If Sara had one more person step too close to her back side again and kick her tail in passing, she was going to flip. Ok. So going out in public wasn’t the best thought given the way that she looked. Yeah. A half cat monster in a crowd of norms.

Well that’s what the hood and coat were for. The back other hood was pulled tight against the back of her head so that the hem better concealed her feline face. The longer coat let her tail rest comfortably under the fabric just behind her heals without being in total sight. Now if idiots would stop tail gating her on the street she’d be fine.

Why was she even out here again? O yeah. Money. One gentlemen in front of her was being distracted by a pretty lady selling ice cream. His wallet was sticking half way out his pants already. Such an easy target. She followed a crowd of giddy giggly girls past the gentleman and with a flick of her gloved wrist, nabbed the wallet.

Fade had to get out of the mansion. With the X-Men training and everything, she just needed some air. Too bad she wasn't old enough to get a drink at a bar or something, if only she had the power to speed up her age, even though she felt like she had aged rapidly ever since she had become an X-Man. Walking down the streets, she had a large, yet fashionable black trenchcoat on. The night was slightly cold, but it did not phase the red head (no pun intended).

Her attention was suddenly grasped by a girl that had a tail. Fade followed, keeping her distance until she had seen what the girl did. Immediately, Fade moved forward and walked next to the girl. Although she kenw it was right to have the lioness give back the wallet, there had to be a reason why it was taken in the first place.

"You know, as much as you might need that, I'm pretty sure he needs his wallet." Fade did not make any movements as if she was going to snatch the wallet from the girl, just walked, keeping her arms normal, swaying as her feet hit the ground.

Sara glanced sideways at this girl who was so bold as to walk up next to her. And talk to her. She slowed her pace. “I’m sure you’re right.” Sara said casually raising a furry eye brow.

She gave a one shoulder shrug and pulled the wallet out of her pocket. Taking about half the bills folded inside. “You can hand it to him.” She said holding out the leather bill fold and pocketing the money.

Fade looked at her strangely and took the wallet. Her eyebrow was raised, and then she was gone. She had moved off in the opposite direction, right back for the man. When she was close enough to him, she phased her hand through the fabric of his pocket and let go of the wallet, he did not notice anything but a redhead suddenly changing her direction to move back to the lioness. Fade's pace quickened, she did not wish to loose the girl, why did she need to pickpocket? Finally, she spotted her and frowned when a large lady blocked her path, she did not look like the kind of lady to toy with, so Fade just phased through the woman's body and caught back up to the un-named.

"Why do you need to pick-pocket? You certainly have a family or a place to stay, right?" Fade held a certain soft-spot for young thieves only because she knew that they could change...well...somewhat. Fade would not pick-pocket again unless it was completely necessary, yet she would not stop the act if she happened to see it. So it made her a hypocrit, in a way, yet not in another way.

Sara silently watched the girl go back and give the wallet back. Quietly a little jealous that this other mutant could blend in the crowds so much easier. If Sara looked like that her life you be much easier. With a sigh, as the girl began to catch up Sara tried to loose her. Problem was moving too fast would bring attention to herself. So the other mutant caught up.

Again, Sara tilted her head to better look at this new girl. “I have neither. Both of witch are also not things that should concern you.” Why was this girl so interested?

The girl did not look pleased that Fade was able to catch up. "Well, it's just that I haven't seen you out here on the streets before. I knew just about every homeless person in New York City about a year and a half ago. So are you just passing through or have I just never met you?" She asked, not caring whether or not the girl was paying attention. "Why don't you have either?" Fade was a curious girl, probably too curious for her own good, but what did she care? She had met another homeless mutant, now given, Fade was no longer homeless, but it did not change the fact that she was concerned.

Sara eased her patients back down as they began to simmer. Not boiling hot but edging there slowly. She highly disliked attention. Especially attention that asked so much at once. “Do you ask everyone you don’t know on the street this many questions or am I just special?”

“You wouldn’t of seen me here a yeah in a half ago because I just wasn’t here.” Truth was Sara wasn’t sure of where she was before then. It wasn’t that she didn’t remember, it was that the location had been kept from even her. She blinked a couple of times. The time thing brought out a couple of bad memories she pushed back with a couple of blinks. “And what does it matter why I don’t have those thing.” Sara’s voice was more controlled here. Forcibly less harsh. “I just don’t”

"No, I'm not targeting you. The reason I ask this is because I once knew all of the homeless youth and since I did not recognize you, I don't know your story or why you needed money. Now. You could just be a runaway who doesn't realize what you really have, or you could actually be homeless." She wasn't making any sense. Honestly, if someone was to approach her while she was in her prime, she would laugh at them, turn invisible, and run away from them...well, maybe do a few things to them while in invisible form unless they were too powerful of mutants.

Just then, her expression dropped. The man that's wallet was made victim to the lioness's stealthy tactics had finally realized that his money was gone and that the redhead that had unusually changed directions after passing him was now conversing with quite an unusual figure. His pace quickened and Fade grabbed her fellow theif and turned both of them invisible. He was still coming, he must have figured the redhead was a mutant, but this time, Fade turned them both phasable and the angry man just passed through, picking up his pace as if he was hot on the trail. When he was sort of out of sight, Fade let go of the lioness and turned visible. "And that is common after stealing."

“You could say I’m a run away.” But the girl wouldn’t know from what. “Believe me. I’m better off out here. You don’t know what I ran from and I prey you never will. You want to know what I need the money for. It’s simple. A girl’s got to eat.”

She jumped slightly as Fade grabbed her, paw like, hand and they went invisible. Shaken slightly as the gentleman walked through her. Now there was an unnerving feeling. It was one thing to choose not to be noticed. Or just disappear. To be walked through was another feeling. A new interpretation.

“And yeah, that’s common after stealing.”

"Don't be so quick to judge, I have been through quite an ordeal as well. Yet I never ran away, you would need a home to run away from in order for it to be used in that context." The girl looked a little confused about being invisible and walked through. Fade could nearly make herself entirely nonexistant, except for her sounds and her body heat.

"We should move away. And you don't need to steal to get food, at least not all of his money. McDonalds has a dollar menu and that was well enough to keep me satisfied for the day. Are you planning on doing this for the rest of your life? There is a Sanctuary for the homeless and a mansion, however each one is quite opposite and does not get along with the other. I'm not recruiting you or anything, just informing you." Wow, she was a retard. Who would just go up to a theif and start telling them where they could live? She mentally scolded herself for doing so.

“Well even the dollar menu requires money.” Sara said with a small twitch at the corner of her mouth. She was suppressing a small smile. Not to mention with her higher metabolism she’d require a lot of sandwiches. She could sustain herself on only a couple a day but not comfortably and injuries tended to send her food intake through the roof. “I left him with half his money. At least I did that. And I’ve met sanctuary. The mansion isn’t a place I’ve been yet.” Too new to comprehend the differences of the two Sara only knew that they clashed but still both worked for the better treatment of mutants.

"Oh have you? Yes, the Sanctuary is a bit more radical in their approach to end mutant sufferage." Fade smiled before speaking again. "Yes, taking only half the money was smart." She schooched away, avoiding the man as he returned to the spot, still looking around after a few curse words were expelled from his pursed lips.

"I live at the mansion and have for a while. It's very nice. You don't have to stay there, even if you show up, you can ditch it, but I never came to that conclusion. It is my family. I have been to the Sanctuary and I was not too impressed, only because of the residents and how they feel towards those of us who choose to reside at the mansion, the structure was nice, though. The mansion is more for those who wish to change the world by supressing evil and the Sanctuary seems to believe that the only way to rid the world of evil is to act upon it in response. I am sure that you have heard rumors about two different mutant organizations clashing against eachother, yet no location has been provided as to where we stay." Too much information...just too much.

“The trick to stealing. Don’t get greedy.” Sara said with a small forced smile. Wasn’t like she could get a job after all. “leave abut half and the people normally think they miscounted their bills.”

“Well that explains a lot.” Sara slowly began to turn around and walk down the street again. Despite her initial agitation to this girl’s pushy questions it was nice to hold a conversation without pointing and cries of alarm. Even with her first introduction to sanctuary she had endured such things.

Still there was the fact that she didn’t understand how peaceful methods were going to get things done for mutants. The order seemed to know where she was coming from more then this one. But Sara wouldn’t hold that against the girl. “Suppose it’s just your choice.”

"Well, your tactics are much better than mine were. I just took all that I could and disappeared, however, phasing did not come around until the last encounter with the members of the Order, so I just had to dodge people and climb walls." She smiled, oddly enough, because she usually did not smile when recounting the past.

"Suppose it's just my choice?" At first, Fade did not understand if it was posed as a question or a statement. Possibly statement. "Yes, well, dealing with problems in the way that we do has its pros and cons, but I wouldn't change my views for any mutant power in the world. However, my current ability is much more useful at the Sanctuary, being stealthy and undetected, because on the defense and offense, it is not the best ability but to dodge things and hide, and I'm not a martial artist, so that is kicked off the bat."

“Sounds like fun to me.” Sara’s love the ability to nearly not exist. Would be nice to have the choice to not be looked at even if she had to perform some strange acrobatics to keep herself from being bumped into.

“Who’s to say your abilities are no use to the mansion. Sara pointed out. “Mine would work for surveillance but that would be about it.” She pointed to her nose then her ears. Half way lie. She probably couldn’t hold her own against a powerful mutant but she might be able to keep most on their toes. “I actually carry ear plugs for at night. Even then I can hear everything around me. Just not the things blocks away. Can give someone a royal headache.”