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Healing

Title: Healing
Verse: X-Men movieverse
Timeline: post X-Men: The Last Stand
Author: AngelofSnow
Pairing: Rogue/Magneto
Rating: M � violence, sex talk, maybe some cursing. But you
know by now it�s all appropriate.
Disclaimer: I own the X-Men. I am selling this story on
Amazon and making thousands of dollars off of it. And if you believe that, I
have some property in Florida
to sell you�
Summary: The Cure is only temporary. While healing Rogue and
Magneto find each other and realize they have more in common than they
originally thought.�

Soundtrack: I
recommend the song �Emily� by Bowling for Soup. Because I am completely out of
song ideas. I got stuck into doing this for every chapter because some liked
the song recs. I bet no one even reads this. If you do leave a better
suggestion.

Dedication: To Erin for being
a faithful reviewer through the two months I have spent writing. Also a shout
out for all my readers who are enjoying reading this story but have been
lurking and not reviewing. You know who you are.

Notes: Many
people have requested seeing resolution between Rogue, Bobby, and Kitty. I hope
this does that storyline justice. I�m not sure what the comic book storyline is
but my Pyro is an orphan who lived in several foster care homes before joining
the X-Men. Also, this is not a chapter for people who are fans of Angel.

There are some funny scenes in the beginning and then the
story becomes serious and stays that way till the end.

Chapter Thirty: Bubblicious
Bubble Gum

Everyone:

�� It had been
inevitable (hadn�t it been?) that the X-Men and the Brotherhood could not
peacefully co-habit the mansion. After a week of brewing tension and minor
altercations, the animosity had come to a boil.

By this time everyone had heard the
terrible thunder storm that formed suddenly which was only now abating. They
had heard the roof being torn apart and Juggarnaut and Beast�s destructive
battle. Mutants swarmed into the hallway to see what was going on only to be
caught in the middle of an all out fight between combatants with grudges
against each other. Swept up in the anger and furor like European football fans
fights broke out between all the mutants, spurring a chaotic and ruinous scene.
Mutants picking fights and mutants attempting to keep the peace were almost
equally matched.

Angel arrived on the fight scene dressed
in pajama pants holding his favorite teddy bear, but as his lengthy wingspan
was useless in a cramped, crowded hallway he made an easy target for Pyro. John
was and had always been a rapscallion at heart and he took pleasure in
provoking the vapid Warren.
He chased Angel around, letting out small fire balls that singed the mutant�s
wings. Angel had progressively less space to maneuver away from Pyro�s blasts
as the hallway crowded, his large wings giving him an extra difficult time.

�It�s time to shake and bake the
chicken!� Pyro called out as he chased Warren
through the upstairs hallway.

�Stop right there John.� An ice
blast quelled Pyro�s latest fireball. Bobby had entered the hallway and felt a
responsibility to protect the docile and meek Angel.

To John, the time since he had left
the mansion had served to further demonstrate the striking resemblance Bobby
Drake had to the late Scott Summers. Meaning, Bobby was also a no fun tight-ass.
Pyro missed the days when they had been roommates and Bobby had been more
relaxed and receptive to mischief.

But that was three years ago and
now the Iceman and Pyro were enemies and bitter rivals whose skills and powers
matched each other�s equally. Bobby�s attempts to freeze Pyro in sheets of ice
met with Pyro�s own scorching flames. They charged about using their powers and
combat skills to try to best one another as Bobby�s melted ice left large
puddles on the hardwood floor, while occasional flames from Pyro�s charred
various parts of the hallway. (Magneto�s bill goes up as the mansion begins to
go down).

This continued; the two oblivious
to what was going on around them. Bobby�s attempt to rescue Angel was thwarted
as he became engrossed in battling his ex-roommate. Angel had become the target
of a far cleverer mutant: Professor Jeri Kojak. Kojak was a mutant one would not
suspect to have an advantage in fighting situations. After all her powers were
of the mind: telepathic and telechronic (manipulation of time). However, her
ability to pause time and other�s perception of it was an unrivaled defense
mechanism. If she saw a blow coming she could pause time, move out of the way
and avoid it. No one ever landed a blow against Jeri. She was also adept at
beating an opponent while time was paused, not giving her enemy even a second
to fight back.

Jeri was not inclined to be
sympathetic to Angel whose misguided father had been the cause of so much
suffering for so many mutants when his �Cure� had caused a small war and then
failed completely. Then, of course, there�s was Angel�s missing personality and
formulaic angst-ridden insecurity that deeply grated on Jeri�s nerves. She took
malicious glee at playing a prank on him.

She paused time with a blink of her
eye and went to the kitchen. There she grabbed several packs of Bubblicious bubble
gum. She slipped a stick of gum into her mouth and began chewing, while
returning upstairs. After the gum was wet and well-softened she took the piece
out of her mouth and put it on one of Angel�s gleaming white wings. The little
piece of gum was very small compared to the long twelve foot wingspan.

Damn,
this was going to take a lot of gum. Quickly Professor Kojak began chewing
more and coated the wings in piece after piece. She rubbed the gum between the
feathery tips sticking them together and then when she had dozens of pieces all
over the wings, she pressed the two wings together, effectively gluing Angel�s
wings together with pink watermelon flavored bubble gum.

Eager to see his reaction she
unfroze time.

Angel, unaware his wings had been
bubble-gummed together, tried to flex them only to stretch out the pink gum
that was stuck to each of him wings. He could move the wings about somewhat but
they were covered in bubble gum. He tried to reach around to take off whatever
was holding back his wings, but he was unable to stretch his arm around enough.
However, Angel ran in circles furtively for a few minutes before realizing his
arms could not reach that far back. Similar to when a child gets bubble gum in
their hair, it was near impossible to remove from feathers. Angel was in for a
very long day cleaning it off.

Professor Kojak snickered to
herself as she watched him fret. It was probably wrong to torture him so, but
it felt so right. He didn�t even suspect it was her who had done it; her quiet,
neat, scholarly demeanor working in her favor for once.

Jeri could hear the booms, crashes,
and bangs that emanated from Beast and Juggarnaut�s fight. It was giving her a
headache. Seeing the opportunity to finally reprimand her large, odorous
colleague Cain Marko for breaking the TV remote control back on the Island and generally being a bother, Jeri Kojak could not
resist. She froze time again with a blink of her eyes and walked over to one of
the bedrooms where the Beast and Juggarnaut where ripping each other apart.

She took out a pocket watch and
partially unfroze Juggarnaut so that he was slowed down. Using the pocket watch
she hypnotized Juggarnaut and made him believe he was a chicken, specifically a
rooster. Then she stood back, blinked to unfreeze everyone and watched the
fruits of her labor.

Juggarnaut, still clad only in his
Harry Potter boxers, began cawing and pecking at the ground in an extremely
realistic rooster fashion. The scholarly Beast was at a loss as to what to do.
When Juggarnaut moved towards him, his head bobbing in rapid motion as though
to peck him with a non-existent beak, Beast punched him so hard he flew
backwards, struck a window, broke through and plummeted to the lawn below.
There he got up and began pawing at the ground and flapped his arms back and
forth. It was the early morning, and as far as Juggarnaut knew he was a
rooster, so he began to ring in the new day with an impressive rendition of
�cock-a-doodle-doo�.

Beast was freed from his fight with
Juggarnaut and walked back out into the hallway to see that the place had
erupted into total chaos. It was a free for all and all the repressed animosity
between the Brotherhood and the X-Men was finally out on the surface. Beast saw
his fallen love Storm, who had been dropped by Rogue only a few minutes ago,
and scooped her up in his arms. She was groggy and semi-unconscious from the
zap of Rogue�s powers. Beast laid her on the bed in one of the adjacent
bedrooms that he and Juggarnaut had not trashed. She rested there. Beast
returned to the hallway to have a serious talk with Rogue about her
irresponsible behavior, when he was confronted by the cute, young, bouncy
blonde girl Catalyst.

Why did Catalyst specifically pick
on the Beast so much? Maybe it was because he was a scientist like her and her
counterpoint on the X-Men. Or perhaps it was because he was blue and fuzzy and
endlessly sappy in his relationship with Storm. But Catalyst believed it was
because he sort of resembled Kelsey Grammar.

Catalyst�s power to control the
rates of reactions appeared to be a power with purely academic uses and she
should have been no match for the brawny Beast. However, Catalyst was more
intelligent than she looked. Using her powers she caused Beast�s hair to grow
rapidly till his usual longish blue mane was hugely overgrown stretching down
to his feet. His beard and side-burns grew as well until Dr. McCoy was
effectively trapped by all his blue hair. He tried to fight Catalyst but could
not see in front of him past all that hair to strike her.

Now Catalyst decided to stop Beast
in his tracks; to this end she caused a nearby potted fern to grow rapidly and
encircle Dr. McCoy�s waist and trap his arms. In a few short seconds the plant
had snaked around the Doctor hundreds of times, encasing him in a leafy prison.
Knowing she was safely protected from Beast�s ferocious strength, Catalyst
walked fearlessly up to the mutant and tapped him on the chest with her
forefinger.

�That is for borrowing my lab
goggles. You never borrow someone else�s goggles, you know that.� Catalyst was
not a mutant to cross lightly.

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Everyone:

Rogue had just dropped Storm and
stopped her from attacking Erik. Beast collected Storm�s fallen form and Erik
still had Logan
pinned to the wall using his magnetic fields. Rogue didn�t want to see Logan hurt anymore than
he had already been during the fight.

All Marie had to do was look at
Erik, and he stopped torturing Logan.
Erik straightened out the Wolverine�s claws and used metal from the mansion�s
structure to restrain the furious Logan
against the wall. Magneto took in the commotion going on throughout the
mansion: Brotherhood vs. X-Men. The place was in chaos and everything was being
torn to pieces as fights raged, a myriad of powers unleashed to settle old
grudges.

�Come with me Mystique. Let us use
this distraction as best we can.� Magneto said, motioning to Mystique. She had
been fighting previously with Rogue and glared at her with her saffron eyes,
before descending the stairs behind Erik.

Meanwhile, Bobby and Pyro�s vicious
rivalry had attracted Rogue�s attention.

�What�s happened to you John?�
Bobby yelled at Pyro as he dodged an orange-red flame thrown at him.

�Nothing �happened� to me. I was
just having a bit of fun with Warren
over there.� John motioned with his hand and all three of them turned to regard
Angel who was trying to rid his wings of the distressing bubble gum. No one had
expected to see Angel�s wings singed and
covered in pink bubble gum. Iceman glared at Pyro who shared an astonished look
with Rogue.

�You�ve become one of them: a
criminal, a terrorist.� Bobby said. There was no anger in his face; it fell in
disappointment and his voice broke slightly on the words. It was hard for Bobby
to accept the truth that his best friend had become the enemy. Unlike Rogue, he
had never had a chance to say goodbye to John. He had met him in battle at Alcatraz but the reality of his switch in allegiance was
only settling in now. His best friend had become his most bitter enemy.

�Don�t call him that.� Rogue
defended Pyro. To Bobby, Rogue�s betrayal was just more of the same. It made
little sense to him and had shaken his world painfully. His ex-girlfriend of
two years had run off to the enemy because that enemy, Magneto, a man who had
tried to kill her, could touch her when no one else could. She had betrayed the
Professor�s memory just to satisfy her libido.

�You�re no better than him.�

�Hey, you wanna trash talk me, fine
go ahead. But lay off Marie. She did what she had to do.� Pyro said. Rogue
noted he had stopped his annoying habit of flicking his lighter off and on in
his hand. He held it still and did not flinch or fidget. In an instant, John
had gone from acting like his usual immature self to standing up like a man.
Rogue was impressed and proud of her friend.

�It�s alright John. Ah know Bobby
ain�t ever gonna understand the choices I made.� Rogue stood next to Pyro, in
solidarity with him.

�I know I dumped you Rogue but it
was no reason to-� Bobby said but Rogue interrupted him, her voice strained
with anger.

�You didn�t dump me Bobby you
cheated on me. You didn�t even have the decency to break up with me. You
treated me like dirt and went behind ma back with ma best friend Kitty. Now
you�re dating Jubilee. Ah don�t know what to think about you. You�re not the
Bobby Ah used to know.� Rogue said.

To Bobby�s credit his lips pursed
and he looked strained and regretful.

�I didn�t mean for that to happen.
I was confused and scared.� He turned away from Pyro�s stare. John watched him
knowingly. Bobby was quick to chance the subject.

�But what happened between us
doesn�t chance the fact that you ran off to join the Brotherhood.�

�Guess not.� Rogue said. She didn�t
feel like arguing with him or trying to explain herself anymore. She shouldn�t
have to.

�What about you John? Why did join
Magneto at Alkali
Lake?� Bobby had been
curious why John left for over two years now. The two men stared at each other
and Rogue felt like she was invading a private conversation for some reason.

�Because I believe in the
Brotherhood�s ideals.� Pyro�s eyes never left Bobby�s and Rogue could tell they
weren�t talking about philosophy and mutant issues. There was something going
on between the lines.

�Bull shit John.� Bobby said
slowly, pausing between every word, frost on his fingertips.

�Dammit, Bobby! Stop being such a
dick.� Pyro broke the stare and looked away under Bobby�s intense gaze. He
didn�t like what his rival was implying.�

�Stop acting like a child, Pyro.�
Bobby appealed to him, trying to get him to see the error of his ways. �You�re
a danger to everyone. You�ve become a criminal. You blew up that medical
clinic, and then you helped Magneto to kill hundreds of servicemen with flaming
cars, now you�re singeing poor Angel�s wings. Don�t you have any decency?�
Bobby threw at him his cold blue eyes hot with anger.

�Oh, really who�s the child? I�ve
taken a stand for the side I believe in while all you seem to do Bobby is
pussy-foot around with the girls at the mansion. When are you going to stop
acting like a boy and start being a man?� Pyro held an open flame in the palm
of his hand and a wicked gleam in his eye. His anger flared at the idea that he
had joined the Brotherhood for any reason other than ideological ones. Besides,
Bobby was the one living in denial.

�Don�t tell me you�re blind to
what�s happening in the country? The Professor�s methods don�t work. Mutants
have to fight if we�re ever going to be free from oppression and prejudice.�
Pyro continued extinguishing his flames. Bobby�s arms were crossed in front of
him and none of Pyro�s arguments seemed to move him. He sensed the real reason
John had joined the Brotherhood had nothing to do with mutant oppression.

�You can make all the excuses you
want John but what you�re doing is still murder.� Bobby intoned frostily.

�And you can date all the girls you
want Bobby: Rogue, Kitty, Jubilee, but it won�t change what we both know is the
truth.� John held Bobby�s gaze. Bobby sucked in a breath, his fists balled, and
took a step forward, holding out one already frozen hand ready at a moment�s
notice to hurl icicles at Pyro.

Pyro made no move to defend
himself; instead standing confidently in place knowing that he spoke the truth
and daring Bobby to try and deny it. He was sick of playing games around a fact
they both knew to be true.

Rogue looked somewhat confused
between the two men. Was Pyro implying what she thought he was? Could Bobby be
gay? She thought back to when she had dated him but they were unable to touch
because of her mutation. Bobby had never pressured her for holding hands,
kissing, or sex. She remembered how he hadn�t been very eager to explore their
options for sexual expression with clothes on. And then there was her short
term on the Cure when she had been able to touch him and he had slipped away
from her to date Kitty. Could it be her mutation wasn�t the thing that drove
Bobby from her? Rather that he had never wanted a relationship where they were
physically intimate because he wasn�t interested in girls that way. She watched
Bobby�s reaction closely.

�That was a mistake John. An
accident that was never meant to happen.� He said an icicle, long and sharp
forming in his right hand.

�Call it whatever you like. It�s
doesn�t change that you liked.� Pyro said. His voice steady and assured.
Bobby�s face twisted in anger. He hadn�t wanted anyone to know. He had made
Pyro swear never to tell� Bobby made to hurl the icicle at John who continued
to stand defenseless and defiant before him.

�Throw that and Ah�ll drop ya.�
Rogue said, holding up her unclad hand, though she could render him unconscious
with just a thought. When she saw Bobby back down a bit she couldn�t stop herself
from asking what she needed to know. �What happened between the two of you?�

Bobby doesn�t answer, his hands
giving off a fog of frost as he crosses them over his chest. She turns to Pyro
who is more forthcoming. He is eerily calm in a hallway of fighting mutants, as
though he knew one day they would have this conversation. He had waited for a
long time to see the day when Bobby would finally have to face the truth.

�Bobby and I were roommates back
then, bout the time before the mansion was attacked and all that shit went down
and I joined� you know. We were in our room, and Bobby had just beaten the guy
who was ranked 25^th nationally in Halo on X-Box online.� John
paused. �Am I right Bobby?�

Surprisingly Bobby didn�t stop him;
he only chimed in: �He was ranked 24^th.�

�Anyway so I had watched him beat
the guy and we were both celebrating and jumping around. We sorta hugged each
other and then it just happened. We rubbed against each other and I reached out
and touched him and he touched me. You get the picture.�

Rogue did. She wondered how far
they had gone; how awkward it had been. She marveled how oblivious she had
been. Never in her wildest dreams had she sensed something going on between her
boyfriend and his roommate. Suddenly she understood how betrayed Bobby had felt
when John had joined the Brotherhood.

�Afterward, Bobby regretted it. He
felt guilty about you Rogue.� Pyro turned to her and then looked back at his
dear friend. Bobby�s head was turned towards the ground; his face expressionless.
He remembered that time two years ago vividly.�
�

�And then everything went down. The
mansion was attacked and we went to Bobby�s house with Wolverine.�

�And it hurt you to see Bobby with
his family, because you�re an orphan.� Pyro stepped back a little. Rogue had
hit very close to the mark.

�It did.� Pyro admitted.

�Some family.� Bobby scoffed his
foot on the ground still not making eye contact. �When I told them I was a
mutant my brother called the cops and my parents disowned me and told me never
to come back.�

�After that Bobby talked to me in
the X-Jet. He wasn�t ready to be both a mutant and homosexual. He told me that
what we did was a mistake. That is was wrong and he didn�t feel that way about
me.� Pyro�s face, so often filled with juvenile anger and rebellion seemed very
old when it showed pain. �But that was a lie, wasn�t it?�

Bobby didn�t answer.

�It was a lie.� Pyro repeated.
Rogue held her breath and waited for Bobby to answer. Everything was falling
into place. All of Bobby�s hesitation, his treatment of her, the reason he
cheated on her with Kitty. Finally she knew the missing piece of the puzzle.

�Yes.� Bobby answered and his head
slowly rose. His eyes met Pyro�s and the two shared a moment. For the first
time in years the tension and animosity between them melted away just as John�s
flames so often melted Bobby�s ice. �So that�s why you left with Magneto on the
helicopter.�

�I knew you only liked Rogue as a
friend. It hurt me that you wouldn�t give us a chance. I hated to watch you
live a lie. When Magneto talked to me on the X-Jet and showed me that mutants
shouldn�t be ashamed of what they were� Well, it was just what I wanted to
hear.�

Bobby smiled at John. They had come
to an understanding. All of it was finally out in the open and both felt a
weight lift off their shoulders.

Rogue felt a weight slam into her
shoulders and knock her to the ground.

It was Jubilee. She and Kitty were
involved in a very vicious cat fight and Jubilee had been pushed into Rogue.
Kitty was winning. Jubilee leaped back off Rogue and used her fireworks to fill
the hallway with smoke and sparkles.

When the smoke cleared Bobby was
pulling Jubilee off Kitty.

�We need to talk.� He told her and
pulled her down the hallway. He turned back over his shoulder to smile at Pyro.

�So do we. After.� John said to him
as he retreated down the hallway. For a second John seemed contented and calm,
then he turned around and Rogue saw a mischievous smile break out on his face.
The boyish Pyro she knew was back. �But now I am going to bake some chicken.�
And John shot a fireball Angel�s way.

Rogue laughed at him and felt a leg
kick her.

�Hey!� It was Kitty. Kitty was in
fighting stance. Adrenalin was coursing through her veins and she had just come
off a fight with Jubilee. Everyone in the hallway, X-Men and Brothers alike,
were fighting one another, she assumed Rogue would have a score to settle with
her.

She moved to land another blow
against Rogue�s shoulder. Rogue blocked her.

�If you don�t stop it, I�ll drop
ya.� Rogue held up her ungloved hand in warning. She just wanted to talk to
Kitty. There was a lot they needed to say to one another.

Kitty�s heart was pounding and the
idea of getting her life force sucked from her by Rogue was a scary one. She
reacted on instinct and her foot shot out in a scissor kick to Rogue�s midriff.
Rogue recovered and pushed her mutation outward to drain Kitty.

Kitty phased and Rogue�s powers
went through her without affect. Rogue could not drop her. Rogue was surprised;
this was the first person other than Erik who had some immunity to her new
powers. She was caught off guard when Kitty broke out her kickboxing skills and
tried to jab Rogue in the shoulder. Her punch landed and Rogue stumbled
backwards. She dodged and rolled out of the way of Kitty�s follow up left hook.

�Shadowcat. Kitty. Let�s just talk
this out there�s no need to fight.� Kitty did not back down and Rogue caught
her next punch, turned and flipped Kitty over her back. Kitty, true to her
name, landed on her feet and scrambled to stomp her heel down on the instep of
Rogue�s foot. Rogue let out an unhampered �Owww!� and backhanded Kitty across
the face.

Kitty backed up a few paces and
held her jaw in her hand. Rogue slapped pretty hard. She�d had a lot of practice.
The pain of the blow brought Kitty back to her senses and her fight or flight
instincts shut down.

�Ah�m not angry at you �bout Bobby
anymore.� Rogue said when she saw that Kitty was done attacking her. Kitty was
so shy and seemed to shrivel up on herself with guilt.

�You�re not?�

�No. It was Bobby�s fault for not
breaking up with me before starting to hang out with you. And it turns out
we�re both been made a fool of: he�s gay.� Rogue said.

�What?� Kitty�s eyes went wide.
�But he dumped me for Jubilee. He�s dating her now.�

�Not for much longer. Him and
Pyro.� Rogue motioned to where Bobby was consoling a freshly dumped Jubilee
down the hall.

�Oh, my gosh! I am so dense. How
could I not see it? He�s so good-looking he just had to be gay.� Kitty slapped
herself on the forehead.

�Ah know right. Ah can�t believe we
let him get between our friendship.� Rogue genuinely smiled. Now that she knew
the reasons why Bobby had treated her badly, her heart had mellowed to Kitty as
well. Kitty, however, still felt a lot of guilt.

�I�m really sorry about that. I- I
shouldn�t have hung out with him knowing you two were still an item. I was just
so excited that he liked. I�d been feeling pretty lonely and he was there for
me.�

�Ah understand. It�s all so long
ago and so much has changed since then.�

�Yeah,� Kitty said and twisted her
shoe, surveying the fighting going on around them, before she could get the
courage to turn back to Rogue. �Can we ever be friends again?�

�Ah think so. If ya don�t mind me
being with the Brotherhood.�

�You�re not really with them Rogue,
are you?� Kitty didn�t seem completely put out by it, but she was a hesitant.

�Ah am. But they ain�t as bad as
you think. They do a lot of good stuff and they�re really helping to protect
mutants with this war going on.� Rogue said.

�You weren�t there at Alcatraz. It wasn�t pretty Rogue.�

�No I wasn�t. But I was at Liberty Island. I know what Magneto can do.� Rogue said.
Kitty noticed the way she shifted from the group to its leader curiously.

�You missed the fight at Alcatraz. Juggarnaut chased me through the lab facility.
And Rogue he smells horrible. Like old anchovies or something.� Kitty said.
Rogue laughed.

�Oh, tell me about it. Ah have to
live with the guy. You should smell the laundry room after he washes those
leather pants. Gross!� The two girls laughed; their friendship regrowing with
every giggle.

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Everyone:

�� Storm came
to on a bed in the student wing. She had been knocked unconscious by Rogue�s
mutation which could now zap a person from afar. Her head hurt badly as though
she had been suffering from a migraine headache only moments before. When she
made her way back out into the hallway the place was total chaos.

�� Mutants
continued fighting amongst themselves; the younger students using it as an
excuse to use their powers in ways that Storm had precisely forbid them from
doing. The roof of the hallway had been destroyed by her hurricane strength
winds. There were large gaping holes in the walls from Juggarnaut�s ramming.
Furniture lay in pieces. The carpet was on fire in some places; there puddles
in others. And part of the mansion�s steel structure was twisted around Logan.�

�� Storm had to
use tornado strength winds to pull Logan
free. He was a bit dizzy when he landed after being spun in the tornado for
several rotations. Magneto had hurt Wolverine somewhat, but his wounds were
already well healed. Only his pride was still smarting from Mystique�s trick.

�� Where�s
Hank?� Storm asked Logan.
It took him a few minutes to spot a huge blue furball entwined in a vicious
looking house plant. Logan
walked over and slashed his way through the plant.

�� Look�s like
you really did turn into a giant blue furball McCoy.� Logan chided him as he began cutting Beast�s
hair and fur back down to size using his claws.

�� What
happened to you Hank?� Storm watched on, overly concerned for her boyfriend.

�� It was that
indomitable Catalyst. I may not have followed proper lab etiquette once and she
took it upon herself to upbraid me.� Hank said, his fur and hair freshly cut so
that he could see.

�� What�s
going on here?� Storm said motioning to the free-for-all going on in the
hallway.

�� It�s
Mystique�s fault.� Logan
said his teeth grating together at the memory of finding out about the cruel
trick played on him.

�� Figures.�
Storm said. She raised her hands, her pupils rolled white and three loud
thunderous claps rang out. The mutants stopped their fighting and looked up. It
was Storm, the head mistress, they were caught.

�How did all this start?� She asked
them. She saw Pyro extinguish a fireball in his hand quickly. She gave him that
evil teacher�s gaze that said she knew exactly what he had done wrong.

Pyro turned to Rogue and whispered
into her ear.

�Let me guess. Wolverine caught you
and Magneto going at it like rabbits, the same way I did.�

�Something like that.� Logan said. His hearing
was extra sensitive and he heard the whisper. Everyone looked expectantly at Logan to explain the
situation. Logan
looked at Marie and she nodded her permission. Storm turned her mean teacher
gaze onto Logan
to hurry him along.

�Um, well. It seems that when I
thought I was romancin� Rogue, there. I was actually romancin� Mystique
pretending to be Marie. And Rogue was with Magneto.� Logan said.

�What!?!� Huge audible collective gasp
from all the X-Men.

�What do you mean �with� Magneto?�
Storm asked. Logan
didn�t give her any hints.

�You�re doing a lot more than kiss
him now.� Bobby said to her. There was still a little antagonism there and then
of course there was the icky factor. She couldn�t expect Bobby to understand
how attractive a man like Erik could be. Or maybe she could, Bobby was gay
after all, how could he miss how handsome and refined Magneto was?

�You better believe it.� Pyro
chimed in. He remembered catching them in flagrante delicto in Magneto�s
office.

Rogue blushed a bit. She was both
embarrassed and proud to be exposed as Erik�s lover, though she didn�t expect
the X-Men to understand their relationship. Heck, she hardly understood it
herself. All she knew was that Erik loved her and she loved him.

�Is this true Rogue?� Storm asked.
Rogue couldn�t tell if she looked more shocked, disgusted, or incredulous.

�Yup.� Rogue said proudly. �Erik
and I-� Before she could finish Erik himself appeared at the top of the stairs,
Mystique behind him. They had been trying to use the fight as a distraction to
steal Charles Xavier�s Cerebro files and the information on all known mutants.

�Quick. There�s no time. We are about
to be under attack.� As if to underscore Magneto�s point the whistling sound of
a bond was heard followed by a thunderous explosion. Everyone ran to the
windows to look outside.

There advancing around the
perimeter of the estate grounds was the U.S. Armed Forces. They had encircled
the mansion with troops and had two helicopters as air support. One of them had
dropped an anti-personal bomb on the Brotherhood�s Black Hawk Helicopter that
was parked on the lawn.

The X-Men and the Brotherhood were
under attack.

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Notes: What did
you think of Catalyst�s and Professor Kojak�s powers? Kinda fun right?

�� I decided to
introduce my side theme of Bobby and Pyro�s relationship here. I hope everyone
doesn�t mind that I�ve made them gay. It was the only way I could justify Bobby
being such a dick to both Rogue and Kitty in the movie. Isn�t it obvious how
badly he treats poor Rogue by emotionally cheating on her and then Kitty by
leading her on? Then of course there�s that great rivalry between Pyro and
Bobby. There�s got to be more to that friendship than meets the eye.

Tell me what you think.

Preview: Okay so
what is the US
army doing at the X-mansion? They�re firing at the mutants so there will a
fight coming. How can the mutants battle such an overpowering force? Will they
be captured? Find out in the next installment of Healing.
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