Mr Allerdice Has Emotions

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Rogue and Kitty had left to give Scorch some time to think, it's not like she didn't like Pyro, because she really really did. It's just she didn't want get hurt…like the last time…

1 Year Ago

Lou ran over to Jacob and jumped on his back.

"Hey Jake, so, you going to go get some food with me, I made some money so we can afford it." Lou said still on his back. Jacob was taller than her, by a lot, the top of her head barely reached his chin and he had dirty brown spiked up hair, which matched great with his really light blue eyes.

"Yeah I'll come and eat with you babe, I'm just gonna find a place to sleep tonight, wanna come with?" Jacob asked bending down so Lou could get off.

"Yeah I'll come with." She said happily as they walked hand in hand through some park with a pond, and whilst walking, found a shed that could be used for sleeping for a night.

"Okay, we found a place to sleep, now can we go get some food pleeeeeeease." She laughed to him. They went walking around looking for a place to eat for about an hour, until they decided to go into a place that they had seen about 40 minutes ago. They ordered the food at the cash register and sat down.

"So, got any plans for the weekend?" Jacob asked playfully to Lou, and she was about to answer until the kitchen exploded, making the whole restaurant set ablaze. Lou got up and moved towards the centre of the fire.

"No Lou, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!!??" Jacob screamed following her, making sure his girlfriend didn't get hurt.

"I know what I'm doing Jacob." She replied calm as ever, holding her hands out and reaching out into the flames, while Jacob watched in amazement and disgust, he realised that the fire was doing anything she wanted it to, then it dawned to him that she was one of them, a mutant. He, Jacob Little had kissed and interacted with a mutant and that made him sick.

When Lou had finished calming the blaze Jacob was searching through his massive rucksack for his gun, he pulled it out and stood behind Lou.

"You freak…You fucking freak, I would have killed you long ago if I had known." Jacob said sternly and emotionless as Lou slowly turned around, and when she did you could see she had been crying, but Jacob held the gun in place all the same.

"Look Jake, it's still me…I just have an ability is all-" Lou started to explain but was cut off by an enormous pain in her stomach.

"…You shot me…" She said falling to her knees and wrapping her arms around her abdomen, which was now bleeding severely.

"Yeah, that's one more piece of mutant scum off our streets" Jacob said spitting at her. That was the last thing she saw, until she collapsed into the crimson pool of her own blood.

Present Day

She thought long and hard about that day,and she finally ended up thinking, Pyro is a mutant himself, and would have no intention of hurting her, she lifted up her shirt a little to look at the scar the bullet left her with and shook her head. She lifted herself up and made her way to the TV room, searching for John and his lighter, that's when she saw the top of his head over the couch. They were the only two in the room, understandable, as it was 1:35 am. She jumped over the back of the couch so she could sit next to him.

"Hey" She said timidly.

"Hey" He replied still looking at the TV. Scorch was about to say somrthing else, until Pyro turned to face her and said

"Why did you run away earlier? I thought you weren't like the others,that you wouldn't be scared of me...I guess I was just wrong." He got up to leave, but scorch grabbed his wrist, making him stop.

"HEY...I am NOT scared of you...Look okay, I haven't told anyone this before...Last year, when I was 16, I used to have a boyfriend, and everything was great...That was until he found out I was a mutant..." She stopped for a minute, and started crying, but she just wiped her eyes, Pyro then sat back down next to her. She went back to the story. "Well anyway...He found out I was a mutant, he reacted badly to it and instead of just dumping me or whatever, he pulled out his gun, shot me and said...and I quote 'That's one more piece of mutant scum off our streets.'"

"Fuck." Was the only thing Pyro said to that.Scorch smiled a little and carried on talking.

"So because the reason I had to reveal my power was because of a huge fire. I was taken into surgery by an ambulance that had come for burn victims. If it hadn't come, I would be dead right now, I had a lot of internal bleeding, so I had to go streight into surgery." She lifted up her shirt a little to show him the scar that started as a circular dot from the bullet, and the white line going from the circle to just below her ribs. "I just have a few trust issues is all...And it seriously wasn't you...I know you wouldn't hurt me...Okay."Scorch smiled as she finished.

"...So he put you through all that just because your a mutant...Fuck...I would NEVER hurt you, You are seriously the only person in this dump that's treated me the same as anyone else-" He was cut off by Scorch wrapping her arms around his neck and kissing him, when she pulled away she said,

"I don't want to run away anymore" And after about half an hour of watching the TV she fell asleep in his arms.

"Hey Scorch, we'd better get back to our bedrooms." That was when he looked down and discovered she was already asleep. He smiled to himself, turned off the TV and thought to himself, 'wow, well done you have just proved that Mr John Allerdice has emotions.' and fell asleep.

The next morning Pyro woke up to find a bunch of younger students snickering to themselves, plus Bobby.

"You all have 10 seconds to leave." He said quietly, getting out his lighter. The younger kids scrambled trying to get away, while Bobby stayed in his chair, smiling. Scorch was now outstretched on the Sofa, head in Pyro's lap. And Bobby just started to sing.

"Hate to say I told you so!" and kept singing it.

"Oh shut up Ice Dick." Pyro snapped, when Scorch started to stir, and got up.

"Good morning." She said cheerfully to both Bobby and Pyro, and smiled to just to Pyro. "Good morning" She said to just Pyro that time. " I have to go and get changed...I'll see you later." She was still smiling and practically sprinted to her bedroom where Rogue and Kitty were.

"I've done it!" She shouted to the two girls who were just looking at her at this point.

"What have you done and why in all Holy Hell are you so happy?" Rogue asked her friend concerned that she might be on something. Then Scorch sat down with them on Kitty's bed and explained everything about last night and this morning to the pair, leaving out what she actually told Pyro.

"Oh My God...that's so sweet, who'd of know that Mr Allerdice had emotions ha-ha." Kitty laughed. And the three of them carried on talking for the rest of the day in their bedroom, making the bonds of a great friendship.

WHOOP!...Next Chapter Up...Review please, sorry this Chapter took so long, have been reading a lot and writing other stories! Next Chapter probably won't be Up till after Christmas :( Oh Well...Happy Holidays Every One!

Lu-Lu