"Do I have to kick his ass?" Johnny asked, upon walking into his sister's room and finding her crying.

"Oh goodness, Johnny," she said, wiping her face, "You can't just burst in here."

"I can when my sister's crying," he said, crossing his arms over across his chest.

"Thank you Johnny, really," she smiled. Her brother was always there for her when she needed him.

"Seriously, Sue, just say the word," he said, snapping his fingers and lighting them on fire.

"None of that Johnny," she shook her head, "I don't like you fighting."

Johnny and Reed had gone at it a few times before. Not nearly as often as Johnny and Ben, but Sue had a little more control over her husband than she did his grouchy best friend. Although, honestly, she'd prefer Ben to Reed, at this moment.

"Well, I don't like you crying," he said, sitting down on the best next to her and throwing his arm over her shoulder, pulling him in close to her, "What he do now?"

"It's nothing," she said, "I'm just being silly."

"You are many, many things, Sue, but silly is not one of them," her brother joked.

"He just never treats me like an equal," she explained, "When we're out in the world fighting and in the lab."

"Well, I can't be angry with him for having your back when we're out there," Johnny said, "If anything ever happened to you, neither one of us would survive. But about the lab, you don't have to take that from him. You're the smartest girl I know- the smartest woman."

She smiled. She'd been trying to convince the media to drop the 'Girl' and let her go by the Invisible Woman; it wasn't taking as well as she'd hoped, which, of course, only magnified her issues with Reed.

"It's not that he doesn't think I'm smart or anything, it's just that he's so much smarter. How do you compete with Reed Richards?" she asked exasperated.

"It shouldn't be a competition. You two are married; you're partners. Equal partners," Johnny said, in a rare moment of insight.

"You're right," said Reed, from the door where he'd caught the young boy's last bit of wisdom, "It's not a competition."

"Of course it isn't!" Sue said, "I can barely keep up to you in the lab."

"But that's not a measure of you as a person," Johnny said.

"Yeah," Reed agreed, "Look at all you've done for Johnny. You think most sisters would've taken in their obnoxious little brothers like you did?"

"Okay, hurtful," Johnny said to Reed before turning back to his sister, "But true. You're the best sister in the world, and all the family I'll ever need."

"Not all of it," she said, patting him on the chest, "You'll find someone. What about that nice girl, Natalie?"

She was partially avoiding confrontation with her husband by bringing up her brother's girlfriends, but Sue was also genuinely interested in Johnny's relationships. She wanted him to be happy and knew he'd be a wonderful husband to some lucky girl one day. She was also contemplating what would happen if he didn't ever settle down, and didn't like the idea of him on his own all the time. She couldn't exactly move him in with her, he and Reed would kill each other, but she would if she thought they could all co-exist. She loved her life with her new husband, for the most part at least, but she also missed having her brother, her best friend, with her all the time like they had been their whole lives.