Beeing done with it

Author: BlackBunny

Series: Movievers, after X-3 it's kind of AU but not really.

E Mail: BlackBunnyvorsicht-bissig.de

Rating: R...just to be sure.

Summary: John has an encounter with some mutant kids and decides to help them out and Bobby has a breakdown.

Archive/Distribution: Dry-Ice...

Category : Angst, hurt, slash, sex in later chapters.

Spoilers: All x-Men films

Parings: Bobby"Iceman"Drake/St.John"Pyro"Allerdyce and some more who watch from the sidelines...

Chapter one: I'm not gone...

Warnings: slash...languege..a lot of swearing. Violence, hints of terrible pasts.

Second Warnings: I'm a german girl so it might be teribble to read for some of

you. I'm not that good in english

Disclaimer: I don't get any fucking money! I just play with the boys for he hell of it and I don't give a damn that it wasn't me who created them.

Authors Notes : Please go easy on me here, normally don't write in english...

Chapter one: I'm not gone...

He wasn't afraid of the dark. He never was. Not when he could light it up with the flick of a finger.
John was never one to be afraid of anything besides losing someone he loved, and
human nature.
Because all humans, and a lot of mutants too, tended to be cruel, because they
hated what they couldn't understand.

The dark alleys he walked down looked the same as those he had walked before.
But since Alcatraz he can only walk in the dark.
The government would lock him up if he was found out, if he was recognized. But
here in the dark no one would see him.
Well, no one on friendly terms with the police, anyway.

His thoughts went to the fight again. When Iceman had knocked him out. A smile
playing along his fine features.
As if he hadn't seen it coming. As if anything Iceman was capable of would
surprise him. The instant he had started his fire he knew he couldn't win unless he gave it everything he had.
But he hadn't, he never would.
Maybe Bobby didn't miss or even care about him anymore, but he still cared about Bobby.
And that'll never change.
John had his reasons to leave, had his reasons to follow Erik. But on Alcatraz
everything had changed.
It wasn't the fact that Magneto was cut off from his powers now, or that the
Brotherhood no longer existed.
His reasons left him when the X-Men appeared. When he saw them.
Pete, his silver metal body.
Kitty, shivering but still holding her ground.
And Bobby.
Bobby with fear and determination in his bright blue eyes. Looking as beautiful
as he did the first time they met.

It was then that all his reasons came crashing down, and he realized it
was all for nothing.
When he had gone with Erik, he sure as hell knew, the others thought he betrayed
them just because he wanted to play terrorist.
That he just wanted to defy authority.
That he liked the rush of adrenaline more than the friendship they shared.

But that was fare from the truth.

He went because of the rage and fear he felt, when the soldiers burst into HIS home.
When they hunted down his friends and he had to run for his life, with Bobby, Rouge and Logan by his side.
He knew then that his home would never be safe again, and that if he didn't do
something, one day he'd hold the cold, lifeless body of a friend in his arms.
The government had purposely broken their lives apart, and would do it again if
the mutants didn't take control.
John knew he could not live with it, if one of the people he loved died from
THEIR hands and he never had attempted to stop it.

It was logical for him to follow Erik then.
But when he saw them there. His former friends, desperately fighting for the
things they believed in, he knew it was over for him.
He also knew they could so totally take them down, even if they were only six.
They were a real team, and John knew what this word meant.

They could rely on each other, could be sure their friends were there to stand
beside them.
And John knew
his fight was over, because even if he would never admit it out loud, he had fighted to save the ones he loved.

To make sure they wouldn't be put on the to-kill-or-study government list.

But it wouldn't be better if they died because of other mutants.

He was quite sure that Erik had noticed the way, all of his flying cars seemed to fall where no one else was. That Erik knew they should have hit some of his targets and that he'd been kind of annoyed that these pathetic humans were so quick.

But they weren't.
Pyro always had a habit of keeping his secrets.
Mostly to keep his strength hidden.
Better for others to think him weak and be unprepared to fight him, than laughing at his rotting corpse.
He had never told Magneto that as well as controlling fire, he could also
move things engulfed by flame.

If he had known...well, it would have made more sense to Erik that his
car-missiles didn't hit anything he aimed for.

Sighing, John made his way around the next corner.
Wishing he had thought more clearly when he first joined the brotherhood.
But those kinds of thoughts were cast aside as he heard a loud scream.
Turning to the left he followed the noises, and heard cold laughs and screeching
shouts from a corner of the next alley.

Normally he wouldn't have bothered, but the voice...
It sounded so young and feminine...like the one he heard only in his worst
nightmares.

As he rounded the corner his eyes flew to the three men standing in the
street, building a circle and laughing heartlessly at the small figures at their
feet.

A boy with black hair, only 12 or 13, unconscious and pale like the moon,
little drops of blood clinging to his forehead.

And an even younger girl, crying and sniffing, shouting at the men to leave them
alone.
She had dark blond hair, and little blue horns peaking out of the top of her head.

//So she's either wearing them for fun or she's a mutant.// John thought while
flicking up his wrist lighters with a loud snap.

The three guys turned to look at him, clearly surprised.

"If you're good boys and go now, I won't torch your sorry asses!" said John, putting as much arrogance into his voice as he could muster, because he knew that it'd piss them off.
Hell, it would piss everyone off and he died to fry that pathetic buggers a bit. Or a bit more.

"Watch your mouth kid, and leave. You're don't want to mess with us, little
shit!" One of them was shouting at him.

"You'd be better off if you ran now, dickhead. I'm not as nice as I look," he
retorted, grinning his most evil smile.
He knew his second insult had made it, 'cause guys like that were always easy.

"You'll regret that, shithead!" the biggest of them sneered and the three of
them moved towards him, away from the children.

//Perfect!// he thought while forming three separate balls of fire behind his
back.

"Well, you can't say I didn't warn you, fucktard!" He shrugged his shoulders, and still grinning let the fireballs fly straight towards them.
Each one hitting the target in the pants.

Screaming more in shock than in pain, they ran down the alley while trying to
snuff the flames by rolling on the ground. Pyro had put the flames on low
temperature, they wouldn't even get any dangerous burn marks out of it.
But sure as hell they would watch their mouth better around others for a while.

John just paced towards the children the girl looking at him afraid.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you." He knelt down by the boy, feeling for
a pulse.
It was strong and even. Nothing to worry about but he better get the child to a
hospital.
"The...they...hit him..."the blonde girl whispered and sniffed again.

"Don't worry, we'll get him some help!" With that he picked the boy up and gave
her a reassuring smile.
"I'm John. What's your name?"

"Patricia...but they just call me Pika." She whispered and stood up as well. She
grabbed something off the ground and John noticed it was a dark green cap. She
put it on her head and fisted one of her small hands in his leather jacket.

//Hides the horns, must be a mutant.//

"Nice to meet you, Pika."

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"There's no permanent damage done, but he needs at least a day of bedrest,"
the stern-looking doctor told John.
He didn't know what to make of that. It wasn't like he had to ponder it for
long.
He would just make sure to get them both home and
be done with it.
Pika sat at the boy's bedside, holding his hand. The door to the room was open,
so John could see them both.

"You can tell his parents then!" he answered just to make sure she understood
that they were not his.

"Oh, well we'll have to call them at once then." She looked at him expectantly.

John just shrugged his shoulders. "Hey, I don't know their parents or their
number. I just picked them up in an alley two streets down from here. He was
injured so I got him here."

The doctor sighed, frustrated. "Well, I guess that's some problem. Maybe
they have no home at all! I'll just ask her and if she doesn't tell, the police'll have to be called..."

Pyro just nodded and turned to leave. It wasn't his problem any more.
Even if Pika slightly reminded him of her, she wasn't.
//But I guess that's why I couldn't just walk away...// He smiled sadly looking
over his shoulder at the little blond girl.

Outside he sat on a low wall, taking out his cigarettes and lighting one.
Inhaling deeply he let out a small sigh.
It wouldn't do any good to drift in the past. It never did.

When he was half way through his cigarette, he saw the door of the Clinic open.
It was Pika and her friend, sneaking through the doors and once out running to
the opposite side of the street as fast as they could.

Pyro sighed again.
A part of him knew that this wasn't his business and that he should just walk to
his apartment.
But he also knew that he wouldn't find any peace of mind if he just let them slip.

Throwing his cigarette to the ground he ran after them.

//I swear, I'll never admit that to anyone. Not even Bobby, who, by all means,
IS the greatest softy in the world.//

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