Consequences
Disclaimer: I do not own Mutant X in any way; I'm just borrowing them for my story.
Hi sorry it has taken me so long to update as I have been busy at work and will be for the next week!
But please be patient, I can promise you that at least one chapter will be up next week!
P.S. There is a few swear words in this so please be aware before reading.
Chapter 7: Forgiveness and false information
The journey back to Sanctuary for Emma and Brennan had been a silent affair after the conversation with Shalimar.
Once back Emma had immediately led a protesting Brennan to the medical lab were she had proceeded to scan him for injury.
Finding only bruised ribs, several small cuts where he had been kicked and punched and a large bruise that was beginning to form on his left cheek bone were he had been hit, she set about healing them with the equipment in the lab, thankful that she had helped Adam enough in the past to understand what she was doing. The dizziness that he had experienced back at the safe house was now subsiding.
After she had finished healing Brennan she sat next to him on the lab chair, turning her body so that she was directly facing him. "I think we need to discuss a few things Brennan," she admitted after she realised that Brennan was not going to begin the conversation.
"I know, I was just waiting for you to be comfortable with it, that's all".
Pausing, Emma asked the question that was most prominent on her mind "Why didn't you tell Shalimar the truth about how we got out the safe house?"
Brennan began to feel were the topic was heading, aware that she was uncomfortable after revealing her power. "Because it's not my secret to tell," he answered gently as if it was the simplest of facts.
Still seeing her confused look he began to expand, aware that he wanted desperately to grasp her hand, to form some physical contact but holding back for now. "I get the feeling that wasn't the first time you've done something like that, so the way I see it is, if you wanted Shal or the others to know you would have told them yourself". "You would have told me," he added in a whispered tone as an afterthought.
Her mind was a whirlpool of emotions, on one hand her heart was beginning to feel hope, hope that even after all this he wasn't turning away from her in fright, but her mind was telling her otherwise, that he must be feeling something, it just wasn't possible for him not to fear her now she reasoned. She needed answers; she needed to know were she stood with him! "Brennan I don't feel you're fear of me, why is that?"
Shocked that she would think that, he grabbed her hand, initiating the physical contact, as if he was attempting to prove his love and trust for her. "These last few months, I kind of got the impression that your powers had grown even further than you let on, but when I thought about it I realised that no matter what, your still you, the Emma that I have always known, what's there to be scared of?"
Jerking her hand from his, she refused to believe that, no she would have sensed it she thought the panic slowly beginning to rise, there was no way he couldn't fear her! "No your lying!" she retorted jumping from the chair, out of his reach "How can you not fear me Brennan after what I showed you today? How? I betrayed your trust that's something you don't forgive Brennan; I know that more than anyone".
Witnessing her emotional state he restrained himself to continue sitting on the lab chair, afraid that if he was to rise, she would run away, but no this situation had to be discussed and resolved he told himself, they had to find Jesse and if Emma even refused to approach him that plan was going to be in trouble. It was time for this waiting game that he had been playing with her for months to end! He stood at that point, feeling his calm mask slipping, his emotions that he had tried to keep hidden from her for so long coming to the surface, reaching boiling point.
"Damn it! You want the truth Emma, then fine I'll give you the truth," he exclaimed refusing to break eye contact with her, pushing himself forward so that only two feet was between them. "When you sent that blast back at the safe house it scared the hell out of me for a moment there, but then again I was under the impression that that was aim of it, am I right!" He sarcastically asked
A simply nod of the head was his only response to that question.
"Right, so yes for a minute there I was scared but not of you, I could never be scared of you!" he admitted his tone now becoming gentler "I don't care how much power you have, the person I see before me is the Emma I have treasured from day one and nothing will change that!" "Do you want to know what really hurt me though Emma more than you're power could ever do?" he asked while turning away from her and slumping back on the chair in defeat, his shoulders hunched. "You. Never. Told. Me." He said biting each word out through clenched teeth. "I waited for months for you to open up to me, because I honestly believed that you would, we have never kept secrets between us, I thought we would always be there for one another". "I guess I was wrong after all"
Her nerves beginning to calm down she opened mind and knew what he had just told her was the truth, hell she didn't have to read him, it was all over his face. She had to explain to him why she did what she did. Taking a final deep breath in she stepped over and sat back down next to him, placing her hand on his thigh. "I'm sorry". "It was never about trust Brennan".
"Really?" he questioned feeling the heat from her hand and placing his over it. Absently beginning to play with her fingers.
"Really!" She repeated. "I have always known that I can trust you, I can feel that vibrating of you everyday, the reason I didn't say anything was because I was scared of losing you, scared not that you would walk away, because you would never do that, but most of all scared that our relationship would change and that... that you wouldn't love me any more!"
At this Brennan began to laugh, "I'm sorry Emma", he chuckled out "but for a psionic you sure know how to misread people don't you".
Emma chose not to reply to this, only opting to glare at him.
"Look Emma, like I said you are still you, I know that I have nothing to fear from you, yes you have this power but I trust you, you're not Ashlock, you would never use it against us".
That was it now she couldn't carry the lie on anymore the truth had to be told. Casting her eyes away she whispered, "I have though"
Brennan's hand that was placed over hers froze at this comment. "What?" he asked in disbelief.
Not raising her eyes, afraid to see the contempt she explained about the mission to rescue the pilot, about how reinforcements were about to converge on her and Jesse, how she used a mind blast, but more importantly how she had erased Jesse's memory after seeing his horror. And Brennan listened silently never interrupting, never moving, but yet never removing his intertwined hand from hers.
"Emma why did you do it?" he spoke after a moments of silence "was it because you could, simply because you had the power" he asked
"No! I told you, I did it because I was afraid that Jesse would hate me. Not a day has gone by were I haven't regretted what I did to him Brennan, you have to believe that".
Cupping her face in his hands, forcing her to look at him he replied, "I do, you had the opportunity to erase my memory but you didn't. Jesse was probably shocked though Emma, if you gave him the chance and time to adjust he would still love you, the same goes for Shalimar and Adam".
"I know, I understand that now thanks to you, but at the time I really believed that I was doing the right thing. And I will tell them Brennan, just give me some time to adjust ok?"
"Fine" he answered "as long as you know that I still love you" and with that he leaned forward and placed a single gentle kiss upon her lips before they were broke apart by the untimely arrival of Shalimar.
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Jesse was board and frustrated. What felt like an hour ago but was really about 30 minutes, two guards had entered the room were he was being held and forcibly dragged him to were he sat now, restrained to a chair by two single pieces of rope that was beginning to cut into his wrist's. After they had finished this they had simply left the room.
The room was almost identical just on a larger scale, with a chair instead of a cot in the room he thought.
Just to break the silence, Jesse began to whistle.
He was frustrated, he had thought that he might have begun to get some answers when they had dragged him here, even though he knew Eckhart was probably planning something unpleasant for him, but still he needed to know if he had any of his teammates. But for some unknown reason they had simply dumped him in a room and seemed to have forgotten he was even there.
"Charming" he muttered.
He really couldn't wait to be rescued from here he thought, otherwise I hope Adam's got a cure for exposure to extreme boredom!
Just then the door opened to reveal the same two guards from earlier and behind them was no other than Eckhart himself.
Seeing this Jesse began to smile, watching as they entered the room, the two guards taking position behind him, one on either side while Eckhart himself stood directly in front of Jesse.
"Well, this must be important if you're here Eckhart" Jesse stated still grinning.
"I wouldn't be smiling if I were in you're position Mr Kilmartin" Eckhart replied in that damn neutral voice that he had begun to loathe.
"Eckhart I have to say, this is so clichéd, no doubt this is were you threaten me to tell you whatever it is you want know, I refuse with some comment, you then dish a few more threats out and so on."
"Well they do say you can't beat some of the classics, but actually I'm not here to threaten you, I've just got a simple request really".
"I'm listening" Jesse said his interest piqued.
"All I need for you to do is to hand me the location of Sanctuary, and the codes to access Adam's new mutant data base," Eckhart asked in a civil tone as if he was talking to an old friend.
"You don't honestly believe I'm just going to tell you that do you! If you do, you're actually crazier than I gave you credit for".
At this Eckhart just remained silent, as if he was contemplating something.
"So what's wrong anyway, you got no mutant's left after that little explosion at Naxcon, so you need the good old original one's?"
"Yes, well you did let's say, but a spanner in my work's but I'll adjust" was Eckhart's only reply.
"So now that I've refused, aren't you supposed to punish me or something" Jesse sarcastically asked becoming unnerved by the silence "because you know I'll never betray Mutant X."
"Actually you're quite right, you never will betray Mutant X, because as much as I regret to inform you, you are the sole survivor of the team" Eckhart informed him a smile beginning to break out.
"What!" Jesse asked in disbelief, there was no way they were all dead, it couldn't be true, Eckhart was lying he thought and he told him this.
"Oh no it's very true, I heard that you're team mates bodies were recovered several hours ago by the authorities, while my dear old friend Adam died from his injuries in hospital. So you see this war's over!"
Jesse thought he was going to be physically sick, he looked away from Eckhart staring at the floor, not able to continue watching Eckhart gloat.
Oh god he thought their dead, they're all dead! Some part of him was screaming that he already knew deep down that they all may not have made it out alive and that he should have been prepared for this, but he wasn't, he didn't think anyone could be prepared to hear those words. Back in his cell he had refused to believe and pushed those feelings down but he couldn't deny them any longer, not when Eckhart was standing in front of him, because strangely he did believe him, it wasn't Eckhart's tactics to stoop to that level of lying.
"So you see Mr Kilmartin, you wont be betraying anyone by providing me with the information that I want. Sanctuary is literally a tomb now, and will continue to be if you don't talk. You're all alone in this fight now; I think you know you can't win alone with no hope of rescue".
The disturbing word to Jesse's ear's was *alone*, because for the first time since meeting Adam he truly was alone in this world, no one else to turn to, his brother Brennan and sister's Shalimar and Emma gone, his farther murdered because no matter how Jesse looked at it, Eckhart had murdered them in cold blood.
He felt his blood begin to boil at this, directly in front of him was the man who had attempted to capture and kill him on many occasions, but he had now just taken that one step further and did far worse, he had destroyed his life. "You bastard, you killed them in cold blood! Tell me does it make you happy now, or are so much of a freak that you're incapable of feeling at all!! Jesse began to rant, all rational and logic thought gone, engulfed by his own emotions.
In his rage he was beginning to pull at his arms, trying to free himself, but he was causing the ropes to dig deeper into his tender skin, leaving a fresh trail of blood to slowly drip to floor either side of him.
Becoming board with his ranting very quickly Eckhart stated, "I thinks that's enough for now!" Just give me what I asked for and I will allow you to walk away from here".
No! Jesse thought, they may be dead but he wouldn't destroy what they fought for he pledged, slowly beginning to calm down, he would preserve their memory. He would make them proud. "Go to hell Eckhart! I won't give you damn thing, do what you want with me because I don't care, you just took away my reason for living" he stated.
"You will give me that information, I promise you that Mr Kilmartin. I'm sure some of my people will be more persuasive, let's say more than me."
At this Eckhart spun around and exited the room along with the two guards leaving Jesse alone once more in his grief.
His tears began then, tears for his fallen family, his situation, and tears because he knew he was going to die in this god forsaken place, he had told Eckhart the truth though, he didn't care, he knew Eckhart was going to resort to torture, his mind even crazier than before it appeared, but if it meant he would no longer feel the emotional pain that was tearing his very soul apart then he was glad, he would welcome death he decided because there would be no playing basketball with Brennan again, no teasing Emma, no more fine words of wisdom from Adam and no sparring with Shalimar. No more late night movies were they would both sit and pour their heart out to each other, something they hadn't done in a while actually, but still the fact was he never would see them again until Eckhart had finished with him.
Eckhart would never get Sanctuary or the database he vowed, he would take that secret to the grave, but Eckhart had won, he had finally destroyed Mutant X!
Disclaimer: I do not own Mutant X in any way; I'm just borrowing them for my story.
Hi sorry it has taken me so long to update as I have been busy at work and will be for the next week!
But please be patient, I can promise you that at least one chapter will be up next week!
P.S. There is a few swear words in this so please be aware before reading.
Chapter 7: Forgiveness and false information
The journey back to Sanctuary for Emma and Brennan had been a silent affair after the conversation with Shalimar.
Once back Emma had immediately led a protesting Brennan to the medical lab were she had proceeded to scan him for injury.
Finding only bruised ribs, several small cuts where he had been kicked and punched and a large bruise that was beginning to form on his left cheek bone were he had been hit, she set about healing them with the equipment in the lab, thankful that she had helped Adam enough in the past to understand what she was doing. The dizziness that he had experienced back at the safe house was now subsiding.
After she had finished healing Brennan she sat next to him on the lab chair, turning her body so that she was directly facing him. "I think we need to discuss a few things Brennan," she admitted after she realised that Brennan was not going to begin the conversation.
"I know, I was just waiting for you to be comfortable with it, that's all".
Pausing, Emma asked the question that was most prominent on her mind "Why didn't you tell Shalimar the truth about how we got out the safe house?"
Brennan began to feel were the topic was heading, aware that she was uncomfortable after revealing her power. "Because it's not my secret to tell," he answered gently as if it was the simplest of facts.
Still seeing her confused look he began to expand, aware that he wanted desperately to grasp her hand, to form some physical contact but holding back for now. "I get the feeling that wasn't the first time you've done something like that, so the way I see it is, if you wanted Shal or the others to know you would have told them yourself". "You would have told me," he added in a whispered tone as an afterthought.
Her mind was a whirlpool of emotions, on one hand her heart was beginning to feel hope, hope that even after all this he wasn't turning away from her in fright, but her mind was telling her otherwise, that he must be feeling something, it just wasn't possible for him not to fear her now she reasoned. She needed answers; she needed to know were she stood with him! "Brennan I don't feel you're fear of me, why is that?"
Shocked that she would think that, he grabbed her hand, initiating the physical contact, as if he was attempting to prove his love and trust for her. "These last few months, I kind of got the impression that your powers had grown even further than you let on, but when I thought about it I realised that no matter what, your still you, the Emma that I have always known, what's there to be scared of?"
Jerking her hand from his, she refused to believe that, no she would have sensed it she thought the panic slowly beginning to rise, there was no way he couldn't fear her! "No your lying!" she retorted jumping from the chair, out of his reach "How can you not fear me Brennan after what I showed you today? How? I betrayed your trust that's something you don't forgive Brennan; I know that more than anyone".
Witnessing her emotional state he restrained himself to continue sitting on the lab chair, afraid that if he was to rise, she would run away, but no this situation had to be discussed and resolved he told himself, they had to find Jesse and if Emma even refused to approach him that plan was going to be in trouble. It was time for this waiting game that he had been playing with her for months to end! He stood at that point, feeling his calm mask slipping, his emotions that he had tried to keep hidden from her for so long coming to the surface, reaching boiling point.
"Damn it! You want the truth Emma, then fine I'll give you the truth," he exclaimed refusing to break eye contact with her, pushing himself forward so that only two feet was between them. "When you sent that blast back at the safe house it scared the hell out of me for a moment there, but then again I was under the impression that that was aim of it, am I right!" He sarcastically asked
A simply nod of the head was his only response to that question.
"Right, so yes for a minute there I was scared but not of you, I could never be scared of you!" he admitted his tone now becoming gentler "I don't care how much power you have, the person I see before me is the Emma I have treasured from day one and nothing will change that!" "Do you want to know what really hurt me though Emma more than you're power could ever do?" he asked while turning away from her and slumping back on the chair in defeat, his shoulders hunched. "You. Never. Told. Me." He said biting each word out through clenched teeth. "I waited for months for you to open up to me, because I honestly believed that you would, we have never kept secrets between us, I thought we would always be there for one another". "I guess I was wrong after all"
Her nerves beginning to calm down she opened mind and knew what he had just told her was the truth, hell she didn't have to read him, it was all over his face. She had to explain to him why she did what she did. Taking a final deep breath in she stepped over and sat back down next to him, placing her hand on his thigh. "I'm sorry". "It was never about trust Brennan".
"Really?" he questioned feeling the heat from her hand and placing his over it. Absently beginning to play with her fingers.
"Really!" She repeated. "I have always known that I can trust you, I can feel that vibrating of you everyday, the reason I didn't say anything was because I was scared of losing you, scared not that you would walk away, because you would never do that, but most of all scared that our relationship would change and that... that you wouldn't love me any more!"
At this Brennan began to laugh, "I'm sorry Emma", he chuckled out "but for a psionic you sure know how to misread people don't you".
Emma chose not to reply to this, only opting to glare at him.
"Look Emma, like I said you are still you, I know that I have nothing to fear from you, yes you have this power but I trust you, you're not Ashlock, you would never use it against us".
That was it now she couldn't carry the lie on anymore the truth had to be told. Casting her eyes away she whispered, "I have though"
Brennan's hand that was placed over hers froze at this comment. "What?" he asked in disbelief.
Not raising her eyes, afraid to see the contempt she explained about the mission to rescue the pilot, about how reinforcements were about to converge on her and Jesse, how she used a mind blast, but more importantly how she had erased Jesse's memory after seeing his horror. And Brennan listened silently never interrupting, never moving, but yet never removing his intertwined hand from hers.
"Emma why did you do it?" he spoke after a moments of silence "was it because you could, simply because you had the power" he asked
"No! I told you, I did it because I was afraid that Jesse would hate me. Not a day has gone by were I haven't regretted what I did to him Brennan, you have to believe that".
Cupping her face in his hands, forcing her to look at him he replied, "I do, you had the opportunity to erase my memory but you didn't. Jesse was probably shocked though Emma, if you gave him the chance and time to adjust he would still love you, the same goes for Shalimar and Adam".
"I know, I understand that now thanks to you, but at the time I really believed that I was doing the right thing. And I will tell them Brennan, just give me some time to adjust ok?"
"Fine" he answered "as long as you know that I still love you" and with that he leaned forward and placed a single gentle kiss upon her lips before they were broke apart by the untimely arrival of Shalimar.
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Jesse was board and frustrated. What felt like an hour ago but was really about 30 minutes, two guards had entered the room were he was being held and forcibly dragged him to were he sat now, restrained to a chair by two single pieces of rope that was beginning to cut into his wrist's. After they had finished this they had simply left the room.
The room was almost identical just on a larger scale, with a chair instead of a cot in the room he thought.
Just to break the silence, Jesse began to whistle.
He was frustrated, he had thought that he might have begun to get some answers when they had dragged him here, even though he knew Eckhart was probably planning something unpleasant for him, but still he needed to know if he had any of his teammates. But for some unknown reason they had simply dumped him in a room and seemed to have forgotten he was even there.
"Charming" he muttered.
He really couldn't wait to be rescued from here he thought, otherwise I hope Adam's got a cure for exposure to extreme boredom!
Just then the door opened to reveal the same two guards from earlier and behind them was no other than Eckhart himself.
Seeing this Jesse began to smile, watching as they entered the room, the two guards taking position behind him, one on either side while Eckhart himself stood directly in front of Jesse.
"Well, this must be important if you're here Eckhart" Jesse stated still grinning.
"I wouldn't be smiling if I were in you're position Mr Kilmartin" Eckhart replied in that damn neutral voice that he had begun to loathe.
"Eckhart I have to say, this is so clichéd, no doubt this is were you threaten me to tell you whatever it is you want know, I refuse with some comment, you then dish a few more threats out and so on."
"Well they do say you can't beat some of the classics, but actually I'm not here to threaten you, I've just got a simple request really".
"I'm listening" Jesse said his interest piqued.
"All I need for you to do is to hand me the location of Sanctuary, and the codes to access Adam's new mutant data base," Eckhart asked in a civil tone as if he was talking to an old friend.
"You don't honestly believe I'm just going to tell you that do you! If you do, you're actually crazier than I gave you credit for".
At this Eckhart just remained silent, as if he was contemplating something.
"So what's wrong anyway, you got no mutant's left after that little explosion at Naxcon, so you need the good old original one's?"
"Yes, well you did let's say, but a spanner in my work's but I'll adjust" was Eckhart's only reply.
"So now that I've refused, aren't you supposed to punish me or something" Jesse sarcastically asked becoming unnerved by the silence "because you know I'll never betray Mutant X."
"Actually you're quite right, you never will betray Mutant X, because as much as I regret to inform you, you are the sole survivor of the team" Eckhart informed him a smile beginning to break out.
"What!" Jesse asked in disbelief, there was no way they were all dead, it couldn't be true, Eckhart was lying he thought and he told him this.
"Oh no it's very true, I heard that you're team mates bodies were recovered several hours ago by the authorities, while my dear old friend Adam died from his injuries in hospital. So you see this war's over!"
Jesse thought he was going to be physically sick, he looked away from Eckhart staring at the floor, not able to continue watching Eckhart gloat.
Oh god he thought their dead, they're all dead! Some part of him was screaming that he already knew deep down that they all may not have made it out alive and that he should have been prepared for this, but he wasn't, he didn't think anyone could be prepared to hear those words. Back in his cell he had refused to believe and pushed those feelings down but he couldn't deny them any longer, not when Eckhart was standing in front of him, because strangely he did believe him, it wasn't Eckhart's tactics to stoop to that level of lying.
"So you see Mr Kilmartin, you wont be betraying anyone by providing me with the information that I want. Sanctuary is literally a tomb now, and will continue to be if you don't talk. You're all alone in this fight now; I think you know you can't win alone with no hope of rescue".
The disturbing word to Jesse's ear's was *alone*, because for the first time since meeting Adam he truly was alone in this world, no one else to turn to, his brother Brennan and sister's Shalimar and Emma gone, his farther murdered because no matter how Jesse looked at it, Eckhart had murdered them in cold blood.
He felt his blood begin to boil at this, directly in front of him was the man who had attempted to capture and kill him on many occasions, but he had now just taken that one step further and did far worse, he had destroyed his life. "You bastard, you killed them in cold blood! Tell me does it make you happy now, or are so much of a freak that you're incapable of feeling at all!! Jesse began to rant, all rational and logic thought gone, engulfed by his own emotions.
In his rage he was beginning to pull at his arms, trying to free himself, but he was causing the ropes to dig deeper into his tender skin, leaving a fresh trail of blood to slowly drip to floor either side of him.
Becoming board with his ranting very quickly Eckhart stated, "I thinks that's enough for now!" Just give me what I asked for and I will allow you to walk away from here".
No! Jesse thought, they may be dead but he wouldn't destroy what they fought for he pledged, slowly beginning to calm down, he would preserve their memory. He would make them proud. "Go to hell Eckhart! I won't give you damn thing, do what you want with me because I don't care, you just took away my reason for living" he stated.
"You will give me that information, I promise you that Mr Kilmartin. I'm sure some of my people will be more persuasive, let's say more than me."
At this Eckhart spun around and exited the room along with the two guards leaving Jesse alone once more in his grief.
His tears began then, tears for his fallen family, his situation, and tears because he knew he was going to die in this god forsaken place, he had told Eckhart the truth though, he didn't care, he knew Eckhart was going to resort to torture, his mind even crazier than before it appeared, but if it meant he would no longer feel the emotional pain that was tearing his very soul apart then he was glad, he would welcome death he decided because there would be no playing basketball with Brennan again, no teasing Emma, no more fine words of wisdom from Adam and no sparring with Shalimar. No more late night movies were they would both sit and pour their heart out to each other, something they hadn't done in a while actually, but still the fact was he never would see them again until Eckhart had finished with him.
Eckhart would never get Sanctuary or the database he vowed, he would take that secret to the grave, but Eckhart had won, he had finally destroyed Mutant X!