Disclaimer: I don't own Mutant X. Evie is my character. The idea for part of the evil plot was gleaned from an episode of Star Trek: TNG. They get the credit.

Something Beautiful

A sequel to Adam's Eve

The continuing story in the lives of Mutant X after the arrival of Evie is finally here. It is a love story in all sense of the term. I have tried to work in the lives of all the team members and keep up the action as much as possible. If it is all I hope for, you will laugh, cry, be angry and happy.

Entire story revised.

/Personal thoughts/

~~telepathic communications~~

Chapter 1

It had been six months since Evie moved into Sanctuary. She was sitting in her room recalling the events that brought her to this point in her life. Every day seemed like a new adventure. She was enjoying this time as she was getting to know each person and learning all she could.

Jesse taught her to use all the computers in Sanctuary. She was amazed as he taught her how to hack into outside systems and gain information and control. He told her there would be times when she would be manning ops while the team was out on a mission. They would need her help. He was right but usually, Adam was there to watch over her shoulder and guide her when she got stuck. As it turned out, she always got stuck but Adam seemed to make her believe that in each situation she was just learning something new. Then it happened. The day came when she really was manning ops, alone. Adam had wanted to make a run into town and the team was on a routine delivery mission.

Flashback to that day

Evie was in the kitchen looking for something to snack on when she heard a desperate Jesse calling to her on the com link.

"Evie! Evie, are you there?"

Shocked she answered, "Jesse, what's wrong?"

"Evie, listen to me. You have to get to my computer and access the Helix controls."

"What happened?" she panted as she was running up the stairs.

"The Helix was struck by lightning just as it was cloaking and the main controls were fried. We can't steer it. It's taking Brennan and me, both to keep her level. You have to take control and steer us in."

She had reached the computer and punched in the codes that gave her the helm of the Double Helix. As she saw in the monitor what the pilot would see, she gasped. Jesse heard her. "Evie?"

She was almost frozen with fear. The landscape below was passing at an incredible speed. She had been trained on all the instrumentation of the Helix but only flew her in simulations. Simulations Jesse usually had to turn off before she saw her eminent crash. "Jessie, I…"

Jesse could hear the fear and anxiety in her voice. "Evie, you can do this. I'll talk you through it, but you have to take control now!" His voice was controlled and confident but she could hear the desperation as he was using his strength to help Brennan and talk to her, too.

All of a sudden the steering column of the Helix released it's pressure against the two strong men's hands, sending them both to the floor as neither was seated to allow both to hold on to the same steering column. They both got up and buckled themselves in to their seats as Jesse began to talk Evie through the procedure.

Communication suddenly stopped. Jesse realized there must have been interference from the other systems on board that were continuing to spark and fry.

Evie didn't know what happened. She could still see 'out of the Helix' so she knew they hadn't crashed but she had no idea why she couldn't hear Jesse. "Jesse? Brennan? Shalimar? Emma?" Now she was really afraid, but not for herself. Were they injured? Would she be able to get them back to Sanctuary? She had to take hold of herself and concentrate. She followed all that she was able to get from Jesse before the blackout and then had to rely on her training. They were still in the air and still level. She had already reduced the breakneck speed the Helix was thrown into when it was struck. She had no problem guiding them back to their mountain home. /Hey, this isn't so bad,/ she thought. On their approach she keyed the code to allow for the hidden bay doors to open to allow the craft entrance. Then she slowed the Helix down for entry. /This is kind of cool./ "Stop forward momentum." She started reciting procedure out loud. "Engage landing gear."

Warning signals started beeping and lights started flashing all over the controls. Quickly she retried the gear's codes and nothing. "They're not working. Emergency landing procedure!" she commanded herself in almost a scream. Her eyes went wide as she watched herself keying codes she wasn't completely sure she remembered. Her hands had been moving so fast that when she got to the part where the Helix was lowered by keying the number pad backward from 9 she forgot to slow down until she had reached 4. The Helix dropped and jolted and hit the ground so hard it almost bounced. The last conscious thought she had was keying in the code to power down. She just sat there and stared at the monitor in a state of complete emotional overload.

Jesse led the team as they came in. Seeing that she hadn't moved or even noticed them, he ran up the stairs with everyone else, now right on his heels.

"Evie?" He could see that her hands were stiffly on the keyboard but the rest of her was trembling. Taking her hands in his he turned her to face him. "Evie, it's ok."

Suddenly realizing he was there, she threw her arms around his neck tightly. "Oh, Jesse! You're all ok!" She immediately released him and jumped up to embrace the others.

Just then Adam walked in and heard Evie speaking.

"When I realized the landing gears were inoperative I tried to emergency land. Then I saw it hit the ground. I thought…"

"Saw what hit the ground?" Adam asked, with growing concern as he could feel the emotional tension.

"We were on our way back from the drop when that storm hit." Brennan started to explain. "We took a lightning strike when we tried to cloak and all systems failed."

"Evie came to our rescue." Jesse proudly reported. "We were able to alert her before we lost communications. She took the controls from here and brought us home."

End flash back

She realized that day that the team really did trust her and she could be helpful to them.

Learning to meditate with Emma was fun. It gave them a chance to talk a lot and become very good friends. Getting started was hard. The first few sessions were just after she had come to live at Sanctuary. Evie's emotions were running high and Emma picked up a lot without having to try. At first when she tried to clear her mind, she found all that filled it were thoughts of Adam. She was embarrassed more than once when Emma had to snap her out of her daydreams. The worst was that day she ran into Adam as she was heading out of her room to meet Emma.

Flashback to that day

/Emma's waiting for me. I'm late. I hope she's not mad,/ Evie thought as she was rushing from her room. She closed her door and turned quickly only to literally bump into Adam as he was heading down the hall to his room.

He had just been working out and was headed to the shower. His hair was damp and his tee shirt was clinging to his chest. He grabbed her upper arms to keep her from falling back as she actually bounced off him.

As she realized what happened, her eyes first caught sight of the arms and chest of the person holding her. The air caught in her lungs as she stared at the rippling muscle that still twitched from the intensive workout.

"Whoa, are you ok?" Adam asked.

His voice brought her back to the situation as she immediately looked away. "Yes, Adam, I'm fine. I was just on my way to meet Emma downstairs and wasn't looking where I was going. I'm sorry." She so hoped he hadn't noticed her staring.

When she got to Emma she was breathing heavily but tried to control it so Emma wouldn't see.

"Evie, what's wrong? Are you ok?"

/So much for that./ "Yeah, I'm fine. I was rushing out of my room and bumped into Adam, literally. Shall we get started?" She was desperate to change the subject.

This was still early on in her time at Sanctuary. She didn't know how to control her emotions yet and more importantly, didn't know just how sensitive Emma was to uncontrolled emotion.

Evie concentrated hard on relaxation breathing and seemed to be able to get a handle on what they were doing. Emma brought her to a place of complete relaxation and instructed her to let her mind wander in the openness of that peace. Evie did great for a few minutes. Then she got a flash of Adam's face. It disappeared. Then a glimpse of his chest and arms that held her attention before. Her heart rate increased and her breathing got heavier.

Emma was trying to guide Evie's peacefulness and started to see what was in Evie's mind. Emma was ok when she picked up Adam's face but then she started to feel what Evie was feeling.

Evie was imagining running her fingertips over the sweaty, twitching muscle in front of her; running them up his strong arms to his broad shoulders then down his chest.

"Evie!" Emma let out a slight shout.

Evie's eyes snapped open and immediately knew Emma had 'seen' everything. She turned three shades of red and began to tear up.

Emma simply hugged her to let her know it was ok. They talked about it for a little and got back to the meditation with little distraction this time.

End Flashback

Eventually she learned control and concentration. Emma helped her a great deal and had become a close friend.

TBC