{1} The Element Storm {X2}

Bobby's Truth

"What the hell was all that back there?" John asks, his voice sounding actually kind of panicked, and Sierra's eyes were rimmed with red still.

"Stryker. His name is Stryker." Logan said as he shifts gears on Cyclops's car and Sierra leans on John, ignoring the fact that he was shaking immensely.

"Who is he?" Rogue asked as John's eyes went wide, and Logan shakes his head as he switched the gears again.

"I can't remember." Logan said furiously, and there was both fury and pain in his voice, as he tried to remember what happened to him.

"Here. This is yours." Rogue says to Logan, as she hands him the dog tags that read 'Wolverine'.

Sierra grunted as John practically stood up on top of her. "I don't like uncomfortable silences." He said, as he reached towards the radio.

"What are you doing?" Rogue asks him, as he reached past Logan and her as well by extension.

"John, your butt, is quite literally in my face right now." Rebel says, and he pressed the radio button. Everyone was groaning at the music, and then John pressed another button.

"I don't think that's a CD player." John says uncertainly as Logan pulled out a small device, and Sierra yanked John with a huge pull, and she pulled him quickly back into the seat again.

"Where are we going?" John asked, as he sat next to Sierra and she was once again leaning on him.

"Storm and Jean are in Boston. We'll head that way." Logan said to respond to John's question and Bobby coughed slightly.

"My parents live in Boston." He said quietly, after he had heard of their all for sure destination.

Sierra was nudged awake by Bobby, who was always cold, while John was the opposite, always super warm. She opens her eyes to see the both of them standing there.

"We're here." Bobby said, and he offered her his hand, but she grabbed John's hand instead, and she got out of the car, still very much stiff and sore from sleeping weirdly in the car.

"Don't burn anything." Bobby says to John who was flicking his lighter open and closed again.

Sierra smiled at John, who looks at her. "What?" He asks, and she shakes her head at him.

"Just you." She said, and pulls out her own Zippo Lighter, and he smiles and she gripped his hand, as her palm was dancing with flames now.

She was looking at pictures of Bobby's family with John. "Do you ever miss it, the family life?" He asked quietly, and she leaned her head on his shoulder.

"I've got my truly real family right here." She murmured, but after about a minute of silence, she sighs. "Yes but only when I'm not with you." She says and he shakes his head.

"I was planning on always being the guy that no one liked forever. I guess that plan died when I met you." John's voice, it was just as quiet as hers was.

"No kidding." She said, and then suddenly there was a kid standing there, and Bobby ran downstairs.

"There's something, that I need to tell you guys." Bobby said, as he looked at his family, and Sierra sighed quietly.

Sierra was sitting next to John, who was flicking his lighter, it was opening and closing every time he did.

"So, uh, when did you first know you were a..." Bobby's mother asked, and a certain tone of hesitation was heard.

"A mutant?" John asked, finishing her sentence with a cold look towards her and Sierra's eyes flashed as the flames on her left hand rose.

"Would you cut that out?" His mother asked, talking to him, as if she was his own mother, and John shut the lighter with a glare.

"Why, does she have fire all over her?" Ronnie, Bobby's little brother asked.

"Because I'm pissed that someone is speaking to my best friend like she is his mother. Who ditched him." Sierra says coldly and Ronnie flinched at her sharp tone of voice.

"You have to understand, we thought that Bobby was going to School for the Gifted." His father began.

"He was. The school of the gifted for Mutants. Like us." Sierra says, and the tea from Bobby's mother's cup was all rising, and her eyes widened.

"Sierra, cool it." Bobby said sharply, his tone rather urgent now, as the tea begins to heat up, along with Sierra's bad memories from being inside this house returning.

"Si." John said, and the tea dropped back into the cup with a splash, and Sierra snorts.

"Bobby is gifted." Rogue snapped, finally getting into the conversation along with everyone else.

"I understand that but..." His father began to speak to her, but this time it was his wife who cut him off.

"We still love you, Bobby. It's just... this mutant problem is a little..." She tried to find the right words.

"A little too much for your homo sapien brains to handle apparently. So I'll just give you a high level explained version. There are bad mutants, like the Brotherhood. Then there are good ones, like the X Men, run by Professor X, or Professor Charles Xavier." Sierra says coldly, and grass began to grow through their floor.

"Si. Come on." John said, although she could see that he was also getting fury and angry about it.

"What mutant problem?" Logan interrupted all of them at once with three simple words, and then it was everyone who stops at once to look at him.

"What exactly are you a professor of, Mr Logan?" Bobby's father asked.

"Art." Logan says, as Sierra looked down, hiding a smile as John raises an eyebrow, as he watched Ronnie, the younger brother.

"Well, you should see, what Bobby can do." Rogue insists, and he ended up freezing her tea quickly inside her cup.

Ronnie ran upstairs quickly and Sierra shakes her head at the younger boy in silence, as John freaked out the father by his quick statement.