Chapter 7: Parting Ways

I was more than ready to fight my way out of Genomex, even without Jeremy by my side. When the agents got there the doors opened and the game had begun. It started off easy, picking them off as they came within a two foot range of me. When I heard Lexa finally get there I was a bit relieved. I quickly handed her the disk behind my back and she slipped it into her pocket.

"We've gotta leave now!" She told me and was right, more agents were coming and we wouldn't stand a chance against an army.

Without Adam's help we would have never made it out, he cleverly created a simulation of himself to appear to the agents. That took away their attention from us to him, allowing us to run out to the helix through the window I came in at. Once the Helix was in the air I noticed Jeremy wasn't there either.

"Where the hell is Jeremy? I need to kick his ass for leaving us back there!"

Adam started shaking his head and Lexa just looked away from me.

"What? What are you not telling me here?"

Adam looked over at me, "he quit Valerie, and he gave his comlink to Lexa and just left." "Oh…" There wasn't much to say, part of me wanted to go track him down and bring him back.

When we got back to Sanctuary I found plane ticket receipts; he planned to do this today, mission or not. As I walked around the place it didn't seem the same, so empty without that one more person. Adam was barely talking; he seemed to take responsibility for Jeremy wanting to leave, and he even seemed to have almost forgotten about the disk we had stolen for him.

Lexa came in my room a few times to check on me; she even apologized for the other night, explaining she didn't know Jeremy was trying to hurt me. After talking for a few hours we decided that the team wouldn't work with just the two of us and that we should go our separate ways. Neither of us wanted to tell Adam this.

Lightly I knocked on his bedroom door. The door opened sooner than I had expected. Adam greeted me with a smile, making something in my stomach turn knowing what I was going to tell him. I looked around the room and realized that this had been the first time I had ever seen Adam's room. It was nice and extremely classy; I smiled wondering if Adam had a thing for interior decorating.

"Is there something wrong?" he asked me then told me to have a seat.

"Uhm…I'm not sure what you'd call it actually." I started to say but back tracked first. "Adam I don't think I've ever thanked you for what you've done for me," I stood up and gave him a hug.

He seemed speechless at first but returned the hug, "And you've done so much for me, you three have put yourselves on the line for me so many times when you didn't have to."

I stayed quiet for a moment but it seemed as though Adam was reading my mind. "You've come to tell me that you and Lexa are thinking about leaving as well?"

I looked at him a little shocked.

"I had a feeling if one of you left the others would follow. But I understand that the two of you don't make much of a team anymore."

Against my will I started to break down, "I really hate telling you this because I know how much you care about us, and Sanctuary is so huge! I can't imagine you staying in this place day after day all by yourself. Adam you've been like a father to me and part of me just wants to leave and I don't understand why."

He hugged me this time and started to rub my back to calm me, "it's okay, and you don't need to be worrying about me, alright? You need to be concerned with yourself, and if part of you wants to move on, then do so. You three staying here was not a permanent thing, I know. I'll make you two some new identities and make all the arrangements for you, so that none of our enemies are able to find you."

I sighed in relief, "Sounds interesting…"