If she wanted to, Kitty could count on one hand how many X-Men were here before she had joined. The team was constantly changing, people leaving the mansion for whatever reason, people joining with high expectations but often being unable to fulfill them, but a few people stuck around long enough to make an impression. Did that make her a veteran now? She had barely been here for a few months – it still felt like she was faking her way through, pretending she knew what the score was, and yet when she looked around the table, most of the people were completely new. So, when Jamie moved to the end of the table, Kitty kept a straight face. A new leader for a new team, it seemed.
She did cast a sideways glance at Storm, trying to read the older woman's expression. On the one hand, Storm had lead the team before – and they had done a lot better under her than they did under Havok, as it turned out. And Multiple Man hadn't even lead a team before; he was under Wisdom! Kitty doubted that leadership ability could be taught, especially with missions as dangerous as they often went through. It was something innate, to be demonstrated rather than taught. Storm had demonstrated it, and she didn't know if Jamie had.
And yet, she trusted Xavier. She would trust him to the ends of the Earth, and she knew that he had more insight into any of them than they had into themselves. If he saw something in Jamie that her eyes couldn't, she trusted that. In the back of her mind, she was concerned about how many times she thought the word “trust.”
Elixir spoke first, and she sat up quickly, nodding. “Wait,” she spoke quickly after he spoke, although she was careful not to interrupt him. “That is a fantastic question, but first,” She turned from speaking to Josh to looking at Jamie. She had been very concerned about the shuffling of leaders – Storm and Havok and maybe even Polaris there for a bit, and now Jamie? “Do you mean forever? You're the official leader, and that's it? Or are we taking turns? Because if we are, can you let me know when Wolverine's turn is, so I can pretend to have the flu or something?”