I'm back...so soon I hear you all cry. Well, yes, so soon. I have been doing a suprising amount of writing lately which does mean I'm probably gonna fail atleast half my exams but who really cares about that when the story is progressing so quickly. Anyway, I have to go and watch an episode of Alias to shove me even more into the world of denial so please review and thank you to those of you who already have. I really appreciate the patience and the kind words. I know its a little confusing but hopefully things are starting to make a lot more sense. And I've just realised that last chapter I was wrong...there's not much more action in this episode, that's the next one which I've just finished writing.
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Lexa walked quickly into the lab. She had to find some sort of protection for herself. She knew that she would be considered a weapon by many and she could certainly stand up for herself and kick some ass when it was needed but she didn't want to have to beat the crap out of Jesse. She had only just found him and she was not prepared to fry him with her mutation. She would find another way, a way that was less fatal.
She opened a drawer quickly and looked through its contents, quickly rifling through the things she couldn't find any use for, looking for the things that could help. There was nothing and she frantically moved onto the next drawer, not bothering to be quiet. She would much rather have found something loudly than do it silently and get caught halfway through.
After searching through all the drawers in the room she moved onto the cupboards, yanking the doors open and throwing things onto the floor around her in her increasing panic. As she pulled a rack of test tubes out of the cupboard she smirked at what she saw behind them. She placed them down on the table with a clink before reaching for the object behind them. She looked at it as she held it in her hands but span round quickly as she heard approaching footsteps. They couldn't have been Shalimar's, they were too heavy for her but they walked with a purpose and she looked around her for somewhere to hide. Seeing the door on the other side of the room, the one she hadn't entered through she walked towards it and pulled it open. She walked through and came face to face with Jesse. Her eyes opened wide and her breath caught in her throat.
'Hi Lexa,' he said smoothly. 'You left this behind,' he said raising his hand which held the tranquiliser dart. Before she could do anything he jammed the sharp needle into the side of her neck. She felt the shooting pain and was then overcome with drowsiness. She blinked at him a couple of times but her vision became progressively worse. She could feel herself slipping away and she swayed on her feet. His face swam before her.
'You should probably fall over now, otherwise I might have to push you,' Jesse said in the same cruel tone that showed how much he was loving watching her suffer. She stared into his eyes but couldn't find any sign that her Jesse was still in there. She felt something inside of her snap and she willed herself to wake up. She raised the tranquiliser gun she was holding in her right hand and aimed it at Jesse's stomach, holding his gaze with her eyes, hoping against hope that he wasn't paying attention to what her hands were doing. Her finger quivered over the trigger as another wave of exhaustion washed over her. She could almost feel herself giving into it but she swallowed and felt her finger touch the metal. The bang as the gun went off echoed through the room and made her eyes open wider. She hadn't been expecting the loud noise and it woke her up a little. She saw Jesse frown as he looked down at his stomach. The dart poked through his clothes and he pulled it out, dropping it to the floor. He tried to mass his body, hoping to make Lexa pay for what she had done but he felt himself floating backwards. He hit the floor and was out like a light. Lexa leant against the frame of the door. The dart he had stuck in her neck had already released a little of its drug before he had jabbed it into her and she had been saved from getting a full dose. She heard more footsteps and looked up just as Brennan came round the corner, Shalimar in his arms.
***
'You okay?' he asked quietly. She looked pale and worn out and Brennan had a feeling that the drugs in the tranquiliser dart weren't the only contributing factors.
She frowned. Her head was killing her and her vision was still a little fuzzy on the occasions when she chose to open her eyes for more than a couple of seconds. Her neck was getting increasingly sore to the touch as a deep purple bruise began to form where Jesse had rammed the needle under the skin. She turned in the Helix pilot seat to the two people behind. They were in two chairs in the main body of the ship, restrained to their seats. Shalimar had been slipped something to make sure that she stayed asleep. Lexa and Brennan knew that even with an electric shock as powerful as the one she had received and the powerful drugs kept in the lab the chance of her staying asleep for much longer than a couple of hours were small. Her eyes slipped across to Jesse's face. He looked so innocent in his sleep, she couldn't quite believe that he had been the one who had stabbed her in the neck. But the weird thing was that she had absolutely no desire to hurt him. She had hated seeing him with the tranquiliser dart embedded in his stomach. And she knew that when they got out of this mess with the Dominion she would have no desire to close herself off again. No matter what she went through she could never go back. She could never change the things that had happened with these three people she had come to look upon as extremely close friends. She smiled gently to herself and turned to look back at Brennan.
'Yeah.'
'You sure?' he asked, his usual cocky attitude gone, the softer side of Brennan showing through for once.
'I saw him standing in the doorway and I knew he was gonna hurt me,' she began, ready to confess a couple of things. 'But I didn't want to run. I don't think that makes any sense but I wanted to stand there, stuck in the moment. Its been a long time since I've felt anything quite so powerful, but when Jesse was chasing me I felt pure fear. I haven't felt anything that intense in ages and I wanted to relish every moment. Normally I'm so controlled and calm about everything but I was panicking, actually panicking. Do you have any idea how good that feels?'
She looked across at Brennan and saw him smile with amusement at her current exuberance. 'And then when I saw him standing there I wanted to kiss him instead of run,' she finished.
She heard Brennan's laughter and frowned.
'What?' she asked, indignant.
'You're in love,' he said.
She gasped, her eyes wide in horror. 'I am not,' she said adamantly.
'Yes you are,' Brennan teased, knowing full well the kind of pain he was causing.
'I am not,' she repeated, this time slower and more like she was teaching a five year old that 2 plus 2 did in fact equal 4.
He raised his eyebrows and watched as her face changed. She rolled her eyes quickly. 'Maybe, a little bit,' she consented as she turned away quickly and started up the Helix. He turned to look out of the front windscreen and smirked. He and Lexa were finally getting along and it, suprisingly felt good.
'You sure you're ready to do this?' he asked.
'Lets finish it,' she answered, ready to confront her past.
***
Lexa looked around her. The building they were looking for was pretty well hidden in an industrial part of town and it looked just like every other building in the vicinity. To a stranger there would be nothing different or special about that building but to Lexa it was very recognisable. She had grown up there, had lived there since she was born. Every waking minute of everyday was spent walking the corridors of the concrete blocks and when she wasn't doing that there were some slightly more dangerous lessons taking place in some of the more dilapidated warehouses. This was where she had learnt how to be a powerful new mutant and an excellent agent. Unfortunately the Dominion had been unable to control free will and now she was going to use both things against them.
'There,' she said, looking at the ground below and pointing to a space in between two warehouses. Neither of them were in use at that moment. They had all been contracted out to different companies over the years. But some of the close but not too close ones were inhabited, the whirring of machinery and the beeping of trucks as they backed up evidence of that. Brennan lowered the plane, still in stealth mode to the spot Lexa had been gesturing to. It landed with a slight bump and they both got up almost straight away. The Dominion knew they were there already and it wouldn't be too long before the warning bells had started ringing. Brennan pushed the button to open the door so they could exit the plane and then walked through the hull of the ship, following Lexa. He allowed himself a quick glance at Shalimar. She looked so peaceful, sitting in one of the chairs. He hoped that the plan would work not that there was much of a plan. They would go storming into the Dominion building, they would both stick together till they found the person controlling Shalimar and Jesse and then if there was time Lexa would beat the crap out of Handon. Brennan breathed a deep breath, hoping they weren't being completely retarded. They hadn't underestimated how hard the whole thing would be but they had both been prepared for the fact that there would eventually be a war. If this was it they were ready.
He walked out of the plane and closed the door behind him. Lexa looked nervous and he felt terrified at the prospect of what they were about to do.
'Are you sure we're doing the right thing?' he asked as they stood side by side staring at the building which housed the enemy.
'We're two people about to go into a big building where people really want to kill us and we have absolutely no game plan other than ones where we both die terribly or come out of this as heroes living to fight another day. I'd say we were ready.'
***
She looked up at him. He was imposing enough when he was standing, his six foot two inch frame overpowering hers but now that she was sitting he was even more intimidating. She raised her eyebrows as the flush which had been rising up his neck worked its way onto his face. A shiver ran up her spine as she thought of what he was capable of doing.
'You let Mulwray and Pierce stop the other two,' he said calmly.
'I create the worlds, I control the thoughts of the people in them. I don't control the actions of the people who are not a part of those dimensions,' she said, trying not to sound like she was talking back to him too much. Of course she had let Lexa beat Jesse and of course she had let Brennan take out Shalimar. She was hardly going to give Charles an easy run of things. He was going to have to work a little harder to finish this assignment.
The slap sounded throughout the room as Handon's hand met Halle's cheek. She fell off of the chair she had been sitting on, her knees and hands slamming into the ground. Pain coursed through her face in silent waves and her hands were throbbing. She breathed quietly, not wanting to let him know that he had the upper hand. He did but Charles was like a rabid animal, he wouldn't let something go once he had a hold of it.
'What?' he said loudly. She turned around to see that he wasn't talking to her. He was speaking into his phone and he looked more than a little panicked. She frowned. Charles wasn't one to let his feelings show but she had a feeling that he was no longer in control of his facial muscles.
'I'll be right there,' he said managing to retain some of his self control as he saw her staring at him.
'Get them back,' he said quietly, the danger in his voice evident as he stormed from the room, slamming the door against the wall as he went.
She smiled, the cogs in her mind working overtime.
'Welcome back Lexa.'
***
He opened his eyes, the bright lights flooding into his eyes. He looked around him and then down to the restraints which kept him trapped in the chair he was currently in. He breathed deeply as he felt his body phase into nothingness. He stepped away from the chair and looked towards the blonde woman sitting next to him. He knelt down next to her and shook her gently till he saw some sign of life.
'Shalimar?'
'Yeah?' she replied after a pause in which she tried to wake up a little bit more.
'Why are we in the Helix?' he asked.
'We're in the Helix?' she answered, looking around her for the first time since she had been woken up. The last time she remembered being awake she had been walking into Brennan's room but even that was extremely blurry. It was like the last twenty four hours of her life were missing or something because all she could recall before that was being incredibly wasted. She smiled wryly as she realised that was the part she didn't want to be able to remember.
'Yeah Shal, but why?' Jesse pursued.
'Jess, I didn't even know we were in the Helix. What makes you think that I'll know why we're in here,' Shalimar pointed out as she noticed the restraints holding her arms to the chair. Jesse reached across and phased them so she could stand up. But as soon as she had stood up she was forced to lower herself back into the chair as a wave hit her. A wave of what she wasn't sure but everything that she had done over the past few hours came rushing back to her. As did the anger.
She turned to Jesse who was leaning against the wall of the Helix. His eyes flicked up to meet hers and they both smirked. Looking out of the window they both knew where they were. And what they had to do next.
***
Lexa walked quickly into the lab. She had to find some sort of protection for herself. She knew that she would be considered a weapon by many and she could certainly stand up for herself and kick some ass when it was needed but she didn't want to have to beat the crap out of Jesse. She had only just found him and she was not prepared to fry him with her mutation. She would find another way, a way that was less fatal.
She opened a drawer quickly and looked through its contents, quickly rifling through the things she couldn't find any use for, looking for the things that could help. There was nothing and she frantically moved onto the next drawer, not bothering to be quiet. She would much rather have found something loudly than do it silently and get caught halfway through.
After searching through all the drawers in the room she moved onto the cupboards, yanking the doors open and throwing things onto the floor around her in her increasing panic. As she pulled a rack of test tubes out of the cupboard she smirked at what she saw behind them. She placed them down on the table with a clink before reaching for the object behind them. She looked at it as she held it in her hands but span round quickly as she heard approaching footsteps. They couldn't have been Shalimar's, they were too heavy for her but they walked with a purpose and she looked around her for somewhere to hide. Seeing the door on the other side of the room, the one she hadn't entered through she walked towards it and pulled it open. She walked through and came face to face with Jesse. Her eyes opened wide and her breath caught in her throat.
'Hi Lexa,' he said smoothly. 'You left this behind,' he said raising his hand which held the tranquiliser dart. Before she could do anything he jammed the sharp needle into the side of her neck. She felt the shooting pain and was then overcome with drowsiness. She blinked at him a couple of times but her vision became progressively worse. She could feel herself slipping away and she swayed on her feet. His face swam before her.
'You should probably fall over now, otherwise I might have to push you,' Jesse said in the same cruel tone that showed how much he was loving watching her suffer. She stared into his eyes but couldn't find any sign that her Jesse was still in there. She felt something inside of her snap and she willed herself to wake up. She raised the tranquiliser gun she was holding in her right hand and aimed it at Jesse's stomach, holding his gaze with her eyes, hoping against hope that he wasn't paying attention to what her hands were doing. Her finger quivered over the trigger as another wave of exhaustion washed over her. She could almost feel herself giving into it but she swallowed and felt her finger touch the metal. The bang as the gun went off echoed through the room and made her eyes open wider. She hadn't been expecting the loud noise and it woke her up a little. She saw Jesse frown as he looked down at his stomach. The dart poked through his clothes and he pulled it out, dropping it to the floor. He tried to mass his body, hoping to make Lexa pay for what she had done but he felt himself floating backwards. He hit the floor and was out like a light. Lexa leant against the frame of the door. The dart he had stuck in her neck had already released a little of its drug before he had jabbed it into her and she had been saved from getting a full dose. She heard more footsteps and looked up just as Brennan came round the corner, Shalimar in his arms.
***
'You okay?' he asked quietly. She looked pale and worn out and Brennan had a feeling that the drugs in the tranquiliser dart weren't the only contributing factors.
She frowned. Her head was killing her and her vision was still a little fuzzy on the occasions when she chose to open her eyes for more than a couple of seconds. Her neck was getting increasingly sore to the touch as a deep purple bruise began to form where Jesse had rammed the needle under the skin. She turned in the Helix pilot seat to the two people behind. They were in two chairs in the main body of the ship, restrained to their seats. Shalimar had been slipped something to make sure that she stayed asleep. Lexa and Brennan knew that even with an electric shock as powerful as the one she had received and the powerful drugs kept in the lab the chance of her staying asleep for much longer than a couple of hours were small. Her eyes slipped across to Jesse's face. He looked so innocent in his sleep, she couldn't quite believe that he had been the one who had stabbed her in the neck. But the weird thing was that she had absolutely no desire to hurt him. She had hated seeing him with the tranquiliser dart embedded in his stomach. And she knew that when they got out of this mess with the Dominion she would have no desire to close herself off again. No matter what she went through she could never go back. She could never change the things that had happened with these three people she had come to look upon as extremely close friends. She smiled gently to herself and turned to look back at Brennan.
'Yeah.'
'You sure?' he asked, his usual cocky attitude gone, the softer side of Brennan showing through for once.
'I saw him standing in the doorway and I knew he was gonna hurt me,' she began, ready to confess a couple of things. 'But I didn't want to run. I don't think that makes any sense but I wanted to stand there, stuck in the moment. Its been a long time since I've felt anything quite so powerful, but when Jesse was chasing me I felt pure fear. I haven't felt anything that intense in ages and I wanted to relish every moment. Normally I'm so controlled and calm about everything but I was panicking, actually panicking. Do you have any idea how good that feels?'
She looked across at Brennan and saw him smile with amusement at her current exuberance. 'And then when I saw him standing there I wanted to kiss him instead of run,' she finished.
She heard Brennan's laughter and frowned.
'What?' she asked, indignant.
'You're in love,' he said.
She gasped, her eyes wide in horror. 'I am not,' she said adamantly.
'Yes you are,' Brennan teased, knowing full well the kind of pain he was causing.
'I am not,' she repeated, this time slower and more like she was teaching a five year old that 2 plus 2 did in fact equal 4.
He raised his eyebrows and watched as her face changed. She rolled her eyes quickly. 'Maybe, a little bit,' she consented as she turned away quickly and started up the Helix. He turned to look out of the front windscreen and smirked. He and Lexa were finally getting along and it, suprisingly felt good.
'You sure you're ready to do this?' he asked.
'Lets finish it,' she answered, ready to confront her past.
***
Lexa looked around her. The building they were looking for was pretty well hidden in an industrial part of town and it looked just like every other building in the vicinity. To a stranger there would be nothing different or special about that building but to Lexa it was very recognisable. She had grown up there, had lived there since she was born. Every waking minute of everyday was spent walking the corridors of the concrete blocks and when she wasn't doing that there were some slightly more dangerous lessons taking place in some of the more dilapidated warehouses. This was where she had learnt how to be a powerful new mutant and an excellent agent. Unfortunately the Dominion had been unable to control free will and now she was going to use both things against them.
'There,' she said, looking at the ground below and pointing to a space in between two warehouses. Neither of them were in use at that moment. They had all been contracted out to different companies over the years. But some of the close but not too close ones were inhabited, the whirring of machinery and the beeping of trucks as they backed up evidence of that. Brennan lowered the plane, still in stealth mode to the spot Lexa had been gesturing to. It landed with a slight bump and they both got up almost straight away. The Dominion knew they were there already and it wouldn't be too long before the warning bells had started ringing. Brennan pushed the button to open the door so they could exit the plane and then walked through the hull of the ship, following Lexa. He allowed himself a quick glance at Shalimar. She looked so peaceful, sitting in one of the chairs. He hoped that the plan would work not that there was much of a plan. They would go storming into the Dominion building, they would both stick together till they found the person controlling Shalimar and Jesse and then if there was time Lexa would beat the crap out of Handon. Brennan breathed a deep breath, hoping they weren't being completely retarded. They hadn't underestimated how hard the whole thing would be but they had both been prepared for the fact that there would eventually be a war. If this was it they were ready.
He walked out of the plane and closed the door behind him. Lexa looked nervous and he felt terrified at the prospect of what they were about to do.
'Are you sure we're doing the right thing?' he asked as they stood side by side staring at the building which housed the enemy.
'We're two people about to go into a big building where people really want to kill us and we have absolutely no game plan other than ones where we both die terribly or come out of this as heroes living to fight another day. I'd say we were ready.'
***
She looked up at him. He was imposing enough when he was standing, his six foot two inch frame overpowering hers but now that she was sitting he was even more intimidating. She raised her eyebrows as the flush which had been rising up his neck worked its way onto his face. A shiver ran up her spine as she thought of what he was capable of doing.
'You let Mulwray and Pierce stop the other two,' he said calmly.
'I create the worlds, I control the thoughts of the people in them. I don't control the actions of the people who are not a part of those dimensions,' she said, trying not to sound like she was talking back to him too much. Of course she had let Lexa beat Jesse and of course she had let Brennan take out Shalimar. She was hardly going to give Charles an easy run of things. He was going to have to work a little harder to finish this assignment.
The slap sounded throughout the room as Handon's hand met Halle's cheek. She fell off of the chair she had been sitting on, her knees and hands slamming into the ground. Pain coursed through her face in silent waves and her hands were throbbing. She breathed quietly, not wanting to let him know that he had the upper hand. He did but Charles was like a rabid animal, he wouldn't let something go once he had a hold of it.
'What?' he said loudly. She turned around to see that he wasn't talking to her. He was speaking into his phone and he looked more than a little panicked. She frowned. Charles wasn't one to let his feelings show but she had a feeling that he was no longer in control of his facial muscles.
'I'll be right there,' he said managing to retain some of his self control as he saw her staring at him.
'Get them back,' he said quietly, the danger in his voice evident as he stormed from the room, slamming the door against the wall as he went.
She smiled, the cogs in her mind working overtime.
'Welcome back Lexa.'
***
He opened his eyes, the bright lights flooding into his eyes. He looked around him and then down to the restraints which kept him trapped in the chair he was currently in. He breathed deeply as he felt his body phase into nothingness. He stepped away from the chair and looked towards the blonde woman sitting next to him. He knelt down next to her and shook her gently till he saw some sign of life.
'Shalimar?'
'Yeah?' she replied after a pause in which she tried to wake up a little bit more.
'Why are we in the Helix?' he asked.
'We're in the Helix?' she answered, looking around her for the first time since she had been woken up. The last time she remembered being awake she had been walking into Brennan's room but even that was extremely blurry. It was like the last twenty four hours of her life were missing or something because all she could recall before that was being incredibly wasted. She smiled wryly as she realised that was the part she didn't want to be able to remember.
'Yeah Shal, but why?' Jesse pursued.
'Jess, I didn't even know we were in the Helix. What makes you think that I'll know why we're in here,' Shalimar pointed out as she noticed the restraints holding her arms to the chair. Jesse reached across and phased them so she could stand up. But as soon as she had stood up she was forced to lower herself back into the chair as a wave hit her. A wave of what she wasn't sure but everything that she had done over the past few hours came rushing back to her. As did the anger.
She turned to Jesse who was leaning against the wall of the Helix. His eyes flicked up to meet hers and they both smirked. Looking out of the window they both knew where they were. And what they had to do next.