Chapter 9

Saturday morning, a knock roused up everyone in the mansion. Kitty walked to the door limply, still in pain from her fight. "Petite, is Peter here?" Kitty looked at him angry.

"He's no longer welcome over here, and you never were--how'd you get passed our security?" She questioned.

"Chere, you're looking at the best--" Remy got sidetracked. "Never mind dat. Peter's family is in danger."

Kitty looked uncaring. "I wouldn't care. He's proven where his loyalties are--" Remy broke her off in frustration and pushed inside.

"You don' understand," he spoke to her in a low voice. "Magneto was blackmailing Peter to do his bidding. He was holding his family, and after he was assigned to get close to you, he actually was falling for you." Kitty's heart sank as low as it could possibly go. She was right all along about him, and everyone else was wrong. "If we don' find him or do something, Sabertooth will kill his mother, father and little sister. They all he has left." Remy finished dramatically. There was no other explanation needed, Kitty was convinced . . . wow, Remy was a really charismatic kind of guy. Not to mention, not that bad looking either.

Kitty had no time to lose, she would go to the professor and tell him she needed to go to Siberia. What was she thinking? She knew how to fly the X-Jet and she got her license for it, this was a mission of life or death. Kitty pulled along Remy behind her, as he was bedazzled by the size of the house. She lead him down to the loading bay and once more Remy stopped to bask in the enormousness.

"Uh, petite, don't want to seem scared but," he watched as she switched on the engine. "Do you know how to fly?"

"I have my license from my training," Kitty looked at Remy's face go from pale to puce green.

"That what Remy didn' want to hear." He strapped himself in and Kitty rolled her eyes.

"Hang on." The hanger jittered open noisily, and the take off part was no quiet picnic either. Kitty programmed the coordinates into the computer and off they flew.

Twelve hours away on a small farm in Siberia, Russia near Lake Baikal, Sabertooth marched up the road. He had a grotesque look on his face, he was craving for blood . . .

"Can't you get us there faster," Remy paced around and asked, for what felt like the millionth time.

"I don't understand, Professor Xavier said you guys didn't care about anyone but yourselves. Why are you going all out for Peter?"

"It just be the way I was raised," Remy stopped pacing and sat in the seat next to Kitty. "Are we there yet?" Kitty was just about to lose her temper, when over the radio she got a transmission from Xavier.

"X-Jet, come in. Kitty, can you hear me?" Oh boy, she was in trouble now. "What are you thinking?"

"Peter's family is in danger, I was right all along about him." Kitty felt like she had been lifted high above the clouds. She felt so happy in saying that Peter wasn't bad.

"I realize that now, and I'm sorry for my mistake in not believing in your word, or his." Xavier said.

Kitty looked over to Remy and then went back to the dispatcher. "Permission to take on this mission sir?"

"Permission granted." Xavier said after a time of pondering. "Might I add that you won't be facing this on your own . . . I'm sending out Logan, Kurt and Peter--"

"Peter's there?" Remy and Kitty both looked at each other shocked.

"He's relinquished his ties with Magneto and humbly applied to join our cause." The radio was beginning to break up. Kitty messed around with the tuner but she couldn't get the signal back. That didn't matter, she had backup on her tail.

Several hours later Kitty finally arrived in Siberia and now only needed to find a place to land. "This is like a packed parking lot. Do you see anywhere to land, Remy?" He searched the landscape below. Nowhere for miles could he see a clearing. But wait . . .

"There!" He shouted, and pointed to a large open field. Kitty also saw this, though, there was something else. As Kitty lowered the jet, grey smoke shot from a small farm house into the sky above. "Mon dieu," Remy said quietly. "We're too late." Kitty said, her breathing becoming short and shallow.

Kitty jumped out of the jet immediately after she made a clean landing. She ran and kept running through the field, Remy following behind. The smoke got thicker as she ran toward the house. She could see the small house consumed by the fire that just kept burning, until there was nothing left. "Chere, don't get too close!" Kitty kept running, never looking back. Remy grabbed her by her thin waist, spinning her away and held on tight.

"No!" Kitty screamed, looking back. "I have to save them!" The fire crackled and popped, shards of wood bursting out. "Let me go--I have to . . . " Kitty cried into Remy's chest.

Logan piloted the Blackbird over the cloud ridge. Peter looked outside and saw the burning memories of his childhood. Engulfed by anger he transformed into his armor self and broke open the door. "Peter, stay put!" Unfortunately he already jumped, twenty thousand feet, and possibly more, from the Blackbird down to the ground below. It took him a moment to get back on his feet, but when he did he ran into his home.

Still in a crying fit, Kitty just stood there. Kurt got out of the Blackbird and ran to his dear friend. "I'm sorry Kitty, I'm truly, deeply sorry. I should have never doubted you." He hugged her and took over for Remy.

Logan threw over a wet blanket on his body and ran toward the house, just as Peter came out. "They're not here!" He screamed.

"What are you talking about?" Logan looked making eye contact.

"They're somewhere else," Peter dearmored, his skin burned slightly. "Katya," he said to her gently, "My family is not dead. There is no trace of them here." She was still crying, glad to see his face.

"I'll never doubt you again," Kitty said and pulled his lips to hers. Kurt looked at them for a moment, then squinted his eyes away.

Peter's family was somewhere in Russia, but where? He did not know, he didn't know whether Magneto had them, or if he ever had them. There was one thing for sure though, he had to find them before it was truly too late.

Back at the Xavier Mansion, Professor Xavier and everyone else, were outside saying goodbye to their newest ally.

"Katya, I don't know how long my journey will go on, but I will never forget you. Whenever the Saturdays come, know that I'll be thinking of you."

"And I you, Piotr Rasputin." Peter put down his bag for just a moment and brought Kitty into a kiss. Remy, now a member of the X-Men team, looked at Rogue suggestively.

"In yo dreams swamp rat," she spat at him and went back inside.

Peter walked toward the Blackbird with Ororo piloting, and waved goodbye as he walked up the steps.

AN: This story is over, now go read and review the sequel 'Siberia' ^_^