A.N: - This is the penultimate chapter of this story but I'm not going to be able to get the next one up for a few weeks because we are going away for Christmas and I shall have to survive two whole weeks without the internet! Anywho I hope you enjoy this and I'll try to get the last chapter up as soon as is physically possible. Be warned there be cheesiness ahead
Both Brennan and Jesse refused to be cosseted and both walked themselves all be it slowly into the lab. Baby and Shalimar stretchered Jamie straight into the lab and Baby began to prepare to perform surgery on her boyfriend. Jesse rushed to Baby's side "you shouldn't be doing this, you're not a doctor! Besides you're to close to him"
Baby ignored his concerns "I know what I'm doing, I know the equipment, anyway you're just as close to him and we don't appear to have any actual doctors!"
Jesse couldn't argue with that. "Well at least let me help. I feel fine, I'm not coughing, the smokes out of my system. I've only got a little bump on the head!"
"You've got a major concussion, hardly a little bump! But o.k. I can use all the help I can get. Can you two sort out Brennan's burns?" she turned to address Lexa and Shalimar.
"Yeah" said Shalimar
"Sure" Lexa agreed.
Half an hour later Lexa wondered over to Jesse's side, offering Shalimar and Brennan some privacy now that Brennan's wounds had healed. She was just in time to see Baby putting the finishing touched to the sutures on Jamie's chest.
"Well I mangled him and then I fixed him." Baby said hollowly.
"You fixed him up then. Was it his lung?" Lexa asked
Baby nodded "he should be waking up soon although he's going to be pretty sore for a while.
In the corner Brennan and Shalimar now wound free, were hugging each other tightly. Brennan his voice much clearer now tried to initiate a conversation "Shal about before…"
"Shh!" Shalimar said putting her hand to his lips. "We both went a bit crazy but well, with everything else that's happened it just doesn't matter."
"Yeah, but I really need to say this, I'm always going to be majorly overprotective of you." She glared at him "it's not because I think you can't do things, its well…. I love you… and … I don't want you to get hurt. I can't live without you" he said the last part quietly, afraid of what her reaction would be.
She beamed up at him. "I love you too, you big nit, and I don't want to lose you either but we lead dangerous lives, it's who we are, we just have to accept it. We take risks but we have each other and our team to live for and now that we know that we can cure us I don't know about you but I intend to live for a very long time with you.
He smiled in agreement. "Speaking of the team, Shall we?" he lead her over to join the others. As they rejoined the others Jamie's eyes flickered open.
He moaned dramatically. "I feel like I was hit by a truck"
"Nope just me" Baby said sadly.
He twisted round to see her "You're really o.k?"
"Yeah unlike everyone else!" Baby looked apologetic.
"But we stopped him right? You wont lose control ever again?" he asked. She nodded "I'm going to miss the handcuffs" he looked cheekily over at her.
"If I hadn't just performed serious surgery on you I'd kick your arse." Baby said, blushing slightly as the others chuckled.
Jamie's only response was a grin. Then as he starred up at the ceiling something came to him, "Who the hell was it? Doing the controlling I mean."
Everyone turned to Lexa the only one amongst them who could offer any real explanation. "It was Dr Harrison" Lexa said bluntly.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Brennan yelled. "First he shots Jesse, then he controls Baby!"
"That guy really doesn't like us, does he" Jesse said.
"I'm guna kick his arse, that's twice he's tried to screw with the wrong people" Jamie yelled.
"That was our reaction too" said Baby
"but why?" Jesse asked.
Everyone had become very agitated at Lexa's pronouncement, now they all turned back hoping for an explanation.
"You'll be pleased to hear I wanted the answer to the same question and Harrison was amazingly co-operative, especially when I pressed a laser beam to his head." Lexa grinned slightly.
"So he told you everything?" Brennan sounded sceptical.
"How do you know he was telling you the truth, he could have been lying?" Baby asked.
Lexa rolled her eyes. "I thought I was the sceptical one! Trust me it was the truth. Now do you wanna hear it or are you going to keep interrupting?"
"Go right ahead babe." Jesse said. Baby raised her eyebrows in response as Lexa sent Jesse a killer glare, which he merely smiled at and then she continued.
"Right. Well you all remember when he shot Jesse? He wanted that mutant he loved Laura something or other."
They all nodded in response. They weren't likely to forget something like that. And even though Baby and Jamie hadn't been present at the time, they knew what they were talking about thanks to their com-ring eavesdropping.
"That's who he was after this time as well." Lexa explained.
Shalimar interrupted her. "But she's dead."
Lexa sent her a quelling glance "he was using Baby to get the mutant database so he could trace someone who could help him bring her back. He said he was looking for a time travel mutant."
"Diana Muller!" Jesse gasped looking at Lexa.
Lexa nodded.
"How'd Harrison find out about her though?" Brennan asked.
"Well they both worked for Ashloke I expect they met through him." Said Shalimar bitterly.
"But then how did he end up getting the device that controls me?" Baby asked rubbing the implant uneasily.
"I'm getting to that, when we went and killed Gonsalvez after removing my implant. Harrison was already watching us, trying to find the opportune moment to shoot Jesse. He saw us kill Gonsalvez and once we left he searched his body and found the second device, Baby's one." Lexa continued.
"So he didn't even know it was me on the other end of it?" Baby asked.
"No he recognised the device from his Genomex days and thought he could use the mutant to draw us out again. It being you was just a bonus." Lexa finished.
"He really is desperate to get this woman back he went to a hell of a lot of effort." Brennan stated.
"I'd feel sorry for him if it wasn't for the fact that he made me nearly kill you all." Baby's voice showed a hint of guilt but mostly bitterness.
"I can't quite believe it some how, it's actually all over, no need to carry serum all the time." Jamie said removing several syringes from various pockets.
"You can't believe it! I can't believe I'm the only one in my head now!" Baby admitted.
"I know that feeling." Lexa said.
"Me too." Said Shal, shuddering as she thought back to Ashloke Brennan pulled her too him, comforting her against her own demons.
Suddenly the computer in the corner began a rhythmic beeping; there was an incoming call.