Authors Note: This is a little story that has been rolling around in my head for a while. I have several chapters already written, but I want to see how well people like this story before I go off posting the whole thing. Its funny I haven't had the urge to write this much since before I graduated High School back in 2009. The inspiration for this came from several different video's on Youtube as well as a few oneshots I have read recently. If you want to see the Trailer I've made for this visit Youtube and type in jedigirl2000 and click on jedigirl2000. Its the video on my page titled Tangled Webs an X-Men Fanfiction Trailer. I'd put the URL in, but the website wont allow me to.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my idea behind this story, The X-Men belong to Marvel, and the movie verse from which this came belongs to 20th Century Fox.

Tangled Webs

By

Rain2009

Chapter 1

Mutant Problems

Fwit, Snikt. Fwit, Snikt. Fwit, Snikt. Fwit, Snikt.

John flicked the lid of his lighter uncaringly as he leaned against the desk which sat in the well decorated living room of an Xavier Institute hopeful. He still couldn't quite figure out how he was the only one at the institute who could gconnecth with this girl, after all, he wasn't exactly the kind of role-model you'd want to see your kid take after. But he wanted to get out of his midterms, and Xavier offered him that shot.

Fwit, Snikt. Fwit, Snikt.

"I think you know Kitty is going through a very unique transition. We simply want to help her through it. Why don't you tell us about last night?" Xavier continued. The family had been looking through the pamphlet John had handed to them when they froze. Xavier had been searching Cerebro after having a nightmare where every time he tried to touch someone, his hand simply went straight through. What he found, was a girl who could walk through walls.

Fwit, Snikt. Fwit, Snikt.

"What are you talking about? How did you know about that?" Carmen Pryde asked harshly, closing the pamphlet, leaning forward. He looked to be a man in his early 40's. The dark hair on his head was starting to gray, and it looked as though his goatee was already consumed by it.

"I myself have some very unusual gifts." Xavier said placing the tips of his fingers together.

Fwit, Snikt. Fwit, Snikt. Fwit-

"Will you please stop that!" Theresa Pryde cried out, snapping her head in his direction. John was slightly taken off guard. He raised his eyebrows, before snapping the lid of his lighter closed with an obnoxious Snikt. The girl who they called Kitty let out a song like noise and his eyes met hers. John couldn't help it, he let out a chuckled, a smirk playing on his lips in return. He found her laugh quite cute, and liked the way it seemed to light up her whole face. The woman turned to face her daughter. "Do you think you could try to not be a mutant?"

Instantly the beautiful look was wiped from her face, and replaced by one of confusion as she shook her head. "What?"

"We still love you Kitty, it's just this mutant illness is-" Theresa tried to explain, but was cut off sharply by John.

"What Mutant illness?" He hissed, pushing himself off of the desk, taking a few steps toward the couch, his arms crossing.

"... a little complicated." She finished harshly. With a sigh, looking down at her coffee, placing her head in her hands with a definitive shake of her head. "This is all my fault."

"Actually they discovered that it's the male who carries the mutant gene and passes it on, so technically," John let his voice trail off as he pointed at Carmen, there eyes meeting. "It's his fault."

'Easy John. We want them to trust us.' Xaivar's deep voice penetrated his mind. The boy frowned, but bit his tongue. His gaze traveled to Kitty, who was now eying him carefully, almost as if she were trying to figure him out.

He sighed and let his arms drop to his sides. "Look, forget about the mutant thing. This is about you. You and this awesome new gift."

The brunette shook her head. "I don't have any gifts, just a curse."

"Only if you let it be. We'd like to help you understand it. Together we-"

She cut him off. "Look, I don't want any of this. It's hard enough just being normal, you know?"

He didn't skip a beat as he opened his lighter, cranked the flint and conjured a dragon made of golden flame. It swirled around his body. He could feel the heat as it hovered just inches from his skin, but he had done this trick so many times, it was flawless. He used his mind, feeling the flame and called it to move down his body, and float around the girl who sat on the couch before him, the dragon perched on her shoulder, "rubbing" its body against her cheek, much like a cat would, the only difference is it never made contact with her skin. It's head turned back to him, before leaping off her shoulder, and disappearing into a cloud of smoke.

When he looked over, he took note that Kitty's parents had cowered away, and were huddled at the other end of the couch, while there daughter had seemed to move closer to John. 'The cowards.' he thought bitterly.

'They only fear what they do notunderstand.' Xavier's soothing voice explained.

"H -How'd you do that?" Kitty, who now leaning so close she was literally on the edge of her seat, asked in amazement.

John smirked. "The same way you can pass through walls. Just like you, one morning I woke up and had this power." His smirk soon faded as he looked down. The memory of that day still haunted him. "Trust me, I hated it too." With another flick, he created a small ball of flame, playing with it by lacing it around his fingers. "But you can either pretend it doesn't exist, or you can come to the school where they can teach you to control it, to use it. You have more power than you know, but this is your choice to make and yours alone." he finished his sentence with an almost cocky look on his face, his head held high as he suffocated the flame, closing the lid of his lighter as he stuck his hands into his pockets.

Professor Xavier smiled. "Kitty, it is a gift."

"You're right." Kitty looked to her parents, as she stood. "Mom, Dad. I'm so sorry, but these people" She looked to the two of them. "They seem to really wanna help me. I want to go with them."

Kitty's father looked to her mother and sighed, patting the hand that now clutched at his bicep. "I know sweetie. Professor, you have our permission to take our Kitty."

A short while later the two found themselves waiting for Kitty to finish gathering her things. John leaned against the hood of Xaviars Black Project Kahn Bentley GTS, flicking the lid of his lighter while Xavier sat patiently in his wheelchair. "Ya know, I gotta hand it to you Teach, I really didn't think they were gonna let her go."

"To be honest Pyro, neither did I." He replied with a smile, swinging his wheelchair around to face John. "But the next time you feel like showing off, don't."

He smirked and continued to flick his lighter habitually.

Authors Afterword: Anywho, that was chapter one, if you wanna read more, you're just going to have to review, and wait for the next post! I promise, it won't be too far off. ;)