I don't know anyone who owns the Marvel characters (but I can do the six degrees thing heihei). I sort of know myself, I know myself enough to not own the M characters…
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John Allerdyce saw Erik a little further away wave his hand. He then saw the chain around the young girl's neck fly off, and heard it clang on the road. All he had to do was wait for Mystique to make her move, and then he was to make his.
He watched as Maria ran back into the road, saw her close her eyes upon seeing the car as if waiting, and bracing herself for the impact. But the only that did hit her was John himself as he ran across the road and grabbed her
around the waist, and rolled them both to safety on the pavement. The car didn't even stop, it just drove away.
"Shit," Johnny exclaimed, crouching down to see if the young girl was all right. "Maria, you ok?" he asked putting his arms on the shoulder of the dazed girl slowly pulling her to her feet.
"Yeah," she said, shaking her head a little dazed.
"I think she's in shock," John told the Human Torch getting to his feet himself.
It was only then did the other man see him properly. He'd seen the boy before, he was the one sitting in the café watching him and Maria. "Who are you?" Johnny asked him, looking around slowky. A crowd had gathered, and he didn't like it at that moment. Was it because he wasn't the one getting the attention? Or was it because they were attention was being received for the wrong reason? "Nothing to see here," he said shooing away the people, "Shows over," he stated, and the crowd departed.
"My name's Jay," John replied, using a name that went with his initials. "She could do with some sugar," he said looking at Maria with a concerned look his face.
"I'm all right," she said slowly coming back to herself, "But my necklace," she pointed at the chain that was still in the road.
John nodded, and walked carefully back into the road to retrieve it, "Here," he said, placing it in her hand. "Sorry," he said when he saw her face fall as she noticed it was broken.
She shrugged, and put the remains in her pocket, "Can we go now?" she looked at Johnny, who put his arm around her shoulders and nodded. "Are you all right?" she suddenly asked John as if just remembering something. "You're bleeding," she told him, touching her temple.
He raised his hand and touched his hairline, then looked at his fingers. 'Shit,' he thought to himself, and forced a smile, "Why look at that…" he stated in such a way that Maria laughed. He liked her laugh, and felt his lips form a smile, and shook his head slightly to rid himself of the feeling.
"You're not ok," Maria said thinking his head movement was from the pain. "You should come with us," she said then looked at Johnny, "Shouldn't he? The others won't mind," she told him.
Johnny nodded, "I guess so, you can call your folks from there," he said. John felt a pang in his gut at the thought of 'parents', but forced a nod anyway.
He was there for a reason, Erik had a plan, and so far it was going really well, apart from the wound he had somehow gotten, but apart from that, everything was in place. In fact everything was going better than he had expected, he didn't really think he would get an invite back to the Baxter building so quickly. "Sure," he said with a smile. He glanced over his shoulder, and winked at Erik who was watching him from the bookstore entrance, and then followed the two friends' to where Johnny had parked his car in the nearest car park.