Chapter 2
"Alex?..." Liz cried, not believing her own eyes.
Alex looked up with a pained look on his bruised and battered face, his glassy red rimmed eyes showing his drugged state. "Sis, they caught you too?"
Realizing that this really was her brother and not just a figment of her own imagination launched herself at Alex almost toppling him over. She pulled him into a tight embrace and started sobbing. She couldn't believe that her brother was actually here and alive. Of all the times she thought she felt him fleetingly through the bond they shared only to thing that it was her imagination playing tricks on her. He was here now and Liz had no intention of leaving him again.
About that time the others who were in the same room started to recover. They saw Liz in the arms of some strange guy which made Max angry. He started towards the pair, when Kyle who saw who it was held him back. That's when the pair separated and they stared in shock.
Max being the first to recover started. "Liz, what are you doing? He could be a skin or shape shifter.
Liz looked at Max and stiffened. "He's not."
Isabel knew that Max was way out of line, but out of loyalty she had to back him up. "How do you know that Liz?"
"I just do." answered Liz. How could she explain that she knew because the connection she shares with Alex is soul deep? Would they understand or just wave it off as nothing? She didn't care anymore so Liz just decided to ignore the others. She put her hands as gently as she could on the sides of Alex's face, not wanting to irritate it even more than it was and asked "How?".
Alex sighed and looked at each of his friends disbelieving faces before answering solemnly. "Tess." Alex looked back at his sister and said. "She knew Liz. Tess and Nacedo knew everything. She mindwarped everyone into believing that I had died."
Max understanding what he was implying wanted to defend the mother of his love child so he stepped up on her behalf. "Tess left, she wouldn't sell us out and Nacedo is dead."
"Nacedo had contacts in the military who Tess knew too. She wanted whoever got in her was out of the picture so she used those contacts. Use your eyes Max, she never cared about you or anybody here." Alex started coughing and Liz had to help him sit on the cold, hard metal floor. She sat down beside him and put her arms around him to rub his back like she used to do when he was hurt.
"We don't even know that you are Alex, so how can we even trust you?" Max snapped just then.
Alex looked up at Max with a disgusted look on his face and contemplated hitting Max since he was already starting to feel better with drugs were wearing off and with the twins being together this seemed to speed up his healing process even more. He weighed his options but better of it decided not to. We might need him later he thought but after we get out of this, he'd better be careful. "This really has nothing to do with you, but considering that you are still alive they probably have found a way to use you for their advantage." Alex started coughing again so Liz shot Max a dirty look that told him to shut up. Michael decided that this was a good time to get away from their overbearing leader moved to Alex's other side to help. Liz shot him a grateful look for his kindness.
"Just tell us what's going on and why you think that you are the ones that they are after." Maria finally getting fed up demanded.
Liz just wanting to get explanations out of the way blurted. "Alex and I are twins and mutants."
"How come you didn't tell us?" Kyle asked in amazement.
"We couldn't. It was best just to keep quiet." answered Liz.
"Liz, I understand that but you do know that you could have confided in me. I'm not always good at this stuff but I am a good listener." Kyle told her.
"Yes, I know." Liz said. "Alex and I were just a little bit nervous how everybody would take it."
"I don't believe this!" Maria exploded. "How could you lie to us?"
"Lie! We didn't lie, we just didn't see the need to tell you about a certain detail of our lives." growled Alex.
"And after everything I did for both of you!" sneered Max.
"You did?! You did nothing for me lately except insult me. You were ready to give up on Alex and believe that he caused the accident on purpose." said Liz in amazement.
"I saved your life you owe me!"
"I owe you nothing! I paid you back in full several times over. My life is my own, not yours to do with it as you please." Liz sneered.
"You are the reason that we are all here." Max pointed out.
"No, that's Tess." Michael pointed out snidely. The rest of them could act like idiots but Michael wasn't going to act that low, even Maria was shooting Liz and Alex dirty looks.
Just then the door at the end of the room opened and three people were escorted through by armed guards. There was a man and woman along with a young girl who looked no more than five or six with dark almost black hair and blue eyes which held a wisdom that showed that she had been through a great deal for her young age. After the door closed behind the three, the girl took one look at Alex and like Liz threw herself into his waiting arms. If seeing the child go to Alex didn't shock Liz and the rest of the Pod Squad enough, his next words sure did. "Liz, this is our sister Serena."
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Please tell me your opinion on if you think Jean should be back because if yes than the female prisoner will be her. If no, I'll make it Rogue or somebody else. I was also planning on having Michael stay at the Institute at the end but does anybody think that I should have Kyle develop powers and let him stay?
