Authors Note: Okay, I decided to change this chapter, because I really didn't care the other version that much, so for those who are still reading, I hope you enjoy it!

~Means someone's thinking it~

"Ahhhh.." The screams echoed within his head gradually getting louder and louder until his mind could take no more. Brennan immediately awoke from his sleep. There was something digging at him inside, something was tearing him apart.

Stumbling to his feet he scanned the area for his teammate who was now nowhere to be found. Fearing the worst Brennan frantically searched the forest for Emma.

"Emma? EMMA!" He searched for an hour, which seemed like days until he crossed paths with her.

"Emma, where have you been I've been searching for you all day?" He reached out his hand and gently placed it over the cut on her face. Emma backed away in disgust.

"Emma?" She let out a grin and right before his eyes Emma was now Shalimar.

Brennan immediately backed away and presumed position to take action.

"What's going on? Who are you? Where's Emma!"

"Brennan, it's me Shalimar." She approached him

"Stay back, I don't want to hurt you."

"Brennan, what's going on, it's me-"

"I swear stay BACK!"

"You wouldn't hurt me? Or would you?"

~Maybe this will do the trick~

The mutant whom took Shalimar's form grinned once more before morphing into Adam.

"Come on, show me your stuff." Adam joked aloud

Brennan stood his ground; he wasn't going to make his move until he found out what this man had done with Emma.

"After all the times I've kept you in the dark, lied to you, used you as a puppet you good for nothing FREAK, you don't want to show me who's the real man?"

"You're not him."

"I guess I'm not, I'm better, wiser, stronger, and above all more powerful than your precious leader will ever be."

Brennan was doing all he could to hold back. He watched again as the mutant morphed into one of his best friends, his brother.

Jesse approached Brennan showing no fear, "You know Brennan, I'm sick of you always bossing me around, playing daddy to the group, trying to be the pathetic alpha male we all know you desperately want to be."

"I'm going to ask you one more time. WHERE IS SHE!"? He had remembered enough of what Emma had tried to teach him to form a psionic blast.

"All you had to do was ask nicely." The mutant now stood a few feet from Brennan. He watched for the last time as he saw the man who portrayed his brother now become.his lover?
*Meanwhile at the bottom of the hole*

Emma awoke minutes later from the concussion the fall had given her. She slowly opened her eyes and to her surprise she could make out the blur, which was the top of the hole where the sun was shinning through.

She couldn't help, but let out a smile and a little laugh. She could see, not completely, but she could see. Assisting her head up with her hand she glanced around for danger before rising to her feet.

Brushing herself off she giggled as she looked at her feet. "Brennan's never going to let go of this one."

Looking around she saw pure blackness in the distance. Where she stood was the only source of light.

"Hello!"

"Anyone here? Somebody? Anybody?"

Hearing no response, but her own voice echoing throughout the walls she ventured out of the light and into the darkness in search of a way out and help.
*At the abandoned hospital*

Adam took off his jacket and laid it over the body covering the young mans face.

"This is great, just great! What do we do know?"

"I don't know Jesse." Adam rose to his side.

"Well we have to do something, we can't just stand around and wait for our lives to end."

"Jesse don't think like that, we'll find a way." Shalimar reassured him

"First, when we get back we need to tell Brennan and Emma what's going on. Second, we need to do a thorough search on this man. I want to know where he learned to walk and talk, his mother's maiden name, the name of his pet fish and any and all information about his time spent at Genomex. While you two do that, I'm going to run this blood sample to see if our friend here was a new mutant."

"How do we know he's with Genomex?"

"They always are Shal, they always are." Nodding her head in agreement to Jesse's response, they lead the way back to the double helix.

Little did they know that while they were on their way back there was a miracle happening where they stood a few moments ago.

The dead mans stomach began to rise and fall, a few seconds later it happened again, then he was breathing steadily as his upper body snapped in an upward position. The jacket flew off his face as he gasped for air, the wound to his stomach was now gone. Somehow, in someway this man had healed himself.

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