"Okay, I have the four numbers Emma gave me running through the system. If someone is using those numbers for anything, then we will know." Adam was sitting at one of the computers in the lab. Shalimar, Jesse, and Brennan were looking at him with concerned looks on their faces. So many thoughts were running through their minds. They thought that Emma was dead and they would never see her again. Knowing that she could be alive and in trouble was overwhelming to them.
"Adam, I just thought of something. Does Emma usually fade when she connects with someone?" Brennan wondered.
"If she connects with them from a distance, then it's possible. She's never connected anyone from a distance before. At least, not that I know of." The computer started beeping. "Got something." Adam opened the file as Lexa walked in. "It's part of an address. We got 5810 Madison Street and 5810 Carver Avenue. One is a hotel and one is a hospital."
"Try the hospital. Start at the personnel files." Jesse said.
Adam started searching through the personnel files one by one to see if anyone's record stands out. "Oh my God." Shalimar said suddenly when they got to one of the doctors' files. "Isn't that the doctor who pronounced Emma dead?"
"Yes, what's his name?" Asked Jesse.
"Patrick Morrison." Lexa said suddenly with out looking at his file.
"You know him?" asked Adam.
"Yes, looks like he's making it a habit to wrongly declare someone dead before making them disappear." Everyone could tell by looking into her eyes that she had something personal against him.
"Who did he make disappear other than Emma?" asked Brennan.
She reaches into her pocket and takes out a picture and hands it to Adam. "Her."
The picture is of a little girl about eight to eleven years old. She had brown hair, blue eyes and a beautiful smile. "Who is she?"
"My sister, Bobbi. She was nine when I last saw her. She's almost fifteen now." Lexa felt tears starting to form in her eyes.
Adam walked towards her. "What happened?"
"We were in a car accident and we flipped a couple times. I woke up at the hospital. I asked where Bobbi was. Morrison came in and told me that she died of massive internal bleeding and head trauma. A couple days later, someone from the funeral home came to my house. He said that Bobbi was alive. Someone paid him, his co-workers, and Morrison to fake her death and make it look real. He accepted the deal to keep himself alive long enough to tell me what was really going on. I confronted Morrison about it. He kept saying how 'sorry' he was for my loss and had security escort me out. I went to the police. They talked to Morrison and bought his story. They gave me a grief counselor's card. I told them they should talk to the guy from the funeral home. By the time the cops got there, he wasn't there. All records of him working there was gone and his co-workers said they never heard of him. A week later, his body was dumped at my house. He had been shot several times. I never found Bobbi." Tears started streaming down her face.
The room falls silent. Shalimar breaks the silence. "Looks like we have two people to find." She says as she walks over and puts her arm around Lexa.
"Lexa," Adam began, "Is Bobbi a mutant?"
"No."
"Do you know where the doc's office is?
"If it's still in the same place."
Adam smiles and walks over to the computer.
"What's the plan?" asked Jesse.
"The four of you are going to the doctor's office."
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They enter the hospital waiting area. "Okay, what now?" asked Brennan.
"The elevator, unless you wanna take the stairs." Lexa led them to the elevator. Once they were inside, Lexa pushed the third floor button. They got out of the elevator and made a right. "It should be the first door on the left."
They entered the room and waited. "He looks like a real family man." Shalimar said, looking at the pictures of people she assumed was his wife and kids.
Doctor Morrison entered the room only seeing Lexa and Shalimar. "What the hell are you doing here?" He looked angry and scared.
"Looking for two girls." Brennan said as he and Jesse blocked the door. "And guess what they have in common."
"You treated and pronounced them both dead." Shalimar cut in.
"I'm sorry do I know you?" He asked pretending to look confused.
"Team, meet Scumbag. Scumbag, meet Team." Lexa announced.
"Excuse me?" said Morrison.
Lexa lost her temper. "Do the names Bobbi Pierce and Emma DeLauro ring a bell, Doc?" Lexa yelled as she pushed him against the wall and held him there.
"Lexa." Shalimar warned. She let him go.
"Doc, you got about five seconds to start talking before I let her loose on you again." Brennan looked like he was not kidding.
"Yes, I remember both patients. They are hard to forget. Bobbi died from massive internal bleeding and a head injury from a car accident. Emma drowned after a building, that was over water, exploded and fell into the water. It's all in my reports." He almost seemed convincing to them.
"Where is my sister's body then?" Lexa looked like she could fry him right there. "And if we dig up Emma's grave, will her body be there?"
He didn't answer either question.
"That's what I thought. Come on, Doc. You are coming with us." Brennan led him out of his office and the team followed.
Jesse looked at Lexa. "Are you going to be okay?
"I'll be fine. You guys are close with Emma, are you going to be okay?"
"We have to be."
