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 are just my imagination.



Authors Note: Hello everyone! I've just finished watching the second episode of the second season of MX here in Philippines. What could I say? It is always aired late in here. Anyways this one was created by accident. I wasn't really about to right the reason why the girls wanted the boys to be scanned but since most of you asked for it I included a short explanation.



Special Thanks to:



Bri: hey there! I haven't seen your now till now. Anyway thanks for the review. Yes I will try to update very soon! Please keep on reviewing. Thanks again.

Firestarter: LOL. What could I say? That is your opinion but sorry to say that this story has a great tendency to turn out as an Emma/Jesse story...LOL... but fret not. There are parts here that will be for Emma/Brennan shippers. Thanks for reviewing and please keep it coming...

Aur: Hello! It really thrills me to have a loyal reader such as you. (I hope) LOL. Yes, I do agree with you. I don't know why they're taking Emma out of the cast. Argh... thanks for the review... see you around...

Spikes_storm: thanks for the appreciation. I really needed that...LOL....

Brigitta: hello there! I really wanted Jesse to hit Brennan for once but I decided to put that on the later chapter. The truth is nothing is wrong with the guys...darn! Just read this part okey....LOL...

Goldstranger: yeah! I guess you know me enough to know that Cole will soon get in their way...*evil grin* anyway... keep on reading and thanks for the review...

Here we go again...Have fun!!!

Underestimated



~Thought ~



Memory



/Sounds/



"Conversation"

Chapter 12



Shalimar found Brennan in the rec room reading the book Emma gave him. It's been a week since she had a talk with Emma and Brennan with Jesse. Things in Sanctuary started coming back to normal again. Shalimar placed her hands on her stomach as she felt it grumble and decided to bring snack for her and Brennan. She looked at her watch. It was three in the afternoon but her stomach tells her it's time to eat supper.



~Maybe the workout triggered my 'I'm hungry-feed me' Alarm. ~ She told herself with a giggle. She ran into the kitchen and grabbed some pastries, some junk foods and six-pack cans of colas before she returned to the rec room.



*****

"Wanna eat?" she called out to Brennan, who was a bit startled upon hearing her voice. Shalimar walked towards the living room, placed the food on the center table and looked at Brennan. "Emma gave you that months ago. Aren't you finish with that yet?" she pointed at the book and smiled as she took a can of cola.



"Nah," Brennan shook his head and closed the book. "I was busy the last few months. I just started with it last night." Brennan helped himself with the food. He too took a can of soda and grabbed a bag of junk food.



Shalimar glanced at Brennan. Her feelings for him haven't changed yet. She is still in love with him. She didn't know what happen to Brennan, nor did she know about the conversation between Brennan and Jesse, but whatever it was she was thankful. She could still see Brennan's love for Emma and she could even feel him hurting every night when Jesse would creep silently in Emma's room. But she knew it was getting better. Brennan has accepted it, though he could not help but still be hurt at times. She was a bit startled when Brennan called her.



"Shal?" Brennan started. The feral looked at him and waited. "Jesse and I wanted to ask you and Emma this question last week but then it just slipped our of our heads.."



Shalimar looked at him and smile. She was not really listening to him. She just loved to look at him like that. She gazed at his lovely chocolate... oh how she melts upon it. She stared at his shirt-white shirt, white definitely brings the macho man in him. She giggled at the thought but remained looking at him.



Brennan never noticed how Shalimar looked at him. His mind just worked on some ideas how to start his very silly question.



Shalimar was a bit dazed when Brennan begun again.



"Last week... why did you wanted us to be scan?" Brennan waited for her reply.



Shalimar stared at him trying to control her mounting laughter.



"What?" Brennan moved away, got a bit conscious, and asked.



Shalimar didn't take it anymore and she burst out laughing and it surprised Brennan. He cringed his forehead and looked back at her. "What?" he asked again.



Shalimar tried to stop. She bit her lip and looked at the elemental. "Would you be mad if I tell you it was just for nothing?"



"What, you mean for fun? Just for fun?"



Shalimar nodded.



"."



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There was a minute of silence.... Then Brennan burst out laughing. "You two had us scan for nothing?"



"Well, actually Adam needed it for the record but mostly... it was just for fun." She laughed some more.



"Why?" Brennan then asked.



"Well, Emma and I noticed that Adam frequently asked me and her for scanning but he rarely asked you and Jess... so Emma and I decided to convince Adam to run some test on you two... and what could we say? I have a very good psionic best friend." She winked and it made Brennan laughed more. Sometimes, getting someone to agree with her is not Emma's problem.



Brennan drank from his canned cola again as he finished a bag of junk food. He shook his head and looked at Shalimar again. "When did you finish working out?" he asked.



Shalimar snapped back from her thoughts and glanced at him again. "A few minutes ago." She replied. "Jesse told me he would be working out with me. But then he decided to spent some quality time with Emma."



Just as Shalimar finished her sentenced, they heard noises coming from the hallway and then the molecular and the psionic came in the rec room. Shalimar noticed the dirt all over her friends' body as if they came from somewhere beneath the ground.





*****



"Where have you been?" she asked them as she shook her head and cringed her face.



"Jesse was... but he ... then ..." Emma tried explaining but her laughter didn't allow her.



"I didn't..." Jesse didn't finish his sentence; instead, he grabbed Emma and started tickling her...again.



Emma tried to struggle but to no avail. Jesse seemed to know very much her most ticklish part and he never gave her a chance to have her vengeance. He loved being like this with her. Being happy around Emma even if their other friends are around. He loved to hear her laughter. Her giggles are music to his ears.



Shalimar had to move away from the floor for Jesse and Emma might add dirt in her sweaty clothes. She threw herself beside Brennan as she joined Emma and Jesse's laughter. She turned to face Brennan and he saw him controlling his laughter. Sure he envied Jesse but there is apart of him that feels happy for his friends.



Jesse and Emma started rolling on the floor, eventually messing the rec room.



"Stop it Jesse." Emma begged but Jesse didn't stop.



Brennan and Shalimar moved the center table away before the molecular and the psionic knocked it down. They both knew that it would freak Adam if they break the new-glassed table...again.



"If Jesse won't stop tickling her, she'll pee on her pants." Brennan uttered.



Shalimar looked at the elemental, surprised that he was acting all right...well, she's happy for him.



Brennan looked at her when he felt her stare. "What?" he tried to look serious but failed.



Shalimar didn't say anything but she started giggling again. It wasn't long till Brennan joined her.



"What?" he repeated as he chuckled.





******



"Emma!"





Their little laughter was interrupted when they heard Jesse's terrified voice.



"Emma!" Jesse shook her on the shoulder but Emma didn't responded. "Oh God! Emma."



Shalimar turned to the molecular and the psionic. "What wrong?" Shalimar placed her food down on the table and attended Emma. Her heart beating fast. ~what is wrong with you?~ her brain calls a Emma but there was no reply. "What happened? What's wrong?" she turned to Jesse.



"I'm not sure." Jesse frantically replied.



Brennan stood up to have a better look at the psionic. ~At least she's still around. ~ he told himself. He knew Emma was not far since their bond is still unbroken.



Jesse was looking at Emma, who was unconscious even though her eyes were wide open, when he heard Brennan calling for Adam.



"Adam!" the elemental talked into the comlink. "Something's wrong with Emma."



"What happened?" Adam asked back a little shocked. What had happen this time? What had happen to Emma?



"I'm not sure." Brennan replied. He stood up and walked closer to Emma.



"Adam, Emma just went... blank..." Jesse cut in Adam and the elemental's conversation.



"Just calm down Jesse. I want you to bring her to the lab now."



The group hurriedly moved. Jesse carried Emma in his arms and rushed her to the lab. He was terribly worried. ~Emma! What happened to you? ~ the question hanged inside his mind.





*****

Little that they know, Emma was just in a trance.



~Hi Emma! ~



~Meg? ~ Emma replied.



~Hello girl. Long time no talk. ~ Meg giggled.



~Yeah! How are you? ~ Emma virtually smiled.



~We're fine. And you? ~



~I'm great! ~



Meg could feel Emma shrugged and it made her smile. ~I'm sorry to bother you. I was trying to reach you for about an hour now. ~



~That's all right; you didn't bothered me at all. I was fooling around with my friends. ~ Emma said, feeling the virtual smile of the other psionic.



~Oh I see. Well I was just going to ask if we could get together for like sometimes... I mean, you, Cole, me, the rest of the class... ~ Meg paused. She was not sure what Emma would say.



~Sure! ~ Emma gladly agreed.



~Great! When? ~ Meg smiled.





*****

Adam sighed and shook his head as he face the computer scanner. Shalimar looked at Adam and walked towards him.



"Adam, don't give me that look." She warned. "What's wrong with her."



"Well, I can't see anything wrong with her, but..." Adam started.



"What do you mean nothing's wrong? Look at her. She's...she's...she's blank." Shalimar paced near Emma and waved her hands in front of the psionic's face.





"Hey! Stop that!"





Shalimar almost jumped off when she heard Emma's voice. Jesse and Brennan rushed beside Emma.



Emma looked around. ~They brought me in the Lab? God they're so concerned. ~ She smiled. "How long was I out?" she said casually.



"You knew you were out?" Jesse's eyes widened.



"Of course. I was in a trance." Emma heedlessly replied then stood up from the med bed. She didn't thought it was necessary to tell them when is her power taking her in a trance. She didn't even feel the need to tell them anything at all. She just want to shrugged it off like the rest do when their powers fluctuate-Brennan never tell the group that he got shorted every winter, when the air is cold even in the sanctuary; Shalimar never tell them when the feral inside her needed to prowl at night; Jesse doesn't tell anyone the he involuntarily masses every morning...so she never bother them when she feel like going in a trance.



Emma smiled at them and tried to walk out of the crowd when Adam blocked her way.



Adam placed his hands on his waist and he looked sharply at Emma. Adam's stare made the psionic backed away from him but he got her on the shoulder. He pulled Emma close to him and hugged her.



"Don't scare us like that again, you little brat." Adam said with the intension but it turned out to be a grin.



The mutants looked at each other and laughed. Emma sighed and pushed herself from Adam's arms. For a second, she thought that Adam would tear her apart. She looked at him and kissed him on the cheek. Emma nodded and smiled.



Adam looked at his precious psionic daughter and kissed her on her temple. "You scared us big time."



"I know." Emma whispered.



"Yeah! You scared the hell out of us. You should have seen Jesse when he panicked." Brennan grinned as he slapped Jesse's back lightly.



Emma smiled at Brennan, gazed at her friends and she looked back at Adam. "I'm sorry." Emma apologized. "I just didn't see the need of bothering you."



"Anything for your safety is worth bothering us." Adam squeezed her hand and looked at the rest. "And that goes with anyone of you. You're all my children and there is nothing more important to me than your well-being" he added.



The group had to smile. All of them came from a not so perfect family but having a second family like this...everything is so worthwhile.







*****

Emma embraced Adam again and sighed. "I promise I would never do it again."



Adam nodded as he released her from his arms. "Are you sure you're alright?" Adam's protectiveness worked overtime.



"Yes." She replied with a twinkle in her eyes. A certain signal that only she and Shalimar understood.



"You mean you're ALL RIGHT!" Shalimar grinned just as she got Emma's message.



"I'm great even. Good enough to go clubbing tonight." Emma winked at Shalimar and the two female mutants looked at their creator.



"Oh no!" Adam shook his head and backed away. "You're not going out."



Emma looked at Shalimar and willed her to persuade Adam so the feral joined the psionic in posing a puppy dog-face.



/hmm! Hmm! /



Emma and Shalimar snorted like little puppies. "Please! Pretty please!" the ladies chanted.



Brennan and Jesse looked at each other, smiled and shook their heads. They knew the ladies wouldn't stop bugging Adam until he let them go for the night. It has been long since the last time they spent the night clubbing.



Adam looked at them and sighed. "Are Brennan and Jesse coming?" he asked.



"Of course they are." Emma smiled, joined her hands at her back and swayed her body like a little girl.



Adam sighed. "All right!"



Shalimar gave Emma a high-five and the two ladies headed out of the Lab.



"Brennan, Jesse," Adam called his two sons. "Keep an eye on them. Okay?"



Both mutants nodded and then followed the ladies out of the Lab.









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This was shorter than I expected. I'm really sorry... The Lesson plan I made drained everything from my head. LOL. Please tell me if I should continue or not.... Keep on reviewing...