Kiss of the Phoenix

Chapter 1: Destruction.

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: If I said I owned them, I lied.

She stood there, looking at the ruin of what was left of San Francisco. She felt the guard's presence, lingering behind her. She hated it here in this house; this fortress.

"Leave us!" He commanded from behind her. She closed her eye's and waited. She felt him move up behind her. "What are you doing?" He asked her.

"Just admiring your handy work," She said coldly. She heard him sigh heavily.

"You shouldn't be so cruel." He told her.

"And neither should you."

"He deserves it." He told her, and she could here the calmness in his voice, like he had done nothing at all. She whorled around to face him. "He deserves none of this! No one does!"

"Don't you dare talk to me like that!" He roared. She glared at him.

"What? Do you really think that you can order me around like one of you minions? I am you wife, Wyatt! You can't treat me as if I'm nothing!"

"The second you started sleeping with him you became nothing to me!" He roared, stepping back.

"Don't bring him into this! It's not his fault that you've turned into such a heartless bastard!" He stepped forward, and raised his hand to hit her, but stopped. She looked at him, horrified.

"Look at what you've become. Don't you understand? Why do you think it's so hard to stay with you, when you've become such a monster!"

"I am not the monster! Those who betray those who have trusted them are the monsters!"

"How can you say that! Look at what you're doing! Was this your master plan, Wyatt? To destroy everything your mother and aunt's worked so hard to protect?"

"They're the ones that died! If they really wanted this world to be safe, then they shouldn't have risked their lives!"

"But that's what they did. For the greater good." She reminded him, more quietly this time. He just shook his head, then began to walk away.

"Go see Lover Boy. Because that's the last time you'll see him. After you get back, you'll never see the outside world again!" Before she could yell after him, had had disappeared through the forcefield. She pulled herself back together, and left the stone prison.

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Chris sat on his cot in the back room of P3, starring at the ring. He hadn't meant to fall in love with her. It had just happened. After Wyatt had changed, and she had discovered that he wasn't the man she still loved. That man had died a long time ago. When it was times like these, when he was a lone, when he would pull the ring out from it's hiding place, and think. Wonder if she had helped him go to the past to save the future and make one of their own, or to save Wyatt.

He lay back down on his cot.

"What are you doing, now, Bianca."