This is my first Mutant X Fanfiction so I hope you all enjoy it, please read and review let me know what you think and if you want more, constructive critisism is always welcome.

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Aftermath

Chapter 1

Jesse closed the door behind him and turned to look at the other three mutants standing in front of him. After the dominion facility had blown up they had decided to head to this safe house and had mad it here on foot. They were all exhausted, even Shalimar was looking out of breath; they all headed over to the sofas and sat down.

"What are we going to do now, Sanctuary and the Helix have been destroyed, the dominion has Adam and will no doubt be looking for us and to make matters worse we're all approaching our expiration dates with no cure" Jesse didn't think he had ever heard Shalimar sound so defeated.

"We'll figure it out"

"I don't see how Jesse" Great Brennan sounded as bad as Shalimar.

"We'll find Adam, we'll get him back and then we'll find out how exactly my genetic structure was fixed" he watched as both their heads dropped and Jesse saw just how exhausted they were "Right now the best thing any of us can do is get some sleep, we'll be able to think more clearly in the morning" Both Shalimar and Brennan nodded and Brennan got up helping Shalimar get up behind him and the two of them headed down the hall into one of the bedrooms closing the door behind them. Jesse looked over to Lexa who was just staring at the wall, she hadn't said a word since they had arrived, in fact she hadn't said anything since they had all agreed to come here.

"Lexa?" Lexa was startled back to reality by the use of her name and her head turned to look at him "Are you okay?" Jesse was really worried about her now, she looked lost and he was used to seeing that from her.

"I'm fine"

"You don't look fine, what's wrong?" Lexa looked like she was contemplating whether to tell him.

"I just… I was thinking about what the dominion said, that my expiration date was close" Jesse looked at her and then leaned forward and gently took her hand and looked straight into her eyes.

"I will find a way to fix your genetic structure, with or without Adam, I promise" she held his gaze a little longer and then nodded her head, he felt her hold his hand back "I know you will" she stood up and let go of his hand "I'm going to get some sleep you should do the same" she turned and headed into one of the bedrooms and Jesse finally got up and went into another. He laid down on the bed and closed his eyes allowing himself to fall asleep.

Shalimar woke up with Brennan asleep next to her, she moved off the bed slowly not wanting to wake him up and headed out into the main room of the safe house to find Lexa sitting on the sofa eating something that looked like a cereal bar.

"Morning" she said as she down next to her, Lexa looked at her and handed her one of the cereal bars that she had next to her.

"Morning"

"How long have you been up?"

"About half an hour"

They both turned as Jesse walked into the room and took a seat opposite them both "They look good" Lexa threw him one of her cereal bars,

"Thanks"

Shalimar watched the two of them look at each other a moment longer, she had noticed the growing relationship between the two of them and while she had been concerned at first, Lexa was now as much a part of the family as the rest of them and Shalimar trusted her with her life. Brennan walked into the room and sat next to Jesse and Lexa tossed him a cereal bar before he even had chance to ask.

"Thanks, I'm starving"

"Okay" Jesse said as he finished his cereal bar "I'm going to use the computer to hack into Adams files and see what I can find, Lexa do you think you could use any of your contacts to help us find out where they're keeping Adam"

"I'm not sure, I can try" Shalimar watched the two of them get up and head over to the computers.

"What should we do?" Jesse reached into his pocket and handed them a bank account card.

"Take this and go and buy us some clean clothes and supplies"

"Won't the dominion have frozen all Mutant X's accounts and even they haven't won't they be able to trace it"

Jesse shook his head "No this is a different account, when it became apparent that the dominion were the bad guys I decided to move some of our money into a new account, it's untraceable and the dominion don't know about it"

"Well done bro!" Brennan said as he took the card from Jesse and placed it in his pocket.

"We'll be back soon" Shalimar turned and headed to the door as Brennan followed her he put his hand on the small of her back and the two of them walked out of the safe house.

It had taken Jesse half an hour but with Lexa's help he had managed to get into Adams files. He started going through the files Adam had kept on the various treatments he had tried, he was searching through the various notes he had made but so far he had nothing. Lexa was talking to someone on the phone next to him,

"When?...Yes that's fine…No…Are you sure…okay thanks" he watched as she hung up the phone and turned to face him. "I may have a way to find Adam"