Okay, so I've been writing several X-Men fanfics lately, and this is the one that I feel is most ready to start being posted, so... yeah, just enjoy and leave me nice reviews.
Disclaimer: If I owned X-Men, then I wouldn't live in a shitass town in Texas and spend all my spare time writing nonprofit stories on now would I? I do, however, own Morphine.
Chapter One
"Watch where the hell you're going, Anholtz." John said as we bumped into each other on the way to breakfast. We were both late. Not an unusual happening.
"You watch it, asshole!" I yelled at him, deadening his left leg so he stumbled into a wall.
He abruptly turned to me with his lighter in one hand, and a ball of fire in the other.
I raised an eyebrow and slowly walked toward him, keeping eye contact. I kept going until I had him pressed against the wall and I closed my hand over his fire ball, extinguishing it.
"You forget, John, that I have talents, too."
I pressed my body into his and stared at him with my ice blue eyes, filling them with as much raw sexual emotion as possible.
"You forget, Morphine, that your seduction won't work on me." He said softly, leaning into my face, and working his way around me.
As he was strutting off down the hall I called after him, "Don't worry, Allerdyce, I'm really not all that concerned with seducing you anymore."
As he was turning the corner into the next hall, he looked back and smirked at me.
I continued on my way to the cafeteria and found my roommate, Kitty, standing in line with Lockheed draped around her shoulders.
"Late again, El." She mused, her gaze fixed on someone behind us.
"Early mornings just aren't my cup of tea." I replied, adjusting the many silver and black bangles on my wrists.
I turned to see who Kitty was so distracted by and saw Warren standing by himself near the back of the line.
I looked over at her and smirked.
"Ellie, no-" she started to say.
"Hey, Warren!" I beckoned for him to come stand with us.
He smiled and walked over to us.
Kitty's cheeks were glowing pink.
"You wanna sit with us?" I asked.
"Yeah, sure." He looked at Kitty and smiled.
It was people like that who made me sick. They both liked each other, but neither of them would tell the other. And they would make an adorable couple!
We got our trays and food and sat at a table on the far side of the large cafeteria.
I drank my chocolate milk quickly while Kitty and Warren were discussing Chuck Palahniuk books.
"Choke is my favorite." Kitty said popping a piece of hash brown into her mouth.
"Mine, too!" Warren beamed. "What about you, Ellie?"
"I prefer Haunted myself," I picked up my tray, "and Invisible Monsters."
"Where are you going?" Kitty asked.
"I have to finish my History homework." I lied. They needed some time alone. Enough of that can get any two people to become a couple. I knew that from experience.
I exited the cafeteria and was about to walk up the stairs when I heard someone whisper, "Just push her. She can't paralyze you if she's falling."
Oh, how much better life can be when you have a heightened sense of hearing.
I mounted the stairs and raised my hand to paralyze whoever it was.
I heard two bodies hit the floor and I jogged up the stairs.
The two guys on the floor were Hellion and Hydro. I didn't know them that well, but I had never done anything to them. And I knew why they were planning on harassing me. I figured I'd ask, anyways, though.
"And why would you want to push me down a flight of stairs?" I asked, lowering my hand so the numbness in their bodies would wear off.
They both stood up and stared at me angrily.
"Take a wild guess, bitch." Hellion said.
"Look, I don't know whether you hate me because of who my uncle was or because I joined the Brotherhood, it's so hard to keep up these days, but I have no choice of who I'm related to, and he's dead now anyways so it doesn't matter. Thanks to Magneto, he's dead. So get over it. I have never been much of a fan of my Uncle Robert or Magneto."
"Senator Kelly wasn't that much of a problem to begin with. All he did was pull all that bullshit about the Registration Act. Who cares if he's dead? And you sure don't seem to dislike Magneto that much since you joined the fucking Brotherhood." Hydro spat.
"Notice that I'm not in the Brotherhood now. I left and came back here by my own free will."
"Whatever, you're still a fucking traitor, and I'll get you for what you and Magneto did. The bad reputation you've given to us all!"
"Well then technically, you should work on getting back at John Allerdyce, as well, because he was Magneto's right hand man, you know." I said sarcastically.
Hellion cracked his knuckles, as if he was actually attempting to scare me.
"Oh, fuck you!" I said, exasperatedly.
I walked off down the hall, into my room, and locked the door behind me.
I plopped myself down on my bed and pulled my laptop off my dresser, into my lap.
I opened it and signed onto AIM.
A few seconds later an IM window popped up.
Ic3manDrak3 : hey, Ellie.
Morphine x: um, hey Bobby.
Ic3manDrak3: I'm sorry about what Hellion and Hydro just did.
Morphine x: you saw?
Ic3manDrak3: no, Hellion just told me about it
morphine x: well, that's nice of him.
Ic3manDrak3: I'm glad you came back.
Morphine x: not glad that Rouge came back?
Ic3manDrak3: of course I am, but she was only gone long enough to get the cure. you left to join the Brotherhood.
Morphine x: they disbanded, and I was sick of being used just because I have powers that can take anyone down.
Ic3manDrak3: meet me in the garden. I really want to talk to you.
Morphine x: okay, I'll see you in a minute.
I put up an away message and slung my purse over my arm, exiting my room and going down the back staircase into the garden. I jogged to the center to sit in the gazebo in the center, and I saw Bobby walking across the lawn towards me.
Before John and I left to join the Brotherhood, I roomed with Rouge and John roomed with Bobby.
We were all good friends, no matter how shitty John treated us.
Before Rouge came to Xavier's, Bobby had liked me, but as soon as they met Bobby fell for her, which didn't bother me, because I had never thought of Bobby as any more than a friend.
"Hey, popsicle." I greeted jokingly.
"Ellie," he said sitting next to me.
"What did you want to talk about?" I asked.
"You and him have been back for almost two months and you and I have barely said anything to each other."
I looked away and then back to Bobby, feeling ashamed that I had been ignoring him.
His crystal blue eyes were filled with a look of immense sadness.
"Don't go back to John, you could do so much better." He said.
I felt my eyes well up with tears, but blinked them away.
John and I were together for three months. The day that he walked out of that jet he ruined all we had, without realizing it.
I went with him, because I cared about him. I was going to make sure he didn't get hurt.
Magneto offered to take me and John into the Brotherhood and make us important, and John accepted. I felt I had no choice but to go with him.
Magneto took John and helped him further develop his powers. Mystique made me to her what John was to Magneto. She taught me to overcome all my weaknesses by using my numbing and paralyzing. No one could drown me, knock me out, catch me... or burn me.
When Mystique was shot with the cure, and Magneto disowned her, I took her place. John always at Magneto's right side, I at his left.
Pyro and I never spoke to each other like we did before. It was like he had forgotten how he felt about me entirely.
When Magneto was given the cure, the Brotherhood disbanded.
John and I had nowhere to go, except back to Xavier's.
Storm was reluctant to take us back, but she knew Xavier would never have wanted her to turn us away.
"I don't know what happened to him, Bobby."
He sighed, I could tell that he was irritated with my love for John, and angry that he had come back with me. "I guess the power just got to him. People change when they move up in the chain of command. He'll never change now." He paused and looked me deep in the eyes. I felt I was drowning in those shining, blue pools of beauty and emotion. "Let me kiss you, Ellie."
"Bobby, you have a girlfr-" I was cut off by Bobby's lips pressing into mine. The kiss deepened for only a moment, and I felt a cold rush of air fill my mouth.
I pulled away and looked back up at Bobby.
"I... I'm sorry, El. I just... I don't know. I shouldn't have done that, I've just wanted you for so long... And... I know you'll be going back to Pyro, no matter what I tell you... I just wanted one kiss before that happens."
"What makes you so sure I'll be getting him back?" I asked.
"Because you love him. Love will always find a way."
The bell rang for classes to start, and I bade Bobby an awkward goodbye, and went back to my room to get my bag, when I realized that he was right.
Love will always find a way.
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