Sorry for the smaaaaaaaaaallll chapter ... hope you enjoy...Cyndi
Chapter 7
Entry from the Journal of ADAM
It has been more than a week since the incident that injured Brennan. It has had a strange effect on all of us, especially Jesse who has taken this whole thing to heart. He accounts him self as the one who is to blame for what has happen. Then so do Shalimar and Emma. Jesse's guilt nearly got him captured by the GSA the same night. He has been less attentive to his work out side of sanctuary. Almost fearless in his daring as though he has some kind of death wish. He has not talked to me, no matter how hard I try. He does talk to Emma, but she tells me he doesn't listen.
I am also worried about Shalimar. She is angry and scared. I find her judgment stretched beyond her limits of good intent. She is a deadly force to be reckoned with. I had suspected that she and Brennan had gotten closer. I hadn't worried about it; it took a long time for her to break the chains of despair after losing Richard. I figured with Brennan she could be herself. Brennan is a good man despite his history he would never intentionally hurt any woman. He is in fact the most moralistic thief I have ever met. I now fear that if we lose him, its undercurrent would destroy Shalimar, but I can no longer hold off destiny. I have a choice to make I only hope I am making the right one.
Although I cannot be certain I am doing the right thing I will be taking Brennan out of the pod today. Jesse, Emma and Shalimar don't go out for fun anymore instead they spend any spare time reading to him. I walked in to the lab while Jesse was reading from one of Brendan's poetry books. I think it was then I decided to take Bren from the pod that has been protecting him and all to slowly helping his body to mend. Most of the wounds have healed, unfortunately there is still swelling around the brain and the lower spinal injury. I also appears the break in his arm may take a bit longer than any of the other injuries. I have designed a set of special gloves that will prevent a miss hap like the one where his powers nearly fried everything in the Lab. The will gloves work like a regulator against Brennan's mutation. It will work by diverting any uncontrolled current within a power pack inside the glove or to an adapter that will actually use the power to run auxiliary generators that store power for the sanctuary.
Strangely enough I believe this governing unit may prove to have another side affect. A constant flow of power could cause an electromagnetic field. That is why it is best to store the power away from the gloves for now. All of this based on the hope that he even wakes up at all. It may still be a matter of time before he is complete back to full strength. It may be that he will never really completely heal. Either way I think Jesse is right it has to be Brennan's decision. A decision he cannot make from inside the pod.
I need to stop looking at the negative I have to believe his mutant re-genitive abilities will pull him through and we can get on with solving a few of the other mysteries that developed since that day, Like this kitten that has now made its home in sanctuary and the mystery of the vanishing little girls. Strange week indeed it seem the young girl or girls whom where the subject of the chase that created this chaos have disappeared as mysteriously as they came. Mari and Alyssa, I have no record of them, no clue to where they come from or where they went but I believe they were born mutants not creations but possibly of new mutants. I don't know how to explain, the girls were unique.
Alyssa had the inversion of Jesse's mutation. Her body was normally Phased and stayed within Mari most of the time but on occasion she would come out and hold a solid form but never for any length of time. The longest time anyone of the team could recall seeing her in solid form was the 5 minutes it took to get Brennan from the car to the Double Helix and then from there to the Lab and I used them when we moved him to the pod. I can't believe I didn't pay more attention to them when they were here.
Then there is Mari she looked very much like a normal little girl except her eyes were black when she carried Alyssa and brown when she was alone she is a very strong telepath. It also seems that between the two of them they could create a telekinetic field. I would have loved to have a chance to study them more in-depth. They appeared young, maybe nine but according to Jesse Mari said that they were not born yet. I think she may have just interpreted her claims of not having parents to not being born. The oddest problem is that there is no sign that they even exist except for our memories. Not even the computers are showing that there have been any other life signs at sanctuary in the last week. I believe the malfunction may have been caused by Brennan's overload before we podded him.
Whatever the reason I don't have time to dwell on the past. Jesse and Shalimar are waiting for the results of the final test on Brennan so we can discharge him from his pod. After that is done we will move him to his room. No sense in keeping him locked up in the lab I can move some of my equipment to his room if necessary but reality is there is nothing I can do. The next couple of moves are Brennan's. Either he wakes up or he doesn't.
Chapter 7
Entry from the Journal of ADAM
It has been more than a week since the incident that injured Brennan. It has had a strange effect on all of us, especially Jesse who has taken this whole thing to heart. He accounts him self as the one who is to blame for what has happen. Then so do Shalimar and Emma. Jesse's guilt nearly got him captured by the GSA the same night. He has been less attentive to his work out side of sanctuary. Almost fearless in his daring as though he has some kind of death wish. He has not talked to me, no matter how hard I try. He does talk to Emma, but she tells me he doesn't listen.
I am also worried about Shalimar. She is angry and scared. I find her judgment stretched beyond her limits of good intent. She is a deadly force to be reckoned with. I had suspected that she and Brennan had gotten closer. I hadn't worried about it; it took a long time for her to break the chains of despair after losing Richard. I figured with Brennan she could be herself. Brennan is a good man despite his history he would never intentionally hurt any woman. He is in fact the most moralistic thief I have ever met. I now fear that if we lose him, its undercurrent would destroy Shalimar, but I can no longer hold off destiny. I have a choice to make I only hope I am making the right one.
Although I cannot be certain I am doing the right thing I will be taking Brennan out of the pod today. Jesse, Emma and Shalimar don't go out for fun anymore instead they spend any spare time reading to him. I walked in to the lab while Jesse was reading from one of Brendan's poetry books. I think it was then I decided to take Bren from the pod that has been protecting him and all to slowly helping his body to mend. Most of the wounds have healed, unfortunately there is still swelling around the brain and the lower spinal injury. I also appears the break in his arm may take a bit longer than any of the other injuries. I have designed a set of special gloves that will prevent a miss hap like the one where his powers nearly fried everything in the Lab. The will gloves work like a regulator against Brennan's mutation. It will work by diverting any uncontrolled current within a power pack inside the glove or to an adapter that will actually use the power to run auxiliary generators that store power for the sanctuary.
Strangely enough I believe this governing unit may prove to have another side affect. A constant flow of power could cause an electromagnetic field. That is why it is best to store the power away from the gloves for now. All of this based on the hope that he even wakes up at all. It may still be a matter of time before he is complete back to full strength. It may be that he will never really completely heal. Either way I think Jesse is right it has to be Brennan's decision. A decision he cannot make from inside the pod.
I need to stop looking at the negative I have to believe his mutant re-genitive abilities will pull him through and we can get on with solving a few of the other mysteries that developed since that day, Like this kitten that has now made its home in sanctuary and the mystery of the vanishing little girls. Strange week indeed it seem the young girl or girls whom where the subject of the chase that created this chaos have disappeared as mysteriously as they came. Mari and Alyssa, I have no record of them, no clue to where they come from or where they went but I believe they were born mutants not creations but possibly of new mutants. I don't know how to explain, the girls were unique.
Alyssa had the inversion of Jesse's mutation. Her body was normally Phased and stayed within Mari most of the time but on occasion she would come out and hold a solid form but never for any length of time. The longest time anyone of the team could recall seeing her in solid form was the 5 minutes it took to get Brennan from the car to the Double Helix and then from there to the Lab and I used them when we moved him to the pod. I can't believe I didn't pay more attention to them when they were here.
Then there is Mari she looked very much like a normal little girl except her eyes were black when she carried Alyssa and brown when she was alone she is a very strong telepath. It also seems that between the two of them they could create a telekinetic field. I would have loved to have a chance to study them more in-depth. They appeared young, maybe nine but according to Jesse Mari said that they were not born yet. I think she may have just interpreted her claims of not having parents to not being born. The oddest problem is that there is no sign that they even exist except for our memories. Not even the computers are showing that there have been any other life signs at sanctuary in the last week. I believe the malfunction may have been caused by Brennan's overload before we podded him.
Whatever the reason I don't have time to dwell on the past. Jesse and Shalimar are waiting for the results of the final test on Brennan so we can discharge him from his pod. After that is done we will move him to his room. No sense in keeping him locked up in the lab I can move some of my equipment to his room if necessary but reality is there is nothing I can do. The next couple of moves are Brennan's. Either he wakes up or he doesn't.
