We say to those who are in love
It can't be true 'cause we're too young
I know that's true because so long I was…So in love with you
Or so I thought
Fight the tears with pretty smiles and lies

A year goes by, and I can't talk about it
The times weren't right
Close your eyes and I'll close mine

Remember you, remember me

I cannot live, I can't breathe
unless you do this with me
Oh I need you now
Will you lay here with me?
When all is said and done,

Will we still feel pain inside?

Will the scars go away with time?

I thought that we'd make it
Because you said that we'd make it through
Will you be there to help me through?

Everyone, everyone will listen
Even if it hurts sometimes
Bring a smile to survive
And do you think that you have it in you?
I'm here and I'm with you. I'm here too, I feel you
We'll get through, I know this

Just one more time
With you and I, I'll pull you close

And then we'll say goodbye

We had fire in our eyes,

In the beginning.

I, I never felt so alive

We had time on our side,

In the beginning,

We, we had nothing to hide,

It's not fair when you say that I didn't try

I swear I never meant to let it die

Lyrics By

Flyleaf, Angels and Airwaves, Paramore, 3 Days Grace, (so, yes they are not mine)

Yet this story below, I thought of it, came up with my own idea's (grant it my friends helped, but it is all mine! I'm going to temporarily bask in the glory while you read…hope you like it)…

Have you ever heard me scream I love you?

We had been young, oh so very young that it is hard to recall now; what was love to us anyway? What was my life like before The Change? Who was I when I started off walking down this road? The Change had come and taken away everything that we knew and everything that the mortals held dear. I had been one of those people that had started The Change, yet I had been one of those mortals. If you can hear my voice and if you care to listen I will tell you about the past and future but before we start let me begin in the present…

My body was weakening as I walked down the long corridor that seemed to stretch forever. I had to see if the rumors were true, I had to know. Bobby Drake was at my side, striding and ready to protect both Rogue and I. We were a young group and yet we were older than most in our wisdom. I felt my eyes shut as a slow pain raged through my body. My feet hurt with blisters and my legs felt like weights that dragged me to hell. My body wanted to collapse, die even. I was not ready; I was too tired but I had no choice. You never have a choice…you always have to do something because it has to be done, not because you want to.

The fight was happening and there was nothing to stop the humans and the mutants from death; hell, we were all dead. I was still younger than Bobby by one year but we were both in the beginning and middle of our twenties. I was young, he was young, and yet I knew we might not live…

Leave your pain, you will survive. Everyone learns to love again… Songs kept pressing against my mind driving me wild. Suddenly before we reached the door a screeching came to our ears. I felt my eyes shut in slow motion and when I opened them they screamed out black. I felt my blue fire spread across my arm and to my neck. The fire swept up the side of my cheek as I tilted my head in the other direction. Blue fire licked at my eyes and when I shut them, this time in pain, I felt it take a hold of me. Taking a deep breath I prayed to the God that didn't exist, let my brother be ready. Protect him, please, I love him.

Opening my black eyes I shot them towards the sky as I looked up at the ceiling. Dropping to my knee's I felt the beat of my heart reaching out to the world. Do not use it unless you know you will die. Death was not my problem that I faced here. Death would have been welcomed in my arms; death could have me.

With my knee's digging deeper into the floor I felt myself scream. This is what you have to do, go now child. That is what they had told me, this is what I was doing. With every beat of my dead heart I felt the blue flames get hotter and hotter until I heard my brother scream at me. Both of our screams came together and as a family, we became one. I knew the flames generating from my body were destroying the building and maybe, perhaps, further. I knew they were so hot that the sun looked like an ice cube compared to it. How far did it spread was the question?

Shutting my eyes and with one blink I opened my eyes to find Bobby covered in an ice cocoon holding Rogue in his arms. The ice slowly melted away as I staggered and pushed myself off the floor. Looking out a broken window I saw that my fire and destruction had made its way across the area.

Chicago was now in ashes and flames and I had burned anyone who was not ready...maybe even some of my team.

My fire had been lethal and it had been for this sole reason alone. There was nothing left of the buildings that once stood, and the only reason that I had let this one stand was that I was in it. He was in it.

Bobby let go of Rogue who was freezing in her cold breath. Without touching the walls both of them moved to stand. Bobby reached for me but I shuddered and moved away from my brother. "Alexandria…" He whispered to me as I turned to him and cried. They both reached out to me but as tears sprinted down my cheeks I pushed them both away.

Chocking out under my breath I said, "It is my problem…this has nothing to do with you two now. All I needed was help getting here, and now that I am I would appreciate it if you leave. I have to do this alone."

You are fire…you will live forever. You control the fire and it lives within you. Use the fire to whatever advantage you need it. Use the fire for good, save the people. Don't let Him bring the world to its knee's. You are the only one. The words of my teachers kept coming in my mind. It was the words of everyone in my life. Everyone had told me this. I knew this.

Before I could finish what I was going to say there was the same screeching scream. It came crashing down the halls and into my head. It kept going and when I listened I heard my name, "Flare!"

Slow tears moved down my cheeks as Bobby whispered, "I can't leave you with him." Bobby's voice was that of a protective brother. He was angry and scared for me. His eyes were glazed over as he looked into my eyes, tears coming. We both knew I would not come out alive, there was no chance…

Taking him in my arms I hugged him briefly as the room of the building started to collapse. "It does not matter now; I was always his to keep." I whispered it more to myself then to my brother.

Letting him go I started to run down the hallway. I did not look back, and to this point I do not know if my brother and Rogue made it out alive. I had set the area on fire to kill what was not living when He would have done differently. We had evacuated the city for this moment. This was what we knew was coming. Fire against fire, the world would be set ablaze! This moment was the truth of our lives. This was everything, all because of him.

He would have killed every living person.

He would have killed everything that I loved.

He would have killed and killed until there was nothing left, not even himself.

Yet, would he have killed me?

Before I opened the door that separated us I took a breath of ash driven air. I took the moment and with the last of my strength to put my body in blue flames once more.

This time I was bound to the laws.

I was bound by his laws of fire.

I was bound to the laws of love and to kill or be killed.

I was bound to the laws of fire and he was the keeper of fire…this time I didn't look so good for me. This time…

This time I had to do it…

This time I had to be careful with my fire…He could steal my fire and use it against me if I wasn't smart or strong enough.

I reached for the door and pushed it open as the blue flames swirled around me. My tears dropped from my eyes and made a sizzle as they hit the flames that engulfed me.

Here was the moment of my life.

When I saw him I felt my energy drain as my body screamed at me to die. Die it told me, let this moment take you away. Shutting the door while never looking away from him I heard the slam as the door dropped and became ashes in the air. This room was hardly standing as I looked him over. Both of our bodies were engulfed in flames and our pure black eyes stared at each other. My blue flames reacted with his orange and red. They knew each other well; we knew each other well.

My black eyes flickered but only for a second but his stayed pinned on me, never moving, never faulting. We were both standing, facing each other, ready for the war that was now upon us. My hands were outstretched and holding flames to throw; his was no different.

There was a silence that was about to be replaced as he whispered to me, "You're dying, love." His voice was rough and yet, towards me, it was soft and loving.

At that moment I felt my strength leave me as I dropped to my knees, no longer able to survive. He was stealing my fire and my strength, the man I had loved…he was slowly killing me.

He took careful steps to me and when I opened my eyes I found him kneeling before me in his human form. All the fire and flames were gone from us and his brown eyes reached my hazel. Tears were coming from his eyes as he took me in his arms. I melted and felt death surround me, taking me in his arms. Taking a deep breath I opened my eyes and looked into his which were inches away. We closed our eyes and I felt his kiss once again. It was the most perfect moment of my life, it was everything I ever dreamed it would be. This part of me could never die.

"I love you." We whispered it under our breath at the same moment. Our voices were both in unison, we were now together and one.

I loved him, there was no denying that. Yet, I had to do this. I had been sent here for one reason; I had to kill my love.

Pulling away I felt my dagger pierce him in the chest. His eyes got bigger and he opened his mouth to speak to me but there was nothing he could say. Instead of me, he was now dying. I pulled away and stood before I started backing up. Slowly as he bled to death he stood up also.

"You should not have done that Flare." His voice was wicked and ominous as he whispered the words sinfully to me. Suddenly and without warning his body went in flames and his eyes turned black once more. The knife was in the air, hovering when the blood stopped pouring out of him. How had this happened? When did he acquire this new power? I was not prepared for this, I didn't know how to fight this! Now he was the wielder of the knife; now was my time to die.

A second had hardly passed from the moment he had spoke to this moment here. He moved his hand in one fluent motion and then I saw the knife fly across the space between us. I felt the breath leave me as I was hit in the chest by my own knife. Falling backwards on my back I closed my eyes and took what life I had left to burn me.

Yet before I could I felt two hands on my cheeks, as if he was holding me. Opening my eyes and seeing his face in mine he said, "You're not getting off that easy."

"Let me cremate myself…let me burn with my fire." I begged and whispered to him.

He shook his head and said, "You're going to feel pain Alexandria…your going to hurt and soon, when the life is gone from you, I will come for you."

I want to die, My thoughts screamed out to him as our minds collided.

I love you. He whispered the words into my mind without speaking them out loud.

With my eyes once again closed I whispered back, Let me burn.

No love, you will stay with me and if you fail to live, I will keep you safe.

I screamed inside of my mind and felt his body shudder as he touched my cheek.

Taking the last of my thoughts I put them all in order, Let me burn!

Let me burn!

Let me burn!

John, let me burn!

Let me burn…I want to die…let go.

His mind touched mine as he said, I love you Alexa.

Opening my hazel eyes while they flickered between life and death as my head rolled almost lifelessly, I mumbled, "I love you too Pyro."

Leave your pain, you will survive. Everyone learns to love again

They say when you die your life flashes before you. All those memories that you held dear come back to haunt you in your last moments. This I can tell you is not true. The only memory that came to my mind was The Change and Sides. It was the worst memory and the last thoughts that I wanted to die with. If I had a choice then I would have thought of John Allerdyce; I would have thought of the man that was killing me. I would have thought of the time we met…I would have thought of the time that we had loved each other.

My mind was screaming out in pain, flashes of pictures punching themselves in. Suddenly I felt the wind rise up against my face and I knew that I had failed. I felt a forehead rest on mine but I barley registered it as Johns. He took a sharp breath and then I felt the heat come in beats. Our hearts were now together as one and he took what was living of me.

John, or better known as Pyro, took my dead body in his arms and lit the world on fire. The Revolution had begun…The Change was no more. Alexandria Drake was dead.