playing with fire -- open

[scarlett mckenzie]

<sub>To anyone watching the forest at that exact moment it would appear completely and utterly lifeless, as if no one was there. But there was one person there, a person using her ability to gather light into a sheild and use it to create the appearance of invisibility. Alongside the invisibilty there came the chance to change her appearance when she focused very hard on her task. However as she liked her look she wasn't really in a hurry to change it. With long blonde hair and high raised cheekbones she fit her codename so well, Fatale. She was fatal.

The only other part of her power that was at all handy for her to use was that of being a very strong teleporter, being able to pop large groups of people or heavy objects from one place to another in the blink of an eye. It had helped her many times when her posioned blade hadn't been successful in taking out whatever scum had chose to battle her. Because her power was not an offensive one Fatale had had to learn martial arts and how to weild a sword, it was the only way to prevent to forever having to run away from fights because she had no tools to fight with. Everyone thought her defenceless until she pulled her blade on them and suddenly it was them running around as she jumped from place to place around them, taking jab after jab.

Letting her invisibilty drop she continued her patrol of the forest, making sure that no one bothered to get too close, or she'd have them in a moment. Scarlett was cold as ice and could kill without a d**n in the world. It was that that made her dangerous, not her ability...</sub>

[tyler mccormick]

Tyler looked up at the sky and sighed. He breathed in deeply and for whatever reason it was he just wanted to be gone. Disappear without anyone knowing. He hated everyone at the camp and he especially hated Magneto. What a scum bag. He sneered at the thought then thought about the people who were alright. His mind then raced when he thought of Scarlett. She was utterly beautiful and deadlier then most. He just crossed his arm's and sighed again.

[scarlett mckenzie]

_{Sensing the presence of another person by her shere uptight nature she spun around to search for her intruder and was amazed to find that it was non other than Tyler McCormick, a fellow Brotherhood member and a good looking one to boot. She wondered momentarily what brought him all the way into the forest baring in mind it was not his time to patrol and gave him a small smile in welcome. "Something troubling you Tyler?" Her voice was low and gentle, a perfect southern lilt from her childhood growing up in New Orleans.}

[tyler mccormick]

Tyler looked down and saw Scarlett. She was too beautiful. He smiled and waved. "Yeah." He yelled a little. "I'm good." he said with a sigh. He wanted to tell her how he felt, but it was Scarlett. Most men she was around, she intimidated. He closed his eyes and searched for her power and just needed it for a second. He opened his eyes again to have them be pitch black. He closed them again and teleported right in front of her. He opened his eyes again, regaining his old eye color.

[scarlett mckenzie]

_{Scarlett knew when she was being lied to, it was another factor of her 'I don't trust anyone, I stick up for myself' way of life that her served her well in past years with the Brotherhood. She knew that she intimidated people with her clear cut word and sharp intelligence, but how else was she meant to win in a fight?! Nearly everyone in the Brotherhood had an ability that could be used for offensive, hers seemed best catered for running away and running away had never been something she took pride in. So when he popped up in front of her, back packing her own ability, she fixed him with a gaze. "Truth this time please Copy-Cat?"}

[tyler mccormick]

He rubbed the back of his head and sighed once more for her. "I just have a lot on my mind." A lot on his mind? Of course he had a lot on his mind! No one in the brotherhood had his power. The others looked to him to defeat most of the X-men. He could take others powers and use them for his own good. Mimic them, in a way. Magneto was all over him, the brotherhood was relentless, and all he could think about was Scarlett.

[scarlett mckenzie]

_{Scarlett gave him a look, one of someone trying to assess the truth behind his words and not getting very far. She knew the pressures he was under and she wished she could do something to help about it. Tyler had always been a good friend to her over the years he'd been a member of the Brotherhood, and she loved him for it, and now it was clear that he needed her for some reason or another. She needed to get to the bottom of whatever he was stressing over and help him abollish it one way or another. "Care to explain the lot that's on your mind?" She asked in a slightly softer tone than she used in normal day life, taking a seat on a broken tree trunk and indicating the one next to her for him to sit and talk to her, she was all ears.}

[tyler mccormick]

Tyler smiled lightly and teleported to the spot right next to her. He laughed softly and looked up into her eyes. "Ive always loved your powers." He looked down at the ground and yawned a bit. "Magneto won't get off me. The brotherhood is looking up to me and I don't know if I can take it." Just like his power. You can't push it too far. He almost died for trying to absorb two powers at once. He sighed again and laughed. He hated having others feel sorry for him. The fact is he was lonely, he had no one to really talk to.

[scarlett mckenzie]

_{When he flashed to her side she smiled, it was nice to see him relax, even for the briefest of moments and just play around with his ability, or her's anyway, but hey she was happy to lend it out if it made him feel better. "It comes in handy." She admitted with a warm smile. Then he started on about what was the matter and she nodded her head, she thought so. The Brotherhood had a way of leaning heavily on it's major players to make sure they got as far as they could as quickly as they could, that was why they were on the hunt for Jean Grey, or any class 5 mutant again. They wanted to have the biggest bully in the playground, simple as that. "You could leave you know, if it's truly making you unhappy." Scarlett knew that a soldier that didn't want to be there was useless, so why not make himself happier and just leave? She'd still remain close friends with him no matter what affiliation he chose, as long as she breathed he would never be alone, not like she had been when she first turned to the Brotherhood. Throwing a delicate arm around his shoulders she gave him a squeeze for comfort.}

[tyler mccormick]

He smiled when she comforted him, but the problem was he had one reason not to leave. He looked at Scarlett and then looked at the ground. What would she want to do with him? They were in a war. No love in war. He stood and took the chance. He looked down at her and breathed in deeply. "I think..." He stopped himself and then breathed in again. "I love you." he said simply. He always has. Since the first day he joined th brotherhood, something about her made him drool.

[scarlett mckenzie]

_{Of all the things to come out of his mouth that was the last thing Scarlett expected, and it scared her senseless. Scarlett McKenzie didn't do love. She did casual flings and one night stands! Or at least she thought she did... If she was honest the idea of being in love terrified her. She loved Tyler, a lot, but him coming out saying it just made everything more complicated. It had been ok for her to feel certain things as long as they weren't returned. So in the very nature of her ability, she ran. She loved him too but people she loved ended up dead one or another, and she couldn't lose somebody else. She teleported herself to another part of the forest, before realising that as he seemed to have her ability on tracker, he could also track her. She couldn't run away from it.}

[tyler mccormick]

Whats the point in running after someone who doesn't want to be around you? He sighed and punch the tree they were sitting on. Of course she wouldn't love him. He punched another tree and realized he could track her down. He reached deep down and found a power he took. His eyes turned black. He engulfed his body in fire and flew into the air. He flew high up and finally was out of the forest. He just flew higher up. Just wanting to die. It wasn't the fact that she didn't love him and she ran. It was the fact that he said it in the first place. He flew higher, realizing he would reach the "No Air Zone".

[scarlett mckenzie]

_{It was a good thing that for a girl Scarlett was highly highly observant, so when she saw the fireball shoot up in the air she swore and focused all the light around her to give her a lift as she shot off on possibly the most dangerous teleport she would ever perform. Picturing what she had seen clearly in her mind she felt that strange sucking feeling as if she was being flushed through a tube, and found herself in midair next to him. "Hell no!" She cried as she grabbed him by the arm and flashed them both down to earth before they got killed, but in doing so severly burnt her hand on the flames. Once they were both back on the floor she grabbed at her hand and tried her hardest to find some way of cooling it. "As stunts go that was pretty good." Even when in intense pain she could still find her sense of humor. "Just because I'm terrified of being in love with you is no excuse for you to go all suicidal!" She raved through gritted teeth as she continued to clash her burnt hand.}

[tyler mccormick]

He felt a tug and landed hard onto the forest floor. The place he was escaping. He looked down at her burnt hands and felt guilty. He searched deep within him and found a mutants power. He opened his eyes and knew they were pitch black. His hands glowed bright pink. He sat down next to her and grabbed her hands. He held them tight within his and felt her warmth. He let go of her hands and smiled softly. He didn't say a word. He closed his eyes and reopened them, having them be his old eye color. "All better..." he said softly.

[scarlett mckenzie]

_{It was that tenderness that she loved about Tyler. That underneath all the rough exterior and the power there was a marshmellow of a heart in her opinion. The feeling of him holding her hands so gently to heal what he'd been the cause of made her smile lightly. Then the soft smile he gave when he declared she was all better tugged at something deeper than her usual 'aww that's cute' thing she often used to deflect from when she felt something more real. Leaning forward she brushed her lips against his and then pulled back instantly, waiting to see what reaction it would give.}