A/N: I own nothing. None of the characters/places except the character of Jessica Gion/Blaze, which is my own creation. Everything else in the X-Men verse belongs to their original creators.

There is a bit of dialogue in here that I took from the film Because I Said So. The dialogue is from a scene involving Mandy Moore and Gabriel Macht's characters. I wanted to use it ever since I saw the film and the dialogue fit perfectly in the part where Pyro comes back to the mansion and finds out that things have changed. So thanks to BISS for inspiring me.

Three months have passed since Pyro left Jessica behind. He's been with Magneto and the Brotherhood honing his skills and playing 'bad guy.' The autumn was turning to cool breezy spring, the time when new animals are being born. The doorbell rang and

Jessica opened the door to see Pyro standing there. He looked more handsome than ever and it completely startled her.

"John," she gasped.

Pyro stood there staring at Jessica. She looked amazing. She wore a white flowy dress with a little lace here and there. Her hair was wavy all around her shoulders, and her skin had a beautiful glow. She reminded him of an angel or of a blushing bride.

"Hey Jess," he said running a hand through his hair.

He smiled at her that cute devilish grin of his.

"What are you doing here?"

"I came back for you," he said.

As he did so Warren stepped behind Jessica in the doorway.

"What's going on? Who's at the door," he asked her as he wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Nothing. Nobody, it's fine. I'll be back in there in a second," she said to Warren.

Pyro stared at the two of them. It was obvious that things had changed since he'd left. Jessica and Warren definitely didn't hate each other anymore. In fact to John, it looked like they were playing 'happy family.'

"What, so I'm nobody now," Pyro spat.

"What do you want," Jessica said avoiding his question and sounding a bit annoyed.

"You're not dating him are you," he asked.

"Yes but. . ."

"Actually, the 'yes' was all I needed to know."

"No, no, no, the 'but' part's really important too."

"But what? Not him."

"Why," Jessica said.

"Because, you're suppose to be with me! Don't you even remember what he did to us? To you? To me?"

"John, wait, though. This is really difficult for me and I've never been here before. I don't know how to navigate this."

"Oh, poor thing."

"Don't talk to me that way," Jessica said, bile rising in her throat.

"Oh, I'm sorry what was I thinking? You're involved with him to the point where you're cheating on me, and I should be careful how I'm talking to you?"

"You left me! I thought you weren't coming back," she screamed at him.

"That doesn't explain why you're with him."

"John, I'm pregnant. Only about nine weeks along."

Pyro stood there for a split second calculating the time he'd been with her in his head. It added up he had been with her three months ago.

"What? Why didn't you tell me? Ha ha, this is great. Why didn't you come find me," Pyro said picking Jessica up and swinging her around.

"John put me down please."

"What's wrong," John said looking at the disappointment on her face.

"It might not be yours," Jessica said looking into his eyes. Tears welling up in her eyes.

"What? Well, whose else could it be?"

John looked at Warren.

"Are you sleeping with him," Pyro asked Jessica heavy hearted.

"I wouldn't say it that way."

"Well, what way would you say it?"

Jessica stood there between the two men in her heart. Pyro grabbed her by the chin, his fingernails making crescents in her cheeks.

"How long," he spat.

Warren moved toward Pyro about to fight him if he didn't let Jessica go. Jessica noticed this.

"No, Warren it's okay."

"How long did it take before you jumped into bed with him," Pyro asked again, his fingers digging deeper into her cheeks.

Jessica sniffled,"The night you left."

Pyro released her sharply making her stumble back. Jessica was crying harder now.

"Are you going to stop seeing him."

Jessica paused, tears filling her eyes. She looked at him almost ashamed. She had been so broken and hurt when he had left her. He had made her happy but had also made her do things she never thought she'd do. Jessica never thought she'd hurt someone because she was in love with another person. She was shocked at her anger toward Warren that night he found them. When John had left her she needed someone and Warren had forgiven her, and had been there for her. She couldn't give that up as easily as she had hoped.

"That pause says it all."

"No it doesn't. That's not true. That's not true."

"Who are you? I can't even look at you."

Jessica went to grab Pyro's arm but a sharp pain filled her stomach. She grabbed her stomach and fell to the ground.

"Jessica," Warren said going towards her to help her up. Fear filled his eyes as he watched her collapse. As far as he was concerned Pyro was gone, and that baby in Jessica's belly was his.

She had gone unconscious. Jessica was lying on her side in the doorway to the mansion. John looked down at her shock and surprise filling his face.

"Go get help," Warren said to Pyro.

"I want to stay with her," Pyro answered.

"Just do what I tell you! Go," Warren screamed.

John jumped over Jessica and sprinted down the hall. He heard muffled voices behind a door to the right. He barged in to see Storm and Beast talking amongst themselves.

"What. . .? What are you doing here," Storm asked very bewildered to see Pyro back in the mansion.

"Something's wrong! Jessica collapsed! Please help," Pyro shouted fear lining his face.

Had he done this to her? Did his anger towards her shock her so much that he caused her too much stress? Storm and Beast sprinted down the hall following Pyro to where Warren and Jessica were. An hour later Jessica lay in a hospital bed in the Med Lab. She was hooked up to several monitors keeping track of her heart rate, her brain functions. The Med Lab was filled with an orchestra of beeps, whizzes, and boops.Warren and Pyro stood outside the door with Beast.

"There's only one way for us to save her, we have to give her the cure," Dr. Hank McCoy told the two men.

"Are you fuckin' crazy," Pyro fumed.

Warren just stood there, numb to everything around him.

"It's the only way to help her," Beast stated.

"What happened to her," Pyro asked.

"It seems the fetus is already developing powers inside the womb. Her body is having a hard time adjusting to that."

Pyro rubbed his hand across his face and let out a breath.

"You're sure this is the only way," he asked.

Warren was still silent. Jessica had once called him a tratior for his father being the brains behind the cure. He knew if she were awake she probably wouldn't agree to this. He wasn't even sure he agreed with it, but they had to do something.

"If we don't, at the rate the baby is developing powers it could more than likely kill her. If we give her the cure it should also surpress the baby's Mutant X gene."

"Should," Warren finally spoke up.

"We've never tried this before. I'm not sure what the results will be," Beast answered.

Pyro sighed, "Alright. Do it."

Beast nodded as he prepared the things needed to give Jessica the cure. The two men watched as the woman they had grown to love lay there not knowing what awaited her inside of that syringe as the doors to the Med Lab whooshed shut. A few moments later an announcement came over the PA system.

Code Blue! Code Blue! Ororo come to the Med Lab.

Bile rose in Pyro's throat and Warren paced the floor. Beast had sealed the door so that they could not enter. Storm came rushing down the hall and entered a code on a key pad next to the door. She rushed inside. A hour later both Storm and Beast came out of the Med Lab to join Pyro and Warren in the hallway.

The look on Beast's face was a morose one and it made both men fear the news.

"She's had a miscarriage." Beast said.

The news struck a chord with both men. The baby she had lost could have been either one of theirs. They had both wanted it, so badly when she had told them. Warren had been there the day she took the pregnancy test. She walked out of the bathroom with the little white stick in her hand and the look on her face had said it all. She looked numb like she didn't know what to think. Warren understood that she would be wondering whose it was until the day the baby was born. Even if it wasn't his, Pyro was no where around so, he would treat it like his own. Warren had wanted to be with Jessica ever since he had seen her dance for the first time teaching her class. He had wanted to know her, and when he had talked to her something had awakened inside of him. The feeling of wanting a family and of one day wanting to get married arose. Now, all of those dreams had died with that child.

"The cure was too much for both of them to take at once. We could only save one of them. Jessica's body took the cure but unfortunately the baby's just couldn't handle it. I am so sorry."

Pyro jumped up out of the plastic chair that he was sitting in and slammed it against the wall.

"Dammit!"

"The baby's powers were killing her. We had to work fast, but at least. . . we managed to save Jessica," Storm said.

"What kind of powers," Warren asked.

"It's hard to say. The baby was only around three months along, we can't know the full extent of the powers. The fetus wasn't big at all being only around nine weeks, but from what we've been able to tell it was growing a set of wings and had a power close to Jessica's own. We could tell that from the baby's Mutant X gene," Beast spoke in almost a whisper.

"So, basically it was like a. . . dragon," Warren said his hand over his mouth. He now knew he had created this baby with her and it was all he could do to hear she'd lost it.

"I guess we don't need to a DNA test to tell us who the father is. The wings pretty much says it all," Pyro said putting his head in his hands. Warren had done something he had longed for. Pyro had left Jessica behind and when she told him about the baby only an hour early he had longed with all his soul that it was his. It may have been what they needed to get back together and if he had stayed with her maybe that would have been his baby inside of her.Maybe since they had the same powers the baby would have survived. Now this had happened. Not only was the baby not his, she had lost it probably because of him.

Beast said, "Her body was receiving a lot of stress and shock all at once. It caused the baby to feel the way Jessica was feeling and the baby's powers manifested. It was inevitable though. If it didn't happen now it would have sooner or later. The baby never would have made it to full term." Beast explained. "What was going on before she collapsed?"

"We were just talking," Pyro said.

"Talking? You were badgering her," Warren said.

"Are you saying that I caused her to lose the baby," Pyro said inches from Warren's face.

"That's exactly what I'm saying," Warren retorted.

"Boys, stop it. Fighting won't get us anywhere. She needs rest. She's in a lot of pain in more ways than one," Beast said.

Both Warren and Pyro shook their heads.

"Can we see her," Pyro asked.

"I suppose you can see her, just for a minute. One at a time, and no fighting."

"I can't take this right now, you go in first," Warren said to Pyro collapsing against the wall and sliding down into a sitting position.

Pyro entered. Jessica lay there sleeping. Only it was not the devistatingly beautiful Jessica he knew. It was not the fiery red-headed dancer her had come to love. She was beautiful but not in that mutant sort of way. Her face was pale and slacken, her body looked so frail even under the covers. Jessica's face was her own but the blonde hair on top of her head was not her own red and orange mane.

"Hey," Pyro said sitting down on the edge of the bed.

Jessica's eyes opened slowly, groggily, until they opened completely. They were a deep emerald green and they shocked Pyro. Unaware of what was going on Jessica flexed her palms trying to spark the flames to life, fearing she was in danger. Nothing happened. Jessica held her hands up in front of her face, looking in shock-filled-horror. She stared at her palms for several seconds, flexing her fingers vigoriuosly, almost begging them to light. Her hands were shaking as she turned them over staring at her fingernails and knuckles. She glanced out of the corner of her eye catching a glimpse of her hair on the pillow. Shakily she reached for one of the golden locks. She brought the strand to her eyes, her irises expanding in terror. Jessica's mouth fell open in a silent scream as her whole body rocked with fear.

"Jess," Pyro started.

"How, how could you let them do this to me," she asked, a screech of a breath escaping her lips. "L- look at me!"

She was sobbing into her now human hands. Her whole body shaking with the deep moans that wracked her body. Pyro reached for her and she saw this gesture through the gap in her fingers.

"Get away from me! Don't touch me," she wailed curling up into a ball against one of the bed rails.

Pyro recoiled his hand.

"It was the only way. The baby would have died," Pyro whispered, staring at Jessica heartbroken.

"It did anyway, didn't it," Jessica breathed.

Pyro solomly shook his head.

"Besides, it wasn't even yours, now was it," Jessica spat venomiously.

Those words cut Pyro like a knife. His eyes widened at her attack on him. Why was she doing this to him? He had come back, he had done the only thing possible to save her life. Neither one of them liked the cure, but it was the only way to save her. The only way she could ever be his again. His beloved Blaze.

"Jessica, it was the only way to save you. The baby's body just couldn't handle the cure. I am so sorry. I mean that. But, you're here, you made it," Pyro spoke.

"How can you say that? Look at me. I'm hideous! I'm a monster! Isn't the cure what you and your precious Magneto are fighting against? Better I would have died than this," with this Jessica broke down completely falling forward.

Pyro came towards her grabbing her wrists and pulling her into his chest. She tried to resist but she was too weak and too overcome to fight him off. She collapsed against his chest, screams and wails falling from her lips. Pyro's lips kissed the top of her hair trying to calm her down. She beat weakly at his chest with her hands, not even hurting him. He pulled her away from him slightly, looking into her face.

"I know you probably hate me right now Jess, but I came back here because I couldn't live without you. Every day I'd think about you and I'd wonder what you were doing and how you were. You were all I ever thought about. You're the first woman I've ever cared about in this way. That I've ever wanted this much. I was running from the way I felt about you, I wasn' t running from you and I want you to know that. I was such a coward, but those feelings just followed me. I'm so sorry that I ever left you, that I made you think for one second that I didn't care about you at all. Because, I do care for you, more than I can even admit to myself. I love you, and I'm so sorry for the that pain I've caused you and what I've done to you. To think that I could have caused you to loose the baby is wrenching my insides. I've never been good at apologies, or dating, I've always ruined it by being 'the bad guy.' But, you saw through all of that somehow. You put the pieces back together from a broken man and made me complete. I never wanted to hurt you, I never wanted to see you like this. I was mad when I saw you and Warren today because I hate the thought of you not being mine. I wanted so badly for that baby to be mine and when we found out it wasn't I just wanted to die. You saved me more times that you will ever know, and I am so grateful to know you. I don't know if you can ever forgive me for the things that I've done and the pain that I have caused you. And, if you didn't I wouldn't blame you. But, I left The Brotherhood and Magneto for you. I'm done with them for good. I am so sorry and I hope some day you can forgive me."

Pyro was looking at the girl with the golden hair and green eyes searching her face for any expression of forgiveness. Jessica sat up her face drenched in pain for a brief moment. In a silent gesture she threw her arms around Pyro and held him close. Tears ran down her face and she sobbed into his shoulder.

Through her tears Jessica whispered into his ear, " I love you John Allerdyce."

It was true she did love him. She had from the very beginning. Her love for him really was like a fire; starting off as a tiny spark at first and growing into full blaze everytime he talked to her, looked at her, or flashed that insanely devilish smile. They shared something far more than just powers, they shared cells, molecules, and most of all hearts. The love they had was unlike any other either of them had experienced. It was a love that neither had ever known, not from family, and not from friends. She loved him with every igneous cell in her body.

They held each other for several more moments until Pyro pulled away and looked into her face.

"I'm never going to leave you again. I can't promise I'll live up to being 'the good guy' but I will never leave you. I don't know where we'll go or what we'll do but we can figure something out," Pyro said.

I honestly hope that you all like it and I know a lot of you have added this to your favorites list. To all those people I can only say one thing, " Thank you. It means more than you know to a writer like me, even though it is fanfiction." So thank you so much for the support and as always R & R. Another chapter coming soon.