Authors Note: I got this idea after watching the movie Thinner based on the Steven King book.It doesn't have much to do with the movie I just thought that I should say where I got the idea from. The movie was just plain weird. Anyone else think so? But hey, you get ideas from all sorts of weird places.

Note 2: I know that I have been gone like forever and that you all may not trust me to update regularly, but I promise to try. I don't have a job anymore, I'm at the end of my band season and my recent car wreck is keeping me from going to too many places since I injured my back and neck badly. I'm on narcotics and pain relievers.

Chapter 1: Madame Maxilee

"What a hoax. I can't believe that people pay for this stuff. Palm reading, love spells and having someone tell your future."Evan says to Kitty who is adamantly ignoring him and giving him the cold shoulder. "What's wrong with you?"

"I actually want to get my future told. We should all go! Come on now! Have you all ever heard of a fortune teller who was right?" Jubilee says laughing. "I mean look at the fortune cookies? Is any of this stuff ever right?"

"It cahn't hurt. As long as Kit pays fer mahne."

"Like, duh! Of course I'll pay! I so just got money from my dad. This is gonna be cool. Come on Jubes, Amara! Let's go, like, check it out!"

"Let's go!" Jubilee says excitedly. "This should be interesting."

"Jean'll flip." Rogue says smiling. " She ain't gonna like this at all."

"Oh well. You have to break the rules every once in a while. Lighten up Rogue." Jubilee says as she starts off toward Madame Maxilee's Fortune telling booth. "Man, it's smokey in here." Jubilee says coughing.

"Yeah, totally. But hey, it's like, totally authentic." Kitty says giggling."

-Across from the fortune teller-

"Yo! There's the pretty Kitty. Lance , hey! YO!" Toad screams jumping up and down in front of the dark complected teenager.

"You're seeing things man! There's no way that my pretty Kitty would be in a fortune tellers booth. She has me, why does she need a gypsy to tell her what she has in her future!" Lance cockily says crossing his arms across his chest as if to end the conversation.

"Lance, you're pathetic. Kitty has moved on. I mean look at who she is with now!" Tabby says gleefully rubbing it in his face. "She's with Matt Rowsey, the star quarterback. You're yesterday's trash to her! She has found much better!" Tabby says laughing hysterically. "It's really funny actually. Let's just say that she's star struck, but maybe you can get back with her when Matt decides he's done, it might take a while though." Tabby says placing her headphones over her ears and dancing off, fueling Lance's rage more.

"Is she telling the truth or is she just being herself?" Lance asks clenching his fists and causing the ground to ruble and people to stumble and look around worriedly.

"Well Lance, it's true. Missy and I saw them kissing." Pietro says trying to piss him off Lance glares at him coldly so Pietro continues. "Ask her if you don't believe me. Missy thought that it was so cute. She went on about-"

"I don't care Pietro. I am going to pound him into a pancake." Lance says storming off and causing the ground to shake violently in his wake.

"God, he's an ass. I wonder if he should go to the fortune teller? Might get told that he might bet laid if he gave up his pretty Kitty." Pietro says laughing at his own joke.

"Yo man, give it up. You're not very funny." Toad says shaking his head.

"Yeah, that's not funny." Blob agrees scratching his head and dismissing the entire situation.

"What do you all know. I'm out of here. Told Missy that I'd pick her up at 8, it's almost time." Pietro says and disappears leaving only a breeze on the two nonchalant mutant teens.

-fortune teller's booth-

"Umm, Kit, ya think that is what Ah think it is?"

"Probably, I, like totally, wouldn't doubt it. He is like, so taking this out of hand. He's like totally pathetic. I mean like, move on and get over it." Kitty says shaking her head and ignoring the rumbling below her feet.

"You pretty ladies want to know your fortune?" An elderly lady, preumably Madame Maxilee, asks them as they walk into the dark, musky smelling, smoky room.

"Yeah, all four of us. How much per person?" Amara asks.

"Five dollars. Now sit, sit, and listen to what the spirits tell me." The woman says her voice deepening and nearly fading away as she closes her eyes and lays her hands on Jubilee's. "Well young lady, yours is very good… I see the figure of a man. You know this man… I believe that he lives with you… Oh yes, he knows of you but you seem unaware. But very, very soon he will come to you and you will find the one for you. Do not fear child, for you will know when he comes, the one who I speak of." Madame Maxilee opens her eyes and smiles at the group. "Now who is next…. Ah, you! I feel very strong waves coming from you…" The elderly woman says looking at Amara.

"Umm… ok, is that a good thing?"Amara asks nervously.

"Do not worry… give me your hand." And Madame Maxilee takes Amara's hand and closes her eyes like she did for Jubilee. "Oh… dear, you have a very large decision ahead of you… you must either follow your heart or your people. But do not despair, if you choose your heart then your people will soon follow. By the time your first child is born they shall again be by your side. But if you choose your people you shall fall for another… but your mind will always go back to the one that got away." Right then a breeze goes through the room and Madame Maxilee's hair flies around her head making her appear like a ghostly figure. "Dear child, it will be hard, but follow your heart."

"My heart or my people?" Amara asks out loud confused and Madame Maxilee drops the young mutant princess's hand onto the cloth covered table.

"Yes, but don't worry, you will know when the time comes, but it's not like you decision day is tomorrow. Now you dear, give me your hand." She says to Rogue.

"Umm.. ok, but ya cahn't touch mah skin." Rouge says skeptically.

"Yes dear, I know. I saw it when you first walked in the door. You say that it's a skin disease and no one questions you, but we all know better, but do not fear, you won't always be plagued by it." Madame Maxilee picks up Rogue's gloved hand and seems to smile in the now utter darkness since the candles that had lit the tent had been blown out by a mysterious wind. "I see a man for you too… a tall man who won't take no for an answer, and in another time would have been called a rake… oh, but he is your opposite, though he grew up from you not very far away, just a state or two over, But you won't like him at first. You'll call him names… and he'll use endearments… he'll take it as a game, but you… you will see him as a nuisance. But don't give up, the man that I speak of will bring you relief to your pain and torment… though fight him too long and he will fall for another."

"Really? There is an end? Ah hope yer right!" Rouge says gleefully.

"And now you." Maxilee says opening her eyes revealing glowing orbs brighter than any of the candles that had graced the room with their presence. Maxilee takes Kitty's hand and Kitty flinches. "Do not be afraid, I am at my most acurate. Oh, I see many men for you… all of them are drawn to you for a reason that you don't understand. You'll break a few hearts, but just a few days after your 21st birthday the one will appear for you. He'll have been there and watching from a distance, but you won't have seen him until then. He'll be new to you, but you won't be new to him. Turn no man away, for the one that you are destined for you will want to turn down at first.Remember that, he won't be the one you always thought that he would be, but you'll know him when the time is right, and he'll be better than anything that you ever imagined."

-1 hour later-

"That woman freaked me out! I can't believe that she would say all of that to me." Amara says looking down. "How could I not choose my people? After all I am princess."

"But look at what she told Kitty, saying that there would be many guys in her future." Jubilee says imitating the fortune teller. "That womans eyes freaked me out the most though."

"Ah think that it was worth the whole twenty dollars. We'll all be talkin about it fer weeks. An' who did she mean fer me? That is just weird."

"What did she mean by rake? I've never heard anyone call another person that." Jubilee asks raising an eyebrow in question.

"A rake was what they used to call a man who got around in England, but I didn't think that it was used anymore." Kitty answers lost in thought. "Even for men then it was unacceptable to be with too many women. It's almost like calling a woman a whore, that they had to be with many more women to become a rake."

-Madame Maxilee's booth-

"Oh, come on Pietro! Let's go in here! I want her to tell me that we'll be together forever!" Missy squeals grabbing Pietro's arm and squeezing . Missy was what you'd call a ditzy blond. She had long, platnum, waist length hair, striking cerulean eyes and a body that would tempt a monk and a come hither smile that would turn a man into anything she wanted of him. But one of her biggest assets to guys was her money. "Plus Daddy gave me $300 today and said to wait until he got paid Friday and he'd give me more if I needed it."

"Ok, ok, let's go see what she says."

"Really!" She says looking up at him like a little kid who just got to spend the entire day in a toy store. "Oh Pietro! I love you! You are the boyfriend ever! How did I ever live without you?"

"Is that I love you a promise?" He asks jokingly turning to her.

"Yeah, my parents are so gone this weekend. So in three days we have the entire weekend. There are bottles of wine in the wine celler, and harder liquors if you want them. We have a hot tob, a pool, we even have a sauna and a bathtub with the jets."

"Oh, sounds promising" 'I think that I'm gonna puke. She's not even pretty. But she gets me closer to-'

"Pietro! Here she is! In here! In here! Hurry!" Missy says squealing.

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