Sorry for taking so long, i suddenly realised i had no idea what to put in this chapter... hope it's ok! Also, if you like my story, and X-men, I have a cross-over story over in Xmen: Evo. It doesn't have Alicia though, but it does have my charrie named Night's Darkness in it! Yay!
Disclaimer: dont own FF, or Sports Illistrated, or anything else in here.
"Where'd Ben go?" Johnny asked as Sue came into the room. she shrugged, "I don't know, and besides, he needs to be alone."Sue sat down and they sat there for a few minutes."I wonder what he meant," Sue said thoughtfully. "About What?" replied Reed. "I told Ben I know what it's like to think you've lost someone you love," she began blushing, "And then he said I didn't know what it's like to loose your... and stopped." Sue and the others looked very confused.
"What do you think he meant?" Johnny asked. "I don't know, I hope he's alright..." Sue replied "Me too, I Feel so bad for what's happened." added Reed "Well, It's getting late," Johnny said yawning, "I'm going to bed." "we should all go to bed." announced Sue standing up and facing Reed, "C'mon, we'll all feel better in the morning."
That was a lie. They felt just as bad the next day...
except for Johnny, of coarse...
Sue walked in to the lab where Reed was working. As she turned invisible, she walked over to where he was and looked at what he was working on. He wasn't really working... she could tell. She put her arms around his neck, laying her head on his. Instantly, of coarse,he new it was her. "Good morning Sue," he said with a smile, " I didn't know you were awake." Once again visible, Sue replied softly, "You need to stop that..." "hmm? What?" "Telling yourself your fine... that nothings wrong." Reed turned and sighed, "I know, It's just" Sue put a finger to his lips to silence him... then, disappeared. "That's not fair," Reed said, though he knew she was gone
Without really even meaning to, Ben dreamed of her... her voice so soothing to him. He remembered how he had first met Alicia. How she saw him as he truly was, Ben Grimm, not The Thing, as so many people had begun to know him as. He, too, remembered Debra... the look on her face when she saw what he had become. The rocky exterior that now contained him...Trapped as if in a cage made of the strongest metal. No way to get out. The machine intended to change them back had been taken apart, shut down, but Ben wouldn't change back even if he did have the chance too.
His dreams shifted, suddenly, to his friends.He remembered when they had first battled Dr. Doom. Where was he now? He had somehow escaped, but to where? Was it he, who was to be held accountable for this? For revenge? Did he have cameras hidden about the building? But the Baxter was such a big building... how would they find them? So many questions without a single answer. Then he dreamt something else... another fate, he could not bare to think of. How he wished his dreams would allow him to wake... and suddenly, he did.
Johnny came back, God only knows where he was. he sat on the couch and began reading a Sports Illustrated magazine. His mind, also, a wild highway of questions. He was always curious, and kept coming back to what Sue said the night before... Johnny thought he might know the answer, but laughed when he thought more of it. 'Oops!' he though, 'Did I just do that out loud?' He had, and Sue heard him. "What are you laughing about?" She asked, annoyed at his presence. "Nothing," he lied. "Yeh, ok... sure!" She walked off. 'God! She is so annoying!' he thought.
Reed came in the room, he had given up trying to work. "Looks like everyone's up," said Johnny "Wait, no, where's Ben?" "Still asleep... I think." Reed replied with a slightly confused look on his face,"Uh, did you just call him Ben?" "Must have,maybe I have a fever or sumthin'." "You must, you hardly ever say that." "Uh, I'm gunna go lie down."
As he walked to his room he thought of how lame he had just sounded. But they were seriously getting on his case. They seem to do that allot! He threw himself on the bed and reached under his pillow for another magazine. He didn't really read it, he was thinking again. Soon, to his surprise, he fell asleep.
Sue toyed with the idea that Johnny was lying, but maybe for once he had told the truth! She loved her brother, but sometimes he could be so weird! She often wondered if there was something really wrong with him. Yeh, maybe there was a psycho in the family, generations before, and Johnny inherited it! Ha! That would be funny! Maybe he was adopted... not even really kin to him! 'I wish!' she thought.
Ahh! So Johnny really does care! I probily have you all confused about Ben now... especialy the end of his dream. Well Good!
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