Title: Time Cubed
Author: dragons_syn
Email: dragons_syn@yahoo.com
Rating: NC-17 to R
Pairing: Jesse and Grae (my own character)
Disclaimer: I do not own Mutant X or any of the characters of Mutant X. I am purely borrowing the characters for the purpose of entertainment. I do however own the character Grace/Grae Summary: (AU) Takes place after Time Squared. The effects of Gabriel Ashlocke killing his parents have unforeseen consequences.
Chapter 3-Introductions and Revelations
"Well, you seem to be fine, Jesse. A little bruised up, but no concussion, nothing's broken." Adam said as he just finished reading the scans he made of Jesse.
"If you call a full body ache, fine, well then I guess I am. Are we done?" Jesse asked.
"Yeah, we are done here. Did Diana say where she was going?"
"Nope, she just said she was going to go to another time, someplace that Ashlocke could never find her. I tried to get her to come home with us, tried to convince that we could protect her in the underground." He said exasperated.
"Jesse, don't beat yourself up. It was her decision, I only hope she will be alright."
"Yeah, me too. Thanks for the clean bill of health. I think I am going to take a nice long, really hot shower and maybe go to bed. See ya tomorrow, Adam." Jesse said as he gave Adam a reassuringly look.
"Good night, Jesse." Adam said, turning to resume his usual position behind his desk, this time sitting in front of computers and trying to find a cure for Gabriel's condition.
Jesse immediately became lost in own thoughts when he left Adam and lab. *Did I actually see someone in there? I wonder if this has anything to do with Ashlocke killing his parents and screwing up something in time*
"Hey Jess! Hey!" Brennan called, when he saw Jesse entered the common room.
"Hey brother, *whistled* you there man!" He called again.
"Huh? Oh hey man, what's up?" Jesse replied.
"You OK bro? You seem a little out of it. Did Adam check you out?"
"Yeah, I am fine, got a clean bill of health, a little banged up, but fine. I guess I am still trying to get my mind around what happened today, you know?"
"Yeah, I know what you mean, I am doing the same thing. You wanna play a little one-on-one? A little b-ball is always good for thinking."
"Nah, I am wiped. I am going to catch a shower and then hit the sack. See in the morning, bro." Jesse said as he turned to leave the room.
"Kay, man. See ya." Brennan replied, feeling a little like he was given the brush off, but then again they all had a very rough day. "I wonder what Shal and Emma are up to?" he said to himself and set off to find the girls.
Jesse looked at himself in the mirror, seriously contemplating if he was going insane or not. He still hadn't made up his mind if he was just seeing things in the portal or if there was actually someone else in there with him. He couldn't remember getting a clear look at the figure, but then again it all happened so fast.
Jesse stepped into the shower, completely relishing the feeling of the hot streams of water coming from the showerhead, he willed himself to relax. He was so wound up that his body was protesting the simple act of merely standing. *Concentrate, what did you see in the portal* he kept asking himself over and over, hoping to remember something that could convince one way or the other if what he saw was real. Eventually, Jesse could feel himself relaxing a little bit. He finished his shower, when he noticed that the water was starting to cool off. "Oh boy, I hope Shalimar didn't want a hot shower tonight" Jesse said to himself. He knew that if Shalimar was hoping to get a shower tonight, she was going to be getting a cold one, and Jesse would be in serious trouble for using all the hot water. But at this point, he could really care less. All he wanted to do was get dried off and climb into bed.
Feeling sufficiently relaxed, Jesse stepped out of the shower. A blast of cold air hit his wet body, sending shivers throughout his frame. "Damn, its cold!" Jesse exclaimed, as he quickly toweled dry and slipped into some nice warm sweats and T-shirt. As Jesse climbed into bed, he never realized just how comfortable his bed really was. Unlike Brennan or Shalimar who absolutely had to have silk sheets, or Emma who really didn't care what her sheets were made of, or even Adam, well who was he kidding, Adam acted like he didn't even own a bed, he never slept in it. Jesse loved the feel of his cotton flannels sheets. It was the sheets, he was convinced that made the bed so comfortable and inviting. As soon as Jesse's head hit the pillow, he was out like a light.
Jesse soon found himself back in the portal. But this time instead of traveling past the images that swirled around him, he wasn't traveling anywhere. It seemed like he was just standing in the portal, almost like he was in a room covered from floor to ceiling with television monitors and something different playing on each screen. *How did I get back here?* He thought to himself. As he looked around, he was seeing events from the past taking place and he was seeing places and events that were completely unfamiliar. Then out of the corner of his eye, he caught some movement. He took a defensive posture, as he turned to face the oncoming figure. Even though the figure was clouded by shadows, he could tell immediately that the figure was female, the way she walked was a dead give-a-way, she was average height, slim build, and had the gracefulness of an animal, almost feral-like, reminded him of Shalimar, however this person didn't did really possess the cat-like demeanor that Shalimar had, there was something else about her. He could tell that she was looking at the various images, as he could see her shadowed figure move her head from side to side, up and down, just as he had done, almost as if she was trying to take in everything that she was seeing at a glance.
As he turned, she must have sensed movement as well, because she stopped dead in her tracks and crouched down in a defensive posture. *Man, that is just like Shal* Jesse thought to himself. "It's OK, I mean you no harm." Jesse said, *Great, how's that for a clichéd statement* he though simultaneously, *Her first impression of me is a cheesy "I mean you no harm" line*
"You are the one from earlier, aren't you?" the figure replied, not moving from within the shadows.
"Yes, I am. Are you the one that I saw in here earlier as well?" Jesse asked.
"Yes." Was all the figure replied.
"Do you know how or why we are back here?" he asked
"Yes and No" the figure replied still in the crouched defensive posture
"OK" he said with an air of irritability, "How about this. My name is Jesse, Jesse Kilmartin. And you are?"
The figure didn't reply, instead however stood up and took a few steps, almost as if she were checking him out, to make sure he indeed meant no harm to her.
"I am really not going to hurt you. I just need to understand, what is going on?" he said getting more concerned and confused by the minute *Am I going insane, am I really having this conversation, am I imagining this, or am I laying in the Med Lab table unconscious* he thought.
"We are stuck in a dream, somehow your dream and my dream have been connected." The figure said.
"Our dreams? How is that possible?"
"Everything and nothing is possible"
"What the hell does that mean?!"
"It means that this should not be possible, somehow, earlier while you were traveling through this passageway, our paths crossed and have somehow been connected. It is my understanding that THIS should be impossible" She replied
"Your understanding? How do you know this?" he asked with urgency, Jesse was getting more concerned the more that he heard. *Please let this be my imagination, please* he pleaded with himself.
"I have traveled passageways similar to this before, always traveling while I am dreaming and always alone. Sometimes, nothing comes of my travels, and a few times..and well." she said with hesitancy, "lets just say I have had detours of sorts."
"Detours? I am sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by detours?"
In the distance Jesse began to hear a faint sound, he couldn't make it out at first, as he tried harder and harder to focus on the sound he realized it was his name.
"Jesse! Jesse, wake up! Jesse!" the voice called. Jesse realized it was Emma calling him.
"Sounds like its time to wake up Jesse Kilmartin" the figure said as she turned to walk away
"Wait! I still don't understand what has happened here? I still don't know what your name is" he said
The figure stopped, turned around and proceeded to walk into the light, the moment that she became visible, his jaw dropped.
"My name is irrelevant, but if you must know it is Grae. Now wake up Jesse Kilmartin, you are needed." she said as she touched his forehead. Jesse saw a flash of light and Grae was gone.
"Grae!, wait!!!!" Jesse yelled, as he bolted up in bed.
"Jesse! Are you alright? I have been trying to wake you up for 30 minutes!" Emma said as she tried to get a hit off what Jesse was experiencing.
"Emma? What are you doing here?" Jesse asked, as he realized that he was back in his room, back in his bed.
"I came in here because I was going to check on you and then I started getting this really weird hit from you and I got a hit off someone else, but I couldn't figure out who."
"You felt her? So it wasn't my imagination! Where's Bren?"
"Felt who? Jesse, I am confused, who else was here?"
"Grae" was all Jesse said as he was getting up out of bed and heading out of his room.
"Emma, where is Brennan?" Jesse asked again this time with a little more urgency
"I would think he is sparring with Shal. It is about that time." Emma replied looking at her watch.
"What? What time IS it?"
"2 pm" she replied
"My goodness, I hadn't realized I had slept that long."
"We all thought you must have been really wiped, so we let you sleep in, and then I came to check on you and I got a really strong hit off of you and of someone else. That is when I started to try and wake you up."
"I am sorry Em, I don't have time to explain, right now I need to find Brennan." Jesse said as he raised his com-link to his mouth. "Brennan, can you meet me in the common room, right now?"
"Yeah, sure bro. What's up?" Brennan replied.
"Tell you when you get there, oh, and bring your sketch pad." Jesse said, he looked at Emma, gave her the look of "Well, aren't you coming?" and headed off to the common room.
Author: dragons_syn
Email: dragons_syn@yahoo.com
Rating: NC-17 to R
Pairing: Jesse and Grae (my own character)
Disclaimer: I do not own Mutant X or any of the characters of Mutant X. I am purely borrowing the characters for the purpose of entertainment. I do however own the character Grace/Grae Summary: (AU) Takes place after Time Squared. The effects of Gabriel Ashlocke killing his parents have unforeseen consequences.
Chapter 3-Introductions and Revelations
"Well, you seem to be fine, Jesse. A little bruised up, but no concussion, nothing's broken." Adam said as he just finished reading the scans he made of Jesse.
"If you call a full body ache, fine, well then I guess I am. Are we done?" Jesse asked.
"Yeah, we are done here. Did Diana say where she was going?"
"Nope, she just said she was going to go to another time, someplace that Ashlocke could never find her. I tried to get her to come home with us, tried to convince that we could protect her in the underground." He said exasperated.
"Jesse, don't beat yourself up. It was her decision, I only hope she will be alright."
"Yeah, me too. Thanks for the clean bill of health. I think I am going to take a nice long, really hot shower and maybe go to bed. See ya tomorrow, Adam." Jesse said as he gave Adam a reassuringly look.
"Good night, Jesse." Adam said, turning to resume his usual position behind his desk, this time sitting in front of computers and trying to find a cure for Gabriel's condition.
Jesse immediately became lost in own thoughts when he left Adam and lab. *Did I actually see someone in there? I wonder if this has anything to do with Ashlocke killing his parents and screwing up something in time*
"Hey Jess! Hey!" Brennan called, when he saw Jesse entered the common room.
"Hey brother, *whistled* you there man!" He called again.
"Huh? Oh hey man, what's up?" Jesse replied.
"You OK bro? You seem a little out of it. Did Adam check you out?"
"Yeah, I am fine, got a clean bill of health, a little banged up, but fine. I guess I am still trying to get my mind around what happened today, you know?"
"Yeah, I know what you mean, I am doing the same thing. You wanna play a little one-on-one? A little b-ball is always good for thinking."
"Nah, I am wiped. I am going to catch a shower and then hit the sack. See in the morning, bro." Jesse said as he turned to leave the room.
"Kay, man. See ya." Brennan replied, feeling a little like he was given the brush off, but then again they all had a very rough day. "I wonder what Shal and Emma are up to?" he said to himself and set off to find the girls.
Jesse looked at himself in the mirror, seriously contemplating if he was going insane or not. He still hadn't made up his mind if he was just seeing things in the portal or if there was actually someone else in there with him. He couldn't remember getting a clear look at the figure, but then again it all happened so fast.
Jesse stepped into the shower, completely relishing the feeling of the hot streams of water coming from the showerhead, he willed himself to relax. He was so wound up that his body was protesting the simple act of merely standing. *Concentrate, what did you see in the portal* he kept asking himself over and over, hoping to remember something that could convince one way or the other if what he saw was real. Eventually, Jesse could feel himself relaxing a little bit. He finished his shower, when he noticed that the water was starting to cool off. "Oh boy, I hope Shalimar didn't want a hot shower tonight" Jesse said to himself. He knew that if Shalimar was hoping to get a shower tonight, she was going to be getting a cold one, and Jesse would be in serious trouble for using all the hot water. But at this point, he could really care less. All he wanted to do was get dried off and climb into bed.
Feeling sufficiently relaxed, Jesse stepped out of the shower. A blast of cold air hit his wet body, sending shivers throughout his frame. "Damn, its cold!" Jesse exclaimed, as he quickly toweled dry and slipped into some nice warm sweats and T-shirt. As Jesse climbed into bed, he never realized just how comfortable his bed really was. Unlike Brennan or Shalimar who absolutely had to have silk sheets, or Emma who really didn't care what her sheets were made of, or even Adam, well who was he kidding, Adam acted like he didn't even own a bed, he never slept in it. Jesse loved the feel of his cotton flannels sheets. It was the sheets, he was convinced that made the bed so comfortable and inviting. As soon as Jesse's head hit the pillow, he was out like a light.
Jesse soon found himself back in the portal. But this time instead of traveling past the images that swirled around him, he wasn't traveling anywhere. It seemed like he was just standing in the portal, almost like he was in a room covered from floor to ceiling with television monitors and something different playing on each screen. *How did I get back here?* He thought to himself. As he looked around, he was seeing events from the past taking place and he was seeing places and events that were completely unfamiliar. Then out of the corner of his eye, he caught some movement. He took a defensive posture, as he turned to face the oncoming figure. Even though the figure was clouded by shadows, he could tell immediately that the figure was female, the way she walked was a dead give-a-way, she was average height, slim build, and had the gracefulness of an animal, almost feral-like, reminded him of Shalimar, however this person didn't did really possess the cat-like demeanor that Shalimar had, there was something else about her. He could tell that she was looking at the various images, as he could see her shadowed figure move her head from side to side, up and down, just as he had done, almost as if she was trying to take in everything that she was seeing at a glance.
As he turned, she must have sensed movement as well, because she stopped dead in her tracks and crouched down in a defensive posture. *Man, that is just like Shal* Jesse thought to himself. "It's OK, I mean you no harm." Jesse said, *Great, how's that for a clichéd statement* he though simultaneously, *Her first impression of me is a cheesy "I mean you no harm" line*
"You are the one from earlier, aren't you?" the figure replied, not moving from within the shadows.
"Yes, I am. Are you the one that I saw in here earlier as well?" Jesse asked.
"Yes." Was all the figure replied.
"Do you know how or why we are back here?" he asked
"Yes and No" the figure replied still in the crouched defensive posture
"OK" he said with an air of irritability, "How about this. My name is Jesse, Jesse Kilmartin. And you are?"
The figure didn't reply, instead however stood up and took a few steps, almost as if she were checking him out, to make sure he indeed meant no harm to her.
"I am really not going to hurt you. I just need to understand, what is going on?" he said getting more concerned and confused by the minute *Am I going insane, am I really having this conversation, am I imagining this, or am I laying in the Med Lab table unconscious* he thought.
"We are stuck in a dream, somehow your dream and my dream have been connected." The figure said.
"Our dreams? How is that possible?"
"Everything and nothing is possible"
"What the hell does that mean?!"
"It means that this should not be possible, somehow, earlier while you were traveling through this passageway, our paths crossed and have somehow been connected. It is my understanding that THIS should be impossible" She replied
"Your understanding? How do you know this?" he asked with urgency, Jesse was getting more concerned the more that he heard. *Please let this be my imagination, please* he pleaded with himself.
"I have traveled passageways similar to this before, always traveling while I am dreaming and always alone. Sometimes, nothing comes of my travels, and a few times..and well." she said with hesitancy, "lets just say I have had detours of sorts."
"Detours? I am sorry, but I don't understand what you mean by detours?"
In the distance Jesse began to hear a faint sound, he couldn't make it out at first, as he tried harder and harder to focus on the sound he realized it was his name.
"Jesse! Jesse, wake up! Jesse!" the voice called. Jesse realized it was Emma calling him.
"Sounds like its time to wake up Jesse Kilmartin" the figure said as she turned to walk away
"Wait! I still don't understand what has happened here? I still don't know what your name is" he said
The figure stopped, turned around and proceeded to walk into the light, the moment that she became visible, his jaw dropped.
"My name is irrelevant, but if you must know it is Grae. Now wake up Jesse Kilmartin, you are needed." she said as she touched his forehead. Jesse saw a flash of light and Grae was gone.
"Grae!, wait!!!!" Jesse yelled, as he bolted up in bed.
"Jesse! Are you alright? I have been trying to wake you up for 30 minutes!" Emma said as she tried to get a hit off what Jesse was experiencing.
"Emma? What are you doing here?" Jesse asked, as he realized that he was back in his room, back in his bed.
"I came in here because I was going to check on you and then I started getting this really weird hit from you and I got a hit off someone else, but I couldn't figure out who."
"You felt her? So it wasn't my imagination! Where's Bren?"
"Felt who? Jesse, I am confused, who else was here?"
"Grae" was all Jesse said as he was getting up out of bed and heading out of his room.
"Emma, where is Brennan?" Jesse asked again this time with a little more urgency
"I would think he is sparring with Shal. It is about that time." Emma replied looking at her watch.
"What? What time IS it?"
"2 pm" she replied
"My goodness, I hadn't realized I had slept that long."
"We all thought you must have been really wiped, so we let you sleep in, and then I came to check on you and I got a really strong hit off of you and of someone else. That is when I started to try and wake you up."
"I am sorry Em, I don't have time to explain, right now I need to find Brennan." Jesse said as he raised his com-link to his mouth. "Brennan, can you meet me in the common room, right now?"
"Yeah, sure bro. What's up?" Brennan replied.
"Tell you when you get there, oh, and bring your sketch pad." Jesse said, he looked at Emma, gave her the look of "Well, aren't you coming?" and headed off to the common room.