Disclaimer: mutant x does not belong to me..only sam, kylie, and Emily are mine and viper!! Hehehe

A/N: My apologies for taking so long, I had major writers block halfway through this chapter, but finally I managed to stumbled over it!  So here is….

Chapter 14

Kylie shook  Emily, "Get up!  It's 7:30am.  Hide in the closet before they find you!"

Slowly Emily opened her eyes, "Okay I'm going.  Don't leave me in there for too long."  Emily climbed out of the bed and walked into the closet.

Kylie handed her a brush, "Comb your hair.  I'll go wake everybody else up and there shouldn't be very many presents to open.  Then I'll come and get you and bring  you out there."

Taking the brush Emily nodded and shut the closet door.

Kylie left the room and headed for her parents room.  Quietly she entered the room and approached the bed.  Climbing onto the foot of the bed, she began to jump up and down, "Rise and shine!  Merry Christmas!  Time to get up!"

Both Jesse and Emma woke up from the rise and fall of the bed, as well as Kylie's yelling.  "What time is it," Emma asked.

"It'll still be Christmas in two more hours," Jesse said sleepily.

Kylie stopped jumping and started shaking them, "Get up please?"

Her voice was so young and sweet that they gave in.  "Okay we'll go get the others.  Go to the rec room.  Your dad and I will wake up the others."

Kylie nodded and headed for the rec room.

*Kylie?  It's me Emily.  Can I get out of the closet now?  It's tiny and I think I just felt a spider crawl on my hand.  I can't breathe in here.*

*You can talk in my head?  That's cool!  The others aren't even up yet.  I'm sitting on the couch in the rec room waiting for the others.  If you can be quiet, I shut the door for you so you can sit on the bed and wait for me.*

*Thank you.  I'll leave you now.*

Kylie sat still and couldn't  hear anything else.  *I guess she's gone.  I can't wait for them to see her.*

"Hey Kylie," Brennan said as he was trying to help Shalimar get to the couch.  Shalimar curled up next to Kylie and shut her eyes, "Let me sleep a little longer."

"But aunt Shalimar, the sooner you wake up, the sooner you open presents.  And mine's the best one!"

"Okay fine," Shalimar opened her eyes, but remained in her comfortable position on the couch. 

Soon everybody else filed into the rec room.  Jesse and Emma sat on the floor with Brennan, Adam and Christina each sat in a recliner.  Only Kylie did not have a half-sleeping look on her face, she was far too excited to be tired.

"Can we open presents now?"

"Sure Kylie.  Brennan help me pass them out," Jesse said.

Brennan helped Jesse pass out the presents and then sat back down with their own.  Packages were ripped open, and everybody was squealing as they pulled out clothes, books, and other stuff as well.  Kylie opened her present from Jesse and said, "Cool!"  Inside the huge box was the boa constrictor she saw at the pet store the day before.   "His name is Viper.  Oh wow you got me a cage too."  Carefully she put the snake in the cage and put the top on.  Then she opened up her last present; it was from Adam.  Opening the box she took out a ring.  "What's this do?"

"It's a comlink, like ours.  Your own DNA activates it.  You can talk to us with it, as long as you're in range.  And if something ever happens, we can track the signal that the ring sends out," Adam explained.

Kylie slid the ring onto her finger, and gave him a hug.  Then she stood in the middle of the room, "I have only one present, but it's for everyone.  Stay here and close your eyes."  They all did as she requested and she snuck out of the room.

Opening her door Kylie said, "Come on out.  It's time."

Emily climbed off the bed and they headed back to the rec room.  Emily stood next to Kylie in front of everybody.  "Okay you can open your eyes now," Kylie exclaimed.

Emma was the first one to open her eyes, and she couldn't believe it.  Emily was standing in front of her, very much alive.  Quickly climbing to her feet, Emma pulled Emily into her arms and started crying.  Everybody else stared in disbelief, not wanted to blink incase it was a dream.

Finally Emma got a hold of herself and let go of Emily, "How?"

Kylie spoke up, "I dug her up last night and used my powers on her.  I didn't' know if it would work, but I'm glad it did!"

"I think we should give them some time alone.  Brennan, Shalimar, you can go back to bed or find something else to do for now.  Christina, can I talk to you in my office?"

"Sure Adam," Christina followed him into the other room and he shut the door.

Shalimar gave Emily a quick hug, "I missed you."  Then Shalimar and Brennan left the room and went back to Shalimar's room.

Emma and Emily sat on the couch, and Jesse sat on a chair with Kylie sitting on his lap.  Emily was excited and looked from Emma to Jesse, with a huge smile on her face.  "I feel like I woke up to a dream.  So when's the wedding?"

Emma sat there shocked…how did she know already?

Emily saw Emma's face and said, "I talked to Kylie last night and figured it out myself."

Jesse said, "We're getting married in the garden in two weeks."

Emily gave Emma a hug and then got off the couch and gave one to Jesse.  She was so happy; she got her life back, a sister and a dad all in one day.  Sitting back down on the couch they started talking about nothing in particular.

The lab

Christina and Adam both sat down in chairs.  "What is it Adam?"

"I'm sorry about what I did before.  It was stupid of me to just end what we had because I was too stubborn to work things out between us."  A shy smile appeared on Adam's face, "I still love you Christina.  And I know you have your job, but I was wondering…if you would stay here."

Christina looked shocked, "You mean stay in sanctuary?  You know I can't do that."

Adam took both of her hands in his, "Please will you just think about it?  That's all I'm asking…think about it for a few days."

"Okay Adam, I'll think about it."  Christina smiled and leaned in to kiss him.  Adam's lips met hers and all their passion buried deep within them came to the surface.

A few minutes later they broke apart for air.  Christina flashed him another smile, "All right Adam, I'll stay for a while and see how it goes."

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The rest of the day Emily and Kylie played with Viper, chasing him all around sanctuary.  Brennan and Shalimar woke up and after stopping in the kitchen to pack a picnic lunch, they headed to the park.  Adam gave Christina a grand tour of Sanctuary, while Emma and Jesse snuggled together on the couch watching a movie.

The girls ran into the rec room shrieking as they chased Viper.  Emma moved nervously on the couch, she hated snakes.  Jesse smiled and had an evil idea.  "I'll help them catch Viper real quick," he left his spot next to Emma on the couch and grabbed the snake off the floor.  Handing the snake back to Kylie he whispered in her ear, "When I give you the signal give me Viper."

Kylie grinned at him but said nothing.  Emily heard his whisper and had to stifle a giggle, she new what he was planning on doing.

Jesse sat back on the couch and wrapped his arms around Emma again.  He leaned in and kissed her while his hands were on her back, he motioned for Viper.

Kylie set the snake in his hands and put her hands on her mouth to keep from laughing.  Jesse pulled on the back of Emma's shirt, and let Viper slide in.

Emma felt the rubbery snake and her eyes flew open.  All of the sudden she started screaming, "Get it out!"  She jumped off the couch and shook her shirt; Viper fell on the floor and slithered off.  Emma threw Jesse the dirtiest look she could, "Don't be surprised if you sleep on the floor tonight."

That stopped Jesse from laughing, "Aw come on Em, we were only kidding around."

"You know I don't like snakes, but you had to do that anyway.  I don't care if you thought it was funny because I didn't think so."  Emma stormed off to take a shower and get the feeling of that slimy snake off her.

The girls looked at Jesse and laughed.

"You're in trouble," Kylie cracked up.

Emily smiled, "I can read her mind.  You do know that she wasn't kidding around about you sleeping on the floor right?"

Jesse's smile wiped off his face so quick, it made the girls laugh harder.  If he knew Emma would've gotten this mad, he never would've done it.  "I'd better go apologize…" he started walking towards Emma's bathroom when she screamed.

Jesse ran to the bathroom and phased through the door.  Water was dripping off of Emma's naked body, and she was standing as far away form the shower as she could.  Jesse stared at Emma until she shouted, "Don't just stand there!  Get it out!"  Looking into the shower he saw Viper had curled around the shower head.  "Come on Viper, you need to go back to your cage."  Gently he unwrapped the snake and phased through the door.

Emma climbed back into the shower, relieved that the snake was gone.

Jesse put Viper backing his cage and told the girls what happened.  Then all three of them laughed again.  Things were going to be interesting around here.

A/N:  Next time on Mutant X…Kylie is taken by the GSA and the rescue mission doesn't go well.  I don't know if I lost my readers because it took so long to update but…please leave a review if you're still with me!  (let me know if this chapter was a let down…I know it wasn't as good as my others…I'm trying to work on it!  Reviews always help! Hehehe)