A/N- ok guys, this is a new KP2 fic, but this one is one that I really have a desire to write, and by having a desire to write it this means that I will most likely update quickly. I don't have a full plot line yet, hell I don't even have the final couple figured out, I figure that that will have to spring up on me, or be a poll. Which, by the way, there is a poll on my profile for those of you who want to vote. I need a little bit of help deciding the couple, and I will take your votes into consideration. Pick your fave and then your runner up.
A/N2- This is officially the start of KP2 spams your inbox with updates! Enjoy!
A/N3- this doesn't really follow Evo. In this fic, they were never revealed as mutants.
My biggest fear, was always you
Chapter 1
Setting the Stage for a New Man
"Kitty Pryde? You're attending the Bayville CTC? What is a rich genius like you doing at a crummy college like this?" Pietro asks in astonishment as he enters the empty lecture hall. The room fit over one hundred students comfortably, and was broken into three sections, set on a slight rise. Kitty sat in the front row of the middle section, in a pair of jeans and plain pale blue t-shirt, her brown hair falling around her waist in curls.
"Long story. Been a while Pie." Kitty teases laughing as she twirls her pencil around her finger. "How did you get into an Advanced Calculus class?" She asks closing her notebook and crossing her legs, causing him to notice the jeweled sandals that were on her feet.
Just because I slack off doesn't make me a moron. You knew me in high school." Pietro retorts running a hand through his silver locks, a trademark of his.
"Ok, I can concede that point, maybe. We still see each other. I am dating your roommate after all." Kitty replies laughing as Pietro sinks into the seat beside Kitty. "Wait… did you decide you like me recently?" Kitty asks running her hands through her hair and causing it to fan out around her, a few locks hitting Pietro as they descended.
"Might as well be friendly to my 'all knowing' leader's girlfriend. Might come in handy, or at least give me an opening to show him up." Pietro remarks giving his trademark smirk that had made so many girls do impossible feats to get his attention in years past.
"I've been there. I'm only civil with Jean for the benefits of fewer lectures from Scott. But in my defense I think you'll grow to like me." Kitty smiles knowingly.
"Over time I can grow to like anyone."
"Well, since Lance and I aren't breaking up any time soon, better get started with that whole liking me now thing. Might help if he decides to ride your ass later for something."
"I said over time, who says I haven't already begun?" Pietro asks slyly.
"I did." Lance says with an accompanying earthquake. "Eyes off my girlfriend." Lance threatens and Pietro notices the scared look that comes across Kitty's face as Lance makes his way across the room to her.
"Better work to keep her Alvers. Kitten might just climb up another tree, one she likes more." Pietro warns placing a hand on the smaller girl's slightly shaking hand.
"Get off of her Maximoff. Lance says picking Kitty up by the shoulders and pulling her out of her seat to stand behind him protectively.
"Ow Lance, that hurt." Kitty says as a pained expression crosses her face that is lost to Lance, but is noticed to Pietro causing his eyes to spark with fury.
"Kitty, he'll do worse to you. I've never hurt you and I never will. Now, we're leaving." Lance says as he grabs her tiny wrist in his rough hands, with an audible pop.
"Lance, this is my class! You're hurting me! Let go!" Kitty pleads as she drops to her knees, looking around the empty room, judging if she should phase.
"Fuck it, you're leaving with me now." Lance demands as the room begins to violently shake, and they can hear students fleeing the small building. Lance begins to pull her arm again but Kitty phases through his grasp and falls into the arms of Pietro Maximoff, whose anger is simmering on the brink of explosion.
"No Lance, go home. I have paid for this class, go back to your hovel." Kitty spits with venom and bravery that makes her eyes go wide as she realizes what she has just done.
"Fine, you better not come home Pietro, I'm throwing your shit out onto the lawn. You can collect sometime… it might be in the trash."
"Throw even one of his belongings out and you will never see me again Lance. I will never speak to you." Kitty says as she jumps out of Pietro's arms.
"Well, I'm going to force you to remember those words when you come crawling back cold and lonely, looking for a good time." Lance says sending Kitty a bone chilling smile.
"Shove it Lance. Consider us over. I won't be crying for you, and I'm sick of your abuse. Lance, it's over, and when you come crying to come back to me, I'll just send out Logan." Kitty threatens as a flicker of fear causes the angry boy's face.
"Oh, you're going to regret that." Lance says as the building falls around them, or at least where Kitty and Pietro should have been.
"Xavier, can you hear me?" A frantic voice calls out to the Professor breaking the calm of his office, and waking him from a light doze.
"Yes, what do you need?" He asks the masculine voice as he tries to place it with one of his students, but is unable.
"It's Kitty, she's hurt. Lance came into our classroom and he tore down the building. I barely got her out in time to not kill her, it all happened so fast, I barely had time to react."
"Calm down Pietro." Xavier urges the frantic young adult. "I have disarmed the security on the mansion, bring her here, we can't risk a doctor seeing her."
"You're letting me come in?"
"My doors are open to all who decide to enter them. You shall be welcomed with open arms, for you have saved one of our members, and to that we are grateful. Please, hurry, that is all I ask."
"Quick enough for you?" Pietro asks bursting through the doorway, holding Kitty's limp body tightly in his arms, close to his chest.
"Sometimes I forget how fast you can travel. Tell me what happened as we get her down to the med lab. Hank McCoy is down there now, awaiting our arrival. I know that keeping pace with one as slow as myself is hard for you, but I would ask that you share the tale on our way."
"Of course, as long as she gets what she needs." Pietro says cradling the smaller form to his muscular body.
"Now start from the beginning."
"I didn't do it!" Lance pleads holding his bleeding nose. "I didn't try to kill her!"
"Listen bub, Stripes and I don't take to liars. Now she can drain ya or ya can tell us the truth." Logan threatens slowly pushing his claws out and toward the younger man.
"An remember, all it takes is one false move from meh. I don't even have ta try, and tha prof'll believe meh. Logan and Ah'll just say ya got feisty. Ya don't want us ta do that. Trust meh." Rogue says grabbing his hair and pulling his hair back.
"I didn't mean to bring the building down! She's fine! I know it! There was no one in the room when I looked. I looked for her! I love her!"
"Ah don't bring buildings down on tha people tha Ah love."
"You don't understand our love! No one does! We are in love!" Lance pleads flinching from Rogue's bare hands.
"Listen here bub, you come near Half-Pint again and Stripes and I will make it an event that you don't even want to relive. We're relocating her, so don't even try it." Logan says retracting his claws and walking away, followed by Rogue.
"Now, I feel the best thing for her now is to be away from him. He is an unstable young man." Xavier says slowly. "I felt that Pietro may have been hiding something, so when I searched his mind I got images of many things that Kitty has been hiding from us for years, think of this as witness protection, mutant style."
"I'm not sure I like this at all, Charles." Ororo says standing and looking out the window of Xavier's office, her long hair blowing in the breeze that her anger was making. "I don't want to send her away. We can't send her to her mother, because he is from the same town, and would know where everything is."
"I personally do not want to send her to Moira, she has enough on her hands now handling Pete and his enemies of his previous employer, that would place her in a potentially violent situation." Hank says from his seat in front of Xavier's desk.
"And sending her with Magneto may not be a good idea either." Xavier says placing his face in his upturned hands. "I'm at a loss, normally these matters resolve themselves, but with the destructive power that he has, I do not desire to keep her in a situation like he has put her in."
"It's a tough call Chuck, I'll give ya that point. I don't like the idea of putting her with Magneto, but it may be the best choice. She is gonna feel safe around Pietro, and I think that will help her with the transition. I want to see her gone less than any of you all, but in all honesty, what choice do we have?"
"I do have to agree Charles." Ororo says turning from the window.
"I do as well."
"Then I will make the arrangements with Eric this week. She needs time to recover. In the meantime, get Pietro set up in one of the rooms close to the Med Lab. She will want him there with her."
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