Disclaimer: Don't own the characters of Mutant X or Wolf Lake. They belong to their smarter than me creators. The only person I own is Miranda. And the mystery man, may or may not belong to me.

For anybody who didn't already know this, this story takes place in Season 2 of Mutant X and towards the end of Wolf Lake, which only had one season unfortunately.

This is the first of 2 longer chapters. They are longest chapters to date, and hopefully I will get more comfortable making longer chapters. But for now, I just write what I know works for me, and practice the rest,lol.

Note Shal's memory of her first meeting with Jesse, comes from another author, Goldstranger. If you like the little bit I used you should read her story Impressions.

Chapter 5: Emma, Brennan, Shal & Danger.

Miranda walks in to a dimly lit room. She was wearing a black short- sleeve dress. The room was very cold. It was the way he liked it. She knew he wanted to talk to her about something. Sometimes he scared her. She looked around the room, candles were lit, but not enough to give any light. There were black curtains on the windows, and that was were she found him. By the windows looking out.

"There you are, I sent for you 3 hours ago." he said, sounding slightly irritated.

"Sorry had a few errands to run, but I am here now."

"Oh well , I guess that will have to do. I have something I need your help in doing."

"Name it. You know I will do anything for you, my love."

" Pick one of the others to go on a mission." he said, trying to pretend he believed her. That wasn't difficult, she was a fool, just like the others.

"A mission, what kind of mission?"

"Don't ask too many questions my pet. Just know that I am going to rip the Mutant X team apart."

"How are you going to do that?"

" I told you not to ask to many questions. But since I am in a generous mood. I am going to take away the heart of the team, and stand back and watch the little tower, that is Mutant X, fall right on top of Adam Kane's head. And in the process, break the little kitten's heart."

"Oh so this is about her."

"No this is about revenge!"

" You and I both know it is about more than revenge. It's about Shalimar F...."

Before she even got the whole name out, he slapped her across the face. " I thought I told you to never question me!"

"Ok I will chose one of the others," she said has she whipped the blood that was trickling out of her busted lip." Will this person be returning?"

"No."

"Then let it be Aaron."

"Ok, send for him, and I will give him his orders."

Sometimes he scared her. But the only thing more cold then his heart, was....hers. Over the past couple of months since she met him, he had been very controling. In the beginning, it wasn't like this. He was gentle, kind, and he had invited her into hid world. She met others like herself. He had asked her to help him fight against the man who had created them. She was all for it. She wanted to destroy Adam Kane. It became apparent to her in time that while she was fighting for him, he was secretly trying to get even with someone else....and that made her very angry. She loved him, and he loved her.....Shalmar Fox.



"Emma, are you sure you want to do this?" asked Shalimar.

"Yes, I have to know whether Jesse is alright or not."

"Ok, well me and Brennan are ready if you are."

"Ok hold up, first I didn't say I was ready. I just want to go on record here, if we do this, and it turns out Jesse is fine. I am gonna to beat him up." Brennan's out burst earned him a smile from both girls. They knew that Brennan was as worried about their young friend as they were.

"Ok Shal, I need you right here in front of me on the bed, and Brennan, need you to sit behind me on the bed, with your arms around me,"

"Oh great, me and two beautiful girls in the same bed and the only action I'm getting is a safety net, Life is not fair." Brennan said as Emma playfully jabbed in the ribs.

"OK, Shal need you to close you eyes and think about the first time you met Jesse."

"Ok, that should be easy..." Shalimar's words drifted into Emma's mind as the Psionic slowly opened up her mind to the emotions behind the Feral's first memory. "He was 14, I was 15. Adam took me with him when we went to pick him up. He thought having another mutant there would help ease Jesse. What it did was give me a chance to see how and where Jesse came from, gave me a chance to change his views on being a mutant... gave me the best friend I've ever had." A small smile plays on Shalimar's lips. "Unfortunately my curious feral side went snooping around the place, I got hurt. Jesse came out of this office where he had been hiding. He helped me up and phased us both through the door just in time..."

"Ok that's good Shal, now think about a time when you were mad at Jesse." Emma let her mental walls down once again feeling the harsh emotion coming from this memory.

"Well... there was a time before you guys joined. It was just Jesse and me here at Sanctuary. We had this thing we did every weekend. We went motorcycle racing. Jesse wasn't in to it all that much and he didn't want to go, but I talked him into it. Well out of massive guilt one day he let it slip to Adam what we where doing and Adam took my keys away for a month. I didn't talk to Jesse for 2 weeks!"

"Ok this time I need you to think about a time when you were worried about Jesse." With this memory Emma was seeing everything:

"At 18 years old Jesse was still awkward about his powers, one time they were out of control and out of anger to Adam, Jesse went to see a doctor to see what was wrong with him. He didn't know at the time but the doctor he went to see was an Genome X employee. They took him, and held Jesse for months. Adam with all his contacts tried everything to get him out of that place. Those people kept him in a POD almost the entire time, the only time they let him out was so they could run tests on him, you can only imagine how bad it was for Jess. When Adam finally got his location, a friend and I went and got him out of there, he looked so weak and helpless..."

The whole time Shalimar was talking, Emma worked on opening herself up even more, trying to calm her nerves at the amount of emotions that she would be letting in as well as out. Her mental walls were about to be let down in full, reaching beyond her comfort zone.

"Ok Shal I need you to keep going, to keep Jesse strong in your mind. Brennan, I need you to do the same, your strength is helping a lot." By using Shalimar's memory, and Brennan's strength to guide her to their missing teammate, family member, Emma was able to relieve every emotion through the words being spoken as well as the images. At times it felt as if they would swallow her whole, but she knew she couldn't quit.

"I'm right here Em, not going anywhere," Brennan said as he glanced at Shalimar, watching as her breathing grew painfully shallow, revealing that not all of the memories were of happy times, as he once thought. He knew that Shal and Jesse had been together long before he and Emma joined Mutant X. But now he knew that there bond ran deeper.

"Ok. I'm ready." Emma says as she takes a deep breath, pushing against the stray emotions that were coming at her. It took her a while to do so. "Emma are you seeing anything yet?" says Brennan impatiently.

"Yes... Jess is at a diner eating."

"I'm worried about him, and he is eating. That is just great." "But... he's worried about something. A girl. "

"A girl... he's worried about a girl, not surprising."

"Wait... Oh my God." Emma gasped against the pain that had assaulted the psionic her eyes flew open. "It wasn't supposed to happen."

"What?" asked Shal.

"I heard a girl scream. When I opened myself up opened up, not only can I feel emotions but I can hear... feel all the pain around where Jesse is, and I heard her scream."

"Ok, so what does that mean?"

"It means I heard her scream, while I was in Jesse's head. It means he heard it too."

"Emma, a scream could mean anything from..." Brennan began but was cut off.

"No, it's not what you think... I need to go back, Jesse was worried about something."

"Its your call Emm."

"Ok..." Emma closed her eyes as her friends took their positions. Emma once again asked Shalimar and Brennan to hold Jesse's image strongly in their minds. She drew on that. "I can see... Jesse... sitting next to a girl... and they are laughing and talking... This is the girl I heard scream a while ago. And Jesse isn't worried anymore."

"Great, we're going out of our minds here and he's on a date."

"Wait... Something is wrong... I feel someone watching Jesse and the girl... He's jealous. But there is something more... Panic or... It is really strong. It is coming from a distance, and moving fast."

"Can you see them?" Shalimar took in the change in Emma's breathing her feature looked as if she was in pain.

"No, but I can try to get in their head... He is in a car, speeding... turning the curb and heading straight for... a diner. No, oh my God no. NO!!!!!" screamed Emma as her connection was violently broken.

"Emma what happened?" asked Shal and Brennan at same time. Brennan was holding Emma helping her to steady herself for the Psionic was now shaking.

"He plowed into the diner!"

"The diner that..." said Shal.

"It was same diner Jesse was in. For a second I could see through the driver's eyes. I saw the car enter the diner, and I saw the car hit Jesse." Emma was frantic as she recalled what she had just witnessed.

"What? Well is he ok?" Shalimar leaned forward looking into Emma's blue eyes. "Emma."

"No, Shal... I can't feel Jesse anymore. He's.... dead."

Ok this is where you cuss me and review. Next chapter coming soon.