A/N: I am planning on a little bit of another pairing which some of ya might not agree with later on in the fic, so just be warned and don't kill me for it! GRRRR! Also, the update will be changed to the most relevant part of the last chapter, and not just the last bit.... OKAY! I just wanted to post it in this chapter too.... It might have been Kitty's fault. But I love it.... lol

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John turned to Lore.

"Looks like I get ta protect ya after all Sheilah...." he paused. "Y' can turn ya power off right?" She nodded. "For an hour?" She nodded again, and he grinned. "Good...."

Putting his arms around her waist, he pulled her back close to him, One hand moving to stroke her cheek lightly, as he kissed her, gently, then picked her up, carrying her upstairs.

~*~*~

There was a massive bang from downstairs almost an hour later, although neither John or Lauren moved. They were in St Johns room.... that much was obvious by the flame motif on the walls, and the black silk bedsheet, with flames emblazoned on it. Laid in the centre of the double bed, John was on his left side, Lauren laid on her back, his arm under her neck, the other one curled protectively around her. Being so close to her, John smiled.

"What ya smiling at Aussie?" She murmered.

"Ya beautiful like this Shei.... Lore...."

"Ya not half bad yourself John." He moved his arm from her waist, to stroke her cheek gently again.

"Cant believe we just did that...." He smiled a little.

"Why?"

"They think I'm crazy Sheilah.... They'll think ya crazy too if ya spend too much time around me...."

"I don't mind John. I really don't."

"PYRO!" the Cajun voice shouted from downstairs. "Merde.... Where is dat boy? JOHN!"

"Guess we'd better see what Gammie wants ey?"

"Guess so.... He sounds mad..... Maybe we should just stay here."

"Love ta stay eya with ya." He smiled and pulled her closer. "Always."

"Where de Hell are ya Allerdyce?"

"Do people always shout that at ya when they're mad?"

"Unless I burned somethin' down Sheilah, they do. When I burned m' old bedroom at tha last house, it was 'Bloody 'ell Pyro!" He snickered a little at the memory.

"Well, John, I wo...." The door burst open and Gambit stood there, looking just a little mad.

"Remy interrupted somet'in', non?"

"No mate.... ten minutes ago ya woulda...." Pyro informed him, Lore blushing a little against the sheets.

"Get dressed.... We go t' meet de Brot'er'ood. Dix minutes." Lore looked confused as remy left, closing the door.

"Ten minutes Luv.... we got ten minutes...." He looked at her. "What d' ya recon?" he winked.

"I recon that if I don't get out of this bed now, we'll be late..." She slid out. "Need a shower...."

"So do I luv.... C'mon...." Taking her hand, he led her to the other door in the room, closing it behind them.

Downstairs Remy sighed.

"Look like we be late den...."

~*~*~

"So what be ya power p'tite?" Remy had asked Lore in the car, after she and John emerged from his room, already four minutes late.

"Her kiss mate...." John teased, sat in the back of the convertible, his arms around her.

"St John, I believe Gambit was being serious." Piotr supplied for Remy, sat in the passenger seat. Lauren had only just been introduced to the Russian as he appeared as they were leaving, agreeing to join them.

"Petey.... Mate.... I wasn't kiddin'." Pyro snickered.

"My gift is to increase the power, control, whatever, or another mutants power by touch." John pulled her even closer as Remy shot her an intrigued look.

"Don't get no ideas mate.... She's mine."

"Not what Remy was t'inkin' Johnny.... Remy be t'inkin' bout Rogue...."

"Rogue? Who's Rogue?"

"Rogue's Gambit's Sheilah.... She cant touch."

"Can touch.... She jus' can' touch wit'out leavin' y' unconscious...."

"Rogue.... Whats her last name?" Everyone shrugged.  

"I believe she is related to NightCrawler...."

"The German Dude?"

"That is correct Comrade."

"German dude?"

"Nightcrawler. If we're lucky luv, ya might see 'im. Heck, if we're lucky, ya might see Rogue."

~*~*~

"The X-Geeks might be here...." Lance commented, shaking the ground a little as he did.

"Yeah-as-long-as-you-don't-go-chasing-Pryde-and-help-us-get-Lore...."

"I'm hungry.... .ICE CREAM!" Fred shouted with glee as he spotted an Ice cream truck.

"Like, Wait for me yo!" Todd called after him, the two moving off.

"Remind me why we're here...." Wanda commented, bored already.

"Because we're helping ya stupid Brother kidnap that girl again."

"Oh." She paused. "I'm outta here."

"Where-are-you-going?!?!" Pietro called after his twin. In response, she flipped him off and pointed to her favourite store.

~*~*~

As the Acolytes pulled up in Remy's car, they felt the Earth move a little.

"Sounds like they wanna play Mates...." Pyro grinned, lacing his fingers through Laurens after helping her out of the car.

After having filled Piotr in on the situation, he had agreed to help them. He metalled up as they walked towards the centre of the mall, Gambit charging and uncharging cards, and Pyro smiling happily. When they reached the centre, they found the dysfunctional Brotherhood, Todd and Fred still at the ice cream truck, Wanda still AWOL, and Pietro arguing with Lance.

"Glad I didn't just you mates!" Pyro laughed manically. Almost immediately, they paired off.... Toad and Blob being faced with the Metal Russian Giant, Avalanche dodging Gambit's explosions, and Quicksilver zipping around Pyro's flames.

Each of them was pretty evenly matched.

One of Gambit;s cards knocked Avalanche off his feet who made the whole Mall move, causing Gambit to fall, as well as Lore and Pyro. Colossus and Blob were fine, and as Toad was still coming down from one of the Russian's hits, it had no effect on him either. Quicksilver took the opportunity to try and grab Lore, but she moved slightly, and curled closer to Pyro, causing him to miss her. Pyro quickly started a flame and made a circle around him and Lore, over 6ft high, and a foot deep.

"You alright luv?" he brushed her green hair back from her eyes, the deep sapphire colour complimenting her hair perfectly.

"Yeah. I'm fine...." She coughed a little as the smoke from the fire started to get to her, and after helping her to her feet, the fire started dying down.

"STOP RIGHT THERE!" a familiar bossy voice came across and Pyro rolled his eyes.

As the flames died down more, so they were only 4foot high, she spotted a group of people stood together by the exit. Her eyes moved over them, taking in each ones appearance, stopping on Psylocke. Closing her eyes, she sent out a call to her.

~Betsy!~  Her head snapped towards the two in the ring of flames.

"Look over there!" Psylocke pointed. "She's the one!"

Kurt took the situation all wrong. With a puff of smoke he disappeared, and Lore cast a confused look to John, not seeing Nightcrawler appear behind her. Feeling arms wrap around her middle, then she was up on the balcony, coughing from the smell of Sulphur.

"Itz alright." The furry blue mutant infront of her informed her. "Your safe from zem now." 

"Safe?! Safe from who?!" She demanded.

"Safe from ze Acolytze, and ze Brozerhood! Zey wont take you now ze X-Men are here!" He smiled, showing his fangs.

"I don't need saving!" She looked over the balcony, only to see the X-Men fighting the Brotherhood and Acolytes.

While the blue-furred one restrained her, a girl with brown hair tied into a pony-tail was taking out Lance, phasing through his fists everytime he tried to hit her. A red-haired girl was taking on Blob, a boy shooting red beams out of his eyes was facing off against the Russian, Todd was just being a general nuisance, until she saw Betsy sink a knife into his skull and he fell unconscious, only to see Betsy be blasted a few feet by Wanda, who had just returned from the store. Her eyes fell on the final four people.

Her beloved Pyro was having his flames iced by a boy, and Gambit was struggling with a goth, with short brown hair. She saw Pyro fall to the floor.

"JOHN!" She screamed, everyone ceasing fighting, more out of shock than anything else, and the Goth turned to face her. Both girl's mouths fell open in shock.

"Marie!"

"Lauren!"

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A/N: Slightly evil, I know, but I just had to get this out while it was in my head. I don't think I missed anyone, and I'm not too good with action scenes, so I hope this is alright.

Well, what did you think? Am I finally going to resolve things next chapter? Well.... You'll have to wait and see.

If I'm feeling nice, I might get this up tonight or tomorrow. Depends.....