Disclaimer: Mutants are Marvel's, the others belong to ABC. This story is copyright to me however and belongs in my Facing The Music timeline. It's also a bit of fluff that wouldn't leave my mind until I wrote it.

   Kitty stretched out across her bed and plopped her feet into Pete's lap. "This was a great idea," she said as he started to rub her tired soles. "Going to Paris, seeing the sights, meeting up with Robin..." She smiled as he ran one tickling finger across the bottom of her foot.

    "She's a good kid," Pete said grudgingly, trying not to let his affection for the young woman show. "I hope she stops by Muir before heading off to Africa."

    "Softy," Kitty giggled. "You want Moira to check her out before going somewhere where the medical facilities aren?t so up to date." Robin was HIV positive.

   He smiled gingerly, knowing that he had been caught. "Her mother and father... and aunt," he tacked on, still slightly surprised by the addition to her family tree, "They've helped me out of a few jams."

   Kitty shook her head, "Robin just told you that her mother is back from the dead, found the twin sister she never knew she had, found a brother she didn't know about, and thinks that her husband may not be dead... And you say my friends are bizarre."

   Pete corrected her quickly. "I think the spandex cuts off circulation to key parts of your friends' brains, that they attract too much attention, and that they don't know how to survive in the real world... I never said they were weirder than my friends." He grinned and shook his head. "In my world, there are just times you don't admit to knowing people, or how much you know about them... so when I bumped into Alex and though she was Anna... it makes a lot more sense now."

    "It does?" Kitty groaned as she turned on her stomach. "I swear Pete, Jr want to play football!" Moira had confirmed that it was a boy a couple of weeks ago, though they still hadn't found a name for him.

   Pete put his hand over the small bulge and smiled gently. "That's my boy," he whispered softly. "Keeping his mum up all night with his pokin'."

   Kitty affectionately swatted his hand and then groaned. "That he is..." She sighed, "Some honeymoon, huh?"

   He was too deep in thought to hear that last part. "But of all people, Cable should have known something was... different between Anna and Alex."

    "You mean..." Her mouth dropped open as she realized what Pete was thinking. "Both of them?!?" She shook her head again.

    "It was a while back," Pete offered as an explanation. "And it wasn't serious... but still..." He laughed. "Don't know if Anna wants to get in touch with people from her old life though... Robin made it sound like she's trying to fly under the radar as much as possible."

    "You want to get in touch with her?"

   Pete nodded.

    "I've got an idea then."

**

   Anna Devane signed for the overnight from Europe with a puzzled look on her face. She had been expecting something from her sister, but her sister wasn't in Scotland. Neither was Robin. She opened the thin package and pulled out an envelope with a Muir Island return address. Gingerly, she pulled out a card and started to read it.

    "So... You came back from the dead with a price on your head," read the first section, illustrated with a grave slab that strongly resembled a door. The second showed a family album with the words 'only child' marked out and the words 'brother' and 'sister' scribbled in. "Found a sister and brother, and wondering if there are any others." She laughed at the bad rhyme and opened the last little section up. "Now that we've got that out of the way, I would worry-- it's only Wednesday!"

   Under the writing, Anna smiled when she recognized the signature of Pete Wisdom and the PS, "Too busy to call old friends?"