A.N Disclaimer saying I don't own the people except for Kat, the rest is all marvels.


Anyway, it's been ages since if done anything with this story and that has a lot to do with the fact that I lost all my drafts, notes, character profiles and thoughts for this story. So I'm re-writing this chapter then I'm going to forge ahead and come up with the rest of the story as I go along. So here's the re-write. Enjoy.

Chapter 4: The after math.

Kat heard the whisper of voices as she swum in a daze through darkness. She tried to listen to what was being said but it blended together, the volume rising and falling like waves in the sea.
'Weird' she thought to herself. 'I'm sure there's something important that I should be remembering right now'. She struggled with the memory, but the soft, warm blackness around her was distracting.
'Remy and Logan should be here' She thought dreamily, 'I'm sure they would like it too. Oh!'

Kat snapped suddenly into consciousness, tearing her eyes open. She was in her room that much she knew. There were people near her. She turned her head slightly and saw Gambit and Logan standing by her door talking to someone she couldn't see.

"What makes you so sure it's fine?" Anger filled Logan's voice

"Because I know Kat, she's done this before. She's fine."

Kat knew that voice. It was Toby one of the boys from her gang, he sounded exasperated, not that she blamed him. Knowing Logan he had probably been explaining this for the last half hour well dodging his claws.

"If she's fine then why is she unconscious?" Logan's growled.

"Calm down mon ami, I'm sure there's a reason" Gambit carefully placed a hand on Logan's shoulder.

"Kat will tell you." Toby said with a smile in his voice. "She's awake now."

The two men spun around to look at her, then rushed over to her bed. Logan got there first. He stood by her bed and glared down at her.

"You have a lot of explaining to do."

Kat sat up slowly, if Toby said she was fine, then she was fine but she didn't want to push it. When she was upright she moved to push her bangs out of her eyes and froze. Her hair or what she could see of it, was green. 'Well. . . That's new.'

"I guess I'll deal with that later" she said, wincing as her voice came out as a croak.

Toby leaned around Logan and handed her a glass of water with a grin. She grabbed it and gulped it down, ending with a contented sigh.

"Thanks man." She said with a grin at the young man. "I'll come have a cheek up tomorrow ok?"

"Sure, sure." He agreed with a nod and left the room, probably heading back to the HQ.

"So." Kat looked back at Logan and Gambit. "Who wants a story?"

"Why did ya lie about being a mutant?" Logan was blunt, guess you had to expect it really

"I didn't lie, I'm not a mutant."

Logan gave her a glare that would strip paint and she glared right on back

"Hear me out ok?" She snapped.

He nodded grudgingly.

"Ok so I was born in New Zealand, right?" The men blinked in surprise. "My Grandma moved there from England when she was real young and grew up there. At some point she joined a coven, you know what that is, aye?" They nodded. "Ok so she was in a coven for three years. It was all going good, then on the fourth year she turned 18 and things started to happen. I won't go into details but she basically found out she can talk to trees. Weird I know, but what can you do?

Logan rolled his eyes. "So then she was a mutant?"

"Na" Kat shook her head. "Don't think mutants where even heard of back then. She was a witch. She met a guy from another coven, got married and had my mum. Then suddenly she died at the age of 30. My Ma was 10. Her dad split. There one day gone the next, real Houdini work. He left my Ma with the coven."

Both men looked shocked at this.

"At the age of 16 Ma found out that she too was a witch. 'Cept instead of embracing it she rejected it. She and my dad eloped when they were 17, had me a year later. When I was 6 mum found me playing with ribbons of fire, she told me never to do it again. She was terrified my dad would find out. I ran way when I was 9, travelled and ended up here. I've almost got the hang of the whole fire thing, the others through me a loop when I found out I had them too though."

Gambit and Logan stayed silent, processing this information. Kat waited for their reaction.

"So…" said Gambit "why didn't you jus' tell us dis before?"

She grinned, "You didn't ask. Now can someone hand me a mirror, I want to see the damage to my hair."

Gambit handed her a mirror, looking a bit disgruntled. Kat looked herself over. Nothing had changed, except her fringe was now a bright emerald green.

"Wow" she said "that's…. Different"

"It might washout" Logan suggested hopefully.

"I think it's cool." Kat said with a shrug. "Note to self, using to much magic makes your hair go green.."

She rolled out of bed with a groan, her body protesting the movement. She pushed away the pain, she had felt much worse before.

Logan smiled, "I'll go make us somethin' to eat." He walked out of the room.

Gambit turned around and pulled Cat into a tight hug.

"Don't scare me like dat again, p'tite" he murmured into her ear.

She smiled and pulled back. "You worry too much, Cajun. Don't get so stressed."

With that she wondered into her bathroom to take a shower.

Gambit stood in the middle of her room for a while. 'Merdi. I've turned into an old man. Since when do I worry so much? She just got a little bit roughed up and I act like she's died or dying. He sighed and rubbed his hands over his face then turned to walk out of the room. 'Get a hold of yourself boy, she aint yours to worry about, she's made that clear.'

Sorry it so short. I'll get more up soon. Please R&R. I need to know what people think and how I can improve. Thanks.