Pain without love

Copycat waited until John walked past her in the woods, she was hidden behind a tree, and followed his scent to a secret tunnel. She was surprised that the x-men didn't have it locked up tighter but she was sure they didn't expect anyone to attack them there again. As she walked along the damp, smelling tunnels with the lights flickering she couldn't help but replay the vision of Pyro and his little girlfriend over and over again in her mind. How could she ever have been so stupid to have thought that he cared about her, nobody cared about her. Well she was going to make that change, she'd kill off Pyro's little slut then he'd have to love her, he'd just have to.

Vanessa pushed back tears, crying was something that she had only done three times in her life and it had all been over men her father, Deadpool and now Pyro. They would be her downfall men, she loved them, she loved being loved by them but Pyro was different. It was the first time (other then Deadpool) that she actually returned his feelings and more, she would die for him, she would kill for him.

Vanessa wiped her eyes as she reached a dead end. She sighed wondering how Pyro got out of there. A trapdoor was the first thing that came to mind and she quickly began looking for a lever. As she searched the walls she saw that there was a crack half a millimetre from the wall in the shape of the door, she quickly knew what it was, William Stryker's complex had, had doors like those. Copycat stepped back and slammed against the door shaking its very foundations. She smiled as it shot open.

She stepped out and smiled when she saw it was exactly how Pyro had described it. That's how they had spent the first few weeks together Pyro told her stories of the mansion, his old home, in great detail all the trouble him and his ex-best friend Iceman used to get up to. Pyro now hated Iceman for reasons she was not sure of.

'Hey,' Copycat whipped around to see a blue man walking towards her, he had ears shaped like an elf and he had a strong accent. 'Vhat were you doing in the tunnels? I'll have to report this to Storm.'

'Look elf man,' she stepped away from the door as it slammed shut. 'You really don't want to do that.' Copycat stepped up close to the blue man and saw that he was a teleporter that would be a useful power.

'Are you threatening me?'

'No,' Copycat pulled out the knife that was hidden behind her back and slashed the blue teleporters throat. 'I was just giving you a chance to live.'

She smiled as the blue man feel to his knee's, hands wrapped around his throat, choking on his own blood and looking up at her with pleading eyes. She loved having that much control over someone, she loved watching them in pain, it made hers fade.

It took a few minutes for him to finally die but that didn't bother Copycat she liked watching him wither and twitch.

She sighed as she picked up his legs preparing to hide his body somewhere. As she was about to drag his body along the ground she heard a creak. She looked up and saw Wither standing, watching her with wide eyes. Of all the places she never expected to see him there. He could blow her cover and she would probably never get her chance with John's slut but she could also blow his cover.

'I never saw you, you never saw me.' He offered her folding his arms.

'Deal.' She said standing up straight and dropping the blue mans legs.

'Did you have to kill Nightcrawler?' He asked flicking his head so his black hair went off his face. Copycat found it strange knowing his name after she had killed him.

'He was about to blow my plan.'

'And leaving a blood trail behind would be more inconspicuous?'

'What else was I suppose to do! He was going to alert the weather witch to my presence.'

'You could have knocked him out.'

'Well forgive me if I didn't think of that in my time of panic.'

Wither sighed and kneeled beside Nightcrawler pulling off his leather biker gloves. He touched Nightcrawlers skin and his abilities kicked in.

The mans skin began to dry up, after a few minutes he looked like he had been mummified for hundreds of years and eventually he turned to dust. All that was left of him was a pile of ash and a blood stained carpet.

'You owe me.' Wither smiled placing his gloves on and getting to his feet.

'Thank you.' She hugged him, something she very rarely did.

'I would say no problem but that would be a lie.'

'You know I was never going to tell them where you were?'

'Same.'

'Will you help me clean this for old time's sake?'

'Sure.' Copycat smiled and let go of Wither, he had been the only man she cared about not in a sexual way, he was like her bother and she didn't realise how much she had missed him until that moment.

Jubilee walked along the halls her thoughts on Wither and there date, it had been wonderful, more like a dream. He was so loving and affectionate. He held her hand the whole time they were in the movies and he didn't even try to grope her, which gave him an extra point. He had paid for everything, something Jubilee loved in a guy and he had walked her to her room when the date was over. The most important thing he had done that night was kiss her, not a tongue down her throat kiss but a light one, one that made her want him to kiss her more. She wanted to see him but she knew she must play it cool she didn't want him to know just how eager she was for them to work out.

'Jubilee!' she jumped as someone called her name. Then a little brunet appeared by her side, someone she had never seen before. 'Do you know what are trig homework is?'

She stared at the young girl suspiciously everybody know never to come to her for anything to do with school work. 'Sorry but who are you?'

'Electra.' She smiled a menacing one that sent shivered down Jubilee's spine.

'Well sorry Electra I don't.'

'Oh, well sorry.' She continued to walk with the brunet beside her. Eventually she snapped annoyed, for once, that she had gained an admirer. 'Look I don't know what your game is but I want you to leave me alone.'

'You don't want to play with me.' She shivered as that smile played across the girls lips.

'No I don't! Just get away from me.' Jubilee turned to get away from the girl as quickly as possible when the girl shouted after her.

'So you and Pyro uh?' Jubilee froze and spun to face the girl who was smirking.

'What?'

'You and Pyro were a couple once weren't ye?'

'No we weren't he dated my friend Rogue and you shouldn't call him Pyro people might think your friends.'

'Oh we're more than that.' Jubilee stepped back and felt fireworks spark within her palm.

'Who the hell are you?'

'A women who was scorned.'

Rogue sat bolt upright gasping for breath. It took her a few minutes to remember where she was and to slow her breathing. She looked around her room and was disappointed to see it was empty. She looked at her bedside table to find John's Zippo there, though he had given it to her she still considered it his.

She reluctantly got out of bed though her night with John had been another fabulous one she still couldn't help but think of Copycat and all the other girls John had been with. They all had a lot of things in common blond, beautiful and easy. Then why did he pick her? Was she just another notch on his belt, did he just think of her as a challenge? Yesterday she would have been sure that it wasn't true when she touched him she got all his feeling so she would have know the truth but now she could not be so sure. She hadn't known about Copycat, how she was hell bent on killing her. Rogue wasn't worried about that she knew John was doing his best to keep her from finding her and it would have to be some crazy person to try and kill her in the mansion.

Copycat tried to get used to being in her new skin, the skin of Jubilee's. It felt strange yet brilliant, the girl's power wasn't anything she would use, electricity worked a lot better. She walked along the halls of the mansion knowing now who she wanted to kill, Rogue. She had tried to get more information out of the young Asian girl but she wouldn't talk.

Vanessa knew it would be best to attack at night when most people were asleep and during the day she would find out as much as she could about John's whore and why he would risk everything for someone who believed in everything he stood against.

'Jesus I'm sick of Kitty and her gossiping.' Vanessa looked as two blonds walked past her.

'I know it's annoying that she knows everything about everyone.'

Vanessa smiled as she saw the two girls walk away knowing an easy way to find out about Rogue.

Kitty Pyrde sat by the fountain trying to concentrate on her homework, she hated how with the Professor gone she still had a hell of a lot of work to do for his class.

'Hey,' Kitty looked up to see a small brunet smiling down at her. 'Do you mind if I sit with you?'

'Sure.' Kitty smiled and made room for the girl, she knew she was new, she knew every student that went to the school. 'Your new?' She asked as the girl settled down beside her.

'Is it that obvious?'

'No, I just know everyone.'

'Wow so you're like the person to come to when you want the gossip?'

'Yep,' Kitty said this proudly.

'Cool.'

'How long have you been here…'

'Wanda and only like two days.'

'You make any new friends?'

'Well I did talk to this girl Rogue she seemed real nice.'

'Oh Rogue's like one of my best friends.'

'Really? Well we were talking and then there was this really weird moment when she saw just stared at the fireplace.'

'Oh, yeah… Rogue's kinda sensitive when it comes to certain things.'

'What do you mean?'

'Well she and this guy called John were dating, well he goes by the name of Pyro now and-'

'Wait!' Wanda cut her off with wide eyes. 'That's the girl that Pyro used to date!'

'Yeah… wait you know Pyro.' Kitty looked at Wanda who was staring straight ahead a look of pain on her face.

'Wanda are you ok?'

'I have to go.' Kitty watched as Wanda quickly got to her feet and ran away.

'Wow weird much.' She mumbled before returning back to her homework.

Vanessa ran into the mansion and found the nearest bathroom, pushing past two girls to get to it. She slammed the door and locked it ignoring as the girls shouted at banged the door. She began shaking violently as tears filled her eyes. She turned and leaned against the door for support trying to push back the pain and anger unsure of what was going to win over. She gritted her teeth as tears began to brim over. She slowly fell to her knees as her heart began breaking. As she took in sharp breaths one memory came flooding back.

Vanessa smiled as Pyro lay beside her. She liked him she really liked him, more than she should.

'Do you miss the mansion?' They had spent the whole night talking, she had told him things she had never told anyone and he was slowly opening up, he had told her some funny stories about his days there.

'No I miss the people well just one.'

Copycat turned on her side and looked at him perplexed. 'Who? Iceman? I thought you hated him?'

'I do, trust me I do. No it's a girl, Marie.'

'Oh,' was all she could say. 'You left her behind.'

'Yeah and I broke her heart.'

'How long were ye together?'

'A few months.'

'Did you love her?'

'I guess, I wouldn't have stayed with her if I didn't,' she looked at him perplexed. 'Her mutation, her ability, she can't touch people.'

'What do you mean?'

'If you touches people she absorbs there life force killing them.'

'Wow that must have been pretty hard to build a relationship on.' Vanessa hoped that she was right she didn't like the thought of John being happy with another girl, which confused her.

'No it wasn't, it was effortless.'

They stayed in silence for a moment then she spoke. 'Do you miss her?'

'More than I want.'

Vanessa gasped and gasped again as she felt her heart shatter, how could she kill her now, she had seen the sadness in John's eyes, sadness that she promised she would not cause him and she was going to kill the one he loved so much. How had she not realised who it was before, how did she not know it was his Marie, how could it have been anyone else.

She slammed her fist into the tiled ground cracking it. Slowly sobs burst from her chest, she hadn't cried this much since her first kill, the only one she never purposely meant to do.

An hour passed before Copycat had composed herself enough to get to her feet, she walked over to the mirror and stared at her reflection.

'So can even a bad seed which turns into a rotten tree can still have a good leaf or two?' she asked herself as she considered not killing Marie for Johns happiness. Then a thought hit Copycat, a thought that changed everything.

He has feeling for me I know he does! That's why he hasn't opened up to me because he has been thinking of his first love all the time so if I end her his heart will open up to me.

Vanessa smiled looking at her massacre stained face, she knew what she had to do, she had to kill Rogue.

Vanessa shifted form into Jubilee and stormed out of the bathroom, pushed past the two girls who were still waiting outside, more determined than ever to end Rogue's life.

Logan walked along the halls of the mansion on edge that the Charles had left he couldn't stop thinking of the last time he was left to "baby-sit". He turned a corner and Jubilee crashed into him, he was surprised when she didn't fall most people did.

'Sorry kid I'm a bit on edge with the Professor gone.' A croaked smile spread across Jubilee's face.

'Yeah Mystique could be here right now and you wouldn't know.'

'Trust me I would I have all my sense's on high alert, I'll know if anyone smells slightly different.'

'Really? Interesting,' Jubilee walked off a grin on her face. 'Very interesting.'

Rogue sat at the dining table with Bobby by her side, as soon as she had saw her that morning the first thing he had said was "I love you" and she felt nothing but guilt. How could she not feel guilty when she had said the same words less than a few hours ago to John, his best friend?

'Rogue.' she looked up as Jubilee appeared beside her.

'Oh hey I haven't seen you all day.'

'I've been busy. Look I need you to meet me later outside by the fountain.'

'Oh ok why?'

'I need to talk to you.'

'Now?'

'No later after midnight.'

'Midnight? Jubilee what's wrong?'

'I'll tell you tonight?' Rogue watched in shock as Jubilee stormed off out of the dining room.

'What did Jubilee want?' Bobby asked giving her as smile.

'Nothing… nothing.'

John sat in his tent smiling, thinking about his time spent with Rogue. He felt relieved that everything was out in the open, that he didn't have to lie to her anymore.

He had spent the whole day alone, Mystique was no where to be seen, he guessed she was with Magneto "working" and Copycat was asleep he had looked at her tent and there was definitely someone unconscious in her tent.

While John though about how he could distract Copycat the next time he wanted to see Rogue Mystique burst into his tent looking breathless with red eyes.

'You and Magneto have a good time?' He joked.

'Copycat.' John jumped to his feet hearing the urgency in her voice.

'What?'

'She knocked me out last night and she must have followed you.'

'What? That can't be right!'

'It is I just woke up in her tent.'

'Rogue.' John quickly pushed past Mystique and ran.

Rogue wondered out into the grounds hugging herself to try and keep warm. It was just past midnight and she was walking towards the fountain. She was worried about Jubilee what could have been wrong with her and why couldn't she have told her inside.

Omigod maybe she's pregnant!

If she was Rogue was going to kick Kevin Fords but, it only could have been his.

'Rogue.' She spun around to see Jubilee standing in the darkness of the trees. 'You came.'

'Of course I did you're my friend.'

'That was a big mistake.'

'What?' Rogue froze as a platinum blond stepped out of the tree's a grin spread across her face. Then she got a flash in her head of John and the blond lying beside each other.

'Copycat.' She whispered taking a step back.

'I'm so honoured you know who I am.' Copycat smiled as she touched her heart.

Rogue turned to run but was stopped when Copycat appeared before her. She let out a yell as Copycats fist connected with her jaw rendering her unconscious.

I know it's been a while I'm sorry but I hope it was worth the wait!

I really enjoyed writing this, it was nice to get to write more with Copycat.

I want to thank dulcesweet, alexmonalisa and Wanda W cookies for all of ye and chocolate.