Title: Embers
Email: vardametwen
Rating: PG / PG-13
Paring: Implied Bobby/John (Iceman/Pyro)
Summary: Bobby thinks about fire.
Disclaimer: I don't own X-Men oh how I wish I could. Oh, and I don't own The Cure's song Numb.
Warning: Implied death and slash. This take places basically in X2 when Bobby gets home...I guess
Notes: I really have no clue where I got the idea from this fic. It's just...I don't know It is really short also. Really short.
Embers
He had always hated fire.
Maybe it was because of his mutant powers. Fire would burn ice, make it melt away, make it hurt him.
Then he met John. He loved fire after that, even though it was his opposite but he loved it now. It wasn't his enemy anymore...it was everything. It was everything that John...Pyro is-was.
John was so like fire. Hot temped but beautiful at the same time. That's what John taught him about fire though, that it was beautiful.
Then the fire went away as he saw John get into the helicopter.
Now the fire's different. It's still beautiful and hot-tempered...but now it's beyond his grasp. He's finally learned that fire and ice just weren't meant to be. But he still yearns for it; wishes there was some way he could get it back, but there isn't a way.
So when he saw Pyro standing there looking helpless as his world fell apart Bobby knew he had to save his new life, whether it meant having John in it or not. So he did it. He let the fire go for the last time. He let it turn into ice.
Now there was no fire, no Pyro or John. Now there were only embers that remained where the fire was. And now only memories remained. Only memories of John and him.
And the very last time when he was around fire, he touched it. But it wasn't warm. It was cold, just like ice. It reminded him how John's skin felt after he had to end John's life.
…sometimes though, as he thinks about the past, he still wants the fire. But most importantly he wants John back.
the end.