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Abby was almost at the top of the rusty fire escape when she heard the gunshot. It was sharp, violent, loud, and filled her with dread. Sirens were in the distance already. Chris must have called the cops. She looked over as Chris Wilkins left the room at the bottom. She
waited till he was out of sight and then slowly crept back down the stairs, trying not to draw any attention. She opened up Harrisons window and stepped inside and walked out to the living room. Everything was turned over and messed up.
She looked over at a corner and screamed. Harrison. His face was bruised and his lip was split. The wall behind him had dark blood and a bullet hole. His whole face was bleeding and his body was slumpt up agaisnt the wall. A bullet had grazed the side of his head. Blood was
everywhere. Abby felt herself lurch and tried to run over to the bathroom but ended up vomiting on his carpet. She crawled over and shook him. "H-Ha-Harrison... Pllllease wake up. Please wa-wake up." Abby went into his pocket and dug out a cellphone. She went to his
address book and left her cellphone number in it then dialed 911.
"Hello 911 emergency, how may I help you."
"Y-yes. My name is Abby...and I'm with a boy who's been sh-shot-ot in
the-the side of the the head."
"Miss please calm down. I need to know your address."
Abby told her the address and left the phone off the hook and left the dorm room. She started up Kevin's car. He always left the keys under the driver seat and she had always told him that one day someone was going to steal his car.
There was a tap on the window that made Abby jump. "Excuse me miss, out of the car."
Abby thought about it for a moment then slowly stepped out. "What seems to be the problem officer?"
"A boy reported that a mutant has been runing around on campus and shooting people as well as assaulting him. You look very stressed and you match her description."
"There's a mutant here? Oh my god, I had no idea. I better call Veronica and Lindsay and see if they are ok. But I really need to get to the hospital."
"Miss may I see your lisence or a form of identification?"
Abby rumaged though her pockets.

"It seems Ive forgotten it at my room. I just got word that my mother is dying up at the hospital. Ihave to get up there."
"Whats your name?"
"Jennifer Smith."
"Ok Jennifer, go see your mother. Stay with a friend or at a hotel. Lock your doors.There's a mutant running about."
"Thank you so much." she hugged him quickly and stepped into the car and drove off the campus.
She headed north.

-X-

It hasn't been the same since they came. Well, you couldn't expect it to be. But I didn't think it would be so devastating. They took them all, Bobby, Jubilee, Kitty, and…and John. I'm scared, I'm always scared. There is no hope for us; the mutant race has been lost. All the Professor's hopes and dreams, destroyed, like his school. They had no kindness in their eyes when they came. They wanted us dead. It was worse then Striker. And now, 10 years later, I am twenty-five, and should be teaching. But my dreams were shattered when they came.

"Today class we will be studying-"Ms. Monroe's voice is cut of by the Professor.

"Children do not be alarmed. There are men from the Government outside out school. I urge you to have the-"BANG! The sound rang out, the professor going limp in his wheel chair. We turned our eyes to the front, a man dressed all in black holding out a gun.

"Bye little muties." Rogue screamed as they shot down her friends, one by one. Then the gun turned to her.

"It's too bad you had to be one." The man said. "You are so pretty." Rogue spat at him, and he raised his gun. The shot rang out, and Rogue waited to be killed, waited to feel the bullet going through her body, but it never came. Bobby dived in front of her, knocking Rogue to the ground. She lay limp and heard the man leave the room. Rogue knelt over his body, tears staining her cheeks.

"B-Bobby, w-why?"

"Because I loved you…Marie" His eyes closed gently, and the breath left his body. Rogue clung to him for what seemed like hours. Then she felt a hand on her shoulder. She spun around, ready to kill whoever it was. The thing she saw was Logan, leaning over her. He picked her up.

"We have to get out of here kid. They're gonna blow the school up."

"Ah, ah can't leave them. They might still be alahve."

"Marie, they're gone."

It was awful; I couldn't stand hearing him say that. It was so final. We never really left, we came back. We live in the rubble; some of the rooms weren't badly destroyed. Kurt's classroom was mostly intact. We fixed what we could; it's not the best home. But it's safe, nobody comes here. Everyday I wonder why the Professor didn't hear the man, or why Storm didn't try to save us. When I think about it, I don't believe it possible for me and Logan to be the only ones who survived.

"Marie, I'm going to go get some food." Logan's voice is the only voic besides mine I hear anymore.

"Sure, thanks Sugah, I know it's my turn but…"

"I know. I can tell by your face, your thinking about it. Marie, someday you have to let it go."

"Bobby could have been the one here now. He should have be ah should be dead!"

"Don't say that. Bobby knew what he was doing when he died. He was protecting you Marie. That's all." I can't help it! I want to scream at him. I loved Bobby! I loved John! I had a future with one of them. But they are dead now! I could scream it, and at the beginning I would have. But ten years has taught me that it only leads to tears. And I'm tired of crying. I look down at my clothing, it was simple really, with no one around I gained control of my powers. Maybe I would have by now, maybe I would be pretty. I'm not ugly I suppose. I kept my hair brushed afterwards. And Logan brings me clothes every month or so, but I never wear them. Now, I'm wearing Jubilee's old green sweat-shirt, my own white t-shirt and Kitty's old blue jeans. Very stylish from when they were bought, but that's ten years ago, and I don't venture off grounds much. I don't usually wear shoes in the summer, it's pointless, but this is the fall, so I'm wearing a pair of Storm's sneakers, they do the job. So I don't mind them. As I glanced at the water I heard a shriek. I ran over to see what was happening, and what a sight it was the greeted me. Logan stood his claws against a girl's neck, a scowl on his face.

"Mutant." the words came from her mouth.

"Logan, let her alone." I said sternly, and he dropped her and walked off. But not so far that he couldn't come if I needed him.

"Are you all right sugah?" I asked her.

-X-

Jesus Christ I thought as the cold steal of the mutant's claws greeted my neck. I couldn't help but have screamed when he grabbed me, and he couldn't seem to help but growl.

"Mutant." The word squeezes out of my teeth.

"Bitch, I'll end your life right now." he hisses though a clenched mouth, "Its people like you who make this world sick."

Suddenly a pretty young woman comes up, or at least, she would have been pretty. Her hair was up in a lazy pony-tail and she was dressed really nicely. She looked pretty, and I wondered what she was doing with this creep.

"Are you all right sugah?" she asked me after the man had left. She knelt down and she looked honestly concerned. I just blinked at her.

"Oh don't mind Logan, he's been a bit paranoid since…never mind. He's really nice; ah promise he won't do you any harm. Ah'll protect y'all."

"You're a mutant?" I yelled at her. And her green eyes lost their warm glow.

"Yea. Ah am, so why aren't you running off to tell the government yet? Don't yah want a pretty penny?" Her eyes flashed in anger. And I saw her open and close an old zippo, it was painted, sort of like a shark, but she didn't close it fast enough.

"That's why." I said, a small bit of flame glowing on my hand. To my extreme dismay she suddenly burst into tears.

"Yoah just lahke John." She said softly, the tears leaving a glistening trail down her cheeks.

"Who's John."

"The only one who wasn't there, but they killed him anyways! He launched attacks on the government with Quicksilver and Toad. He was too much of a show off, ah, ah, ah couldn't fahnd him in time! He should have waited!" she said bitterly, the tears coming a bit harder.

"Wait. Wait are you talking about Pyro!" I said loudly. "You can't be
serious. That man killed innocents. He killed children. He killed-" Suddenly the man was back.

"You evil bitch." He snarled, but I caught some sadness in his voice. "How dare you come here with those memories? How dare you?" There it was, the same bitter sadness in his voice as there was in hers.

"Wait, you can't be…you're survivors? Someone survived the attack on Xavier's!" I yelled, I was scared now. What the hell? How can mutants have survived they, were all killed.

"And the children who were here? They were young kids. They had lives they weren't just mutants with no feelings! They were people, people who loved eachother. One of my best friends took a bullet for me, ah watched him die! Knowing he saved me!" The girl screamed.

"Guess your government isn't as great at killing as it seemed." He growled.

"Logan, she's a mutant." The girl said, finally calming down. "Ah'm Rogue, this is Logan. Who are you?"

"I'm Abby."

-X-

Abby, I spun the name around in my head. That had been John's favorite girl's name; he said if he ever had a daughter he'd name her Abby, just because he couldn't name her Rogue. I smiled a bit at that, perhaps that was the one thing I had loved more about John the Bobby, John had made me happy, in a way Bobby had never been able to.

"Well Abby, if yoah a mutant as you say you are. Then yoah welcome here. There's an extra mattress, we'll move it into Kurt's room if yoah want, or you can have yoah own room, there's…well there's John's room."

"I'll take the classroom, Pyro was evil."

"He has a name, his name was John! And he was never evil, he was just scared. Yoah government was evil, killing us all lahke that. Most of the kids were only 12. And yet, you support that murder. So, no Abby, John was never evil, he was scared. And he was fighting for those he loved, and those who loved him, even if those he was fighting for were dead."

"His name was Pyro and he was a brutal mutant terrorist." The girl replied, I stared at her.
"His name was John and I loved him!"
She turned her head in disgust and walked away in the direction of Kurt's old classroom.

-X-

Well we hoped you enjoyed, I know the last chapter said it would take a few weeks, but It didn't take that long. Some things are left unanswered, but we'll return to them later.

-Hazel and Lune.