Disclaimer: I don't own Mutant X, title or characters. Evie is my character.

I'm back. I stopped writing after the Adam's Eve Trilogy but the new season leaves me wanting more, so much more. I want Adam back. They seem reluctant to do it so I decided to do it myself. This is my take on what should happen in the Mutant X world that I created with my trilogy. I hope you like it. ~Redhead2~

Love, Hope & A New Life

Chapter 1 - Tragedy

ADAM! ADAM, PLEASE ANSWER ME! Evie screamed into the computer mic in front of her. It had been 4 hours since Adam, Emma and Jesse went to NAXCON in search of Brennan and Shalimar. They knew Eckhart had the pair and that he wanted Adam. It was obviously a trap but they had no choice. They had to play it out and hope to get everyone home safely.

She had been monitoring the location ever since the Helix signaled its arrival. She watched in horror as the computer registered the explosion.

There had now been no contact with anyone in over an hour. Evie set the Sanctuary computers to monitor everything she could think of. Her eyes darted back and forth as the screens constantly updated. She knew the police and all emergency agencies had been dispatched. From the readouts she was getting she could tell the scene had been devastated.

She had set one terminal to display the signals coming from the com rings each of them wore. She remembered Adam telling her that the rings were coded to each of their individual DNA and would continue to work as long as they were worn and the wearer was alive. Each ring was showing an active signal.

"They must be unconscious, " she reasoned to herself, "or in a situation where they can't respond". After her initial panic and frantic attempts to contact them, she realized she had no choice but to wait and pray.

A faint, repeating beep recalled her from her thoughts. Her knees went weak as she traced the measured signal back to the com ring display. "Link Terminated"---"Link Terminated"---"Link Terminated"--- "Link Terminated"---

"Oh my God, no." Evie fell into the chair as tears began to stream from her eyes. She felt so helpless. "Emma, no please." Her face dropped into her hands and she just cried.

Seconds dragged into minutes and minutes into hours and hours into days in the overwhelming grief that grasped her. There was no sense of how long she had been sitting there before the shrill chirping of the sanctuary's computers signaled the Helix had lifted off. Throwing off the stupor she had fallen into an hour before she leaned on the console. "Adam. Adam, please, answer me." Her voice was weak and hoarse from crying.

In the Helix her voice broke the abysmal silence. Shalimar's back suddenly straightened and apprehension covered her face as she was now reminded that Evie still hasn't been told. She cast a nervous glance to Brennan who had just turned and caught her eye.

Brennan glanced quickly over to Jesse, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat. Seeing that he was not reacting to Evie's voice and knowing that he was so distraught that he probably hadn't even heard it, Brennan turned slightly in his seat to look back to Shalimar. He knew her grief was deep but he also knew that she would be strong enough to deal with everything still to come. Seeing the pain in her face, which he knew, was for Evie, he just nodded and began to speak.

"Evie,"

Before he could continue Evie interrupted him. "Brennan, thank God. Is Adam hurt? Emma, Brennan, Emma's link went down. Please tell me I read the screen wrong."

"Evie! Evie, stop." She was speaking so quickly that he couldn't keep up. "We'll be in the hangar in about 2 minutes. Meet us there." Before she could say anything else the connection was terminated. Brennan again turned to his friends. Shalimar mirrored his pain in hearing the concern and confusion from the woman who has in the past 3 years become such an important part of their lives.

He glanced once again at Jesse who had not moved since he sat in the chair. Brennan knew he was hurting. They all saw Emma's lifeless body on the stretcher. They all saw her ring fall from her hand. Jesse was the only one who actually saw her face before the tech pulled the sheet over her head. He heard the tech pronounce her death. He reached out and touched her face for the briefest moment before they covered her and took her away.

Brennan knew he had to hold on and hold on tight. He had to be strong for his family. That's what Adam would have wanted. 'Adam--- God, Adam, where are you?' Brennan thought as he landed the Helix in its customary place. Out the cockpit window he saw Evie rushing through the door. 'What do I tell her?' Brennan sighed as he stood and turned to see Evie rush in on the lowered hatch.

"Thank God. Are the rest of you---" Evie stopped short as she looked around the craft and only saw three people. "Adam? Adam!"

Immediately Brennan was by her side. "Evie, we---"

"Brennan," she whispered as she grabbed his arms and turned her head up to look into his eyes. "Where is he?"

"We searched everywhere." He saw her eyes suddenly go dull and felt her begin to fall as her knees buckled. Brennan quickly reversed her hold on him and lifted her before she could reach the floor. "Evie, listen to me." He shook her slightly to refocus her attention on what he was saying. "We looked everywhere and asked everyone."

"But---but his com link---his com link is still active. It's still active, Brennan." Her voice strengthened.

"I know."

"He's not dead." Desperation was clear in her voice.

"I know. We came back to search from here. Sanctuary's computers can search and pinpoint his signal better than the Helix." He only released her after he felt she understood what he was saying.

Shalimar had gotten Jesse to his feet and they headed out after Evie and Brennan.

"We have to be able to find him," Shalimar said as her fingers flew over the keyboard.

Evie stood with her hands gripping the back of the chair silently praying to find her husband.

Brennan took Jesse to his room. Jesse hadn't said anything since the time they entered the Helix. He just let his friends lead him as he numbly stared ahead. He found he couldn't move of his own accord. His mind was so full of pain that he couldn't even think. The only thing he could do is see her face in his mind's eye; the face of a sleeping angel as they covered her head and took her away. It never registered to him that they were home and Brennan had taken him to his room and gotten him to lie down on his bed. He never heard Brennan tell him not to worry, that everything was going to be all right, that he should rest while they tried to find Adam. All he heard was his own voice echoing her name over and over in his head.

"Brennan, I got a signal lock," Shalimar yelled as she quickly transferred the coordinates to the Helix.

TBC

Well, please tell me if I should continue. I know others have written their versions and have done marvelous jobs. This is my attempt. Please R&R. Thanks.