Disclaimer: Still the same. Also OC, I own the character of Laily, Dasimah, and Goldstranger, aka Mari. I own them even though they are based on real people. Max and Gerald will show up later.

Sorry took so long on this chapter. Besides having to write the whole thing out, I also got addicted to watching Olympics! Even though this year they aren't that great.

A/N: Will thank all my reviewers at end of a few chapters, but not every chapter, and as always, will return the favor by reading your stuff as well!

Chapter 4: Train Conversation

It was a 45 minutes train ride from Singapore to Malaysia. Neither Jesse or Dasimah had slept during the ride. Jesse kept massing the area around the bullet to keep it from traveling to his heart and killing him. Only problem was every time he unmassed the area, the bullet would move. His only hope was trusting Dasimah, that her friend Laily, could help him get it out.

"Dasi?" Jesse said to get her attention. She had been staring out the train window for the last half-hour.

"What did you call me? No one calls me that. No one!"

"Sorry, didn't mean anything by it." said Jesse, realizing he had hit a nerve.

"No, I'm sorry, it's just that a friend used to call me that, and then she betrayed me." Dasimah said, once again looking out the train window, she appeared to Jesse to be reliving her past.

"OK, I know I asked before, but you shut me down," Jesse said as she turned to look at him him again, he could see a tear in her eye, putting his hand on hers he said, " do you want to talk about it."

Dasimah looked down at her hand, she didn't want to remove her hand, but had too, and had to keep reminding herself, not to look into his blue eyes. "Not sure, I mean I am not sure if you would believe me or not."

"Well, there's one way to find out." he said, again putting his hand on hers.

"OK, here goes then. About 6 years ago, as you already know, I was a member of Mutant X. Well it was me and," she paused and then said. " Do you already know who the other members were?"

"Yes, you, Mari Rosario, Max Laken, and Lexa Pierce." he said. He couldn't help but notice the flinch when he mentioned Lexa." Dasimah, what do you think Lexa did to betray you?"

"Think? No, I know what she did!" she said loud enough, that Jesse was happy that they were in that train-car alone. "She hurt me, in the most possible way!"

"Tell me what she did." implored Jesse.

"OK, three years ago, I was a member of Mutant X, and one night, Adam sent us out on a run to save some mutants, does he still do that? "

"Yes, but we had no idea he had another Mutant X before us."

"Adam and his secrets some things never change." she said with a smile. " Before I tell you what happened, I think you need a little background info on me. Adam and Eckhart manipulated my DNA when I was 2 months old. I know it was young, but my parents were rich, and I was dying."

"What? What was wrong with you?"

"I was borne prematurely, and my lungs were not fully developed. Over the month that I stayed in the hospital, my lungs grew a little, but not enough to keep me alive for long. So my dad called Mason Eckhart, his old college roommate, and asked him to see if he could do anything to save my life. So together with Adam, they turned me into a freak!"

The way she had just said that cut to the core of Jesse. It was exactly how he felt about himself, just before Adam and Shalimar rescued him, and he wanted so much to reach out to Dasimah, and tell her she wasn't a freak. " Dasimah, you are not a freak, you just have abilities others don't, that doesn't mean you are any less then them."

"Yeah, well tell that to my parents! After they got me back from Eckhart they were at first overjoyed that I was alive, then my abilities started showing and they started sending me away to boarding schools, they would only let me stay for about 6 months each time, then move me to another school, couldn't risk anyone finding out their daughter was a fr ......" she stopped as she looked at Jesse. Either he was very sensitive to her pain, or he some of his own. "Jesse? You OK?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, just .....our stories are so similar. My family did the same things. For the same reasons. I know how it must have made you feel, cause of how it made me ....makes me feel. I am sorry for the fact that you had to go through it."

"I'm sorry you had to go through it too," she said looking up at him. She had never met someone who understood her the way he did. "Where's the ladies room on this train?"

"Just outside our door, go about 3 doors down, and you will see a Neon sign, saying Ladies Room." he said, getting up to open the door for her.

"Thanks, I will be right back."

Jesse knew she didn't really have to go. She was just needed space. Her past mingled with whatever Lexa did, was very painful for her, he could see it in her eyes.

In the Ladies Room on the train .......

Dasimah walked into the ladies room and looked the door behind her. She opened her black-leather purse, she reached down for a tissue. She hopped up on the counter by the sink, a million thoughts running through her head.

Can I really trust him? I know he works with her, would he believe me? And if he does, what do I do then? And if he doesn't believe me, do I use my powers to convince him, or just leave it be? Or prove to him, I am telling the truth the old fashion way, by showing him the proof. Then he would have no choice but to hate her as much as I do.

Dasimah dries her eyes, and places the tissue back in her purse. Reaches to the bottom of her purse and pulls out a pack of gum, she took a stick of gum out and put it in her mouth. She had so missed chewing gum while she was in Singapore, she wasn't sure why chewing gum in Singapore was banned.

She reached again into her purse and pulled out a cell phone. She quickly dialed up a old friend, " Hi, Laily? Yeah it's me Dasimah."

"Hey girl, been awhile." said Laily.

"Hasn't been that long has it? "

"Long enough. So whats up?" cutting to the chase, had been months since Laily had heard from her friend, and knew it wasn't a social call, never was lately.

"Need a favor. I am on my way to Malaysia with a friend who has been shot, and need you do help him."

"What? Dasimah, I am only a med student. I can't do that!"

"Yes you can, look he's Molecular, so I can't just take him to the hospital.

"OK, I might can do this, I just finished my surgical rotation. But Dasimah, I am not confident I can do this."

"Well, your just going to have to try, cause I have no other choice. It's either you or he dies." Dasimah says with a little more anger and frustration than she meant to.

"Dasimah, why do you always drag me into these things?"

"Cause I know I can always count on you. Please??"

"Fine, but you have lots of explaining to do when you get here."

"Deal!" she said as she hung up. She placed her cell phone back at the bottom of her purse, slipping off the counter, she turned to face the mirror to make sure all signs of crying were gone. Satisfied that it was, she opened the door to return to Jesse.

Back in the room with Jesse .............

As Dasimah walked through the door, Jesse looked up and smiled at her, and she almost lost her resolve to tell him everything. Quit smiling at me, you are just too cute. His muscles are just so tight, oh, I think I need some of th......... her thoughts broken by the fact that Jesse was talking to her.

"Did you hear me?" he said with a smirk on his face, which made Dasimah think maybe he knew what she had been thinking.

"Hear what? hard to hear over noise from this train," she said. She finally realized he couldn't possible know what she was thinking, she was the Psionic not him.

"We are about a mile from Malaysia." he said a little louder.

"Oh, I hear you now, must have been cause we were just coming out of the tunnel back there," She said as she sat down next to Jesse. "You want some gum?"

"No thanks. You feel like continuing your story about what Lexa did?" asked Jesse as he once again placed his hand on hers. Her smacking gum was a little distracting, and got a little on his nerves. But she was young, what could he do?

"Actually I was telling you things leading up to it." She said with a sly smile. "But I will see if I can finish telling you before we make it to Malaysia. Well, let's see, I was 10 when my family finally gave up any hope of me being normal, and they called Eckhart to come get me. And he did ..." Her voice trailing,

Jesse grabbed her hand tighter. "I am sorry I am being such a baby, I thought I had put this all behind me."

"You never really put things like this totally behind you, but you learn to live with, and grow in spite of it. It does get easier I promise."

"Somehow, right now, I want to believe you, but I can't , at least not right now. Maybe later, after we get this bullet out of you, you can tell me your story."

"Sure, later though." he said, not wanting to delve into his story right now, cause right now, he wanted to hear about Dasimah, and her life, he had nearly forgotten that they had been talking about Lexa.

"Cool, can't wait." she said with a smile, one that should her softer side, but didn't betray her innocence at all. " Anyways, after Eckhart got me back, he placed a prototype of the sub-dermal governor in the base of my neck. Adam by that time had already separated from Eckhart, and he sent 2 members of the first Mutant X team, the same team I would later join, to rescue me."

"Which two?" he asked

"Mari Rosario and Lexa Pi......... oh my God, I had forgotten that till now. I had forgotten that Lexa helped save me from Eckhart." she said, her face drastically changing with the realization. Also looked more pained by the thought. "But that doesn't explain why she betrayed me later."

"Dasimah, what did Lexa do? You just realized that you had forgotten a key part of your past with her. What is her betrayal is also something other than what you think?"Jesse said, searching for away for himself to let go of the doubts he had about Lexa.

"OK, I admit I had forgotten that part, but I could never forget what she did to me!" she said, taking her hand away from Jesse, and standing up, and moving to the seat across from him.

"OK, than tell me. Please?" he gently begged her.

She looked into his eyes, and leaned her head back against her seat. He made it hard for her to think, and made it too easy for her to trust him. "After Adam rescued me from Eckhart, I joined Mutant X, and started training with Lexa, Mari, Max, and Gerald Alejandro..." before she finished her sentence Jesse cut her off.

"Wait! Those names, all of them were on a list of mutants who were working for the Dominion ."

"Yeah, and how to you think that happened? Adam had taken out the prototype, and I did well for awhile, but then he had to place a sub-dermal governor in me, to keep me from destroying myself. And he found a way. He had it all planned out. The night of the rescue mission we were on, after we returned he was going to do the procedure on me. But he never got the chance, and I never saw Adam again after that night."

What happened? Did something go wrong on th rescue mission?" asked Jesse.

"Yeah, something went wrong, we trusted Lexa! Everything was going as planned, we were at the location waiting for the new mutant to show up, when these men driving black cars did, they knew exactly where we were, and made I impossible for us to put up any real fight. So they took all of us ......to the Dominion !"

"Wait, how do you know Lexa had anything to do with that?"

"Cause after a few months at the Dominion, she came to me, and told me everything she had done, that there was no new mutant that night, and said she was sorry, but she did it for ........ I can't remember his name. But by the time she had betrayed me and Mutant X, she had been working for the Dominion for 2 months . She had been working behind Adam back!"

" I am sure she had a reason."

"What kinda reason? I mean what kind of excuse does she have for betraying her family?"

"I don't know, but ........." he was cut off by the sound of the engineer calling their stop was coming up. "We can talk about this later."

"How are you doing?" she asked Jesse, she had noticed several times when he would mass around the bullet him having trouble breathing and recovering from the strain.

"Yeah, I mean I've been better. You sure this friend can help us?"

Yes, Laily was my roommate a few years back, when I lived in Malaysia for about 2 months and I stayed with her, then moved to New York, for awhile, stayed with Mari for about a year, and left her about a month ago. Anyway, Laily can help you, I know she can."

"OK, we're going." Jesse was still struck by how much different she was from Emma, the only other Psionic he had known closely until now. Besides being Psionic, she had nothing in common with his dear friend. And he wanted to know more about her, heck he wanted to know everything about her.

Am I falling for her?

Read and review, plz. Let me know how I am doing and all suggestions are welcome .......as always!!! Already have next chapter mostly written, so not such a long wait this time. Thanks in advance for reviews. Will thank all at the end of next chapter.