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Ignite

Chapter Four: Home sweet home

The sound of someone working with some sort of metal filled the air as soft voices whispered amongst themselves. Blue eyes began to flutter open to the sound of the unintentional wake up call.

'Ugh, my head.'

"Ah, Mr. Storm," Johnny slowly looked up, to see a man in his mid-forties, tending to him, making sure that all his vitals were stable. Johnny shook his head as he tried to remember the past events that brought him to wherever is was.

"Don't worry, you'll be able to get on your feet in no time," said the doctor. Johnny glanced around the room and tried to figure out the puzzle.

'It's way to nice to be an actual hospital room, and I'm definitely not on that space shuttle."

"This is Mr. Doom's personal health center," the doctor explained, as if reading Johnny's mind. The young man just nodded his head, not really able to do anything else. The pain was very much gone, but there was still a hint of an ache and his head was still spinning, slightly.

Suddenly, the memories of the past events came rushing back to Johnny, and his eyes widened at the thought. He quickly shoved the blankets off of his body, feeling hotter than he should have, and tried to stand to his feet, only to have the doctor push him back down.

"My sister! Ben and Lily! Reed, what happened to them?" he asked, his voice hinting at the panic he was unexpectedly feeling. The doctor gave him a reassuring smile and Johnny slowly began to make himself relax. He sat back down on the bed, the short adrenaline rush over with and his body feeling a bit more tired than before.

"Don't worry. Mr. Richards should be waking up at any moment. As for Ms. Storm and Mr. Grim, they should be waking up soon as well." Johnny slowly began to smile at the great news, but stopped, after realizing one name had been left out of the equation.

"What about Lily?" he asked as the doctor quickly turned and began to write down Johnny's current state. Ignoring the boy was not a wise choice for the doctor. In a split second, Johnny was on his feet, a hand holding the collar of his shirt, tightly.

"I asked you a question," he slightly snapped. The doctor couldn't believe it; it was as if Johnny's body temperature was increasing rapidly. The doctor sighed and calmly put his hand on Johnny's, causing the boy to slowly relax and release him.

"Ms. Min is fine, but we aren't quite sure when she will be coming around." Before Johnny could say anything, the door to the room opened and in came a nurse, a clipboard held tightly in her hand.

"Sir, it looks like Mr. Richards is waking up." The man nodded and turned his attention back to Johnny.

"You should stay in bed for an hour or so, but after that, you can roam around as you'd like," he clarified as Johnny frowned. An hour could be a long time when it came to certain things, and he had a feeling that this hour was going to go by terribly slow. Before Johnny could possibly reject the idea, the doctor motioned towards the nurse, who finally caught the man's eyes, and smirked at him.

"If you have any problems, our nurse will be sure to tend to them," the doctor stated, before walking out of the room. Johnny suddenly found his previous fear replaced with slight excitement. He gave the nurse a smirk as she shook her head and smirked back at him.

'I guess an hour's not too long.'

Time quickly went by, and soon Johnny's hour of detainment was up. He gave the nurse one last smirk before heading out of the room and down the hall. He glanced around, examining his surroundings and chuckled slightly, shaking his head. 'I wasn't wrong when I said Victor had more money than a god.'

As he walked down the halls, he stopped, backtracking slightly, and stared at the name plate on the door. He carefully walked in, making sure to keep the noise level down, and stared solemnly at his older friend. Back on the space craft, he hadn't thought about the actual concept of there being any problems, and when Ben had been caught in the middle of the danger, he couldn't really register the whole situation. He shook his head, feeling a bit ashamed of himself for a moment. The moment quickly passed though, the sound of a groan filling the air. His heart lifted as he watched Ben's eyes open. He quickly went to Ben's side, the man's eyes now fully opened and blinking.

"Hey, rise and shine, big boy," Johnny said, the tone in his voice more serious than usual. Though he had felt bad about his behavior towards Ben on the space ship, everything seemed well, so why not have some fun?

"How you feeling?"

"Where am I?"

"Back on Earth. We're in quarantine, Victor's medical facility," Johnny explained, the urge to smirk so tempting.

"What about Reed, Sue, and Lily?" Ben asked as Johnny nodded his head reassuringly.

"They're fine…everybody else is fine," Johnny commented, the last part of his statement more quiet than the beginning. This caused Ben to slowly panic, the look on Johnny's face not making him feel any better.

"..What's wrong with me?" he asked as Johnny took a deep breath.

"I swear to you, Ben. They've done everything humanly possible, the best plastic surgeons were here, Ben. You had the best," Johnny stated as Ben's heart skipped a beat. He quickly sat up, glanced at the bed stand, and reached for the hand-held mirror sitting on it's lonesome.

"Give me that mirror," Ben demanded as Johnny quickly beat him to the chase, grabbing the mirror before his friend could.

"I don't know if that's...a good idea. They said the shock alone-"

"I said, give me that GOD DAMNED MIRROR!" Ben snatched the mirror from Johnny's hands and the boy gave a defeated sigh, shaking his head.

"Just, be strong," Ben slowly raised the mirror to his face, the fear inside of him welling up uncontrollably. Finally, he took a good look at his face and found it perfectly normal. 'What the..'

Johnny smirked to himself, already halfway to the door, and clapped his hands together in order to gain Ben's attention. "Unfortunately, the doctor's said they couldn't do anything about your face." This brought Ben's blood to a complete boil. Seeing the intent to kill in Ben's eyes, Johnny quickly headed out the door, laughing, as Ben chucked the mirror, shattering it into little pieces. Ben laid his head back down against the pillow and closed his eyes.

"That damn kid."

Johnny couldn't help but feel proud of his work. He headed the down the hall, deciding to find something more entertaining, and opened the door, only to almost run into Reed. He smiled at the man and gave his shoulder a pat.

"Hey," he said as he began to walk away. Before he took another step, he stopped, peering back at Reed's hair.

"I like the do," Johnny playfully commented, a confused expression appearing on the scientist's face. "I'm liking the grandpa look."

Reed watched as Johnny walked away without a second glance, and quickly searched for anything that would give him his reflection. He turned to the glass on the wall and examined his hair, a gray streak on his sideburns. "..What the.."

A content expression sat on Johnny's face as he walked through the facility, already receiving a few numbers from the female nurses in the building. He smirked to himself and shook his head as he began to walk past a room at the end of the hall. He stopped and glanced at the name. His eyes widened as his previous concerns came rushing back. He quickly opened the door and rushed inside only to stop himself from running into another nurse.

"Excuse me," she said quietly as she walked out, closing the door behind herself. Locking her face into his memory, Johnny turned his attention back to the room and looked around, a very familiar face meeting his gaze. He slowly stepped towards the limp body laying in the hospital bed and frowned at the sight of his childhood friend. She looked more pale than before and it looked like she hadn't eaten in a few days. He pulled a stool up to her bedside and sat down, staring at her face for a moment.

"…C'mon, Lily," Johnny mumbled as he waited, both patiently and impatiently, for the girl to open her eyes. Time slowly went by, the minutes feeling like hours and the hours feeling almost like years. Johnny glanced at the time and groaned slightly. 'It's only been a half-hour?' He scratched the back of his head, not sure whether to stay a bit longer or come back later, for another visit.

As he stood up to leave, a quiet and exhausted voice filled the air, making his ears perk up. A groan resonated through his head and a wave of relief ran through his entire body. He quickly span around and a wide smile appeared on his face, Lily's hazel eyes able to take in her surroundings.

'Where am I? And what the hell happened?'

"Lilly?" Said woman raised an eyebrow at the sound of her name and looked up to see a very happy Johnny looking down at her. She slowly sat up, Johnny helping her, and rubbed her head, looking at him with confusion in her eyes.

"Where are we? What happened to the others?" she asked as Johnny took his seat back by her bedside.

"We were hit by the cosmic storm and are back on Earth, Victor's private medical facility," he explained as Lily took a moment to look around at her room. She nodded her head and sighed, feeling a bit more tired than before. Johnny watched her closely as she began to yawn, and smiled at the sight. He would never say it out loud, but he couldn't even begin to explain how relieved he felt about his friends' safety. Everyone was perfectly fine, and in the end, he couldn't find anything more to be thankful for.

Lily looked over at Johnny and took a good look at him, making sure to examine every visible part of him. He laughed slightly as he looked at the girl, slightly confused.

"What, exactly, are you doing?" he asked her as she leaned back against her propped up pillows and shrugged.

"Are you sure you're ok enough to just start walking around?" she asked him as he smirked and nodded his head.

"I haven't felt this good in a really long time," he stated as Lily couldn't help but roll her eyes, though she did feel comforted about his safety.

"How are the others doing?" she asked.

"Ben and Reed are both fine, and I was just about to go check on Sue," Johnny commented. Lily rolled her eyes as she shook her head and gave him a knowing look.

"You mean, you accomplished on hitting on every nurse, so now you're checking up on us," she corrected as Johnny couldn't stop himself from laughing.

"It's almost weird, how well you know me."

"You're not that hard to read," she retorted back. He smiled at her as she returned the favor, and for a long moment, the two did nothing but stare at each other with content expressions on their faces.

Johnny's head almost began to spin and then he knew, the moment needed to end. He stood up, pushing the stool back against the wall, and walked over to the door. Lily watched with a smile, glad that her friends were all safe. Johnny looked back at her, sorry for the fact the moment had become too intense for him. He smirked back at her as she shook her head and chuckled.

"Don't do anything stupid."

"Wouldn't dream of it."