A/N- I had honestly forgotten about this story, and I have no idea what my original intentions were, but I am going to fix that, I honestly think that I am reviving this story, I have so much going on at once! Lol.

Gypsy Magic

Chapter 3

To get the ball rolling

”Ah don’t understand why you’re wit him. Ah mean Matt is a much betta guy. He’s attractive, talented, normal, not gonna fight ya every otha day. Didn’t ya just get out of one of those enemy relationships?” Rogue asks Kitty at lunch.

“Rogue, you totally know what I know. I have never done anything with Pietro, and I never plan to. That was just some stupid way of him getting back at Missy, but I can’t really blame him for having to go that far, I heard what she was like.” Kitty says thoughtfully chewing on her egg salad sandwich. “But about that fortune teller-“

“Kitty! Why are you with Pietro Maximoff? Is it not bad enough that you went to a gypsy fair, but now you are once again flirting with the enemy?” Jean demands sitting beside Kitty, her high school cafeteria hamburger looking cold and greasy, and earning a glare of repulsion from Kitty.

“Look, I don’t know what it is about. I don’t have anything to do with Pietro, I am with Matt, and that is how things are staying.” Kitty says picking up her tray and walking over to the table with the jocks and sitting beside a tall blond boy who wraps his arm around her protectively.

“Sometimes I wonder if she isn’t better off without him.” Jubilee says sitting down beside Rogue. “He treats her like she is gonna walk away. Granted he does have a very good resemblance to a Greek God. I have to admit thinking about Kitty getting to see him naked, makes me kind of jealous.”

“I can’t believe this!” Jean rants grabbing her tray and marching across the cafeteria.

“Thank ya so much Jubes.”

“Anytime!” Jubilee chirps smiling as Bobby, Amara and Sam join their table.

“I know how that looked, I just don’t understand why Pietro put his arm around me anymore than you do.” Kitty says looking into the stormy blue eyes in the very chiseled face of her boyfriend. “You know my problems with him run deep.”

“And this is why I am just going to pound his face in.” Matt manages through clenched teeth.

“Look, no harm done-“

“Matt,” Lance says walking up to young couple. “I am here to reclaim what is mine, I want Kitty Pryde. You stole her, and I am going to take her back.”

“You think Kitty wants you? She was so desperate when she was with you. The whole idea that the two of you even had anything worthwhile is enough to make me puke.” The tall jock says standing and towering over Lance.

“Lance, don’t pick this fight.” Kitty demands, her voice full of fury. “Matt didn’t steal me from you, and even if you beat the hell out of him, you would never get me back. I would be by Matt’s bedside, and would nurse him back to health.”

“Kitty, stand back.” Matt says gently, his voice full of concern. If only he knew what he was getting into, and if only he knew that I have a much better chance than he does of getting close to beating Lance.

“Don’t worry Kitty, I won’t hurt him that badly, nothing special.” Lance says with a fondness in his eyes that makes Kitty shiver in disgust. “Purely hand to hand, not how you’ve ever seen me fight before.”

“It better not be a dirty fight, Lance.” Kitty growls placing her hand on Matt’s arm. “Baby, don’t do this here. I really don’t think that it is a good idea to get into a fight on school grounds. Think about it, your dad is so insistent that you get into Duke, they don’t like fights.”

“Fine, but this is far from over Alvers.” Geez, the men in my life are all morons.

-6 months later-

“You looked good in graduation robes, Matt.” Kitty says leaning into his one arm embrace. “I’m proud of you, graduating with high honors, moving onto Duke in the fall. The best part is the full ride scholarship that they gave you. I still have trouble believing it.” Kitty smiles lovingly.

“I know. I just wish that my parents would have let me throw the graduation party that I wanted, instead of all family. I really wanted you there.” Matt says wrapping his arms around Kitty, the excess fabric of the robes nearly swallowing Kitty whole.

“Well, why don’t I treat you to Chinese? I know how much you love it? You can drive us there, and I will pay, I just need to stop by my house first. Kitty smiles, barely visible through the robes.

“Fine, but I’m not happy about you paying. I’m only doing this because I didn’t let you get me a graduation present.” He says pulling his right arm from around her waist to run it through her hair, knocking her typical ponytail into waves around her face.

“Hey!” Kitty chides. “You know better.”

“It’s my graduation present, keep your hair down, I like it better that way.”

“Okay, Kitty says reluctantly as she pulls away and laces the fingers of her left hand through the offending hand.

Hank, ready the med lab. There has been an incident, Kitty is involved. The professor’s voice rings out suddenly. I can barely hear Kitty’s voice, prepare it quickly. Jean, Logan and Storm leave immediately, find her before the authorities can, she must not be discovered as a mutant.

Chuck, what are you talking about?

Her boyfriend, Matt Rowsey, was just run off the road by a much larger vehicle, he is dead, and she is barely clinging to life. I have contacted the proper authorities, and she is to be taken here, but don’t let them touch her, she is still young, and we can’t risk exposure.

The car, a small, silver convertible BMW, was crushed up against a tree, strongly resembling a crushed soda can, and Matt was crushed between the seat and the airbag, a blood stained red airbag. Kitty had popped the air bag before she had managed to crawl a few feet out of the car, and then unconscious. Matt had died on impact, and Kitty, as the Professor had said, was barely clinging to her fragile life.

Logan was the first on the scene, with Storm and Jean not far behind. Their goal was to attempt to help the young couple in any possible way, but it quickly became evident that there would be no such luck with Matt, only moments later the sirens were heard and there were no mutants in sight, only a trail that made it look like Kitty had managed to crawl to the road.

“I don’t like this at all Chuck.” Logan grumbles barely audibly.

“No one likes these random accidents.” Xavier says slowly resting his chin in this hands.

“It was no accident. I smelled an unfamiliar scent all over it. I saw the boy, the slit this throat, they just made it look like he died on impact. They are good, I will give them that. It will look like a legit accident, he’ll look drunk or something. It will take Half-Pint a long time to get over it.”

“She will though. I believe that it may be best if we allow Rogue to tell her. They are very close, and it will be easier for her to hear from a woman. We must make sure that she will survive the night. From what I can gather of her memories, they were outnumbered. She couldn’t use her powers in front of him, she was afraid that he would never speak to her again, and she may very well have been right.” Xavier reports sighing. “Young love may have just cost her the life that she still had so much of left to live.”