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4 X-Men (movieverse) drabbles
This is the last of it for the day. I'm trying to break things down slowly, but I'm not sure which is less annoying - breaking it up or all at once.
1) challenge - yard sales
Title: Yard-sales (so original, I know)
Pairing: Rogue/Pyro...kinda
Rogue wasn't sure what she was looking for at the yard sale, wandering around and observing how "normal" people lived, while imagining a life for herself somewhere in the middle of it. She pushed her hair off her face and rolled her eyes when she noticed John leaning against a tree-lost, bored and ready to kill her for dragging him along.
She moved toward him and said, "I love how you get a sense of people through their belongings."
"Yeah, I'm sure they'd be pleased to know their halfdead bonzai tree speaks volumes about their personality, or severe deficiency."
2) response to member challenge - sleeping with the enemy
Title: Sleeping With The Enemy
Pairing: Pyro/Rogue
My mistake was thinking it could be the way it used to. Before John left me behind, before disappearing and the nights became insufferable.
"Rogue," he says, nothing more than a sigh as if he reads my mind,. He turns on the bed to face me and I temporarily forget that we're on opposite sides now. I block out the voice reminding me that John has been replaced by Pyro, this mutant filled with rage and a desire to strike back no matter what the cost.
"I miss you, John," I reply. He'll always be John to me. I love John, but it's Pyro staring back at me and love would be lost in all that hate. I allow my gloved hand to traverse the length of him, memorizing it for future reference, and continue, "I miss you, but you can't come here again."
"I know."
I feel the tears forming in the back of my throat, but manage to get out, "How am I supposed to think of you as my enemy?"
"Maybe you won't have to," he replies as he disappears out of the window and into the thickness of the night.
3) 1st response to first line meme
Title: Hidden Moments
Characters: John, Rogue
Leaning on the table in the mall's food court, John Allerdyce absently clicked his lighter lid open and closed. It was something he did without even realizing it anymore, only noticing the swish and flick whenever Rogue would glance in his direction with that look that said, "You're starting to annoy me, John."
He smiled at her, trying not to notice the way his best friend's arms wrapped around her as though to claim her as his property. And John guessed that was true to an extent. Rogue belonged to Bobby and those feelings that flickered through John much the way his lighter did, were meant to be fleeting and those of longing that were never returned.
Except Rogue's smile didn't say that. It said things like, "You know me better than anyone."
And sometimes he thought he did. When they were both up late under the pretense of studying and she would allow her gloved fingers to graze over his arm. When they would take their early morning walks and talk about non-mutant things that neither had much experience with. When they would avoid each other afterward because things had managed to get too intense too fast and there was Bobby to consider…
John sighed and put his lighter down on the table. He looked from Bobby to Rogue and asked, "So what are we going to do today?"
4) 2nd response to first line meme
Title: Darkness Looming
Character: Scott
Scott can't ever forget that there's an alternative. Ever since Jean died, it's all he can think about, that fighting the good fight, trying to save people like Stryker who will never accept mutants. Maybe Magneto is right-maybe a war is the only way to survive.
Jean is still all around him-her smell, her pictures, her thoughts-and he can't go that route, he won't. He can't bring himself to turn her death into something that didn't matter, nothing more than a statistic of two men's anger.
That doesn't mean he doesn't know there are other options available if Professor Xavier fails.
1) challenge - yard sales
Title: Yard-sales (so original, I know)
Pairing: Rogue/Pyro...kinda
Rogue wasn't sure what she was looking for at the yard sale, wandering around and observing how "normal" people lived, while imagining a life for herself somewhere in the middle of it. She pushed her hair off her face and rolled her eyes when she noticed John leaning against a tree-lost, bored and ready to kill her for dragging him along.
She moved toward him and said, "I love how you get a sense of people through their belongings."
"Yeah, I'm sure they'd be pleased to know their halfdead bonzai tree speaks volumes about their personality, or severe deficiency."
2) response to member challenge - sleeping with the enemy
Title: Sleeping With The Enemy
Pairing: Pyro/Rogue
My mistake was thinking it could be the way it used to. Before John left me behind, before disappearing and the nights became insufferable.
"Rogue," he says, nothing more than a sigh as if he reads my mind,. He turns on the bed to face me and I temporarily forget that we're on opposite sides now. I block out the voice reminding me that John has been replaced by Pyro, this mutant filled with rage and a desire to strike back no matter what the cost.
"I miss you, John," I reply. He'll always be John to me. I love John, but it's Pyro staring back at me and love would be lost in all that hate. I allow my gloved hand to traverse the length of him, memorizing it for future reference, and continue, "I miss you, but you can't come here again."
"I know."
I feel the tears forming in the back of my throat, but manage to get out, "How am I supposed to think of you as my enemy?"
"Maybe you won't have to," he replies as he disappears out of the window and into the thickness of the night.
3) 1st response to first line meme
Title: Hidden Moments
Characters: John, Rogue
Leaning on the table in the mall's food court, John Allerdyce absently clicked his lighter lid open and closed. It was something he did without even realizing it anymore, only noticing the swish and flick whenever Rogue would glance in his direction with that look that said, "You're starting to annoy me, John."
He smiled at her, trying not to notice the way his best friend's arms wrapped around her as though to claim her as his property. And John guessed that was true to an extent. Rogue belonged to Bobby and those feelings that flickered through John much the way his lighter did, were meant to be fleeting and those of longing that were never returned.
Except Rogue's smile didn't say that. It said things like, "You know me better than anyone."
And sometimes he thought he did. When they were both up late under the pretense of studying and she would allow her gloved fingers to graze over his arm. When they would take their early morning walks and talk about non-mutant things that neither had much experience with. When they would avoid each other afterward because things had managed to get too intense too fast and there was Bobby to consider…
John sighed and put his lighter down on the table. He looked from Bobby to Rogue and asked, "So what are we going to do today?"
4) 2nd response to first line meme
Title: Darkness Looming
Character: Scott
Scott can't ever forget that there's an alternative. Ever since Jean died, it's all he can think about, that fighting the good fight, trying to save people like Stryker who will never accept mutants. Maybe Magneto is right-maybe a war is the only way to survive.
Jean is still all around him-her smell, her pictures, her thoughts-and he can't go that route, he won't. He can't bring himself to turn her death into something that didn't matter, nothing more than a statistic of two men's anger.
That doesn't mean he doesn't know there are other options available if Professor Xavier fails.