Johnny's POV

"Urgh..." I moarn, why is everyone still fucking awake?

I had just managed to push Brigitte's mass of murderous hair aside and start to doze off when the next thing I know the entire building sounded like it wanted to elevate from the ground.

"Uhm....can you please turn off the alarm?" Brigitte mumbled in her sleep.

"I don't have an alarm" I grunt next to her, I reach under my bed and pulled out my noise cancelling sound headphones. "Here, use these," I hand them over to her.

"Thank you," without opening her eyes she fiddles around and takes them from me. "But what about you? What will you use?"

"I'm gonna go find the 'Off' button" I grumble. I get up from the bed, with maximum effort needed, and walk like a zombie to my bedroom door and out into the corridor.

"CAN YOU PLEASE TURN THAT ALARM OFF!" I yelled. It sounded like the alarm was only still ringing in the bedroom section of the apartment. I was gonna kill Herbie, but not after I kill Reed first.

It was Herbie's once a month break day, so the alarms had to be manually turned off. Which Reed obviously forgot to do.

Bastard.

I momentarily get distracted by the room in front of mine, I get an involuntary flashback of a brown-blonde haired beauty in pajama pants and a tank top, her hair flying everywhere and an annoyed/bored expression on her face. If she was hear she'd have probably beaten me to scream for the gang to turn the alarm off, and I'd just stand by and stare at her. And just as soon as the flash back came it dissolved into thin air, taking with it her vision. All that was left in front of me was an empty room, packed from it was all its warmth and all its memories...

I turn and look down the corridor, I see Reed and Sue crowded over something on the wall next to the kitchen. Where they holding a phone? And why does it have a cord attached leading to a white box on the wall, wait a minute...

We have a landline?

I walk over to them, grateful to get further away from the incessant ringing of the alarm.

"Hey, Reed, buddy. You forgot to turn off the alarm, Brigitte and I woke up because of it, it's driving me nuts!" I'd notice Sue giving me signs to shut up but she was probably just being her naggy self and didn't want me to embarrass her in front of the caller.

Well fuck whoever it was, its late, I'm tired and Johnny wanna go night night.

"I gave her my earmuffs but that doesn't help me cause I've only got one. You always do this when she sleeps over, are you trying to get rid of her?"

Reed gives me a look and silently face palms himself. What? Wad I do?

"Uhm...hello Johnny." I hear Victoria's voice say through the speaker of the phone.

I feel my reality crack.

I am such an idiot.

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Vick's POV

Hearing Johnny's voice and what he said wasn't pleasant for me, but I have to always keep in mind that Johnny and I never officially dated. So...it shouldn't hurt.

I said shouldn't, not wouldn't.

Cause it does...a lot.

But hey, what are ya gonna do? Besides, I'm positive that things were way way waaaay more embarrassing for him. Given the still continued silence from their end, I'd turn on the speaker from my end as well so both Logan and I could hear and talk.

After two minutes of silence from their part Logan speaks, "Okay, I don't know of the cockamamie teen fiction type romance that's brewing between you two. But can you sort this out soon please? I maybe immortal, but you people sure ain't, and I still value my time"

I hadn't talked to Johnny since the day I left, I really did not want to, but I wanted answers and I wanted them now.

"Johnny?" I say, trying to make my voice sound steady and making sure it doesn't shake. Everyone else listening had no clue that we saw each other earlier that evening, and I'd like to keep it that way.

"Y-yes" he stuttered. Awwwn! How cute! He's nervous!

WHAT!? NO! Not cute! Definitely not! Remember Victoria, HE-IS-THE-ENERMY!

I clear my head instantly and become razor focused. "Reed informed me that the day I reappeared you were the only one present to witness it?" my voice instantly turns cold and business like. Even I was scared of me.

"Yeah," he replies calmly, he too was sounding more put together. Then his tone of voice switches gears, "Uhm, could you guys fill me in on what's happening?" he asks gently.

When has Johnny Storm ever been gentle?

He's rude, loud and obnoxious. Having a Johnny talk calmly and speak softly was just...off putting, like sticking your feet in yogurt.

...why the hell did I use that as an example? Hmmm, maybe I was craving yogurt?

I jump off the kitchen table and make my way towards the fridge, which Logan happened to be leaning on. I swat him away and open the fridge to hunt down a cup of yogurt while Reed and Susan explained the situation to Johnny.

"Oooooh, gotcha" he says when everyone was done talking and I'd devoured the cup, what can I say, I'm fast. "Well, what I remember from that day was I went up to the roof looking for my phone cause I was late to your funeral, you know, back when everyone thought you were dead" he speaks over the phone, addressing me directly.

"What do you mean 'back when everyone thought you were dead', didn't you think so as well?" I ask him curtly.

"Well I did, but later didn't." He replies.

"What made you change your mind?"

"I realized you might be alive"

"No one just realizes that"

"Reed did, would you say the same thing to him?" Johnny sounded slightly pissed.

"Whoa, let's not get off topic" Logan chimes in.

"I'm sorry, but who is with you?" Johnny asked, this time more harshly than ever.

"Ugrh, typical Johnny, always gotta be jealous about everything." I grumble, "Well if you must know, Logan a.k.a Wolverine, is living with me...sort of"

Here we go, expect a full on Jonathan Spencer Strom patented blow out melt down in 3...2...1...

"Oh waw, that's news to me." He just says. "Excuse me, I was just curious"

"Huh, say what now?" I said out loud due to sheer shock.

Susan's voice rings out next, "What's this about you realizing Vick was alive?"

"Oh, I forgot to inform you." Reed's voice comes out next. "I had a hunch Vick was still alive, after revealing my hunch I instructed Johnny not to tell anyone at the time"

I facepalm myself.

"Oh, so including your wife then?" Susan says snappily. Gone was her initial shyness.

"I didn't want to tell you at the time cause you were sad, weak and unstable" Reed says.

"Oh-h my God, you did not just say that." I laugh from my end.

"Reed Richards, may I talk with you in the kitchen please?" Sue's voice did not sound happy.

I hear them walk away.

"Johnny, what trouble did you get me into this time?" Reed asked, genuinely sounding clueless.

"THE WORST KIND!" Susan managed to hiss and yell from a distance.

Once I'm sure they leave, cause I hear distant yelling in the background, I say, "Well despite you kicking me out and brutally shattering my heart into a million pieces, it seems like you guys haven't lost your funny, goofy and hilarious sides."

I freeze instantly at what I said, what if Johnny thinks I was referring to him specifically?

"Do you honestly still think of what happened as us kicking you out?" Johnny says solemnly.

Logan looks at me, then at the phone.

"Okay, I wasn't built to handle this teen drama. I'm going to the other room to give you two some privacy and to stop me from chucking buckets. Stuff like this just makes me nauseous," Logan grumbles, and walks off into the living room.

"No, no, wait! Come back!" I cry, but he's already gone.

"Ha!" I hear Johnny exclaim. "There was a time you would've done anything to get close to me, remember when you made Sue turn you invisible and you whispered in my ear?"

I hold my breath, the last time we talked about that was the night when Tony snuck me out of my room and took me to Paris, among other places, it's been so long I'd completely forgot!

"You're finally ready to spill the beans?" I say, trying to sound casual.

"Wasn't it obvious?" he says quietly though the phone, his voice reduction sounded really sexy...

WAKE UP, DAMN YOU WOMAN! YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW THAT IS 10,000 TIMES BETER THEN HIM!

Uhm, not really – Brain and Heart said in unison.

Oh! Now you two agree on something! Where the fuck were you two when I agreed to go out with Deadpool?

Hey, don't blame me. It was Brain who went out that night - Heart

Yeah, if anyone is to blame it's me, not heart. Leave her outta this! - Brain

I'm scared – every other organ in my body (including myself) said in fear.

"Wasn't what obvious?" I said quickly, hoping Johnny didn't notice my silence.

"You said you whispered in my ear and I said 'not again', well, I said that because I did use to hear your voice" he said, "All the time back when you first arrived at the Baxter Building, I was so smitten with you"

"I-I-...uh...." Words failed me.

"Sorry, to be telling you this now, I'm sure how useless it must be to you right now" Johnny continues.

"Uh, yeah!" I say quickly, trying to recover composure.

"Anyway, about what I saw...." He pauses, as if thinking about something. "How about we meet in person? This conversation doesn't seem appropriate for just a simple phone call. You can come by the Baxter Building tomorrow and we can sort this thing out like old time?" he reasons.

Afew hours ago I was giving this guy the death eye, and he left in a blind rage. Now we're talking calmly and might even arrange to meet!?

"No, no, no, unacceptable" I knew how I might have sounded but I didn't care. "I am never setting another foot back into that building, you hear me Johnny Storm!?"

I know I might be yelling, and Reed, Sue and Logan might probably be able to hear me...but I didn't care, dammit!

"I don't care how you and your family might see it, but as far as I'm concerned you four abandoned me! And speaking of four, where is Ben? I didn't hear his voice? Or is he outright avoiding me? You know what? I don't even care! I don't care about any of you! NOT ANY MORE! MY DAYS OF BE FOOLED AND DECIEVED ARE OVER, I KNOW WHAT YOU PEOPLE REALLY ARE! YOU DON'T AND HAVE NEVER CARED ABOUT ME! YOU CAN ALL GO AND DIED FOR ALL I BLOODY CARE!"

Whoa, where the hell did all that come from?

Weird, I wasn't angry a second ago.

I hear Johnny sigh from the other end. "Ben isn't avoiding you, you little twat, he's over at Alicia's place. And if you didn't want to come over you could have calmly said so, no need to blow things way out of proportion like that. You could've even offered for us to come to your place, but I assume you don't want us anywhere near you or your living space. Probably why you called us so late at night, you'd have an excuse not to show up the next day"

I open my mouth.

"Save your breath" Johnny cuts me off. "You've said enough for one night. Victoria"

"Then what about my problem!" I huff out.

"Figure it out yourself," Johnny replies back harshly, "As far as we're concerned you are no longer our problem. You are an adult now so start acting like it, if you need help seek it properly, don't just yell around and expects things to get done. We're not your guardians anymore and we don't owe you jack shit"

"Harsh" I simply say, his words rang out to me but I'm frozen to my spot.

"Well that's tough love bae," he continues. "If you want information about what happened when you returned, I'm the only one who can give it to you. I haven't even told Reed so you can't hack into his computer and get the info, you have to come directly to me. And the only way you'll get that information from me is if you come at me like an adult. Not a child, or a teen, or a God damn young adult. But a full, well rounded, mature, adult."

The line goes quiet for a while.

"Uhm, okay" I breathe in deep through my nose. "Thank you for your time Jonathan, I'll contact you at a later date to inform you about my decision."

I had no way of confirming but I was sure he nodded his head.

"Good Night Victoria" and he hung up.

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Oh my word! My back hurts like a stinging hive of bee....I miss this. It's when my back hurts like this that I know I delivered a good, well rounded chapter.

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