Disclaimer: I don't own the Fantastic Four.

Hey! TheTorch here, well it seems a lot of you people enjoy some Reed/Sue fics, so on my spare time I had decided to write another. This one is based on Reed, and how he talks about what happened to him and how he feels and stuff. Who is he talking to? I have no idea, I just thought it would be easier to get his thoughts down if I wrote it from him. This is going to be one short story, with some lengthy chapters. ENJOY!

Inner Thoughts

Chapter 1: Realization

I, Reed Richards was always known to be an intelligent man, that was what I was told by almost every person that I have come across. For one thing when it came to love, I knew nothing. I thought merely talking and spending time with the person you cared about was enough for a relationship, boy was I wrong. Sue always said I made her feel invisible, I never quite understood why.

Everyday I would spend my time in the lab, once in a while with Sue. Wasn't that enough? Obviously it wasn't after one little mistake, our so called relationship was over, my mistake? It was in the lab once, I was quite busy building a extreme complex design of a quite fascinating piece of machinery, Sue was in the room, I guess you can say I didn't acknowledge her. I wasn't ignoring her, I just simply didn't notice she was there.

Maybe that incident happen more then once…. After that I questioned my self, do I really love her? Does she love me? If so, why doesn't our relationship work? I have no sight of a clue. It brought a pain to me, being apart from her, but I never understood why, maybe, just maybe I loved her, although I don't quite understand the feeling of it.

For the many days I spent in my lab, I thought of her. All the time, I wonder if she felt the same, but, she was the one that had ended our relationship, maybe she has no regrets. Just thinking about it brought a feeling of hurt on me. Even though it hurt, I was starting to believe I didn't love her, and I started to think that I never did. I needed to find out the truth of it all, find out how I really felt about her, how she really felt about me.

One night I had decided to take a nice stroll down the street after dinner, after thinking it through like a scientist should, I had asked Sue to join me, I thought the walk would seem uncomfortable and awkward, but I asked her anyway.

She looked so beautiful, as she always did, we were walking side by side, it was a silent walk, but I cant say I didn't enjoy it. It was turning out to be quite an evening until, I heard a frightening noise coming from a nearby restaurant just ahead of us, we did as we would have done, run and find out what it was, we stopped at the entrance, seeing two men, with guns in their hands, and the surrounding people ducking into their seats.

The men stared at us. "Finally you arrived" One man spoke, he then lowered his gun and aimed it at us, before he fired I extended my arms and snatched the guns away from both men, I have to admit my power were quite useful. In my attempt to take care of things I had decided to deal with one man as Sue dealt with the other, I took the man by his jacket and swung him to the wall, slightly wounding him, I was just about ready to swing my elongated arm at him, that was until he pleaded.

"Please, don't! Please I'm sorry!" He was nearly screaming with his hands shielding his face. I pitied the man I let go of him and allowed him to slump down against the wall.

Sue easily took out the other man, he was still alive, he was just slightly bounded by a long rope found around the restaurant. After she had bounded him she stood up and gave me a smile, I noticed behind her was another man, with a gun, this time he pointed it at Sue, I quickly, once again stretched my arm and took him out, I then ran to his body to notify his condition, still alive, but unconscious.

Everything was taken care of, at least that was what I thought, until I heard a small bang, the sound of a weapon being fired, quickly I turned my attention to the noise. "Sue" I whispered. Behind her was the man I had dealt with earlier, this time with a different gun in his hand. Sue gave a slight wince in pain, her eyes then closed and she began to fall down, as a reflex I ran to her and caught her before she hit the ground, I stared at the man in shock.

"You mess with our family! You mess with us!" He yelled at me, I was so angry at the moment, before I knew it I had punched him, and he fell unconscious.

"Sue! Sue!" I spoke to her emotionless body, her eyes were closed, and she began to turn pale. I felt an object on the back of her neck, I quickly pulled it out, it was a small dart, that had some injection needle on the top. Her blood was all over my hand, the dart had pierced her skin, allowing blood to flow through her wound.

"SOMEONE CALL THE AMBLUANCE!" I yelled, I was angry, with all these people around me they didn't do anything, all they did was stare, wondering how I was going to solve this problem, I knew what they were thinking "What's Mr. Fantastic going to do?" They gave me that name, and I don't deserve it, there was nothing fantastic about me at all.

I quickly stretched my arm and took hold of the weapon that was fired, it was a different looking gun, silver with a clear glass cartridge on the top of it, I didn't know what to think at that time, until I noticed the handle of the gun, it had a small triangular logo to it that had read Von Doom. Forget it, I thought, right now I have to deal with Sue. I didn't know what to think, there she was in my arms, no movements, nothing.

"Sue….Sue…wake up……please…" I felt tears fall upon my face, I didn't care. At that moment, flashbacks and thoughts raced in my mind. Her smile, her voice, the way she would look at me, everything about her, I knew it now, I had finally realized, I loved her.

I pulled her closer. It felt like eternity until the ambulance came, they quickly loaded her in to the truck giving her an oxygen mask. The police then gathered all the evidence of weapons. The attackers were now being sent to prison. I have come to conclude that they were some relatives of Victor Von Doom, it was pretty obvious, but for now they are out of the way, Sue was all I cared about at the moment.

The ambulance wouldn't allow me to enter the vehicle with her, so I had to take a taxi and follow them to the hospital.

They began to rush her body into the hospital, I was running with them.

"Sue! Sue!" All I can do was cry out her name, I was trying to stay near her until a nurse had stopped me.

"Please Sir! Let us take care of this! Please wait in the waiting room!"

I had no choice but to stop. I had to just watch, as they rushed her into the emergency room.

I was now in the room with Sue. The doctors had done everything possible to remove the odd fluids that were injected to her. "We did everything we can do…it's up to her now.." The doctor explained to me.

I contacted Johnny and Ben and told them to come to the hospital right away. When they arrive a police officer had explained everything to them. Johnny was enraged, I could tell, as the police informed him with the news. He quickly ran into the room that Sue was located in, but he was looking for me.

Johnny stared at his sister with sadness, then stared at me with anger. I then felt his fist land on my face, and forced me out of the chair was resting on and onto the floor. I didn't look at him, I just returned to the chair, never taking my eyes off Sue.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE HER!" Ben then stopped him before he took another swing at me.

"Johnny calm down, it wasn't Reed's fault"

"STAY OUT OF THIS ROCK BOY!" Ben didn't let go of Johnny.

"Ben, let him go.." After I spoke Ben let him go, surprisingly Johnny didn't hit me again, he walked up to his sister and looked at her. Then looked at me again.

"You should of saved her, you freakin weak piece of shit!" With that Johnny walked out of the room.

"Reed don't take him serious-" Ben tried to comfort me, until I cut him off.

"No…Johnny's right. I could of stopped the man. Before he had the chance to shoot her….I was about to, until he pleaded to me, I felt sorry for him……so I didn't stop him…..and then…" my voice began to break as I explained what happened "and then…I thought it was ok, so I left his side, he….took out a weapon and….fired at Sue…"

It hurt so much talking about it. Especially because I could of stopped it. Ben probably agreed with me also, he put his hand on my shoulder for a few moments and left. I held Sue's hand for a while as I looked at her motionless face. It hurt so much, I wanted to see her wake up, and tell me everything was ok, but it wasn't. Later on the doctor told me to go to the waiting room once again to allow her to rest alone.

I was in the waiting room. I began to think about, how stupid I was, I should of stopped him, Johnny was right, I was weak and I really was stupid. Thinking about all this brought tears to my eyes, I buried my face into my hands, and allowed the tears to pour down my face.

Around me I can hear the whispers from people.

"Is that Mr. Fantastic?"

"Oh my god! He's crying"

"I'm sure he could solve his problem, he can do anything"

These people, what were they thinking? I was still a person, I had feelings, and I wasn't invincible. All these people expect me to be so powerful, so powerful that its so surprising to see me like this, but they don't know, they don't know the true weak person that I really am.

I thought about Sue, I realized I loved her, I always did, and to even think I even considered the thought that I didn't, I was sure I loved her, I was just scared, scared of her hurting me, so I buried myself in my own work, in attempt to block her out of my life, it was my fault, it always was. Am I powerful now? Invincible? Intelligent? No, I'm a coward, weak, and I am indeed stupid. If it wasn't for my stupid ness she wouldn't be here right now, and we would be happy together.

Its my fault this happen, its my fault we aren't together, its my fault we were always unhappy. God, I was so stupid, why couldn't I just realize it sooner, why couldn't I just realize that I loved her, that I was in love withSusan Storm…..

End of Chapter 1. I tried to fill this chapter with some important stuff, this story isn't going to have many chapters to it. Well please review. Thanks.