Somebody To Love
(Author's Note: Holy crap....my friend is shocked people are actually reading this story, so she told me to put up the next chapter! Please review, she'd like to know what you all think of her writing! Neither of us own Fantastic 4)
The next morning we took a cab and searched the city for Ben. As we headed onto the bridge the driver stopped. There was a huge accident on the bridge. We got out of the taxi. I paid the driver. Ben was definitely here. We tried to get closer but the cops weren't letting anyone in.
"What do we do now?" Sue asked.
"We can get past them but maybe you two can." Reed replied.
"Uh Reed, I can't turn invisible. I control water." I tried to explain to him.'
"I know you control water. Water is transparent. I think if you think on it, I believe you'll be able to do it." Reed explained. I closed my eyes and thought about it. When I opened my eyes both sue and I were invisible.
"Sue, Brittany, your clothes, loose them." Reed told us.
"Oh right." Sue said.
"Why me?" I muttered rhetorically to no one in particular. We stared take off our clothes.
"This is so wrong." I heard Johnny say as he looked away. When we were down to our underwear both of us reappeared. Johnny looked at us and then turned away. "Didn't know you liked lace." Johnny said to me. Reed stared at Sue and said, "Wow. You've been working out."
"Shut up." We told them.
"Any more great ideas Reed?" Sue asked him annoyed. Sue turned invisible.
"Yeah, how would you like to have a hundred people stare at you?" I asked him agreeing with her.
"Brittany." He said.
"What?" I asked, then I looked down. "Oh." I finished taking off my clothes.
"I'm gonna need therapy." Johnny said looking down. I ran past the police. I got behind a car and waited for someone to come with my clothes.
"Britt?" I heard someone call my name.
"Over here." I called back. Johnny ran towards me and gave me my clothes and a towel.
"Thank you. Can you turn around?" I asked him. He turned around. "Where'd you get the towel from?" I asked.
"You don't wanna know." He replied. I changed back into my clothes. "You can turn around now." I told him.
"So how did you do that?" He asked.
"I thought of something that made me really happy recently." I answered him smiling.
"What would make you that happy?" He asked trying to understand.
"The hundreds of flowers you sent me the other day did it." I replied as I went off to find Ben.
I tried to get through the maze of cars but they were so close together that they were almost on top of one another. Then something caught my eye, a silver Avalanche.
'You don't see many of those around here.' I thought with idea forming into my head. I climbed on top of the Avalanche and called for Ben. Suddenly I saw Ben run out from behind a couple of ambulances.
"Ben! We've been looking for you!" I greeted him happily. I cocked my head and looked at him. "Can you help me down?" I asked him. He nodded. As he was helping me down I saw a girl. She looked around 12 years old yelling for her mom. Then I hurt something erupt. Johnny jumped over the car he was behind and covered the girl. Ben put me down and I sprinted down the bridge trying to get ahead of the flames. 'Why can I move faster?' I thought angrily at myself. Then suddenly I was up in the air. I was flying. 'Now that's more like it!' I thought excitedly. I extinguished the flames, alright. But what I couldn't control were the cars. I flew up and avoided the fire truck but instead was hit by a taxi and was flung backwards onto the fire truck. I held on to the ladder for support. There was a man below me hanging on for dear life.
Then I saw Reed.
"Reed!" I screamed trying to get his attention. He stopped and looked down worriedly. Then man below me lost his grip started to fall. I closed my eyes and let go. I fell into the water opened my eyes and right before the man fell in I shot him up with a geyser and Reed stretched out and caught him and brought him up. I swam up to the surface. Reed set the man on the ground and then got me. Ben had finished pulling in the fire truck. He gave me to Johnny. Once I was in his arms, I was out. I was exhausted, but Johnny woke me up. "No, you can't sleep. Let a doctor check you out first." He kissed my forehead.
I opened my eyes to see Ben with a bunch of guns being pointed at him. And the citizen pleading that he was a hero and for them not to shoot, and then I saw Debbie break though the crowd, look at Ben and set her engagement ring on the ground. "Put me down Johnny." I commanded gently. He looked at me as if I were crazy but did as I told him to. I looked at Reed. "Can I?"I asked him.
"Get her." He told me. I nodded; mustered up all the strength I had left and flew over to her.
"Hey Debbie." I smiled at her.
"Brittany!" She went to hug me but I stopped her. "You shallow, hypocritical witch; how dare you treat Ben like a monster because he looks different. And you supposedly loved him." I glared at her.
"You're too young to understand." She tried to ague.
"No, no, I'm not. By the way I see it, the only monster here is you!" I threw up my hand and the manhole she was standing on started to shake and first time the water sprayed her nightgown up.
"You little brat!" She yelled at me.
"Wait, it's get better." I told her happily. Then a geyser sprayed her up. "She's going and going and she's out of there. Home team wins." I pretend to be a baseball announcer as I watched her fly. I watched as the water threw her back and forth. I sighed and brought her down. "If you ever go never my brother or any one of us again it'll be worse." I told her with apathy. She ran away as fast as she could. Me, I was tired and everything hurt.
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I walked back over to them. I saw Reed picking up the ring; I took it from him and set it in Ben's palm gently with an apologetic smile and closed his hand. "I'm sorry, Ben." I hugged him.
"I swear to you, I will do everything I possibly can in my power till there's not a breath left in me. You're gonna be Ben again." Reed swore to him. Ben thanked him and Reed left us alone.
'He needs to smile.' I thought looking at my brother. And then I thought of something. "I know this might not be the best time but I wanted you to be the first to know."
He looked at me. "What?"
"Johnny and I are getting married!" I lied, my hair turned green, but it was funny to see the look on his face at first.
"You've gotta be kidding." He replied looking at me shocked.
I smiled at him. "I am. Johnny asked me to a Sum 41 concert and we had good time. He's still waiting on an answer for me to be his girlfriend. I'm thinkin' about saying yes." I admitted. The only thing he asked was: "Was he the one who sent you all of the flowers?" I nodded my head. We started to walk to the tent. "Are you sure?" He asked. I nodded. "It couldn't be anyone else?" He asked. I shook my head. "Why? Why him?" He asked trying to understand. "There's something about him that just lingers around, when I'm with him. There's this feeling that is there but I don't know what it is. I cannot tell you how happy those flowers made me. Neither can I begin to describe that concert…" I said tried to explain to him he nodded and we both went into the tent. He gave me a smile and I smiled at him and then went to see Johnny.
"Hey." I greeted him.
"Hey, are you okay?" He asked concerned. "You look like you going to collapse."
"Yeah, I'm just tired and sore." I told him.
"Sore? Where?" He asked.
"My left side, I got hit by a taxi, but I'm fine." I said shaking my head.
"No you're not. You're seeing a doctor." He told me and then picked me up and carried me to the other tent. He talked to a paramedic for a bit and then the next thing I knew I was being checked out. I am not a fan of doctors.
"I'll be in the next tent if you need me." He told me gently. He kissed my cheek. As he went to leave, I tugged him back gently. "Please stay." I almost begged. He gave me a small smile and nodded. He sat down next to me.
"Um, sir, I think it'd be best if you'd leave. We're going to be look-"A lady doctor started to say but I stopped her. "He's fine. I want him to stay. He's my boyfriend." I looked at Johnny. He looked happily surprised. The doctor nodded and then went to go get some things she needed. Johnny and I were left alone.
"Does this mean you're saying yes?" He asked.
"Yes." I put my hand on his cheek and kissed him softly. He kissed me back happily. We heard someone clear their throat and we broke apart. It was the doctor
The doctor checked me out and we went back to the other tent. Apparently I dislocated my left arm and cracked a rib. The doctor asked about the bruise and I told her I didn't know. She bandaged me up and then looked at me. "How bad is your pain tolerance?" She asked me.
"I don't have any." I told her.
"I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do; I have put your arm back in its socket. You got very lucky. You could easily be in the emergency room if this were worse." She sighed and then looked at Johnny. "Take her hand." And then she looked back at me. "When you feel pain, squeeze his hand." She told me. When she popped my arm back in its socket, we were both in pain. Me, from my arm and him, from the death grip I had on his hand. She put me in a sling and told Johnny how to bandage it and take care of it. He carried me back to the other tent. I would have protested that I could walk, but I liked this too much. He set me down and sat next to me on a bench in the other tent.
"Where are your ears?" He asked Ben curiously. Ben looked at him. Johnny raised his eyebrows but he dropped it.
"Sir there's some folks outside that want to talk to you." A police officer came up to Reed.
"We're not going public with this. We're scientists, not celebrities." Reed told him.
"It's too late, son." The officer said and turned on the TV. "Look." He said. We all turn our attention to the TV. "See that." He said flipping it to a different channel. We were on that channel too. Johnny got up and got closer and pulled me behind him by my right hand. "That's what they're calling you 'The Fantastic Five'" He told us.
"Cool." Johnny said and we started to head out of the tent.
"Wait, where are you two going?" Sue asked us. We stopped.
"We're going to go talk to them." Johnny answered her.
"No. We have to think about this." She replied.
"You guys brainstorm." I told them nodding, and then we made a dash out of the tent. They ran out after us.
"Okay, which one of you is the leader?" The officer asked us.
"That'd be me." Johnny told him. I pulled him back a little. He looked at me.
"No, seriously." The officer replied. Sue pushed Reed up. "Okay son, you're on." He told Reed and then moved out of the way.
"Uh…During our recent mission to the Von Doom Station," He looked down and sighed then continued. "We were exposed to what is yet to be identified radioactive energy." The reporters ignored him and started shooting questions at us.
"Is it true you two can fly?" A lady reported asked Johnny and me.
"Yeah, Brittany can, she's really amazing at it. I'm working on it. Actually it's really difficult." Johnny replied but he was stopped by Sue. "Actually, we don't know much more than you at this point. We will be going directly to our lab to diagnose our symptoms." She told them.
"Symptoms? Is this some kind of disease?" A reporter asked. I stepped up to save our butts from being quarantined. "No, no it's not. It's not a disease." I told the reporters. I looked at Johnny and he came up and talked to the reporters.
"Symptoms? Seriously? You couldn't have picked a different word?!" I whisper to them annoyed.
"Look we went up to space to find a way to understand DNA. Cure a disease, save lives. Now it's our DNA, our disease, our lives on the line. Thank you. No more questions." Reed addressed them farewell. The police drove us back to the Baxter Building. Johnny, Sue, and Reed took the smaller police car and Ben and I took a much bigger one.
"I see you told the bonehead yes." Ben comment as we got out.
"Yeah." I nodded.
"He's waiting for you." He told me.
"Yeah, well he can be with both of us right now." I replied shrugging. Johnny came over to us. I was pulled back by a little girl and her mother.
"I'm sorry, she saw you on the news earlier and when she saw you, she insisted on talking to you." The mother apologized.
"Oh, its okay, I don't mind." I told the mother and then squatted down to the girl's level. "Hi. I'm Brittany. What's your name?" I asked her.
"Carmen. I'm six." She replied.
"Six? That's a good age to be" I smiled at her.
"How old are you? Are you a good age to be?" She asked me.
"I'm twenty-four. It's alright, not as fun as six though." I told her.
"When I turn twenty-four, can I be like you?" She asked me.
"You never know. Maybe, someday you will if you want to be." I replied.
"I want to be just like you when I grow up." She smiled at me.
"Awe you're so cute. Try your best with everything you do, even if you don't like it. And in time you might be." I told as I got up. I patted her head. Her mother thanked me and they left. When I went inside Ben was getting out of the elevator.
"Hey!" I greeted him. He looked at me. "What took you so long?" He asked as we went up the stairs.
"An adorable little girl and her mother stopped me. She was six and so sweet. I hope I have one that cute one day." I smiled.
"Don't rush it." He replied gently.
"I know. So why are you taking the elevator?" I asked him.
"I exceed the weight limit." He said unhappily.
"Those things have weight limits? I didn't know that." I replied dumbly. I had honestly never noticed that. Ben chuckled and shook his head at my reply. I shrugged. "I guess I'm just one of the dumb smart people."
"You're not dumb. You're just a little oblivious." He smiled at me.
"I wonder why you can't turn it on and off." I thought aloud.
"I don't know, kid." He replied.
We finally made it all the way up the stairs and I heard Johnny say "Whoa."
I looked at Ben. He nodded. I smiled at him.
"Believe it or not we live here." I said as walked over to them ahead of Ben. "But it is a little crowded in some areas."
"So what do you think?" Reed asked them.
Johnny put an arm around me and answered him, "I don't know, I think you might be taking your work home with you."
"Here let me show you were you'll be staying." Reed said and he went up stairs with Sue following him.
"You disappeared on us." He said as we slowly walked to the stars.
"Yeah. A little girl stopped me. She was so cute." I told him with a smile. He gave me that boyish smirk of his, and he hugged me. "Oh really?" He asked. I nodded. "She was six and she want to grow up and be like me." I told amused. His boyish smirk melted into a warm smile. He kissed my forehead. "That sounds cool. I'm happy you have a fan." I pulled of his arms and took his hand and led him upstairs. "Where are you taking me?" He asked me laughing happily.
"To show you where you'll be staying." I said looking back at him smiling.
"Will that be with you?" He asked hopefully as we went down the hall.
"Nope." I told him stopping at his room, "but you will be across the hall." I told him and then kissed him gently. I went in to my room and closed the door.
