's been instructed to not do it again, and I'm truly sorry for any inconvenience, and oh yeah, whatever she said about me is not true.

Now, I had an idea for what was going to happen next, but halfway through writing it, decided it was bad. So I came up with this, but it's only going to be one more chapter. But I'm thinking of a sequel, I'm not sure yet, review and tell me what you think. Sorry if this chapters confusing at first, but I think I exlain it enough.

Kitty was always happy with her life at the Brotherhood. Even though there wasn't a whole lot of food, there weren't many people to talk to, or places that they were allowed to go, she was pretty content. She was on good terms with all four members; they were always there to protect her. There was always someone to fight for her, to make up excuses on why she didn't do her homework, or to just hang out with. There was just one thing missing.

Her memories.

Not all of them, mind you. There were some major events there. But she couldn't remember any holidays, or birthdays, or any special events like that. She got headaches a lot, and she was constantly forgetting things that the others talked about.

And there was one thing that really scared her. She couldn't remember why she had gone with Lance over the X-men. She knew she did before, she could remember knowing that she knew why she chose him. But when she woke up this morning, and looked around her bedroom, she had a feeling that she wasn't supposed to be here. Like, something had changed, and no one told her.

She got out of bed, and started down the hall to the bathroom. She closed her eyes and yawned, still walking towards the bathroom; it wasn't like she didn't have the route memorized.

Bang. She hit her head on the wall. 'Hey, wait, the bathroom isn't here,' she thought, putting her hand on the wall. But she knew it was, that's where the bathroom always was. But suddenly, she realized her mistake, and laughed as she turned the other way, to where the bathroom really was.

The way she remembered the bathroom being the other direction, she could picture it in her mind, like she had been there before, it was bugging her. But she pushed the thoughts aside; it was probably a dream that was just too real.

Besides, there were other things to worry about. This morning was going to fully be devoted to figuring out why she joined the Brotherhood.

She could picture the day in her head. She fell out of a locker that two girls had shoved her in, right through the door. The only witness to this miracle was a cute senior who normally wouldn't have given her a second glance. As the day went on, things got stranger and stranger, the boy also had weird powers, and wanted her to join him, and then a girl who looked like she could be a model stepped into the scene.

That's when things really got confusing. The girl had powers too, powers to read her mind. Ah, that's what it was. The girl was trying to mind control her, to take over her brain, making Kitty join her.

Wait a minute, Jean wouldn't do that. She was such a goody-two shoes that she probably didn't even know how to do something that cruel. But that's the way she remembered it, she could picture it in her head. And when Lance brought the building down on her parents, Kitty left with him. But now, she couldn't think of what caused her to do it.

She remembered talking to Pietro about it once, and he said that there were plenty of reasons why she joined them instead of the X-men, and Kitty had believed him. But it didn't make sense. The Brotherhood boys were all guys who didn't care about what others thought. They were loud, sometimes rude, rule breakers, and got horrible grades.

But Kitty could always remember being a sweet, naïve, rule-abiding, straight A student.

Oh well, there was too much to get done to think about the past. Once she finished getting dressed and putting on make-up, she went done to make breakfast. She didn't actually eat any, but Fred went nuts if breakfast wasn't made when he got up.

She got some eggs and a pan out, the thoughts of earlier already forgotten. It wasn't that she was stupid, or had a short attention span, it was just, concentrating on things that were bad just wasn't the Brotherhood's style. Funny as it sounded to others, the Brotherhood was probably the biggest group of optimists ever.

She flipped over the egg in the pan, and started making some French toast. She had always been a natural cook, for as long as she could remember. It was this skill that made her the official Brotherhood cook- a job that she was very proud of.

She put a pan in the sink, and turned the water on. She started to yell as the hot water burnt her hand, but stopped herself, they had water this month, she shouldn't complain. This was one of the lucky months that Magneto had decided to pay some of the bills. Most of the time, they had to live off of what Lance and Pietro made from their jobs.

It wasn't that Magneto didn't want them; in fact, he was doing it for them. He was trying to show them how hard life was, and was preparing them for the lives they would lead when they were old enough to join his team of Acolytes. They all respected Magneto, even though he didn't really have a lot to do with them. Besides a check that would sometimes come in the mail, they barely heard from him. But he was still their leader, and they would follow his orders in a second.

By the time Kitty was halfway though making breakfast, Fred and Todd had already come down. Fred immediately started getting a plate together of food, mumbling a quick 'hello' to Kitty. Todd didn't even manage that, he was not a morning person, and was never alert enough to make out words before seven. Of course, after something to eat, preferably flies, he was his normal, energetic self.

Lance and Pietro came down a little bit later, and by then, Kitty had finished breakfast and the coffee both of the boys drank. Until he had two cups of coffee in him, Kitty swore Lance didn't even open his eyes. She always expected him to walk into a wall or something, but so far, he had mastered his skill at sleep-walking.

After breakfast, the boys went to finish getting ready for school, and Kitty started picking up the living room, another one of her jobs in the Brotherhood house. She always did a great job on all her chores, just to prove to the guys that they needed her. She was proud that she was the only girl in the Brotherhood. They might have been weird, and a little bit on the mean side, but they were hers. No other girl had lived with them, a fact that Kitty was grateful for, she probably would have been jealous of another girl near her boys, even if she was only going out with Lance.

After a couple of minutes, the others came down, and they headed off for school. Lance drove, Fred sat in the passenger seat, and Kitty, Pietro and Todd sat in the back. Kitty sat in the middle, and shoved Todd out of her way when he got to close. It was how they always sat, and Kitty had gotten used to throwing Todd off of her.

When they finally got to school, Kitty kissed Lance goodbye, and headed off to her first period.

"Kitty, Kitty, wait," she heard a voice call from behind her. She turned around; it was Kurt, his image inducer on, waving at her, indicating for her to stop.

"What do you want Kurt?" She asked, annoyed. She didn't have time to fight with him today, she had to show up to class on time, or else she would get a detention, the one thing she refused to get.

"Where have you been?" Kurt asked her.

"What do you mean where have I been," Kitty asked. "I've been at home, I haven't gone anywhere."

"You've been gone two days," Kurt said. "You missed the assembly and everything."

"Kurt, there was no assembly, and I was here the last to days," Kitty said. "I did all my homework, and didn't fight with anyone, are you happy now?"

Kurt looked confused. He knew that Kitty was gone, he had tried to talk to her, but no one had seen her, and she hadn't been in his class.

"Okay, maybe I just didn't see you," Kurt said, and backed off. She obviously had no clue that she was gone, but what did that mean? He would call Scott later and see if he knew anything.

Kitty sighed, and walked to her class. Talking to the x-men was not something she looked forward to, as it always brought up memories of all the things that had happened. But Kurt was the creepiest of them all. She knew that underneath his image inducer, there was a demon, but she couldn't remember when she found out that. It's funny, meeting a demon was something she thought she would remember, but she just knew that she had stopped him from talking to Mystique, and she already knew about 'the fuzzy dude.'

The bell rang just as she slid into her seat. Thankfully, her teacher didn't seem to notice that she was late, which meant no detention for today. The announcements came on, and Kitty put her arms on her desk, and took a quick nap. Making breakfast for Fred and the others was hard work, and she figured she deserved a rest.

"Hola clase," a voice boomed. Kitty jumped in her seat, and blushed at the odd glances her classmates were giving her. Her teacher, who she only knew as Profe, had this thing about yelling as loud as he could at the beginning of class, just to make sure the class was awake. Just the thing Kitty needed to start out a school day.

Next period wasn't much better, even though Todd was in her class. They had to take a test, which Todd hadn't prepared for, and asked Kitty if his answers were right on almost every question.

"Kitty, is this one right?" Todd asked her.

She glanced at his paper, checking the question, and then his answer compared to hers. She blinked. "Todd," she hissed, "that's a yes or no question."

He checked his paper. "Oh, yeah, you're right,' he said. He scribbled down an answer, and moved on to the next one. Kitty sighed, and finished her test.

Two more classes, and it was lunchtime. Kitty cruised past the table where the new recruits were sitting at; ignoring the quizzical looks they gave her. They had also noticed she had been gone, but didn't want to ask her. They had all vowed to avoid her for now, in case they said something wrong, and invoked the wrath of Rogue again. She still wasn't speaking to them, but had gotten Logan to give them an impossible danger room session, one that he knew they weren't capable of doing. Sam still couldn't sit down right, and Jubilee had sworn off all electronics until further notice.

Kitty sat down under a tree with the boys. She always brought a lunch, just because she was too proud to get the free lunch, but the others were happily munching on their free food.

"Are you going to finish you're tater tots?" Pietro asked Lance. Lance quickly grabbed his cartoon of tater tots, afraid that Pietro's powers would take his precious 'tots' away. But while everyone was watching Lance, Pietro ran over to Todd, and grabbed a few from his carton, and was back before anyone noticed.

"Hey, what happened?" Todd asked. "There was a lot more in here!" He was looking in his carton, and realized that half of the tots were gone. While everyone was looking at him, Pietro ran to Lance, and took his now unprotected tots.

Kitty noticed this one, and had a flash of Evan, only, he was stealing milk. But he didn't call it milk, what was it? Moo juice? Was that it? But how could she have known that? She had never been close to Evan, how could she know what he called his milk? She shook it off as another dream, and went back to laughing at Lance's face as he discovered that his tots were missing.

"Hey, do you guys have detention today?" Kitty asked.

"I do," Lance said. "I missed another homework assignment, it's funny, I don't remember getting it."

"Well, knowing you," Pietro said, "you probably were thinking about Kitty, and just missed it, lover boy," and quickly dodged Lance's punch.

"I have detention too," Todd said.

"Me too," said Fred.

"How about you Pietro?" Kitty asked.

Pietro sat back down, and smoothed his hair, just in case one had fallen out of place. "Yeah, I've got it too. Funny how the fastest guy here is late to school every other day, huh?"

The others laughed, and continued eating their lunch. Kitty was once again the only one not in detention. It wasn't that she was a goody-good, like the X-men, but she couldn't stand the thought of being at school any longer than she had to. So she made sure that she stayed on the teacher's good side, no matter how hard it was.

"So, Kitty, are you going to walk home, or wait for us?" Lance asked. "I've only got it for an hour today."

"Nah," Kitty said, "I've got to get home, I'm making spaghetti, and I've got to start simmering the sauce."

"Oh, ok," Lance said as the bell rang. "I'll see you later than." He gave her a quick kiss, and they all headed off to their next class.

Later on that day, Kitty started walking home. Her last two classes were okay, even though her last period teacher was very prejudiced against mutants, and glared at her then entire period.

She hated walking home from school. It would have been okay, if the Brotherhood house was in the middle of the city, but there weren't any houses around it, and she always got creeped out. Imagining things that could happen were easier, and a lot scarier, when there's no one around to tell you its ok.

She looked away as she saw a black van drive towards her, hoping it wasn't jocks, or some other form of mutant haters. She tried to control her breathing as it got too close. She didn't want to show any human that she was afraid of them, that would totally trash the Brotherhood image.

Totally? Man, she was thinking like a valley girl. A valley girl… why did that sound so familiar? She laughed at herself, another crazy dream, geez; Lance would send her to a shrink forever if she told him.

The black van pulled up closer, and finally stopped beside her. Kitty considered running, but knew that the van could catch up no matter how fast she ran. The door to the side opened, and Kitty, who was standing very near to the edge of the sidewalk, was pulled in by someone.

At first she couldn't tell who it was, but suddenly, he transformed, morphed into…

"Mystique," Kitty said, as Mystique put a cloth around her nose and mouth, and Kitty faded away, with the memory of Lance changing into Mystique.

Flashback

"Magneto, I need more time," Mastermind was saying. "I can alter their minds, but without enough time, it won't be foolproof, they might remember their old lives too."

"We don't have enough time," Magneto snapped. "If we don't get them back to school, Xavier will notice. They've already missed two days, we can't afford for Xavier to come in. Besides," he paused, and looked at the four kids strapped to a table, "we have more pressing business than this."

"I can try, but the memories might only last a couple hours," Mastermind said. "Why do we need to do this again?"

Magneto sighed, it wasn't that hard to understand, why couldn't any of his employees get it?

"I admit, I haven't been the greatest leader to the Brotherhood," he said. "They no longer are loyal to me. Well, except for Pietro, but we aren't changing his memories anyway. And this girl," he placed a hand on Kitty's shoulder, "has only fought against me. She has no loyalty to me at all. But with her knowledge of the X-men, she can be very useful indeed. But she won't tell me anything, not without you making her think that I've always been her leader."

"But how will she know anything, if she thinks that she's been with you the entire time?" Mastermind asked.

"When we finish with our other business, we will take her back, and change her memories again, but this time, she'll still slightly think that I was her leader, and that she was only with the X-men for a while. But for now, I want her to only think of me, is that clear?" he asked Mastermind.

"Yes Magneto," Mastermind said. He went back to work, altering the minds of Todd, Fred, Lance and Kitty.

Present time- the Brotherhood house

"Kitty! Kitty, we're home!" Lance called out as he and the others walked in.

Fred sniffed. "You know, I don't smell spaghetti," he said.

"Where'd she go?" Todd asked, as Pietro ran through the house, looking for Kitty.

"She's not here," Pietro said, once he got back.

"But she said she was coming here," Lance said, "where else would she go?"

"You don't think something happened, do you?" Fred asked him.

Lance stood there for a minute, thinking. Where would Kitty have gone? He put a hand to his head, feeling another headache coming on. He'd had a headache almost all day, and wasn't looking forward to another one. Where had she gone other times? He couldn't remember, in fact, now that he thought about it, a lot about Kitty. Just some main points, like when she joined, and when he left here for the X-men.

Joined the X-men? What did that have to do with her? He was on a mission from Magneto, the others didn't even know until they saw him at school. But when he remembered it, he clearly saw Kitty kissing him, right before he left. Something was definitely wrong here.

He noticed Pietro start to sneak off. Whenever he did that, Magneto was in charge, and Pietro didn't want to get caught in the crossfire.

"Hey, where are you going?" Lance asked, grabbing Pietro's shirt before he could run off.

"It's okay Lance, Magneto has her," Pietro said. "But only for a little bit, she'll be back in no time."

"Why would Magneto want her?" Lance asked.

Pietro hesitated, wondering how much he should say, but then confessed. "He wants information on the X-men."

Lance laughed, "What would Kitty know about the X-men?" He asked, "She hates them just as much as we do."

Pietro stared at lance funny. "How much of your memory did they change?" he asked quietly. "They weren't supposed to change everything."

"What are you talking about?" Lance asked, picking Pietro up. "Kitty would never be an X-man… Oh, my god." Memories were flowing through his head, he dropped Pietro in shock. Kitty was an X-men, she had joined them for a week. And already Magneto had ruined it for him. Kitty would never want to stay with them now.

Fred and Todd looked confused, but suddenly, Todd seemed to be going through the same thing Lance was.

"The cabin," he said. "That's where this all started."

"Is he going to hurt her?" Lance asked Pietro.

Pietro looked miserably down at the floor. "Mastermind will have to change her memories again; Magneto doesn't know if her mind can take it."

"What are you saying?" Lance asked.

"You better find her now," Pietro said, "Magneto won't wait for you to stop him, he might have already started."

Lance cursed, and ran out to his jeep, Fred and Todd following, and they set off to save their teammate.

Ok, just to let you know, I haven't seen that much of the 3rd season, so some information on Mastermind might be messed up. But it's AU, so who cares? Anyway, I hope I got mostly everything explained, review if there's something else please!