"Sweet smell of sunshine

I remember sometimes"

-NIN

"Rorie Charlotte. She was one of the head researchers at the compound where Britt and I were held. She says she didn't die in the fire, that she's been in a coma. She also said that she's restored all the files that we destroyed." Brennan looks at the floor. "She's coming after him."

"What else can you tell me about her?" Adam questions.

"She's evil. She's more evil than anyone I've ever met. She enjoys other people's pain. She's a sadist…" Brennan steps back from where Adam is repairing his arm.

"Brennan?" Shalimar calls.

He turns away, a sharp pain blinding him. It dissipates and he turns back to his friends.

"Brennan…your eyes…" Emma gasps.

"What about them?" Brennan asks.

"They're changing colors," Jesse states, amazed. Brennan's brown eyes are slowing melting from blue to green and then to gray.

Another pain strikes him and he grabs his head in pain. Emma is closest to him and takes his arm to steady him. She feels the stab of pain and is thrown away from him into Jesse.

"Brennan…Brennan, are you there?" A familiar voice whispers in his head.

"Dammit…" Brennan says aloud, pain invading his entire being. "Stop…make it stop…I can't take anymore…"

"I'm not going to hurt you, Brennan…Can you hear me?"

Brennan breathes heavily and his energy starts to spontaneously protect him from the others by forming a force field around his crumpling body. He kneels in the floor of the lab, pain shooting through his body.

"Whatever you're doing is killing me…" Brennan says.

"Brennan, I'm reopening the channel between us…it's Britt…your brother…and someone is looking for us…"

Brennan feels consciousness leaving him as he replies to his brother silently. "I know, Britt, its Rorie and you just opened a door straight to you…"

As soon as Brennan is unconscious, the energy surrounding him disappears back into his body. Adam and the others lift him onto a bed and Adam immediately begins running tests on him.

"This is impossible…this is just…impossible," Adam mumbles aloud, looking at the computer screen.

"What is it?" Jesse asks, leaving the girls at Brennan's bedside to see what Adam is alarmed about.

"Brennan's mutation…I have stabilized all of your mutations but Brennan's has suddenly been reactivated and…its like nothing I've ever seen before…no wonder he collapsed…" Adam stares at the statistics in awe.

"He's mutating again? Adam, how is that possible?" Jesse questions.

"I have no idea. Maybe, that last attack wasn't Rorie Charlotte…maybe that was his brother and when he reopened the telepathic channel, it triggered the mutations…" Adam looks at Brennan, realization dawning on his face. "All this time, Brennan thought his brother had the combination of powers but he's had them, too. Somehow when his brother severed the telepathic connection, he stopped Brennan's powers from developing and if what I'm thinking is correct, when the channel was reopened, all the dormant powers must have reemerged."

"Adam…he's waking up," Shalimar calls