Janusi: Scorpion won't show up for some time.

Morlin: Since it's the EVO world I'm making him a prodigy child genius who is about 20.

Slickboy444: Hey J.J. Jameson is the kind of character you're supposed to hate so don't feel too bad about it. Plus I'm glad you liked the Peter/Rogue scene too and Peter will deal with Jameson soon.

Spyder616: Yeah he'll get something as well.

celtcath74: The stone isn't behind her powers, it's just a fake jewel with a light in it. Magneto will show up to face off with Peter.

TheLegendaryManHimself: It's before the Mastermind thing he was a backup plan like in the show until she tried to kill Magneto. Glad you liked it and those are just the beginning of the spidey villains that will show up.

X-Over: Well certain things like you said will happen but not yet. Also Apocalypse is WAY off in the future in this story, but look out for Magneto.

Joseph McKinley: Yeah I know what you mean but then again I can only write so much of the same kind of angst before I run out. No Brock will still be Venom, plus I didn't want to go the space creature route with the symbiote.

Erich: Hank was more of an observer not a test subject, I didn't want to use the same thing twice like in Daytripper, I wanted to go in a more original route, and yes Magneto and Mystique aren't far behind.

The Uncanny R-Man: You might know who will get killed when you see them. Glad you liked the scene with Rogue and Peter too.

Lord Destroyer: Well that was where I got the idea for it but no Genosha or slaves of there. Yes this Venom will have all the same abilities and weaknesses, as for Mystique you'll have to wait and see.

And thanks to: Episodic, Kaliann, psychobunny410, Red Witch, ldypebsaby, Sparky Genocide, malciah, Stoneman85, Mark C, Jaguar, Star Lin,

A/N: I can't believe I'm over 40 chapters and over 600 review at this point...I never thought this would happen and thanks to everyone who reviewed and kept me motivated to keep on going.

SPIDER-X

CHAPTER 42: THE WITCH

Everyone was downstairs in the living room wondering what was going on, there were a few rumors and they also noticed a smirk on Beast and Xavier's faces and so everyone knew that those two knew something, but the other adults were just as in the dark as the rest of them. Kitty however had this big grin on her face and was nearly bouncing in her seat with excitement. Kurt was sitting next to her figured she had to know what was up. "Kitty vhat is it? Vhat's going on?" He whispered to her.

Kitty just shook her head. "Sorry fuzzy not this time I promised but trust me, it's going to be great."

Upstairs Rogue was finishing getting herself straightened up from her and Peter's...well...'excitement' over her ability to finally touch. She looked at the bracelet on her right wrist and grinned. Peter had explained a few of the details, like how it ran on a battery that had to be charged or replaced every six months if it was left on all the time, and a few other things like how it clamped onto her wrist with just enough room so it didn't pinch her arm or fall off, plus it was completely water proof so when summer came around she could finally go swimming with the others.

She couldn't help but smile, in fact she hadn't stopped smiling and she figured it would last the entire day. Plus what she and Peter had shared...that was incredible, she never kissed anyone before let along make out with them like that and it was a thrill. When his hands touched her bare back it had sent electric currents through her spine. She blushed a little at the memory, god that was so good, now she only had to worry about Logan and May. She wasn't sure how Peter's aunt might react, possible happy but Logan. So far he had left her and Peter along with the not touching thing, but now...she just hoped he behaved.

There was a knock on her door. "Come in." She saw Peter poke his head in with a smile and then came in the entire way.

"Hey, everyone is waiting. They are so going to be surprised." Peter told her.

"Tell meh about it." Rogue said. She was actually looking forward to surprising everyone. She got up and stopped. "Oh wait, ah want to do something first." She pulled off her fishnet shirt, she did like it, but at the moment she wanted to just wear the dark shirt she hand underneath. "Okay now ah'm ready." She told him smiling and holding his hand.

-Brotherhood Boarding House-

Lance was in a bad mood, mostly because of Max...again. The guy was turning out to be a real jerk, and he acted like he ran the place sometimes, he also didn't see what Tabitha saw in him, especially lately. He walked into the Kitchen to find a snack, since it poring rain out there was no way he was going out in that. So when he entered the kitchen he saw Tabitha there sitting at the table, she was just staring into her drink.

"Hey Tabby, what's wrong? Normally you're the happy one in this place." Lance said sitting down.

"Huh? Oh nothing...just...just a little tired I guess." Lance didn't buy it though then he noticed some bruising on her left wrist.

"Tabitha what happened to your wrist?" He aid in concern, but when he tried to touch it she pulled it away, then he looked at her face and saw how she was avoiding his look. "Tabitha...did Max do that?" He asked angrily, sure Lance knew he wasn't exactly the best guy in the world, he had his problems but something like that he would never do.

"It...it was an accident. I just made fun of how uptight he got around the X-Men and he didn't like it."

Lance just got angry with that. "Tabby you know no one deserves something like that! Where is he? I'm going to kick his ass!" Lance made to get up but she stopped him.

"Lance don't please he'll kill you!" Tabitha told him and he saw the fear in her eyes. "Lance...he...I...when I told him to back off that I wasn't going to see a guy that could grab me like that...he...he told me what really happened to his dad and this other guy that picked on them." She got a terrified look on her face remembering how Max had looked when he had said it. "He fried their brains Lance...he turned them into vegetables. They're both most likely still in a hospital bed drooling for the rest of their lives...please Lance...don't." She begged.

Lance was horrified by the story, he couldn't believe Max would go so far...then again looking back on it...maybe he could. He just didn't know how dangerous that guy was. "That's it we're out of here." Tabitha looked up in surprise. "Look Tabitha there is no way you're staying here so I'm taking you out of here. Plus if I do that I'm pretty sure both Max and Mystique will be pissed with me."

"Yeah but where would we go?"

"Xavier's. It's the only place and no matter what it's better then here...so...I say we suck it up and just go." Lance told her, it was the only choice he hated to leave the guys but this was more important. Just then the front door was opened suddenly and they both hear Pietro scream something then a bang sound. Both of them ran into the other room and saw a girl with a wild look in her eyes with long messy hair standing next to Mystique.

"Wanda, go up stairs and get cleaned up...I'll have a talk with the others." Mystique said and the angry girl didn't move at first then she stalked her way up there. Pietro who had been sent into the couch got up.

"W-w-what's she doing here!?" He yelled at Mystique. "Wanda is like a witch with those powers, she was too dangerous, that's why father-"

Mystique cut him off. "Shut up! Listen everyone." She commanded as the others in the house started to gather around. "Wanda believes that I freed her and that her father doesn't know about this, in fact I said that if she worked with us she could have a shot at Magneto."

"You can't mean that!" Pietro shouted, from the look of Wanda she wasn't in the mood for a friendly father and daughter bonding.

"Of course not!" She snapped at him. "She just thinks that until we can convince her to join us...besides Magneto has a mutant named Mastermind that we can use to 'persuade' her if we need to. Now none of you are to tell Wanda that we work for Magneto, as far as she knows I run things and that's how she'll see it...got it?"

Everyone agreed but Lance and Tabitha shared a look, and he nodded his head to the kitchen. She followed him in and when they looked Lance leaned in. "This is really getting messed up. I mean using that girl like that is nuts."

"Tell me about it." Tabitha said her mood a bit darker, she remembered how her own father had used her. "Lance...we can't leave...not yet. This isn't right and we can't leave her here, I mean you heard what she said about this Mastermind guy, we can't let that happen."

"But what about you?"

Tabitha gave a smile that was more forced if anything. "I'm...kind of used to being treated like this...I can hold out a little longer but we need to get this Wanda girl to trust us and to get her to see the truth." Lance didn't like this, in fact he hated this...but she had a point, they couldn't leave the new girl here.

"Alright...but if Max hurts you again I'm still kicking his ass."

-Xavier's Living Room-

Everyone was waiting to see what this was all about but no one expect to see the sight they saw. It was Rogue without gloves, and her fishnet top on and she was holding Peter's hand. Everyone just stood or sat there staring in shock, at least those that didn't know. Xavier and Hank smiling proudly at the happy look on Rogue's face and Kitty was just gigging like crazy at how everyone was looking.

Scott was the one who broke the silence. "H...how?" Pretty much the question they all were thinking.

Rogue held up her other hand to show off the silver bracelet with a jewel in it. "Peter, with some help form Forge made this for meh. It turns off mah powers, so ah can touch! Ah can really touch again!" She exclaimed. Everyone rushed over to her congratulating her and Rogue didn't shy away and gave everyone a hug, she wanted to enjoy every minute of this.

While this was going on Peter pulled Scott and Jamie aside to Xavier and Hank. "Guys just so you know that I've been thinking and I think I might be able to get something for the both of you two."

"You can?" Scott said surprised yet hopeful. For years he only had to see varying shades of red and if he had the change to see the world again...it was one of his greatest dreams.

"We don't have to wear bracelets do we?" Jamie said not liking that idea.

Peter laughed. "No, Forge and I got the idea of maybe converting a couple of holowatches or something, we need to work on a few prototypes but it might work." He told them, and then looked to the Professor and Hank. "With some help of course."

"I would love to help you and Forge with this, in fact this is fascinating." Hank said thinking about the project.

The Professor was thinking about this as well. "You know Peter...this could help out a friend of mine on Muir Island. She runs a hospital and research place to help young mutants who are having trouble with their powers, either physical or mental. This could help the more...extreme cases."

"Really?" Peter said surprised. One of the reasons he went out as Spider-Man was to help people, the fact he could help someone without his powers...well, that was kind of cool actually, it felt nice to be able to help people as himself, Peter Parker and not as Spider-Man.

"That's so cool!" They turned to see Spyder there nearby. "You mean Jamie can play at school like everyone else now?" She asked hopefully she knew how much Jamie missed out on that.

"After a while yeah." Peter told her.

"But how am I going to explain how I can suddenly play again?" Jamie asked them all. That had stumped them. Well everyone but Spyder.

"Easy, that doctor you were sent to misdiagnosed you and when you went to another doctor he said you didn't have it."

The others looked at each other but it was Jamie that spoke up. "Cool! That could work, thanks!"

Spyder smiled and shrugged. "Any time. Oh wait what's the time?" She looked at her watch. "Oh man we were supposed to go over to Billy's, remember?"

"Oh yeah...with all of this I kind of forgot." Jamie said looking down a little.

"I take it you three have gotten close." Xavier said with a small smile, it was moments like this, humans and mutants living together and in this case having friendships that gave him hope for the future. "If you need a ride I'm sure someone will offer you one."

"Cool, thanks." Both of them said at once.

On the other side of the room Rogue was still going through everyone, she wanted to touch everyone at least once. Then she came to May, ever since this woman had come here she seemed to add a gentle home-like quality to the place. May smiled and hugged Rogue. "I'm so happy for you child." May said to her ear. "For you and for Peter, I'm glad he was able to help you and that you two can finally have a normal relationship like you two deserve."

"Ya mean...y'all aren't worried now that we can touch?"

"Of course not, I trust that you two will keep things from going too far." May said a little sternly.

"Maybe you should have a little talk with stripes and sticky later on." Logan suggested. Rogue gave him a dirty look while May thought that over.

"I think that should be appropriate." May said and Logan smirked at that. Sure he had let both Rogue and Peter do whatever they do because he didn't have to worry about them getting too close. Although Peter did help out Rogue a great deal, he was going to give them a few days to live it up before he started watching them like he did with the others.

Besides he figured having May give those to 'the talk' would keep them from going too far, since that would make them remember that Peter's aunt lived with them and would spoil any mood to go that far. He grinned to himself, too bad he couldn't use that with the other kids, well maybe Evan with Ororo but it seemed Evan was still single so he didn't worry about that...yet.

-Brotherhood house-

Wanda was in the room that she was told she was going to share. It was kind of a mess and had posters all over the place too. She had just finished cutting her long hair shorter and had a talk with her brother. She still couldn't believe that he was here, he had left her alone and now he wanted to be back in her life again...please. She knew he must be just being nice so that she didn't hurt him, but it wasn't him that she wanted to hurt...that was reserved for their father.

"Hey, so you're the new girl huh?" Wanda turned to see the blond girl she had seen earlier down stairs. "Man I can't tell you how great it is to have another girl in this place." She just walked in and sat down on the bed. "So...do you want the bed since you don't got one yet? I mean it's just that I heard...well...we were let in on what happened to you, so I think a nice bed is owed to you girl."

Wanda studied her. "What do you want?" She said harshly.

Tabitha just smiled and shrugged. "Hey I just want to be friends...besides...let's just say you don't got the monopoly on deadbeat fathers, so...well let's just say I'm glad he's out of my life."

Wanda looked at the girl, but she seemed to be honest about that, she noticed how when she talked about her father she still smiled but it was more of a forced one, she had seen her eyes get this sadness on them and Wanda figured maybe she did have a rotten father. "My dad put me in a mental hospital so what did yours do?"

Tabitha's face fell. "When why powers showed up...he forced me to steal for him, he's just a two bit crook and just wanted me to help him get rich. In fact he never really cared for me before I got my powers and then he suddenly wanted to be my 'friend'. Of course I didn't fall for it, so then he turned to threats...plus...he...he hit me a few times too."

Wanda couldn't help but feel bad for the other girl and sat down next to her. "I'm...sorry to hear that."

Tabitha just shrugged it off and put her arm around Wanda. "Hey he's long gone now and back in jail. Besides I think we neglected and abused kids should stick together anyway. Hey you want to crash the mall soon? Get you some new clothes, and I know of a few friends of mine you might like."

Wanda got the feeling that this wasn't negotiable.

-Peter's Room later that day-

Peter was on his bed with Rogue laying next to him, they were both on their sides holing each other close and occasionally kissing. Rogue was savoring every minute of this, she was still worried that she would wake up and this was all a dream. After kissing Peter she snuggled up against him and sighed. "Ah can't believe this day has happened...Peter...ah can't thank ya enough...ah mean first ya make me feel better about mahself when ah'm down, you have always been there, especially during the Risty thing...ya made me open mah heart for the first time and now...now ah can touch."

"I had to do something to help you Rogue, you don't deserve to live your life without knowing what it was like to touch another person." Peter said softly. She hugged him closer, and Peter smiled as he felt her against him and smelled in the scent of her hair. He had dream like this, him holding her and was glad for this moment.

Then it was ruined by a knock on his door and the two teens pulled away from each other. "Come in." Peter said and he cringed inwardly as it was his aunt.

"Ah good you're both here. I figured Peter it was time we had a discussion with you and Rogue."

'Oh man, not this.' Peter thought to himself. "Really if it's what I think it is, it was all covered in health class."

"I'd figured but I think we should talk anyway." May said sternly, "I may accept that you two are eighteen but I also want to tell you two not to rush things and to careful."

Peter thought he was going to die from embarrassment and Rogue wasn't far off. 'Ah sear ah'm gettin' Logan for this.' Rogue thought over and over in her head.

NEXT UP CHAPTER 43: EVIL ATTACKS