Johnny was one of the first to get up after how they had all miraculously survived and was back home on earth in one of Victor's medical facilities. First thing he did was check up on his sister, who he had trouble finding through the vast amount of flowers decorating her room, Victor's doing no doubt. He checked on Reed and even Ben before struggling to find Elena's room.

"Excuse me, where's Elena's room?" he question a doctor who glanced down at his charts.

"Miss Brighton's room is down the hall on the right, across the way from Mr. Grimm," the man walked away and Johnny hit himself for being so dense.

"Brighton, huh?" Johnny mused walking towards her room. When he walked in, he saw how dim the lights in her room was, but even then, her tan skin was glowing. Johnny sat down in the chair next to her bed. Seeing her sleeping was kinda calming to Johnny, he was scared no terrified during the blast from the storm and she gripped him like he could save her, no one had ever did that. His eyes roamed over her glowing tan skin, seeing her wearing a blank tank top and what looked like a navy blue sports bra underneath. His eyes landed on her diamond necklace around her neck. A single stone, small and delicate on a gold chain that rested on the hallow of her neck. He wondered who gave it to her. Her long lashes hit the apples of her cheeks, but when he glanced up at her hair he saw a small bit of blonde peaking through her roots. Natural blonde.

The next day, Richard walked into her room and was surprised when he saw Johnny sitting next to the youngest member of their team, "Hey," he whispered walking up to Elena's bedside, "She wake up yet?" Johnny shook his head before hearing a small whimper come from the lone girl in the room.

"Wha—" she horsey whispered, "Where am I?" she blinked her eyes rapidly before glancing around the room, "Johnny?" she breathed with a ghosted smile over her lips.

"Yeah, doll face," he smiled, "Reed's here too," her grey eyes flitted over to the doctor and her smile widened.

"Reed," she whispered, "Where are we? Where's Sue and Ben?" her eyes dilated in panic.

"We're at one of Victor's medical facilities. Ben and Sue are both fine," Reed explained, "We're all under quarantine though," her brows furrowed as she sat up. Both men moved to help her as they saw her wince, she smiled in thanks as she stood onto her own feet. Johnny looked at the grey sweat short shorts she wore before pulling on a pair of brown Uggs on her feet, "Wow, where do you think you're going?"

Elena looked at Reed like he was crazy, "I'm going to find my uncle then get something to eat," Johnny took in how she was fuming at Reed, "I feel fine, Reed," she lightly laughed before walking towards the door.

"Let me take you there," Johnny said following behind her, she looked at him, "I literally just checked on him, doctors say he wont be awake for another day or so."

Elena nodded meekly before looking around, before catching a glimpse of the world outside, "Are we in the Alps?" she questioned before looking at the blonde who smiled wickedly, "How long have you been awake?"

He shrugged before leading them down the hall, "I woke up yesterday, saw Sue and Reed then Ben, found you. Today came and here we are."

Elena nodded before brushing a piece of her hair out of her face, "You feeling okay?" she asked glancing down at the mark on both their arms where the held onto each other during the blast. His left, her right. He nodded as they rounded the corner. Then the smell of food hit them, "Oh my god, yes," she moaned electing something out Johnny as she took off after the smell and saw loads of food, "Thank you lord," she whispered as she poured herself a cup of coffee. She smiled as she grabbed a bagel and cream cheese before pouring herself a cup of coffee with two milks and three sugars. Johnny watched her the entire time, as well as some of the business people who happened to be there. Her tan tone legs were on full display for all the men to see and she clearly didn't care. She waved Johnny over as she took a long sip of her coffee. Johnny smirked before getting his own food. She seemed too happy for the moment and then he glanced up to see the lights slightly dimming. The two ate in silence and when Elena ran out of coffee the two finally started talking, well Johnny did most of the talking. Elena simply listened. She liked how as her head buzzed his voiced soothed it over. The two spent the day exploring, neither one wanting to set into the reality of what might've happened to them.

The next day, Elena was brought out of her room by the sound of her uncle yelling. When she stepped out she saw Johnny running out.

"What did you do?" she slightly growled. Johnny looked over at her and couldn't help but find her messy bed hair extremely sexy. The light blonde was becoming more prominent and she probably needed to re-dye it.

"Easy there," Johnny smirked making her extremely annoyed.

"Why is there a mirror broken?" she asked as her gaze met the shattered pieces of the reflective glass.

"Hmm?" Johnny snapped out of his daze of gawking at her and followed her grey eyes, "Ben saw his reflection, didn't like what he saw and took his anger on this mirror," Elena rolled her eyes and softly smiled. He felt accomplished.

"Funny," she snorted before pushing past him, carefully stepping over the jagged glass and walked into her uncle's room. Johnny stared after her, today she wore tight black leggings and a cream sweater that was snug on her. His gaze was mainly focused on her shapely ass and how good it looked.

Johnny's lips were pulled into a smile and he licked the bottom part of his lips before turning away from the door just as Reed walked through.

"Hey," the doctor greeted.

"Hey," Johnny did a double take, surprise written across his face as he took in the scientist's appearance, "Nice do, liking the grandpa look," Johnny slightly complimented enthusiastically gesturing his hands to the sides of his head making Reed give him a confused and bewildered look.

"Hey Uncle Ben," Elena smiled walking into his room, "How you feeling?" Ben smiled at Elena as she sat on his bed.

"Good, if that brat Johnny didn't give me a heart attack," Elena smiled brightly but then Ben frowned seeing the cut on her arm from where Johnny's nails dug into her which reminded him of the same ones on Johnny's arm from her nails, "Elena, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have allowed Reed to take you up there."

Immediately Elena took Ben's hand and shh'd him, "Hey, it's alright. I was more worried about you than anyone else," Elena stated, "Everything is back to normal," she smiled, "I'm just happy that I can have my computer back."

Ben narrowed his eyes on her, "Elena," he warned.

Her eyebrows shot up, "Oh! I don't have one here! No," she sighed, "They watch me nervously whenever I'm near any type of machine," she sadly glanced at him, "Johnny keeps asking what happened," Ben looked at her with sad eyes, "I don't like this, Ben."

"I know."

"He irritates me!" she growled and sharply looked at Ben as he laughed, "What?"

"I'm happy you said that, he is a lady killer."

"Yeah of our brain cells," she snorted, "I had to spend all of yesterday hearing about his exploits and such, because Reed was nowhere to be found!" her fingers were twitching the entire time, she didn't like to be still for too long, not since the accident those years ago.

"Go," Ben smiled making her look at him, "Go outside, you're restless."

She looked at him with doe eyes, "You know me so well," she kissed his forehead before walking to his door, "I'll be back in a few hours," Ben nodded and smiled after his niece.

She walked around the place, slightly lost before seeing someone she wanted to avoid, "Glow!" she quirked an eyebrow as Johnny came closer, "You like it? It's fitting since your last name," he justified with an arrogant chin lift.

"You mean it's ironic," she corrected before seeing what he was wearing. A crimson shirt that hugged his well built torso and green army pants but what mostly caught her attention was the snowboard on his side, "Snowboarding?"

"Yeah, want to join?" she met his gaze, "Or you can go skiing, pick your poison."

Then an idea popped into her head, "Ben did say go outside," she mused.

"We practically live on a ski resort, Glow, might as well take advantage of it. Plus I hear you're suppose to listen to your uncle," he smirked suddenly wanting her to join him.

Her grey eyes met his blue ones as she smiled, "Yes, I am suppose to listen to my uncle."

Elena breathed a slight puff of white smoke escaped her lips from the cold. A blue and white snowboard was strapped to her feet. She was ecstatic, she hadn't gone snowboarding in years. She noticed how light she felt in the fresh air. Her gaze went over the mountains in awe. After space she had an appreciation to nature. Johnny was watching her closely, he was happy that she was grinning like a cheshire cat, he smirked in pleasure to find she liked nature.

"Alright! I think we're close enough!" Johnny yelled making Elena slightly giggle with anticipation as she brought down her white rimmed ski goggles, "Remember to stay on the right! The left might give you trouble!" Johnny warned Elena who nodded and immediately jumped down.

Johnny was taken back when Elena had already gone ahead of him, snowboarding at a fast rate down the snow slope. He stared after her enchanted before a smile curved at his lips. Her moves to avoid him only made him want her more. He grinned and looked back at the pilot who was staring after her too, "That's my future wife," the pilot smirked and Johnny smiled, shaking his head before bringing his goggles over his and jumping down with his snowboard.

Elena gracefully jumped over some logs, her board gliding over the snow, she felt so free and liberated. A loud holler of excitement grabbed her attention, glancing to the side she saw Johnny catching up to her flashing her one of his pearly white smiles.

"You're losing!" she teased as they raced neck and neck.

Johnny laughed, "Alright no more kid stuff, watch this!" he suddenly sped over a rump before flipping in the air and landing smoothly. Elena would have been impressed if there wasn't a sudden flame that sparked out of nowhere and began burning his clothes.

"Johnny! YOU'RE ON FIRE!" she exclaimed, Johnny gave her a quick glance, surprised she actually complimented him.

"Thanks! You're pretty good too!" Elena felt like hitting her head before quickly avoiding a tree and moved closer to him.

"NO, YOU'RE ON FIRE!" she screamed once more which finally caught his attention. Immediately she pulled away from him where he raced past her patting furiously at the flames leaving a trail of smoke behind. Elena huffed before leaning to get more speed, her head was spinning slightly when she heard Johnny scream, immediately she chased after the trail of smoke before a scream was heard and everything went silent, "No," she breathed feeling panic rise through her body. She felt as if this was all her fault, the speed of her board quickly picked up when she finally saw where Johnny landed, "What the…." she stared in shock at the giant crater in the snow with a puddle of boiling water and Johnny in between. Elena saw the remains of his clothes fluttering in the air meaning that he was completely naked. Unable to help herself, she noticed his well toned muscular arms and lean abs. Johnny was panting, flabbergasted and gazing around the little jacuzzi he created before his eyes landed on Elena was was just watching him. The two shared a confused moment.

"Care to join me?" no matter how hard anyone could try to build walls, that slight shake in her head of disbelief let Johnny know that some part of Elena, deep down inside was charmed.

"We need to see Reed and Sue," Elena stated as she shrugged off her light blue ski jacket, "Take this and don't burn it," as soon as Johnny looked up at her extended arm he gasped.

"Elena," he stated looking at her forearm that was exposed to the cold, it was glittering in a million ways. It looked like tiny pieces of diamonds were imbedded into her skin.

"Oh my god!" she gasped pulling off her glove as Johnny pulled himself out of the jacuzzi and quickly tied her jacket around his lean waste to cover himself. Her entire diamond formed hand was shaking as she looked at it.

"Hey," he said taking her hand and as if it were magic, the diamonds vanished with a sparkling dust, "Let's get back," she meekly nodded, completely stunned. Johnny knew better than to pull any remarks at the moment, her grey eyes were wide and glued to the hand that Johnny now held as the helicopter hovered above them.

"To be seen…heard…look at me."

Reed looked up with wide eyes, "I can't."

"What do you mean you can't? Look at me!"

"Sue look at your hands!" the woman looked down at her invisible hands in shock before accidentally knocking over the wine bottle. Reed's hand shot out and stretched to catch it.

Reed and Sue stared at each other dumbstruck, their bodies just showed some mutant development of some kind. Susan analyzed her hands that was no longer back to being opaque.

"Hey you guys! You are never going to believe what just happened—" Johnny came rushing in gripping on to a blue sweater wrapped around his torso, hiding his bare body. Both scientists gazes fell to his attire in inquire, "What?" he muttered then realized his state, "Oh, I can explain this," he assured with a hand out as a halt to them jumping to conclusions.

"Johnny!" a panicked sounding Elena screamed running into the room, "It happened again," she said holding out her now diamonized arm. She was shaking and looked like she was going to cry. Then she glanced up seeing Reed and Susan's shocked expressions, "Thank god!" she muttered pulling her black beanie off her head causing Susan's eyes to widen.

"Your hair," Susan whispered.

"Wow," Johnny breathed in amazement as he looked at Elena's short locks.

"What are you taking about?" she asked, then the diamonds in her arms vanished as she reached to pull a strand of her hair in front of her, "WHAT?!" she gasped seeing the extremely stark white hair that was in front of her, suddenly something dawned on her, "Where's Uncle Ben?" she asked noticing the lack of the Brooklyn man.

"He said he wasn't feeling well and went to his room," Reed answered.

"What, what happened?" Elena didn't wait for an answer as she grabbed Susan's arm and pulled her to the corridors that lead to the rooms.

"It has to be the cloud. It's fundamentally altered our DNA," Sue said to Reed when the two men caught up.

"Let's not jump to conclusions; we need a massive amount of evidencebefore making that leap," Reed told her as he glances over his shoulder.

"Guys, guys!" he stared at Johnny and Elena. Sue follows his gaze to see Johnny's fingertips are on fire. He then snaps his fingers and they go out, completely unharmed, "Now what is up with that?" Johnny asked just as he glanced up at Elena who was looking at her hand, flexing it with a confused expression on her face. Johnny snapped his fingers together again, "Okay, now picture that," he paused, "But everywhere!" he gestured to his half nude body enthusiastically.

"The cloud has fundamentally altered out DNA," Reed finally stated as they got to Ben's door.

"Ben?" Elena called out banging on the door.

"It's locked, Sue do you know the code?" Reed asked as Elena banged on the door again.

"I should," Sue said typing on the control panel, "Open up Ben, we need to talk."

Suddenly they heard something break and Elena panicked, "BEN!" she screamed.

Johnny immediately looked down the hall for a doctor, "Is there anyone who can open this?!" he called out but the area was empty,

Elena glanced down as she saw Reed slowly get on his knees. He moved his hand towards the crack under the door as Elena stepped back in front of Johnny. Suddenly his arm stretches, thinning to fit under the door, bending it upward to catch the lock and unlock the door. All three are looking at him astonished as his arm slowly snakes back from under the door and goes back into place.

"That's gross," Johnny stated making Elena nod.

Suddenly there was a tremendous smash from inside the room making Elena push past Reed and burst through the door, "Uncle Ben?" her grey eyes immediately take in the destroyed bed, the machines with astronomical results and the giant hole in the wall.

"Look! Look, look, look!" Johnny pointed making the four rush forward to see something large in the distance, running away, "What is that thing?" Johnny asked.

"I think that thing is Ben," Sue replied looking at said man's niece who has tears in her eyes just as Victor came in.

"What's going on?" Victor asked taking in the scene before him.

"Victor, are you feeling alright?" Sue asked rushing towards him as he nods.

"Just a little banged up. A couple scrapes. Why?" he asked.

"Ben did this," Reed stated,

Victor's eyes widened, "Ben did this?" Victor asked astonished.

"He's had some kind of…reaction to exposure from the cloud. And he's not the only one," Reed replied and immediately Victor took in Elena's now glittering white hair.

"We need to find him," Sue said making Victor redirect his attention to her, "Victor, I'm sorry I…" she started but Victor cut her off.

"Just find him," Victor said in a cold voice before leaving.

"Anyone have an idea on where's the big guy going?" Johnny asked as they all looked around the room.

Elena glanced down at the leather book Ben brought to space and then the picture of him and Debbie together, "He's going home," she whispered.

The four managed to get a hold of Debbie as they rode in a taxi. Elena, Johnny and Susan sat in the back while Reed rode shot gun. The taxi curved on to the Brooklyn Bridge, the sun had peaked over the horizon and vehicles began to file into the streets.

"Okay, so he was there last night. Debbie's going to meet us on the side of the bridge," Reed informed them.

Elena nodded as she sat between the Storm siblings, "I just want him to be okay," she growled making Johnny look at her. He had to admit, he liked a girl who was protective of her family. But the more time Johnny spent with her, he came to realize it wasn't only family but friends too.

"Ben!" Elena yelled as soon as she got out of the taxi, "Shit."

They all rushed towards what was causing the commotion, the police trying to herd the crowd away from the flames, "Back! We're evac-ing the bridge!" the cop said.

"What now? Reed? What do we do?" Sue asked.

"Ben's out there, we need to go get him," Elena stated.

Reed looked at Sue, "We can't get past them," Reed muttered, "But you can!"

"What?" then she understood what he meant. Suddenly she started to turn invisible, the only thing that was visible were her clothes.

"Sue. Your clothes. Lose them," Reed said.

"What?" she asked, "Oh." she said understanding. She started undressing, not thrilled with the idea, but apparently lost concentration for a moment and reappeared. Everyone stunned as they watched her. She immediately grabbed her blazer to cover herself.

"This is wrong in so many ways," Johnny said tormented by seeing his sister practically naked and looked away.

"You've been working out," Reed muttered.

"Shut up," Sue screeched, "You got anymore ideas, Reed? Maybe you should strip down next, see how it feels to have a hundred people staring," she started to get furious and turn invisible again.

"Sue!" Elena hissed forcing her to stop her rant.

"Oh. Well then," she said as she dropped her undies.

"I'm gonna need serious therapy," Johnny said making Elena roll her eyes before he scooped up her clothes and ran after the three.

Elena ran forward when she saw Reed and Sue, "I can't believe you made me do that!" Sue put her clothes on with a huff.

"We got through didn't we?" Reed retorted, coming back over to three of them as he checked to make sure no one was looking, "Just find Ben," with that Reed ran off.

Elena desperately looked around her uncle, before stepping on top of a taxi cab to see better, "BEN!" Elena screamed, but her breath fell short when she saw a bright orange figure that was about twice the size of Johnny. Elena realized that she, along with everyone else staring at him — it was their Ben.

Before anyone could blink Elena moved forward towards her uncle. Ben stood there, looking at his niece moved towards him with the happiest expression on her face. He saw his friends and his loved ones standing before him with concern in their eyes.

Johnny stared, guilt running through him for all the jokes he made about the man's appearance previous to the accident and even after.

"Mom? Mom, where are you?" Johnny's thought were broken by the sound of a vulnerable voice and when he looked around his eyes landed on an eleven year old girl. His eyes opened wide, a small gas tank exploded. He quickly jumped on to the top of a taxi and leaped off of it, wrapping his arms rightly around the girl, protecting her.

Elena stopped in her tracks when she heard the explosion, "Johnny!" she screamed as the flames engulfed him. Susan's eyes widen as she quickly held her hands up to protect herself. She waited for the pain but got none as a clear-blue shield came around the flames. But that didn't stop Elena from feeling the explosion and toss her back a bit as a car came hurtling above her.

"No!" Ben yelled in fear as he watched as his niece get thrown by the flames and ducking a car, but she gained her balance while standing back up as her skin sparkled like a thousand diamonds, only this time, it covered both hands and the side of her face.

As the explosion grew, an approaching fire-truck had no time to stop and escape. The firemen's eyes widened as they braced themselves, the truck getting hit and the end of it swinging off the bridge. A shout filled the air as a fireman held tightly to the ladder on top of the truck, his body weighing more than he remembered and the water looking more painful than it should have.

Elena's head immediately snapped towards the scream before glancing back to Susan who's nose was slightly bleeding and Johnny who was running to his sisters aid, "You okay?" he asked as she nodded she stared at her friend, Johnny looked up and his eyes widened.

"What the hell does she think she's doing?" Johnny practically screamed as Elena ran towards the truck, without even thinking Ben grabbed the sliding truck and pulled down. He winced as he felt his feet being dragged across the concrete and pulled harder. Suddenly the ladder attached to the top began to fall and a man struggled to save himself.

"Someone!"

Elena didn't even think when her foot connected with the railing. Johnny and Susan ran forward along with Reed as they watched Elena's body practically exploded when she dove down. She fell past the truck and immediately focused on returning, she felt her body float up. Her diamond skin was glowing as she felt herself heat up, her sparkling hands gripped the rear bumper, pushing the truck up with all her strength she helped Ben pull the truck back onto the bridge.

The truck jerked slightly and everyone's eyes widened as one of the firemen fell from the ladder. Before they could do anything the man was caught, he looked up and a sigh was released.

"Don't worry, I've got you," Reed said reassuringly even though his body was completely stretched. Elena pulled her diamond body up the truck before struggling down to the ground. Her world began to spin as she landed on her feet and she started to fall backwards, over the bridge. Before any of that could've possible happen, arms pulled her back and out of her diamond form before cradling her gently in the arms. She glanced up to see a familiar smirk, "That wasn't too bad," she gently smiled at his comment before leaning her head against his chest. Her energy was drained and she felt too weak.

"It was okay," she mumbled.

"You scared me," he whispered thinking back to the moments before when her eyes rolled back and her body swayed back over the water.

"Johnny Storm? Scared? Psh, please," she scoffed with a small smiled.

"Elena!" Susan yelled running towards the two, she took in the sight of the burnt back of Johnny's jacket and the burnt holes in Elena's top and jeans. Elena smiled to her friend as Johnny pulled her up to help her stand.

"Oh my god, Ben," Elena gasped struggling out of Johnny's grip and ran to where Ben was.

"Put your hands up!" the four looked over to see a group of policeman surrounding Ben. The rock man did nothing, not wanting to cause more trouble, but he stood there as Elena pushed through the police to her uncle, "Miss! Step this way!" Then the sound of people cheering and clapping filled the air. The firemen from the incident quickly approached the police, making the men lower their guns. Ben looked to his niece with a happy smile, maybe things wouldn't be so bad for him. Then in the corner of his eye someone else was staring.

As Ben's eyes roamed around the crowd of people cheering, he did a double-take, and stared as his fiancee stared back at him. He started to walk over towards her, but she backed away with a shake of her head. He stared at Debbie with pain in his eyes as her own began to fill with tears. She stared down at her engagement ring and shook her head once more. She pulled it off her finger and set the diamond on the ground. Without a glance back, she turned and disappeared into the crowd, leaving a broken Ben behind.

Elena looked at her uncle with tears trickling down her face as Ben slowly reached down to pick up the ring, but his rather large fingers hindered him. He could feel the emotions welling up inside of him, and he fought back the tears threatening to fall. Suddenly, a smaller, delicate hand picked the ring up, handing it to the bigger one. Ben looked up to see a tear stricken Elena looking back at him as Reed stood next to her.

"I swear to you, I will do everything in my power, until there's not a breath left in me," the words hit Ben deep inside and by the look in Reed's eyes, he could tell his friend truly cared, "You're going to be Ben again," Reed reassured as Ben stared back at Reed. He slowly nodded his head as Reed gave his stone like shoulders a squeeze before looking to Elena.

He was so scared, he didn't want to lose her too. But before he could think she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him, "I still love you, no matter what you are, Uncle Ben," she whispered before looking up at him with loving grey eyes. She glanced over to Johnny who was watching the ordeal with a new found respect to the two. As they five stood in the crowd, the crowd continued to cheer, accident and the pain over.

For now.

AN: So this is what my chapters length usually are, kinda. I hope you enjoy them and I'll update soon! Leave and review and NO FLAMES!

Xoxo - Scar