Here's the new chapter…duh! I haven't been getting a lot of reviews so I'm not sure if this is good or bad or if you're all really indifferent. Thank you to the people who did review. They were all really sweet, thank you.

This is the chapter which will explain a lot of stuff and then I promise I'm gonna get round to telling the actual story. The developmental stuff is kinda necessary so you're gonna have to bear with me.

Have a nice day.

Mutant X is back on Sky One on Wednesday. I've been so hyper ever since I found out.

'So, do we know what Gabriel wanted yet?' questioned Shalimar.

Adam looked at the assembled team in front of him. The four members of Mutant X looked totally at ease. Shalimar was leaning back on the bed in the centre of the room, her legs drawn into her chest. Brennan was perched on the end of the bed and Emma and Jesse had each taken chairs. Alex was leaning against one of the walls looking ridiculously casual and laid back, Maia was wandering around, trying to check out her surroundings subtly and Mac looked decidedly uncomfortable but was clearly too tired to do anything about it.

'Not yet. I'm still waiting for some of my more hopeful contacts to reply to their e-mails. After that we should have something to go on. But until then,' he continued looking at the tired faces of the whole team (some of them were hiding it better than others but he could still tell) 'I think we should all get some rest.'

'I'll show these guys to their rooms,' offered Emma as she walked out of the lab, gesturing for the three youngest new mutants to follow her. Jesse walked out behind them, closing the lab door behind him.

'So what's really going on Adam?' asked Shalimar pushing her legs away from her body and swinging them round so they were dangling over the edge of the bed.

'What do you mean?' Adam said, confusion spreading across his face.

'Fine, you don't want to tell us whatever it is that you know. I can accept that,' Shalimar said with a lopsided smirk.

'But I can't,' Brennan declared. The other two looked at him as he carried on speaking. 'Adam, we need to know what's going on. We need to know what's wrong.' Brennan looked straight into Adams eyes defiantly. He was fed up of people keeping secrets. It didn't ever help the situation and he was prepared to admit that he had kept secrets in the past but never ones that would have threatened his friends lives. And if this secret had anything to do with Gabriel then it was going to threaten everything they had worked so hard to build.

Adam turned with a sad look in his eyes to the computer behind him. He knew he had to tell them and it was only the guilty feeling in the pit of his stomach that had stopped him.

Within a matter of seconds a file was pulled up from the new mutant database. There was a picture of Mac and all her details were listed next to the photo. Brennan and Shalimar both looked at all the information. Her full name (Mackenzie Chenoweth), followed by her date of birth and hometown. It also had all the details regarding her mutation and her family. Her entire past was on that screen.

Brennan looked at it, puzzled. He had learned to work the database pretty soon after arriving at Sanctuary; he had had to. But it wasn't the reading of the file that was causing him problems. He was looking at Macs DNA strand. It reminded him of someone else's. In fact, parts of it reminded him of five people, him included.

'Adam…'

'Yes, Mac is a member of all four new mutant groups, and yes, she has exactly the same mutations as all of you.' Adam answered the unasked question.

He turned to face the monitor again and drew up another file. Gabriel Ashlocke.

Shalimar stared into his eyes. They seemed alive even in the photo. They bore into her mind and she had to look away quickly. Brennan and Adam noticed Shalimar's sudden change in demeanor but decided to let it slide for now.

'What has Gabriel Ashlocke got to do with Mac?' asked Brennan.

'Look at their profiles.'

Brennan and Shalimar looked. Their eyes grew wider simultaneously as they reached the exact same part in both profiles. Shalimar looked at Adam for confirmation of what she had just read. He looked back at her with a deep sorrow in his eyes. She couldn't believe it. She was completely shell-shocked. She couldn't speak.

Emma and Jesse broke the silence in the room when they walked into the lab. Looking around them they instantly noticed the tension.

'What's going on?' asked Jesse tentatively.

'Mac is Gabriel's sister?' Brennan replied incredulously.