I do not own claim to any of the X-Men or their universe (just my girl Mimik) and I make no money from this. Enjoy!

I smile up at mommy, watching her peel potatoes with her sharp claws and then I watch her black, furry tail wave back and forth and I make my smaller black furry tail copy her movements.

She holds out a potato and I hold the pot up so she can put it in with the rest.

"Are we eating deer tonight mommy?"

She chuckles, "We'll have to see what daddy brings home for us, now won't we?"

I nod and think of daddy out in the woods running after a frightened bunny and giggle.

Mommy looks down at me flashing her sharp teeth and her yellow eyes sparkle, "What's so funny Kitten?"

"I shake my head smiling, "Nothing."

She puts her potato down and then suddenly turns around tickles me, her claws now normal fingers again.

I laugh and run away, still holding the pot. I run towards the door and put it down on the couch before opening the door and running outside.

I hear mommy running after me and then stop.

I turn around and see mommy near the door looking angry.

I sniff and smell something I know. I follow my nose like daddy always tells me to do and behind one of the nearest trees I spot a hand holding out a stuffed tiger.

I recognize those claws!

I run towards the tree and jump up at the man hiding there, "Uncle Vic!"

He picks me up and squeezes me, purring. I wrap my arms around his neck and try to purr too, but it only sounds like a growl.

He chuckles and says, "You're getting good at that Kitten."

I grin and he walks us over to mommy who looks mad.

He nods at her, "Hey Kat."

She looks out at the trees and says, "Victor, you know you shouldn't be here. If James were here-"

Uncle Vic puts me down and hands me the tiger, "He's not here?"

She lashes her tail and says, "He's out catching dinner, but he should be back soon."

I look up at Uncle Vic, he's super tall and big, I like daddy better he's more mommy's size.

"Can't Uncle Vic stay for dinner mommy?"

She frowns at me, "You know daddy doesn't like Uncle being around too long."

He grumbles, "Come on sis, the Runt wouldn't deny his Kitten a dinner with her favorite uncle would he?"

I walk over to mommy showing her the tiger that smells like Uncle Vic and she pats my head, "Last time you visited you and Logan got into a fight and she wouldn't behave for a week."

He grins at me and says, "Good girl."

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He puts down a bag he had slung over his shoulder, "Look Kat we need to talk."

Mommy puts up a hand and says, "No Victor, I'm putting my foot down this time. I know what you do for work and I don't want that here. I know that because of what father did… you're not right Victor. If I could've stopped him back then you know I would've done my damndest, but now… I'm sorry Vic, but I'm not going to let Kim grow up with your history hanging over our heads."

I look at mommy's sad face and see it on Uncle Vic too.

I give my tiger to mommy and walk back over to Uncle Vic and hug him he kneels down and hugs me back, it almost smells like he's crying, but I know that Uncle Vic never cries.

I sniff something else in the air too, it's not daddy but I smell people.

Uncle Vic stiffens and looks towards the smell.

Mommy smells it too and looks scared, "Victor! Who are they? Are they after you?"

He squeezes me tightly and then stands up, pushing me towards mommy.

I grab her hand, "Mommy who are they?"

Uncle Vic looks towards the smell again says, "They're here for you and James."

Mommy pushes me towards the house saying, "Go inside Kitten."

I stand in the doorway and watch as her tail lashes back and forth and her claws become sharper, "What have you done Victor?"

Uncle Vic picks up his bag again, "They found me and I got caught. And then they found out about you three. I got out and came to warn ya, but it looks like I wasn't fast enough. You need to get Kim and get out of here now."

Mommy just shakes her and so Uncle Vic yells at her, "They aren't the police, Katherine! They're a government program that's been pickin' off mutants for experiments! And they want all of us, especially her!"

He points to me and mommy looks back at me scared.

"Mommy is the people that I smell bad?"

I hug my tiger as mommy nods. I hear a stick snap and mommy looks at the trees.

Uncle Vic watches the trees and says to mommy, "Go now. Go find James and get the hell outta here. I'll hold them off."

Mommy rushes over to pick me up and I drop my tiger, but mommy doesn't let me get it.

She runs towards the trees where daddy is and stops quickly to look at Uncle Vic and says, "Thank you Victor."

He nods and mommy runs towards the smell of daddy.

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Mommy is faster and stronger than a regular person and we made it to the open spot of trees where daddy was in no time.

He was kneeling next to a deer that was lying on its side.

I could smell the yummy redness and wanted some.

Daddy stands up and looks at us and then frowns, "What's wrong and why do I smell your piece of shit brother?"

Mommy shakes her head and says, "James we need to run, Victor is holding them off but I don't know how long he'll last, I think there were a lot of them."

Daddy lets his claws come out, long bones from his hand, they're really strong.

I saw daddy chop down a big tree with them.

"Who's here Kat? Is this about Victor?"

She shifts me on her hip and looks behind us, "He said they were something to do with the government, I don't know I thought you might know seeing as you were both in that group. Please Logan let's just go!"

He growls and then looks at me and nods. Mommy walks over to him and he hugs us both tight and then he pushes us ahead of him and mommy starts to run. I watch daddy running behind us and then suddenly he yells.

"Daddy!"

Something big and green just hit him.

Mommy stops and turns around and watches as he fights with this person all covered in green scales, like the big snake in the garden.

More people are in the trees, coming closer, but mommy is just yelling for daddy to stop fighting and keep running.

I flinch as something hits mommy in the shoulder, it looks like one of the metal things daddy throws at the board on the wall at home.

Mommy puts me down and says, "Run! Run Kimmy! Now!"

I don't want to leave mommy and daddy behind but mommy pushes me into the trees.

I watch as other strange looking people along with men all dressed in black with guns come out of the trees and mommy goes back to help daddy fight off the bad people.

I run into the woods like mommy said and I can hear shouts from behind me. I keep running until I hear a big cat roar, that's mommy's yell!

I run back to them and I can hear daddy yelling loudly too. Mommy sounded like she got hurt…

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I go back and hide behind a tree and peek to see what happened.

Daddy is on the ground holding someone in his lap and rocking like he was in his favorite chair.

I can smell blood and see a bunch of people lying on the ground around him.

There a bunch of those metal things sticking out of him. There are more bad people in the trees watching like me and eventually he falls over onto his side.

I run out of my hiding spot and over to him. He's not moving!

Then I see mommy, she smells different. Her eyes are open and she's looking up at nothing.

I try to shake her and her hand just flops on the ground, "Mommy wake up!"

I feel something on her tummy and see red soaking through her pretty blue shirt.

I'm crying but mommy won't wake up and so I try shaking daddy and say, "Daddy, get up! Mommy is hurt! Daddy!"

I hear something and see one of the bad people in the black. I block him from getting close to mommy and daddy and try growling like what mommy and daddy do.

The person laughs at me and says to the other bad people, "Looks like we got a little fighter on our hands guys."

He tries to grab me but I stab his hand with my claws, just like daddy's except mine are smaller and I have more than he does.

He jumps back, "You little bitch!"

He points his gun at me and shoots me.

I fall down and look at where it hurts and see two more of the metal things in my leg. I start crying and he laughs again.

The other bad people swarm around us, picking up daddy. And then the mean man grabs my hair and makes me stand up.

I scream because he's hurting me and I don't feel good.

He throws me at another person and they pull me away, just leaving mommy there. I keep yelling for mommy but nobody listens.

They take me back to the house and I see Uncle Vic standing there waiting.

He runs over and picks me up and says to the mean man, "You said you weren't going to hurt her."

He pulls the metal things out of my leg and I cry harder, it hurts a lot.

The man shows Uncle Vic his hand and says, "That little bitch stabbed me!"

Uncle growls and says, "You have James and Kat, I'm going now."

"No! Uncle Vic! They hurt mommy! We need to go get her!"

He looks at a man in a blue fancy suit and says, "What did you do to Kat?"

The man smiles, "She was the one who jumped in the fray to help her mate. One of the other mutants got a little too… zealous. And so seeing as we are one mutant short, we'll be taking the girl as well."

Uncle Vic growls again, "You said that if I gave you my sister and her husband you'd let me and the kid go."

The man admires his finger nails, "I don't make deals with mutants and besides won't the child resent you for getting her mother killed and her father captured? You would be better off just giving her to us anyway."

Uncle Vic holds me tighter and snarls, "Over my dead body!"

The fancy man smiles again, "As you wish…"

He waves his hand and Uncle Vic roars as he is shot by the metal things. Another one hits me and suddenly I start to feel even sicker and I start to get sleepy.

Uncle Vic turns around and shields me from the gun fire and falls down grunting in pain and I fall asleep in his arms.

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My eyes fly open, causing immense pain to shoot through my skull before becoming a dull throb.

I recognize the blue steel of the basement level and as I start to take in my other senses I hear the now familiar beeping sound from the machines in the med lab.

I try to sit up but every time I move more pain blooms in my head.

I clench my teeth, steeling myself for the rush of pain, as I force myself to sit up quickly.

"Fuck!"

I put both hands to my head and lean forward, reeling from the pain.

"You shouldn't be sitting up, you need rest."

I look up to see Beast standing in front of me, holding a clip board and frowning.

"Why does my head feel like it's been under a jack hammer for the past week?"

The pain is fading agonizingly slowly.

I keep one hand to my head use the other to rip the white blanket off me.

Thankfully I'm still dressed and not in one of those gowns again.

Beast holds out a hand, stopping me, "Before you try to get up I really need to do a quick check to see if the head trauma has affected any motor functions."

"Head trauma? I don't remember hitting my head; I just remember getting the worst migraine I've ever felt in my life. Almost felt like my head was actually gunna split in half and explode."

Beast nods, "From what I can deduce, the mind therapies and mutant hypnosis you've undergone throughout your life have made it so any memories trying to resurface produce painful headaches. If you weren't a mutant that would have killed you, acting just like you had a brain aneurysm."

"Well that's just fucking brilliant."

I look up quickly, pain making me regret the movement, looking for Logan in the corner like he was in last time.

"Where's Logan?"

Beast stops dead in the middle of checking a monitor, glancing at me he says, "We thought it best if we waited until we were sure you were ok, before we allowed him to come in. He's most likely waiting right outside or in the Danger Room."

Recalling the dream that I had I swing my legs over the edge of the bed, hissing through clenched teeth at the pain. Beast protests but I drop down, keeping a firm grip on the bed.

"I'm fine, I've lived through worse shit that a headache."

I take a deep breath and step forward, preparing for a fall. I smile a little as I find that I can walk perfectly fine, but the pain is making my vision go blurry round the edges.

Beast stands close ready to catch me if need be.

I walk towards the door, using anything stable to help keep me moving.

I open it and peek out, smiling as I see Logan leaning up against the wall further down.

His head snaps towards me and he stares, emotions flying over his face. Worry, sadness, anger, pain, frustration, happiness…

I walk over to him and as he pushes off the wall I notice a little girl hiding behind him, gripping his leg tightly.

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"Hi."

"Hey Kiddo, how're you feeling?"

"I've felt better. My head feels like it got run over by a train, other than that I'm pretty good."

He frowns as I sway a little bit, "You need to lie down kid."

"I'll be fine. We need to talk first."

"I understand that, but we can't have you passing out in the middle of the hall…"

I shift back to my green self and sigh as some of the pain fades.

The girl starts to cry and grips Logan's leg tighter.

"Who's the kid?"

I point to his leg and he glances down and then back up at me, looking at me like I'm crazy, "What kid?"

"The one holding on to your leg, sniveling."

Logan glances over to Beast who followed me out of the Med Lab, "There isn't anyone there."

"Stop fucking with me, I can see her, right there."

I kneel down and hold out a hand to the kid, "Come here so these guys can see you."

She stops crying and slowly peeks her head out from behind Logan's leg. "See its okay, come on. I won't hurt you."

She lets go of Logan's leg and steps out into plain view in the hall.

"Holy shit…"

She looks up at me scared, her small, black cat tail drooping to the floor. I stand up and back up a bit,

"Maybe I am crazy..."

I point to the little girl with the black hair and the teary green cat's eyes, "No one else can see her right?"

She looks at Logan and Beast who shake their heads and she starts to sniffle, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Shit! Why the fuck does all this shit happen to me?"

I look up at Logan who's confused.

"Did you see that one picture? The one of me right after they got me- us? That's who I'm looking at right now."

She tugs on Logan's jeans, "Daddy, I wanna see mommy."

I feel like I just got punched in the gut. Mommy… That dream… It really happened.

"Maybe you guys are right, I need to lie down some more. My head's just fucking with me is all."

Beast nods in agreement, "It is possible that the head pain may have triggered hallucinations. Rest would be my first suggestion and if it persists I'll run some scans."

He waves me into the med lab and I shake my head, "I'm not gunna be able to willingly sleep in there."

Logan understands and says, "Then I'll take ya to your room."

I hold up a hand and point to the child he can't see, "I think I'll walk alone cause she seems to be attached to you, daddy."

He flinches a little at that title and looks at the floor.

"Besides it'll give you some time to think of a good excuse why you didn't tell me as soon as I was conscious the first time."

He opens his mouth to say something and I wave my hand, "Not now."

I walk down the hall, past a shocked Beast, towards the elevator and quickly enter.

As soon as the door closes I lean against the door and sigh.

My head hurts, I'm seeing small non-existent kids, and I just blew off the guy who's supposedly my father. And then there's that dream… Sabertooth is my uncle…

That son of a bitch sold us out, well he wanted to save me, but still. What kind of garbage trades his sister and her husband to a group who you know are going to experiment on them like animals?

If I ever see that bastard again, I'll kill him.

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The door slides open and I quickly slip out, making my way through the halls to the stairs.

I glance out a window and see that it's dark out and as I pass by a clock on a wall I find that it's 8pm.

I was out for a good 4 hours at least…

As I get to the stairs a group of teenagers are coming in the front doors all talking loud and laughing. I run up the stairs, hopefully before they noticed me, and run around the corner to the hall where my room is.

I slow down as I approach the door, remembering that I was not given the key again.

I punch the wall next to it in frustration and slide down the wall to sit on the floor, waiting for someone or something to come by to help.

I'd use my claws but I want to be able to close the door once I get in there and I don't have a lock pick set to use either.

I could try teleporting in, but seeing as I haven't practiced the ability enough I could end up on the other side of the mansion or in a wall.

I begin to lean my head against the wall when I hear a door open.

I glance down the hall and see Gambit exiting his room, rubbing his red eyes and yawning.

"Gambit!"

He turns and grins when he sees me, "Hello cher and how are you dis lovely evening?"

He walks over and smiles down at me.

"I could be a lot better. Logan never gave me the key…"

He starts digging through his brown duster's pockets, "I have just de ting!"

He pulls out a really nice lock pick set and opens it up, selecting a couple that seem to have a little more wear than the rest. He kneels down in front of the door and within a few seconds it clicks and he opens the door.

"You do this quite often I take it?"

He stands and waves his hand towards the door, "Dis ain't nuthin' for a tief."

"A thief, huh? How did you end up here then?"

I stand up and he says, "It's a long story mon cher, maybe one day Gambit tell ya."

"Thanks, if you happen to spot Logan can you tell him to slide my key under the door?"

He smiles, "Sure ting, cher."

He walks away and I quickly slip into my room, the door clicking behind me.

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I sigh, leaning against the door as the headache flares up again.

Suddenly giggles start emanating from the opposite corner of the room.

I flick on the light and snarl as I see that damn girl, jumping on my bed.

I storm over to her and she stops, standing there, looking intently at me.

"Why the fuck do I keep seeing you?"

She shrugs, "I dunno, can we see mommy now?"

"Mommy is dead kid, we- I saw her corpse."

Oh shit, here come the tears.

"Look, you're not even real, you're some little trick my head is playing. Now if you don't mind I want to try and get rid of this headache and you're certainly not helping."

She drops down onto the bed, bawling, "I am too real! You're a meany! I'm gunna tell my Uncle Vic on you and he's gunna hurt you!"

I grab her by the collar of her dress and say, "Listen brat, get the fuck outta my room and outta my head! I grew up! The little girl who had a happy life with her family is gone and there ain't no way she coming back."

She screams and I toss her to the floor, hoping this hallucination will just disappear, she feels real enough though…

She runs over and bites me on the leg, I kick her off and she flies into the dresser.

I watch as she just lays there not moving. Did I just kill my hallucination? I sit down on the edge of the bed and watch her, hoping she'll disappear and leave me alone.

I rub my green knuckles and recall the research in the file.

I wasn't supposed to look like this…

I was like her at one point in my life.

I growl and turn my attention back towards the kid.

Where the hell did she go?

She just vanished, maybe I'm done hallucinating.

Something touches my shoulder and I whip around, ready to stab whatever it is.

I snarl as I see the girl standing there grinning, her little tail waving back and forth.

"Why won't you go away?"

She cocks her head, still smiling, "Can I see mommy now?"

My vision starts to go reddish and blurry as the headache flares again.

I snarl and slam my claws into her chest. She stares at the claws and says, "That's not nice…"

She holds out a little hand and reaches out to touch the back of my neck.

I yell out in pain as Wraith's device starts shooting currents of electricity through my body. I reel back, falling off the bed, hitting the floor painfully.

"What the fuck?"

She peers over the edge of the bed and giggles, "Did you forget about the shocky-thing?"

It stops and I look up at her, panting.

"What are you?"

She smiles and leans farther over the edge of the bed, "I'm you silly. The little you, from before we got caught by the bad men."

I painfully sit up and stare at her, "I know that, but you're not real. No one else can see you…"

She shakes her head, "I am real! I am as real as you because we're the same person!"

"That makes no sense."

She points to my head, "You kept me in there, locked up by the bad men. The old man helped fix us when the locked up memories were hurting our head."

"What's with this us and our shit? It's MY head, MY memories."

So Xavier somehow caused all this? That must've been the white…

So that feeling where it was like my head was splitting in two was because- Because the functional memories were conflicting with the ones that the lab boys buried?

And somehow when Xavier did whatever he did, he formed my childhood memories into some sort of split personality hallucination?

She nods, smiling, "Yup, that's what happened."

"You can hear my thoughts now too?"

She giggles and nods.

I lay back on the floor, pressing my hands to my eyes in frustration, "Fuuuuuuuuuck!"

I hear her drop down off the floor and stand near me, "So can I see mommy now?"

I uncover my eyes and look up at her, "What?"

This shit again?

"Our mom is dead kid, I already told you-"

"NO!"

She covers her ears and shakes her head, "Mommy was just hurt, we just have to go back and find her and she'll be alright! Daddy and Uncle Vic can help her!"

"Our Dad doesn't even remember us and Uncle Vic is the asshole that got her killed and put me and Logan in that hell hole."

She shakes her head harder and then growl a little bit, sounds like a little cub.

She points at me and says, "Remember you still have the shocky-thing! Stop being mean!"

I sit up and slide away from her, "What do you want me to do? I can't give you what you want, kid."

"We just need to go back and help mommy."

"Back? Like to where we used to live?"

She nods, "Yeah, mommy is there, I know it."

"I don't even know where the house was! And what makes you think I'm just gunna go traipsing around on your little goose chase?"

She grins, "If you take me, I'll stop shocking you and maybe I'll even go away."

I whip my tail back and forth, "Does it have to be right now? Can I sleep on it or something?"

She pouts and her tail droops and then she jumps up and smiles, "Fine, tomorrow we'll go!"

I sigh and stand up, "So how does this hallucination thing work? Do you just disappear or what?"

I glance at her and then turn to look at the room, figuring out how I could make another place to sleep if that's how this thing works.

I turn back to her, "So how- Where'd you go?"

Did she disappear or is she just fucking with me? I wait for a few minutes just standing there in the middle of the room.

The headache seems to be pretty much gone; maybe it only flares up when she shows up?

I sigh in relief when she doesn't come back and then exhaustion hits me full force.

I check the door to make sure it's locked and then I flip my boots and socks off before turning the light off.

Before I climb onto the bed I remove my borrowed pants, folding them perfectly (another bit of training) and place them on the dresser.

The bed is huge and comfy; I don't think I've ever had a bed this nice before.

As I snuggle under the covers I begin to wonder if I'll be able to fall asleep on something this cushy and the next thing I know I'm out like a light.