So here's my second Mutant X Fanfiction, it's a sequel to my first one 'Aftermath'. I hope you all enjoy it, please read and review, let me know if you want me to write more.
Disclaimer: I do not own Mutant X or any of its characters
Enemy Within
Chapter 1
Adam walked through the corridors of Sanctuary to find the team all sitting in the main room. Shalimar was sitting on Brennan's lap and Lexa was curled up on the sofa next to Jesse. Over the last few months had started to fell less like an outsider and more like a member of the team. He had resumed his role as the leader of Mutant X mostly because it was the most efficient use of his and everyone else's skills. The team had accepted him back quickly and seemed to have for the most part forgiven him for disappearing.
"Okay guys listen up" Adam said as he walked into the room and everyone turned to look at him. "I just got a call from one of our safe houses, a mutant called Sarah Clark is there, she said her husband just attacked her and she wants to speak to a member of the team face to face"
"What do we know about her and her husband?" Lexa asked moving slightly out of Jesse's arms.
"He's not a mutant, she's a telempath"
"Like Emma?" Shalimar asked
"Kind of but nowhere near as powerful, she can only sense the feelings of people she has a strong bond with" Adam replied.
"Like a husband, so why didn't she sense this guy was really a psycho?" Brennan asked.
"That's what you and Shalimar are going to find out; I want you to go meet her"
Brennan and Shalimar sat across from Sarah Clark who Brennan thought was scared out of her mind, not really surprising when you considered the man she trusted had just viciously attacked her. She looked a mess, cuts and bruises covered every inch of her skin that he could see, her lip was bust and she had a black eye.
"Look Sarah, I know this must be hard for you but you need to tell us what happened" Shalimar had been trying to get the woman to open up to her for the past 10 minutes.
"I got home from work and he was already there, which was unusual because he doesn't usually finish work until 5pm, it was only 3 o clock. I walked up to him and he slapped me across the face so hard I fell to the floor, when I tried to get back up he kicked me and he just kept hitting me and attacking and I managed to get free and I just ran. I came here and called Adam"
"Has he ever hit you before?" Brennan asked his blood was boiling, he could never understand how anyone could hurt someone who loved them like this.
"No that's just it; he's never so much as raised his voice to me before. He's always so gentle and caring, he knows all about who I really am and he never once even looked at me like I was freak, it was so out of character. There was something else though, when he attacked me I could sense pure rage and anger in him but… it wasn't his"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean I could sense the rage and the anger coming from him but it was someone else, someone using him to channel their anger"
"Are you sure about that?"
"Positive, that anger was not coming from my husband"
Shalimar and Brennan walked over to where Adam was sitting at the computer.
"Hey how did it go?"
"She said it wasn't her husband"
"What?"
"She said when her husband attacked her she could sense pure rage and anger but it wasn't coming from him, she said someone else was channelling it through him" Brennan summarised.
"We think it's a mutant, can any mutants do that?"
"Let's find out" Adam said and turned to the computer.
"Where are Jesse and Lexa?"
"Whilst you were gone we got another call from a mutant who says her mutant boyfriend attacked her, Jesse and Lexa went to check that out, I checked out police reports, in the last 12 hours 8 women have made reports that their partners have attacked them, seven of those men were mutants and so were 2 of the women including the one who was attacked by her non mutant boyfriend"
"So we have two common denominators" Lexa said as she and Jesse walked into the room "In every case it's a male attacking their better half and there is at least one mutant in every relationship".