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"How's he doing Adam," Shalimar walked into the med lab and looked worryingly at the blond male lying motionless.

"I can't say pinpoint anything directly just yet, but by the looks of things this Avell guy did something to his genetic makeup, changing it to operate in a different way. It's strange," he motioned to Shalimar, and Emma, who had just walked in, to follow him to a moniter.

"If you look here, this strand has an addition."

"What effect will that have to him?" Shal asked him, troubled.

"Who knows," Emma said, answering. "But it doesn't look like he deleted Jesse's gift, so what he has done is somehow more frightening."

"And being a molecular, it means that anything could happen." Adam said, turning from the computer to glance at his colleagues, and friends. "But by the looks of things," he said, "It looks like we stopped Jesse from having this permanently and whatever it is should be fought off reasonably soon.

"Yeah, well I guess we'll have to wait and see," Brennan said, from the doorway. "Only Jesse can tell us that. When he wakes up."

"If he wakes up," Emma mumbled. Shalimar glared.

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"And where do you think you are going?"

The blond boy turned to face his friend and scowled.

"You know you only woke up this morning, "Brennan continued. "Adam told you to stay there 'til he gave you the ok."

"Yeah, well I feel fine,' Jesse said walking towards the door. It was a lie. Actually he had felt different ever since he had woken up, and definitely his temper had returned much more quickly. Avell had said something about having enhanced aggression as a side effect. He just wanted to go and sit down somewhere private and work things out. Now Brennan was bothering him.

He turned to walk past the taller guy, but an arm extended to stop him. "No go Jess. You're going back to bed, even if I have to carry you myself."

Jesse grinned wryly. "Like to see you try," he muttered, but turned in accordance with his friend's order. His temper had gone done as quickly as it had arisen. He knew if Adam saw him up he would read Jesse the riot act.

Brennan reached and patted him on the shoulder.

"Comon, I'll give you a hand," he said, as Jesse stumbled. Maybe getting up hadn't been such a good idea. But he needed answers.

"Not a minute too soon," Brennan muttered to himself, as Adam walked in the moment Jesse had settled down again. Brennan winced at the thought of what would have happened had Adam seen Jesse up after ordering Brennan to keep an eye out for him. Brennan gave Jesse a friendly pat and walked from the room.

"How you feeling," Adam said enquiringly walking over to his young teammate.

"I'm fine Adam. There's nothing wrong. I'm sick of staying here," his voice was impatient, and Adam looked up from his keyboard and gave him a stern and worried look.

"You're not ok Jesse. The guy changed your molecular structure in some way. I'm sure its temporary, but you are staying here until we can find out what's wrong."

"Where was I Adam? You have to know something." Jesse said, sitting up in the meanwhile.

"Lie back, you aren't meant to go through any exercise until I've finished all of the tests."

"For gods sake Adam," Jesse said angrily, surprising himself at how quickly his temper was flaring up, as he was usually a complacent person. "I don't have to take this crap. You leave me a week in some unknown place, and then don't have the decency to tell me anything. I need answers."

"Look, I don't know much more than you," Adam said. He continued, ignoring jesses muttering of 'yeah right.' "We'll be able to sort this all out when you feel better."

"I do feel better, I'm fine. Just a bit dizzy now and then."

"Yeah, and the added aggression."

"What aggression, I told you Adam-"

"I know what you told me, and you are in no fit state to comment on that. I know what the tests show me, and you aren't in your right sate of mind.:" He continued before Jesse could interrupt. "Ok, have to you tried massing, or phasing?"

"Yeah, because I've had so much opportunity lying unconscious here," Jesse said sarcastically. He looked at Adam's stubborn face and sighed. "Nope. Haven't tried."

'Ok, that's our next task. He's changed or done something, and it's to do with your powers. We'll do that when the next test results come up. For now. Rest." He gave Jesse a pat on the shoulder.

"Am I getting better Adam. What's wrong with me," Jesse whimpered suddenly, reverting back to his usual, but scared self, realizing that his present state of mind was definitely not what anyone expected of him.

Adams face softened. Jesse was as good as any son. He looked at the pitying face beneath him, and gave him a hopeful smile.

"We're going to figure that one out Jess. I promise." And with that, he departed, to leave Jesse to enter an uneasy sleep, thinking about the team, Avell and Sophie.

* * *

"So what have we got?" Emma asked as the fur of them hunched round the desktop.

"Well, we know that this Avell guy is experimenting on new mutants, and that by what Jesse told us, he's only just started. Looks like Jess and this girl Dier were the prototypes." Adam began.

"Yeah, guinea pigs," Shal muttered.

Adam looked at her, and continued, "And although we don't know exactly what is happening, we know that he's somehow managed to alter the molecular structure of them. What we really need is that girl, Sophie. What I don't know is if this addition is a result of Jesse being a molecular or of the consequence of what was meant to be."

"You mean," brennan asked, "that every new mutant could react differently to it."

"Exactly. We know that this girl has finished her treatment, but we don't know what this would be."

"Also, I think jesses irrationality and anger is an added side effect, because what I got from him was that this Sophie was totally normal after any medication, meaning that this is effecting him differently from any one else." Adam leaned thoughtfully against the desk.

Emma glanced at him, but he diverted his gaze to Shalimar.

"At least it doesn't appear permanent, at least his body will fight it." Shal said, questionably.

"True," Adam replied, "Because he hadn't received the full treatment, but that doesn't mean that the change couldn't happen, or have long lasting effects."

"So what next?" Brennan asked, shifting his weight from one leg to the other impatiently

"Well, for starters we need to look for Sophie Dier. Maybe check her apartment. Brennan, could you recheck it. Take Shal with you. I don't expect her t be there, but you never know. Then ask around the clubs again, especially the one jess and you were at. The other thing we have to do is to return to the place we found Jesse. See, he told me that he was kept in an area, which isn't accessible unless you have the correct code and key. The only person with this key and code is Avell. And the only other person with us able t get through that is Jesse, and he's in no fit state to go just yet," Adam took a deep breath, and glanced around.

"Hey, Adam, I'm totally ok for it, I tell you," A vice came from behind him, as Jesse entered, walking normally, though Emma could sense some pain.

"Plus, I can still phase, look," he demonstrated by walking through the bottom few stairs. "So, I'm ok. I can go."

Adam stepped towards him. "Whether you can go, or whether you may go are too different matters, and you are hardly person to judge that. What the hell are you doing-"

"Its ok Adam," Jesse interrupted, "honestly, I feel fine."

Adam shrugged, not wanting any more scenes. "Ok, but you aren't in any fit state to search this place just yet, so you may as well get used to sanctuary for a bit. Ill want to do a checkup in twenty." He glanced at Emma.

"Whatever," Jesse said shrugging; glad at least that Adam had given up on the 'have to rest' notion. He walked off, to go to his room. A think, and a bit of research was all he had planned for the near future anyhow. Besides that, he hadn't felt quite right when he had phased. True it had worked, but he had felt something else, and he needed to consider what it was.

* * *

"Look at this," Adam beckoned to Emma to look at the screen. "This extra strand has lengthened, if you look at this case."

He was studying Jesse's last checkup results, after an argument with the young man who couldn't see the point of them. Thoroughly fed up, and with a huge headache from his enlarged emotional rage, he had agreed to let Adam look at him, before disappearing to his room again.

"What does that mean?" Emma asked Adam, leaning over the screen of results.

"It means, that whatever is happening to him is changing. By the looks of things, it looks as though this Avell guy has increased Jesse's genetic makeup to make his structure advance at faster rate."

"What effect could it have?" Emma asked, sensing worry from the older man's mind.

"A numerous amount of things, but whatever it is, we're sure to find out. Lets just hope," He grinned wryly, "That it doesn't increase his hormones, because this anger issue is really pissing me off."

Emma grinned.

Neither of them sensed nor heard Jesse's exclamation from his room. If they had, it would have facilitated Adam's theories. Instead they puzzled over the screen, while Jesse, stared, half scared, half in awe of what had just happened.

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Ok, so I updated, that means you can review and tell me what you think, don't worry, I wont leave you with this cliffhanger for long. That is, if I get some reviews that is ;) :P

Because it just motivates me to write quicker. you know what to do!!!!!!!