Part two of the story. no music this time, sorry. I own nothing!
Pyro looked at the floor, in the cell, in the prison, in the subbasement of the institute. He could hear from the other side of the room passed the shield that two voices were talking, more like arguing.
"We can't let her know he's here, Logan!" Storm yelled.
"The girl deserves to know! He needs to know about her!"
"I don't think she'll be able to take it in her condition!"
"Well, we let the boy live. What are we suppose to do? Leave him in here forever and pray she doesn't come in?"
"She's fragile right now! She's hormonal! She's five months in! Who knows what it can do to her!" Pyro had no idea what was happening. So he finally called out, "Hello?"
He heard a murmur from Storm, "I don't have time for this! Do what you want, just take care of it!" She then left the room. He heard Logan walk in to the prison area.
"Logan! What the hell is going on?" Pyro asked with anger.
"Relax kid. You're safe now in the mansion," Pyro looked around in the cell and answered sarcastically, "Yeah being in a prison cell makes me feel safer than anything."
"We could have left you on Alcatraz to die."
"What happened? All I remember is Bobby grabbing my hands and froze them. Then I woke up here."
"Well basically the Phoenix went out of control and destroyed everything in sight. Bobby grabbed you and took you to safety," John was surprised. He tried to kill Bobby and he saves him. He remembers when Bobby use to be his best friend. Logan continued, "We then found out that you were going into hypothermia from the cold and had to put you in hot water. You've been here a few days, kid."
"What happened to Jean?" Logan looked down in sorrow, "I had to kill her…" It was silent. John started wonder about Jubilee.
"Where's Jubilee?"
"She's here in the mansion," Logan sounded like he wanted to get off that topic. John noticed, "Is she okay?"
"She's fine."
"Can I see her?"
"No."
"Why not? I want to see her."
"I can't let that happen right now."
"I want to see her! Let me see her or I'll-,"
"Or else what, Pyro?" John fell silent. What could he do? Burn the shield? Like that's going to help!
"I just want to see her. I… missed her," John never showed that side to Logan before. Never in a million years!
"I know you do, but right now that can't happen. She's going through a weird time in her life."
"Then let me see her! I can make it better! I want to make it better between us. The last time I saw her I told her that she might not see me again."
"Kid, I don't think you'll help her situation."
"Why not, what's wrong with her?"
"I can't tell you that. It's not for me to tell."
"BULLSHIT!" Pyro yelled at the top of his lungs. He wanted to see her badly, even if it was for a brief second. Logan knew he did too.
"Your food will be here in a few moments," Logan turned and left. Pyro called out his name to have him stop but he didn't. John was left there in the cell by himself feeling all alone in the world.
Jubilee was in Kitty, Rogue, and her room. She was snaking on some chips and reading a book to her belly. It could hear now. So she decided to talk get us to talking to it. She was reading Little Red Riding Hood, just like how her mom read to her when she was a child. Bobby came in to visit his friend.
"Hey, how are the baby to be and the mommy to be?" He joked. Jubilee smiled, "Fine. I've been reading to it since Beast told me it can hear."
"What have you been reading?"
"Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, stories about me, and I think I read Romeo and Juliet."
"That's a little advance for its age."
"I know, but I just couldn't stop talking."
"So when do you find out the gender?"
"I was going down to Beast today and find out."
"Mind if I go with you?" Jubilee looked at him slightly confused then smirked, "Yeah, let's go now."
Pyro was on the floor of the prison, waiting. Waiting for something to happen, but he didn't know what. He heard the doors open and Kitty was holding a tray.
"Kitty?" Pyro got up and walked to the shield so he can get a better look at her. Kitty had an expressionless look on her face. She opened a draw and set the tray in. She pushed a button and the tray of food appeared on the other side of the shield.
"Kitty?"
"I'm not talking to you!" Kitty walked out the door. When she walked out she almost ran into Jubilee. Good thing she can phase.
"Kitty, what are you doing down here? And who where you talking to in there?" Jubilee became suspicious.
"Nothing, no one!" Kitty answered fast. Jubilee cocked an eyebrow. She walked around Kitty in the prison area. Bobby and Kitty were calling out to her to stop. Jubilee ignored them and went up to the cell. Then she saw him. She covered her mouth and her heart started to beat really fast. John turned and saw her. He was looking at her and cried, "Jubilee!" he then looked down and saw her stomach. He saw the bulge. John couldn't look away his eyes were focused on that.
Bobby and Kitty got Jubilee and took her out of there.
"Wait! Come back, Jubilee!" John called out. John felt weak at his knees and sat down. He ran his fingers down his hair. He didn't know what to think. It all hit him at once. It explained why she was acting weird. Why she threw up that one time outside the ice cream shop. It explained why she freaked out on him in Chicago.
"You knew he was here and didn't tell me!" Jubilee yelled at Kitty and Bobby.
"Yes, but Storm told us to make sure you didn't see him yet," Bobby explained.
"She didn't know how you would react," Kitty finished. Jubilee was silent. All of anger was inside of her, except the baby. Jubilee stormed off to find Rogue. She can talk to her.
Bobby walked in the prison and in front of John's cell. John stood up when he saw him, "Why are you doing this to me?"
"Shut up!" Bobby snapped.
"You know I don't get you sometimes. You head butt one second and the next you carry me here! You either hate me or not, Bobby!"
"Do you even know what it's been like for her since you left?"
"No—," Bobby cut him off.
"You don't! When you left she cried for days! Days! On top of that she was kidnapped that night when the soldiers broke in, so she's screwed up like hell. Then she leaves to Japan with Wolverine—," John interrupted him this time.
"She went to Japan?"
"Yes. She comes back and doesn't have an emotion in her! She only showed it around Logan, but to us she was a zombie! Then finally after that, we got through to her. She starts coming back to being good old Jubilee, but because of you, she starts to throw up. At first we think she's just sick but no. The day you saw her at the mall, she came back and told us she was going to be a mom!"
John's face dropped. He didn't know this side of the story. He felt horrible for doing that to her.
"For what you did to her, you don't deserve to see her! You're lucky if she even wants to see your face again!" Bobby turned and left the room
John huddled up on the bed and tried not to feel anything.
"So are you ready to talk to him?" Rogue asked.
"I don't know. I want to, but I don't know what will happen," Jubilee was nervous. As Rogue describes, she was more nervous than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Rogue went to the subbasement with her. When they got to the door Rogue hugged Jubilee, "Thank you for coming down here with me."
"I owed you," Rogue smiled and left. Jubilee walked in and went in front of John's cell. He turned to her, but it was silent.
"So…" John broke the silence.
"So…" Jubilee responded.
"You're pregnant."
"Yeah, five months already."
"Is it…mine?" John pointed at her belly. Jubilee looked up at him.
"Yes. You were the only one," she sounded so blunt.
"It happened from that night when…"
"Yeah, that was the only good thing that came out of the night."
"Why didn't you tell me?" John looked at her in the eyes. Jubilee stared back at him, "What were you going to do?"
"I would have come to you."
"Yeah right! You were off being Magneto's bitch!" John's eyes widened, "I was not his bitch! I would have come back!"
"Oh really? Mister 'I don't believe in hiding our powers' would have stopped what he was doing and come back?"
"I would have come back for you!" Jubilee turned away. She looked up at the ceiling wanting to cry.
"I left because I was lost without you," Jubilee turned back to him.
"I was alive! I was screwed up, but alive!"
"I didn't know that! I figured if you're dead, then what's the point in staying here! I went to find you and got lost in the snow. 'Why bother, John! She probably died because you weren't watching her!'" Jubilee started to tear.
"Then I found out you survived! That gave me a reason to fight back! So no one can take you away from me like that ever again!" John let out more then he thought he would say. Jubilee sat on the floor covering her eyes with her arms on her knees.
"I was coming back for you when the human problem was fixed. I never forgot you, not for one second," John pulled a picture of the two of them from his back pocket. The picture was wrinkled, a little torn and burnt, and now damp. You could still see the image though. It was the two of them when he first got to the mansion. She saw he was down and asked Kitty to take the picture.
He held it up for her to see. Jubilee saw it and started to cry more. John wanted to hug her, but he the damn shield was in the way. She was crying and he couldn't grab her to comfort her like when she had a nightmare.
"The only thing that kept me alive in that concrete cell was thinking, 'I'm going to get out of this. I'm going to see John again.' The only thing was that when I got back to the jet, Bobby told me you left, I lost my mind," Jubilee didn't have any more tears. She seemed to have made her eyeballs dry.
"I'm sorry. I know it's not going to do much, but I'm sorry! I was wrong about everything. Magneto left me out there to die, but my real friend saved me. The girl that really loves me is in front of me, now! She's carrying my child. That's all I need, Jubes! I love you!"
Jubilee put her hand slightly in front of the shield to where she wasn't touching it. John went to put his hand where her hand was, but when he touched it he got electrocuted. Jubilee yelled. When he took his hand back he was shaking. John shook his head, his hair had static. Jubilee had her mouth covered. She was staring at John, and then started to burst out laughing. He couldn't help but join her.
"These have electric shock on them!" Jubilee breathed out.
"I didn't know! I saw your hand about to touch it and wanted to do the same," They couldn't stop laughing. Logan walked in and saw them, "Okay, I guess since everything is okay with you two now, I guess I can let you out."
To be continued
Thanks for reading!
Part three is coming. the conclusion, i guess
