Note: I don't own F4 or any of the characters. Enough said.

Rain drizzled down on the remaining members of the fantastic four. It matched the tears of Sue Storm.

She could build force fields and become invisible but she couldn't fight nor hide her emotions now. She scanned the cemetery. The whole city was there paying their respects to a fallen hero. She knew that they were all saddened but none of them were truly grieving. Except for her and her two comrades.

She looked back at the two of them. One of them gave her a weak smile. The other stared hard at the ground.

She smiled at this. He was even worse at dealing with feelings than she was.

She turned back to the mahogany coffin. It was closed now. The three of them had picked it out together. She reached out and touched it with her palm.

She leaned over it and whispered, "can you hear me? I love you." The coffin began to be lowered into the six-foot hole and she could watch no more. She covered her mouth with her hand a walked away. Her long blond hair blowing in the wind as the rain continued to hit her face, adding to her misery, mocking her.

She knew that the other two wouldn't come after her, that she just needed time alone.

She remembered it so vividly. It was a routine job. There was a mini van. It went over the bridge. Into the lake. There was a mother and two small children in the back. Three of them had dived in. One climbed into the mini van to retrieve the children. The van filled up with water so fast. The family was taken ashore. But he had been sealed in the van. The others had worked to get him out.

By the time they got him to the surface he had drowned. She refused to accept it. She cried. The family cried. Sue's teammates cried. It had been all over the News.

'Fantastic member dies in line of duty.'

She hated it. After all the dangers that they had faced to lose someone now over something this mundane.

She didn't know whom to hate for it. God? The stupid woman who drove her van into the water? Those kids who were unable to help themselves? The remaining two men in her life? Or the one who left her? The one with such a big heart?

Finally frustrated with the rain she threw up a force field over her head and dropped to her knees. She let her pride and strength diminish and sobbed loudly to the sky. She just prayed that he was watching them now and that her team, her "family" could survive this and live to see the sun again.

TBC

Authors Note: My fist F4 fic. I was reading around and couldn't help but noticing the lack of death fics. Don't mean to be a downer but I just enjoy the drama. So please be kind when you R&R, and please do R&R. Can you guess who's funeral it is? Well you'll find out soon enough.