Chapter 1

The Fortunate Life of St. John Allerdyce

Happy wasn't the word that someone would dare use to describe John Allerdyce's story, fortunate, maybe, but not happy. He was never happy with his life. It was already hard enough being a mutant, but being gay?

Now that's a whole new different story.

Being the two things the society despises was very difficult. You had to live in the shadows because you don't want anyone knowing you're a mutant, or you had to be alone forever, knowing that if you were stuck with too much guys around, you fall in love with one of them.

Or at least, that was what John had experienced.

No one else had known about his little secret, aside from Bobby of course, who was obviously too homophobic look past his former bestfriend's sexuality. John didn't know if the Professor knew about it before he died, but other than both of them, no one else knew.

And he wanted to make sure no one else will.

He was strolling around the streets of Boston, hoping to get away from the city that still brought nightmares. He was looking for some kind truck drivers who would be able to help him get away from the city. But so far, the drivers only gave him the finger. The kindest one of those drivers actually stopped, until he opened the door of the truck. And then the driver gave him the finger and sped off.

He only hoped there was some weird miracle from whoever was above that would give him some sort of transportation away from the city. It worked the last time. Who says it's not going to work now?

So he waited. He waited and waited and waited and waited. But nothing came. He gave up and started to walk away when—

"Get the hell away!" There came a familiar voice behind him. Instinctively, John turned around and saw a familiar shade of dark hair.

"James?" he muttered. But James aka Multiple Man didn't hear him. He just sped past John and continued running, carrying a huge bag over his shoulder.

Three guesses on what that contained.

John stumbled sideward as his shoulder hit Multiple Man's, but didn't have time have to react as more people came pushing past him, wearing familiar blue uniforms. Thank the heavens that John had decided to pull up his hoodie today, or he would be the next one to be chased by these calorie-filled people who call themselves police.

The police chased after Multiple Man, who obviously was out stealing again. John cursed his curiosity as he followed the police subtly. No one should know that the infamous Brotherhood member John Allerdyce was in the same town as James Madrox. He didn't want to get dragged in one of James's careless crimes.

John followed them to a deserted building downtown, seeing a bunch of police cars in front of it. Up on the rooftop, was the multiplying mutant, waving his hands in the air. Gunshots echoed throughout the whole street, making John and the other curious onlookers duck while some of the people screamed.

The gunshots echoed for no longer than a minute, looking up, there were now three James on the rooftop, waving their hands, taunting the police. John saw several of the officers subtly enter the abandoned building, helmets and bulletproof vests covering their body.

John looked up again at the (probably) clueless Madrox, who split again to more. John looked down at the police. Then back at Madrox. To the police then—what was that?

Down at the street, at the side of a building hidden in an alley was a silhouette of a person, who looked like who was also carrying what Multiple Man had—Oh.

John looked up at the duplicates on the rooftop as they continued to harass and taunt the police. Now he knew what Madrox was up to, John thought. And if he was going to be asked, it was rather clever of James to use a huge distraction as an escape.

John went back to where he came from, but turned around the street, going to the other side of the buildings. And just as he thought, Multiple Man was there, riding a car, probably a stolen one, as he went to the other side of the town. He didn't know what possessed him, but due to his nature on acting on impulse, John ran and followed the car.

He was just sprinting for just a matter of five minutes when exhaustion began to eat him. James's car had been long gone and was probably already a mile away. John had decided to let it go, it was not as if he had a plan when he finally caught up with the other mutant anyway.

Though his head suddenly snapped up when he heard an unmistakable noise of an engine purring. A very familiar noise to him, John noticed. The sky was suddenly filled with huge storm clouds, lightning and thunder was unmistakably seen and heard. But that didn't stop John, the sound of the engine was still there, not loud, but was still heard to anyone's attentive ears. He continued to scan the storm cloud filled sky, the feeling of anxiety of seeing him again bubbling inside of John.

And just as the wind began to pick-up he saw the familiar figure of the X-Jet, going to the place where John had seen James go.

But his thoughts weren't at the fact that Jamie was about to be caught. His thoughts were narrowing as he thought about who were inside the X-Jet.

The X-Men.

Bobby.

A/N: Chapter 2 will be longer. I promise!