Chapter 3
Little words.
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"HERE you go." Brennan passed Shanesia the cup of hot
chocolate. "Careful,
it's hot." He warned.
"Thanks." She took the cup from his
hands and pressed the rim to her lips as
Emma looked on.
With a sigh, Brennan sat next to
her. He glanced at the 18 year-old who had her dark hair tied back into a
ponytail. She looked a whole lot more comfortable and older than she originally
did when he had first seen her a few hours ago. With the sub-dermal governor
off and fresh clothes, clean clothes on her, Shanesia's warmth and confidence
returned.
"So…" Emma spoke, "You wanna tell
us what happened?"
Shanesia shrugged and pulled back the mug from her pink lips. Reflections from
the calm ripples of the Sanctuary's pond, danced across their faces, as her
eyes darted to the right, recalling her memory. "I felt a car pull up as I was
walking one day and than I was grabbed and thrown into a car. They placed that thing
in my neck and I suddenly felt different, like something was missing."
"Sub-Dermal." Emma added, rather
matter of factly.
"Whatever it was. Than they dragged
me into a building, I think, and than I got jabbed with something. I tried
fighting it off but than I felt drowsy and woke wherever it was you guys found
me." She shook her head. "Dunno what they want with a blind mutant like me."
Brennan knew the answer. She was
bait for them and it nearly worked. "Oh," he mouthed as he realized Shanesia
was holding out the now empty mug at him. He forgot that she couldn't see him
and let the mug slip from her hands, thinking that he had it before he actually
could. "Oops-." He and Emma scrambled for the falling mug before it could
shatter itself on the floor.
Inches before it did, the mug
hovered mid air and rescued from it's shattering end. "Sorry," Shanesia
apologized, her hand outstretched at the mug. "I thought you held it." With her
telekinetic abilities, she brought it back to her hand and handed it to
Brennan.
"How did you know where the mug
was?" Emma quizzed, her eyes narrowed.
"I just do," Shanesia, answered
matter of factly. "I can somehow sense where
things are."
"You telepathic as well?"
She shook her head. "Don't think so.
But I believe that when God takes
something from you, He gives something back."
Brennan and Emma smiled.
"Who's there?" Shanesia's tensed up.
"Relax, it's just me."
They both peered over their
shoulders to face Adam. Brennan gave an amazed look at Emma and than glanced at
a now calm Shanesia.
"I need to talk to you Shanesia,"
Adam said, bending down in front of her.
She nodded and smiled at Adam but
her blank eyes stared unmoving into the pond, even though she probably didn't
know whether it was a pond or a dog.
"We have something which we call
the Underground. Now this is where most new mutants who are being hunted by
Genomex, like you, are sent to so that they can lead a new life. So I was
thinking -."
"You want to send me there."
Shanesia concluded.
"It's not as bad as it sounds."
Emma assured her, pushing away stray strands of hair. Adam sighed, and clasped
her hand. She seemed to be slightly startled by the sudden touch. Brennan
guessed she must've been contemplating her future. If he was in her shoes, he
wouldn't even be as calm and he respected this teenager for that.
"With the help of the Underground,
you can lead a better life."
She continued with her silence.
"Shanesia, you don't have to make a decision right now, an-."
"I guess I could do with the change of scenery." She interrupted, her smile going wider.
Adam grinned and bobbed his head around. "Good, I settle the procedures."
"What about the one you call Jesse? How is he?"
Brennan noticed Emma's expression change as soon as Jesse's name came out.
"Don't worry, whatever the GSA had wanted to do hadn't worked. The radiation levels were too low to do any serious harm."
"Why didn't he just phase the wall and both of themselves out?" Brennan asked, referring to Jesse and their telekinetic.
Adam sighed and replied. "He was being the Jesse we all know." Adam said straightening himself up. "If I'm right, than Jesse hadn't phased because if he did than the radiation could've been exposed to the room as well, putting everyone else in danger."
"And he phased Shanesia out of the room first." Emma concluded.
"But he'll recover?" Shanesia asked once more.
"Yes," Adam replied to the collective relief of the mutants.
"It was my fault. I think I gave him a hard time…I mean he tried to help me and than…"
"It's all right." Emma promised her. "You didn't know."
Shanesia responded by laying her head on Emma's bare shoulder, as she draped her own arm over the younger girl.
"Where's Shal?" Brennan asked, but some how he knew the answer already.
"With Jesse." Adam answered the obvious.
Fidgeting with his fingers, Brennan nodded. He was just glad this day was over.
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Sorry guys know this is late and a little short. But I thought I save you all the suspense at least before continuing…hehehe
Britt, Framling, Karone Evertree, brigitta1, Ruffyan, Deb-1, Tsuchabi-chan, and Laily: Sorry for the long wait but here's a tid-bit.RK9: To my dear sister, thanks for that review. I love you gal!!!
Jill Furman: Hey thanks for the nice write. *blushes* Really Appreciatte it. But the thing is I like putting my quotes at a new chapter cause than it won't seems so squashed up with the story/chapter. As for the chapter titles, well couldn't bring myself to name it some chapter number. =^_^=
Goldstranger: The day I don't write in the Shal&Jess bond is the day you're writing from a bogus freak@ngel.
'Til next time people!!! Thanks!!!