A/n: When I set out to write this part, I had literally no idea that it would be the last chapter, but suddenly it was. I apologize to all of you who waited for this, and I dedicate this chapter to all those who reviewed my story in the long time it took to write this. Please R/R to tell me what you thought of this whole story!

Now, the last chapter:

******

"What's wrong?" Adam said urgently, hiding his fear by moving to stand at Brennan's head.

"Still……." Brennan choked out. He was gasping for breath and clutching his stomach, but no one could tell what was wrong. Physically, he wasn't dying.

"Still? Still what, Brennan? Does it still hurt?" Emma reached out to put a hand on his shoulder but resisted. He might still be in pain, in which case…

"No. No. Ah…" Brennan tried harder to communicate. "Still--- bleeding. Still--dying."

"Brennan, you are NOT dying! You're at Sanctuary, you're safe, and Adam patched you up just fine!" Emma said forcefully. Maybe this was just mind-over-matter. He must have been hurting so much that he thought he still was.

"No. In---" Brennan flailed out wildly with his hand and caught Emma off guard. Seizing her hand in a death grip, he pressed it against his left temple. "In……my… head."

"Oh, no…" Emma gasp, putting her other hand on Brennan's head and diving into his mind without a second thought……………

He was sprawled full length on the cold ground of the dreamscape. His eyes were red-rimmed and unseeing, staring past Emma at nothing. One blood covered hand lay limp on his stomach.

Emma reached over and gently removed his hand from his abdomen. No wonder he wouldn't wake up, with his mind in this condition. Slowly, she rolled up his blood soaked shirt.

Underneath was three ugly, deep stab wounds. They were raw, jagged, and bleeding furiously. But Emma was used to these wounds, wounds of the mind. She was a psionic. She could handle this.

In her hand appeared a healing device that Adam had created. She'd used it before to fix up Shalimar's gunshot wound. She set to work without thinking.

Time passed indefinitely in the dreamscape. What was two hours could be two days. What was four hours could be four seconds. Nothing was truly consistent. Emma worked on without feeling the passage of time, one way or another.

******

"Don't worry. It's just a trance." Adam said calmly.

"Are you sure? Absolutely sure? Are her eyes… supposed to do that?"

"Jesse, it's fine. Really." Shalimar shot an annoyed look at the overly-vocal molecular.

Emma abruptly dropped her hands from Brennan's head, and then Brennan bolted upright, sitting forward in the lab chair.

"Whoa, Brennan! Whoa, hey, relax." Shalimar said, in a soothing voice, her hands gently pushing Brennan back down. "You're at Sanctuary. This isn't a hallucination."

"Of course… it's not." Brennan said slowly, easing himself back down. "You don't have to convince me you're real, I know."

"Good. So how do are you feeling?" Adam asked. "Any other mind-wounds? Any overwhelming physical pain?"

"No, but I don't think sitting up that fast did anything for my aches." Brennan looked down at the floor. "Yeah, I'm fine."

An uncomfortable silence filled the lab. Everyone wanted to talk, but they really didn't know what was appropriate to say and what wasn't. They weren't the military, this wasn't a profession that one could exactly train for. None of them were 'trained' to cope with physical trauma anymore more than a regular human would be.

"Can I… go sleep in my room? I'm pretty tired, after, you know, today." Brennan looked at them nervously, not sure why they were so silent. Was there something wrong that they weren't telling him?

"Sure, sure. Of course. Do you need …." Adam started quickly and stopped, unsure of how Brennan would react when asked if he needed help.

"No. Adam, I'm fine. Just…." Brennan sighed. "Just tired."

He swung his legs off the side of the lab chair, gave his body a few minutes to get adjusted, and slipped down onto his feet. Jesse practically jumped three feet to get out of his way, but Brennan tried to ignore it. He concentrated on making his way out of the lab, walking in a straight line, without giving any sign of weakness. As soon as he turned the corner, out of their eyesight, he stopped for a moment, one hand on the wall, supporting him.

Silently he took an inventory. His head was aching a little, his abdomen and back kept twinging, one of his arms was stiff, his left leg didn't seem reliable, and both of his knees felt incredibly weak.

Gently, he probed his emotions. Scattered memories of the past couple of days seemed less like reality ever time he thought about them. Torture… He shook his head. Shock was a blessing, for right now. He would get some sleep, and deal with all his aches later.

******

"We dealt with that totally wrong." Shalimar said, turning to Adam after Brennan had left the lab, walking so deliberately that it looked like he might have fallen over just from the effort.

"I know, I know." Adam replied, rubbing his forehead with his hand. It had been long-creased with worry. "I'm not sure how to deal with any of this. Do we hunt down Geris? Do we force Brennan to talk about what happened? Do we do anything at all?"

Silence, thick and heavy, descended again, but this was a silence of deep thought, not uncomfortable searching for something to say.

"I know how." Shalimar said, in a voice that only slightly betrayed her fear and worry. "We let Brennan sort out what he can and can't deal with himself. We help him to start training again, we listen to him when he needs it, we leave him alone when he doesn't. We force him out of Sanctuary, keep him from hiding away when he needs company. We will be his family, just like we always have been."

"And Geris?" Jesse asked quietly.

"I think we can let the GSA take that one for us."

The rest of Mutant X nodded as one, and retreated for their own rooms, to sleep, to think, and to worry.

******

Gleaming eyes. Gleaming eyes coming towards me!

Knives. Oh, god, knives flashing towards me!

Insane. You are insane. Your eyes, hate, me, for, who, I, am, run, run, RUN!

Brennan awoke with a quickly stifled shout. Leaning over, Brennan concentrated on the feeling of his temple pressing against the wall. His breath came frantically, quickly, and he desperately tried to keep himself quiet.

His body wasn't responding to his command.

Brennan stifled a scream as he entered the flashback of a memory that he never ever wanted to live again.

It's not just that you're helpless. It's that I'm in control. I'm in your mind! I can do anything thing with you and you can't stop me.

Panicking far beyond rational thought, Brennan pushed himself backwards onto the corner of his bed and shoved himself down into the space where the walls met. Nowhere was far enough to run.

You'll find me here…

Geris! Oh my god, he's here. He'll find me, he'll control me and I'll be back in that hell again! Brennan's thoughts came in a knotted jumble, unable to understand, unable to comprehend, unable to see what was real and what was the nightmare.

The sound of his door crashing open shocked him suddenly and completely back to the real world.

******

Shalimar wasted no time in kicking down Brennan's door after his strangled scream had brought her running from her bed. Thankfully the sliding door shook and slid aside when she threw herself against it, or she would have broken the thing in half. It did her feral spirit good either way.

Her senses showed her right where Brennan was, curled up on his bed in the corner. Shalimar gathered her composure and walked over to the edge of his bed, trying to project a feeling of calm and unthreatening.

Remember, you're his family, he's hurt, and he needs help. Shalimar reminded herself. And he will be okay. She added as she saw his over-bright eyes shining through the darkness.

"Bren?" She inquired softly. "What's wrong?" She knew it was a stupid question, but it was honest and the sound of her voice seemed to comfort him immensely.

Slowly he relaxed his muscles and uncurled himself. As he drew himself out of the corner, Shalimar moved to sit lightly on the edge of the bed next to him. Her feral senses gave her a tiny clue into his not so obvious distress. His face was a stony mask, but his hands were trembling minutely and his breath was slow and shuddering.

Other doors had been slamming throughout Sanctuary. Jesse and Adam were shortly joined by Emma standing in the doorway, silently looking on. For sometime they each remained like that, a silent and somber ensemble, the three in the doorway and Shalimar sitting on the bed, next to a shivering Brennan.

"Brennan." Shalimar said softly again, carefully laying a hand on his arm. It was shaking slightly but he didn't flinch. A good sign.

"It was a dream." His voice was rough and full of raw emotion. "And a flashback."

"Are you okay now?" Adam asked from the doorway, his face returning to its all too familiar pose of fatigue and worry.

"Uh, no." Brennan said, looking up from the floor at all of them crowded in the doorway. "My leg and my back are one mass of pain, and I was just tortured by some insane freak. Oh, and I had a flashback. While I was awake. No, I am not 'okay'. Why should I be?"

The harsh sarcasm in his voice was not unexpected but it hurt, and Adam flinched under the assault. "You have every right to be 'not okay' emotionally, Brennan, but I can make the pain in your back and leg go away, so let's get to the lab." Adam kept his voice soft and un-condemning. Brennan looked down at the floor again, suitably ashamed of his outburst.

"Hey, Brennan, it's okay. You will get better. Now let's go." Shalimar said, sensing his misery. "I'll give ya a hand this time, but you better not take advantage of my willingness to help, okay?" She lifted his arm over her shoulders and let out a small laugh, and was abundantly rewarded by a genuine smile from him.

"Alright, I promise. But you'd better not leave me alone with Adam. He'll do so many scans I'll never get back to sleep." Brennan joked back, and everyone smiled.

"On my honor." Shal replied, and aimed a light punch at Adam, who went to support Brennan's other side.

"Okay, then, off we go." Jesse said, he and Emma leading the way.

******

"There are still some torn muscles in your back, I'm going to set the scan to repair them. You're going to have to lie still for at least ten minutes, okay?" Adam turned to look at Brennan. He didn't want the normally scan-wary elemental to move when the process wasn't finished and tear the muscles again.

"I hear ya. No moving." Brennan repeated, rolling over to lay on his stomach in the lab chair, and folding his hands under his head. Adam hadn't said he couldn't fall asleep.

He was a tiny bit afraid of having another dream, but he was much more tired than he was afraid. Or, at least, he hoped he was… his fears grew bigger as he drifted closer to unconsciousness, but soon it overtook him and he was all alone with the pain.

However, this time there was more than pain. There was a wall. A wall he had built, to hide something away, for safe keeping. He desperately needed to bring the wall down, but he couldn't, no matter how hard he tried. The pain kept dragging him back, and dragging him down, much farther down. And the wall remained, only giving an inch for each lifetime he fought.

******

Adam glanced down at Brennan. He was already asleep, and the scan had only been going for a couple of minutes. Either he's really tired, or he's hiding. Adam cringed.

"Shal, do you think you could watch him? He's not the only one who really could use the sleep." Adam asked, turning to the silent woman sitting on a lab table looking at Brennan.

"Of course. You probably need the rest more than all of us put together, including Brennan. I'll watch him, you go." Shalimar waved him off absently.

Adam turned and walked toward the door of the lab. Abruptly he stopped and turned back to her. "How do you think he's doing?" He inquired softly, catching her gaze as it lifted to him.

"Truthfully, I'm a little surprised. I don't know what I expected, but he seems to be doing pretty well. He may have his demons, but he'll deal with them. We'll deal with them." Shalimar answered honestly.

"Good. I had noticed too, but I wanted to make sure I was seeing what's there, not what I wanted to see." Adam responded. "I think it has a lot to do with who he is. He sees the world for what it is. I hope."

Shalimar nodded and said no more. Adam took that as her unspoken reminder that he should go get some rest . He turned back around and left the lab.

******

Shalimar sat there, mind wandering, for almost a half an hour watching Brennan sleep. The scan was long done with fixing Brennan's back but she hadn't woken him up. He seemed to be peaceful, his face was twitching but he was otherwise calm. She didn't have the heart to disturb him.

"Whoa!" Shalimar jumped backwards as Brennan came abruptly awake without warning. "Brennan!"

Brennan turned to her, his eyes registering his surroundings. When his gaze met hers, she saw that his eyes were flooding with an emotion that she couldn't describe. It was almost like… he was realizing something. What it was Shalimar couldn't even fathom.

"You okay?" She asked for what seemed to be the umpteenth time.

"Yeah. I've been waking up like that a lot. Kind of a habit, I guess." He said, his voice light but a little forced.

"The scan's over, is there anything you want to do, besides sleep?" She figured that he didn't want to sit in the lab all day, and he had already covered the bases of sleeping, having nightmares, and scaring the hell out of her. There wasn't much more for him to do.

"Uh, surf the internet, actually. Funny the things you find yourself missing, huh." His voice carried a sincere laugh this time, one that brought a smile to her face as well. That was just like Brennan. He was hurt and the one thing he could thing about was the internet? How typically Brennan.

"Well, just as long as you promise to lay off the really heavy duty hacking. Don't want you to strain a finger or something." Shalimar replied jovially, helping him to stand up.

"I'll try to cut back." He said, smiling softly at her. Shalimar wished he hadn't. She was trying to support him and he was making her knees weak. Sometimes life is just backwards. She thought with a grin. Glancing at the lingering smile on his face, warm feelings spilled over inside of her. Things felt… natural again. No walking on eggshells, no worry. For now.

******

As soon as Shalimar helped him get up the stairs and had gotten him settled at the computer, Brennan waved her off. He had a few personal things to see to on the computer.

He jumped around the internet for a few minutes, just delighting in the mindless yet enjoyable act of doing so. He was just a normal human, doing normal, human things.

Inevitably, his mind wandered to the inhuman. The unnatural, the abnormal. His fingers lead him from the internet to the controls for the holographic portion of the dojo.

Memories kept flowing back to him as soon as he had broken down that wall in his dreams. He remembered things about the past two days that he didn't care to remember. But that didn't matter. Nightmares were not corporeal, he could deal with them. As long as he had help, which he realized now. There was a time for pride, but this really wasn't it.

What he really cared about remembering was less personal. Or maybe more, he wasn't sure yet. He had somehow acquired… information… about Geris. Who he had been, and why he had become what he was.

His hands flitted over the keyboard, creating in stride with the knowledge that was coming back into his mind. Slowly his creation took shape and form.

All of the sudden it was done, and an ugly monster was staring him in the face. Overcome with fear at what he had done, he quickly shut down the program. Heart beating in his chest, he closed his eyes and stood up shakily. He would deal with this… later maybe, when he was alone.

******

Adam ran into Emma's room, where she and Shalimar were sitting, talking quietly. An alarm ringing from the hallway signaled alarms.

"Adam, what's up?" Shalimar jumped up to meet him.

"The computer system just decoded a GSA plan. In ten minutes, there's going to be a raid on a safehouse. Currently, seven new mutants are there waiting to go into the underground. Let's move!"

"I'll get Jesse." Emma said, jumping up and running out the door.

"I'll get the Helix ready!" Shalimar shouted, already running in the opposite direction.

Adam followed closely behind.

******

Brennan was slightly on edge, even though all he was doing was sitting on his bed trying to read. He found himself listening to his surroundings and reassuring himself that all was well more than he was reading.

What am I reading, anyway? Brennan tried to concentrate on the words. It's…Elliot. I really wish I wasn't trying to read this.

It was almost a welcome distraction when the sounds of shouts and running feet began to echo throughout Sanctuary.

Breathe. Breathe. They'll tell you what's going on if you need to know. Brennan counseled himself.

"Brennan!" Adam came crashing into Brennan's room. Luckily Brennan had carefully prepared himself for these circumstances and was braced against flinching at the sudden noise and movement.

"What's wrong?" Brennan inquired, carefully standing up.

"No, no, sit. Shal, Jesse, Emma and I have to go. There's going to be a raid… will you be okay here alone? I really don't think you should-- It's kind of soon, I don't want you to re-injure yourself or any-"

"Adam, I know. Go, I'll be fine here." Brennan interrupted, dropping back down onto his bed and gesturing him off.

"Alright. Be careful. Don't do anything stupid, don't-" Adam rambled as he back out the door.

"I'll be fine. I'm the one staying at Sanctuary, right? Go!" Brennan got up and shut the door so that Adam was pushed out of the room. There were a few moments of silence, and then Brennan heard Adam running back down the hallway.

He forced himself to wait until he heard the Helix leave the hangar until he opened his door and stepped out. A quick check around revealed that they had truly left.

Walking through an empty Sanctuary, Brennan found himself tiptoeing and keeping extremely quiet. It had to be the effect of being in such a big building alone. What possessed Adam to build the ceilings so high? Brennan thought, staring darkly up at the vaulted ceiling and feeling slightly agoraphobic.

Brennan looked back down at the console in front of him. The dojo controls. Somehow he had ended up here again. Of course, this had been his plan all along. As soon as he had a moment alone, he had vowed to… but he hadn't expected that moment to come so soon, within the hour.

It only took a few seconds to activate the holographic controls. Brennan paused to stretch out his tender back and massage his shaky leg. His hands were trembling again but he tried to ignore it. He made his way slowly to the dojo, walking up the steps but avoiding looking at the hologram waiting silently for him at the top.

Nothing could have prepared him for the moment when he looked into the holograms eyes. Stared the silent image of Geris in the face. This time he was not blinded by psionic control, he wasn't in a haze of pain. He was in complete control of himself -he hoped- and it was the final test. Did he have the strength of will to face up to his tormentor now… or would he live on to doubt himself forever.

Geris was a former GS agent. He used to be an elemental that could control wind. From what his mind had inadvertently shown Brennan, the GSA had experimented with him to see if the molecular structure of a new mutant could be changed enough to alter their powers altogether. And it worked, but they had changed so much, so deeply, that he had gone insane.

So they had brainwashed him and set him to work. Of course, a powerful psionic like Geris had become could overcome the brainwash with ease. And he had. Only this time he didn't go insane.

Well, not in the same way. Brennan thought bitterly, rubbing his suddenly cold arms. Holding Geris cold gaze was getting too hard.

Geris had gone insane, but he used his powers to control his own mind. He knew that he was more powerful as a psionic than he ever had been as an elemental. He hated Genomex for what they had done to him but he also hated himself for what he had done.

That hate had gone so far beyond logic and soon Geris could no longer think rationally. It was easy for him to escape the GSA and start killing those that reminded him of what he had once been--- weak.

Weak. Brennan thought, his heart frozen in his chest. He wanted to blink and look away from the hologram that he had created, but it was impossible. He was right…I'm weak.

The hologram held his gaze for a few seconds longer, blinked, and then lunged at Brennan. He was programmed to be everything that Geris had been, mad, bent on killing, and a well-trained fighter.

Brennan blocked his blows at first. It was hard to make his limbs move correctly and quickly. The air was heavy, weighing him down. He went completely on the defensive.

The blows began to come harder and faster. Suddenly Brennan felt a terrible impact with one of his legs, his bad leg. All of his weight went crashed down onto that knees as the leg folded beneath him.

And then he made the mistake of looking up into Geris' eyes.

******

"All I'm good for now is a shower and three days' of sleep." Shalimar complained pleasantly as the Helix docked in hangar. "But kickin' the GSA's but makes it all worth it, I think."

"Don't forget those new mutants we saved. They were so grateful I thought I'd die if one of them said 'thank you' one more time." Emma added, smiling as she remembered how satisfying it was to help them.

"Things felt so normal. Mutant X saves the day and protects the world from the evil GSA." Jesse put in, glancing over at Adam.

"Yeah." Adam agreed with a nod. "I hope Brennan's okay. I don't hear anything do you."

"I do." Shalimar said suddenly, bringing her head up as her eyes flashed golden.

"What?" Emma said in a hushed voice, cocking her head and listening as hard as she could.

"There's a slight buzzing. I only here it if someone has left the refrigerator open or if the holographic simulator is in use." Shalimar said, her eyes returning to normal.

"Let's check it out, come on." Adam said, setting off at a run.

"If Brennan left the refrigerator open, he's gonna answer to me!" Jesse joked as he ran past Emma. Shalimar and Emma rolled their eyes at each other and followed.

******

Shalimar had never thought that she would see her nightmares alive and in front of her face, but there was Geris standing over Brennan's bloody, crumpled body.

"Oh my god, what the-" Jesse cursed as he saw what was going on, freezing in his tracks.

Shalimar didn't waste any breath but jumped in and started pounding Geris, keeping him away from Brennan. "Emma.." Shalimar shouted after she knocked Geris down.

"He must be a hologram, I can't even get the impression of a shielded mind from him." Emma said shaking her head. She was kneeling at Brennan's side, taking his pulse and checking for severe wounds. He was bleeding badly from cuts on his head and back. He neck was starting to bruise from what looked like a chokehold and one of his legs was twisted in an unnatural way. Days of healing destroyed.

"Oh, damn, I'll try and shut it off." Jesse swore again and bolted to the computer.

"NO!" Both Emma and Adam jumped back as Brennan's eyes flew open and he sat up sharply.

"Brennan, be careful and lay down, you have to sto-" Adam laid his hands on Brennan's shoulders and tried to forcibly push him down, but Brennan shoved him away. Adam fell backwards just before a streak of electric power lanced from Brennan's hands to hit the hologram that Shal was pounding on. She managed to jump back a split second before the blue lightning hit and disintegrated its target.

"I did it." Brennan sighed, and slumped over.

******

"Well, it explains why he was such a bastard, but not why you created a hologram just like him and let it beat you to a bloody pulp on the floor of the dojo." Adam yelled at Brennan with his voice grating like a knife on concrete. Shalimar, Jesse, and Emma crowded around Brennan who was sitting, bandaged, on the lab chair while his back and leg muscles were mended once again. Shal had her arms around him protectively.

"I had to face him again. On my own terms. I hadn't planned," Brennan swallowed hard but his voice remained amazingly calm. "I hadn't planned on him getting the upper hand."

"You were barely healed, totally alone, and you obviously weren't thinking straight. You could have been killed!" Adam turned to face the wall, visibly trying to calm his shaking emotions.

"I wasn't. And I can tell you I will never do it again. I just… had to do it this time. I had to kill my demons myself." Brennan's voice was soft and low, his eyes on his feet.

Adam turned back around to face them, and they could see in his eyes the warring emotions of fear and trust. Gradually the trust won out and Adam smiled a little.

"I know. I know. But seeing you bloody twice is more than I ever want to see ever again, okay? Not even paper cuts." Adam teased lightly.

"Good thing I have an emergency supply of my own Band-Aids. Otherwise I'd be totally sunk." Brennan joked back.

"Oh, you can always come to me and Emma! We would take good care of you, not like this unfeeling man!" Shalimar said in a mock-girly voice.

"And I'm always good for a sympathetic ear, Brennan." Jesse said in a pseudo macho voice.

"Thanks, guys." Sincerity rang in Brennan's voice. He thanked them for letting him deal with his nightmares in his own way, for being there, and for being his family, all at once.

"You're welcome." Adam said, smiling as he saw the new healing that had occurred shining in Brennan's face.

******

Shalimar couldn't stop herself from smiling. She closed her eyes and relaxed into Brennan's strong grip. It was an incredible feeling to be able to feel protected by Brennan, instead of feeling like she had to protect him.

They hadn't had to speak the words out loud, but they had both silently admitted their feelings. There was a strange glint of amusement in Emma's eyes whenever she saw the two together, hugging or simply enjoying each other's company.

"Shal?" Brennan asked softly.

"Hm?" She responded, keeping her eyes closed.

"Thanks for taking me out the other night. It felt good to be out of Sanctuary."

"Just doing my job. Tomorrow your going back to work, buddy. You and I are going to be checking the safe house security systems and checking in with some new mutants in the Underground." Shalimar reminded him, sitting up slightly.

"Shal, are we good?" Brennan asked a little nervously. He knew that they didn't have to vocalize their feelings, at least he didn't, not yet. But he needed to make sure she felt the same way.

"Yeah, better than good. Just because we've got feelings for each other doesn't mean we have to jump in each other's beds right away. We can take it slow just like every other couple." She responded, sinking back into his hug.

"I really love you, Shal." Brennan said, and then held his breath. He hadn't meant to say that at all, but it had amazed him that she had known exactly what his fears were-that she would want to move to quickly in their relationship-and was willing to work with what he wanted as well.

"I know, Bren. I love you, too." Shalimar replied.

They sat that way, purely comfortable, for another few minutes, until Adams voice came over their com links, politely requesting their presence down in the lab.

"What do you think it is?" Brennan asked, and Shalimar shrugged.

"I don't know, let's find out." Shalimar grabbed his hand and they headed to the lab.

******

Adam was waiting outside the lab when they came down from Brennan's room. He smiled warmly when he saw them together.

"The GSA got an anonymous tip a few days ago. I'm decoding the reports now, and I thought you'd want to see them." He gestured for them to follow as he walked around the corner to a computer console where Jesse and Emma were already standing.

Emma's face was clear of any emotion at all- easy for her, since she was telepathic. Jesse was not having such an easy time, his lips held tightly closed and his eyebrows twitching almost nonstop.

"What's going on here, guys?" Brennan asked, worry threading his voice.

"Nothing, now come here and look at this." Adam waved them over to the computer as he typed furiously on the keyboard. "There!" He stepped back and allowed the rest of them to crowd around him.

The screen read Decoding intercepted GSA reports.

Tension and other unidentifiable but thick emotions permeated the silent room. Shalimar wrapped her arms around Brennan's waist and he draped his arms over her shoulders and Emma's shoulders. Emma followed suit and put her arms around Jesse and Adam, who both leaned into the group embrace. All eyes rested on the computer screen.

Brennan stopped breathing when the full report came up. No one breathed.

As of last night, Geris Caldmann, former GS agent and psionic, was apprehended. Due to his inability to operate on a normal level, he was placed in a stasis pod upon arrival at Genomex facilities.

Slowly a tear slipped down his cheek, soon to be followed by others.

Looking down, he saw that Shalimar was crying also.

Emma was smiling and almost laughing.

Jesse and Adam were grinning.

The group hug grew tighter. Shalimar looked over at Brennan. "So…the demons?"

"Running away fast." Brennan replied with a grin.

Their circle held tight. Brennan knew he still had some healing ahead, but together with his team, his family, he was already whole.

They were all whole.