Spun

By Liz Wyatt

Chapter Nine: Better Than Love

Sometimes dreams they don't come true

I was scared that night when I met you

Well I stayed patient and I stayed kind

Telling you to take your time

Turn my life around

You made it okay to let you down

There's no one else in the world

-Griffin House

The monitor on her bike kept sending out loud noises as Logan continued to call Rogue. Eventually she had to bring the bike indoors. Luckily they were on the first floor of the motel so getting the bike inside wasn't too much trouble. Her biggest problem came when she was bending forward to yank the remaining back end of the bike through the door's threshold and the beeper went off.

The form on the bed was immediately running towards her in a fit or anger. Even with the loud noise so close to her ears, Rogue could make out his swearing. Scrambling to fix the problem she yanked harder, but it would not budge over the metal doorframe.

Then he was there next to her. His arms stretched across one of her own while the other pushed the wheels tilted up. They got the bike through the door and he shut the door. Rogue scanned through the wires trying to remember which one controlled the volume. John simply ripped the pile out of the consol. immediately the screen went blank and the noise stopped.

"Well I could have done that." Rogue said with irritation behind her voice. She hadn't slept since the night before. She never expected to be hauled up in a motel with the X-men's most wanted.

He simply smirked and eased back down onto the bed. He had his arms behind his head and was continuing to stare at her.

Rogue sat on the edge of the bed, facing the window instead of his face.

"You know staring out the window isn't going to do you any good. You could sleep. You did get in a fight and I'm sure that was probably your first serious one.

She hated how he could tell. Was she always that obvious? Rogue decided it had to be John's personality because no one else seemed to be able to read her the same way that he could. She hated and loved this fact. At the moment it bugged her that he could call her out on her feelings; however, when they had been friends she appreciated his honesty to Bobby's cautious approach that usually ended in lies anyways.

"Aren't you a little worried about Teva?" Rogue asked coldly.

"Sure I am, but the kid has got a brain Rogue. She'll show up here soon enough, don't worry."

"How can you say that!?" She was standing now and facing his body dead on. He shifted from his relaxed position to eye her more closely. "John, she is just a kid."

"Rogue, she's also a mutant. She's smart too. Teva ran away from that scene because I told her to. Trust me she didn't do it willingly."

"What the hell happened back there?" he motioned for her to come to his side of the bed. She walked around the front and sat promptly on the corner as he shifted his legs and sat up to look at her.

"I don't know how, but these humans seem to be finding us. We hide in abandoned apartment buildings for the most part, but somehow they keep coming. It's like they have some scanner or something for our kind. When I met Teva she was with her mom. I was just passing through, you know me and kids…not really a match. So I ignored them and did my own thing until the humans came. I tried to fight them off, but they had weapons. Now guns, I can handle. But this was different. They had these guns that emitted some sort of shock or something. Jist of it is that this shock stuns your powers and that's when they attack."

Rogue sat there trying to take all the information in. A cold chill ran up her back just thinking about the guns that John was describing. If they existed that meant that the humans were planning to fight back. It also meant that someone in the government was supplying the weaponry because the local bums couldn't afford that artillery without being high-class citizens.

"hey, you still in there?" John was waving his hand in front of her face. Rogue snapped out of her thoughts and stared into his eyes.

"why didn't you just tell me all that when we were back at the mansion?"

"what? Tell you that some nasties are under my bed and I need my mommy to come and take them out?"

"it wouldn't have been like that. You're not any less for needing help you know. Sometimes people aren't okay on their own."

"maybe you aren't, but I am just fine."

"yeah, picking up stray kids and then leaving them when you set your home on fire. You are…just fine." She stood up and began pacing back and forth in the room.

"You think I set that place on fire!?" he was standing as well and he was definitely not happy with her as she could tell from the change in his eyes. When he became truly upset his eyes had a way of shifting to be darker. She wondered if that was for any intense feeling or only when he got mad.

"oh, come on John you have the power to do just that. Maybe you didn't mean to…maybe it was an accident…"

"it was NO accident! Those humans set the spark because they figured we'd all be inside. I was trying to control the flame, but they got me from behind. So next time you go accusing someone of something they didn't do, you should get a little proof." And under his breath, just loud enough for her to hear if she strained to listen he said, "No wonder Bobby went crazy."

That did it. She was trying to throw a punch at him and he caught her wrist. Her left arm came up but he grabbed that too. Now they stood facing each other, his hands holding her wrists level with her chest. His eyes staring deep into hers.

"I hate you." She seethed.

"mutual." He smiled, which sent another round of chills down her spine. She felt her heart begin to beat faster as his fingers pressed and released over and over again against her wrists. Rogue knew that he was trying to debate within his own mind on what to do next.

"will you let go now?" she said through clenched teeth.

"do really hate me? More than ice balls?" he said it so normal that she wondered if he understood that there was a fire building inside of her. Her knees were twitching to flip into his groin and run.

"I think you're even now."

"good. Wouldn't want him feeling inadequate or anything." His voice was too light for Rogue's liking.

"let go." She tried to rip her arms back. Her body heaving over as her feet pushed back to create distance.

"no."

"let go!" Rogue had enough. She went to knee him, but her eyes must have given her away because his leg swiped hers away.

"hey! No fair kicking a guy down there. It's cheap." He stated as his eyes shifted once again. She understood that the fire was coming back for him as well.

"you play dirty, I'll play the same." She struggled once again and he was getting tired of fighting her.

"fine." He let go of her wrists, but she drew her right hand back ready to strike and he missed her smile as it collided with his jaw. He was back up in no time.

John flew across the room and knocked her into the wall. Her hands were raised and secured above her head. Her back was flat with the wood.

"what now genius?"

Rogue realized taunting him was not her best idea because immediately a fire danced in his pupils and his head launched forwards. Expecting a head butt of some form she closed her eyes and prepared herself, but it never came. Instead his mouth pressed, cutting into hers. At first she felt him only on the center of her lips, but soon he was rushing to pound into her mouth.

Rogue didn't know how she was supposed to react. No one had kissed her since Bobby. Before they broke up. Before she took the cure. Before it was safe.

She stood there for a second trying to clear her head, to be rational, but soon her body was reacting with a force all it's own. She curled her fingertips over to rest on his knuckles. Her back arched to meet his chest and her head swept to control the lips that were attacking her own.

Slowly she felt his hands guiding hers down the wall until they were level with her head.

Speaking of her head, Rogue was swimming. Too many thoughts about John, the situation, his allegiances, her deserter status, and Teva all rushed through with no filter. John's kiss was killing her. He had let up on the force, but she knew that he could never be as light as Bobby was.

Then her brain caught up with her as pounding came from the motel door. She realized what she was doing and who exactly had his arms wrapped around her.

Pushing him away quickly and staring in disbelief at his swollen lips she ran to the door. Throwing it open she ignored John's words of warning to wait and see who it was. The second she opened it she regretted the action.

Now she was trapped with two enemies in a very small motel room.

A/N: so here you guys go a bit of Ryro smut in there. It HAD to happen! Sorry it's a really short chapter. I did have more ideas, but I wanted to get this up. Sorry it took me a while to update, but I've been busy with work and I recently read Twilight for the first time and instantly got way too hooked. Meaning, I plowed through New Moon as well and so I neglected you all. I also updated my youtube channel with 3 new vids for Clois, Zach/Claire, and Buffy so I've been busy there too. Hope this update is to you liking as I didn't quite resolve the Teva thing. Hopefully I will update soon!

Thanks once again to my beautiful reviewers! I don't have enough time to thank you individually right now, but you know how I feel! Keep reading!