AN: Hey guys, I'm SO sorry! Again, I haven't updated for AGES...but here's chapter 20!! Only one more chapter after this, sorry if it seems a little crap, but you know how it is when you get to the end. You rush to finish it but end up writing it awfully. Anyways, hope you enjoy it and so so so sorry again for the delay!! I'll post the last chapter very soon, I promise! Something like tomorrow...hehe!
~ Sanctuary, the next day ~
Adam's voice could be heard all over Sanctuary.
'Shalimar, Jesse, Emma. Can I see you in the lab, please?'
Shalimar had been sleeping for a long time and she woke up because of Adam. Usually, she'd be angry at him for disturbing her sleep, but she had had enough sleep and at the moment, she just didn't have the energy to argue with him. She met Jesse and Emma, along with Adam, in the lab a few minutes later.
~ Lab ~
'Adam? You called? Is there finally some action?'
Jesse, and definately Shalimar were not ones to sit around Sanctuary with no fighting or action to do. Even Emma was getting bored of the spare time they had.
'As much as I would like to say yes...no. As Emma, maybe even Shalimar, may have noticed, or sensed, there is another person in Sanctuary.'
'But who? And how?'
Emma was getting a bit worried that somebody could have been watching them right there. Heck, they could be working for Eckhart.
'It's nothing to worry about. You remember a while back, when Shalimar uh..well, when you and Jesse went out to look for new mutants, and we brought Emma to the team?'
Sounds of 'yes' and 'sure' followed his question, to his satisfaction.
'Well, we added you because you were a strong mutant, and we needed your powers, as well as having you on the team because we wanted you...not just your powers. And, since we have a feral, molecular and psionic, I figured we needed an elemental.'
He paused, giving them to take in what he had just said, since they had a pretty good idea where he was going.
'I had been training Emma for almost a year without the acknowledgement of Jesse or Shalimar, and I apologise for that. But at the same time, I had begun training an elemental, also without you knowing. And again, I apologise for that. Now while you were out last night, I brought him-'
'Him?'
'Yes Shalimar, it's a him. I figured it would balance out the team. Funny, hm? '
'Yeah...funny. When do we meet him then?'
'When he wakes up, now as I was saying. I brought him back to Sanctuary to train him further. I figured that last night was his last, as he was improving at a spectacular speed. So I thought he was the right person for the fifth member of Mutant X. So he's now in the guest room.'
Adam's words had just sunken in, and both Shalimar and Emma realised what it was they sensed the night before. The guest room. A new member. A he. It all made sense.
'I knew I sensed something the other night. I wasn't imagining it!'
'I know Em, me neither. I felt it when I went into my room and then I felt it again this morning. I just thought I was drunk.'
The conversation was serious, but the four team members managed to laugh at Shalimar's comments about herself. They never heard her admit or suggest that she was drunk, since she wasn't really one for drinking. So this was something new.
Jesse had known about the newest member coming to the team, but neither of the girls had met him when he arrived, as they had gone out.
The team were still talking when there was the noise of a door opening and closing further down near the rooms.
'Seems like sleepy-boy is awake.'
'Be nice Shalimar, don't be mean just yet. Give him time to settle in.'
'Don't worry Adam, I was only teasing.'
Emma meanwhile, was trying to see where he was so that she could see what he looked like. He just seemed and felt very familiar to her, but she can't ever remember meeting him. Maybe somebody else projected the feeling of him to her. Maybe that was it...and then it clicked. Emma remembered where it was before where she felt his personality. Shalimar. At the club, when Shalimar was sitting alone.
*It's the mystery guy!! Oh my god, Shal's gonna be so pleased...I think. My god, I can't believe it!!*
After the lunch break yesterday, Shalimar had spilled everything to Emma and Emma just felt too excited at this point knowing Shalimar was about to be put out of her misery. It couldn't get any better.
*I'm sure the girls will like him...I mean, it just means we won't have to fight as much...*
*Gee, this is great news...(!)...I'm oh so excited...not. Why couldn't Adam just let me sleep?*
*I hope they make him feel welcome...it'll be a disastor if they don't get along...*
Exactly as it had happened when Emma came to the team...footsteps could be heard walking up the steps...the newest and last member of Mutant X came walking around the corner in search of the team, and stopped when he found them.
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~ Sanctuary, the next day ~
Adam's voice could be heard all over Sanctuary.
'Shalimar, Jesse, Emma. Can I see you in the lab, please?'
Shalimar had been sleeping for a long time and she woke up because of Adam. Usually, she'd be angry at him for disturbing her sleep, but she had had enough sleep and at the moment, she just didn't have the energy to argue with him. She met Jesse and Emma, along with Adam, in the lab a few minutes later.
~ Lab ~
'Adam? You called? Is there finally some action?'
Jesse, and definately Shalimar were not ones to sit around Sanctuary with no fighting or action to do. Even Emma was getting bored of the spare time they had.
'As much as I would like to say yes...no. As Emma, maybe even Shalimar, may have noticed, or sensed, there is another person in Sanctuary.'
'But who? And how?'
Emma was getting a bit worried that somebody could have been watching them right there. Heck, they could be working for Eckhart.
'It's nothing to worry about. You remember a while back, when Shalimar uh..well, when you and Jesse went out to look for new mutants, and we brought Emma to the team?'
Sounds of 'yes' and 'sure' followed his question, to his satisfaction.
'Well, we added you because you were a strong mutant, and we needed your powers, as well as having you on the team because we wanted you...not just your powers. And, since we have a feral, molecular and psionic, I figured we needed an elemental.'
He paused, giving them to take in what he had just said, since they had a pretty good idea where he was going.
'I had been training Emma for almost a year without the acknowledgement of Jesse or Shalimar, and I apologise for that. But at the same time, I had begun training an elemental, also without you knowing. And again, I apologise for that. Now while you were out last night, I brought him-'
'Him?'
'Yes Shalimar, it's a him. I figured it would balance out the team. Funny, hm? '
'Yeah...funny. When do we meet him then?'
'When he wakes up, now as I was saying. I brought him back to Sanctuary to train him further. I figured that last night was his last, as he was improving at a spectacular speed. So I thought he was the right person for the fifth member of Mutant X. So he's now in the guest room.'
Adam's words had just sunken in, and both Shalimar and Emma realised what it was they sensed the night before. The guest room. A new member. A he. It all made sense.
'I knew I sensed something the other night. I wasn't imagining it!'
'I know Em, me neither. I felt it when I went into my room and then I felt it again this morning. I just thought I was drunk.'
The conversation was serious, but the four team members managed to laugh at Shalimar's comments about herself. They never heard her admit or suggest that she was drunk, since she wasn't really one for drinking. So this was something new.
Jesse had known about the newest member coming to the team, but neither of the girls had met him when he arrived, as they had gone out.
The team were still talking when there was the noise of a door opening and closing further down near the rooms.
'Seems like sleepy-boy is awake.'
'Be nice Shalimar, don't be mean just yet. Give him time to settle in.'
'Don't worry Adam, I was only teasing.'
Emma meanwhile, was trying to see where he was so that she could see what he looked like. He just seemed and felt very familiar to her, but she can't ever remember meeting him. Maybe somebody else projected the feeling of him to her. Maybe that was it...and then it clicked. Emma remembered where it was before where she felt his personality. Shalimar. At the club, when Shalimar was sitting alone.
*It's the mystery guy!! Oh my god, Shal's gonna be so pleased...I think. My god, I can't believe it!!*
After the lunch break yesterday, Shalimar had spilled everything to Emma and Emma just felt too excited at this point knowing Shalimar was about to be put out of her misery. It couldn't get any better.
*I'm sure the girls will like him...I mean, it just means we won't have to fight as much...*
*Gee, this is great news...(!)...I'm oh so excited...not. Why couldn't Adam just let me sleep?*
*I hope they make him feel welcome...it'll be a disastor if they don't get along...*
Exactly as it had happened when Emma came to the team...footsteps could be heard walking up the steps...the newest and last member of Mutant X came walking around the corner in search of the team, and stopped when he found them.
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