A/N: I apologize for not updating in almost two months…I got…distracted….with other fanfictions. But I will try to update more frequently especially cuz now im back to my ryro obsession to yay for you! You get to read! There is not much Rogue/Pyro in this chapter...its mostly about the brotherhood and how they feel about Pyro's relationship with Rogue although there is Ryro in this chapter!

From behind a tree about ten or fifteen feet away, Pietro stood with his arms crossed glaring at the two still wrapped in a tight embrace. "disgusting." He turned to Callisto who was leaning against a tree. She rolled her eyes. "oh leave the boy alone, he's in love."

"With an x-men, Callisto! Only our worst enemy!"

"Did you seem to forget quicksilver; he was one of them once! He liked her before he came to the brotherhood."

"Why do you keep standing up for him?" Pietro yelled at her.

"You're just too hard on him Speedy." Callisto shrugged looking over at the silver haired boy. "He's a member of our team…and like most members of our team he doesn't give a shit what people think. You should be like that Pietro. Pyro is a big boy he knows what he's doing."

Pietro glared at her and sat down on the ground leaning up against the tree, "oh and I suppose that every member of our team should go make out with an x-men. Cuz my father would be so pleased with that." He replied sarcastically.

"For being Magneto's son you don't know much about him." Pietro quirked an eyebrow at her, and she nodded. "Magneto, you see, he doesn't care what you do as long as you don't leave his team."

Pietro sighed and kicked the ground, and then looked back at Callisto. "And what if he does leave the team?"

Callisto smirked, "he won't leave the team. Pyro said on numerous occasions, "I would never go back to that pathetic school no matter who tries to convince me." And that includes Miss. Rogue back there."

"Hey," Callisto and Quicksilver turned their heads to see one of their own. He was a tall and thin boy, with brown hair, red highlights sprinkling the tops, and golden eyes. He wore Jeans with a brown T-shirt and his hands were stuffed in his pockets. "What are you two doing here?"

"Hey Morph," Quicksilver greeted happily, he looked up to the older boy like an older brother. Morph just nodded and looked over at Callisto for an answer. "Pyro, met up with his girlfriend."

He raised an eyebrow, "Pyro has a girlfriend?"

"No," Pietro spat loosing his happy mood. "but he loves her."

"Why hasn't he mentioned anything to me?" Morph and Pyro were like best friends, they held similar personalities and always hung around together.

"Probably because he's embarrassed." Pietro muttered darkly.

"I told you," Callisto pointed at Pietro, "he doesn't give a damn about what people think. Pyro likes keeping things to himself. I just found out by I heard him muttering in his sleep onetime and one day he came back pissed yelling about how 'she' is going to take the cure."

"Whoa…Pyro is in love with a human?" Morph questioned like it was the most vulgar thing on the Earth.

"Wait she's a human! I thought you said she was a…" Pietro started but Callisto cut him off.

"She took the cure once but like Magneto's it wore off."

"My father took the cure!" Pietro sprang up.

"Sit down speedy before you hurt yourself." Callisto motioned for him to sit down, "no he didn't take the cure, and he was injected with it when a member of the x-men slammed four cure darts into his chest."

"An X-men! An x-men almost made our leader human and Pyro just goes and makes out with another member of the x-men." He groaned in frustration and hit the tree.

"Pyro is in love with an x-man?" Morph questioned. "X-woman!" Pietro corrected quietly which got a glare from the two of them.

"Yea unfortunately that part is true." Callisto admitted, straying away from Pietro's comment. She got up and grabbed his wrist dragging Morph over to see the two through the trees. "I'm getting a better view." Suddenly in seconds Morph was gone and in his place was a crow. Morph looked over at Callisto and she gave him a nod and he flew off and sat perched on a tree so he could hear and see them better.

At this point they were out of their embrace and Pyro was wiping away the tears that were slowly rolling down her cheeks, not noticing that it was skin on skin contact.

"Why did you leave John?" Rogue asked timidly looking up at him.

He sighed and ran his hand through his hair. "Because…I was sick of everything. Stryker attacking the mansion, Bobby's parents not accepting the fact that he was a mutant, his brother betraying us, the cops not giving Wolverine a chance to prove that he wasn't going to hurt the men, that Wolverine treated us like kids and made us stay back in the stupid Jet when they clearly needed all the damn help they could get!"

"We weren't ready John…"

"Yes we were! We trained for this, everyday in the danger room, we worked our butts off and sometimes we didn't win but we were ready for the big time. They have to put faith in us! Plus Magneto had some good points."

"Oh and what were those 'good points'?"

"Stryker hypnotized Xavier into killing all the mutants, Magnetos helmet protected him from that, while we were all dying Magneto saved us all. Without Magnet we all would have died. He was finding a way to protect ourselves from the real bad guys."

Rogue crossed her arms, "you do realize he first built that helmet to block out Xavier."

John smirked, "Yea I do."

Rogue's jaw dropped, "oh so now Xavier is a bad guy. You are unbelievable!"

Morph watched intently from the branch. They were arguing, he didn't seem like he was in love with her. He fights with Callisto like that all the time and they're barely friends.

"Xavier is no way in hell a bad guy! Charles Xavier is probably the nicest man on the face of Earth!"

"Yea…he's too nice. He's a goody-goody who believes in something unrealistic. I don't care how many people believe in this Rogue, Humans and Mutants will never get along!"

She opened her mouth to protest,

"Don't say anything! You know it's true!"

"It's not true…if magneto didn't try killing the humans then they would learn to get used to us. It's new to them John."

John smirked shaking his head, "no…they despise us. How do you explain the damned cure! They wouldn't make that if they didn't think anything was wrong with us. Why can't you see this? Magneto wants to show that we are better, we are supreme!"

"And because of that the humans want to find a way to get rid of us! They feel threatened! Why don't you open your eyes John? Its right there in front of you. Magneto is not doing anything but making matters worse."

Morph was about to attack the girl for talking about his leader like that. 'Come on Pyro, fight back.'

John glared at her, his hands at his sides clenched in a fist. "What happened to the little quiet girl I knew back at Xavier's?"

"She's gone. She left when you did." She hissed at him and turned around to walk home.

Morph would have smirked if he was human at the point, 'that's right little x-men walk away run home to a home of lies.'

John stared after her and watched her walk away. 'Don't let her walk away John. You let her go once don't do it again' a voice told him.

'She's an x-men…she doesn't deserve you Pyro.'

'No…she doesn't deserve what she's going through.'

'She's pathetic…she betrayed out kind by taking the cure'

'She regrets it…I know she does I can sense it.'

'Let her go Pyro, you'll find someone more suitable'

'No! I don't want anyone else!'

'Stubborn boy'

'Indeed I am'

"Rogue, wait!"

Morph was about to fly back to Callisto and Pietro to tell them what happened but he stopped watched to see what Pyro was doing.

Rogue stopped and let out a sigh and turned slightly to see John jogging towards her.

"What do you want John?" she asked with a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"I let you go by leaving…I'm not going to make the same mistake again." John said staring into her eyes.

"What are you ta…" she was cut off when John pressed his lips to hers. This time she responded by kissing him back. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped his arms around her waist. His tongue grazed her bottom lip, begging for entrance. She parted her lips slightly, granting him entrance making the kiss deep and passionate. She felt warmth fill her body, part from his mutation and the other from a fulfilled longing on waiting to kiss him. It lasted until they both pulled back for oxygen. "Damn." Rogue whispered breathlessly and John smirked.

Morph growled inwardly at the two of them and he flew back to Callisto and Pietro. He transformed himself back into a human and he had a pissed off expression on his face. "You're right. He's right." He pointed to Pietro.

"I am? I mean, of course I am." Pietro smiled triumphantly but both Callisto and Morph ignored him.

"Rogue just insulted our leader and he doesn't do anything but run after her and then kiss her!" Morph started pacing back and forth. "We can't let this happen! We can't lose Pyro! Especially to some pathetic X-men girl!"

"And what do you suggest we do?" Callisto asked leaning against the tree. "Get in there a split them apart?" she meant it as sarcasm but suddenly Morph stopped pacing and looked up at Callisto grinning.

"You are a genius Cal!" He said using the nickname he gave her.

"Oh yes…that's smart go piss off a pyromaniac…he's a maniac when it comes to 'fire'." Pietro replied zipping over to them. "He's got a point Morph…I've seen what Pyro can do it's not pretty."

"Well if anyone can do it I can!" Morph crossed his arms.

"Confident are we?" Callisto remarked.

"Yes…we are. Ok here's the plan…"

Rogue leaned her head against his chest and they stood there in silence for a while. "Why must we argue?" she asked holding onto him still.

"It's just part of our relationship I guess…it's a love/hate thing."

"I don't hate you John." She picked up her head and looked into his chocolate brown eyes.

"I don't hate you either Roguey," he ran his finger over her silver bangs, "but I have a fiery attitude and so do you and now that we're on different sides it gets us arguing more."

She let out a sigh and again rested her head against his chest. "I…I've wanted this for so long…."

"What?"

"You…us." She snuggled closer into him and he tightened his grip on her. "you were never afraid to get close...if I fell everyone would try to grab a clothed part of my body but you would grab my bare arm. If I was upset and wearing one of my shirts that didn't cover my shoulders all the way…you would come over and wrap your arm around me without hesitating. That's what I wanted. With Bobby, he was hesitant to touch me but no matter what I said or did you just pulled me closer and he would let me go." She looked up at him slightly, "it's like I was just a normal person…who could touch and do everything normally. And that's who I want to be…well not normal…but not a freak. Not the freak that everyone is afraid of, that if I touched them they would all die."

"You're not a freak Rogue…never think that. All of those people who won't come near you…they're cowards. The people who aren't like that…you gotta keep close."

"How can I keep you close if you're so far away?" she asked quietly.

He was silent for a while, trying to come up with an answer to her question. What he said slipped out before he realized what it meant to her. He was one of the only people who would get close to her besides Wolverine and he was with the Brotherhood and she was with the X-men. Wolvie would slice and dice him if he found John anywhere near the mansion and Magneto wouldn't be too pleased with Rogue around his base. Finally he answered what was on his mind.

"I don't know."

Suddenly a crow flew above them squawking. Both of them ducked and looked at the bird as it circled and came back toward them. John saw as it came closer that the bird had brown eyes and he narrowed his eyes. "Morph." He muttered and Rogue looked at him curiously. "Nothing…we have to go." He grabbed her hand, which was bare, and started running. After running for a few minutes John looked behind him and saw that the crow was no longer following them. He looked around for a sign of any other animal and saw nothing. He saw the town up ahead and slowed down to a fast paced walk and looked over at Rogue who was breathing heavily but was keeping up she was used to this kind of intensity because of the danger room. He looked down at their joined hands and realized that her hand was bare and he wasn't getting drained. Something rushed through him at the moment. Anger? Hurt? Betrayal? He wasn't sure if it was all or just one. Either way he wasn't going to just let it go.

'She regrets it huh? Than why can you touch her without getting hurt?

'I don't know but im going to find out'

"What's up with this?" he asked after slowing down to a walk, and held up their hands. She looked at him with a confused expression, "uh…you took my hand remember?"

"That's not what I mean." he said seriously looking into her eyes.

She studied his face for a moment, wondering what he could mean. She glanced at their hands than back up at him and repeated that a few times and then smirked realizing what he meant. "Oh you mean why I can hold your hand with out you being drained to death."

He raised his eye brow and nodded slightly. She grinned, "I've been working with Beast and Professor Xavier. I now have control of my powers."

The look on his face softened, "Really?"

"Yep…its not the cure…I'm done with that. It wasn't the right thing, I wanted to be a mutant I just needed control. I was determined and finally it happened I am free to touch or not touch whomever when ever I want to." She was caught on guard when he picked her up off the ground and spun her around. When both feet were back on the ground she looked at him with a, 'what the hell was that for?' look and he just smirked. "I knew you could do it Roguey…it was just a matter of time." She smiled brightly. John had faith in her; he knew she could do it all along. Oh that just made her love him more.

"Well that worked." Pietro remarked.

"You weren't fast enough!" Morph snapped at him, "You were supposed to grab her!"

"Yea, after the second time around. None of us expected John to run with her."

"I did." Callisto looked up at them and the two young men glared at her. "Come on…he knew it was you Morph…he knows you hate the x-men and would want to split him up with her so he ran, it's simple logic."

"You're betraying the brotherhood!" Morph growled at her.

"What do you mean?"

"You're letting one of out best members just do whatever the hell he wants with this x-men!"

"As long as he doesn't leave us, it doesn't matter to me!" Callisto exclaimed while shaking her head. "Pyro would never desert his team."

"He did to the x-men." A new voice entered the picture and the three of them turned to see Ashley standing there. "I don't know much since I'm new but Pyro seemed odd earlier today." She looked down the hill where she saw Pyro was with Rogue. "Hey that's the girl we saw earlier."

The three of them looked at her with an odd look.

"Yea. When I took Pyro out he was talking with this girl but it seemed like they knew each other…because of my mutation I was able to hear what they were saying. She was talking about some kid Bobby and how he cheated on her and John was making sarcastic remarks, which were just pissing her off. Finally I came over and pulled him away and for a moment he sat quietly just watching her leave."

"You see, she's changing him!" Morph shoved his hands in his pockets.

"Who is she?" Ashley questioned.

"Her name is Rogue, class 5 mutant (a/n: I have no idea what class she is so don't yell at me!) She has the ability to absorb memories, thoughts and abilities, even other mutants' powers. She is a very powerful mutant. But there's only one problem she belongs to the x-men." Callisto took a pause looking down at the Pyro and Rogue disappearing into the distance. "And Pyro is in love with her."

"Seriously?" Ashley asked wide eyed, looking at all of them and Morph glared down the hill. He turned to the three brotherhood members standing behind him. "I will split them up if it is the last thing I do!"

A/N: uh oh Morph sounds serious...Hopefully Johnny Boy can beat out Morph and stay with his southern angel. ;-)