"Jo----hn!" She huffed, she hadn't even noticed it was so cold she could see her breath.

"What're you doing out here, Cure?" The sound made Rogue's heart lighten when she heard the sharp tone ring in her ears.

"John!" She turned quickly, he was standing under close to the school wall, underneath a tree's branches that was on the other side. He must've been standing there to wait for the rain to pass.

She couldn't move for a moment, the excitement in her just didn't know what to do, "I'm so glad I found you!" She launched forward and wrapped her arms around him.

"Hey!" He tried to protest but she knocked the air out of him.

"I thought you were already gone! I'm so sorry! You were right about everything! I wanted to believe you but I didn't want it to be true! Please don't go!" She kept her body pressed against his.

"Why should I stay? And what the hell are you doing out here anyway? You're gonna be dead before your honeymoon." John wanted to sound mad, but how could he?

"The only honeymoon I wanna go on is with you! I don't want to marry Bobby! I cant! I need you!" She cried against his chest, she hadn't even cared to notice she had covered him in mud.

"You're going to go right back to Bobby. I know it." He could feel the water from Rogue's clothes seeping through his own.

"No. I'm done with Bobby! John, I'm sorry. I should have listened to my heart earlier! John, you cant leave!" She looked up at him, blinking tears from her eyes.

"Why not?" He looked down at her with a raised brow.

"Cause," She pushed up on her top-toes, "I love you, John."

She pressed her lips against his, just as she had done before, only this time it felt perfect. John's feelings and heat entered her immediately. She could tell he felt torn, that he wanted to be with her, but he couldn't stand it if she was just going to run back to Bobby.

She pulled back for a second, "Please don't leave me. I cant live without you."

John looked at her for a hard second. He wasn't having this stupid argument again. If she wanted to be with him, then he was going to be with her.

He dropped his bag and wrapped his arms around her waist, his lips enclosing hers in a deep kiss. His arms released her waist and he put his hands on either side of her face, holding it in place.

Rogue's fingers were buried in his hair, returning his kiss with as much passion as she could muster.

"Rogue!" A voice broke-up their world of feelings.

Rogue's feet leveled themselves back onto the ground as Logan emerged out of school's drive.

"Kid!" Logan sighed when he finally found her, "John?"

Logan didn't bother to wait for an answer, he handed the umbrella he had to Rogue and shed his tuxedo jacket off to put on her.

"Logan. I don't…I cant marry Bobby." She took the umbrella and tried to hold it over everyone's head.

"Okay, we'll cancel and plan it for another day." Logan offered.

"No. I don't ever want to marry him."

Logan, at first, looked taken back by her statement, then his expression faded into a smile.

"Right now, I don't care if you ever get married. Just get back in that building and change!" Logan motioned for her to start back.

Smiling Rogue took a step back towards the gravel path, only to be stopped by a shocking pain in her ankle.

"What's wrong?" John caught her arm before she could stumble to the ground.

"Oh, ha, I just twisted my ankle while running. Its fine I just have to-" Before she could finish John had lifted her in his arms, carrying her (how ironically) bridal style.

"You just hold the umbrella over us." He smiled down at her. "Logan, could you get my bag?"

Logan scanned John up and down. John wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not. "Kid," He finally spoke, only looking at Rogue, "you okay?"

"Yeah. Thank you."

Logan's expression changed once more as he bent down and retrieved John's now soaking bag.

"Come on." He shrugged it up on his shoulder and started to lead them back down the path.

It was a silent walk back to the school. No one knew exactly what to say.

"Rogue!" Someone yelled when they reached the school and had safely made it inside. "Are you okay?! Why'd you take off? What is he doing with you?!"

It was Bobby, standing in the doorway in his tux. Rogue couldn't stand the sight of him, it was making her sick just being in his presence.

"Logan," She shifted her attention, as John set her down. She didn't let go of him though, she leaned against him for support. "Did you know?"

"Know what?" Logan asked as he shook the water from his hair.

"That Bobby had my baby killed cause he didn't want to be a father?" Rouge's body was turned in towards John's, her back to Bobby and everyone else. Her hand was clutching a fistful of his soaking shirt.

"He what?" She knew Logan's jaw had dropped.

Her free hand undid the pin in her hair, letting it falling in soaking waves down her back, most of it sticking to her skin. She didn't want Bobby to see any part of her that wasn't covered, her back being that only thing exposed to him, she used her hair to cover it.

"He didn't want to be a father so he had my baby killed." She repeated herself.

John watched as Logan's vision shifted to the frozen form the was Bobby. This was news to John as well. He never knew the full details of the ordeal.

Her hand, that had released her hair, found John's and slipped in it.

"He lied and said I lost it. Making me feel so terrible and unworthy. It gets better though, he was sleeping with Kitty and has been since I got sick." Rogue closed her eyes and leaned her head against John's chest.

John was surprised at how calm and cool she was being about this whole confrontation thing.

In Rogue's mind this was the only way to do it. To expose Bobby like this in front of everyone. The only reason she was being so easy about it was she was scared what would happen if she reacted the way she wanted too. What if she fell into a coma and died this time? Now when she finally got John. No, this was a good path to take. Logan had enough rage for both of them.

"Bobby never loved me. I was just a stupid trophy!" She finally let some emotion slip.

"Rogue! This is absurd! He is telling you lies!" Bobby finally spoke up.

"He didn't tell me," Rogue spat back with venom. She turned her head quickly to look at him, causing him to stop in mid-step. "Kitty, herself, told me."

"She probably said it cause it would be the only way John would acknowledge the baby!" Bobby argued again.

"You fool! There is no baby." Rogue's fist clutched John's shirt tighter.

"Yes-" Bobby started but was interrupted.

"There was never a baby." Kitty's voice entered the argument. "I didn't want you to leave me and be with Rogue forever so I said the only thing I could think of. But you just told me to blame it on someone else. Then you saw how close Rogue and John had gotten and you told me to blame it on John. So when they went out on there walk you took me to Logan and Storm and made me to tell them. It was only supposed to be me and you involved, that's why it didn't matter that I lied."

"Kitty, don't." Bobby's voice sounded like a warning.

"I loved you, you're just to caught up in being number one and making John miserable you didn't see it." Kitty didn't have a bit of regret in her voice.

"Bobby Drake." Logan gritted through his teeth.

"Logan, stop." Storm entered in, "We have to handle this as adults. Bobby, my office now."

"But-"

"You can safely assume the teaching position you were offered is now being taken off the table." Storm's tone was one that was not to be back-talked or challenged.

"You traitor! Why did you get everything that was mine?! I was the perfect one! I never had a flaw! You had a book full of them!" Bobby's attention was focused on John, who had just been whispering to ask Rogue if she was okay.

"I atoned for mine. Its time you do for your's." John's hand tightened on Rogue's, sending waves of warmth washing through her.

"Bobby," Rogue's voice was strong and confident as she stared at him with flames of hate glowing in her eyes, ", its OVER."

Bobby looked beyong blown away. He could believe this was happening to him of all people.

"Bobby, if you don't march now, I'll-" Logan didn't need to finish, Bobby was stomping off mad towards Storm's office anyway.

Logan looked torn, he wanted to stay and comfort Rogue, but he needed to go help Storm with the present situation. John nodded for him to go with Storm. That wasn't enough to convince him. He needed to make sure Rogue was gonna be okay without him.

"Go on Logan," She sniffled. Her grip on John's shirt beginning to lessen.

The cool demeanor she had was beginning to melt away. She wanted to be alone with John and cry her eyes out.

With a nod Logan followed after Storm and Bobby. Leaving a crowd of dissipating people along with John and Rogue. Some were staring, others pointing fingers. She heard whispers of discord and cheating, all aimed at her and John.

"John, I need to change. Please help me to my room." She whispered breathlessly.

"Do I need to carry you?" He offered, focusing his attention on Rogue's hand, which was trembling.

"No, just help me balance." She dropped the hand that had been holding his shirt completely and started limping down the hall, with John close to her side.

John did. He held her arm, keeping her balanced as they made their way towards the elevator.

Once they were safely hidden away in Rogue's room, she let loose. She cried the entire time she was changing out of her ruined dress (John turning her back at this point) and into some clean pajamas and underwear. She cried while John helped her over to her bed; then while John eased her down into it.

"I've got to go change, I'll get a wrap for your ankle while I'm out. It wont take long I promise." John kissed her damp hair and quickly left the room.

John didn't know what to do, ever since they walked into the room she had been crying. While she changed he turned away to give her some privacy. Then he helped her over to her bed. She didn't stop crying at any point.

He changed as quick as he could manage, after he found his bag. Along with the way he noticed all the dirty looks he was receiving.

"Look all you want, doesn't change the fact Bobby is the cheater of the year." He snapped at a crowd of them, making them gasp in disbelief.

Petty stupid excuses for mutants. They made him sick all of them. Then again, that's what he said about the woman he now loved. Not that he was ever going to love these twits. He was probably going to see them as annoying for the rest of his life.

It seemed like John was back in a matter of minutes, crying must've passed more time than she thought.

She had managed to sober up from her tears mostly by the time John got done wrapping her ankle.

"That was a handy thing I learned from Mystique. She was a good nurse, when she wasn't going psycho on for hurting ourselves to begin with." John joked as he put a pillow under her ankle, then proceeded to crawl up next to her on the bed.

"I'll have to thank her by chance we ever meet her again." She sniffled and adjusted herself into John's arms, laying her head on his chest.

"He isn't worth crying over, he is just a dumb idiotic douche-bag." John rubbed her arm, trying to generate some heat for her.

"That not why I'm crying. It just hit me, I almost lost you. You were literally steps away from leaving, and walking away from me forever." Rogue listened to his heartbeat calmly in his chest. It was like her own personal lullaby.

"I was gonna wait until the rain passed."

She nudged him slightly with her elbow, "You know what I mean."

"Listen to me and listen good. You're stuck with me. You've cast your southern-belle-charms on me and I cant get away." John's laugh made the guilt she felt ease some.

"I'm glad." She smiled and let her eyes close.

"By the way, have you ever noticed we always end up in some sort of bed together, yet NOTHING ever happens?" John commented as he adjusted a pillow underneath his head for support.

Rouge's eyes flew open at that point, "that not exactly true." She murmured.

"What do you mean by that?" John's interest was peaked.

"Well, outside wasn't our first kiss." Rogue buried her blistered face into John's shirt to hide it.

"Is that it?" John chuckled, " I thought you might have-"

"Oh Lord no!" Rogue's head whipped up and she hit his arm slightly, "You pervert! I would never!"

"You never know in this school. The people are crazy." John shrugged his shoulders.

Rogue glared at him for a second more than reclined back down to lay on his chest once more.

"You're getting too excited about this. Soon enough you're gonna go crazy coughing on me."

"No, I'm fine for right now. I just need to use you to heat up." She smiled.

"Oh so you're using me?"

"Oh, yes. And you're gonna love every minute of it." She lifted her head and pressed her lips against his for a short kiss. She loved the way John's heat ran through her then she kissed him. It was like a flame licking her every nerve and setting it ablaze. That thought made her mind drift further, then she had to jerk herself back from there. It just wasnt the time for that. With a smile she added, "I promise."

"You'd better come through." He kissed her back, sweet and mildly.

So should there be other chapters to this or should there be a squeal? I cant decide if I should spilt it up or not. Tell me what you think. Yay for Ryro!!! Finally right? Seems like I only include it at the ends or I take it away. Haha. ([Also, I was thinking of making a ryro video for this, but someone with a better program and more clips might contact me *wink wink*]) Your turn to write!

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