DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING RELATED TO MUTANTX, I'M JUST MESSING WITH THE CHARACTERS. I DO OWN THE PLOT HOWEVER, AND IF YOU WISH TO ARCHIVE THIS PLEASE ASK ME IN A REVIEW, JUST SO I CAN BRAG ABOUT IT TO MY FRIENDS. ALSO JON NELSON, MATT VANDERPLOEG AND DAHLIA LEAL ARE MY FRIENDS AND ALTHOUGH I DON'T HAVE THEIR PERMISSION TO USE THEM, I'M NEAR SURE THEY WON'T MIND IF I DO... DEBBIE KILMARTIN IS MY CHARACTER SO ASK BEFORE USING HER...

***********LAST TIME ON MY FIC: JESSE'S SISTER:********************************************

"Okay then." They send feelings of being shot at to the guy and he leaves, Emma does the same, Jon and Brennan shock the others as well. When they leave the 8 adults laugh and continue on with their dancing. When Britney Spears' song 'I'm a Slave For You' comes on all the girls in the club get down with their guys, dancing as raunchily as possible. The boys join in with the girls, and the whole place gets really _RAUNCHY_ . Then a slow song comes on and the 4 new mutant girls dance with the men that are in their lives
********************** THE LONG AWAITED: CHAPTER 5: INBETWEEN TIMES******************

************************** IN THE CAR, RETURNING TO SANCTUARY ****************************
On the way home, Debbie had fallen asleep on Matt's shoulder, and Emma curled up on the passenger seat, with her head on Jesse's shoulder. In the other car, Shalimar and Brennan are up, but Dahlia and Jon are not. They sit talking quietly as the two younger adults sleep.
"That was a great night. I'm happy that we had that opportunity before they went off to college." Brennan said.
"Yeah, but they'll be living with us, so we'll be able to do it again someday." Shalimar said, and then she yawned.
Brennan laughs, and now at a red light, kisses the top of Shal's head. "Okay, so I'm wrong, what you gonna do about it?"
Shalimar laughs, shakes her head and says, "You'll see..."

***************************** AT SANCTUARY ******************************************
After putting all of the girls to bed. Jesse, Brennan, Matt, Jon, and Adam sat down for a little down time. Jesse, kept stealing glances at Matt, as did Brennan at Jon.
"Okay, Jesse, Brennan, what's up? You're freaking me and Jon out..." Matt states, after noticing that he and Jon were getting the evil eye.
"It's just, well, you guys are getting real close to Debbie and Dahlia, and in all honesty... we don't want our girls being hurt. We remember what it was like, to be seventeen, and we were just like you boys." Jesse said.
"To be blunt, if you hurt them, we'll know, and well, you'd better watch out." Brennan says.
"Jesse, Brennan, how would you like it if I gave you guys that speech when you, Emma and Shalimar were just starting your relationships?" Adam said.
Jon and Matt, now thoroughly freaked out went to bed, as did the other adult men. ******************************* IN THE MORNING ***************************************
The girls woke first, as usual. They each went about their morning routines, showering, brushing teeth and hair, that sort of thing. Debbie and Shalimar, now had a every other morning sparring schedule and this morning was one of them. Debbie climbed the stairs to the dojo, and saw her sparring partner there already. Debbie and Shal had taught each other many things. Debbie had learned to use her small size, and agility to her advantage, and Shal had learned how to think out her moves, and not always expect the move she thought would happen from Debbie. This time was also a time that Debbie and Shal used to talk and get closer.
They start circling each other, and Shal makes the first move, she grabs Debbie's arms, and Debbie grabs her upper arms. They stay locked like this, all the time, circling around.
"So I saw you and Matt dancin' last night, what's up with that? You guys got something goin' on?" Shal asks.
"I don't know, I've never known with Matt... He's so hard to read, even with my powers. But it could be the fact that he's exactly like me..."
"I don't know about that. Debbie believe me when I say, I can see you two together. You have some serious chemistry going there." Shal then gets an idea and tries to flip Debbie over her shoulder, but Debbie anticipates it and counters, ending with Shal on her back.
Shal gets up and says, "I have taught you well grass hopper," with a smile on her face.
The boys (Brennan, Jesse, Adam) start clapping and realizing that they've had an audience all this time, Shalimar blushes, and Debbie morphs into a bird and flys to her room.
"Shal, you've met your match... a 17 year old girl by the name of Debbie Kilmartin.
"Brennan, didn't you see how embarrassed Debbie was? She just _flew_ out of here!!! As a _bird_..." Shal says, rushing to Debbie's room. "Boys stay here!!!" Is shouted at them as the three other girls run to Debbie's room.
In the room, Debbie is laying down on her bed crying with Audioslave playing. The other girls come in and immediately Dahlia rushes to her best friends side.
"Debbie you know that they won't say anything to Matt, they only were commenting on our moves. I doubt that they heard _anything_." Shal says, patting the younger girls back.
"R-rr-really?" Debbie says, wiping her face.
"Yep, cross my heart."
"O-okay."
"You comin' back out?" asks Emma.
"I will in a sec, I gotta make myself pretty again..."
The other girls leave, and Debbie heads to the bathroom. A few minutes later, Debbie re- appears, looking like she had before, as do the younger boys. They each sit down for breakfast, consisting of eggs, bacon, toast, cereal, and milk, among other things. Usually in the morning, the table is bursting with the energy of the 4 young new mutants, as well as their 5 elders. This morning however has Debbie looking down at her food, and only talking when she needs something or is spoken to, Jon and Matt stealing glances at the older men who had warned them last night and the girls that they indeed, did love. Dahlia, sensing the unspoken animosity, as does Emma. Shalimar, never one to keep silent, had to ask.
"Hey, you guys, what's up? I, mean, I understand Debbie's silence, but what's with yours?"
"Umm...," Jon starts.
"Well...," Matt says at the same time.
"Yeah?" Shal urges.
"Well, let's just say that last night put things in perspective for us a bit." Jon says, returning to his food.
At this Debbie and Dahlia's head shot up, and they stared at the guys they loved, each other, the older mutants, and then back to their food. Each of the teens finished at the same time, and got up together, but instead of going off together, they each went separate ways.
Emma and Shal noticed this, and looked back at Brennan and Jesse, who are trying to escape the back way.
"What did you guys pull, that's got Jon and Matt so scared of Debbie and Dahlia?" Emma asks.
"Well...," Brennan starts.
"I'll tell you if you want," Adam says. At the girls' nods, he continued, "You see, Jesse and Brennan, told them that if they hurt Debbie and/ or Dahlia in any way that something 'bad' would happen to them."
"You guys!!!! Why would you do that? Their love for each other is pure, believe me, I know!!!!" Emma almost screeched.
"You guys better fix this, and until you do, we aren't talking to either of you!" Shal says, and then both women pivot on their heels and tromp down the stairs.
******************************* THAT AFTERNOON **************************************
"Hey Adam?" Debbie asked, when he was in the lab.
"Yeah?" he asks.
"Do you have any gymnastics equipment? I'd love to be able to practice this summer."
"You do gymnastics?"
"Yeah, I was on the team all high school, plus I was on other teams during the summer. It's where I got all my trophies and medals."
"You know what, I think I might. I'll have to set it up for you though... it'll take about a week, but it'll happen. Kay?"
"Yes! You have no idea how happy you just made me!!!" She said, hugging Adam at the same time. Then she literally skipped out of the lab.
On the way out, she passed Brennan. When he entered the lab he asked. "What's got Debbie so giddy?"
"I just promised her something, that made her really happy."
"And that something would be...?"
"Now Brennan, that'll ruin the surprise for all of you..."
************************* THREE DAYS LATER ******************************************
Things hadn't progressed any, since 3 days ago. Jon and Matt, still skirt around Debbie and Dahlia. Shal and Emma are still pissed at Brennan and Jesse. Except for 2 things, one day reminded them all of the other ones. One of the two things is that Justin, the seemingly useless kid of MutantX, experienced his first show of new mutancy at almost 12 years old. Adam said that his powers were not molecular, nor psyonic, but elemental and feral. Justin could throw and control ice, and had the precision of a cat in his moves. The other thing is that Adam finished the room that held all of the gymnastics equipment in it. That morning after breakfast, he blindfolded all of the new Mutants and led them all to the room, Debbie first in line. When they got there, and they each pulled off their blindfolds, Debbie let out a squeal of joy.
"Adam!!! It's awesome!!! Thank you so much!!!!." Debbie said, again hugging Adam.
"This is what you wouldn't tell me about?" Brennan asked.
"Well I figured, that with a championship-" Adam started.
"Two," Debbie interrupted.
"Two?"
"Yeah, Matt and I are a team. We've worked with gymnastics together for a while."
"Okay then. With _2_ championship gymnasts on the team, I figured that they could help us get some moves down." He said smiling at the two teens.
Matt looks down at the floor. But, Debbie agrees readily. "Okay! Just give me some time to get 'aquainted' with the equipment... kay?"
"Fine." Matt says. They both run off to their rooms to get changed into their workout outfits.