Disclaimer: I'm gonna stop writing this on account if you didn't know I don't on this show then you are such a . . . well you get the point.

Summary: Tell you the truth I don't really don't think you need to know the summary after reading two chapters that included it.

A/N: Reviewers I love you! If I remember correctly in the second season finale wasn't Shalimar's dad's lab built over a river or body of water of some sort? And notice that dead is in quotation marks in the summary.

Emma had sensed his presence. Jesse had seen her. She wondered if he had told anybody yet. Sooner or later she'd have to see them, reveal the fact she was not dead. she wondered also if Adam had spoken to them or contacted them in anyway. Probably not, he had told her he was going into hiding and that she should do the same. At the time she didn't understand but she did now it was all pretty much clear. She had information about his whereabouts and Eckhart and his goons wanted that information, they wanted Adam.

He had told her Eckhart would be looking for him while leading her to a safe house on a night just like this one.

She remembered that night. Closing her eyes she relived it again.

"Emma, Emma," Adam was trying to wake her up. She had been unconscious for nearly two hours. Her dyed red hair was wet and dirty, as well as her pale skin. She shivered after being pulled out of the water. He kept trying to wake her up, she wasn't dead, just wasn't breathing.

Her eyes slowly fluttered open to the cool night air. The stars were veiled by dark rain cloud and the only remnant of the moon was a sort of fuzzy outline of yellow light. She saw Adam's smile despite the darkness around them. "Welcome back to the land of the living," Adam joked.

"What!?"

"You were only dead for a second."

Her eyes widened as big as saucers.

"Emma, relaxed, you just stopped breathing for a little bit. You'll be fine, I promise."

She looked around at where she was. They were on a bank of the river. The grass was blowing in the wind and the pebbles beneath her started to feel uncomfortable as she shivered in the cool night air. "Where are we?"

"On the river. I know a safe house near here. Once we get there you can rest again."

She nodded. He put he limp arm around his neck and placed his only free arm about her narrow waist.

They trudged through mud and along a road until finally finding the safe house. Emma couldn't remember most of it, she kept fading in and out of consciousness. Adam kept waking her as he slipped or had to pull her up so she wouldn't fall to the ground. She knew he was trying to help her and she was trying not to burden him with her load.

Next thing she knew she was awakening in a plain white room. Everything in the room was white or metal. It was like an asylum almost. Her muddy and torn clothes were washed and laid across a metal chair. The only clothes she wore were a short white hospital gown. She looked around again to she a window in the far left corner. She fumble out of the bed, her bare feet touching the cold floor and her arms crossing her chest. Walking over she saw him, Adam, packing. 'Packing?' she thought, 'To go where.' As if feeling her eyes on him, he turned and made eye contact with her.

"You're awake," he said solemnly as he opened the door to the room.

She nodded, "Where are we?"

His jaw flinched and his lips became a thin line, "Emma, I'm sorry I have to do this to you. You'll be briefed later." That was the last thing she heard when she felt the bee sting like pain on the pack of her neck.

She was briefed, after months in a stabilized coma state. She was still Emma DeLauro, but not the Mutant X team member. She was Emma the small town girl, come to the big city with dreams. She had to keep up the charade in order to be safe. She was told the orders came straight from Adam.

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"YOU WHAT?" the feral's eyes went yellow then back to normal, "Where?"

"Well, I only saw her, I'm not even a hundred percent sure . . ." answered the fair haired member of Mutant X.

"Where did you see her Jesse?!" asked Shalimar once more.

"At the 53rd Street Coffee Shop."

"We have to go contact Brennan." The feral was almost out the door as she gave the command.

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