Chapter 16. The fire within

Disclaimer: ok I'm sick of writing these, so this ones gonna cover the whole story. I DON'T OWN THE X-MEN.

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Amara's breath came in gasps. Her heart was pounding madly. Someone was chasing her. She swerved avoiding a tree, as she made her way deeper into the forest. She could still hear them they were right behind her. "John!", she screamed madly, for help from this foe. She need him now. But her hopes were crushed, as an iron like grip came about her throat. She gasped, trying to breath. Her enemy turned her around, so they were face to face. Cold blue eyes stared out at her from the depths of a deep red helmet, that hid the rest of his face.

"He is not going to help you little girl. Did you really think he would be yours", he sneered, as his grip tightened more. Amara tried to take in more breath but it was impossible. Everything was starting to fade.

"NO!!!!!", 'JOHN!!!!', Amara screamed, both telepathically and verbally, sitting up in bed. She looked about herself, her sheets were tangled, and moist. She could feel her hair clinging to her face, from perspiration.

The door swung open, "Kid, are you ok?", Logan asked. Amara didn't answer, she just looked at the Canadian, painting heavily. She heard hurried footsteps, and Ororo appeared at the door. "Did you have another bad dream, Amara?", she asked coming to sit at her side.

It had been a week since John had proposed to her, and every night after she had been plagued in her sleep, with visions of magneto, coming to destroy her. She would of felt much better if John was closer, but they weren't technically married yet, so the had to still sleep in separate rooms. Amara should have been happy now that she was engaged, but the dreams plagued her at night, and she was constantly thinking about them during the day. What did they mean?

Her thoughts were interrupted, as John appeared at the door. He had herd her call from across the mansion. John came forward to sit beside her, and Amara launched herself at him. Wrapping her arms around him she buried her face in his chest letting tears flow silently from her brown eyes. He gathered up the rest of her body in his arms, so he was cradling her, and ran his hand through her soaked hair, soothing her.

Ororo turned to Logan, sharing a knowing look with him. Storm got up to leave the couple, and passed Logan. When she realized he would not move from his grading post, she placed a hand on his shoulder. "let them be", she whispered, only loud enough for Logan to hear. Bowing his head, he left the doorway, and continued down the hall with the weather goddess.

John rocked his future wife back and forth, waiting for her heart rate to return to normal. "Show me the dream", he whispered in her ear. "No', she breathed. Every time she would have a nightmare, John would ask her to show it to him, and every time she would refuse him. there was something's she just did not want him to know, and because of her state John would not press the matter, but he was really starting to worry about these recurring dreams.

'Show them to me, Amara', he pleaded telepathically to her. 'Stop hiding them from me. It's hurting me. You said to me once that you could feel my pain, well, I can feel the pain these dreams are causing you. Show them to me'.

Amara closed her eyes, he was right, she should not hid this from him. Hidden problems, never get solved, and she should have shown them to him when they first started. Using her link she reached out for him, and once she had him, she started to replay the dreams she had been having to him. John paused in rocking her as the visions flashed before his eyes, all of magneto advancing on his sneering horrible remarks inches away from his face. John involuntarily shivered, as the scenes played before him. When they had finished John sat there absorbing all that he had seen.

He looked down at the beauty huddled against him. He reached out soothing her hair back. "You should have told me this ages ago", he whispered.

"You realize there is only one way to stop them?", she said meekly.

"Yes, and if it stops all of this pain, I will let you make the swap, but your not going to him unprepared. I want plan drawn up, to cover everything that can go wrong, and-"

John was cut off from his list of demands as soft lips pressed themselves against his. John pulled away, "That's-", he was cut off again by Amara's mouth, "Not-", he managed to get out, pulling back, only to be cut off again. "Going-", he tried again. Amara realized this was not working, so this time when she cut him off, she sensually moved her lips against his, moaning to add effect. It was Amara who pulled back this time, "To-", he breathed out, unable to hide the emotion in his voice, heavily effected by her actions. Amara kissed him again, pushing him back on the bed, pulling back to let him finish his sentence. "Work", he said huskily, intertwining his fingers in her hair.

"Will you stay with me tonight?, we don't have to do anything, I just want to have you close. Incase the dreams come back", she asked, pulling the covers she had thrown off earlier, so that they covered both of their forms.

"Ok, luv". John rolled onto his side, pulling her close, "Sleep now, I'll keep the dreams away", he reassured her.

And her was right, for as soon as Amara fell to sleep, the dreams did not return.

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AN: this chap. Is really short I know. I have been very very busy with school. I would have continued with this chap. But the next events are going to be cram packed, so I decided to stop this one here.

Thanks to:

Valthraema (no, I only have email, would that work? I'm not very computer literate, I just write storys and post them that's about the extent of my computer knowledge. I haven't tried to download them, because of how long it would take my computer to do it, but thanks for your offer. It was very much appreciated)

Boom-Boom13 ( really, there is a guy at my school that reminds me of Remy, wait I'm dating him :) seriously, my boyfriend actually looks like gambit)

v son sayian (nar, I don't like debating. Sorry)

Schme (that's nice honey)

CajunBelle (the Acolytes are my favourite x team. And they are always overlooked. I mean come on the team is full of hot guys. They should give them more air time)

DYNOMITE (I actually didn't give this story a time placing, really I just said that they had met before on the battle field. I didn't really define the time, but magneto is still hanging around, he hasn't been blown into smithereens or anything. Oh, you're a LANCITTY person, so sorry, I never got into that coupling, but in the comic kitty does eventually pair up with Piotr, so because this is a story about the Acolytes I decided to give Kitty to Piotr)

Prowler-125 (angelic hay. Yeah I suppose he is a fine specimen. I'm glade you like the couple)