Thank you to everyone who reviewed, or added me to their lists. I really appreciate it! I actually haven't done anything with this story in almost a year; I posted it on here just to see if people liked it. So here it is, the next and last chapter. Hope you like it!!

John trampled through the woods, not caring who or what heard him. He angrily kicked out at nothing, cursing loudly as his foot hit a tree.

"Dammit! God dammit!" He yelled, dropping to his knees. "Dammit it all."

He swiped at his face angrily, trying in vain to stop the tears from running down his cheeks.

It had always been like a knife in his back, that neither Rogue nor Bobby had ever asked him about his life before the mansion. That they had never seemed interested in his pain. He was always there for them, always a willing ear. Yet they had never returned the favor.

And then for Rogue to go searching through what she had stolen from him –while he was trying to save them, no less! –that was the final straw.

"I know how you feel, child."

John jumped to his feet at the voice, lighter in hand.

Magneto stood there, looking at him gently, his helmet in his hands. He smiled sadly as he glanced back towards the jet, where the others were sleeping.

"I know what it's like to have these so called 'friends' who think they can understand you without knowing anything about you. I know what it's like to have no once care about your own secret demons."

John scoffed. "You don't know anything about me, old man," He said harshly, lighting a flame with his Zippo. "You don't know anything."

"I know more than you think… Pyro. I know what happened to you at that terrorist facility all those years ago; I know how they beat you for hours, denied you contact with anyone, denied you food, water, clothing… I know how Charles took you in, half-crazed, half-shocked. I know how you were no better than an animal that had been beaten half to death. You couldn't even talk those first few months after your escape, could you? You'd forgotten anything that wasn't directly related to your survival.

"You didn't sleep those first months either, did you? You grabbed snatches of small naps when you felt safe –which was hardly ever. Five minutes here, five minutes there... You never felt safe anywhere, did you, Pyro? Homo-sapiens showed you its claws since the day you were born. You knew what evil they could do. Did do. You know better than any of your so called teachers what humanity can do, if given free reign with mutants. You know the reason why I do what I do; why I fight to prove our superiority to humans. You know all too well. That was why you reacted the way you did in Boston. Why you attacked. It was to save yourself and your friends from the humans.

"But they don't understand that, do they, Pyro? They don't know what you know. They don't know what will happen to a mutant left in the tender care of homo-sapiens. But you do. You know. But they don't. They don't understand. And they never will. Neither will Charles."

Tears welled up in John's eyes, but he brushed them away. "How… How do you know?" He spat.

"You don't remember the explosion. You were unconscious, strapped down to a table, and filled with drugs. I was the one who put an end to those terrorists. I was the one who freed you from that table, who carried you to freedom that night. But you were crazed; you broke free of my grasp, and took off running blindly into the dark. Then Charles found you. But it was I who freed you, Pyro. I who gave you back your life. And I'm here to offer you that freedom again.

"You're living a lie, Pyro. You will never be able to blindly follow Charles' teachings. Because you know better, Pyro. I'm here to offer you the chance to fight back. The chance to make them pay for what they did to you all those years. A chance to show humanity that you have become only what they created you to be. A chance to reap your revenge on those who have done you wrong."

Magneto smiled sadly again as he turned back towards the camp. "Think about it, Pyro. Think about it."

Well? What do you think? Obviously we all know what happened the next day, so I figured that was a good place to end it. I don't know, maybe I'll add more to it, but eh... I don't know. But thanks for reading!! :D