Disclaimer: Tell me any avid fan of Mutant X that doesn't know I don't own them. LOL. I don't know how powerful these characters are and I don't even know if they are really like this. All of the actions mentioned below is just my imagination.
Authors Note: Hey! This is my very first time to attempt my luck in writing fiction. Please forgive my grammar (since English is not my native tongue). I waited long enough to see my Emma fight a hand to hand combat but my patience was put to vain so I decided to make her as star in my own FanFic. Please review. Comments on whatever is very much welcome. I don't know how to end this one so if you have any idea, I'll be honored to have your ideas in my fic. So here we go ... enjoy ...
Special Thanks to:
Zoxx: Thanks for the email. It meant a lot to me. I wasn't able to mention you in the previous chapter's Special Thanks because I got your email after I uploaded the chapter. Thanks again and I hope to read more from you.
Thir13en Ghost- Elemental: Thanks for reading my story. Thanks for the comment. I'll try to post sooner than I used to.
X-Gangsta's- Brat-X: thanks for your time again. I hope to read more post from you.
eli1283: I still don't know to whom will I pare Emma but she won't be choosing between them. I'm still thinking of messing with their relationship a little. I think it'll be fun. Right now I can say that she'll be having her time with Jesse.
Angeleyes: thanks again. I was thinking the last chapter was boring but I'm happy you liked it.
broadwaystr252:thanks for compliment. i'd like to thank you through personal email but you were unsigned. I hope you could help me with the upcoming chapters (I'm quite out of ideas. LOL). hope to hear more comments from you
Redhead: I'll try to upload the next chapter as soon as I can.
Megara: are you kidding? You are like one a million. I look up to you. I've been reading your stuff from the Unspoken Word site until it was constructed. I've been dying to hear from you and your opinion really meant a lot to me. I hope you will continue to read this fiction even if it won't turn out the way you wanted it.
Underestimated
~Thought ~
Memory
/Sounds/
"Conversation"
Chapter 3
Emma finally found Cole in the alley where they decided to meet. She almost spent an hour and a half to find him after leaving Brennan and Shalimar in the Sanctuary. She brought with her the Silver Audi since they are not allowed to bring the Double Helix outside the Sanctuary for social purposes.
"There you are!" Emma smiled at him as she stepped out of the car.
"I thought you were riding a cub or something like that. I didn't know you had a car." Cole eyed the Silver Audi. It is one of the expensive cars for the year. Cole walked towards her. "Come on let's park your car in our parking lot. It's just a block from here."
"Okay." She opened the driver's side door when she felt Cole's hand against her arm. She turned to look at him.
"I'll drive."
Emma shook her head and chuckled. "Okay but I'm telling you it'll take time before you could drive this thing." She let Cole in and she walked around and settled herself to the seat next to him. She looked at Cole and giggled. She brought her middle and index finger to her lips so as not to laugh loud. Cole inserted the key preparing to start it when he heard a voice.
"Enter your authorization number or the alarm will trigger in 10 ... 9 ... 8 ..."
Cole started panicking. "What did I do?" he took his hands off the wheels and looked at Emma for help only to find her laughing hard at him. "Ems!" he called for her.
"...4 ... 3 ... 2 ..."
Emma keyed in combination of numbers in the small keyboard in the car.
"Finger prints verification. Please place your thumb in the scanner."
Emma placed her thumb in the little scanner in the Silver Audi.
"Welcome miss deLauro. Drive safely. Engaging personalized features."
The lights of the Silver Audi went a little dim and the radio started playing sentimental music. Cole threw a look at her with a big question mark in his face. He tried to open his mouth but words didn't came out. He looked at the wheels and placed his hands on it then he threw another look to Emma, finding her still smiling.
"The car asks for finger prints?" he asked only to be answered by a nod. "Whoa." He shook his head. "This baby isn't easy to be familiar with."
"Told ya!" Emma posed a mocking smile across her face, which is slowly turning to laughter.
Cole faced the wheels again, turned the keys and started the Silver Audi. He stepped on the gas pedal but the Silver Audi didn't move. Again he heard Emma laughing beside him. "What did I do now?" he asked.
Emma looked at him still laughing. She then pressed a couple of buttons in the car and the car started moving.
"You're enjoying this aren't you?" Cole looked at her, now with a smile on his face.
"Enjoy what?" she smirked at him.
"This." He signaled the car. "You have a highly computerized car here."
"Yup." She replied, her laughter slowly fading away. "Nobody could just drive this baby." She said, tapping the car.
"Yeah. And it's making me look stupid." He whined with a smile on his face.
"Stop whining and start driving." Emma slapped him lightly on the shoulder and Cole started to drive, laughing vigorously at Emma's jokes.
***
Cole drove the Silver Audi around the alley, still laughing with Emma. A few minutes later, Cole stopped the car. "Here we are!" he said handing Emma the key when he heard a voice again.
"Unauthorized halt. Please verify authorization or the alarm will be triggered in 10... 9 ... 8 ..."
"What the..." Cole almost cursed when Emma hurriedly punch in her authorization code. "Thieves would have a hard time with this car of yours, Ems. They could not easily start the car. If they had their luck and break through the code, then they could start it but wont be able the drive it. And if they're damn good, then they could drive the car but can't stop it. And if they're really that good..."
"They won't get that lucky, Cole. The computer will analyze the expression on the encoder's face." Emma pointed at the camera in front of her. Cole didn't saw the camera while he was driving.
"If the face belongs to someone the computer it could not recognize, then carbon monoxide will be infused inside the car. If the face belongs to someone he could recognize but the computer caught a glimpse of panic, still the monoxide will be injected ...after closing the perimeter of the person who is familiar to the computer. Both ways the thief dies." Emma explained.
"You mean..."
"You could have died? Yes!" Emma cut in Cole's sentence. "But you don't have to worry. I won't let that happen." She smiled.
Cole was too stunned. He couldn't believe he could have died there.
"Come on Cole, snap out of it. It's okay."
Cole jerked back into reality. He smiled at her then he stepped out of the car. "Remind me not to drive this car of yours again."
Emma laughed as she lock the Silver Audi. "I will." She replied. She turned around and her eyes widened when she got a look at the huge building in front of her. "Is this? ..."
"Mine? Yes. Well, partly yes. My sister and I owned this building. I handle the clinic and she handles the gym." Cole explained. "Come I'll show you inside." He invited, reaching out his hands for her. Emma took it and he joined him inside.
***
"Good afternoon Dr. Sunders." the personnel greeted Cole and nodded towards Emma.
~Doctor?! ~ Emma grinned in Cole's wits
~Stop that! ~ he begged her but she just continued laughing in his head.
Cole faced the guard and asked "Is Meg in?"
"Yes sir. I believe she's in her office."
"Thank you!" Cole said and continued walking when the guards stopped Emma for security check. "She's with me." Cole announced.
"Oh. Yes. Sorry sir." The guards nodded toward Cole, "Ma'am." Then to Emma. Emma smiled and nodded back.
Cole walked with Emma. He looked at her and then he smiled. Emma's eyes roamed around, marveling with every site her eyes could pass through. From the corner she found the embossed name of the building: 'Psi-power: Mind and Body Clinic'. She smiled. She thought Cole named the building after his power. She liked the ambiance of the place. Emma was now unconsciously comparing the place to the Sanctuary. She could not help it; the place was so much like the Sanctuary itself: the quiet hallways; pond section; the lab; and the dojo, only bigger than the dojo in the Sanctuary. It's very much like the Sanctuary, only rearranged. The atmosphere as also so similar. It's like she has come home ... ~if only there are other mutants here. ~ she thought. ~this is really almost home. ~
"There are other mutants here!" a woman's voice snapped her back. Emma whirled around to look at the woman in font on her. Emma noticed the delight sparkle in her eyes; her beautiful black hair, which is in ponytail; her designer's sports bra; her towering height, although the woman was almost as tall as her, she considered herself tall anyway; her wonderfully toned body. The woman in front of her could be mistaken to an image model.
"Meg, Meg Sunders." The lady extended her hand. "You are Emma, right?"
Emma took Meg's hand. "Yes. How did you know..."
"Oh, you know. My brother has been talking about you since last night." Meg smiled.
~She's your sister? ~ Emma looked at Cole while sending him a mental message.
"Yes Emma, and you don't have to mind-talk me. See could read us anyway." He smiled. "Meg is a psionic too. She has the ability to detect other mutants' power but recently she developed a way to make sense out of what she is hearing in her head." Cole explained.
"You're a psionic? Wow." Words dried out of Emma's mouth. She paused for a second, with her jaws drop, allowing sometime to breath, then she continued. "For a minute there, after looking at your well toned body, I swear I thought you could be a feral." Emma caught her breath again and a smile decorated her lips.
"She's a black belt Ems. She even taught me tai chi," Cole expounded causing a light blush to Meg.
"Black belt?" Emma's forehead cringed.
"Why? Didn't you know we psionics could almost do anything we want?" Meg asked Emma, as she was surprised by Emma's reaction. "It's seems that you haven't seen a physically active psionic before."
"Well, ... I kinda thought psionics are not for physical action." Emma defended.
"Most mutants of different breeds see us-psionics that way." Cole interrupted as he led the two psionic inside a room near by.
Just as soon as they entered, Emma sat down beside Meg and she sighed. "You said there are other mutants here, right?" Emma addressed Meg, changing the topic.
"Yes."
"Where are they?"
Meg looked at her watch. "Right now, they're in their defense session, which will be over any minute now."
"Isn't it unfair for people with average DNA? ... to be fighting with mutants, I mean..." Emma asked.
Meg and Cole giggled. "Who told you they fight with non-mutants?" Cole threw a question back at her.
"Every mutants are given separate training from average people." Meg explained as she took a remote from the table. With a few clicks, a video flashed in the screen behind Emma. Emma whipped around and watched.
"That's Ricky, a feral. Last week he was hailed as the champion of the Mutant Friendly Combat-an application program after each session. The woman he is sparring with is Anna, a psionic. She was the longest reigning champion. Had she wasn't sick that week, she would have still won." Meg continued to explain as Emma watched the two mutants in the screen shook hands.
"What happens after the sparring?" Emma asked.
"What do you mean?" Cole asked back.
"I mean ... do they still talk after the fight? Or do they end up being rivals?" Emma waited for their reply.
"Oh. You're worried about the friendship." Meg smiled. "Everything goes back to normal after the sparring. As a matter of fact some of them goes beyond friendship ... like Ricky and Anna. Ricky asked for Anna's hand for marriage just yesterday."
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There was a short silence then Emma broke it for them.
"Umm ... Meg ... how much do you charge for the training?"
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Meg blinked once then twice. "You're interested?" she was a little stunned.
"Why? Is something wrong about it?" Emma worriedly asked.
"No, no. There is nothing wrong with that. It's just that ... it seems that you have your own dojo in your place ..."
"How did you know..."
"I'm sorry but I can't screen it. Your mind is projecting a dojo ... a beautiful one."
Emma was left without words. She was hoping the Sanctuary's dojo wouldn't be brought out. She wanted to leave it behind for awhile-the dojo together with all the sad memories that comes with it; with all the topic about how weak she is, how useless she is. Emma looked away, trying to block Meg and Cole form her mind. These psionics are strong for her. She needed to be more careful in projecting images in her mind.
"Okay."
Emma heard Meg replied and she blinked as she held her breath.
"We'll train you."
***
"Where could Emma be?" Shalimar started walking to and fro. This is unlikely to be Emma. Shalimar knew Emma always call when she's coming home late ... not that she's not really going out much. "She's been gone for five whole hours. Something must have happen." Shalimar worriedly said.
"Her comlink is turned off." Jesse said. He just got back from the underground, only to be greeted with panic, as Emma hasn't returned yet. He started stroking the computer keys in search for Emma through the signal of her comlink but only to be unsuccessful. Something must have happen when he was gone. Emma never leave the Sanctuary without telling them where she's going and when she's coming back. Something did happen and he needed to know. "What happened here guys, I mean ... really?" Jesse demanded.
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Brennan and Shalimar looked at each other, not saying a word for they both know it will only make the maters worst. Jesse would only be more dead worried if he learned that Emma had a little fight with them.
Jesse understood that they would not probably tell him what really happened. "Well, can't you just find her using your 'bond' with her, Bren?"
"."
"We've got to tell Adam." Jesse suggested and he was about to turn his comlink on when they heard a clicking sound from afar. The three mutants went dead silent.
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"She's here." Brennan declared.
Jesse backed away from the computer then turned to meet Emma halfway. He hurriedly lifted his feet, eager to see if she's fine. ~Emma. ~ his mind called out to her.
~I'm fine Jesse. ~
Jesse heard Emma in his head. "Emma?!" He called out aloud. He turned to the hallway leading to their room and he found Emma, as she was about to enter her room. "I was worried Emma." He called out. "Bren and Shal won't tell me what happened."
Emma could see the concern from Jesse's eyes and it made her smile. She reached out to take his hands, squeezing it lightly. "It was nothing Jess. We just had a little misunderstanding. That's all."
"Emma, you were gone for five whole hours. Your comlink was turned off. You didn't tell them where you were going. And you're telling me you had a little misunderstanding? I mean ... come on Emma; I'm your friend. You could tell me." He begged for her to tell him.
Emma just smiled. She smiled right into his eyes, reaching to his soul. Jesse felt the shudder pass through his body. He felt something was happening to him ... something that only Emma could do.
A small smile decorated his lips, "Okay. Are you sure you're fine?" a trace of concern could still be felt from his voice.
"Yes. I only need a bath." She beamed.
"Okay. I'll see you in the kitchen for supper. We'll be having Italian."
"Great. I'll be there in a few minutes Jess."
He smiled back and left her.
Emma led Jesse away with her eyes. No wonder Jesse is closer to her these past few months. When Jesse lost Amanda, no one could comfort him enough but when she lost Tyler, Jesse was right beside her saying: 'I know what you're feeling now. I've been there.' Now they're beside each other, helping each one to get through a phase in their lives, which only the two of them could understand. Emma had to smile before she entered her room to bathe.
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***Lyza***
Someone told me Emma and Brennan looks good together. I still don't know to whom will I pair my Emma. The other mutants mentioned are just a part of my imagination. Keep those reviews coming. It makes the writing worthwhile. Sorry to bore you in this chapter. I'll try to make it up. By the way the next chapter would be a little romantic. Thanks.
Authors Note: Hey! This is my very first time to attempt my luck in writing fiction. Please forgive my grammar (since English is not my native tongue). I waited long enough to see my Emma fight a hand to hand combat but my patience was put to vain so I decided to make her as star in my own FanFic. Please review. Comments on whatever is very much welcome. I don't know how to end this one so if you have any idea, I'll be honored to have your ideas in my fic. So here we go ... enjoy ...
Special Thanks to:
Zoxx: Thanks for the email. It meant a lot to me. I wasn't able to mention you in the previous chapter's Special Thanks because I got your email after I uploaded the chapter. Thanks again and I hope to read more from you.
Thir13en Ghost- Elemental: Thanks for reading my story. Thanks for the comment. I'll try to post sooner than I used to.
X-Gangsta's- Brat-X: thanks for your time again. I hope to read more post from you.
eli1283: I still don't know to whom will I pare Emma but she won't be choosing between them. I'm still thinking of messing with their relationship a little. I think it'll be fun. Right now I can say that she'll be having her time with Jesse.
Angeleyes: thanks again. I was thinking the last chapter was boring but I'm happy you liked it.
broadwaystr252:thanks for compliment. i'd like to thank you through personal email but you were unsigned. I hope you could help me with the upcoming chapters (I'm quite out of ideas. LOL). hope to hear more comments from you
Redhead: I'll try to upload the next chapter as soon as I can.
Megara: are you kidding? You are like one a million. I look up to you. I've been reading your stuff from the Unspoken Word site until it was constructed. I've been dying to hear from you and your opinion really meant a lot to me. I hope you will continue to read this fiction even if it won't turn out the way you wanted it.
Underestimated
~Thought ~
Memory
/Sounds/
"Conversation"
Chapter 3
Emma finally found Cole in the alley where they decided to meet. She almost spent an hour and a half to find him after leaving Brennan and Shalimar in the Sanctuary. She brought with her the Silver Audi since they are not allowed to bring the Double Helix outside the Sanctuary for social purposes.
"There you are!" Emma smiled at him as she stepped out of the car.
"I thought you were riding a cub or something like that. I didn't know you had a car." Cole eyed the Silver Audi. It is one of the expensive cars for the year. Cole walked towards her. "Come on let's park your car in our parking lot. It's just a block from here."
"Okay." She opened the driver's side door when she felt Cole's hand against her arm. She turned to look at him.
"I'll drive."
Emma shook her head and chuckled. "Okay but I'm telling you it'll take time before you could drive this thing." She let Cole in and she walked around and settled herself to the seat next to him. She looked at Cole and giggled. She brought her middle and index finger to her lips so as not to laugh loud. Cole inserted the key preparing to start it when he heard a voice.
"Enter your authorization number or the alarm will trigger in 10 ... 9 ... 8 ..."
Cole started panicking. "What did I do?" he took his hands off the wheels and looked at Emma for help only to find her laughing hard at him. "Ems!" he called for her.
"...4 ... 3 ... 2 ..."
Emma keyed in combination of numbers in the small keyboard in the car.
"Finger prints verification. Please place your thumb in the scanner."
Emma placed her thumb in the little scanner in the Silver Audi.
"Welcome miss deLauro. Drive safely. Engaging personalized features."
The lights of the Silver Audi went a little dim and the radio started playing sentimental music. Cole threw a look at her with a big question mark in his face. He tried to open his mouth but words didn't came out. He looked at the wheels and placed his hands on it then he threw another look to Emma, finding her still smiling.
"The car asks for finger prints?" he asked only to be answered by a nod. "Whoa." He shook his head. "This baby isn't easy to be familiar with."
"Told ya!" Emma posed a mocking smile across her face, which is slowly turning to laughter.
Cole faced the wheels again, turned the keys and started the Silver Audi. He stepped on the gas pedal but the Silver Audi didn't move. Again he heard Emma laughing beside him. "What did I do now?" he asked.
Emma looked at him still laughing. She then pressed a couple of buttons in the car and the car started moving.
"You're enjoying this aren't you?" Cole looked at her, now with a smile on his face.
"Enjoy what?" she smirked at him.
"This." He signaled the car. "You have a highly computerized car here."
"Yup." She replied, her laughter slowly fading away. "Nobody could just drive this baby." She said, tapping the car.
"Yeah. And it's making me look stupid." He whined with a smile on his face.
"Stop whining and start driving." Emma slapped him lightly on the shoulder and Cole started to drive, laughing vigorously at Emma's jokes.
***
Cole drove the Silver Audi around the alley, still laughing with Emma. A few minutes later, Cole stopped the car. "Here we are!" he said handing Emma the key when he heard a voice again.
"Unauthorized halt. Please verify authorization or the alarm will be triggered in 10... 9 ... 8 ..."
"What the..." Cole almost cursed when Emma hurriedly punch in her authorization code. "Thieves would have a hard time with this car of yours, Ems. They could not easily start the car. If they had their luck and break through the code, then they could start it but wont be able the drive it. And if they're damn good, then they could drive the car but can't stop it. And if they're really that good..."
"They won't get that lucky, Cole. The computer will analyze the expression on the encoder's face." Emma pointed at the camera in front of her. Cole didn't saw the camera while he was driving.
"If the face belongs to someone the computer it could not recognize, then carbon monoxide will be infused inside the car. If the face belongs to someone he could recognize but the computer caught a glimpse of panic, still the monoxide will be injected ...after closing the perimeter of the person who is familiar to the computer. Both ways the thief dies." Emma explained.
"You mean..."
"You could have died? Yes!" Emma cut in Cole's sentence. "But you don't have to worry. I won't let that happen." She smiled.
Cole was too stunned. He couldn't believe he could have died there.
"Come on Cole, snap out of it. It's okay."
Cole jerked back into reality. He smiled at her then he stepped out of the car. "Remind me not to drive this car of yours again."
Emma laughed as she lock the Silver Audi. "I will." She replied. She turned around and her eyes widened when she got a look at the huge building in front of her. "Is this? ..."
"Mine? Yes. Well, partly yes. My sister and I owned this building. I handle the clinic and she handles the gym." Cole explained. "Come I'll show you inside." He invited, reaching out his hands for her. Emma took it and he joined him inside.
***
"Good afternoon Dr. Sunders." the personnel greeted Cole and nodded towards Emma.
~Doctor?! ~ Emma grinned in Cole's wits
~Stop that! ~ he begged her but she just continued laughing in his head.
Cole faced the guard and asked "Is Meg in?"
"Yes sir. I believe she's in her office."
"Thank you!" Cole said and continued walking when the guards stopped Emma for security check. "She's with me." Cole announced.
"Oh. Yes. Sorry sir." The guards nodded toward Cole, "Ma'am." Then to Emma. Emma smiled and nodded back.
Cole walked with Emma. He looked at her and then he smiled. Emma's eyes roamed around, marveling with every site her eyes could pass through. From the corner she found the embossed name of the building: 'Psi-power: Mind and Body Clinic'. She smiled. She thought Cole named the building after his power. She liked the ambiance of the place. Emma was now unconsciously comparing the place to the Sanctuary. She could not help it; the place was so much like the Sanctuary itself: the quiet hallways; pond section; the lab; and the dojo, only bigger than the dojo in the Sanctuary. It's very much like the Sanctuary, only rearranged. The atmosphere as also so similar. It's like she has come home ... ~if only there are other mutants here. ~ she thought. ~this is really almost home. ~
"There are other mutants here!" a woman's voice snapped her back. Emma whirled around to look at the woman in font on her. Emma noticed the delight sparkle in her eyes; her beautiful black hair, which is in ponytail; her designer's sports bra; her towering height, although the woman was almost as tall as her, she considered herself tall anyway; her wonderfully toned body. The woman in front of her could be mistaken to an image model.
"Meg, Meg Sunders." The lady extended her hand. "You are Emma, right?"
Emma took Meg's hand. "Yes. How did you know..."
"Oh, you know. My brother has been talking about you since last night." Meg smiled.
~She's your sister? ~ Emma looked at Cole while sending him a mental message.
"Yes Emma, and you don't have to mind-talk me. See could read us anyway." He smiled. "Meg is a psionic too. She has the ability to detect other mutants' power but recently she developed a way to make sense out of what she is hearing in her head." Cole explained.
"You're a psionic? Wow." Words dried out of Emma's mouth. She paused for a second, with her jaws drop, allowing sometime to breath, then she continued. "For a minute there, after looking at your well toned body, I swear I thought you could be a feral." Emma caught her breath again and a smile decorated her lips.
"She's a black belt Ems. She even taught me tai chi," Cole expounded causing a light blush to Meg.
"Black belt?" Emma's forehead cringed.
"Why? Didn't you know we psionics could almost do anything we want?" Meg asked Emma, as she was surprised by Emma's reaction. "It's seems that you haven't seen a physically active psionic before."
"Well, ... I kinda thought psionics are not for physical action." Emma defended.
"Most mutants of different breeds see us-psionics that way." Cole interrupted as he led the two psionic inside a room near by.
Just as soon as they entered, Emma sat down beside Meg and she sighed. "You said there are other mutants here, right?" Emma addressed Meg, changing the topic.
"Yes."
"Where are they?"
Meg looked at her watch. "Right now, they're in their defense session, which will be over any minute now."
"Isn't it unfair for people with average DNA? ... to be fighting with mutants, I mean..." Emma asked.
Meg and Cole giggled. "Who told you they fight with non-mutants?" Cole threw a question back at her.
"Every mutants are given separate training from average people." Meg explained as she took a remote from the table. With a few clicks, a video flashed in the screen behind Emma. Emma whipped around and watched.
"That's Ricky, a feral. Last week he was hailed as the champion of the Mutant Friendly Combat-an application program after each session. The woman he is sparring with is Anna, a psionic. She was the longest reigning champion. Had she wasn't sick that week, she would have still won." Meg continued to explain as Emma watched the two mutants in the screen shook hands.
"What happens after the sparring?" Emma asked.
"What do you mean?" Cole asked back.
"I mean ... do they still talk after the fight? Or do they end up being rivals?" Emma waited for their reply.
"Oh. You're worried about the friendship." Meg smiled. "Everything goes back to normal after the sparring. As a matter of fact some of them goes beyond friendship ... like Ricky and Anna. Ricky asked for Anna's hand for marriage just yesterday."
"."
There was a short silence then Emma broke it for them.
"Umm ... Meg ... how much do you charge for the training?"
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Meg blinked once then twice. "You're interested?" she was a little stunned.
"Why? Is something wrong about it?" Emma worriedly asked.
"No, no. There is nothing wrong with that. It's just that ... it seems that you have your own dojo in your place ..."
"How did you know..."
"I'm sorry but I can't screen it. Your mind is projecting a dojo ... a beautiful one."
Emma was left without words. She was hoping the Sanctuary's dojo wouldn't be brought out. She wanted to leave it behind for awhile-the dojo together with all the sad memories that comes with it; with all the topic about how weak she is, how useless she is. Emma looked away, trying to block Meg and Cole form her mind. These psionics are strong for her. She needed to be more careful in projecting images in her mind.
"Okay."
Emma heard Meg replied and she blinked as she held her breath.
"We'll train you."
***
"Where could Emma be?" Shalimar started walking to and fro. This is unlikely to be Emma. Shalimar knew Emma always call when she's coming home late ... not that she's not really going out much. "She's been gone for five whole hours. Something must have happen." Shalimar worriedly said.
"Her comlink is turned off." Jesse said. He just got back from the underground, only to be greeted with panic, as Emma hasn't returned yet. He started stroking the computer keys in search for Emma through the signal of her comlink but only to be unsuccessful. Something must have happen when he was gone. Emma never leave the Sanctuary without telling them where she's going and when she's coming back. Something did happen and he needed to know. "What happened here guys, I mean ... really?" Jesse demanded.
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Brennan and Shalimar looked at each other, not saying a word for they both know it will only make the maters worst. Jesse would only be more dead worried if he learned that Emma had a little fight with them.
Jesse understood that they would not probably tell him what really happened. "Well, can't you just find her using your 'bond' with her, Bren?"
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"We've got to tell Adam." Jesse suggested and he was about to turn his comlink on when they heard a clicking sound from afar. The three mutants went dead silent.
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"She's here." Brennan declared.
Jesse backed away from the computer then turned to meet Emma halfway. He hurriedly lifted his feet, eager to see if she's fine. ~Emma. ~ his mind called out to her.
~I'm fine Jesse. ~
Jesse heard Emma in his head. "Emma?!" He called out aloud. He turned to the hallway leading to their room and he found Emma, as she was about to enter her room. "I was worried Emma." He called out. "Bren and Shal won't tell me what happened."
Emma could see the concern from Jesse's eyes and it made her smile. She reached out to take his hands, squeezing it lightly. "It was nothing Jess. We just had a little misunderstanding. That's all."
"Emma, you were gone for five whole hours. Your comlink was turned off. You didn't tell them where you were going. And you're telling me you had a little misunderstanding? I mean ... come on Emma; I'm your friend. You could tell me." He begged for her to tell him.
Emma just smiled. She smiled right into his eyes, reaching to his soul. Jesse felt the shudder pass through his body. He felt something was happening to him ... something that only Emma could do.
A small smile decorated his lips, "Okay. Are you sure you're fine?" a trace of concern could still be felt from his voice.
"Yes. I only need a bath." She beamed.
"Okay. I'll see you in the kitchen for supper. We'll be having Italian."
"Great. I'll be there in a few minutes Jess."
He smiled back and left her.
Emma led Jesse away with her eyes. No wonder Jesse is closer to her these past few months. When Jesse lost Amanda, no one could comfort him enough but when she lost Tyler, Jesse was right beside her saying: 'I know what you're feeling now. I've been there.' Now they're beside each other, helping each one to get through a phase in their lives, which only the two of them could understand. Emma had to smile before she entered her room to bathe.
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***Lyza***
Someone told me Emma and Brennan looks good together. I still don't know to whom will I pair my Emma. The other mutants mentioned are just a part of my imagination. Keep those reviews coming. It makes the writing worthwhile. Sorry to bore you in this chapter. I'll try to make it up. By the way the next chapter would be a little romantic. Thanks.
