Rating: PG 13- for language/violence/romance
Genre: Action/drama/romance
Summary: Shalimar and Brennan's baby is born, but it has a strange ability that intrigues Eckhart into devising a plan to kidnap the child. Only the very protective parent won't give up their child without a fight. My suggestion is that who might want to read Who's the Daddy before you read this story.
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by: Quest – shadowfox_fuse@yahoo.com
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Chapter 2: Strange Ability
Shalimar's eyes drooping as she and Brennan cuddled with their two newborn twins. Brennan noticed Shalimar getting tired and took Sydney from her arms.
"What are you doing?" Shalimar asked him in a protective tone; she knew that Brennan would hurt their children but her mother instinct kicked in.
"Baby you need your sleep. I mean you just gave birth to twins you must be tired." Brennan explained.
"No I'm fine." Shalimar protested to Brennan.
"I'll believe it once you get at least a couple of hours of sleep." Brennan said walking over to a baby bed with Sydney in one arm and Devon in the other.
He placed them both gentle in the bed that Adam had gotten over the Internet. He kissed them both on the forehead and watched them close their eyes and fall asleep. Brennan turned around and saw Shalimar sound asleep on the lab chair. He found the blanket that Adam had laid out for Shalimar before he, Jesse, and Emma went up to the kitchen to grab some coffee and breakfast. Brennan placed the blanket over Shalimar's body and pulled up a chair beside her and watched her sleeping form, before he fell asleep.
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Adam entered the lab a couple of hours later, and he found Brennan and Shalimar asleep along with their two children who were in their baby bed the he bought for them. Adam walked up to the baby bed and found two sets of eyes staring at him. He was surprised that the two weren't crying, as a matter of fact they didn't cry as much as normal newborns would. Adam had come down to the lab to run some blood tests on Sydney and Devon to make sure nothing was wrong and to be positive on their Mutant abilities.
Adam approached the twins with caution as he held two vials for their blood. He carefully drew blood from both of the children and labeled them with each of their names. Adam sat down at a computer and started the tests on the blood. With in five minutes the blood was analyzed and putting up data on the computer in front of him. Adam slowly red the findings on the blood test about any diseases, and it came up negative on both children. He scrolled down to the part about their Mutant abilities. Adam went to Sydney's first, it stated that she had both Feral and Elemental abilities, but her Elemental side was stronger then her Feral side. He then went on to Devon's, but his was the total opposite of Sydney's, his Feral side was stronger then his Elemental side. He saved the information on the hard drive so Shalimar and Brennan could look at it later. Adam notice more information at the bottom of the page and scrolled down to read it. He started reading and could believe what he red. "It can be possible?" Adam said out loud, he looked over at the twins then back at the computer. "It's just impossible!"
"What's impossible?" Adam heard Shalimar's voice ask.
"One of the abilities your children have." Adam explained twirling around in his chair to face her.
"Well what is it?" She asked nervously, afraid it was going to be bad.
"You might want to wake up Brennan for this." Adam explained.
Shalimar took his advice and nudged Brennan. "Brennan wake up." She said softly.
Brennan's woke up abruptly and looked around wondering what going on. "What wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong." Adam explained. "I just wanted to tell you both about an ability both of your children have."
"What is it?" Shalimar asked him.
"Its so unbelievable that its hard to explain." Adam started to explain. "Your children have a accelerated growth hormone."
"A what?" Brennan and Shalimar asked unison.
"They have a accelerated growth hormone, which means they are going to age faster then a normal child without Mutant abilities." Adam explained.
"What does that mean exactly?" Brennan asked a little confused.
"Well the data shows that in five years both of them will be sixteen, they will age a year just about every four months." Adam explained.
"So they'll die before us?" Shalimar asked.
"Oh, NO!" Adam insisted. "Their growth hormones will slow down with every year until they hit sixteen, in which they will mature as normal teenagers."
"So with in five years were going to have two mature sixteen year olds?" Brennan asked.
"Yes!" Adam answered.
"Shit." Brennan replied with a surprised look on his face.
"That goes double for me." Shalimar added. "Does that mean we'll have to cram their learning skill, because I'm not up for that just yet?" Shalimar asked.
"No, everything accelerates, their intelligence, Mutant abilities, and everything else you can think of." Adam explained as a relieved look spread across Shalimar's face.
"Well that good." Brennan said with a smile, right before they heard the twins crying.
Brennan and Shalimar both rushed over to them, but as soon as the children saw their parents faces they're crying turned to giggles and they both reached up with their little arms at Shalimar and Brennan. Shalimar picked up Sydney and placed her on her hip as Sydney rapped her tiny arms around her waist and snuggled her head into her mother's side. Brennan picked up his little boy and cradled him in his arms and Devon laughed and drooled as Brennan tickled his belly. Adam smiled as her watched the two proud parents play with their children.
Shalimar and Brennan walked over to Adam with their twins. "Can we take them up to the kitchen, so we can get something to eat?"
"Sure, and I think Jesse and Emma are up there." Adam replied.
"Thanks." Shalimar replied, and then turned her attention to Sydney. "Is my little girl hungry?" Shalimar asked in a babyish voice, and Sydney started drooling. "I'll take that as a yes."
Shalimar head for the door with Brennan at her side, they walked up to the kitchen slowly. Brennan opened the door to the kitchen; they entered the room and found Jesse and Emma kissing at one the counters.
Brennan and Shalimar smiled at each other. "Uh hum!" Brennan cleared his throat getting Jesse and Emma's attention.
Emma jumped back from Jesse and blushed as Shalimar gave her a wink. "Ah we were just, ah doing nothing." Emma stuttered.
"We were just grabbing something to eat and we'll be gone before you know it." Brennan explained.
"No you don't have to rush, take a seat or something." Jesse replied then took a seat on of the chairs that surround on of the counters.
"Ya, we want to see Sydney and Devon." Emma replied.
"Alright." Shalimar said and took a seat across from Jesse.
Brennan handed Emma Devon and went over to the refrigerator and pulled out two pre-made sandwiches and two sodas. He placed the sandwiches on two plates and brought them over to the counter along with the sodas.
"There are a couple of bottles of baby formula in the microwave. We were going to bring them down to you, but we got side tracked." Jesse said.
Brennan turned and went back to get the bottles. "I bet you were." He mumbled.
"So did Adam run the tests on Sydney's and Devon's blood?" Emma asked as she played with Devon, ignoring Brennan's comment.
"Oh ya, and boy did he find something interesting." Brennan said handing a bottle to Shalimar and Emma, and then took a bite of his sandwich.
"What was it?" Jesse asked.
"They have an accelerate growth hormones which will cause them to grow faster than an normal child." Shalimar explained as she held Sydney who stopped sucking on her bottle and looking at Shalimar's sandwich. "Sorry Syd you're not old enough to have any." Shalimar explained to her and she returned to her bottle.
"So how fast will they grow?" Emma asked.
"A year about every four months, until they hit sixteen in five years then they grow as normal teenagers." Shalimar explained.
"They'll be sixteen in five years!" Jesse said astonished.
"Ya its a little overwhelming." Brennan replied finishing his sandwich and taking Sydney and her bottle from Shalimar so she could eat. Shalimar was starving from all the energy she use when she gave birth, and wolfed down her sandwich in record time.
"Hungry!" Jesse joked.
Shalimar flashed her yellow feral eyes at him. "You would be hungry to if you gave birth to twins three hours ago."
Brennan held Sydney who started falling asleep in his arms after finishing off her formula. "Well I think Sydney is getting tired, I'm going to go put her to bed."
Jesse was kind of surprise that Brennan was taking the initiative towards the caring of the twins, he really didn't think that Brennan would because of his own child like attitude sometimes.
"I think Devon is tired to." Emma replied.
"Here I'll take him." Shalimar told her getting up from her chair and walked around the counter to take Devon from Emma.
"We'll see you guys later." Brennan said as he and Shalimar walked out of the kitchen to but the twins to bed.
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Mason Eckhart sat quietly at his desk skimming through a pile of mission files. Soon he heard a beep coming from his computer, and a message boxes popped up on the screen. He clicked on the button that said 'incoming communication'. An older man's face appeared on the screen, he was in his late fifties maybe early sixties and had a stern look on his face.
Eckhart gave a small smile. "Ah, Mr. Fox so good of you to call back."
"No problem Eckhart, I'm very eager to find out on why you want me for this mission." Mr. Fox replied.
"Well I know you'll enjoy it so very much, since it'll hit you close to home." Eckhart said.
"So what is it?" Mr. Fox asked.
"Well it's about your daughter, Shalimar." Eckhart explained as he saw the angry expression over come Mr. Fox's face.
"What about my Freak of a daughter." Mr. Fox replied, remembering the surprise he and his wife got when they gave birth to a Mutant. He never wanted a Mutant living in his house, so when Shalimar's mother moved out when she was ten she left him Shalimar. He hated Mutant's and use to beat on Shalimar when she showed one slight thing of her Feral ability. When Shalimar's Feral abilities started to over come her he had kicked her out on the streets, leaving her to fend for herself.
"One of my Mutant's was able to hack into our friend Adam's computer and found something very interesting about your daughter." Eckhart explained.
"So what did you find?" Mr. Fox asked, not very impressed that his daughter was still alive.
"We found out that she just gave birth to twins." Eckhart explained.
"So she had twins, why is that so important?" Mr. Fox asked.
"Well one is that the father is also a mutant giving the child more than one ability." Eckhart said.
Mr. Fox eyes narrowed, as he grew angrier with the father of his grandchildren also being a Mutant. "SO?" He asked angrily.
"Well they have the ability to grow faster than normal children. It would be very useful if we could apprehend them so we can do some very important experiments." Eckhart explained trying not to reveal too much to his friend.
"So you want me to kidnap one of them?" Mr. Fox asked.
"Well yes, but if your able to take both that would be even better." Eckhart said.
"So when do you want me to do this?" Mr. Fox asked Eckhart.
"I'm not sure yet. So I'll call you back when I have more details about what I want you to do." Eckhart replied.
"Fine!" Mr. Fox huffed and the screen went black.
TBC -So how does everyone like the twist in the story about Shalimar's father being involved in the kidnapping her two children. I have to give full credit to Alejandra Flores who emailed me about the idea of one of Shalimar's parents being involved with Eckhart and stuff. SO thanks to Alex who emailed me about ideas and to everyone else who emailed me I really enjoy reading the emails and your reviews. Also it's hard to believe but I have so many Mutant X story idea's running through my head at once, I'm getting some writers block on this story so if anyone has any ideas PLEASE put it in a Review or email me!!!!!! Thank so muchJ