Brennan flew the Double Hextit with reckless abandoned back to the Sanctuary. Nobody minded the wild ride they were all concerned about the dying Emma.
"God Emma be all right please." Jesse said holding Emma's right hand tightly.
"Come on Em you have to make it you just have to. Who in the hell else can I gossip about the men with." Shalimar said softly from her spot at Adam's feet as he held Emma tightly to him.
"Come Em I am just getting to know you." Diana said from where she stood in behind Adam's seat.
Brennan jerked the Double Hextit to an stop in the Sanctuary's garage.
Shalimar jumped up quickly so that Adam could stand up and rush out of the Double Hextit into the Sanctuary.
Jesse jumped his hand as Adam rushed past him. He jumped up and ran after Adam who was rushing to the lab.
The others ran after Jesse and stopped breathless in the lab as they watched Adam lay Emma gently on the table.
"Shalimar and Diana gently remove Emma's clothes." Adam said as he turned to get his medical bag from the table.
The two women obey Adam and only left Emma in her bra and underwear. They moved aside slightly as Adam walked back over to the table.
"Jesse and Brennan help hold Emma down." Adam said as he removed an knife.
"What are you going to do Adam?" Diana asked eyeing the knife. "Why can't you use the beamer to check Emma out."
"Because the Psi ball went deep into Emma." Shalimar said knowing why Adam had the knife. "Adam has to cut into Emma to save her life this time."
"Shalimar come stand opposite me and hand me the tools that I will need. Diana you will wipe the sweat from me when needed." Adam said as wiped Emma's chest clean.
The two women went to stand where they were told waited for Adam to start to operate on their friend.
"Pray everyone." Adam said softly as he once again picked up the knife. He placed it tenderly onto Emma's chest and breathed through his nose as he began to cut Emma's skin.
Emma jerked at the feel of the knife and Brennan and Jesse firmly held her down and made it so that she could not move.
Adam contiuned to cut deep so that he could began to see what damage the psi ball had done to her. "So what did you think of young me?" Adam asked softly as he handed the knife to Shamliar. "Scalpel."
Shamliar handed the Scalpel to Adam. "He was pretty cute." She knew that Adam was trying to help ease the tension as he operated on Emma.
"He seemed pre occupied when I first saw him." Brennan said softly.
"He seemed willing to help when we needed him too." Jesse said with an smile. "Shock when I protected him against Gabriel's blast."
"Oh. When did that happen? I don't remember it ever happing." Adam said as he handed the scalpel back to Shamliar. "Tweezers."
Shamliar handed the tweezers to Adam with force. "I hate Gabriel. More now than ever before." He eyes lit up fire.
"Easy Shamliar you aren't hurting him now. Calm down." Adam said still in his normal tone of voice as he brought the tweezers deep into Emma's chest and began to remove the psi blast bits from the young woman.
Diana wiped the sweat off of Adam's brow as needed.
Shamliar's eyes cleared up again. "I'm sorry Adam. I know I shouldn't be angry not at an time like this. Emma needs me to be strong and I am not when I am in an rage. I will do better."
"That's all I ask." Adam said softly not looking up from his work. "Now about the young me."
"How can you not remember my saving you when you were younger now Adam? I mean isn't it true that whenever someone goes back into time and somehow misses with past actions the said person remembers it?" Jesse questioned.
"Perhaps I have blocked it out. From shock. Or perhaps the young me knew that what I saw shouldn't be remembered until I was wise enough to know what to do with it." Adam explained as he finally removed the tweezers from Emma's chest. He handed them back to Shamliar. "Needle and tread."
Shamliar handed the two items over to Adam.
"Like now." Brennan said with an wise tone.
"Yes like now." Adam said softly as he sewed up the inside of Emma before moving to the outside of her chest. He carefully sewed her chest back up and handed the two items back to Shamliar. "Brennan and Jesse you can let Emma go now."
The two men removed their hand from Emma.
"Now what?" Jesse asked.
"Now we wait. I want to get her hooked up to the heart montrol so I can keep an eye on her heart beat." Adam said moving over to the machine and moved it to Emma's right side. He removed the cups and placed them up above her breast and turned the machine on. They were all relieved to hear the beep noise. Weak but going.
"I want you all to get some rest now." Adam said looking at all the mutants in the eye.
"What about you Adam?" Diana asked.
"I'm going to stay here with Emma." Adam said. "Don't worry about me." He said knowing the young people were worried about him. "I will rest of course. But I'm not going to leave Emma's side one second while she is like this."
"Adam...." Shamlair began.
Adam shook his head.
"You have to go the bathroom and shower at times." Brennan said softly.
"When I do one of you will be with Emma. But for the most part I'm not leaving Emma's side." Adam said firmly.
"Adam ..." Shamlair began again.
"Don't Adam me." Adam said firmly. "Now all four of you go get some sleep. I want you to still go out there and save as many mutants as you can."
The four young Mutants knew they couldn't talk Adam out of his plan of action. But only Jesse and Diana knew the real reason why Adam was feeling this way. So they left the lab to go to their bedrooms.
Adam turned back to Emma and sat her side. "I'm here for you Emma. I wouldn't leave your side ever. You are safe. Thank you for saving my life." He said softly as he gently took her right hand in his and brought it up to his check.