In like a Tourist, out like a lamb

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Tourists and visitors!
Broadcast: nah
Action: S.S. Tourist
When: March!

[ What are you up to this month, Tourists? Living up to your ship name on the station? Well, share your spoils with the rest of the crew! Or maybe you've been engaging in ahem illicit pursuits? We promise not to tell! ]

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[takingkarabusiness]

Some of that's just him, but dialed up to 11. I guess we get along so well because we're both tremendously awkward.

[passingthrough]

It's a solid bonding point. [Kitty's awkward is different, but there's still some awkward at times.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Yeah, especially at such a high pressure place like CatCo.

[passingthrough]

I assume you manufacture cats there.

[takingkarabusiness]

That would be much easier.

It's a media empire, actually, run by my boss, Cat Grant.

[passingthrough]

Maybe when you get back you can suggest the other thing.

[takingkarabusiness]

I will suggest it her.

Maybe we can make a Jurassic Park but with cats.

[passingthrough]

Definitely. Now, will the cats be eating people? Maybe that's the draw?

[takingkarabusiness]

I was thinking more of prehistoric cats cloned and brought to life.

[passingthrough]

Oh, sure. Sabertooths would be more impressive. Unless we're talking about the guy I know back home. Then that's way more dangerous than Jurassic Park was.

[takingkarabusiness]

A guy named Sabertooth? Code name?

[passingthrough]

Yeah. Real name Victor. He's an X-Man now, but he was with Apocalypse for awhile. [And the Logan here is VERY down on him.]

[takingkarabusiness]

Is there a lot of that back-and-forth?

[passingthrough]

Not so much. He was actually one of the people trying to catch me for the pens. The X-Men rescued me. That's how I ended up with them.

[takingkarabusiness]

Pens?

[ if Kitty mentioned this is such blunt terms before, Kara didn't remember ]

[passingthrough]

The breeding pens. It was where people were kept for experimenting and general torture type fun... Always trying to improve on mutations and build stronger mutants. Brainwashing if necessary. Some people just get scraped for genetic fodder for the Infinite army. Not a pleasant place. Things would have been very different for me if I'd ended up there.

[takingkarabusiness]

Oh my god.

It sounds like a concentration camp.

[ she's aghast ]

[passingthrough]

It was. Forced labor prisons, mass graves, genocide. It was a lot of Hitler's greatest hits on repeat and amped up. Being a Jewish girl with a Polish heritage it was pretty easy to decide which side to be on. [If they'd even given her that choice in the pens.]

[takingkarabusiness]

[ she wants to hold her hand again but manages to restrain herself after the first gesture that direction. she tucks her hair behind her ear instead. her voice is soft and empathetic ]

To even have that presented to you. I can't imagine.

[passingthrough]

Hey, it had a happy ending, remember? Sort of. For me at least.

[takingkarabusiness]

Oh. Oh no. Don't do that thing where you have to console me about your life. I'm sorry. It just really does sound terrible, but I'm glad you were rescued.

[passingthrough]

[Kitty smiles a little.] Okay. No consoling. I lived it. You can handle the stories. Deal.

[She nods.] Me too. In more ways than one. It wasn't that long after my parents were killed, so good to not be alone on the streets being hunted anymore.

[takingkarabusiness]

Were you able to make a home of it? Before... everything happened later.

[passingthrough]

It was home. My team was family. Maybe not always a functional one, but who expects miracles? [There's a little smile.] How did we start talking about me again?

[takingkarabusiness]

Sabertooth.

And my incredible need to deflect personal questions?

[ this is a joke... sort of ]