Marital hot waters...

Sitting up in bed and yawning into his hand, Johnny Storm checked the clock by his bedside and frowned at the time of day it way. Looking around his bedroom, the Human Torch winced at the sight of new scorch marks in the walls, microbursts of heat from having a rough night of it.

“Well… At least everything is fire…”

“YOU DID WHAT?!”

“Proof…” Wincing at the sound of his sister screaming at the top of her lungs out in the living room, Johnny checked the clock on his side table again and decided he could rest for another half-hour.

*

“You had SEX with my husband?!”

Pacing and storming back and forth in the living room, Sue was beside herself, literally! Scratching her fingers through her hair in frustration after the proverbial bomb was dropped in her lap by the wendigo version of her rolling her eyes and scoffing at her reaction on the recliner seat.

“How long have you known?”

“Pff… Days, I could smell it off her after that first night, I’m surprised you didn’t. Oh right, you don’t have this keen nose of mine.” She smirked, pointing a clawed finger at her feline nose with a wink.

“Well at least I have an excuse! I’m a succubus, I need sexual energy to live.” Explained the blue skinned demon woman, finally getting the courage to step out of her hiding place in the kitchen to face the Invisible Woman. “I mean… Is it really cheating if its with the same woman he’s married to?”

“REED isn’t married to YOU! He’s married to ME!” Eyeing the other versions of her in the room with an icy stare, Susan pointed an accusing finger at the others. “Who else here tried to get a piece of Reed? Hmm?”

Immediately the model threw her hands up in defense and slide her chair back, as did the former sex **** who looked up at the Invisible Woman like she was the most terrifying woman in the room. Even the four-armed alien folded her arms under her bust and curled her tail around her ankles, a pout on her lip at the accusation. “Believe me, I’d LOVE to, but I don’t want to give Reed any night terrors.”

“Well…” Spoke out the hologram, scratching her chin, she shrugged her shoulders. “If we’re coming clean now…”

Breathing in sharply, Sue looked like she was about to leap across the room to throttle the hologram, just as the digital woman looked back at her and give her an incredulous look back. “Oh, come ON! I’m not even in this place, I’m parked in the garage under the first floor, and I’m a HOLOGRAM! Having sex with your husband is the equivalent of him jerking off to photos of you. I’m not real.”

“Honey…” Trying to calm his wife down, Reed instantly sat back when the woman gave him a look of pure rage and betrayal, just as the Invisible Woman pointed down at his chest and conjured a spot of **** to pin him back in his chair.

“You don’t get a say in this Reed! Heh… Honestly, did you enjoy it with them MORE than with me?”

“Hey! That’s enough!” Barked the Succubus, her hands at her sides and her wings unfurled as she approached the couple. “Believe me, I didn’t look like THIS when I visited him in bed.” Closing her eyes, the succubus’s appearance changed, her horns and wings retracted back into her body as did her prehensile tail. Her cloven feet split into delicate toes and her skin and hair changed from a sky blue and platinum to a soft peach and blonde. Opening her vibrant blue eyes, the now human woman crossed her arms and glared back at the angry woman with the same expression. “If you are going to blame anyone for screwing things up, blame me, but if you do, I hope you like hating your reflection because THIS is what he fell in love with, not the other gal.”

Stepping back and slumping her arms to her sides, Sue looked around to the other versions of herself with a look of total defeat. She was right. Reed did not cheat on her, not really. These women were not total strangers, they were her, they were all her. Looking back at the guilt-ridden look on Reed’s face and the way he looked up at her, Sue could not hold back her emotions and disappeared. Seconds later, the front door sprung wide open and the sounds of running footsteps could be heard in the distance.

“SUZIE!”

Running after her out the door, Reed looked down the hallway and spotted the emergency door to the stairs snap shut. It would be impossible to find her like she was now, not until she would calm down. Still standing in the hallway, he felt several hands touch his arm and shoulder. Looking back to the door he found the other Susans exiting the entrance to join him in the hallway, giving mixed efforts to comfort the man as the Succubus waved her arms and regained her previous appearance, conjuring clothing for the others to wear.

“Don’t worry Reed, she’s mad at us, not you. We’ll find her.”

Feeling a heavy clawed hand rest on his shoulder just a kiss was planted on the back of his head, Reed looked up to the wendigo woman giving him a sad smile before winking down at him. “Yeah, just keep an eye on the bad ones and getting that gate back up, we’ll find Sue, I’ve got an idea of where she’s going anyway.”

I’m coming too!” Called out the model, the **** in tow behind her by the wrist as they stepped out the door and followed the others into the elevator. “We’ll get her back, it’s the least I can do after she helped me.”

Standing alone in the hallway of his apartment, Reed stepped back inside and closed the door behind him, slowly slumping down the surface of the door until he was sitting on the floor. Looking up, he found his brother-in-law stepping out into the living room with a toothbrush in his mouth, just now catching Mr. Fantastic sitting there.

“So… What did I miss?”