A/N: I heard this song on the radio and I fell in love with it! And I also thought it went good for Ryro…you may think differently but just put your input!
"Because you loved me" By Celine Dion
Because you loved me:
Rogue sat on the floor of a now deserted room. The two boys that owned this room, one of them is no longer there and the other refuses to come in. She was looking at the carpet running her fingers over a burnt piece of it, she laughed quietly as she remembered when he had told her the story of what happened here. It was before she even came, when he first came when he had yet to control his powers. He was asleep when he heard a noise that woke him up he sprung to his feet half awake lighter open and he heard the noise again and he jumped and the lighter flew out of his hand landing onto the floor catching the carpet on fire, he tried putting it out by absorbing the flames but that didn't work, instead it just made it worse. He started to panic and looked around and Bobby who was still fast asleep and he ran over and woke him up, pointing to the fire on the carpet and giving an innocent smile. Bobby's eyes widened and it took him a few seconds to realize what to do. Bobby sat up and put out the fire that started to spread with his powers and luckily for john the fire didn't trigger the fire alarm waking everybody up.
She saw a box under the bed out of the corner of her eye, she rolled onto the stomach and reached under the bed to retrieve the box, she smiled as she saw it. It was the box she made for him for his birthday, she didn't have any money to get him anything so she just got a wooden box and decorated it, and knowing his powers she painted it black and drew flames on it and put a flame pendant on it. He didn't seem too thrilled about it when he got it; he liked the flames she knew that much but the box, he didn't know what to do with. She opened it to see if anything was in it, and surprisingly there was a lot in it. Folded papers, a lighter that she bought for him- that she knew he would never use, he was too fond of his zippo-, Photos, and there was even a wilting rose.
She took out the many pictures first, the top one was of all three of them, Bobby, John and her, she was in the middle while Bobby was looking the other direction apparently laughing at something and John was giving Bobby the bunny ears, she was the only one paying attention to the camera in that one.
The next one she couldn't believe he kept, because he said he would rip it up. It was on Christmas break, Bobby was off with his family –this was obviously before they knew he was a mutant- leaving her and John alone for once. She had told Jubilee that she had a small crush on John for a while and so jubilee and Kitty and a few other girls had a plan. It was Christmas Eve and Rogue and John were just sitting on the couch talking…
"What's your favorite part of Christmas?" Rogue asked him, they were both snuggled up on the couch by the fire.
He sighed, "well Christmas at my house wasn't always the pleasure…My favorite part of Christmas used to be getting together with family…the people that loved me." He explained.
"my favorite part of Christmas is what we're doing now, just right before Christmas, just sitting by the fire and occasionally roasting marshmallows."
He smirked, "yea…the fire is a good part of Christmas."
She rolled her eyes; there he went talking about fire again.
Suddenly Jubilee and Kitty came into the room, snickering and giggling. "Hey guys." They said still laughing, barely getting the words out.
"Yeah?" she asked and john just raised his eyebrow.
"Look up." they said covering their mouths to stifle their laughter.
They both looked up and above their heads hung some mistletoe. Rogue's jaw dropped, she couldn't believe them, her crush on John was supposed to be kept secret. She glared at Jubilee and Kitty.
"Well you know the tradition." Kitty said grinning, Rogue was about to get off her seat and yell at them when she felt John's lips against her cheek and a flash went off. She turned to him in shock; she couldn't believe he did that. He was smiling one of his rare John Allerdyce smiles at her. "It's tradition" he explained. "Will you excuse me?" He jumped off the couch and Jubilee and Kitty screamed and ran out of the room laughing, while John went off chasing them having a grin on his face. She started laughing her self and she heard John's voice down the hall. "I swear Kitty Pryde if I ever get that picture I'm gonna burn it!"
But here it was in perfect shape, she looked at the angry/shocked expression on her face, while John had his eyes closed but the corners up his lips were curved upwards…he was smiling.
She stared at this picture a few more seconds before putting it behind the other one. The next picture was just of them two, it looked totally candid, it was one of Rogue on the couch looking like she was about to cry with John next to her looking like he's trying to comfort her, the next picture seemed to be later that day with her laughing and John grinning next to her with a sulky looking Bobby in the background.
For
all those times you stood by me
For all the truth that you made
me see
For all the joy you brought to my life
For all the
wrong that you made right
The next one was from a movie theatre photo booth, they all went to a movie and while everybody else was in the bathroom, John dragged her over to the photo machine. Of course he got to pick the background which was, of course, fire and he told her to do what ever she wanted. In this particular one he was making a "grrr" face while she was sticking her tongue out at him. The next one was of him giving her a noogie, and the one after that was of them both making a funny face, and then the last one was of them both cracking up.
She honestly never expected to have this much fun when she arrived at the institute, she thought her life was ruined after she got her powers, but John made her dreams come true of having a normal, fun filled life after she got her powers.
For
every dream you made come true
For all the love I found in you
I'll be forever thankful baby
You're the one who held me up
Never let me fall
You're the one who saw me through, through
it all
You
were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I
couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw
the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You
gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because
you loved me
Then something in the box caught her eye, it was an envelope with her name in cursive written on it. She put down the pictures beside the box and took the envelope out of its box and turned it over and saw it was open; she took the folded piece of paper out and unfolded it, flipped it over and started to read it.
Rogue,
I'm not the writing type of guy, in fact I hate writing, but as I've heard writing takes out the stress. You can write an angry letter to the person you're angry at, curse at them all you want and never send it. But don't think I'm angry at you, because im not, I was never angry at you…perhaps never will be, sure there were times I was frustrated with you but never angry. And I certainly don't want to curse you out. Writing also helps you get other feelings out…feelings that you're shy to admit to in real life, as I've heard. And as im writing this I realize, yea its helping me. I doubt you'll ever read this, im not going to send it to you. There are some things that Im putting in here that I probably will never say to you in actual life. One, because you're with Bobby, probably always will be you two are inseparable…and two you would probably think im nuts. But, I love you. I have ever since you first came to the institute. You've probably heard stories that im a jerk around here, sarcastic, cocky laughing at everybody and you probably are like, Heh yea right I don't see that in John, but yea before you came I was like that. I never expected to fall for someone…I've had a few girlfriend before you came but I never felt anything like I do for you. At first I liked you because you were beautiful, which you are, but as I got to know you…I loved you for you. It made me happy to see you happy, even though you were with iceman, and know you weren't mine. I made a point to hang out with you without giving you any hints that I liked you. But the whole institute probably knows by now. I so wish to tell you Rogue, but I'm afraid you'll hate me, think im crazy. So at least I get to tell you in my thoughts and in this letter…I love you Rogue, and I will forever.
Forever yours,
St. John Allerdyce.
Tears were streaming down her cheeks from the moment he said "I love you." it always did seem kind of odd to her why John was always so nice to her and a jerk to everybody else, she never expected it, she never knew that John loved her. she looked back at the pictures and the next one happened to be one of the two of them with an arm around each others shoulders both smiling, it was also in a heart shape…she remembered that picture but she remembered Bobby being in it also, she sniffled and shook her head, 'of course…he cut out bobby'
You
gave me wings and made me fly
You touched my hand I could touch
the sky
I lost my faith, you gave it back to me
You said no
star was out of reach
You stood by me and I stood tall
I had
your love I had it all
She continued to look at all the pictures, all of them were of him and her, and she couldn't believe that she never realized that he loved her. She took out her wallet and opened it and in it was picture of her and Bobby. She compared it to a picture of her and John and she didn't look half as happy with Bobby than as she did with John.
I'm
grateful for each day you gave me
maybe I don't know that much
But I know this much is true
I was blessed because I was
loved by you
She spotted something gold in the box, she shuffled the papers and she found a heart shaped locket with a gold chain. Carved on the front were the words, 'I love you' and she opened the locket and saw a picture of her on one side and him on the other. Tears started to come to her eyes again, Bobby never did anything like that for her, never got her a locket, never wrote her a love note, she doesn't think that he even has a picture collection of them. She closed the locket and held it in her hand and pressed it to her heart.
She was startled suddenly by a crashing noise from outside; she sprung up to her feet and still held the locket in her hand, looking curiously between the crack of the curtain. She saw something, or someone, on the ground of the balcony and she removed one of the gloves and started to move toward the glass window, she saw whatever it was rising to its feet. Her heart was pounding in her chest and her palms started to go sweaty, and she wiped it on her pants so it wouldn't affect her powers. She pulled the curtain back rapidly and screamed in surprised as she saw someone staring at her, she stumbled back so quickly she couldn't catch who it was, she hit the ground and the locket flew out her hands and across the room. She heard the glass door slide open, and she closed her eyes tightly as she heard who ever it was walk in the room. She started to shake as foot steps came closer to her and then pass her, stop, then come back to her again, she opened one eye and saw a pair of legs kneel beside her.
"I think you dropped something."
The voice made her eyes snap open and turn her head toward the intruder. There knelt John, the locket resting on his palm, as he stared at her.
"John?" she whispered, not believeing what she saw.
"I actually go by Pyro now." He responded swiftly, she sat up and threw her self at him knocking to the ground. She lay on top of him, her arms around him and her head leaning against his chest.
You
were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I
couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw
the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You
gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because
you loved me
He was surprised by this sudden action, and hesitantly wrapped his arms around her, but once his arms were secure around her body, he felt a sudden comfort that he longed for for so long. A few more minutes of lying there, he started to grow uncomfortable so he sat up pushing her along with him. She pulled away from him and looked at him smiling. He noticed tear stains on her cheeks and cocked his head to the side. "You were crying, why?"
This only made her smile more, he still cared about her, she put his arms around him again, leaning her face into his chest. But he pulled her back, "Rogue? What's wrong?"
"nothing." She answered this honestly, nothing was wrong at all. He gave her a skeptical look and went to go wipe the tears away from her eyes but a picture had stuck to his palm. He tore it off gently and looked at it then looked at the floor where the box lay open, and he saw the envelope open with the letter open on top of it, picture on the floor, and he opened his other hand where it held the locket.
"I, uh, see you found the box."
She smiled and nodded, "I had no idea you felt that way John."
He looked away, she knew, she now knew how he truly felt about her. She took her gloved hand and took his free hand in hers. "John…look at me." She pleaded; he slowly turned his head looking into her eyes.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"You were with Bobby, and I was his best friend…and I figured you would think im crazy for feeling that way."
She let out a breath and then chuckled, "I just can't believe I never realized" she took a picture off the floor and looked at it, "I mean it was so plainly obvious."
You
were always there for me
the tender wind that carried me
a
light in the dark shining your love into my life
He remained silent, he didn't know what to say, he felt so stupid right at that moment.
She took the locket from his hand and opened it again, looking at the picture of her self, she was smiling she didn't even remember ever smiling that much even before she got her powers.
You've
been my inspiration
Through
the lies you were the truth
My world is a better place because of
you
She snapped the locket shut and slipped the chain over her head, which went unseen by Pyro. She took the picture of her and bobby and held slipped it next to a picture of her and John and John looked at it curiously wondering what she was doing. "Then again, I don't know how you never noticed it either." She took his chin in her hand and made him look at her and she smiled at him and inched closer to him, and he finished the rest bringing his lips down to hers.
You
were my strength when I was weak
You were my voice when I
couldn't speak
You were my eyes when I couldn't see
You saw
the best there was in me
Lifted me up when I couldn't reach
You
gave me faith 'coz you believed
I'm everything I am
Because
you loved me
I'm everything I am
Because you loved me
