Hey everyone, so this is my third Mutant X Fanfiction, please read and review, let me know what you think.

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Recruited

Chapter 1

Jesse had been sitting in front of the computer for 5 hours now; he was upgrading part of sanctuaries security system. This new sanctuary was almost identical to the old one which had been destroyed by the dominion a month ago. Adam had had it built when he realised the Dominion were not the good guys they pretended to be. The last month had been rough on all of them, after the explosion at the Dominion facility the team had stayed in a motel room for two weeks trying to figure out what they were going to do.

Their home, Sanctuary, had been destroyed along with Helix, Adam had been taken captive by the Dominion and the creator and to make matters worse, everyone but him still had still not had their genetic structures fixed. During that time Lexa's words as they were running away from the exploding Dominion facility had stuck in his mind.

'Everybody here except Jesse is living under a death sentence'

It had made him feel very guilty about being the only one who was safe; Lexa had not meant to make him feel like that but regardless the words had constantly spun around in his head. The day after the explosion Lexa had confided in Jesse that the Dominion had told her that her expiration date was close. Jesse had spent the following week and half trying to find out how to cure the others but had not been able to. That's when they received information from Lexa's old Dominion contact; he had sent them the location of the facility Adam was being held in and the blue print to go with it. They spent the next two days studying the blue prints and coming up with a plan.

They infiltrated the facility and got inside thanks to Jesse's ability to phase, Lexa's ability to turn invisible and Shalimar's incredible feral senses. Once inside the building they had to spilt up, Adam would be in one of two locations. Jesse had gone with Shalimar since he could mass and phase them away from any danger. Lexa had gone with Brennan since she could render them both invisible.

Jesse and Shalimar found Adam locked up in one of the labs, they had called Brennan and Lexa over the comm. Links, they hadn't made it to their locations, they had run into a bunch of guards on the way and were now trapped. Lexa had tried turning them both invisible to escape, but the guards had continued firing and given the small room they were in, were almost hit within two seconds of leaving their cover, forced to returned to it.

The alarms in the entire building went off and Jesse, Shalimar and Adam had raced through the corridors in the direction of Brennan and Lexa. They had found them still pinned down in the same room. They had taken out some of the guards that were firing at their friends and distracted the others long enough for Brennan and Lexa to break cover and take them out too. The five of them had made their way out of the building stopping occasionally to fight another group of guards. After they had escaped the Dominion facility they had made it back to their motel room where Adam had told them about the second Sanctuary he had had built. Before they had been able to leave the motel room the Dominion had tracked them down, after some phasing, blasting and general kicking ass they had fought their way out of the motel. Adam had led them here, to their new home, Jesse was still trying to get use to it, it might look virtually identical to their old Sanctuary but it wasn't the same. The rest of the team looked like they were still trying to settle in too.

His computer in front of him beeped indicating the update was complete and bringing Jesse back out of his reverie.

"So you finally finished then?" He turned and saw Lexa walking into the room with a smile on her face, one he happily returned. She was one of the only good things to happen in the last month. After they escaped from the first Dominion facility they had become much closer, in fact she had become much closer to the entire team, but especially to him. She had opened up and expressed her true feeling for him and he had told her that he loved her too. He had known all along that behind the defences she put up to keep herself from getting hurt, there was a beautiful person capable of more love than anyone would believe was possible. He had seen it in her the moment he met her and she had shown it to him on the odd occasion that she had let her guard slip and it had been there plain to see. But then she had always realised what she had done and as quickly as her defences had fallen she raised them up again. This was different though, her defences had begun to fall and she wasn't raising them again, at least not to him.

Then had come one of the most awful experiences of his life, just after they arrived at Sanctuary she had collapsed into a full blown, violent seizure. Both he and Brennan had struggled to hold her body still to keep her from hurting herself; they managed between them to get her to the med lab where her body finally stopped seizing after a few minutes. Adam told them it was her expiration date but that whilst the Dominion had been holding him captive he had been researching the cure for mutant instability and had found it a couple of days earlier. He had spent the next couple of hours synthesising it with a little help from Jesse. Brennan and Shalimar had remained vigilantly at Lexa's side the whole time. Lexa had woken up several hours after Adam gave her the cure and then he had given it to Shalimar and Brennan.

Lexa walked up to him and sat on his lap, her arms went around his neck and his went around her waist.

"Almost"

"Jesse you've been in here for hours and I have to tell you as your girlfriend, I'm feeling neglected" she said smiling.

"Well then we'll just have to do something about that" he replied kissing her passionately, a kiss she happily returned. It was then he felt something hit the back of his head.

"Get a room you two"

Jesse pulled back from Lexa and looked at the screwed up piece of paper now on the floor behind him and looked up to find the perpetrators walking in. Brennan sat on the nearby sofa and Shalimar curled up next to him as Brennan put his arm around her.

"At least you finally managed to make him take his eyes of the computer" Shalimar said to Lexa "That's more than I can do"

"I have a slight advantage" Lexa said and the two women started giggling. Jesse watched as Brennan rolled his eyes at the pair and then turned to Jesse.

"Have you finished your security upgrades?"

"Almost, I just have a few adjustments to make, shouldn't take me more than 10 minutes" he said as he manoeuvred around Lexa who was still sitting on his lap, unable to bring himself to remove her from her current position he reached around her to the keyboard and finished his upgrades.

"Finished"

Brennan looked up as Jesse declared he had finally finished his upgrades, he had said it would only take another 10 minutes and that had been half an hour ago. Shalimar and Lexa had taken the helix into town to get dinner almost 20 minutes ago. He stood up and patted Jesse on the back.

"Good, you can come back and join the rest of us in the real world then"

"Adam, Brennan, Jesse" Lexa's voice came over the comm. System "Dinner" Brennan and Jesse both shot up and headed over to the dinning area to find Chinese food waiting for them on the table. They all sat down to eat and when Adam still hadn't shown up Brennan called him again over the comm. System.

"Yo Adam, You're foods getting cold hurry up"

Adam walked in a minute later and sat down "Sorry guys" he said as he sat down.

"What were you doing anyway?"

"I found another Dominion facility; I think the creator is there"

"What makes you think that?"

"I got some anonymous information"

"Someone sent it here?" Shalimar asked slightly panicked.

"No, no I have a private computer database in a hidden location, if people want to get in touch with me or leave me a message they can leave it there, I check it every couple of hours so I always get the information quickly"

"Why didn't you tell us about this?"

"It just never came up I guess"

Brennan was a little wary, but he was starting to trust Adam again. Over the last two weeks he had been very open with the team, he had never once failed to give them all the information they needed and he hadn't tried to evade questions, if they had asked he had answered.

After they had rescued him from the Dominion he had become somewhat withdrawn, he felt like an outsider when he saw how much the team had changed and how much closer they had all become, especially to Lexa who was as much a part of the family as any of them. They had also had to spend a lot of the last two weeks convincing him he was still the same Adam he had always been, the fact that he knew where he came from and that it was somewhat different to where most people come from didn't matter, he was still the same person. In fact he had more in common with them now; he wasn't a typical human being, just like the rest of the team. It had taken some time but Adam had learnt to accept his past and move on, he was becoming his old self again quickly. As a result the team had decided unanimously that Adam would resume his role as the leader of Mutant X, partly because it was the most practical solution and it made the best use of everyone's abilities including his but mostly because it felt right, like it was suppose to be that way.

"So do we have blue prints or anything?"

"No, if we go in, we go in blind"

"It could be a trap"

"I know but what choice do we have, this is the only lead we've had on the creator in a month"

"Alright, when do we leave?"

"In a couple of hours"