The Dragon Tamer

(*Rating may change in later chapters* PG-13 for swearing and suggestive actions and words. P/OC (a little R/B) Comes into play after X:2. What are these dreams John's been having? And who is this new girl at the old mansion? (( ' Indicates thoughts))

Disclaimer: I do NOT own the original X-Men or the topic.

Epilogue -Till We Meet Again

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Everyone knew about John's leaving by the time dinner came around. Amanda found out from Evan, who discovered it from Sarah, who had been eavesdropping on Marie and Bobby in the library. This was, after all, the way news was spread anymore.

Amanda didn't go down to eat, she didn't feel like it. And she suddenly had the desire to be near John again, to smell him and hold him. Standing up she decided she would do the next best thing, and as she forced back tears she made her way to his and Bobby's room.

She was comfortable lying on his bed, it was still unmade from when Marie had slept in it--he never made it anyway--but it smelled like him. Amanda fluffed the pillow; she had been fidgeting with it for at least five minutes. It just felt like there was something hard inside it. Finally she got tired and was about to chuck the damn thing off the bed when something fell out of the case.

It was a CD (still in the case), by Bryan Adams. She opened it up, there was no CD inside, but a note fell out. It read,

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Amanda,

I was going to give this to you on our one-month anniversary, but it looks like we won't be having one. So I'm leaving it here for you now. And even though we had a bad ending, we'll always have the dance.... And now we have this as well.

Till we meet again,

John

PS The disc is already in the player, turn it to #14

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Standing up cautiously, her vision blurred by unshed tears. She turned the power on the stereo and clicked the disc straight to 14. As the music began playing, she let the tears fall.

**It still feels like our first night together
**Feels like the first kiss and it's getting' better baby
**No one can better this
**I'm still holding' on and you're still the one
**The first time our eyes met - it's the same feeling' I get
**Only feels much stronger - I wanna love ya longer
**You still turn the fire on...

**So if you're feeling' lonely ... don't
**You're the only one I'd ever want
**I only wanna make it good
**So if I love ya a little more than I should...

**Please forgive me - I know not what I do
**Please forgive me - I can't stop loving' you
**Don't deny me - this pain I'm going through
**Please forgive me - if I need you like I do
**Please believe me - every word I say is true
*Please forgive me - I can't stop loving' you

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