Hey guys. Sorry for the late update but school's been a nightmare and I still have to prep for exams so I'm using a 'study-break' to update. Hope you enjoy.

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Chapter 3

What's With You?

Tory lowered her face to Johnny's and was so close that when she licked her bottom lip, she licked his as well. She moved her body a little and made Johnny squirm under her. She smirked when she felt his body relax and his hands make a move for her hips. Big mistake. As soon as she could, Tory grabbed her diary out of his hands and got up.

"Oh come on," Johnny complained as he got of the suddenly cold hallway floor.

"Don't look too disappointed," Tory said over her shoulder and laughed at his expression. "I don't fall for the same tactics twice."

Johnny smirked as he watched her walk away. He leaned back to get a view and smirked again once Tory was out of eyeshot.

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Johnny grabbed his jacket and shoes and sat on the bed. As he hastily pulled them on the nurse came into his room.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Where do we think we're going?" she asked. Johnny looked up at the nurse. She was a pretty, curvaceous, young brunette.

"I don't know if we've noticed," Johnny said, "but the hottest mountains are outside that window."

"This is not a ski resort you know," she said.

"Yeah but luckily grandma still sends care packages," the nurse out a thermometer in his mouth. "You know for an eighty year old woman she still does wonders."

"You're hot," she said, looking at him strangely.

"Well, so are you."

"No, you're burning up," she felt his cheek.

"Well, I've never felt better," Johnny moved her hand away from his cheek and stood up. "What time do you get off from work?"

"Four, why?"

"Tell you what? You meet me on top of the hill at four 'o five. That'll give you five minutes to freshen up. That's for you," he handed her the thermometer, "and this is for me," and kissed her.

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Tory changed into her bikini and put a top on over it. She grabbed a towel and her sandals and walked out of her room. As she did Johnny came walking towards her. He had a snow jacket on and a snow board in hand.

"Hey babes, wanna go boarding," he asked.

"One no, I'm going down to the pool. And two, stop calling me that," Tory said and walked passed him.

"Suit yourself," Johnny called.

"Sure will," she called back. The pool wasn't that close to her room so she had quite a distance to walk. It was worth it when she saw the size of the pool. If she had the option of living in Victor's resort for the rest of the life, she would. She slid her shirt off and climbed into the pool. The water was warm but crystal clear. As she began to swim, she felt the water cool down to a more refreshing temperature. After a few laps up and down the enormous pool, she stopped in the middle. She let the temperature cool her down before starting to swim again. She had barely moved when she found that she couldn't move any further. She looked up to find her body covered in snow and below her the water was frozen solid. She was freezing, yet her body wasn't shivering. Tory stood up and walked on the ice to her towel and shirt, both of which shattered at her touch. She walked to the temperature dial and found that it was also frozen. She stepped out of the pool room and began to shiver. She ran out and began to look for Reed.

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One minute Johnny Storm was snow boarding, the next he was flying through the air.

"Shit," Johnny yelled as he fell from a cliff. He landed in a heap of snow that had melted and pooled around him. Johnny looked all around him and found that the water was steaming and his clothes had been burnt off.

"Hey, are you ok?" his nurse asked. He still hadn't asked her for her name.

"Care to join me?" Johnny smirked when she dropped her ski poles.

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"Guys, you're never gonna believe what happened to me," Johnny said hobbling into the restaurant where Sue and Reed were sitting. He has the nurse's jacket around his waist covering him. "I can explain this."

"REED," Tory yelled running into the restaurant. "I'm freezing my a-Johnny what are you wearing?"

"Oh, right," Johnny was snapped out of his daydream. "What happened to you?"

"The pool froze over and my stuff shattered when I touched it."

"Clearly not all of it," Johnny mumbled. "I had fire like everywhere," he motioned to his entire body.

"Hey where's Ben?" Tory asked suddenly. Reed and Sue looked at each other in shock and the four of them headed towards Ben's room.

"The cloud fundamentally altered out DNA," Sue told Reed.

"That's ridiculous," Reed countered and looked back.

"Hey check this out," Johnny snapped his fingers and a flame appeared on them.

"Cut that out," Tory tried blowing the flame out while hugging her body only instead of the flame going out Johnny's entire hand froze.

"The cloud's fundamentally altered our DNA," Reed turned and continued to move toward Ben's room.

"What the hell did you do?" Johnny asked. Tory shrugged and rubbed her arms in hope to warm up. "Johnny snapped his finger again and another flame appeared. He held it to his frozen hand and let it thaw out.

"Stop that!" Sue turned around and snapped.

"Stop that," Johnny mimicked. Tory smacked him over the head and then resumed trying to warm herself up. "You know that if I'm this hot, I could warm you up in more ways then one."

"Pervert," Tory murmured. They arrived at Ben's room and Sue tried to punch in the access code. "Benny, open up."

"Yeah big guy," Johnny laughed.

"Would you shut up?" Sue snapped again.

"Could someone get this door open?" Reed asked to no one particular.

"If you would just give me a minute," Sue went back to trying to open the door. They all stopped and stared when Reed lowered his body.

"What the-" Tory watched as Reed slid his fingers under the door and unlocked it.

"Dude that's gross," Johnny commented.

"That's your face," Tory was about to say more when they heard a crash from inside. Reed looked at them for a second before running into the room.

"Whoa," Johnny looked at the gaping hole in the wall.

"Hey what's that?" Tory pointed to an orange blob running in the forest.

"Someone let their puke mutate."

"That's disgusting," Tory made a face at Johnny.

"Where do you think he's going?" Reed looked at them.

"Home," Johnny lifted a picture of Ben and Debbie.

"Well that ain't gon' end well," Tory shook her head. "Now can I please get some blankets before we go look for Ben? I think I'm back to normal temperature."

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"Shut up!" Tory hit Johnny in the head.

"Stop doing that!"

"Only when you shut up," the two of them had been arguing since they got into the taxi.

"Remind me why we didn't take another cab to meet Debbie?" Reed asked. Sue glared at him and shook her head.

"What's up ahead?" Tory asked. Reed looked out of the windscreen and saw nothing but traffic.

"Traffic."

"Why'd it stop smartass?"

"How should I know?"

"Find out."

"You're too bossy for your age," Reed grumbled. The four of them got out of the cab taxi and tried to get a look at what was ahead of them. "Sue, you're the only one of us that can get a close look."

"Are you mad?" Sue looked at him like he had grown an extra head.

"None of us can get passed the police officers except for you."

"All you can do is make things go cold," Johnny said.

"Shut up dip shit," Tory punched him in the arm and walked away from him and towards Sue. Sue began to concentrate and go invisible. "You may wanna ditch the clothes Sue."

"Oh, right," Sue began to remove her clothes. Just as she got down to her underwear, she turned visible. She moved to cover her body with her arms, only to get more attention drawn to her.

"You've been working out," Reed said.

"Shut up!" Sue snapped. "You try stripping down and have a hundred people staring at you."

"Sue," Reed was trying to look away.

"You're not visible anymore," Tory pointed out for Reed.

"Oh," Sue got rid of the rest of her clothes.

"I'm gonna need therapy after this," Johnny picked up her clothes and followed Sue through the crowd of people that she was pushing through.

"Split up and search for Ben," Reed said before Sue's clothes were grabbed from thin air and the two left Tory and Johnny alone.

"Guess it's just you and me," Johnny said in a sing-song voice.

"Shut up," Tory walked around a few cars and got on the bonnet of a taxi.

"What can you see?"

"There's too much smoke to see much."

"You could have just said nothing."

"There's a kid trapped over there between the cars," Johnny looked where Tory was pointing and ran to the child. As he was running, he smelt gas in the air and ran even faster. A tank of gas explodes near a flame and flames spread.

"Tory look out!" she hear Johnny yell at her. She saw the flames flowing around her and noticed that as the neared her, they cooled down and fanned out around her. Tory saw Sue throw a force field around most of it but a small part was exposed. She concentrated on everything around her and imagined the flames being extinguished by cool air.

"Whoa," Tory sank to her knees when she opened her eyes and saw that the fire was extinguished.

"You're safe now ok. Go and find your mother," Johnny showed the little girl how to get out. He ran to Tory and slid onto the bonnet next to her. "You alright?"

"I think so," she was breathing hard and her hands were shaking.

"We need to find the others," Johnny said and got off the bonnet and pulled Tory with him. He picked her up bridal style and carried her through the maze of cars.

"Thanks," she breathed out. She knew that she couldn't walk let alone stand on her own since her legs had given way. "Ben." She looked at the hulking orange figure in the middle of the crowd. She looked where he was looking and saw Debbie. Before she could smile and call out to Debbie, Debbie shook her head and took off her ring. Tory's heart sunk when she realised that is was her engagement ring that she had put on the floor. "Ben…"

"Isn't that Debbie?" Johnny asked. Tory nodded sadly and the two of them watched Ben go to pick up the ring. Tory held onto the ends of Johnny's leather jacket and closed her eyes.

"Can we go now?" she pressed her face into his chest in attempt to hide the sympathy she felt for Ben.

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"Don't touch me with that thing," Tory moved away from the paramedic.

"But miss-"

"I said don't-"

"She's fine," Reed's voice was weary. He knew about his sister's hatred for needles and stethoscopes. The medic looked at his superior before nodding and walking away.

"Thanks."

"Scared of the medics now?" Johnny asked from behind her.

"Go soak up the glory hothead."

"Don't mind if I do babes," he jogged out from under the tent before she could find something heavy to throw at him.

"Johnny, come back here," Sue, Reed and Ben followed him. Tory sighed and then followed them.

"Is it some kind of disease?" one of the many reporters asked.

"If it's a disease, then we got it good," Johnny smirked. Tory rolled her eyes and huffed.

"Mommy, see the pretty lady," Tory looked to the side and saw a child pointing to her. She smiled at her and moved towards her. "She and her boyfriend saved me." Tory suddenly felt eyes on her and wanted to blend in with the street below her.

"Let's go," Reed whispered in her ear. She turned away and began to walk behind him through the crowd.

"Reed, make them go away," Tory whispered.

"I can't exactly make the crowd disappear now can I?" Reed asked.

"I don't wanna be here," Tory jumped into the waiting taxi. Reed gave her a sympathetic look and sighed.

"You're gonna have to deal with it kiddo."

"I don't want to. Not for something so awful."

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"Bro you bring your work home," Johnny commented on Reed's apartment.

"I'm outta here," Tory began to walk up the stairs.

"Show Johnny to the spare room," Reed called after her. She felt Johnny's form behind her as she walked down the hallway.

"That's yours for now I guess," Tory pointed to a room to her left before walking into her room directly opposite it. "And stay away from mine."

"You and I both know that you don't mean that," Johnny's voice came from the other side of the door. Tory collapsed on bed and sighed. She opened her eyes and looked at her cluttered ceiling. It was mainly filled with posters and pictures of her and her friends but there were a few from her high school tournaments.

"I hate this room," she moaned and grabbed the pillow from above her head. She hugged it and sat up. She made a mental note to throw away all of her old stuff before she went back to collage for the new semester.

"Man you have a lot of stuff," Johnny said walking into her room.

"Didn't I tell you to stay away from my room?"

"You didn't specify when."

"Get out."

"You've got a lot of trophies."

"Not for much longer."

"Why?"

"Because they're going in the trash. I hate them," to prove her point she swept her shelf off and disposed all of her trophies into the small bin next to her dressing table.

"Are you mad?" Johnny asked. He picked up one of the trophies that had an arm broken off and heated up his head to melt it back on. "These are your life."

"Used to be."

"What's with you?" he looked at her confused. "You used to live for skating."

"I'd rather not remember it. Now get out of my room," Tory walked out of her room. Johnny sighed and collected the broken trophies before exiting the room.

"What happened to you Tory?"

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