This is my first fanfiction so please be kind. I hope everyone enjoys it and R&R. Little bit of Lexa/Jesse and Shalimar/Brennan. This story is set before the last episode "The Assult". I've been working on the relationships so they may not be exactly like they were on the show. Anyways enjoy!!

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Characters: Lexa Pierce, Jesse Kilmartin, Shalimar Fox, Brennan

Mulwray, Alyssa Valentine, Cassidy Connors and Ian Roberts.

Plot: The discovery of three new mutants and unknown family

Relations. Struggling to save and protect while fighting a masked enemy.

Chapter one: "A rare day in Mutant X"

In Sanctuary

(Shalimar and Lexa are just getting back from a day of shopping; Brennan is reading poetry; Jesse is researching stuff on the computer. A rare day in mutant x when no one is out saving the world!)

"We're back!" Shalimar calls out playfully, "Where are they, it's so quiet in here." She says to Lexa.

"A rare day in mutant x." Lexa replies.

"A rare day indeed," Shalimar calls out again, " Jesse, Bren… you guys?"

"Like the calm before the storm." Lexa says to herself.

"Lex, you really have to stop being so negative," gives Lexa a long look then sees Brennan, "Oh, here's Bren."

"Ya, Ya, we hear you," Brennan looks up from his poetry book as Shalimar and Lexa walk into the living room, "What's up?"

"Well, I got these cute shoes for 60 percent off and Lex got this cool dress and then-"

Brennan cuts Shalimar off and throws his hands up, "Forget I asked."

Shalimar looks hurt and Lexa says, "Don't feel bad, Shal, men are always like that," then throwing Brennan a steely look, "Especially tall, dark haired, elemental men."

"You guys done?" Jesse looks around the group, "Good, 'cause someone has to go down to one of the abandoned safehouses with me. Any volunteers?"

"Why, I mean if it's abandoned then…" Lexa looks at Jesse questioningly.

"Right, let me clarify, there has been some suspicious activity goin' on lately.

"Like what?" Shalimar and Lexa ask at the same time.

Brennan pipes in, "I'll tell you what," pauses and then goes on in a spooky voice, "…ghosts of mutants murdered by evil GSA agents come back to get revenge!"

Shalimar punches Brennan playfully, "yay, right," laughs, "Jess, what's really going on, anything we should be worried about?"

"No, not that I know of, but someone did try to hack into our computers here in sanctuary from a computer in the safehouse." Jesse tells the group.

Lexa looks baffled, "How??"

"I don't know, but who ever it is, is really good at hacking, so good it makes me think that it may be a new mutant we're dealing with." Jesse continues only to be cut off by Brennan, "No ghost… oh darn!"

Shalimar yawns, "I'm ready for a cat nap, maybe later okay, Jess."

"Hey Shal, I'll join you," Brennan calls after her.

" I meant alone…" Shalimar's eyes go yellow-green and she glares at Brennan, "…So I can sleep." Her eyes go back to normal and she winks at Bren, "Maybe later."

Jesse and Lexa say in unison, "Ewwwwww."

"Well, I'm in Jess, so when do we go?"

"Thanks Lex, we go now."

"Bren, you coming." Jesse asks

"Naw, I'll stay here, read some more poetry, you know." Looks in Shalimar's direction.

Lexa rolls her eyes and says under her breath, "Ya, we know… ya, right!"

Jesse chuckles, but Brennan is oblivious, "See you guys later."

In The Helix

(Jesse's flying the helix and Lexa is looking out the window wrapped up in her own thoughts.)

"Hey Lex, what's cooking?"

"What," Looks up startled at Jesse then replies, " I was just thinking about the call I got from the dominion before, Shal and I went shopping." She pauses, looks at Jesse, "Well, the safehouse thing maybe more than we first thought."

Jesse looks at Lexa waiting for her to continue, when she doesn't he says, "Lexa, you're gonna have to give me a little more than that to go on."

"The dominion doesn't know much-"

"-As usual." Jesse cuts in much to Lexa's exasperation.

"But they do know that a new mutant with powerful abilities is 'causing havoc'." Lexa continues.

"What type of havoc?" Jesse asks suspiciously.

"They didn't say, just that she has the potential to be deadly." Lexa responds.

"Which really means they want her to work for them. 'Either you're with us or you're against us'." Jesse mimics their dominion contact.

"Here we are," announces Jesse, "the secret safehouse…that the GSA found." Jesse ends in a sigh.

"I don't see anything."

"That was the idea, the door is hidden around the corner where a password is entered onto a keypad. All mutant had a password and ID. Once in, a tunnel leads underground where we had cameras and sensors set up. Then there is a door hidden in the wall at the end of the hall." Jesse explains.

"Sounds pretty secure." Lexa contributes.

"Well, yes, so we thought, but obviously it wasn't enough. The GSA broke in and six mutants were killed and seven others were taken to Geonomex for," Jesse shivers, "further observation." They sit in silence for a while both lost in their own thoughts.

Back At Sanctuary

(Brennan and Shal are getting all mushy in her room.)

"I thought I told you I wanted to sleep, Brennan."

"Ya well, maybe I could change your mind." Brennan drawls slowly.

"You're dreaming." Shalimar pushes Brennan away playfully. "Let's go work out."

"I thought you were tired." Brennan says to Shalimar pretending to look surprised.

"Well, I feel like working out now." Quickly gets up and leaves the room. Brennan follows teasing her, "Bet I can whoop yo ass!"

"Guess we'll have to see about that." Her eyes turn yellow-green and she darts off with Brennan close at her heals.

At The Safehouse

"It defiantly looks like someone's been living here," Picks up an empty carton of milk and some left over take out. "Who ever it is like Chinese food." Jesse looks around some more, "It can't just be one person, judging by the mess it has to be two… maybe three people."

"What, kids?" asks Lexa.

"Maybe new mutants, teenagers having fun or just normal runaways."

"Normal??" Lexa looks at Jesse, "I doubt that. Whoever broke those locks was a genus, either that or they can walk through walls." Looks skeptically around and wrinkles her nose at the left over food.

"I resent that comment, I walk though walls." Jesse responds in defense.

"You know what I mean, Jesse." Looks kindly at Jesse, "I'd never make fun of you." Looks up startled. "Did you hear that? Someone's coming." Lexa looks towards the noise and Jesse instinctively moves closer to Lexa in a protective gesture.

(Three teens walk into the room not expecting anyone to be there, two girls and a boy. They see the intruders and start to take off; the blond haired boy with freckles trips and falls. The two girls start to put up a fight in frightened defense.)

"Leave us alone or you will regret it." The black haired girl says her eyes glowing an eerie green color.

"Cass, come on let's just get outta here," The other girl says to her feral friend while helping the boy up. They start to run off.

Jesse calls after them, "Wait, we only want to help." There is a long pause and the teens stop running, "Ever heard of Mutant x?" Jesse ventures.

"What about them?" The two girls say at the same time.

"We are them." Lexa says pointedly.

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Please review, I will post more chapters if i get some reviews. For now onward to Chapter Two: The Discovery:)