Jamie stared at the thing in the glass case… it hung there just staring back at him through its long blonde hair… its eyes… dam its eyes sent chills down my spine, they looked so longingly as Jamie who shook from fear at the thing his mind not comprehending what was in front of him. The rat like man tilted its head as we did not respond to it.

"Master Madrox?" Jamie's lip quivered as it opened only to run back out of the room in a quick pace as if he was being chased. I looked back at the thing in the glass as it simply looked back at where Jamie ran. I tried to sense for a heart or emotions but something did echo out of it… and around the room too. The dead half eaten rats all felt the same all having the same hearts deep within them but broken and forced apart into small fragments.

I felt my own heart braking from the horror I felt just seeing everything around me. This was not right not even a little. I bit my lip as I quickly looked around finding a brown book on the counter as I rushed for it grabbing it as I rushed out for Jamie leaving the thing within its case. I found him inside his room crying loudly into his pillow and I did not blame him one bit. I would be the same if I seen that and new my parents had something to do with it.

"Jamie?" I reached out for him but he just rushed for me hugging me tightly his tears falling down onto my shirt like small rives. I just held him as he cried until he knocked himself out from it to emotionally and mentally drained to stay awake. I sat by his bed as I hold onto the book opening it up to see just what his parents did. I didn't know if I should read it before Jamie but I should make sure it is alright for him to read without freaking out first… so I opened it to the first page.

/journal\\\\\\\\\\

Hello my name is James Madrox, I am a scientist for Hydra working on a pet project that I have been working on for so long before I joined the organization. I did not know if I should join this radical group knowing it would be morally unjust but I had no choice if I was ever going to finish my work. They held the resources I needed to continue my project.

I suppose I should explain...

Long ago I found an interesting boy who I named Fratley who seemed to enjoy calling me his master, now he was no ordinary boy.. far from it actually. I found him deep within an even stranger island far off the coast of the Spanish islands. But I will speak of them shortly. I quickly took a liking to the boy and he did to me as well. He became somewhat of an adopted son of mine as I brought him back with me to Mexico on my farm.

I studied his odd body finding it having the same characteristics of a rat or mouse. Two elongated ears that twitched at the smallest of sounds, long snout like mouth yet no whiskers on the end of it, a long lithe body that seemed emaciated even after having a well proportioned meals. Clawed feet each claw as big as kitchen knifes but not as sharp and most of all powerful long yet scroungy legs.

His legs could propel him high up into the sky going up over my barn in just one leap and could kick a hole into solid rock without harming the skin. However this was to the only thing that made Fratley special, his true ability that I have interest in was the ability he had to create clones of himself which he used to extend his life.

His ability which I liked to call Genesis allowed him as I said to make clones of himself in the form of smaller rats which if fed enough matter allowed him to trade bodies with the clone as it mutates back into his previous form. He showed me a few times and each time I recorded it checking his vitals as I found it reversed his aged little by little about the time of five or so days. They even acted as a food source for him, if they ate matter it would give him the matter back once ingested. He intrigued me to no end with his abilities, yet there was one big question; what exactly was he?

I searched and searched for any sign of others like him on the island but found nothing for months. I gave up long ago wishing to focus on him alone. I did a few blood tests to start off and found something quite interesting in-fact. Where I thought I would find rodent DNA I actually found it closer resembled that of a creature more reptilian. However his eyes did seem a bit reptilian in nature yet that really was the only thing I could find that matched said DNA.

After working on his anatomy it was then my time to find out the way he managed to preform his ability to make clones. This was so horrible to duplicate near impossible the only think I could do was record what he did which was summon said rats onto the ground.

The ability allowed him to ether summon them from his body itself or within a foot or so away. I was not to sure how he did this with distance but it was very interesting to say the least. If only I could have figured it out on my own without having to resort to Hydra's systems. After I agreed to let them help me I learned so much more.

Before my experiments started I gained a wife who I cherished very much so. She was one of the main resigns I joined Hydra other then to continue my research. She was a member of it long before I joined, a scientist like me who studied a gene within people that could give them strange evolutionary abilities I asked her to see if said gene was within Fratley yet to my disappointment she found nothing.

I have learned however that his powers were in fact genetic in nature and I almost fond a way to give such abilities to others. If I could I would be able to give other people a means of having eternal life! Or at the very least youth. I had to work hard but I did not like the way they treated him and the lengths they were going to get results.

I cut all my losses and left with my new wife back to my farm thanking god it was paid for under a different name. We spent so long together raising Fratley as our own when we managed to conceive a child of our own. Wishing to not loose all our research we decided a very risky move and implanted some of Fratley's DNA within the embryo to see if his genetic abilities would be passed down. To our joy the moment the doctor smacked our babies rear we knew it was. There fell another baby identical to the one that was just conceived they vanished the moment it hit the ground.

We named the Baby Jamie, Jamie Arthur Madrox. He was so adorable and so fragile that we feared we'd be horrible parents… and in a way we are for doing what we did. We decided then and their to inform my wife's good friend a Professor Xavier to be his foster father. She told me he would be safe with the man but never told me why she trusted him so much.

Fratley was an amazing brother to Jamie and took to being a care giver for him like a fish to water. He would keep him safe from just about anything even using his ability to keep away vermin who could harm him by having the rat's eat and or drive them away from his crib. One day however brought nothing but fear within us.

A man came to us saying he knew about Jamie and Fratley telling us they were more unique then they appeared even though we knew this to be true already. How he learned of Fratley I did not know. He never let him out of the farm or the Hydra base. The only other way he could have known of him was to being part of Hydra. He asked us to give them both to him or something disastrous would happen but we refused them both meaning to much to us to give to a stranger who we both knew would bring them harm.

We then made a large underground lab to continue our work and if need be safeguard it. It would be the home of all our research guarded by Fratley who in turn will own the barn. We were giving a device from my wife's friend which would give him a more human appearance. We'd hope he would care for are child his adopted brother with as much care as he has shown us during the time of our death.

We were putting a lot of hope into this friend of hers but I knew nothing of him. If you are reading this sir should I have died then thank you for your help and care for our son to the best of your ability and if it is you Jamie who is reading this… we are sorry for leaving you and we love you so much.

/journal\\\\\\\\\\\

the journal was short but I felt so sad reading this. What happened to have the pour guy within the glass cage. I turned to Jamie who was sleeping soundly. I pet his head softly thinking about what I planed on telling him. I shook my head knowing he would have to read it for himself. The journal was meant for him not me.

I stood up and walked back to the lab seeing the guy resting in his place a rat eating another rat on the ground as he hung in their. How long has he been trapped here eating his own clones to survive? I tried to listen for his heart but all I could sense was once again the broken remains all over the ground his main heart within his larger emaciated body felt so small possibly half distorted from the countless deaths of himself and years of lonesomeness.

He looked back up at me with his broken longing eyes something else hidden within them… and I sensed it deep within his shattered broken heart… worry. The glass case shook for a moment as his legs did the same.

"Where is Master Madrox." his voice was sore from pour use as he asked me it wavered and cracked as the two rats finished eating them selves and fell dead on the ground.

"He's.." his eyes widened as his legs kicked hard on the braces holding them down as the metal ripped like papar he kicked and flailed as he growled his heart now turned to anger and rage but deep down mostly fear. He kicked down even the braes on his wrists taring them off as he rushed for the glass shatering it with a single kick. He landed in front of me his eyes burning with anger and hate.

"Where is he!" with one swift kick he sent me back out of the basement and into the metal hall. I quickly stood up as I saw he was only an inch from me as he gave me another kick sending me flying once again out of the hall into the desert as I landed into a rock falling on the ground hard as I seen the rock crack. I felt my chest to see if my bones shattered like I thought but thankfully my new body was as sturdy as Logan's.

"Dam..." I breathed out as I stood up only to be kicked back down in a horrible drop kick my head digging into the dirt as I tasted the salty sand and bits of grass. I felt pain sure but mostly conflicting emotions; if I fought him I would be fighting someone who was imprissoned for years and had a shattered heart, a man who was the only relation to Jamie left in the world and not only that with my powers as destructive as they were I would end up killing him. What was I going to do? Of course I was thinking this the same time I was being pounded into the dirt by the guys clawed foot. I wanted nothing more then to let him attack me especially if I could not get hurt but… something in me snapped.

"Roar!" my mind went blank as my dark flames rushed around me burning the ground turning what grass was there to a thick black ash. He quickly jumped up and back landing with grace as I rose off the ground my eyes turning ink black as I rushed at him claws extended. The ground I walked on burned under my paws as I ran the rat eying me as he bent a little and leaped high into the air. It was amazing he must have been five stories high. It would be more awesome if I was not going insane and this pour guy was not buck naked.

With one swift kick in the air he come right back down from the sky like a comet landing right down in front of me as he make a thick creator. I growled jumping back not as far as him but enough to gain distance. My heart was pounding but sounding felt different like I was watching myself as I went insane. I looked down as I felt my heart grow dark, it was horrible worse then what I felt with my fight with Chelsea since I could not stop myself at all.

I grabbed his neck and forced him down inside the creator that he made the rocks digging into his skin as he gasped and showed fear. I smirked over him as he shivered his heart turning cold with the deep fear he felt. I felt a want in myself as I stared at his heart beating within his chest barley anything left of it but a sliver of a shine. I ran my claw over his heart as he gasped and laid still as if I was holding his whole being in place.

"I..." my voice was soft and yet deep as he shivered in my grasp gasping as if he was being frozen solid. "I want it!"

I thrust my hand deep into his chest and pulled the sliver out gazing at it. It was small and shattered in the shape of a glass shard. It pulsed softly feeling odd in my hands to my surprise I licked my lips and lift the shard up to my mouth opening my jaws wide my fangs dripping with drool.

"Stop!" I did pausing as I turned my head seeing the frightened face of Jamie. "Please… don't..."

"…." I paused just staring at Jamie… or rather his heart which was beating so fast in his chest. It was the only thing that keep me sane listening to the beat as he shivered in fear. The feel of it made me want to cry… but another made me want to swallow it whole.

"No!" I stopped myself pulling myself back to normal forcing myself to on my feet backing away as I screamed holding my head as I tried with all my being to make this moment pass. Jamie hesitated only a moment as he rushed for me hugging me tightly as I growled squeezing my skull.

"Please… don't leave me now… don't leave me alone." his tears coated my shirt as I growled and gowned as I felt something snap back into place the hunger leaving me as I stood still my heart not even beating for a moment my mind frozen in time. Jamie looked up at me with worried pleading eyes "Devlin?"

"…. Jamie." I looked back down at him with my blue eyes before hugging him hard. "I'm sorry..."

He smiled beaming as he held me tightly. It was my turn to cry on him, my tears dripping down on his shoulder. How could I let this happen again!? How could I put Jamie through that!? I wanted so much to smack myself for what I did to him, I must have traumatized him worse then anything he seen in his time here. I wanted to hide in a hole and never come out until I learned how to control this horrible madness… but worse I felt like Jamie would never look at me like he had before.

"Devlin… are you OK?" I pulled away as he looked up at me with worry his eyes teary eyed. I couldn't lie I shook my head as he pulled me into a hug. "It will be OK."

"..." I could not tell him the truth. He turned back at the Rat man who was laying on the ground unconscious.

"What are we going to do with him?" he asked a bit worried.

"… I know exactly what to do."