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Chapter 6

Alec was waiting patiently to talk to Ty alone all day but found It kinda hard when he was trying to play peacemaker for Sue and Reed, Max was trying hard to talk to Ty also but with the big man a little busy she'd have to ask Ben or Johnny if the phones work and if she could maybe use one. Alec took in the carnage before him and thanked whoever made Ty because he felt that everyone including himself would go insane without him there, they have only been there for a day and already he was calming everyone down and extinguishing fires, physical and emotional, Reed and Sue was having an all out argument that in turn made Ben and Johnny mutter a 'Good Luck' to the three transgenics while walking out of the main room where everyone was. Max sighed, for some reason she didn't know why she felt overly protective of Sue, she felt like grabbing Reed and punching sense into the geeky, stretchy freak, why of all things was he having an argument over such science-y stuff as exploding microbes or whatever? Man the dude was weird, she liked Johnny though and Ben, they were friendly and didn't look at her like she was some science project or just another mutation. Max and Alec were both sitting on the couch in the main room watching Sue follow Reed around while ranting on, she was saying that he doesn't listen to her anymore and is always in the lab or playing with something that he finds more interesting than her…Reed wasn't paying attention, because he was on one of his handheld project things. "I'm sorry Sue…What did you say?" All three transgenics winced as they could all see Sue's temper flare. Ty stepped towards Sue and blocked her view of Reed "Umm…Sue, do you wanna go and get some air? I'll come with you"


Sue couldn't stop all the thoughts of seriously hurting Reed rolling around her head until her view of her so-called loving husband was obstructed, she got ready to move the obstruction with a force field until she heard it's voice, looking up she saw that it was Ty, she couldn't hear what he said but she saw the look in his eyes, one of understanding and respect. He gestured for them to go out side and they did, she had no idea where her temper had come from and where it had suddenly gone, she stood there thinking about it up till she heard the balcony doors close, she looked at Ty closing the doors and thought 'maybe he was made this way so he couldn't make many enemies or maybe he is just a nosey git that likes to hear other peoples problems or…maybe he cares about others?', the last thought made her smile as she realised that it was most probably that. Ty turned and saw her smile, he offered one back and mentally sighed a sigh of relief when he saw her's widen, he had something to work with.

Ty liked Sue because she reminded him of Max in her own way, he'd already though about it. Ty walked up to Sue and looked her straight in the eye, as well as he could when all she kept doing was ducking to avoid it, he gently grabbed her arms and held her still, looking at her he whispered one thing "He doesn't notice you"

The Fantastic Four had told the transgenics about the theory behind their given powers but neither believed it was true, maybe with Reed and Johnny, but not Sue or Ben, Ben was just to nice to be thought of has a huge brick and Sue…well there's no way she'd be thought of as invisible, Ty thought that now he understood Sue's power, all she wanted was to be taken seriously and to not be overlooked or used by the men in her life, most of all she wanted Reed to see her, she thought he did for a little while and they got together and got married, in all it lasted 4 years. Just before the accident they were always arguing about something, it might have been nothing but after a while those little nothings build up to actually create something. Sue wanted out, she couldn't do this anymore, she realised a long time ago that she had fallen out of love with him but kept giving him chance after chance to try to rectify what he did wrong. Sue started to cry and she slowly fell to the floor, thinking over everything just made her cry harder. Ty looked down at her and felt his anger rise 'What is wrong with that man not to see that all this beautiful woman wants is to be noticed? Doesn't he see her?' he crouched down to Sue's level and held his arms out toward her, she fell into him and hugged him hard, wetting his shirt and sticking the little patch to his skin, Ty didn't mind at all, he just slowly and comfortably rubbed her back, encouraging her to let it all out. He could slightly hear Max's outraged voice from back in the Baxter'go on Max, someone should put him in his place…just don't hurt him!'

Max was pacing in front of Reed, yelling at him but being careful not to raise her voice that much, last thing she needed was to make Sue angry at her for butting in. to give her credit she wasn't flying at him like she wanted to. Alec just stood back and admired Max'since the whole Jampony thing she has become a little more diplomatic than when I first met her, granted you don't want to piss her off but she handles things a lot better now…just look at her, normally Reed would have two black eyes, a broken arm, maybe a couple of broken ribs and a concussion by now but she's just saying how she feels, Reed's actually lucky' while Alec was thinking he didn't notice Max inching forward towards Reed, he only noticed when she was glaring straight into Reed's face "Reed, you'd better learn to treat Sue with respect from now on okay? You don't want to do anything you're gonna maybe not live to regret, I don't care if your made of rubber…you still bleed!" Max snarled at him, all the hostility in her voice made Alec unconsciously shiver, but that was replaced with laughter as he watched Max flick Reed's nose. Reed was red faced and looked like he was going to become a puddle of elastic goo on the floor, he hastily retreated to his lab while Max was glaring at him all the time. 'And that's what I love about Max…wait what?...love?...oh man' Alec mentally sighed and straightened, walking with a purpose towards the kitchen asking Max if she maybe wanted some coffee.

Sue was trying hard to compose herself but for some reason it just wouldn't work…she couldn't even make herself invisible so Ty wouldn't have to see her like this. She was thankful that he didn't seem to mind, honestly she was comfortable around him, more so than when she was around Reed or Johnny, and she hardly knew him. Ty was confused, he didn't feel uncomfortable with Sue crying when normally he would shy away from women and emotional problems 'unless it's Max, she's like a sister to me, her problems are my problems' he was beginning to feel a twinge of something for the beautiful, smart blonde in his arms. He's been here for a day, surely he can't think of her in anyway but as a fleeting acquaintance?. But no…as he already told Max, life has a funny way of telling you things, you should just go with the flow.

"Ty?...I'm sorry, you all shouldn't hear things like that…I shouldn't have let it get out of hand" Sue sniffed and wiped at her eyes

"Don't worry about it…I've been in these situations before so I kinda know what to expect…well with transgenics anyway, not so sure about superheroes" Ty tried his hand at jokes and was pleased to see Sue laugh.

"Yeah well…still it shouldn't have happened, I don't know what came over me!...I really felt like hitting him…if it weren't for you I…I don't know what would have happened" Ty tried to shrug the praise off but it just made Sue smile more at him.

"Being humble won't do you any good Ty…I'm still gonna thank you!"

"But I didn't do anything Sue, I just butted in" now this made Ty uncomfortable

"You stopped me from killing Reed, you got me out of that room and you listened"


Neither Ty nor Sue noticed Ben quietly listening from above, he shook his head with a gentle smile on his face, he knew that Reed and Sue were on the out and he hoped for someone to cushion the fall one was gonna have to make. Ben wished it didn't have to be Sue that made the realization that things have stopped but has he thought about it, he knew Reed wouldn't notice. He heard Max having a go at Reed and he liked her so much more for that. Ben is Reed's best friend and always will be but he knew that he wasn't treating Sue like he ought to be, she was strong and level-headed, she really lead the group and kept them together, she should be praised not ignored. He put it on himself to make Sue feel like a valued member of the group and to be happy again…maybe Ty could help with the last one…she seems to shine around him…Ben walked back into the Baxter lightly chuckling to himself.

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