"Emma what are you talking about?" Brennan asks.

"It's Lady's mutant power," Emma tells everybody, "she knows when people are lying"

Everybody stares at Lady for just a minute than at Emma. Lady sits herself up on Jesse's lap.

"What kind of lies?" Jesse asks.

"Any kind." Emma answers sitting her self down on a nearby seat, "Not just obvious lies like saying 'camels are green', but lies people don't even realizes they are saying. Like introducing yourself by your nickname instead of your real name or just using figures of speech. Like saying 'slow as molasses' would be a lie unless you really are slow as molasses." Emma finishes.

"Huh," Jesse says.

Lady looks up at him.

"Intimidating," he responds honestly.

Lady smiles "I've heard that one a few times."

"How does this relate with the military?" Jesse asks.

"I think I know." Brennan says and makes his way down stairs. "It's for the prisoners of war isn't it?" he asks.

Lady nods her head. Jesse picks her up and seats himself across from Emma. Brennan sits at the bottom of the dojo stairs and Adam sits down next to Emma.

"So," Brennan continues, "instead of spending countless hours trying to wear the POWs down by playing loud music or depriving them of sleep. They just ask them direct questions in front of you?"

"Yeah," Lady answers, "It doesn't bother me too much the fact that they lie. Everybody lies. It's just my left ear tickles when they do it and then it begins to hurt when it keeps going on. Even then I can handle pain in my ears. It's just the fact that they hurt the person really bad after they lie is what I hated. That's when I stopped wanting to do it."

"General McMahon was exploiting your power," Adam says, "when your dad found out he took you and ran?"

"My dad didn't know for almost a year. He thought I was still living with Hannah. She's a military wife with two other children. He wondered why I wasn't sending him letters back. Then he started investigating and found out what was going on. That's when we made the escape."

"Lady," Adam takes a deep breath. He is not sure he wants to know the answer to the question he needs to ask. "Why did you put up with McMahon for so long?"

Lady looks down. Her lower jaw trembles a little bit and her eyes fill up with tears. It takes Emma all her will power not to jump up and protect her, but this is the first time she is hearing the story herself. Jesse can see Lady's distress. He holds her close to his chest and kisses her head. Lady takes a deep breath and speaks.

"In the beginning he made it sound like I was going to be a hero. When I built up enough courage to tell him it didn't feel good any more and I wanted to stop he told me I couldn't." Lady takes another gulp of air. "He said if I did he would send daddy to the front lines where he would most likely die."

Lady's tears come out, but she doesn't sob. She just lets them flow freely. Brennan and Jesse's eyes are burning with anger. Adam is trying to calculate his next move. Emma's fists are clinched, she has so much anger and hatred running through her system she feels like she is going to explode. Just then the computer beeps for Adam. Everybody knows it is McMahon. Adam gets up and walks toward the computer.

"What are you going to tell him?" Emma asks.

"A lie," Adam answers her.

Jesse sits down where Adam was and hands Lady over to Emma.





"McMahon," Adam says when he turns on the computer.

Adam is surprised to find two other men standing behind McMahon. One is a tall Caucasian man with brown hair and emerald green eyes. The other is sort of Hispanic looking with black hair and light brown eyes. Both the men could easily pass as wrestlers or bodyguards.

"Have you found Davenport yet?" McMahon asks.

"Were very close." Adam answers.

McMahon chuckles a cynical chuckle. "I don't have to be Davenport's daughter to know you are lying to me Mr. Kane."

"Mr. Kane? When did we get so formal?"

McMahon smiles "Enough beating around the bush. I want them and I want them as soon as possible."

"How'd you know?" Adam asks.

"When your team was being to slow I sent Major Tillery," he points behind his shoulder to the green-eyed one, "to investigate the police reports. When he saw Shalimar fox get into the car he followed her to one of your safe houses." McMahon leans over and hits a button on his computer videotape shows Davenport being helped into the safe house. Then an image of Adam entering the safe house and everybody leaving. "After that we saw Ms. Fox taking Davenport and you taking his daughter and his sister into the plane."

His sister? Adam thinks to himself. Anyone could have knocked him over with a feather at that point. He wonders how he could have missed it when he was testing Davenport's DNA. McMahon turns off the tape and looks at Adam.

"I want Davenport and his daughter in my custody by tomorrow night or else."

"Or else what?" Adam groans.

McMahon looks at the two men behind his shoulders. The one with green eyes holds fire in his hands. The one with brown eyes, his eyes glow feral green.

"Or else I will expose your mutants to the world."