Tears and Laugher Chapter 1 Exquisite Extremes, a mutant x fanfic

Summary: "He's drowning in his dreams, Adam!" Emma shouted, tears streaming down her face, "And I'm the only one who can save him!"

A/N: Songfic based on Beautiful Disaster by Kelly Clarkson. I just found out that my best friend had cancer, and she died at midnight of Valentines Day. This is dedicated to her.

Gladys, you are my beautiful disaster. I love you.

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Tears and Laugher

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Chapter 1 – Exquisite Extremes

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He drowns in his dreams
An exquisite extreme I know
He's as damned as he seems
And more heaven than a heart could hold
And if I try to save him
My whole world would cave in
It just ain't right
Lord, It just ain't right

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Do you know the feeling of daring yourself to cross a dark room?

The way you're excited because you know, you really do know that there is nothing there to hurt you?

Some people get to choose their dark rooms and get to look for places where the fear is only skin deep.

Some people don't get to choose.

Jesse Kilmartin had no choice.

He was stuck in his own dark room, in a pitch black Sanctuary, on the longest night of the year.

Even the window next to his bed filtered no light in from the moon, as it wasn't there, and even if it had been, would have been facing the other side of Sanctuary.

The blonde tossed and turned sporadically in his bed, sheets and blankets twisted in a never-ending knot around him.

His eyes were caught between blue and green, flashing between his fluttering eyelids – stuck mid-way between sleep and awake.

Emma deLauro punched in the security code for Jesse's room, face ghostly pale in the absence of light.

As the metal barrier slid open, she brushed back a strand of auburn hair, and took a step in, bright blue eyes inspecting the room carefully.

The bundle of movement that was Jesse caught her attention, and she stepped across the room in a few short steps, kneeling on the floor next to him. She shook him, face twisted with worry, and then finally gave up.

"Adam!" she shouted into her com-link. "Get down here – Jesse's room."

Immediately, three doors in the hall were thrown open, the remaining members of Mutant X swarming into the bedroom from the message that had been send over their com-links, where Emma was trying unsuccessfully to wake Jesse from his sleeping battle.

Adam Kane's wavy brown hair was tousled with sleep as he pointed at Brennan. "Put him unconscious Brennan. He could kill himself."

Brennan Mulwray furrowed his dark eyesbrows in concentration, and electricity flew from his fingers towards their sleeping co-worker.

Jesse's face was contorted with visible pain as the movement ceased, and he fell still, eyes moving rapidly as he whispered a final gasped word.

"Raine . ."

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