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Author's note: I bet you all thought I had forgotten 'bout this story. Well almost, almost, with school and all kinds of stuff happening I never had the time, the energy or the imagination to work on it. But now that school is over for the summer the next chapters wont take long to write.
I just wanted to say how much I admire those other writers, be it ppl that write books/novel, fan fiction, poems, songs, you name it. This sure ain't easy work especially when writers block comes your way. This is my first story and its way harder and longer that I ever thought it would be. I also want to thanx all those reviews!
This chapter pretty much explain what's happening
Anyways on with the story….
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"Emma please come on. We know now that he's alive, but he wont be for long if you stay there and you'll also get captured. They'll help him. We'll figure something out after, come on"
"I-I …alright" She looked at Brennan and kissed him one last time as the tears came running down her face. "Don't worry I'll come back and rescue you" Just as she left the room the doctors and GSA agents came rushing in.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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At Sanctuary
The Double Helix had just arrived at Sanctuary from its failed mission. Shalimar, Jesse and Emma came out of the plane with one thing on their minds. They wanted to know why they had to leave Brennan at Genomex. Unfortunately, Adam, who had stayed behind, was the only one that could really answer that question. Shalimar's feral pride had been bruised when she had to leave one of her pact member behind; she was angry and confused. She felt like she was a puppet, not in control of her own life and the safety of the ones she cared for. Jesse was also confused but he told himself that Adam knew what he was doing. He rationalized that he must have had a damn good reason for telling them to come back without finishing their task. Emma was the only one in the three that had an idea of what was going on, but she needed to be reassured that she had done the right thing, because right now she felt like she had betrayed Brennan.
Adam saw them enter in the base. By the display of emotions on their faces he knew that he was going to have to face hell. He also knew that what he had done was the right thing to do for Brennan and the team, but it was convincing them of that that worried him. Without Emma knowing Adam had put a tracer on Brennan so that he could keep track of him and his vitals at all times. This was the project he had been working on before Brennan had left the other morning. It took the readings of someone's DNA and state of being and stored it in its databanks. So, if required, it could easily find that person without needing a different device on the other end. It was undetectable; in that way there was no chances that Eackart would find anything suspicious.
Shalimar didn't wait for Adam to start talking; her anger was too much for her to hold in. With a scowl on her face she started to shout "Adam what the hell happened?! Why did you order us to come back?! We could have gotten him out! But noooo he's still stuck there, god knows what's happening to him and we're just standing here doing nothing!" Her eyes started to glow as she tried to contain her feral rage and disappointment.
Both Jesse and Emma waited to see what would be Adam's reaction and answer. They wouldn't of acted as Shalimar had if it would have been up to them to ask the questions but she had expressed what they had felt nonetheless.
Adam kept his emotions under check; he knew that losing control wouldn't help the situation. "Please Shalimar calm down. I ordered you all here for a good reason." He looked towards Emma "Emma can you tell us what happened?"
Emma felt uneasy as Shalimar's stare darted her way. Contrary to Shalimar, Emma didn't use Adam as her scapegoat for her guilt but by seeing his confidence it made her hold on to a shred of hope.
"Umm…yeah…Well when I came in the room he was sleeping. I woke him up and he seemed emotionally fine..." Emma hesitated, thinking of a way to explain to her teammates what she had felt without perplexing them. " I didn't need the help of my gifts to tell me that he was disoriented and confused but he also trusted me. For some reason he didn't know who I was though. However he seemed to recognize me in some way. I then contacted Adam. As I was relaying the news to him Brennan's emotions started to change, mostly when I mentioned Adam. They became dark. He wasn't just terrified of me but he hated me too!" Shalimar's anger turned into shock as she was hearing this. Jesse was as surprised as she was. " When I asked him what was wrong he started to scream at me. He said that his name wasn't Brennan, that it was Joshua. While he was shouting it seemed like his emotions were taking a life of its own. They became physical. The waves of emotions were too much for anything mechanical and they blew up…" She quieted down to let the group grasp the total picture of what had transpired before continuing. " With all those sensation and his recent accident his body couldn't take. It shut down. He was dying...that's…that's when Adam pulled me out."
Jesse was overwhelmed by this new information "Whoa…Brennan isn't Brennan anymore? Joshua…Joshua Eackhart? He thinks he's Eckhart's son? Whatever Eckhart said or did to make Brennan believe that, it was pretty low, even for him."
"Yes and he'll regret what he did too" Shalimar smiled and she imagined kicking Eckharts ass.
"We can't forget this new surge of powers that Brennan seems to have acquired either." Emma added.
"But why did we just leave him there? Surely we could have saved him on the Double-Helix" Jesse asked.
Adam waited till he got everyone's attention before he started talking "Yes I'll get to that soon. But first I'll explain what I know of the situation and hopefully you will understand my decision to leave him behind for now. Alright for starters, we all know that Brennan sustained some head injury from the car crash; it was mentioned in the news and he obviously showed some evidence of this with his memory loss. Have you ever heard of humans developing abilities after an incident? This happens especially with head injuries…"
" Sure I've heard that people can sometimes predict the future or move objects with there minds. Something like that" Shalimar said
"Yes, exactly. This is quite natural. These abilities aren't evident in most people because they stay dormant in parts of the brain that aren't used. When something traumatic happens to someone it, lets say, opens doors and wakes these powers up. Now what happened, I think, is that Brennan opened those doors up to let in the natural powers..."
" Yeah but don't you think they're a bit too strong? Well in the beginning anyways…He would need to practice a whole lot to get to the level that I saw today. Even with practice it's a bit too much." Emma mentioned.
"Yes that's true but I also think that it made his New-Mutant abilities mutate. He has his natural abilities and his New-Mutant ones too. So all and all he has become pretty powerful. This is what caused the strong flow of emotion and the malfunction of the machines. That's one part of the situation. Now to answer your question on why I decided to leave Brennan behind… when Eckhart got his hands on Brennan he realized that Brennan had lost his memory. He saw this as an advantage. He quite convincingly lied that he was his father and most likely blamed Brennan's accident and many other made-up things on us. That's why Brennan had that reaction when he heard my name Emma. Now when Brennan's body was shutting down I had to act fast. Either you bring him with you, which I don't think he would have survived the trip back, or you leave him there. I don't trust Manson but I know he values Brennan's life because of his little scheme. He will make sure that he survives and to tell you the truth Genomex has a very good medical staff, maybe they don't do what's in the best interest of their patients but Brennan is a very important person right now. They wont let him die, that I'm sure of. So if Brennan stays alive we have a chance of saving him."
The group thought of what Adam had said. They slowly came to the realization that he had done what was in Brennan best interest. Hope had renewed itself in them.
"There's something else…"Adam said as he was walking towards the lab, when he came out he had a small object in his hands "I've been working on this project for months." He showed the object to everyone. " Its what I call a DNA tracker, and what it does is it scans peoples DNA and it accumulates it in its databanks. Now with this information stored I can find what that person's location is and his or her physical well-being. When you were talking to me, Emma, I scanned Brennan using your ring as the link. Because of that I can find Brennan anywhere he goes and how he's doing. I checked his vitals when you left and continued doing this till you all got here. It appeared that he survived the shock" They were all overjoyed at hearing this.
Emma got up. At the moment she couldn't stand still, she was just too ecstatic.
"Can we go see how he's doing right now?"
Adam smiled as Jesse and Shalimar stood up "Yes of course we can, come on"
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At Genomex
Eckhart was pacing around his office waiting for the Doctor to tell him how Joshua was. He had made himself call him Joshua, not Mr. Mulray or Brennan, even when he was thinking to make it easier for him to lie. Of course he never had a problem lying but putting himself directly in the role of a concerned father made the lie more plausible. It was essential for the plan to work. Truth be told he actually liked it, not the need for cunning and deception like he usually enjoyed, but to really care for someone. He didn't have anyone to care for and that was why he was so dedicated to his work. Nevertheless he was still a human and his mind benefited from this experience. In the end he knew that he was just using Joshua. He was taking this whole acting business way too seriously. He tried to suppress any concern or compassion that he had for the boy. While he was thinking this over the doctor came in.
"How's my son?" Manson impatiently asked.
The doctor carefully hid a disappointed frown that his boss had actually called the 'specimen' his son. He knew that Mr. Mulray was very significant for Genomex and the GSA but this was ridiculous. However he was quite excited from the information he had gathered.
"Well sir, Mr. Mulray…"
"Call him Joshua" Eckhart's voice was stern as he interrupted the Doctor
"Yes, yes of course" Ridiculous, just ridiculous "He wasn't really in any danger"
"What the hell are you talking about, he stopped breathing!"
"It only appeared that way. His abilities were trying to protect him from the onslaught of emotion by putting a barrier. In that way, his body's recently acquired healing factor was able to kick into overdrive. By closing down his body it made it much easier and faster for him to heal. Actually he no longer requires life support. Of course he can't go running all over the place, let alone stand up by himself but he is, um… out of the woods; I think that's the expression."
"That's very good. He's more powerful then I had previously thought" Eckhart momentarily forgot about the worry he had of his supposed son and contemplation of all the means he could use this new information. He thought of all the ways he could harm Mutant X and control the world. Mr. Eckhart was back to his normal wicked self.
"Yes, yes it is" The Doctor saw the reaction that he had caused his superior. Frankly he was quite pleased with the change. "It is safe to move him to his room that we have set up for him." This was the room where all of Joshua's belonging were. They had made sure that the room looked lived in with clothes, items and pictures relaying to Joshua's life.
Eckhart was as eager and greedy as a child in a candy store "Good good, when do you think we can start transferring the false memories?"
"Pretty much right after he wakes, sir."
"Excellent. Send in Miss Ebers. Oh and contact me if there's any change in Joshua's condition. I want to be there when he wakes up. I wouldn't look much like a father if I wasn't there to… support him."
"Of course" At that the Doctor left the room.
A couple of minutes later a tall GSA agent came in. She had short dark brown hair neatly tucked behind her ears. Her green eyes held no glimmer in them; they were dull and cold. She would have been a lovely woman if not for her formal appearances. Except the truth was that she wasn't a bad person, her looks and seemingly bitter attitude was just a mask to fool everyone around her. She had deliberately offered to work for the GSA to make sure that they wouldn't capture her younger sister. Of course, they didn't know she had a sister; she had changed her name and her history. In that way, if they ever had a lead on her sister she could change the information. She had helped countless others but her priority was her sister. She had been caught a couple of times but luckily, every time, she had been able to alter the witness's memories so they wouldn't remember. She hated what she was about to do to this man. She didn't know him or his story but changing someone's entire life memories was wrong in her opinion. She had only used her powers when need be and even then her longest memory change had been about an hour. A whole lifetime seemed immoral to her, but to make him believe that he was Eckhart's son was just appalling. Nevertheless she told herself that she had to do this if she wanted to be able to continue protection her little sister.
She walked up to the desk and looked at the revolting man sitting behind it. She had no doubt in her mind that one day he would be punished for what he had done in his lifetime. She made sure to keep her emotions hidden as she began talking.
"Yes sir you asked for me?"
"Ah yes, please sit down" She sat down with reluctance. Sitting down meant that the gap between both of them would diminish. She felt that if she got any closer to him she would be sick.
"Now I just wanted to make sure that you completely understood what your task was." Eckhart was in an unusual good humour
"Yes sir I wholly understand what I have to do." Emotionless as ever
Eckhart smiled "Excellent, make sure that those memories show how Mutant X's leader was destructive to my sons life" She concealed a shudder as he mentioned son. "Oh and get his mother's details perfect"
"Yes sir"
"Alright then, if all goes well I think you will deserve a promotion. Be prepared before the transference, I don't want to have to wait longer" She nodded "Good, now leave me"
She left as fast as she could without appearing suspicious. When she was in the corridor she let out a long breath and continued with her work.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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Author's Note: Don't worry everything's gonna make sense in the end and Agent Ebers appearance will be tied to the beginning. Oh and it won't take me long to post my next chapter…everything's good. More Brennan next chapter, that's always good!
Author's note: I bet you all thought I had forgotten 'bout this story. Well almost, almost, with school and all kinds of stuff happening I never had the time, the energy or the imagination to work on it. But now that school is over for the summer the next chapters wont take long to write.
I just wanted to say how much I admire those other writers, be it ppl that write books/novel, fan fiction, poems, songs, you name it. This sure ain't easy work especially when writers block comes your way. This is my first story and its way harder and longer that I ever thought it would be. I also want to thanx all those reviews!
This chapter pretty much explain what's happening
Anyways on with the story….
*****
"Emma please come on. We know now that he's alive, but he wont be for long if you stay there and you'll also get captured. They'll help him. We'll figure something out after, come on"
"I-I …alright" She looked at Brennan and kissed him one last time as the tears came running down her face. "Don't worry I'll come back and rescue you" Just as she left the room the doctors and GSA agents came rushing in.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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At Sanctuary
The Double Helix had just arrived at Sanctuary from its failed mission. Shalimar, Jesse and Emma came out of the plane with one thing on their minds. They wanted to know why they had to leave Brennan at Genomex. Unfortunately, Adam, who had stayed behind, was the only one that could really answer that question. Shalimar's feral pride had been bruised when she had to leave one of her pact member behind; she was angry and confused. She felt like she was a puppet, not in control of her own life and the safety of the ones she cared for. Jesse was also confused but he told himself that Adam knew what he was doing. He rationalized that he must have had a damn good reason for telling them to come back without finishing their task. Emma was the only one in the three that had an idea of what was going on, but she needed to be reassured that she had done the right thing, because right now she felt like she had betrayed Brennan.
Adam saw them enter in the base. By the display of emotions on their faces he knew that he was going to have to face hell. He also knew that what he had done was the right thing to do for Brennan and the team, but it was convincing them of that that worried him. Without Emma knowing Adam had put a tracer on Brennan so that he could keep track of him and his vitals at all times. This was the project he had been working on before Brennan had left the other morning. It took the readings of someone's DNA and state of being and stored it in its databanks. So, if required, it could easily find that person without needing a different device on the other end. It was undetectable; in that way there was no chances that Eackart would find anything suspicious.
Shalimar didn't wait for Adam to start talking; her anger was too much for her to hold in. With a scowl on her face she started to shout "Adam what the hell happened?! Why did you order us to come back?! We could have gotten him out! But noooo he's still stuck there, god knows what's happening to him and we're just standing here doing nothing!" Her eyes started to glow as she tried to contain her feral rage and disappointment.
Both Jesse and Emma waited to see what would be Adam's reaction and answer. They wouldn't of acted as Shalimar had if it would have been up to them to ask the questions but she had expressed what they had felt nonetheless.
Adam kept his emotions under check; he knew that losing control wouldn't help the situation. "Please Shalimar calm down. I ordered you all here for a good reason." He looked towards Emma "Emma can you tell us what happened?"
Emma felt uneasy as Shalimar's stare darted her way. Contrary to Shalimar, Emma didn't use Adam as her scapegoat for her guilt but by seeing his confidence it made her hold on to a shred of hope.
"Umm…yeah…Well when I came in the room he was sleeping. I woke him up and he seemed emotionally fine..." Emma hesitated, thinking of a way to explain to her teammates what she had felt without perplexing them. " I didn't need the help of my gifts to tell me that he was disoriented and confused but he also trusted me. For some reason he didn't know who I was though. However he seemed to recognize me in some way. I then contacted Adam. As I was relaying the news to him Brennan's emotions started to change, mostly when I mentioned Adam. They became dark. He wasn't just terrified of me but he hated me too!" Shalimar's anger turned into shock as she was hearing this. Jesse was as surprised as she was. " When I asked him what was wrong he started to scream at me. He said that his name wasn't Brennan, that it was Joshua. While he was shouting it seemed like his emotions were taking a life of its own. They became physical. The waves of emotions were too much for anything mechanical and they blew up…" She quieted down to let the group grasp the total picture of what had transpired before continuing. " With all those sensation and his recent accident his body couldn't take. It shut down. He was dying...that's…that's when Adam pulled me out."
Jesse was overwhelmed by this new information "Whoa…Brennan isn't Brennan anymore? Joshua…Joshua Eackhart? He thinks he's Eckhart's son? Whatever Eckhart said or did to make Brennan believe that, it was pretty low, even for him."
"Yes and he'll regret what he did too" Shalimar smiled and she imagined kicking Eckharts ass.
"We can't forget this new surge of powers that Brennan seems to have acquired either." Emma added.
"But why did we just leave him there? Surely we could have saved him on the Double-Helix" Jesse asked.
Adam waited till he got everyone's attention before he started talking "Yes I'll get to that soon. But first I'll explain what I know of the situation and hopefully you will understand my decision to leave him behind for now. Alright for starters, we all know that Brennan sustained some head injury from the car crash; it was mentioned in the news and he obviously showed some evidence of this with his memory loss. Have you ever heard of humans developing abilities after an incident? This happens especially with head injuries…"
" Sure I've heard that people can sometimes predict the future or move objects with there minds. Something like that" Shalimar said
"Yes, exactly. This is quite natural. These abilities aren't evident in most people because they stay dormant in parts of the brain that aren't used. When something traumatic happens to someone it, lets say, opens doors and wakes these powers up. Now what happened, I think, is that Brennan opened those doors up to let in the natural powers..."
" Yeah but don't you think they're a bit too strong? Well in the beginning anyways…He would need to practice a whole lot to get to the level that I saw today. Even with practice it's a bit too much." Emma mentioned.
"Yes that's true but I also think that it made his New-Mutant abilities mutate. He has his natural abilities and his New-Mutant ones too. So all and all he has become pretty powerful. This is what caused the strong flow of emotion and the malfunction of the machines. That's one part of the situation. Now to answer your question on why I decided to leave Brennan behind… when Eckhart got his hands on Brennan he realized that Brennan had lost his memory. He saw this as an advantage. He quite convincingly lied that he was his father and most likely blamed Brennan's accident and many other made-up things on us. That's why Brennan had that reaction when he heard my name Emma. Now when Brennan's body was shutting down I had to act fast. Either you bring him with you, which I don't think he would have survived the trip back, or you leave him there. I don't trust Manson but I know he values Brennan's life because of his little scheme. He will make sure that he survives and to tell you the truth Genomex has a very good medical staff, maybe they don't do what's in the best interest of their patients but Brennan is a very important person right now. They wont let him die, that I'm sure of. So if Brennan stays alive we have a chance of saving him."
The group thought of what Adam had said. They slowly came to the realization that he had done what was in Brennan best interest. Hope had renewed itself in them.
"There's something else…"Adam said as he was walking towards the lab, when he came out he had a small object in his hands "I've been working on this project for months." He showed the object to everyone. " Its what I call a DNA tracker, and what it does is it scans peoples DNA and it accumulates it in its databanks. Now with this information stored I can find what that person's location is and his or her physical well-being. When you were talking to me, Emma, I scanned Brennan using your ring as the link. Because of that I can find Brennan anywhere he goes and how he's doing. I checked his vitals when you left and continued doing this till you all got here. It appeared that he survived the shock" They were all overjoyed at hearing this.
Emma got up. At the moment she couldn't stand still, she was just too ecstatic.
"Can we go see how he's doing right now?"
Adam smiled as Jesse and Shalimar stood up "Yes of course we can, come on"
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At Genomex
Eckhart was pacing around his office waiting for the Doctor to tell him how Joshua was. He had made himself call him Joshua, not Mr. Mulray or Brennan, even when he was thinking to make it easier for him to lie. Of course he never had a problem lying but putting himself directly in the role of a concerned father made the lie more plausible. It was essential for the plan to work. Truth be told he actually liked it, not the need for cunning and deception like he usually enjoyed, but to really care for someone. He didn't have anyone to care for and that was why he was so dedicated to his work. Nevertheless he was still a human and his mind benefited from this experience. In the end he knew that he was just using Joshua. He was taking this whole acting business way too seriously. He tried to suppress any concern or compassion that he had for the boy. While he was thinking this over the doctor came in.
"How's my son?" Manson impatiently asked.
The doctor carefully hid a disappointed frown that his boss had actually called the 'specimen' his son. He knew that Mr. Mulray was very significant for Genomex and the GSA but this was ridiculous. However he was quite excited from the information he had gathered.
"Well sir, Mr. Mulray…"
"Call him Joshua" Eckhart's voice was stern as he interrupted the Doctor
"Yes, yes of course" Ridiculous, just ridiculous "He wasn't really in any danger"
"What the hell are you talking about, he stopped breathing!"
"It only appeared that way. His abilities were trying to protect him from the onslaught of emotion by putting a barrier. In that way, his body's recently acquired healing factor was able to kick into overdrive. By closing down his body it made it much easier and faster for him to heal. Actually he no longer requires life support. Of course he can't go running all over the place, let alone stand up by himself but he is, um… out of the woods; I think that's the expression."
"That's very good. He's more powerful then I had previously thought" Eckhart momentarily forgot about the worry he had of his supposed son and contemplation of all the means he could use this new information. He thought of all the ways he could harm Mutant X and control the world. Mr. Eckhart was back to his normal wicked self.
"Yes, yes it is" The Doctor saw the reaction that he had caused his superior. Frankly he was quite pleased with the change. "It is safe to move him to his room that we have set up for him." This was the room where all of Joshua's belonging were. They had made sure that the room looked lived in with clothes, items and pictures relaying to Joshua's life.
Eckhart was as eager and greedy as a child in a candy store "Good good, when do you think we can start transferring the false memories?"
"Pretty much right after he wakes, sir."
"Excellent. Send in Miss Ebers. Oh and contact me if there's any change in Joshua's condition. I want to be there when he wakes up. I wouldn't look much like a father if I wasn't there to… support him."
"Of course" At that the Doctor left the room.
A couple of minutes later a tall GSA agent came in. She had short dark brown hair neatly tucked behind her ears. Her green eyes held no glimmer in them; they were dull and cold. She would have been a lovely woman if not for her formal appearances. Except the truth was that she wasn't a bad person, her looks and seemingly bitter attitude was just a mask to fool everyone around her. She had deliberately offered to work for the GSA to make sure that they wouldn't capture her younger sister. Of course, they didn't know she had a sister; she had changed her name and her history. In that way, if they ever had a lead on her sister she could change the information. She had helped countless others but her priority was her sister. She had been caught a couple of times but luckily, every time, she had been able to alter the witness's memories so they wouldn't remember. She hated what she was about to do to this man. She didn't know him or his story but changing someone's entire life memories was wrong in her opinion. She had only used her powers when need be and even then her longest memory change had been about an hour. A whole lifetime seemed immoral to her, but to make him believe that he was Eckhart's son was just appalling. Nevertheless she told herself that she had to do this if she wanted to be able to continue protection her little sister.
She walked up to the desk and looked at the revolting man sitting behind it. She had no doubt in her mind that one day he would be punished for what he had done in his lifetime. She made sure to keep her emotions hidden as she began talking.
"Yes sir you asked for me?"
"Ah yes, please sit down" She sat down with reluctance. Sitting down meant that the gap between both of them would diminish. She felt that if she got any closer to him she would be sick.
"Now I just wanted to make sure that you completely understood what your task was." Eckhart was in an unusual good humour
"Yes sir I wholly understand what I have to do." Emotionless as ever
Eckhart smiled "Excellent, make sure that those memories show how Mutant X's leader was destructive to my sons life" She concealed a shudder as he mentioned son. "Oh and get his mother's details perfect"
"Yes sir"
"Alright then, if all goes well I think you will deserve a promotion. Be prepared before the transference, I don't want to have to wait longer" She nodded "Good, now leave me"
She left as fast as she could without appearing suspicious. When she was in the corridor she let out a long breath and continued with her work.
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TO BE CONTINUED
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Author's Note: Don't worry everything's gonna make sense in the end and Agent Ebers appearance will be tied to the beginning. Oh and it won't take me long to post my next chapter…everything's good. More Brennan next chapter, that's always good!