Aww, man don't worry, the fun is just beginning. Sorry I don't know
much about John, so I made some stuff up ( had to to make the story have
some sense in it)
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Pyro looked at the woman astonished at her powers at first, but then his face lit up with hope as he realized who he was staring at.
" Sarah?" He choked.
The thunder stopped for a moment and the cloud disappeared as Rogue stared at him dumbfounded.
" Oh my Gahwd, John!!" She yelled and ran forward to embrace him.
" Magneto told me you were dead!" Pyro said almost in tears.
" So did momma, she said ya were dead as well, told meh you died in the accident." Rogue sobbed.
" Me? Die in an accident? It takes a lot more than that to defeat me." Pyro said looking down at her.
Rogue looked up at him with a relieved smile, and a small tear rolled down her cheek.
" Ah knew ya weren't dead." She said in a voice that was more of a throaty whisper.
" I guess that's what I get for believing in old Bucket Head, eh?" Pyro said.
Rogue chuckled and said, " Yer still a joker, aren't ya Flame Head?"
" As much as you, Roguey." He said.
Rogue chuckled again and then her face became serious and grim as she backed away from him shaking her head.
" Ah can't believe she would lie ta meh. She wouldn't, she wouldn't...." She chanted and looked at him angrily backing slowly away.
" Rogue, Rogue wait!!" Pyro yelled as Rogue turned and ran towards the window.
With a nimble leap she flew through the glass and into the dark night, leaving a grim John staring at where she had once been.
" John," Xavier said looking at his new pupil harshly, " I think you should explain."
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Rogue drove on the motorcycle, oblivious to the honks as she swerved infront of the cars and drove past the glaring red lights. How long it took for her to get there she was unsure, it could have been seconds, probably hours, but she knew she would get there.
Carelessly she threw the motorcycle down and stomped into the mansion still wearing her assassin suit.
" Mystique!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs in pure rage.
" Rogue? What the hell are you doing barging in and screaming at me like that? And what are you doing here?" Mystique yelled back.
Rogue screamed and Mystique was flung backwards and levitated some feet away from the ground.
" YOU LIAR!!! YOU TOLD MEH HE WAS DEAD!!! I TRUSTED YA MOMA!!! YA WERE THE ONLY ONE I COULD TRUST!! SO WHY DID YA DO IT?!!" Rogue screamed.
Mystique looked her surprised.
" What do you mean?" She asked.
Rogue's hands twitched and Mystique gasped as her throat was squeezed by an invisible force.
" John, he was with the X-men. I saw him, he was alive! I SAW HIM!! GODDAMN IT!!" Rogue yelled again and Mystique dropped to the ground.
" I'm sorry, Rogue. Really I am, but you wouldn't leave unless I said he died. Please believe me, please, I love you, you and Irene are the only ones I can trust." Mystique said.
Rogue breathed in a whisp of air as her eyes turned red with anger and hot tears spilled out onto her cheeks.
" Trust? Trust? CRAP!! That's all I am to you, your toy, your little game you play with at will! FUCK YOU MYSTIQUE!! Fuck you." Rogue sobbed and dropped to the ground on her knees.
Mystique sniffed, her regular firm face was now etched with regret.
" I had to, please, Sarah, you're my daughter, I love you and I couldn't let you hang around or fall in love with HIM!! He would have ruined you! I couldn't let your entire life be ruined, Sarah." Mystique choked and sat down beside her daughter.
" For me? SINCE WHEN! Since when did Ah become anything otha than yo' toy?" Rogue shouted.
Mystique winced.
" You were never my toy, Sarah. But that boy was dangerous. Magneto wanted him. I didn't want Magneto to know about you and take you away as well." Mystique snapped her yellow eyes glowed.
Rogue looked at her mother and stood slowly up.
" I just need some tahme momma. Ah just need....some tahme." She whispered.
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" It's none of your damn business!" John said darkly.
They were all in the living room, Xavier in the middle while the X- men sat lounged in their chairs all looking at the solemn figure of John leaning against the corner.
" Who was she?" Xavier asked again.
John bit his lip and narrowed his eyes at the ground.
" John, just tell us." Bobby said with a sigh.
" If you don't I will be forced to find out by force. Usually I try not to, but on these circumstances, we need an explanation." Xavier said.
John flicked open his lighter at a mad rate.
Click...click...click..click,click.click,click,click,click, click...
John hissed and threw the lighter down on the ground angrily.
" You wanna know what's going on? Magneto screwed me, that's what happened. I-I..." John kicked the wall and the lighter flickered dangerously against the carpet.
" John calm yourself." Xavier said.
" Magneto? Whaddaya mean Magneto?" Bobby asked.
John put his hands flat against the wall and pressed his forehead against the surface.
" John, we're your friends, we can help you." Scott said.
" NO!! No you aren't, you can't help me, no one can help me." John said and grinned mockingly.
" John, what happened?" Storm asked calmly but concerned.
John sighed.
" It was a few years ago, I was in an orphanage, and you know how that goes. No one wants a damn kid my age anymore. But then one day, Magneto recruited me for his team, he adopted me as his son, and treated me like one as well. We went to Mississippi, he dropped me off there with a friend of his and I met a girl. Sarah, she was my neighbor and also one of Mystique's recruits. To make a long story short I-I was.." John stopped and balled up his fists in anger, stopping himself from hitting the walls again.
" What happened, John?" Bobby asked.
" I loved-I was in love with her. Mystique and Magneto didn't approve, basically. So one day, we went on our first mission together. We were to kidnap some senator for Magneto's plans, but when we got there, we found nothing.
"Magneto had screwed us both and the building was beginning to come down with us inside. We tried our best to get out, but we were seperated. When I got out, I found the house in ruins, and Sarah, she was nowhere in sight. Magneto, he told me she was dead. I tried to kill him, I gave him everything I had but I couldn't, I couldn't do it. The bastard, the goddamn bastard." John said picking up his lighter.
There was silence as all of this digested and then Bobby shook his head and said, "John why didn't you tell us? Why didn't you tell me?"
John snickered and flicked open the lighter, staring at the flames.
" I had no reason, to. Besides, the past is the past." He said.
" You still could have told me." Bobby snapped.
" I'm sorry but I didn't wanna bore you with my screwed up life." John snapped the lighter shut and walked out.
" Where are you going?" Scott asked.
" Out, Granps." He snapped with his thin dark smile.
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Rogue stared up at the moon and stared down at the lake before her. Why had she done it? Mystique and Irene were her parents, they were everything to her. They would never lie to her, or decieve her.
// Or so you belive// Cassey muttered in her mind.
Rogue hissed and pulled up her mental shields. The psyches she had absorbed over a period of time, had become quiet a nuisance. They were the reason why her mental shields were so strong, she had to have strong mental shields to constantly monitor and keep them locked up.
Cassey had been another assassin with the ability to create psychic waves that could control the nervous system of another organism. She could create great pain with a thought, she could paralyze someone from the neck down or do whatever she so pleased. Unfortanetly for her, she was becoming a hazard for Mystique who didn't trust her with so much powers, so Rogue had taken the offer of permanetly exterminating the threat.
" How many times have Ah been yo' puppet mamma?" Rogue yelled at the lake as if it would respond.
" For years."
Rogue turned around and sighed as John gave her his trademark cocky grin and stepped forward.
" How'd ya find meh, Flame Head?" She asked.
" You're easy to find, you always did like to sit by lakes when you were angry, why I never figured it out. But since this is practically the only lake in Bayville, it wasn't hard to figure out where you'd go." John said sitting next to her on the bench and began to flick his lighter.
" Ya still got that thing?" Rogue asked.
" Yup, ever since you gave it to me before....." John stopped and sighed.
" I guess we were both pretty screwed, huh?" Rogue asked with another grin.
" You could say that again."
" I guess we were both pretty screwed, huh?" Rogue repeated.
" Oh shutup." Pyro snapped grinning.
" This is most entertaining, I am sorry to break up this little conversation, but I do have things to do." Pyro turned around and narrowed his eyes as Magneto slowly descended onto the ground.
" Whaddya want, Magneto?" Pyro snapped.
" You'll see." Magneto said with a smile and two metal chains snapped unknowingly onto their wrists.
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Pyro looked at the woman astonished at her powers at first, but then his face lit up with hope as he realized who he was staring at.
" Sarah?" He choked.
The thunder stopped for a moment and the cloud disappeared as Rogue stared at him dumbfounded.
" Oh my Gahwd, John!!" She yelled and ran forward to embrace him.
" Magneto told me you were dead!" Pyro said almost in tears.
" So did momma, she said ya were dead as well, told meh you died in the accident." Rogue sobbed.
" Me? Die in an accident? It takes a lot more than that to defeat me." Pyro said looking down at her.
Rogue looked up at him with a relieved smile, and a small tear rolled down her cheek.
" Ah knew ya weren't dead." She said in a voice that was more of a throaty whisper.
" I guess that's what I get for believing in old Bucket Head, eh?" Pyro said.
Rogue chuckled and said, " Yer still a joker, aren't ya Flame Head?"
" As much as you, Roguey." He said.
Rogue chuckled again and then her face became serious and grim as she backed away from him shaking her head.
" Ah can't believe she would lie ta meh. She wouldn't, she wouldn't...." She chanted and looked at him angrily backing slowly away.
" Rogue, Rogue wait!!" Pyro yelled as Rogue turned and ran towards the window.
With a nimble leap she flew through the glass and into the dark night, leaving a grim John staring at where she had once been.
" John," Xavier said looking at his new pupil harshly, " I think you should explain."
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Rogue drove on the motorcycle, oblivious to the honks as she swerved infront of the cars and drove past the glaring red lights. How long it took for her to get there she was unsure, it could have been seconds, probably hours, but she knew she would get there.
Carelessly she threw the motorcycle down and stomped into the mansion still wearing her assassin suit.
" Mystique!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs in pure rage.
" Rogue? What the hell are you doing barging in and screaming at me like that? And what are you doing here?" Mystique yelled back.
Rogue screamed and Mystique was flung backwards and levitated some feet away from the ground.
" YOU LIAR!!! YOU TOLD MEH HE WAS DEAD!!! I TRUSTED YA MOMA!!! YA WERE THE ONLY ONE I COULD TRUST!! SO WHY DID YA DO IT?!!" Rogue screamed.
Mystique looked her surprised.
" What do you mean?" She asked.
Rogue's hands twitched and Mystique gasped as her throat was squeezed by an invisible force.
" John, he was with the X-men. I saw him, he was alive! I SAW HIM!! GODDAMN IT!!" Rogue yelled again and Mystique dropped to the ground.
" I'm sorry, Rogue. Really I am, but you wouldn't leave unless I said he died. Please believe me, please, I love you, you and Irene are the only ones I can trust." Mystique said.
Rogue breathed in a whisp of air as her eyes turned red with anger and hot tears spilled out onto her cheeks.
" Trust? Trust? CRAP!! That's all I am to you, your toy, your little game you play with at will! FUCK YOU MYSTIQUE!! Fuck you." Rogue sobbed and dropped to the ground on her knees.
Mystique sniffed, her regular firm face was now etched with regret.
" I had to, please, Sarah, you're my daughter, I love you and I couldn't let you hang around or fall in love with HIM!! He would have ruined you! I couldn't let your entire life be ruined, Sarah." Mystique choked and sat down beside her daughter.
" For me? SINCE WHEN! Since when did Ah become anything otha than yo' toy?" Rogue shouted.
Mystique winced.
" You were never my toy, Sarah. But that boy was dangerous. Magneto wanted him. I didn't want Magneto to know about you and take you away as well." Mystique snapped her yellow eyes glowed.
Rogue looked at her mother and stood slowly up.
" I just need some tahme momma. Ah just need....some tahme." She whispered.
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" It's none of your damn business!" John said darkly.
They were all in the living room, Xavier in the middle while the X- men sat lounged in their chairs all looking at the solemn figure of John leaning against the corner.
" Who was she?" Xavier asked again.
John bit his lip and narrowed his eyes at the ground.
" John, just tell us." Bobby said with a sigh.
" If you don't I will be forced to find out by force. Usually I try not to, but on these circumstances, we need an explanation." Xavier said.
John flicked open his lighter at a mad rate.
Click...click...click..click,click.click,click,click,click, click...
John hissed and threw the lighter down on the ground angrily.
" You wanna know what's going on? Magneto screwed me, that's what happened. I-I..." John kicked the wall and the lighter flickered dangerously against the carpet.
" John calm yourself." Xavier said.
" Magneto? Whaddaya mean Magneto?" Bobby asked.
John put his hands flat against the wall and pressed his forehead against the surface.
" John, we're your friends, we can help you." Scott said.
" NO!! No you aren't, you can't help me, no one can help me." John said and grinned mockingly.
" John, what happened?" Storm asked calmly but concerned.
John sighed.
" It was a few years ago, I was in an orphanage, and you know how that goes. No one wants a damn kid my age anymore. But then one day, Magneto recruited me for his team, he adopted me as his son, and treated me like one as well. We went to Mississippi, he dropped me off there with a friend of his and I met a girl. Sarah, she was my neighbor and also one of Mystique's recruits. To make a long story short I-I was.." John stopped and balled up his fists in anger, stopping himself from hitting the walls again.
" What happened, John?" Bobby asked.
" I loved-I was in love with her. Mystique and Magneto didn't approve, basically. So one day, we went on our first mission together. We were to kidnap some senator for Magneto's plans, but when we got there, we found nothing.
"Magneto had screwed us both and the building was beginning to come down with us inside. We tried our best to get out, but we were seperated. When I got out, I found the house in ruins, and Sarah, she was nowhere in sight. Magneto, he told me she was dead. I tried to kill him, I gave him everything I had but I couldn't, I couldn't do it. The bastard, the goddamn bastard." John said picking up his lighter.
There was silence as all of this digested and then Bobby shook his head and said, "John why didn't you tell us? Why didn't you tell me?"
John snickered and flicked open the lighter, staring at the flames.
" I had no reason, to. Besides, the past is the past." He said.
" You still could have told me." Bobby snapped.
" I'm sorry but I didn't wanna bore you with my screwed up life." John snapped the lighter shut and walked out.
" Where are you going?" Scott asked.
" Out, Granps." He snapped with his thin dark smile.
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Rogue stared up at the moon and stared down at the lake before her. Why had she done it? Mystique and Irene were her parents, they were everything to her. They would never lie to her, or decieve her.
// Or so you belive// Cassey muttered in her mind.
Rogue hissed and pulled up her mental shields. The psyches she had absorbed over a period of time, had become quiet a nuisance. They were the reason why her mental shields were so strong, she had to have strong mental shields to constantly monitor and keep them locked up.
Cassey had been another assassin with the ability to create psychic waves that could control the nervous system of another organism. She could create great pain with a thought, she could paralyze someone from the neck down or do whatever she so pleased. Unfortanetly for her, she was becoming a hazard for Mystique who didn't trust her with so much powers, so Rogue had taken the offer of permanetly exterminating the threat.
" How many times have Ah been yo' puppet mamma?" Rogue yelled at the lake as if it would respond.
" For years."
Rogue turned around and sighed as John gave her his trademark cocky grin and stepped forward.
" How'd ya find meh, Flame Head?" She asked.
" You're easy to find, you always did like to sit by lakes when you were angry, why I never figured it out. But since this is practically the only lake in Bayville, it wasn't hard to figure out where you'd go." John said sitting next to her on the bench and began to flick his lighter.
" Ya still got that thing?" Rogue asked.
" Yup, ever since you gave it to me before....." John stopped and sighed.
" I guess we were both pretty screwed, huh?" Rogue asked with another grin.
" You could say that again."
" I guess we were both pretty screwed, huh?" Rogue repeated.
" Oh shutup." Pyro snapped grinning.
" This is most entertaining, I am sorry to break up this little conversation, but I do have things to do." Pyro turned around and narrowed his eyes as Magneto slowly descended onto the ground.
" Whaddya want, Magneto?" Pyro snapped.
" You'll see." Magneto said with a smile and two metal chains snapped unknowingly onto their wrists.
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