Fire

Izabelle's POV

We are all walking downtown: Jade, Aaron, Kitty, Dan, and I. Bobby had to stay back and help with one of the classes for the little kids. Dan is being an idiot like always and keeps running into people, mostly because some of them are tall blondes wearing tight shirts and short skirts. "Oh sorry miss." He turns and starts to laugh.

"Dan you are such a-" Aaron starts to say.

"Genius? Bro did you see the rack on that one?" I roll my eyes and Jade glares at him.

"You're such a tool Daniel." He drapes an arm around her.

"At least I'm not talking about you darling." He winks at her and Aaron pushes his arm off her. "Whoah there dude. I get it, she's off limits." Aaron is about to advance on him but Jade puts a hand on his chest. All of a sudden her ears perk up like a dogs and she turns her head to the left. Without saying a thing, she starts sprinting off down the street.

"Jade!" Aaron looks at Kitty then me and we all follow her. Dan is about to go full speed but I stop him.

"Not in public remember?" He mutters that I'm right and starts to jog. Aaron is running the fastest, trying to catch up with Jade. She's about two blocks away from us when she turns. I push past people and run into a crossing. A car comes straight at me but Dan grabs me by the wrist and pulls me forward into his chest and picks up his speed slightly. He lets go of me once we reach the sidewalk.

"Where is she going?" I have to stand up straight after trying to catch my breath, but my heart stops when I see where she was heading. There's an apartment building on fire.

Jade's POV

I run up to the front door and look up. Eight floors. The first six are on fire. Smoke is coming out of the windows and people are screaming. "Aaron!" He runs up to my side and tried to catch his breath. "Can you get me inside?"

"I honestly don't know... Kitty!" He turns and Kitty catches up to us. "Take me in."

"Me too!"

"Jade, you climb up and empty the upper levels first." Belle finally runs up with Dan. "Belle you take the middle levels with Dan, okay?" She has a worried look but nods. "Okay." Kitty wraps an arm around his waist and walks through the wall.

"Belle, take Dan in now!" I start to scale the wall and break open a window at the top. Smoke streams out the window and I start to cough. A child screams and I yell down to Belle to get up here. She teleports and I hand her the child. "Take her down to the alley then come back up." She nods. "And tell Dan to run to the fire department. Fast." I kick down the door and enter the hallway. "Anyone else here?" I scream, only to receive numerous cries in return. Belle returns and we are able to evacuate the top two floors. I head over to the stairs. "Alright, lets go."

"But the fire..." She stops and backs away.

"People need our help!" She shakes her head, her blue eyes filled with fear. Before I can say anything, Belle disappears into a cloud of blue smoke. "Belle!" I hear cracking sounds and the floor boards beneath me give out. "SHIT!"

Aaron's POV

Kitty and I are running into room, grabbing people and taking them outside. My clothes are already getting scorched and Kitty's hair is burnt at the ends. There is a loud cracking sound and Jade falls through the ceiling. "Shit!" She lands on a chair that breaks as soon as she hits it.

"Jade-" She stands up, brushing the chips of wood off of her clothes.

"Belle left. Where are you on getting everyone out?" I'm about to answer when I start coughing. "We need to get out of here." I shake my head and cover my nose and mouth with my shirt.

"Not until everyone is out." I was further into a room and search for someone. I can hear sirens from about a block away.

"Aaron!" Kitty is looking out a window. "We have to get out of here!" I nod. The firemen can finish what we started. A banister starts to creak and I look over to Jade who is standing absentminded under it. It cracks and falls just as she looks up.

"Jade!" A shield forms around her just as the banister is about to hit her, keeping her safe. She looks around then at me.

"Damnit Aaron. I don't need you to save me." I chuckle and grab her wrist.

"Kitty get us out." She nods and grabs Jade's other hand.

"Don't freak out Jade."

"Why would I-" Kitty runs us straight into a wall and Jade screams. We come out the other side and end up in the alley.

"Guys!" Dan jogs over to us. "I got the department." He searches us. "Where's Izabelle?"

"She left." Jade sighs. A woman standing in front of the building points at us. She's holding a child that I got out safely.

"Jade..." I whisper, trying to act natural. "Take to the rooftops. Dan, carry Kitty and run. I'll meet you back at the mansion." Jade looks at me worriedly.

"What are you gonna do?" I smirk and disappear. Jade rolls her eyes and bites her tongue. "Right."

"Now go!" Dan lifts Kitty into his arms and dashes down the street. Jade jumps onto a fire escape ladder and disappears onto the roof of the building. I simply walk into the crowd and head down the street. I look to the side and see Jade jumping from building to building, doing cool flips and tricks. She's probably enjoying this. People are freaking out and a lot of the people from the fire are talking to the cops, probably reporting who saved them. No one can see me, but I can see and hear everything. Perks of being invisible I guess.

Belle's POV

I'm sitting in my room when Jade walks in. "What the hell dude." She's singed and smells like smoke.

"I know... I'm so-"

"Don't apologize. I can't blame you. You're afraid of fire and in a burning building. I get it. But you can't just leave us like that."

"I know."

"Instead of just zapping us home, Dan had to run with Kitty, I had to freaking run across the tops of buildings, which was awesome, and Aaron is walking home." She sits on the edge of my bed and I can see that the ends of her hair are burnt.

"Here... Let me fix that." I take a pair of scissors out of my drawer and start trimming the ends. The smell of smoke and burning gets to me. I didn't mean to leave them. I didn't mean to let them down...

~Flashback~

"Wes, where are we going?" Weston is pulling me up a driveway to a warehouse. There are flashing lights and screaming and laughter coming from inside. The lights reflect off of his baby blue eyes, making them look even more gorgeous than normal.

"I figured we deserved a break from running." He squeeze my hand and knocks on the door. It opens and a guy in his early twenties stands in the way.

"Password?" His words are slurred and he spills whatever he was drinking all over his pants. "Whoopsies..." Weston looks at me with a raised eyebrow and I giggle.

"Just drink some more bud." He pushes past the dude and walks in. He walks over to a cooler and pulls out two beers. "Here ya go babe." I take one lift it to my lips.

"So... Where are we going next?" He finishes his beer in a minute and throws it at the wall, making the bottle shatter instantly. Weston turns back to me and I reach up, brushing his hair to the side.

"Lets dance." He takes my beer and finishes it for me then takes me by the hand and leads me into the middle of the crowd. We start to dance, at first jokingly. He tilts my head back and pours more beer into my mouth. "Drink up babe." Some runs down my chin and onto my chest. "Oops let me get that for you..." He leans down and runs his tongue over my collarbone.

"Wes..." I moan. He pulls me by my waist and presses himself against me. He starts to kiss up my neck until he gets to my sweet spot, the area between my ear and jaw. My hands wrap around his neck, and my fingers run through his thick dirty blond hair. "Weston." He pulls away with a sexy smirk on his face.

"What doll?" He puts his fingers through the belt loops of my jean skirt and pull my hips closer so that they are rubbing against his. "Want me to stop?" I place one hand on the back of his neck and pull him in closer.

"Nope." I press my lips to his, and we instantly deepen the kiss. He finally has to pull away.

"I'm gonna go get us more to drink." He winks at me and walks backwards slowly, his eyes wandering my body. He licks his lips. "Don't go no where." I dance alone, swaying my hips and running my hands through my hair.

"Hey there gorgeous." I turn around to see a black dude staring at me. He has shockingly bright yellow eyes.

"Hi." He hands me a drink and takes the ends of my hair and rubs it between his fingers.

"I just love your hair... It's just so..." He steps closer and closer until our noses are touching. "Blue." The alcohol has already gotten to me and I giggle.

"Your eyes are yellow." He smirks, seeing how clearly drunk I am.

"Nuh uh baby, their golden." He winks at me and puts his hands on my hips. "Dance for me baby." I start to sway my hips when a hand grabs me by the shoulder and pulls me around. Weston steps forward, his eyebrows scrunched.

"What the fuck do you think you are doing?" The guy with golden eyes smirks.

"Hey man, she was alone, fair game." Weston raises the two beers in his hands.

"No she's not fair game." I try to get him to calm down.

"Wes-"

"Not now Belle."

"Hey, let the lady speak." The guy looks over Weston's shoulder and winks at me. "She's something special, aren't you baby." I hesitate to answer, the alcohol making me want to be a flirt. Weston laughs.

"Whatever dude. Here." He tosses beer onto the guys face. "Have a drink." The guy wipes it off best he can and turns to walk away.

"Have fun with that fine piece of ass man." Weston tilts his head.

"What did you call her?" His eyes start to burn a color of red, one that I dread to see.

"I said," the guy turns around, "that she is one-" He sees Weston's eyes and raises an eyebrow, "fine piece of ass..." Weston holds out his hands to the side, palms up. Small flames start to dance around his palms.

"That's what I thought you said." He tosses a flame onto the guy, and instantly his shirt catches on fire. He starts screaming and trying to put them out, as does everyone else.

"What the hell man?" The flames spread to his neck, then to his face. I swallow hard.

"Weston!" He looks at me with an evil grin and burning red eyes.

"Lets have some fun." He starts chucking flames in all directions, hitting random targets. The ceiling starts catching on fire in several different places and many people lay on the ground in the burning alcohol. I start screaming as people start dropping, their voices silenced.

"WESTON! THAT'S ENOUGH!" I try to pull him away from a girl, but he places a burning hand on my left hip and squeezes. I let out a scream of pain and back off, immediately gazing at my wound. I fall to the ground an become dizzy after seeing my skin turning red and starting to ooze. Fire starts to spread around the floor. Weston finally looks at me, and when he sees me crying out in pain, holding my side, his eyes fade.

"Shit! Izabelle!" He runs to me and carefully picks me up bridal style. Sirens sound in the background. "Hold on baby..." He sprints out a back entrance and breaks open a random car window. He throws me in the back of the car and gets in the front. "Hold on baby... I'll get you some help." I whimper and look at my wound again, my skin is peeling and turning different shades of the rainbow, which can't be good. I pass out just as he starts the car.

~End of Flashback~

The pain in my side returns, a sign that it is time for a new outlet. I start to brush out Jade's hair. "How'd you know I'm afraid of fire?" She shrugs but doesn't move her head.

"I'm good at reading people... And I could see it in your eyes." She pauses. "What does it remind you of?"

"A lot of things... None of them good." I can tell she wants to ask about them, but someone knocks on the door. Logan leans against the doorframe with his arms crossed.

"Charles wants to see you."

Jade's POV

I get up from the bed and walk over to the concerned looking Logan. He ruffles my hair when I walk by him. "You okay kid?" I shake my hair and wrinkle my nose.

"I'm not a baby Logan." He grins and laughs at me.

"Yeah babies can't lift the world like you can." I think for a minute.

"I'm gonna take that as a compliment..." He rolls his eyes and pushes me forward.

"Just go." I walk down the hallway and stop at the Professor's room. I peek in and see Aaron already standing there. He's leaning against the wall with his hands in his pockets and his head down. Dan is also there, standing on the opposite side of the door. His eyes light up when he sees Belle walk in.

"Come in Jade." I slowly step through the door and look at everyone. Aaron glances up at me and slowly shakes his head. "Storm, turn on the T.V." She presses the power button on the remote and the news pops up.

"Oh..." The building that was on fire was the main story. Someone had gotten a view of it on their phone. When I look closely enough I can see Aaron walk past a window and me scaling the side of the building. A few minutes past and there we are, all four of us standing in the alley... Just seen walking through a wall. "Not good." Storm turns the T.V. off and turns to me, her stormy eyes darkening.

"So this was your idea?" I avoid her gaze and stare at te floor. "Answer me Jade."

"Maybe."

"Do you know how hard it is going to be for Charles to cover this up?" Thunder sounds outside.

"Storm, give her a break, she was only tryin to hel-"

"Don't defend her Logan! She can't just go running into burning buildings and save people!"

"Why not!" I look from Storm to the Professor. "Why is it wrong for me to do something good?" The Professor lets out a heavy sigh.

"It's not that you did the wrong thing Jade, it's that you chose to do a very public thing." I bite my lip and lean against the wall.

"I was just trying to do the right thing for once." I hang my head, my hair falls in front of my face and everyone stares at me.

"You know what, this is stupid." Aaron finally speaks and I look over to him. "She did a good thing, so stop yelling at her. Charles can fix it so he will." He points at Storm accusingly, his eyes darkening, "And don't you DARE yell at her like that ever again." A smile forms on my lips and Aaron looks over at me, he's now chewing on the inside of his cheek. I mouth the words thank you and he smiles at me and winks. Not in a sexy way but a 'I've got your back' way. The Professor smiles.

"Well done Aaron." Everyone looks at him surprisingly but he just straightens the papers on his desk. He looks up and shoos us away with his hands, "You may leave now." I let everyone walk out before me, and just as I am turning to go he calls me out. "Jade." I turn with wide eyes. "Good job." He smiles at me and I leave the room with a lighter feeling.

Belle walks by my bedroom door, she's zipping up her leather jacket. "Belle!" I run to my door and stick my head into the hallway. "Where ya going?" She shrugs her shoulders.

"On a walk." She gestures down the hallway, asking if I want to go too. I sprint to her and start walking. "It's cold outside." I look at her closely. Her eyes are big and sad. Her hair is hanging in front of her face and she keeps her head down.

"I'll be okay." She nods and starts walking with me. The wind is blowing hard, the leaves fly in the air. I stare at the ground and try to catch them under my feet. A small giggle escapes Belle's lips. I turn to her, hoping to finally get some words out of her but she just turns her head the other way. We both continue walking into a park, where she sits down to take a break. I'm shivering and my teeth are chattering.

"I told you to bring a jacket." She takes hers off and wraps it around my shoulders.

"No, you take it." I try to give it back to her but she won't accept it. "Izabelle you'll go numb!"

"That's what I'm hoping for." She mumbles under her breath. I don't know how to get her to talk about something better. I look at her wrist and notice something I hadn't before.

"What's this mean?" I grab her hand and observe her tattoo. It's a heart that looks like it's made of a patchwork quilt, and there's a needle through it. She turns her wrist so that I can see it better.

"It means that I'm in broken pieces but I still work." She looks up at me with a bit of amusement in her eyes. "I have more, wanna see?"

Belle's POV

Jade grins and nods. I've never had sometime who has been genuinely interested in my tattoos. I pull down my sleeve and turn around so that she an see the monarch butterfly I have on my left shoulder blade. "I have this one to remind me that I don't belong anywhere." Jade stares in awe.

"Gorgeous." I pull up my shirt a tiny bit to reveal my lower stomach. I have a crown of thorns wrapped around my waist.

"This is a sign of how no one can get in. No one can get close to me without being hurt." I wait for her to tell me it's not true. But she doesn't. She just stares and smiles, respecting the art. Little does she know, that's all I want her to do. I also show her the skull tattooed on the inside of my ear and the black widow spider on my neck. I described the quote under my right boob because I couldn't show her, it said 'thicker than blood'. Her eyes move up my stomach.

"What's this?" She rolls up my shirt farther and reveals my burn. I pull down my shirt as fast as I can but its too late. Her eyes stay the same. "Izabelle... When did this happen?" She doesn't ask how or why, as if she already knows.

"Awhile ago... It's nothing... Just ignore it..." I get off the bench and start walking really fast to the exit of the park. She runs and catches up to me.

"A fire did this to you. That's why you're afraid." She doesn't ask it like a question, more like she's just stating a fact. I nod my head.

"And every once in awhile the pain returns... Which is why I get a new tattoo..."

"To numb the pain." I look at her with surprise. How is it that she can understand all these things about me without me saying a word. "Come on." She grabs my hand. "I know where we are going now." We walk down the street until we arrive at the tattoo parlor place. She pulls me in and sits me down. The man behind the desk tells us that he will be right with us, so Jade starts prepping me. "So any ideas?"

"I never actually said I was going here..." She pulls up my shirt and starts wiping down the center of my lower back. My scar wraps around from above my right hip to my back.

"I told you I'm good at reading people." She gingerly touches the edges if my burn. "You know what? I have an idea for you." I turn my head and look at her out if the corner of my eyes.

"And what is that?"

"Well... fire is seen as a destroyer of life. But what most people forget is... From the ashes new life is born." She traces a design with her finger on my back. "You should get a flower right," she runs her finger from my lower back up about three inches, "here." I nod, liking the idea. The man walks in and gets to work.

Jade's POV

Belle takes a deep breath as the man starts. "Does that hurt?" She shakes her head. A smile creeps onto her lips and I realize that she enjoys the pain. When he is finished there was a beautiful blue flower growing up Belle's back from the bottom of her spine to the middle of her back. The flower is open, its petals new, and thorns are scattered across the stem. At the bottom, I can see that it is growing from a pile of ashes.

"How's it look?" Belle holds up her shirt higher and smiles into the mirror. I give her a thumbs up.

"Well I'm gonna go finish up with another customer, come get me when you want to pay." She thanks him and walks over to the wall with tattoo designs.

"You're not planning on getting another one are you?" She turns to me with an evil grin.

"Not me... you." I back up slowly.

"Yeah... not gonna happen." She nods her head slowly and grabs me by the hand. Luckily for me, just as she's about to make me make a decision, the man walks out from behind a curtain.

"Pleasure to see ya Dan." Both of our jaws drop as a shirtless Dan walks out from behind the curtain. He's in the process of putting his shirt back on but we both get a view of his V-line and multiple tattoos wrapped around his torso. He pulls his shirt over his head and ruffles his hair. When he catches us looking at him he smirks and winks. It seems that he has gotten a few additions to the sleeves going up and down each arm as well as his ears stretched. He makes his way over to us and plants his feet right between us.

"Hello ladies." I barely turn my head to see Belle blushing deeply and biting her lip.

"I'm gonna go-" I realize that neither of them are paying attention to me, they are too busy having eye sex with eachother, "Never mind." I walk out the door and sit on the bench and wait to here the bell ring on the door again. Belle and Dan walk out and head the other way, standing very close to eachother. They head further downtown, but I turn around to make my way back to the mansion. I climb over the gate which I realize is uneccesary, but it's fun. Kids are screaming and laughing, running around the front yard playing tag.

"Jade!" Tanner, a little boy with chrystal clear eyes runs over to me. He's blind, but his senses are unbelievebly strong. The others all freeze and run over to me as well, shouting my name.

"Hi guys..." My eyes graze the front lawn. "Are you guys out here alone? Or..."

"Boo." A deep raspy sound comes from behind me, warm hands grab ahold of my hips. My hands travel down to the invisible pair that have placed themselves on me.

"Hey kid." He spins me around and reappears before my eyes.

"We just started a game of tag, would you like to play?" The kids start cheering for me to join, even though I'm not one for games. "Come on Jade." He flashes me a childish smile and I give in and start to count.

"Get ready." I push Aaron backwards and turn to the kids. "Get set." They sqeal and start getting jumpy. "Go!"

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