This is longer than I planned, and I mean a lot longer. I was going to add in events in Oscorp but it seemed too down winded and I didn't even know what events to put inside, I'll say it was pretty uneventful and leave it at that.
i have nothing to comment on this, take it as you will, and I'm sorry XD. I'm joking, but I kinda added things I wasn't going to add and I think some of the characters are OOC and a tad over the top, but it happened, curse my messed up imagination!
also I finally watched man of steel on Thursday, I've never really been a Superman fan, but I have to say it was an amazing film and I hope they're doing a second one.
Thanks to Batbabe66 and tiger mutant for reviewing!
But honestly I hope you enjoy this, and I hope you don't get bored.
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with that done, on with the chapter...
Maybe I was stupid for telling you goodbye,
Maybe I was wrong for trying to pick a fight,
I know that I've got issues,
But you're pretty messed up too,
Either way I found out,
I'm nothing without you,
kelly Clarkson ~ my life would suck without you
It was the day of the trip and most of our year lined up next to the buses that would take us into the city towards Oscorp. Apparently after being escorted around the gigantic laboratory, we would be given an hour to do as we pleased, just as long as we represented the school proudly.
We all rolled our eyes at that, basically it meant don't show your mutant abilities and don't get arrested. Johanna agreed to stay with me, Bobby and John, the four of us quite an odd group.
As soon as Johanna met John, I knew that they would clash a lot, neither even wanted to look in the same direction. However, they called a truce (even though the war hadn't even started yet) because they both wanted me and Bobby to have a good time. I'm pretty sure we could be described as being the babies of the group, Johanna and John being our arguing parents. Admittedly the notion kept a smile on my face as we jumped onto the bus, trying to get seats together.
I was inside first so I chose to sit in the centre of the bus, narrowly able to grab the window seat, two others having to sit in front of whoever sat next to me.
John immediately slipped into the seat, a smug look on his face as Johanna glared at him, clearly demonstrating that she was going to sit next to me. I shrugged my shoulders, deciding they could swap seats on the way back. John snorted at that, well, that was until I elbowed his arm sharply, he then agreed that she could sit next to me on the way back.
"You can be a jerk sometimes." I muttered, John wavering the insult away.
"And you can be lethal, you don't see me complaining." He countered, rubbing the spot where my elbow had connected with his arm.
"You always complain. The day you stop complaining John Allerdyce will be judgment day." I argued as everyone else bustled into the bus. John nodded his head, deeming my comeback quite good. I chuckled, we could easily start off arguing then end up swapping banter, which was beginning to get easier.
It had been a few weeks of our separate punishments, and so far Elijah was being evenly friendly. Still, there was a sense of authority as he ordered me to do extra chores, such as going to find students who were delaying on bringing books back, as a reminder. I knew nothing about John's punishments, or what he spoke to Professor X about, whatever it was it wasn't affecting him in anyway.
"Where do you want to go after Oscorp? We've got an hour to waste." I asked John, forgetting that I was just calling him a jerk. John shrugged his shoulders, before attempting to kick both Bobby and Johanna's seats in front of us. Johanna zipped around straight away and death glared him, Bobby following her with his little look of polite annoyance.
"What?" She snapped, to which John raised his hands up in mock defence.
"I was just going to ask where you wanted to go after Oscorp, jeez, short fuse or what?" He said sarcastically, me hiding my smirk by looking out the window. Unfortunately it didn't evade Johanna, who glared a look at the side of my face, she rolled her eyes, she knew it was going to be a long trip.
"I want to go girl shopping with Sam for a bit, so it's up to you boys what you do during that time." She stated, believing she was playing nice. My head snapped in her direction, a look of horror that I was trying to dumb down. It wasn't that I was shopping with her, or she just decided we were shopping, it was that I hated clothes shopping and with the use of girly meant I would despise it.
Bobby noticed the look on my face first, so he raised his voice to be heard and tried to remain neutral.
"Why don't we just stick together, we go to the same shops but me and John go to the men's and you two go to the women's. Then we know where everyone is instead of wasting time meeting up." He deducted, the idea one that nearly everyone agreed on...except John.
"No way am I being dragged around fucking clothes shops." He remarked, his whole body language representing that he wasn't going to change his mind. We groaned, it would take a while before we could come to a compromise.
"We'll do the debating later, let's just get along for the trip to Oscorp, please?" I begged, knowing if I wanted the miracle I might just have to get on my knees and pray to God himself. Johanna and John exchanged glares, before silently agreeing to accept this one wish from me.
"Okay, but you owe me." Johanna said in my direction, John not saying anything but nodded his head in agreement.
Bobby and Johanna sat back in their seats, hidden from view as the bus finally pulled away from school. Cheers rang through the bus, and quickly chatter erupted from every angle. In a way I felt sorry for the teachers having to put up with all of us, but then again someone had to.
"Professor X asked me to speak to you about something, something that you would want to talk about privately." John tentatively spoke in my ear so no-one else heard him, his breath on my ear nearly made me jolt, but I was grateful he didn't say it aloud. I turned to look at him, and saw that there was genuine concern on his face.
Professor X obviously hasn't said anything about it, of course he would be suspicious...
I half knew what it was, and half I didn't. Was it simply the nightmares he wanted me to talk about, or was it Isaac's death, or all the things that happened before I entered Xavier's school? Because we never really spoke about the past since that one time in the canteen, I never really thought about telling him, but now it seemed I would have to. Maybe it was about time to trust someone other than Johanna and Professor X.
"I really don't want to talk about it now..." I was going to say something along the lines of 'because I'll likely drown the bus in tears', but John interrupted me.
"You don't have to say it now with everyone able to hear, just. Can you tell me if it's about your brother?" He asked the question without sound, me having to read his mouth which was pretty difficult as he spoke quite fast.
"Yeah, but it's also more than that." I replied invasively, but John seemed satisfied with his one question answered. After that he left me to brood, mainly on how I was going to explain what I wanted to explain.
The structure I managed to get within ten minutes, was that I was going to tell him about Isaac's death and some of the affects after that, and possibly about my dad leaving. I didn't want to say too much, hell, I didn't want to say anything at all but it was the right time as I felt like I knew him enough, even if I barely knew anything other than his bad boy personality.
The time I spent silently staring out the window, John spent annoying Johanna by kicking the back of her seat every few seconds. Considering Bobby wasn't adapted to fiery people, John quite mellow ironically, he was taken aback at how quickly Johanna turned red in anger, ready to turn around and scratch John's eyes out.
Instead, she took deep breaths, a malicious smirk spreading across her tanned face. She knew exactly what she was going to do. Pressing two fingers to the side of her head, she willed images to be sent to John telepathically. She thought some yaoi might shut him up, and with her shipper heart pointing her towards Destiel, she imagined John would share her compassion for the angel and hunter slash.
"What the fuck!" John bellowed, everyone staring at him. Johanna smiled smugly, removing her fingers off her head as Logan stormed past.
"Got a problem bub?" He asked menacingly, though he probably didn't care, but was forced to go up by Dr Grey. Many of the other teachers watched Logan, more fearful of him chopping John into pieces than John attacking back.
But John knew better than to anger Wolfe...at the best of times anyway.
"No...sir." John replied behind grinding teeth, using all his will not to send a fiery inferno in the damn girl's direction. Logan grunted and walked away, John sneering as he left. I had no idea what Johanna had done, and John refused to comment on it so me and Bobby were left in the dark.
Whatever it was, it was the funniest reaction I'd ever seen got out of John, and I desperately wanted Johanna to do it again. She seemed content sitting next to Bobby, mainly because he didn't say anything in her presence and didn't pester her, in fact, he looked positively petrified of her. I hoped that would change after he saw she wasn't that bad, as long as you didn't annoy her...or be John.
It didn't take long for said John to start clicking his lighter, I thought it was dangerous on a moving vehicle but I didn't dare say it, he wasn't in any mischief for once and I'm sure most people wanted to keep it that way. Unfortunately Johanna didn't see it that way, and popped her angered face above the head rest.
"Will you stop?" She snapped, to which John stared blankly at her before continuously opening and closing his lighter.
"No."
"It wasn't a question, so stop."
"But you phrased it as a question, so I say no."
I could already tell this was going to get out of hand quickly, in the end I decided to just let them fight it out, proceeding to stare out the window as the first sign of skyscrapers appeared at the sides of the bus.
It was a warm Wednesday morning, which meant that many dropouts forgot their shame and played on the parks outside New York. I watched as a teenager around our age tried to kick a beaten up football, only to have his foot pass straight through it. He looked horrified and shocked, the same expression his five friends wore.
He's gonna have it rough for a while, but Professor X will find him, he always finds us...
I forced myself to look away as the teenager's friends confronted him about the incident, and I was honestly glad to not be him. When I brought my face back into the bus, I saw that John and Johanna had stopped arguing, John mumbling to himself as he put away his lighter. I heard him say something along the lines of 'slash obsessed rich girl' which seemed quite harsh but I wasn't going to get into it, just letting him brood.
"Bobby" I called over the headrest in front of me, Bobby's head popping up to look at me. "To stop these two from killing each other, me and Johanna will go shopping for half an hour while you and John do whatever, then we'll meet up at Central Park, by the lake." I compromised, finding that Oscorp wasn't that far from Central Park so we could meet up easily without worrying about the others getting lost. Bobby thought over it then nodded his head, John and Johanna were more than grateful to be apart and agreed straight away.
"Then we'll talk in Central Park, if you can wait that long." I whispered to John after Bobby and Johanna both turned around, he nodded his head but I could tell he probably couldn't wait that long.
"If it's that personnel, then I can wait." He said, smiling his little smile before it disappeared. I sighed, there was finally a peace. I took the peacetime and leaned into the headrest, closing my eyes as I suddenly felt drained.
"Wake up sleepy, we're here." John's voice rang in my head, I groaned, pretending I didn't hear. I was enjoying the non-nightmare sleep, and John wasn't going to pull me out of it.
"Saaaammm, time to wake up." He mocked, using that annoying ghostly voice. I still refused to open my eyes, vibrations telling me we hadn't stopped just yet. I heard John mumble, then a pressure on my cheek jolted me awake. I sat there dumbstruck, John looking straight ahead as to ignore my shocked face.
He didn't just...what else could...did John just kiss me?!
My mind really was getting too worked up about it, but I couldn't hide the fact that was what the pressure felt like, a soft peck. Judging by how quick he moved away, he was either embarrassed or didn't want anybody else to notice, seeing as John wasn't the embarrassed type I concluded it was the latter.
"Did you just-" I couldn't finish, my mind still trying to process the idea. John finally looked at me, shrugged his shoulders and acted like it was nothing.
"It got you awake didn't it? It was either that or getting Bobby to freeze your nose or something." He muttered, his eyes focusing on searching for Oscorp as we pulled up in a car park. Everyone cheered as the bus came to a halt, the sound of unclipping seat belts coming from every angle. Me and John did the same, waiting for the eventual order to get off the bus.
"Why'd you kiss me?" I whispered so Johanna didn't hear, because I knew that if she knew then it would spread around the school quicker than a virus. John creased his eyebrows, wondering why I was still going on about it.
"I had to wake you up, it seemed the most effective way." He said it like it was obvious, as if he didn't no any other ways to wake me up, which made me scoff.
"Most effective?"
"I could've woken you up in a louder way, which would have made you pissed, so I thought discreet might be better. And anyway, you're not my type." He added the last bit with a smirk, jumping out of his seat as everyone filed out. I stayed sat down, looking at him, mouth slightly ajar.
"And what is John Allerdyce's type?" I asked sarcastically. He winked, being dragged further down the bus due to people pushing forward.
"Girls who can actually have fun and don't ask questions." He shouted, getting whistles off some of the boys. I shook my head, I may have liked the more joker John, but he was beginning to annoy me beyond the limit. Johanna stepped out of her seat as I did, she twisted around with a knowing smile on her face.
"Trouble in paradise?"
"Shut up."
"I don't know why you hang around with him."
"I'm beginning to wonder too." I mumbled, Johanna walking off the bus as I waited for Bobby. We were the last two still on the bus and the driver was becoming gradually annoyed that we weren't moving. Bobby stepped in front of me and walked single file down the aisle.
"You didn't mean it did you? About not hanging around with John?" He asked a little concerned, I rolled my eyes, Bobby pretty much took anything seriously.
"John maybe an annoying prat, but he's a good guy at heart. Don't worry Bobby, I'm not abandoning you." I mimicked my mother, jumping off the bus to join John and Johanna (who were keeping far apart) and made our way inside Oscorp, guided by Professor X, Logan, Dr Grey and Professor Summers.
Both me and Johanna fell onto an uncomfortable park bench, bags of gifts surrounding us. It was a good thing we were meeting John and Bobby at Central Park because our arms were beginning to ache excessively as we reached the ginormous space of nature. It was truly a mesmerising area of New York, which was hard to come by.
Seeing as it was mid-afternoon, many normal people were playing with their kids or chatting amongst themselves on picnic blankets. The trip served as a great break from school, being able to walk among people like normal citizens seeing as very few people could distinguish mutants from look alone.
Either way, Johanna and I had an interesting half an hour of shopping, and luckily she allowed me to visit shops that weren't filled to the brim with clothes. I managed to buy a few Batman comics, even a few superman ones that were going cheap.
The park bench overlooked the lake, the seating area placed atop a pier type structure, giving shade with a wooden ceiling but allowed bright sunshine to shower people who sat at the edge of the pier, teenagers able to splash their feet in the water. I stayed away, even if water was part of me, lakes were still a big no no.
"How long are they going to be?" Johanna groaned, already bored as we'd waited five minutes. It was a peaceful spot thus I didn't care too much if they were late, and it gave me time to prepare before talking to John.
"Depends where they went, and knowing John he likes being excessively late." I sighed pushing a stray strand of blue hair behind my left ear. Johanna mumbled something and then checked what she had bought. I would do the same, but found my mind wandered back to that day as I stared at the lake water.
I could hear the gentle waves from where we sat, the ripples against the wooden stubs that held the pier structure above the water crackling in my ears.
"You took your time." Johanna commented, to which I realised I was staring at the rippling water. I turned to where she was looking and saw John and Bobby striding towards us. They had two bags each, and wore gaping mouths as they saw how many bags we had, mainly Johanna who had seven.
"What did you buy the whole shop?" John quipped, making the point of sitting in-between me and Johanna. She shuffled away from him and moved closer to Bobby, who seemed quite uncomfortable at the edge of the bench.
We sat in silence for a while, me mainly watching the lake water as the different colours danced on the surface. Shades of blue and brown meant it was impossible to see anything below the surface, but it made the swirls look like ballet dancers as they elegantly swivelled in a circular motion.
"Ready to talk?" John asked against my ear, but my eyes stayed glued on the water.
"Sure, I knew I had to spill sooner or later." I replied, Johanna slightly confused before realising what I was going to say.
"private talk?"
She asked telepathically, to which I replied by nodding my head. She smiled sympathetically then gripped Bobby's arm in one hand while carrying most of her bags in the other, Bobby grabbed the remaining bags, still being dragged by Johanna towards an ice cream truck. He looked perplexed, but didn't dare go against what she was doing, and proceeded to just let her drag him away.
"When my mom kicked dad out, I was in charge of looking after Isaac; my brother. Of course when he was a baby mom did most stuff, bathing him, changing him, feeding him. But I spent most of my time either at school or watching him. One day, my mom dropped him in the bath, and he screamed so loud...I remember rushing into the bathroom and seeing him practically latched onto her shoulder, he had a phobia of water after that." I reminisced on that day, I was only five but it seemed to vivid in my little head, I knew he would've died if he had stayed under too long, I knew what caused death.
"As he got older the more I looked after him, Mom slowly became depressed until the point she refused to leave the house unless we needed food or work. Thinking about it, I didn't know how she fed all of us as she hardly went to work anyway. I remember being angry at him, because of his fear of water he would say or do anything not to have a bath, I lost count how many times he said 'I hate you'."
I suddenly became emotional, remembering how much it hurt as he called me names, called me a monster or worse still saying I wasn't his sister.
John simply listened, taking my pauses seriously as he could see how hard it was for me to talk about it. He assumed from Professor X's evasiveness of the subject except that he should talk to me about it, meant that it was something he didn't feel comfortable talking about without me there. He knew as I talked that Professor X was expecting something from him as soon as their next session started, and he wasn't sure whether he wanted to know what it was.
"I got so sick of it that I took him down to a lake near our house, I thought if...if I could cure his phobia then Mom wouldn't send me away because I'd done something beneficial for everyone. I overheard her talking to a friend about foster homes and I knew, I knew it was because of me. I was thinking selfishly, I wasn't thinking about what Isaac wanted, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't alone. As it was, we went too far and there was a sudden drop, Isaac gripped around my neck and I kept being pushed under the water...I couldn't breathe. I knew no-one would hear us so, so I made Isaac get off me and swam to the bank."
I felt tears roll down my face, hearing the eventually plop as it hit the wood of the bench. I didn't brush them away, for once I wanted to look as weak as I felt because I was weak, the same weakness I felt that day.
"I searched for a branch so I could pull Isaac to safety, but I took too long, by the time I found one and went back to the edge, he was too exhausted to grab it. The ironic thing is, the very last thing he said was 'I don't want to die'." I chuckled hollowly, briefly raising my head to look at the sky as Isaac had done before he died.
"I couldn't think, Isaac just disappeared under the water...I ran, I ran home and screamed for Mom. But she wasn't there. Whatever was in the water was effecting me and I blacked out, I woke up a week later in hospital and was told that they didn't know the cause of the violent side effects, one causing me to cough up blood, but they couldn't understand how it had affected me so quickly. I spent another week in the hospital as I healed, Mom visited me every day, even one of my Dad's old colleagues checked in on me, him being the first person I saw after I woke up. When I was out, it didn't take long for Mom to hate me, even when she said she wouldn't. A month later I er, well, I found out about the mutation...Mom abandoned me in foster home five days later and that's about it."
I ended flatly, feeling my eyes strain with the amount of tears spilling out of them. It was stupid getting all emotional on an even that happened years ago, but death being death and me being a child, it brought back too many monsters.
"What about your dad?" John asked through grinding teeth, clearly despising my dad and likely indeed my mom. I laughed, the idea of him caring that Isaac died and I nearly did was sadistically humorous, because he never cared to begin with.
"I wouldn't dare go to see him, not after the mutation. I don't know why he hates us, but he does, and I grew up being told that we were freaks and a danger. When I found out I was a mutant, I contemplated to just end everything, because I was taught to hate myself." I spat it out with venom, feeling rage that I had buried deep down and replaced with fear.
All those thoughts and delusions he put in my head, all those times he told me to stay away from mutants, that he would do anything in his power to create a cure that would end their chaos. It sickened me to think that once I actually believed that was the right thing to do, to believe in eradicating people through no fault of their own were different.
A gentle force pulled me towards John, this force being his hands as he nudged me towards his chest. I never saw John as the comforting type, and he seemed shifty with his own actions but didn't push me away. I felt his chest rise and fall out of tune as his heartbeat quickened, mainly due to what I believed to be awkwardness. I complied and rested my head against his shoulder, finding it more comfortable for John and easier for me if Bobby and Johanna came back.
John let his hands remove their grip on my arms and rested his head atop mine, a stony expression on his face (one that I couldn't see as I hid in his collarbone) as he replayed everything I had said in his head.
"It's over now, they can't hurt you anymore. If it was up to me, I'd show him just how dangerous mutants can be." He hissed the second part, and I could feel the heat of the anger radiate against my face.
"It's not worth it, and I don't want him believing he was right. What happened doesn't affect me as much now, being at school, meeting you, Johanna and Bobby made me realise I'm not alone." I mumbled into his shoulder, feeling his smirk against my head. A hand wriggled free and stroked my hair, the sensation calming both of us as John became less tense with me being so close.
"And you're not going to be alone ever again, I'll make sure of that." He promised, but I'd been told that before and that person broke it. As I lay there on John's arm, I felt more secure then ever before, I felt like I could just remain there. I felt happy. Maybe it seemed a little romantic, and I was admitting to that, but nothing escalated to suggest romance, he simply stroked my hair as a calming (friendly) gesture.
"Only Johanna and Professor X know what happened to me, but I never told them about my dad, I didn't know how they would react." I spoke honestly, finally glad to have the daddy issues off my chest, and John seemed quite privileged to know more about me then Johanna.
"I won't tell. I'm not trying to be horrible, but, I can't feel my arm." He hinted, and I swear I could feel the tenseness of his arm muscles spasm. I smiled, returning to a sitting position and giggled at John's sigh of relief as feeling in his arm returned. He stretched it above his head, along with a few tilts of his head to remove the aches caused by me.
"You can be a good guy when you want to, but you're still a jerk." I joked, trying the lighten the mood and was happy to see John smirk at me.
"Good guys are too plain." He commented, but he looked genuinely grateful that I saw past the bad boy image he had put up, and the way I interpreted was that it was a wall that no-one could break through, except me and Bobby.
"Come on, let's go save Bobby from Miss slash fan." John said scornfully, jumping to his feet expecting me to follow. I gave him a queer look, but rolled my eyes once I realised what he meant. I lazily exited the bench and walked beside him as we left the little pier, the lake water quietly beckoning me back, but I ignored it.
"You give her a hard time, she's not that bad once you get to know her." I argued, giving him a sour look, he sighed in defeat as he thought he'd let me off for what I just told him. He shoved his hands into his pockets as we walked along the sand pathway that was shaded by young oak trees.
"I don't want to get to know her, but needs must I guess." He countered, basically saying he would be nice for me, but he was too proud to outright say it. I smirked, I think it was only then did John realise I would be a match for him, the wall I hid behind eroding away.
"Hello love birds."
The voice made bile rise in my throat, and it also affected John as he became stony faced, both of us stopping in our tracks.
Freddie, Danny and another boy I didn't recognise appeared behind one of the oak trees to our left, his eyes focused on me with a malicious smile.
"Danny... I warned you." John seethed, glaring at Danny who turned even paler with fear.
"I didn't want to do this, I swear!" He spoke back, the urgency in his tone was his own warning to me and John. Freddie shushed him with a lethal punch to his gut, winding him with a tight gasp as he fell to his knees.
"That's for being disloyal." Freddie hissed, spitting at the ground in front of Danny. I clenched my hands into fists, thinking he didn't know the meaning of the word. I kept my mouth shut, but I felt like my silence wouldn't last long, brashness I had unintentionally inherited from my dad, it was one of few good traits he had to a certain extent.
Freddie turned his eyes back to me, smiled, then edged closer. On instinct John pushed me behind him, his trusty lighter kindling the flickering flame. Freddie stopped abruptly, and laughed at the innocent flame, his henchman also laughing, but it seemed forced rather than mockery.
"Come on Johnny...just hand the girl over, you know you can't beat me." He wavered a hand to me, as if ushering me to go with him. I performed my best disgusted face, and it wasn't too difficult as Freddie had been pestering me non-stop the last couple of weeks and the only reason I hadn't told John was because I knew he'd go full rampage.
"Don't talk about her like she's an object." He snarled, extremely close to inferno point as his hand clenched in his jacket pocket. Freddie whistled, not even fazed by John's vicious threat.
"You can take all your threats and you can shove them up your ass." He stepped forward, extending his full height to just an inch above John, and I could feel him vibrating in raging anger.
"Then I can shove something in her."
The disgusting remark nearly made me fire the whole lake at his crotch, and hopefully drown his vile form. But it was John that acted, sending a flaming fireball at his chest, Freddie's horrified form stumbling backwards as he tried to dowse the flames with flailing hands, patting the fire as he continuously screamed.
I gripped John's arm, slightly fearful of how quickly the event escalated. John himself was panting, quickly shoving his lighter into a pocket as he made a quick glance at me, checking if I was okay. Running feet sprinted towards us, but my eyes stayed glued to Freddie's burning form, his henchman swiftly leaving the scene and I assumed Danny had also scarpered as he was nowhere to be seen.
A fog of ice crystals showered Freddie, dowsing the burning so only a singed hole in his t-shirt was left of John's explosion. I looked to where the fog had come from, Bobby staring dumbstruck at me and John.
"You'll pay for that!" Freddie snarled, jumping to his feet as he stormed towards John. I acted quickly, a surge of braveness as I raised a hand. Freddie stopped in his tracks, clutching his stomach as he groaned in pain, staring at me with confusion.
"The human body contains seventy-five percent water, shall we test that?" I explained breathlessly, feeling the water in Freddie separate from the other liquid particles. He groaned as a droplet rose out of his mouth, gliding straight to me with a glistening glow.
When I thought he had suffered enough and when Bobby was giving me a glare, I let go of the water and gasped loudly, finding my energy drained.
Freddie coughed as he crept backwards, never taking his eyes off me and John. He looked petrified, mainly at me as he realised he couldn't frighten me anymore.
"I'm not so innocent now Freddie, so leave me alone." I threatened, and no sooner had I said it he was sprinting out of Central Park. Me, Bobby and John shared uncertain glances, realising that many people were staring in our direction.
"Sam! What the hell just happened?" Johanna sprinted towards us, hugging me tightly as if I'd just got back from a long holiday. I suffocated under her grip, but she refused to let me go so I went with it until my face began being discoloured. As soon as she released me, she rounded on John with her eyes sizzling in anger.
"I saw what you did, everyone in the fucking park saw what you did! Come on Sam." She ushered me with a sharp tone, but I didn't move, looking between her and John. Very quickly she glared at me, trying to comprehend why I wasn't obeying.
"Sam, he's dangerous. I managed to put up with his crap for so long but now he's gone too far, he hurt someone and he's going to hurt someone else, or worse he's going to hurt you." She snapped, latching herself onto my wrist like claws, but I yanked myself free. She stared at me, hurt and angry, and honestly it angered me seeing her with that look.
"Dangerous? He was protecting me from Freddie, you know, the one from the bar you dragged me to." I said with sharpness, however I couldn't hide it in anymore, suddenly saying what I told myself to just forget
"You didn't have to go, and I said I was sorry for what happened."
"Sorry doesn't change the fact he tried to rape me! Over a month of his remarks and sudden appearances, a month of being a scared little girl because I couldn't stand up to the asshole, a month of hell while you talked about boyfriends!" I yelled, hysterical not normally in my nature. I knew I would regret all of this later, when it really mattered, but I couldn't hold my tongue and no-one else was trying to stop me.
"Sam..." Johanna whispered, on the brink of tears.
"I'm done being your sidekick, I'm done being second best to you. You had it so much easier, your parents accepted who you are, hell, they felt privileged to have a mutant daughter. And everyday you rubbed it in my face, even if you didn't mean to, but every time you did I was jealous because you had it easy while I grew up hating myself."
The more rational side of me kept telling me to shut up, but I wouldn't listen, or more importantly I faked ignorance.
"You can't blame me because you didn't save your brother, because you were a coward!" Johanna snarled, tears streaming down her tanned face. We were both at each other's throats, and the boys wouldn't dare enter the confrontation in fear of being bitten themselves.
"At least I don't force myself on strangers who are mildly interested!"
It was a step too far...and I could never take it back.
Johanna stopped fighting, staring at me with hurt in her eyes as I glared. She shook her head, lips firmly shut as she shifted her eyes to the ground.
"You're the closest thing I have to a sister..." She whispered, emotion dripping off her voice. Her head snapped up after the moment of weakness, eyes two fiery orbs of hatred.
"Find yourself another roommate!" She screamed, storming in the opposite direction towards Oscorp. It took a minute before I realised what had been said, my body slumping as I felt sick to my stomach. Bobby looked at me disappointingly, shaking his head like a parent scolding their child.
"I'm going to collect the bags." He mumbled, turning around to head towards the ice cream truck area.
"Bobby, I didn't mean-" I stuttered, fresh tears like acid on my cheeks. He twisted to face me, still walking towards the ice cream truck but backwards.
"I'm not the one you should be apologising to." He stated, before running off after our gift bags. I choked back more stray tears, turning to John as he stared solemnly after Bobby. He softened when he looked at me, pulling me into another hug, shushing me as I sobbed.
"You shouldn't need to apologise, none of this would have happened if she hadn't taken you to that damn bar." He comforted, but it just angered me even more. I pushed away from him, horrified that he had said that, horrified at myself for saying such horrible things.
"How can you say that! She hates me, Bobby hates me, everyone is going to hate me because of this. I shouldn't have let you do that, I shouldn't have done what I did." I shouted, the urge to punch something pulsing through me, a feeling that terrified me.
"The creep deserved a taste of his own medicine, he deserved a whole lot worse." John growled, it sounded more animalistic than human. I shook my head, adrenaline forcing me to raise my hands, stamp a foot, random things to keep me moving as if I was anxious.
"You don't get it, you never will get it. This is Isaac all over again, this is my dad all over again. You don't know what it's like, my Mom couldn't even look at me, she sent me away because of what I did!" I screamed, my mind piecing the wrong things together, things that were nothing alike.
I couldn't think, my mouth just kept spilling words that didn't sound like my own, sounding too much like dad.
"At least you had a home, all I had was my lighter. You wanna know what I called home? A housing estate with an alcoholic older sister, so don't you dare say I don't understand." He snarled, stepping towards me with the same inferno he had when confronting Freddie. I put up my arms in defence, but John just pulled them back down.
I was expecting to be blasted by a gigantic fireball, but that wasn't the heat I was surprised with, it was something much softer. For the second time in one day John kissed me, but this time he found my lips. It wasn't forceful or heavy, just a soft, long kiss. It felt like a heat transfer between the both of us, it could have just been my imagination or it was John's mutation, either way I closed my eyes as the sensation was calming.
He pulled away seconds later, leaving me puzzled. He took my puzzled state as an opportunity, brushing away my tears with one hand as I stared into his brown eyes.
"You were right...opposites attract, but honestly I don't think we're that different really." He muttered, his hand gently caressing my cheek. I don't exactly know how to explain how I was feeling, however shock, confusion, calm, anxiety were definitely present at that moment.
"You're too confusing John." I quipped hollowly, him chuckling at the remark. He dropped his hand, awkwardly waiting for a less comical answer to the kiss. It was simple what he was suggesting, but I doubted whether he knew himself if it was the right thing, after all we had just proven that we were bad influences on each other.
Screw it, I've got nothing left to lose...
I went in for another kiss, but it was literally just a peck as I needed more time to think. John smiled nonetheless, happy I hadn't downright rejected him. With my mind slightly cleared, I realised that I needed to try and salvage my friendship with Johanna, if that was even possible.
"I've got to go and say sorry to Johanna, I shouldn't have said all of that." I motioned a thumb over my shoulder, John didn't seem too happy with it, but nodded his head with a tight smile.
"I may hate her, and she has a lot to answer for...but you've gotta do what you gotta do. I better go and help Bobby with the heavy lifting anyway." He replied, and I stared at him confused.
"Don't go going soft, we're still rivals." I joked, John scoffing.
"Soft? Please. No girl is making Pyro go good guy." He said all majestically, bowing as he revealed his nickname. I couldn't help but chuckle slightly, wondering why everyone had nicknames anyway.
"Pyro...seriously?" I questioned, never hearing his answer as I sprinted after Johanna.
If only I'd known what that name would represent a couple of years from then: a terrorist working with the brotherhood founded by Magneto.
If only I'd known what Aqua would represent.
The kiss...long story. It just seemed the right time and I'll likely have to change the genre to romance. I don't write romance, I'm not a fan, but I always try new things when writing so this was a test to see if I could in fact write it. Don't expect a lot of fluffy stuff, but I'll try and write it better when the story progresses.
cant wait for next chapter, its got a little cliffhanger at the end that I hope you guys like.
Until then, please review!
~Gothgirlstrikesagain