This is the last chapter of this part of the story. I know there is stuff that needs to be resolved but as I said before there will be a follow-up to this story as soon as I start getting interesting again...if ever I was in the first place.
Please review as I need some kind of motivation to start on a sequel otherwise I'll forget all about it.
I hope you all enjoyed or-even better-found it interesting reading my fanfiction.
Have a nice day.
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Emma flopped onto the bed in Jesse's room. The whole team was tired and both Brennan and Shalimar, fed up with all the testing that Adam was putting them through had retired to their rooms to try and get some sleep. Emma knew they hadn't been able to but atleast they were slightly more relaxed.
Jesse opened his eyes. He also had been trying to get some sleep. Over the past couple of days he had been staring at a computer screen for more hours than any person should have to. He felt a serious headache coming on and, in an attempt to quell the pain had gone to the quiet of his room. He looked at Emma's face. She looked tired too. All the worrying hadn't been good for anyone.
'How you doing?' he asked quietly.
'I'm doing okay,' she replied unconvincingly. Jesse looked at her with a smirk. 'Fine, so I'm not completely okay. Those kids went through a lot, I just feel for them I guess. Plus I'm worried about how Shalimar's dealing with it all.'
'How do you mean?'
'Brennan, one of the few people she thinks she can trust in this world, and he turned on her. I get that it wasn't his choice, he had no control over his actions but I just think its gonna change things.'
Jesse had to admit the thought had crossed his mind. After Brennan had beaten him to a pulp in that prison he had found it hard to let it go. One of your best friends turning on you was a hard thing to get over. But he was sure that Brennan and Shalimar would move past it. They were great friends, they understood each other and he couldn't for one second imagine them letting one thing, no matter how serious pull them apart forever.
'They'll be alright,' he said with confidence.
Emma smiled. She hoped he was right.
***
Adam looked at the computer screen. He knew he should have taken Emma's advice when she told him to go and get some sleep. His eyes were burning and his head was aching. But he couldn't stop. It was like he was on autopilot. He had to keep searching for some clue as to what the operation that Brennan and Shalimar had been tangled up in was. They had told him everything they could but he was still so unsure.
He knew the whole thing would have moved out of the building by now so there was probably little point in going back there. Unfortunately whoever it was that had set it all up still had all the genetic data from the kids and Shalimar. The project was still up and running and that scared Adam more than anything else.
If they were making clones of new mutants it could be like just another Genomex. Another group of people driven by the power of the people they controlled. And when it all went horribly wrong and some of the new mutants escaped as they inevitably would there would be more searching, more searching for innocent people who don't have any control over who or what they are.
When Adam had left Genomex behind he had hoped to prevent that kind of tragedy from ever happening again. He had failed. He knew the members of the team would deny that he had done anything wrong but it all linked back to him. Along with Paul Breedlove it was he who had started experimenting with DNA. He had believed himself to be helping. He had been wrong.
Adam reached his arm down to the off button and pushed it in. The computer screen went black and the whirring noise that it had been emitting stopped abruptly. Adam stood up from the chair and headed out of the lab to his room. Emma had definitely been right. He needed sleep.
***
The blank ceiling stared right back at her. She didn't know how long she had been lying next to the slowly shifting and changing water. Minutes seemed to have melted into hours and she had lain there, trying to make sense of it all.
Shalimar had been in dangerous situations before, many dangerous situations. But this one had affected her more than most. Maybe it was the thought that there was someone else in the world who looked exactly like her. Or maybe it had been the sight of all the children in so much pain. She had felt for a few short seconds what one of them was going through but it had been enough.
But the aspect of the past few days that her mind had been dwelling on was Brennan. She remembered the night they had gone out to the club. She had felt his eyes on her as she danced and she could practically see the smirk on his face as she brushed off the attention of other men.
And then the next morning everything had been turned upside down. She had always trusted the members of Mutant X. They had been through a lot together and although they all occasionally had their moments she could always rely on them. Jesse and Adam were like family to her, they were closer than her real family ever was. Emma was her best friend, there to listen and be listened to whenever either of them had a problem. But Brennan, he was difficult to classify, their relationship difficult to define. Over the past months ever since Gabriel had shown up something had changed. They were different around each other and she knew she wasn't the only one who had noticed it. But neither of them had done anything. And now everything had changed all over again. She knew it wasn't his fault but he had unwittingly betrayed her and it would take a while for her to forget.
She could feel him watching her. She could practically sense the awkwardness of his actions. He didn't know whether to come over to her to talk or whether to walk away and give her more time to think about things.
She wasn't sure how she wanted to react. Shalimar wasn't sure whether she wanted to talk it over with another person. She had told Adam all about the building and what she could see of all the experiments but as to her emotional state, only she and presumably Emma knew anything about that.
She lay on the smooth boardwalk and stared at the rippling lights on the ceiling of Sanctuary caused by the light shining off the water. She knew he was waiting for her to acknowledge his presence but she lay there. She didn't want to talk to him, she didn't know if she could without breaking down and then she knew the anger would surface and she would do the one thing she didn't want to do...show that she was angry with him, show that she hated him for doing what he had done to her.
She heard his footsteps as they retreated down the length of the room. She heard the click of his door as it closed behind him and she felt the silence as it engulfed her.
Please review as I need some kind of motivation to start on a sequel otherwise I'll forget all about it.
I hope you all enjoyed or-even better-found it interesting reading my fanfiction.
Have a nice day.
***
Emma flopped onto the bed in Jesse's room. The whole team was tired and both Brennan and Shalimar, fed up with all the testing that Adam was putting them through had retired to their rooms to try and get some sleep. Emma knew they hadn't been able to but atleast they were slightly more relaxed.
Jesse opened his eyes. He also had been trying to get some sleep. Over the past couple of days he had been staring at a computer screen for more hours than any person should have to. He felt a serious headache coming on and, in an attempt to quell the pain had gone to the quiet of his room. He looked at Emma's face. She looked tired too. All the worrying hadn't been good for anyone.
'How you doing?' he asked quietly.
'I'm doing okay,' she replied unconvincingly. Jesse looked at her with a smirk. 'Fine, so I'm not completely okay. Those kids went through a lot, I just feel for them I guess. Plus I'm worried about how Shalimar's dealing with it all.'
'How do you mean?'
'Brennan, one of the few people she thinks she can trust in this world, and he turned on her. I get that it wasn't his choice, he had no control over his actions but I just think its gonna change things.'
Jesse had to admit the thought had crossed his mind. After Brennan had beaten him to a pulp in that prison he had found it hard to let it go. One of your best friends turning on you was a hard thing to get over. But he was sure that Brennan and Shalimar would move past it. They were great friends, they understood each other and he couldn't for one second imagine them letting one thing, no matter how serious pull them apart forever.
'They'll be alright,' he said with confidence.
Emma smiled. She hoped he was right.
***
Adam looked at the computer screen. He knew he should have taken Emma's advice when she told him to go and get some sleep. His eyes were burning and his head was aching. But he couldn't stop. It was like he was on autopilot. He had to keep searching for some clue as to what the operation that Brennan and Shalimar had been tangled up in was. They had told him everything they could but he was still so unsure.
He knew the whole thing would have moved out of the building by now so there was probably little point in going back there. Unfortunately whoever it was that had set it all up still had all the genetic data from the kids and Shalimar. The project was still up and running and that scared Adam more than anything else.
If they were making clones of new mutants it could be like just another Genomex. Another group of people driven by the power of the people they controlled. And when it all went horribly wrong and some of the new mutants escaped as they inevitably would there would be more searching, more searching for innocent people who don't have any control over who or what they are.
When Adam had left Genomex behind he had hoped to prevent that kind of tragedy from ever happening again. He had failed. He knew the members of the team would deny that he had done anything wrong but it all linked back to him. Along with Paul Breedlove it was he who had started experimenting with DNA. He had believed himself to be helping. He had been wrong.
Adam reached his arm down to the off button and pushed it in. The computer screen went black and the whirring noise that it had been emitting stopped abruptly. Adam stood up from the chair and headed out of the lab to his room. Emma had definitely been right. He needed sleep.
***
The blank ceiling stared right back at her. She didn't know how long she had been lying next to the slowly shifting and changing water. Minutes seemed to have melted into hours and she had lain there, trying to make sense of it all.
Shalimar had been in dangerous situations before, many dangerous situations. But this one had affected her more than most. Maybe it was the thought that there was someone else in the world who looked exactly like her. Or maybe it had been the sight of all the children in so much pain. She had felt for a few short seconds what one of them was going through but it had been enough.
But the aspect of the past few days that her mind had been dwelling on was Brennan. She remembered the night they had gone out to the club. She had felt his eyes on her as she danced and she could practically see the smirk on his face as she brushed off the attention of other men.
And then the next morning everything had been turned upside down. She had always trusted the members of Mutant X. They had been through a lot together and although they all occasionally had their moments she could always rely on them. Jesse and Adam were like family to her, they were closer than her real family ever was. Emma was her best friend, there to listen and be listened to whenever either of them had a problem. But Brennan, he was difficult to classify, their relationship difficult to define. Over the past months ever since Gabriel had shown up something had changed. They were different around each other and she knew she wasn't the only one who had noticed it. But neither of them had done anything. And now everything had changed all over again. She knew it wasn't his fault but he had unwittingly betrayed her and it would take a while for her to forget.
She could feel him watching her. She could practically sense the awkwardness of his actions. He didn't know whether to come over to her to talk or whether to walk away and give her more time to think about things.
She wasn't sure how she wanted to react. Shalimar wasn't sure whether she wanted to talk it over with another person. She had told Adam all about the building and what she could see of all the experiments but as to her emotional state, only she and presumably Emma knew anything about that.
She lay on the smooth boardwalk and stared at the rippling lights on the ceiling of Sanctuary caused by the light shining off the water. She knew he was waiting for her to acknowledge his presence but she lay there. She didn't want to talk to him, she didn't know if she could without breaking down and then she knew the anger would surface and she would do the one thing she didn't want to do...show that she was angry with him, show that she hated him for doing what he had done to her.
She heard his footsteps as they retreated down the length of the room. She heard the click of his door as it closed behind him and she felt the silence as it engulfed her.
