SHOTS
By: Sage360
Disclaimer: M-X, Don't own them. Enjoy!
Here's a little more Jesse for you all, Remember, I like to push the what ifs -at least till the next episode comes out! ^-^
A DANGER LIKE ME
"In fact," The molecular continued. "For awhile, we WERE the Mob."
Brennan frowned into his signature fashion. "Ignorant question: Did I EVER work for you?"
"Dude, I seriously doubt it."
"Okay, we're straight. But that's fucked up! All the times you called me a hood, you had place in a crime family."
"Remember Alicia?" Jesse started, knowing he had to come full circle with this.
"Yeah, your ex. Her company was running all that testing to genetically engineer food, and she didn't know about it." (Wastelands, Season 3)
"She was the first time in ten years, that I sat foot back into any aspect of that life. My dad's agency, and the corporation all had a hand in illegal activities; mainly money laundering."
"And they wanted you to take it over." Brennan finished.
"Basically. The agency and corporate would do 'favors' for each other from time to time. So the business got funds to develop technologies and dad's people used the technology to do their work."
"And you're whole family knew about it?"
"Nope, just the top players: my grandfather, my uncles, my dad." The molecular spoke nonchalantly, with raised brows, as if it all was okay. "And even Alicia's father." Brennan watched his teammates eyes flash in reflection. "I wasn't some bad ass, Brennan. Never some big shot, just a pawn."
"That's a hell of a pawn, you would have been over everything."
"And being over everything would have meant them keeping power over me. Add my mutations kicking in, and all the secrecy then you get the idea."
"Spell it out anyway."
"When I was about thirteen, I started to see it; my father's 'job', the business workings. Slowly, my grandfather pulled me in, showing me everything I was meant to have. But when his future heir suddenly became a mutant,,, it all changed. My family figured, if we have to keep him a secret, then he should be part of the whole secret. I didn't want that."
"So you left." Brennan finished.
"Alicia and I had been engaged for a year, maybe. And she didn't know about my mutancy. But I knew I couldn't be a part of that life, especially when I didn't understand my own."
"Jess, it sound like you were just- there. You never DID anything."
"No, seeing it and not doing something, makes you just as guilty." The molecular admitted. "Anyway, Adam took me in a while later, and I learned to forget that existence."
"So, you understood the cause and effect a little." The elemental said. "I don't think you'll burn for it."
"I guess I'm saying that Mutant X kind of redeemed me. It did all of us, in our own way. Adam taught me things -values that I would have never learned with my family. Guess that's what I fight for."
Brennan thought back over his own mis-spent youth, trying to discern just how Jesse was 'bad'. He was swept up, where as the elemental really had a choice. "Jess, your conscious kept you from becoming 'that' pawn. Adam didn't redeem you; you redeemed yourself. If a crook has a conscious, then he was never really a crook."
"Then what does that make you?"
The man smiled. "I'll get back to you on that."
Disclaimer: M-X, Don't own them. Enjoy!
Here's a little more Jesse for you all, Remember, I like to push the what ifs -at least till the next episode comes out! ^-^
A DANGER LIKE ME
"In fact," The molecular continued. "For awhile, we WERE the Mob."
Brennan frowned into his signature fashion. "Ignorant question: Did I EVER work for you?"
"Dude, I seriously doubt it."
"Okay, we're straight. But that's fucked up! All the times you called me a hood, you had place in a crime family."
"Remember Alicia?" Jesse started, knowing he had to come full circle with this.
"Yeah, your ex. Her company was running all that testing to genetically engineer food, and she didn't know about it." (Wastelands, Season 3)
"She was the first time in ten years, that I sat foot back into any aspect of that life. My dad's agency, and the corporation all had a hand in illegal activities; mainly money laundering."
"And they wanted you to take it over." Brennan finished.
"Basically. The agency and corporate would do 'favors' for each other from time to time. So the business got funds to develop technologies and dad's people used the technology to do their work."
"And you're whole family knew about it?"
"Nope, just the top players: my grandfather, my uncles, my dad." The molecular spoke nonchalantly, with raised brows, as if it all was okay. "And even Alicia's father." Brennan watched his teammates eyes flash in reflection. "I wasn't some bad ass, Brennan. Never some big shot, just a pawn."
"That's a hell of a pawn, you would have been over everything."
"And being over everything would have meant them keeping power over me. Add my mutations kicking in, and all the secrecy then you get the idea."
"Spell it out anyway."
"When I was about thirteen, I started to see it; my father's 'job', the business workings. Slowly, my grandfather pulled me in, showing me everything I was meant to have. But when his future heir suddenly became a mutant,,, it all changed. My family figured, if we have to keep him a secret, then he should be part of the whole secret. I didn't want that."
"So you left." Brennan finished.
"Alicia and I had been engaged for a year, maybe. And she didn't know about my mutancy. But I knew I couldn't be a part of that life, especially when I didn't understand my own."
"Jess, it sound like you were just- there. You never DID anything."
"No, seeing it and not doing something, makes you just as guilty." The molecular admitted. "Anyway, Adam took me in a while later, and I learned to forget that existence."
"So, you understood the cause and effect a little." The elemental said. "I don't think you'll burn for it."
"I guess I'm saying that Mutant X kind of redeemed me. It did all of us, in our own way. Adam taught me things -values that I would have never learned with my family. Guess that's what I fight for."
Brennan thought back over his own mis-spent youth, trying to discern just how Jesse was 'bad'. He was swept up, where as the elemental really had a choice. "Jess, your conscious kept you from becoming 'that' pawn. Adam didn't redeem you; you redeemed yourself. If a crook has a conscious, then he was never really a crook."
"Then what does that make you?"
The man smiled. "I'll get back to you on that."