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August 15, 2004

Dear Jamie,

Well, I’m very glad to hear that you’re well. I love you and I worry when I hear strange things like ‘everyone went off to Asgard.’ Since when is Asgard a real place anyway? But then, I can walk through walls, who am I to talk.

My life has been far less interesting, as you can imagine. I’ve started making less than subtle hints to my parents about getting me a ticket home. Dad’s willing but mom’s being less forthcoming. Says there’s no rush. However, I’m not worried. I will be coming home, I swear it.

Beyond pestering my parents I’ve not actually been up to much. Most of my friends here have started getting their back-to-school stuff ready, which means they’ve started thinking again about how I don’t go to a school here, and a couple of them started asking questions about my school. I didn’t mind it from Sara, but from the kids I don’t know as well it’s sort of weird. I’m really not comfortable telling them I go to Xavier’s School for the Gifted – no idea how they’d take it still, so I’m not bringing it up. But that means, since I won’t talk to them about it, that I’ve been spending a lot less time with them. Seem to think I'm some sort of snob. Can’t ever make people happy, it seems.

Except you, of course. Love you.

Am going to go to the pool, I think. Will undoubtedly run into people, but I want to be moving and it sounds a lot cooler than going for a walk.

Yours,
-Kitty

August 15, 2004

Dear Al,

How are you? How’s Miles? I have to admit, I’m writing with an ulterior motive. My mother is not being very definite about my chances of getting to go back to school – claims she likes having me at home, which I know is a lie because I’m a complete brat and I drive her up the wall. I was wondering if I could enlist your aid in putting the lean on her? I really, really, really don’t want to transfer, but I think that’s what she’s thinking. I’ve got to get back to NY, and Jamie, and all of you, or I’ll go out of my mind.

If you can do anything, thank you so much in advance. I’ll keep working on her from my end.

Love,
-Kit

p.s. Don’t tell Jamie. I don’t want him to worry, and if things go pear shaped I want to tell him myself.

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Dear Kitty,

I'm fine, as is Miles (barring a few nightmares, but nothing half as bad as I'd feared). The return to civilization is doing us good and the spa is in adoration before me (and the bills they get to give me).

I can drop by for an impromptu visit at one point, for sure. The only angle I can think of though, that makes Xavier's the best school for you that she might accept is that we're also helping you train in your mutant ability. That's the one thing any other school can't touch - so how have things been going there? Can you send me a report, so that I have something solid to lean on when the time comes? There's another angle as well, but I'll talk that over with her.

Takre care, kiddo. And I'll be dropping by soon to talk to her. We'll have you back at the school, never you fear.

Love
Ali

p.s. Fair enough. We'll do our best so that you only get to tell him that it was a possibility but didn't happen, in person. Whatcha think?

Dear Al,

You are fantastic. I was thinking like, calling her, but if you come here... -grin- Well, it'll be good to see you, too.

-hugs to Miles- I`m glad to hear you`re both doing good.

So, um, details about me here... Um, I`m a pain in the ass to my mother, I think, but I don`t really know if she`ll buy that I need more training in my powers. Thing is, it`s been months since I lost control and phased without meaning too, which, obviously, I`d still be doing if I weren`t at Xavier`s, but I think she thinks it`s past the point where I need the training. Which is silly, because I`ve learned so much I wouldn`t have otherwise, and there`s so many things I still want to try...

Er, yeah. I think the other angle you might try is acceptance of my powers. She knows I`ve not told any of my friends here, and it`s wearing, I think. I mean really, I don`t want to go through life (or even the next three years) with this massive secret hanging over my head and the constant worry about what will happen if I slip up.

I want to go home to the Mansion so much, Al. I love Chicago, it`s great in it`s own way, but it`s not home anymore.

Love ya, and thanks SO MUCH!
-Kit

p.s. Yep, that`s my plan.

Dear Kitty,

Mentioning going to the pool is one way to make me happy . . . mmm, bikini.

Hmm. Where was I? Oh yeah. There's the rest of your letter. Your friends sound like they're being dorks--are they getting hung up on the actual name of the school, or could you just say "a private school in New York" and tell stories that don't involve the mutant stuff? Which, okay, still leaves ten gallons of crazy in a five-gallon bucket, but you could at least talk about classes. It's not right, them thinking you're a snob. You're definitely not a snob.

Well, here's hoping you come home soon and don't have to worry about people thinking weird and wrong things about you. If your parents get twitchy about an actual plane ticket, you can tell them I'm absolutely okay with the idea of driving out there to pick you up. Nonstop. Using shifts of dupes. And going a carefully calculated amount over the speed limit so I'm still in the flow of traffic and don't get pulled over but I make better time (you don't have to tell them that part.)

Love you. Hope everything works out and you come home soon.

Yours back,
Jamie

Jamie,

Well, I can deal with the people here - I don`t really care if most of them think I`m a snob, and the ones who are good friends don`t really. They`re just curious and I`m probably being overcautious.

And I don`t think it`s the plane ticket or the flying that has my parents worried, but don`t worry, you won`t have to come rescue me. I will be home for the beginning of school. It may not be soon, because I miss you too much for anything to be soon, but it will be.

Love,
Kitty

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