Kitty, who had gotten control of her giggles by this time, left the room to go get her children, suggesting, as she left the room, that the others do so too.

She smiled to herself as she walked to the other side of the huge school, where the kindergartners were. Poor Jean! Kitty knew she'd die if anything like that happened to her. Luckily, Kitty wasn't a teacher. She had worked with a large computer company, but when she got pregnant, she quit, and moved back to Xavier's Institute to raise her kids. And Kurt was supposed to be there....Kitty shook her head. No, she wasn't going to think about him right now. She'd done enough thinking about her husband over the past three years. Not now, not on this beautiful day.

But it was hard to fight.

She could still remember the day he disappeared.

It was the day Kitty learned she was pregnant. She and Kurt had been married for two years. They'd always dreamed of having children. They went out to celebrate her pregnancy. They went dancing, and had dinner in the fanciest restaurant in town. They were just leaving, when he realized he'd left his wallet inside. Kitty waited outside...but he never came back. Kitty returned to the mansion alone and worried sick. Cerebro couldn't find Kurt, neither could the other X-men when Xavier sent them out to look for him.

For a whole year, Kitty kept hoping he'd return, but he never did. Everybody presumed he was dead, but Kitty wouldn't listen to them. She'd know if he was dead. To this day she still believed he was alive, but her hope for his return had died, a long time ago. She still dreamt about him sometimes. She still called herself Mrs. Wagner. She'd never remarried, or had a real, lasting relationship with anyone else. And she'd named her twins the names she and Kurt had decided on long ago. She still loved him, with all her heart.

Kitty turned the corner and entered the bright, cheery room full of children getting ready to go home. Professor Xavier had turned his Institute into a school. There were now full classes from kindergarten to highschool, and there was talk of opening up a college for mutants soon. The children were taught everything that a normal school would teach them, but they also learned to use and control their powers.

The teachers were mostly like Jean and Scott, mutants who had been helped by Xavier as kids. A few had no powers, like Miss Alcott, the young woman who taught the kindergarten class Kitty's twins were in. The kindergarten and lower classes had the least students, as very few mutants gain their powers so young, but Angelina and Friedrich Wagner had been born with their abilities, both of their parents having been mutants themselves.

"Hello, Mrs. Wagner!" Alice Alcott beamed, looking up from the coat she was zipping up around a young boy who could create beautiful crystals in his hands.

"Hi, Alice," Kitty greeted her.

"Mommy!" Angelina Wagner ran across the room into her mother's arms, closely followed by her brother. Kitty greeted them, and admired their paintings, and took them back to the suite they called their home up on the top floor of Xavier's mansion. Kitty and Kurt had always talked of getting their own place, but they never got around to it. And now Kitty wouldn't dream of leaving. Anyway, she didn't really have much money.

As they had some time before dinner (Evan was cooking tonight) Kitty got Angelina and Friedrich into their coats and took them to the park, to let them burn off some of their bubbly child energy so they would behave somewhat at dinner. They really were great kids. She loved them to pieces, and so did everyone else. But sometimes they did get a little too much for her.

"Mommy!" Friedrich's cry of despair broke Kitty from her thoughts. She looked at Friedrich. His eyes no longer had pupils, they were all gold, as if they were made from metal, and bolts of energy were coming from his eyes. Friedrich was crying, but Angelina knew what to do. She went around the back of him, and grabbed him, holding him while Kitty ran to him.

"Its okay, Ricky," Kitty said soothingly. She stoked his hair and wrapped an arm around his shoulder, careful not to face him. His golden eyes were still shooting a continuous stream of yellow energy.

"Shhh, don't cry, Ricky. Focus, Concentrate on pulling back your shield," Kitty said.

"But I can't!" Friedrich wailed. Kitty glanced around to see if anybody was near. No one could see Friedrich like this. Mutants still tried to hide themselves from normal people.

"Yes, you can, darling!" Kitty said, "Think about what color the grass is, and the sky. Not yellow - blue and green!"

"Conc'trate!" Angelina said seriously. Friedrich took a deep breath, and the stream of energy stopped as the gold 'eyelid' began to slide back up into his forehead, and was gone. Kitty smiled at her son and hugged him, "There you go! I knew you could do it!"

They decided to go home after that. Kitty watched Friedrich as they walked back to the mansion. That was Friedrich's power. He had a second eyelid made of some hard, gold colored material. It reflected any light into harmful bolts of energy. Kitty didn't know how it worked. Professor X had once told her, but she didn't listen. Friedrich could also see in the dark thanks to his second eyelids. And he had light blue skin and blue hair from his father.

Angelina's power was a bit easier to control. She had inherited Kurt's tail and fangs, but her abilities were in her tail. It was prehensile, and about as long as she was tall. She could whip it so fast it could break the sound barrier and crack stone walls. She herself could run extremely fast. Evan was sure she could outrun Quicksilver if she tried.

They were young, and it was a bad thing that they had their powers now. They were too young to know how to completely control themselves. To hide their appearances from normal people, they wore holograms like Kurt had, but slightly more modern and reliable.

While they walked (Angelina skipped) Angie started singing a song they'd learned that day in school, and soon got Friedrich to join her. Kitty smiled, listening to them. They made her so happy. She wished Kurt could see them. Imagine never knowing your own children.

When she could see the mansion, she told the twins to run ahead and wash their hands from dinner. Angelina grinned and looked at her brother, "I'll race you."

"Not fair! You're fast!" Friedrich pouted, but Angie was off and running, and Friedrich had no choice but to follow her.

Kitty walked slowly, enjoying the beautiful evening. Suddenly, she had the strangest feeling someone was watching her. She ignored it and kept walking, but the feeling didn't go away. Slightly scared, she picked up her pace a little. Then she heard a stick crack behind her. She whirled around, tense and ready to fight whatever was following her. There was no one there. As Kitty hurried back to the mansion, she could've sworn she could small a faint scent of brimstone in the air.