A/N: HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVERYONE AND WELCOME TO 2012! Just thought I'd get that out of the way. Now, a bit of info about these mini-stories. Each story was written for it's respective song, gotten off of shuffling my Ipod, and written in the amount of time that the song took to play. That was it. No editing. No sentences past the end of the music. Just the exact amount of time that the song plays. It's for a challenge given to me by MidnightNimh on the Writing Junkie Forum.


If I Die Young by The Band Perry -

When Kitty first met Charles Xavier, it was with the promise of a safe place to live and a proper education. Words that meant everything to her confused parents and, at the time, to herself. It meant that she would be safe. She would be with people who understood what she was going through and who were just as surprised as she was. He promised her parents that he would watch over her. And, for awhile, he did.

She went to school.

She learnt to control her powers.

She fell in, and out, of love. Then she fell in love again.

She made friends and she made enemies.

And then she realized that Charles Xavier had lied to her parents. To her father. To her mother, whom Kitty cared for more than anything. She realized that she wasn't safe, not really. And, that as long as she was a member of the X-Men, she would die young. No if's, and's, or but's.


In My Head by Jason Derulo -

It wasn't fair that Evan couldn't look at Pietro like he used to. It wasn't right that Evan could look at Pietro and not see an enemy, a rival, a person that he hated more than anything. It wasn't normal for the X-Man to look at the other boy and not see just another member of the Brotherhood.

Instead, he saw pale white skin and full, pink lips. Thin but well muscled arms. Legs that went all the way up and then kept going. A hip that shook and swayed and a smirk that showed not malice but promise - of things that could happen, should happen, needed to happen before it drove Evan completely insane.


Poker Face by Lady GaGa -

Smile.

Jean nodded as Scott spoke to her, only half paying attention to his words. Her mind was elsewhere. In another time and another place, in a world that could have been but wasn't.

Nod.

The red-headed psychic agreed with everything that her brunet friend said. When Scott asked her out, she said 'yes'. When they went to prom, she acted like she had a great time. When he got down on one knee, she was expecting it and knew that everyone wanted her to cry. So she did and they got married.

Lie.

And, when she was alone, she would think about HIM. She would remembed HIM. The first mutant that she met in Bayville and the one that she was really in love with.

Todd.

But no one would ever know the truth.


Some Of Us by Starsailor -

Everyone had their own way of coping with the change. Of dealing with their powers and the hate that the human race had for them.

Pietro lied - because, no matter what he said, the fact that none of his family actually cared for him did hurt.

Todd smoked - because it was hard looking the way he did, living the way he did, getting treated the way he did, and the burn that the nicotine caused just helped him to forget all of that.

Tabby drank - because if it wasn't the memories of her father haunting her dreams then it was the memories of being trapped in the God-awful cell, and the alchohol gave her a dreamless sleep like nothing else could.