Lexa found her way out of the computer area and into the kitchen. She was trying to find something worth eating for non-feral humans, when she came across Jules, Alex's younger "sister" hiding in one of the cabinets.

"What are you doing in there?" Lexa questioned when she finally recovered from her shock.

"I'm waiting until my sister leaves so I can get some stuff out of my room."

"And how long have you been here?"

"Since right before Shalimar walked through here. Actually, that's why I'm hiding in the cupboard, I didn't want her to see me."

"Well, get out of there and let's go find Alex."

"Oh, I knew you'd say that. I should have knocked you out when you first opened the door." Jules groaned.

Lexa looked at the young girl in shock. She would have to learn to be more careful around these ferals if all it took for her to get attacked was looking for food.

"Yeah," Jules seemed to agree with her thought. "it's not a good idea to take any of Alex's food, ever. She's very territorial. And she loves sugar. Not a very good mix."

"Uh," Lexa looked at the girl again. "I'm sorry, are you- ?"

"Yup." The telepathic youngster replied cheerfully. "Cool ain't it?"

"More scary then cool actually." Lexa grinned.

Jules just shrugged and skipped ahead of Lexa to go find her older sister. Not much could really bother the bubbly mutant and someone finding her scary just served to amuse her.

Alex was in a large room in the back of the hideout. She was sitting on the floor, surrounded by hundreds of unlit candles. She was reading Anna's journal and tears were streaming down her face. As Jules entered the room she took her place standing behind her grieving sister.

"What did she write last?" Jules whispered.

"She knew, she always knew everything." Alex chocked.

"What did she write?" Jules asked again.

"I'll tell you some other time." Alex muttered.

Lexa stood in the doorway and watched the two girls mourn their loss. Jesse and Brennan soon joined her. After a few minutes Alex's shoulders began to shake with silent tears and Jules bowed her head. The emotions coming off of Alex were practically unbearable for the older mutants. She was unintentionally allowing them to share her grief and it was overpowering them. Just when they thought they couldn't bear it any longer, Alex seemed to come to her senses and all emotions coming from her were cut off.

"I'm sorry." Alex whispered without looking up. The teammates weren't certain if her words were directed to them or not.

"Are you alright?" Jesse asked with concern.

"I'll be fine eventually." Alex looked at him quietly. "you guys can come in and sit down. This is where I spend most of my time relaxing, we can talk about whatever you need to in here."

"Well," Brennan sighed as he settled himself on the ground not far from Alex. "I'd like to know what your mission is and how you plan to find Adam."

"Wow," Jules chuckled. "He's not very direct is he?"

"Not at all." Alex shook her head. "Our mission is to protect, build, and encourage Mutant X at all times, finding Adam is part of that mission. We're going to have to find someway to get a hold of someone who knows more then the dominion about the safe places to hold Adam. Or we can just assume that he's being held in an area we'd never go under normal conditions."

While Alex was speaking, Brennan started flicking sparks onto a few of the candles, lighting them. Jules watched him closely and almost enviously.

"Anyway," Alex spoke louder, trying to get everyone's attention again. "we don't have anything to do but research for the next day or so. We need to know everything we can about this situation before we make a move. Tomorrow morning I'll assignment each of us a certain subject that needs further research then the computers are capable of. In the meantime, relax and enjoy our home as much as you can."

Brennan nodded but didn't move. Jesse and Lexa rose and started to leave the room. Brennan lit one more candle then stood to follow them. Alex's voice stopped them in their tracks.

"If you most do it, feel free to show them what you're capable of."

They all turned and looked at the girl. But their attention was drawn towards the candles that Brennan had been playing with. They slowly flickered out and plunged the room into an unexplained darkness. And suddenly every single candle in the vast room seemed to light itself as brightly as possible.

Jules grinned at Brennan as if to say "that's how it's done" and Alex just sighed and pushed past the older mutants on her way to the kitchen.

"Show off." She teasingly called over her shoulder.

Jules just giggled.

The next morning everyone gathered in the computer lab for their assignments. Brennan was to gather as much street knowledge as he could find on the agency that Alex had told them about. Jesse had to look through the disk that they had retrieved the day before. Lexa needed to go with Jules to meet up with Kristi and the children so they could bring everyone back to base. Alex didn't say what she was going to do, but they all guessed that she was probably going to look for Shalimar.

Alex walked up to the old building that housed her worst enemies in the world. If Shalimar was here, it would take a hell of a lot of convincing to get her to leave again. If she wasn't, then Alex could at least get an idea where she was.

Entering silently and invisibly Alex headed straight for the main debriefing area. She recognized several of the mutants that assisted in the killing of her sister by she swallowed the urge to return the favour and continued towards her destination.

Just as she was about the slip into the center room, she was yanked into a corner and a hand was clamped hard over her mouth.

The shocked feral stared up into the face of Nick, who just laughed.

"What in the world are you doing here?" she demanded.

"What do you think? You stupid girl." Nick laughed evilly.

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