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A/N: Okay another chapter, in other words I am so bored at work that I have to do something to make the time pass. Okay so in this chapter were going to be skipping a few months, because I really need this story to start moving along. I don't want it to end up being 75 chapters long and then I lose interest and that would be bad. Okay so now on with the story.

"No," John said at dinner as he looked over at his girlfriend of six months.

"But Johnny, I haven't seen her in like two weeks! Can't we just fly up there for the holidays? Please? We both need a vacation," Rogue pleaded with her lover as she watched him cut up the pork chops she had made for dinner that night.

"What about work Rogue? I can't just take a vacation now, I just started!" He defended as continued to stab his pork chops.

Rogue and John never really expected it, but John fell in love with his job. So much so he was taking classes at the community college to strengthen his knowledge on firefighting, even thinking about actually going to the academy this upcoming spring.

"Fine, how about we fly them all in for the holidays then? That way you won't miss work and I can still see mama and my brother and everyone else. Now you can't say you don't want to see Todd and Wanda! They're getting married next month and I want to see them before the wedding," Rogue argued with him as she pouted. She missed her family greatly and wanted to spend her first holiday with John with her family and friends.

"Fine, but no powers and nothing about the Brotherhood or the stupid war," John said as he shoved the piece of pork chop into mouth. A month after they had moved in they had both agreed that it would be best to leave they're previous lives behind and start anew.

"Agreed! Thank you Johnny!" Rogue exclaimed happily as she shot out of her chair and hugged him fiercely.

"Welcome, just let try and not let this get out of hand okay?" John said slightly worried as he ate his mashed potatoes.

"Okay, I promise nothing will happen it will be perfect," Rogue said as she got up from the table and went to phone on the side of the wall near the kitchen to call her mother.

'More perfect than you think,' John thought to himself as he finished the dinner Rogue had prepared.

He watched as Rogue, the woman he devoted himself to for the last six months, chatted happily with her mother. Raven had become a major focal point in they're lives and it was somewhat pleasant to have someone else know about them. It made living they're double lives much easier and it made Rogue so happy.

Three weeks later there small three bedroom house was filled to the brim. Raven and Kurt (Rogue's older brother) were the first to arrive. Kurt had flown in from Germany to stay with them until the holidays were over. Wanda and Todd (also known as the Scarlet Witch and Toad) came in a week later. Now with Christmas only days away the women were merrily decorating the Christmas tree as the men watched the latest football game on the television.

"I can't believe it," John said as a commercial rolled onto the screen.

"What?" Kurt asked as he ate some of the potato chips that sat in a bowl on the coffee table that John and Rogue had bought months earlier.

"I can't believe Toad found someone who would actually marry him." John said with a smile as Toad hit him upside the head with his long tongue.

"Boys act mature," Wanda said as she handed Marie an ornament.

They all three rolled there eyes as they settled back in to watch the next quarter of the game.

"Really Wanda, of all the available mutants at your disposal you pick Toad?" Raven asked her surrogate daughter. Being Magneto's right hand woman for so many years could only lead to Wanda being like a daughter to Mystique. She had watched the young woman grow to be a powerful force to be reckoned with.

"Well what can I say, Green is my second favorite color," Wanda said cheekily as they looked at Wanda's red outfit. A trade mark color of the Scarlet Witch.

All three women laughed as the continued decorating the tree.

"So Roguey what about you and Mr. Matchstick over there?" Wanda asked her best friend.

"I heard that Wanda," John said gruffly from the couch as he continued to watch the football game. The girls laughed again as Wanda rolled her eyes.

"Oh I don't know, I guess were getting pretty serious. But I mean come on can anyone ever sees the amazing Pyro settling down? The day that happens I'll run around the room naked," Rogue said even though deep down she wished John would ask her. Wanda and Todd seemed so happy together.

"You never know, John is known for doing the unexpected," Raven said as she walked around the tree with the lights.

"Yea like being a firefighter," Wanda snorted out. Ever since John told her what he did for a living now, she hadn't let him live it down.

"I guess, but you could ya'll see me settling down and starting a family of my own?" Rogue asked shaking her head as she placed the star on the top of the tree.

"If you asked me Rogue, you've already have," Raven said as she looked from the beautifully decorated tree to the people in the room. With that Rogue smiled at the truth in her mother's words. She had settled down and started living the "simple life."

Dinner that night was a smooth as usual, Rogue and the girls had cooked a wonderful dinner fit for a king and his court. Now with everyone sitting around the large oak table in content as they all drank coffee and ate the lemon squares that Mystique had made.

Looking around the table John watched everyone talking merrily and enjoying the closing of the evening. Mystique talking looking at her children with a content smile, Kurt and Todd discussing the game and Rogue and Wanda going through the wedding book Wanda had brought with her. Everyone was so happy, and the troubles of the world didn't seem to that horrible anymore.

'Better now than never,' John said to himself as he stood up from the table and got everyone's attention by tapping his fork against the glass coffee cup Marie had bought.

"Okay everyone I have announcement to make," He paused gulping from nervousness.

"I just wanted to thank the wonderful ladies of the house for making a delicious dinner once again. You're going to make us all fat old men before were thirty," John said as the men cheered happily along with him.

"But that's not what I'm up here," He turned towards Rogue. She was smiling and looked beyond happy as John stood before her. John smiled at her in return and continued.

"Rogue, I have loved you since the first day I met you up at Xavier's. To bad that stupid ice-prick beat me to you. But I guess I still won your affections in the end," Everyone laughed as John continued.

"But that day when I saw you lying next to me on that hospital bed, I couldn't believe that you of all people were there. I was awestruck by you like that first day I met you at Xavier's. However this time, I knew I wouldn't ever let you go," with that he moved in front of her. Bending down on one knee he pulled out a small black velvet box.

"Rogue would you do the honors in marrying me?" John asked as he looked up into Rogue's shocked expression. Her hands were on each side of her face in pure shock that seemed to slowly turn into pure happiness. He opened the box to reveal a beautiful silver band with ruby and emerald in the shape of two halves of one heart.

"Oh John, of course I will marry you. What foul wouldn't?" Rogue said as she held out her hand that was shaking, tears rolling silently down her cheeks. He placed the ring on her finger and smiled happily at her as he brought her up into a tight hug, kissing her repeatedly.

"Now what did I tell you Rogue, never expect John to do the expected. You know what that means right?" Wanda said with an evil smile as she watched the happy couple. Then when Rogue faced Wanda after her comment her smile faded.

"But Wanda, you can't be serious," Rogue said dreadfully looking at her best friend.

"Oh yea, come on now lets go," Wanda said evilly, the boys just looked confused at the two women.

"Fine!" Rogue said as she started to undress.

"Wait what is going?" John asked his new fiancé.

"I told Wanda that you probably wouldn't ever ask me to marry you so I said the day you did I would run around naked," Rogue said dejectedly.

"Wait that's not fair Wanda," John said as he looked at Wanda with a pointed finger in accusation.

"What do you mean?" Wanda asked with an evil smirk and an innocent expression that strongly reminded Rogue of Magneto.

"You knew, hell you helped me pick out the damn ring," John said defending Rogue's honor.

"Damn you Pyro, I almost had her," Wanda said defeated as she sat back down and pouted. The whole room erupted in laughter at the little show and soon the laughter turned into congratulations.

"You know he asked Kurt and I if it was okay to marry you," Raven said to her daughter as she pulled her away from the group. Rouge was looking at the happy John talking to his best friend Toad until she turned her attention to her mother.

"Really?" Rogue asked slightly shocked at the gentleman way that John had handled everything.

"Yes, he was so unsure we would say no, even after we said yes, he asked if he should also ask Logan. I just laughed at him, Logan doesn't even know you're his daughter, let alone know where you are," Mystique said to her daughter who looked almost dumbstruck at the new revelation.

"He really is a great catch Marie and I am very glade he is the one you decided to spend the rest of your life with. He will make you very happy," Raven said as she left her daughter to join her son on the other side of the room to continue the congratulations to her soon to be son-in-law.

Later that night:

"Thank you," John said silently as he lay next to the now naked and exhausted Rogue.

"For what sugar?" Rogue asked as she curled up next to John.

"For saying yes," John said as a sigh escaped him.

"John I love you, more than anyone I have ever known before or ever will. I will never love another like I love you," Rogue said as she laid her head down upon his bare chest.

"You're the only thing that makes me truly happy you know, with out you I don't know how I would function," John said with a shaky laugh.

"God, just think what everyone back at Xavier's would say if they ever found out?" Rogue said with a laugh.

"Just the look on Bobby's face would be enough," John said as he rubbed a hand over his face. Rogue fell silent after that, sleep slowly taking over her body as she listened to the steady rhythm of his breathing.

"God I love you," John said as he played with her hair.

"And I you," Rogue said sleepily before falling into the abyss of deep sleep.

Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters:

"Any luck yet?" Ororo asked her lover as he kicked off his boots in they're room.

"No, it's like she fucking fell of the face of the earth," Logan said as he pulled off his shirt.

"Bobby find anything?" Ororo pressed as she continued to watch him undress.

"No, he's even started to look through the government files. But hell all we know is that her first name is Marie and she's from Mississippi. Other than that we don't know a damn thing about her," Logan said defeated as he sat on the edge of the kind size bed.

"We never did get to know her did we?" Storm asked as sadness took over her features.

"Fuck! I mean I told her I would protect her and all I could say to her was 'I'm not your father,' what kind of asshole says that? I was all she had and I was too wrapped up in myself to even think about her," Logan said as he placed his head into his large, gruff hands.

Storm moved closer to him, wrapping her mocha arms around him. Everyone at the mansion was up in arms about the sudden disappearance of one of the students. The students have been worried, that the school could just misplace a student like that.

The gossip was almost too unbearable and many of the parents having found out about it through the grapevine have pulled their children out of the school. Finding her was they're only chance of setting the school back into motion.

"We will find her Logan, don't worry," Storm said as she turned off the lamp at her side and pulled Logan in next to her.

"Yea your right, we will find her,"

A/N: YEPPIE! I am so done with this chapter! Look they're engaged now! Ain't that just sweet? Most of ya'll probably saw that coming a mile away though! But look I'm trying to make the x-men not so evil so they are concerned in this chapter.

Also thank you all again for the amazing reviews! They are so welcomed! Maybe another update tomorrow? We will have to see! However Enjoy!