Disclaimer: No owner of anything! I own everyone you don't know from the show, although Laily, Dasimah, and Mari are real people, Ariana is new and also based on a real cute little girl, who the real Mari really does babysit, lol. Luis is just mentioned once here in this chapter.
This is a very long chapter. But I had to get some of Lexa's past out here, and hope I did it well, and didn't overdo the flashbacks.
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Chapter 6: Some Things Never Change
"Dasi what are doing?" asked Lexa.
"Rewiring the computer system again. You mind giving me a hand here?"
"What's you need? "
"While I am working on these wires here, you think you could weld these right there to the panel here?"
"Sure, why are you rewiring the system?"
"Cause the system keeps overheating, creating a big problem. System gets too hot and it could explode, and we lose our lives, now get busy so we can eat lunch."
"Dasi, you sure you know what you are doing?"
"Don't I always? I have been the mechanic around since I came to join Mutant X, I know what I am doing."
"Did you study the floor plan to make sure you didn't hit the wrong wire?"
"What?" she said just as sparks flew out sending her flying across the situation room in Sanctuary, smacking the wall, making a sickening sound as she hit the wall.
"DASI!!" Lexa yelled bolting straight up in her bed. Her breathing was erratic. She looked around her room, the sun was just starting to shine through her bedroom window. She remember that day so clearly, though she thought she had put it behind her. Dasimah had almost died, but thanks to Adam's fast thinking she had lived. The older man had devised a way to re-route the currents that had charged Dasi's and force them to circulate better through her mutant electrical system.
It took Dasi two weeks to recover from that accident, but Lexa never did. She always felt like she had to protect all the members of Mutant X, cause she was oldest. But Dasi was special to Lexa, cause Dasi was the baby in the group, more like a little sister to Lexa, than a teammate.
Giving up on going back to sleep she decided she needed coffee. Getting out of bed, she stumbled down the hall to the kitchen. She still wasn't used to not living at Sanctuary. She was getting tired of moving from safe-house to safe-house.
She walked over to the coffee pot, and turned it on.
"Morning Lexa." said Brennan.
"Morning, your up early aren't you?"
"Yeah, can't sleep, thought I would go for run. What's your excuse?"
"Can't sleep either, was up late last night trying to find Mari, but gave up and went to bed about 2 hours ago."
"You mind if I ask you something?"
"Sure, why not?"
"I have wanted to ask since I first met you, but until now, you haven't really been approachable."
"Brennan, if you want an answer to something, don't insult before asking." she said turning her back to him.
"Sorry, I needed mean anything by that. I just wanted to know about the other members of the first Mutant X. You told us about Dasimah and Mari the other day. But what about the others?"
"What do you want to know?"
"Who were they and what powers did the possess?"
"OK, Max was a Feral Canine, wolf, not dog. And Gerald was a Telekinetic Psionic, he could move objects by will."
"Wow, you know we never knew there was a Mutant X before us. Well until we lost Emma and Adam anyway. And you showed up."
"Yeah, well knowing Adam, my team probably wasn't first either."
"Yeah your right. You think Adam is still alive. I mean you think that the Dominion would kill him?"
"No, the Creator made him to assist him in fixing the mistake he made in the genetic structure of mutants. They need him too much to kill him."
"We have to get him back, Lexa."
"I know, and we will as soon as we get a lead."
"OK, well I am going for a run, if you need me, you know how to reach me." he said holding up his right hand, his com-ring shining as the sunlight hit it.
"Well, at least you are using yours."
"What do you mean?"
"Jesse, he hasn't answered me in 2 days."
"He's undercover, maybe he can't. Don't worry, he will be in contact as soon as he can."
"Yeah, your right. Enjoy your run."
(((Flashback)))
"Dasi, should you be out of bed yet?"
"Yes, Adam said I could walk around today."
"Did he say you could do it alone?"
"No, and if start walking real fast, he will never know." she said with a smile.
"OK, let's walk then. You finish that book I gave you?"
"Yeah thanks. I love poetry. How did you know?"
"I didn't, but I thought since I liked it, that you might."
"Well, you were right. Made my time in bed go by faster."
"So you feeling back to your old self?"
"Not completely, but Adam said getting out walking around would help me recover faster. Hold up, I need to rest a sec." she said as she leaned against the wall, visibly out of breath.
"You OK, I can help you back to bed."
"No, I've spent too much time in bed the last week or so. Let me just catch my breathe."
"OK, but when you do, we need to walk in the direction of your bed."
"Yes, mom." Dasi said rolling her eyes. Making Lexa laugh out loud.
"I'll get you some water, be right back." said Lexa as she turned to walk around the corner into the kitchen. She went in and took a glass down from the shelf and walked over to the refrigerator to get some ice. After getting ice, she walked over to the sink and filled it up with water. Coming around the corner, her eyes caught a glimpse of Dasi laying in the floor, unconscious. Her heart felt like it was pounding out of her chest, but the world had stopped moving. Her glass leaving her hand, shattering into a million pieces.
Shalimar walks down the hall of the safe house the team had been staying at for the last 3 days. And by the end of the week, they would be moving to another one. She missed Sanctuary, and more importantly she missed Adam, even though she was mad at him for faking his death, she missed her surrogate father. She hadn't really stopped to think about all the things that had gone down in the last two months and a half since Sanctuary was destroyed. It turned out Adam was a clone, and his whole life had been planned.
I can only imagine what must be going through Adam's mind right now. Must be similar to how I feel, cause if Adam's life was planned, so was mine. The Creator is one sick bas... her thoughts broken by the sound of breaking glass coming the area of the kitchen, and she took off running in that direction.
When Shalimar reached the kitchen she found Lexa there picking up the broken glass. "Lexa? You OK?"
"Yeah, just clumsy this morning. Was trying to heat up milk for you." Lexa said as she looked up at the Feral.
" Thanks." Shalimar said kneeling down to help pick up the glass."You get any sleep last night?" She couldn't help but wonder why Lexa was going out of way to be nice. She had been like that ever since the night Sanctuary was destroyed.
" A little, like two hours. I was up all night on the computer trying to locate Mari. According to records she wasn't in Singapore very long, only about half a day. After that her trail is as cold as ice."
"Didn't you say before that she lived in New York?"
"Yes, but the address I had for her was an old address. Right now it's a wait and see for her to pop up. Cause right now, she may be the only one who can tell us what Dasimah is up too."
"You know I hate to pry, but I noticed the other day when you were talking about Dasimah, there was something you didn't say. Did something happen between you two?"
"Shal, that really none of your business." Lexa said more harshly then she meant it. "I'm sorry I didn't mean ....."
"It's OK, I understand. But for your sake, it better not be something to comes back to bite us later." Shal said as she turned to leave the room. Turning back she said, "Look, if you ever need to talk, I'm here." and left the room.
Why are these memories still so fresh, and why do they seem like they just happened yesterday? Dasi was fine after that, silly thing just got tired and passed out, but I was scared out of my mind then, and even now. She meant so much to me......
(((Flashback)))
"Lexa, hurry up. Your going to make us late for the movie." a 13 year old Dasimah yelled.
"I'm coming, hold your horses." Lexa yelled back. "It's not like it the first time!"
She said exited her bedroom. She walked down the hall into the situation room to find Mari, Dasimah,Gerald, and Max waiting for her.
"Yeah, but do you have to be the one that makes us late every time?" Gerald asked obviously pissed. "If you keep this up, we will go without you!" he said as he left the room. "Let's go already!"
In the car on the way to movie.......
"Lexa? Why does it always take you 20 minutes to get ready?" asked Mari.
"Cause, she has a crush on the concession stand guy, what's his name? David?"
"Shut up! I do not!" she said laughing.
"Yeah, well, he likes you!" said Max. He hated these conversations between the girls, but they were like sisters to him.
"How do you know?"
"Hello .. Feral! I can smell it." he said as he and the girls busted out laughing. It must have been contagious, cause even though he was still mad, Gerald started laughing too.
(((End of Flashback)))
"Lexa!" yelled Brennan, grabbing her hands. Lexa looked down and realized that she was about to place her hand on the fire on top of the stove. "You OK?"
"Yeah, thanks. Just not paying attention."
"Yeah, well you better be glad I came back from my job when I did. Where were you when I came in? You looked like you were a hundred miles away."
"I was."
"You want to talk about it?"
"You remember when you joined Mutant X?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Did you feel like you had finally found your home?"
"Yeah, eventually anyway, was hard at first. But not only did I find that I had a home, but I found that I had a family too."
"Yes, that's how it felt for me, years ago. And maybe even a little now. When I was apart of the first Mutant X. We had our missions and everything, but we were a family." she said as a single tear rolled down her cheek. Brennan took her in his arms and held her.
(((Flashback)))
"Lexa, it's not the end of the world. There will be other guys." Max said as he sat on the end of Lexa's bed, as she laid there crying. Lexa sat up and slide her self to the end of the bed, "I know, I have no idea why I am crying over him."
"Me either, wasn't that great looking. Unlike me, of course!" he said, making Lexa laugh out loud. "Hey! Was it something I said?"
"Yeah, but thanks. I needed to laugh."
"I was serious!"
Lexa leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. "Is there any dinner left?"
"Food? Hey that reminds me, I haven't eaten dinner yet. It would just be me and you."
"Cool, let's go!"
(((End of Flashback)))
"Lexa?" said Brennan pulling away. "You OK?"
"Yeah, just memories."
"You want to talk ...." he was interrupted by a peeping sound coming from Lexa laptop. "What the heck is that?"
"I got mail," said Lexa walking around Brennan to get to her laptop. Looking at her e-mail she said, " I have to go, I just located Mari."
"Need any help?" asked Brennan.
"No this is something I have to do on my own."
Driving down some street in Seattle, Lexa was nervous. She hadn't seen Mari in 4 years, and the last time they were together was the night Lexa betrayed the team. She was worried about how Mari would react, and wonder if she should avoid telling her at all.
But she knew that if the occasion arose that Mari and Dasi came together, that Dasi wouldn't hesitate to tell Mari. She hated remembering that day, remembering what she did.........
(((Flashback)))
"Dasi, you go around back, Max, you go up on the roof, and come in through here," Lexa said pointing at the map. "Mari, you come in through the side door here. Gerald, your with me, we will go in the front, and take out the guards here and here. We meet here!"
"Got it!" Dasi, Max and Gerald said in unison.
"Yea, me too. Let's go!" said Mari.
As Lexa entered the warehouse, she took out the two guards to her left, and Gerald took out the last one to her right. "Next time leave me more!" he said jokingly.
"Yeah, next time."
"Wait!" Gerald said holding up his hand. "Move over there behind those crates, someones coming."
They both hide behind the pile of crates to Lexa's left. As the guard entered the room, Lexa held up her hand ready to strike him, but Gerald stopped her, "Let me." he whispered. Then he focused on some boxes up stacked up behind the guard, concentrating, he slowly used his telekinetic power, slowly lifting one of the boxes that was on top, and moving slowly to the left of the stack, and right over the guard, releasing the box. The guard fell to the floor unconscious. "See, I can do it, if you let me!" he said aggravated. He was tired of being treated like he couldn't help on these missions.
"Fine, let's go!"
"Shouldn't we wait till we hear from the others, that they are in?"
"If they have trouble getting in, then we will hear from them, not the other way around."
"OK, then let's get to our meeting spot then shall we?"
"Yes, let's!"
20 minutes later at the assigned destination point ........
All five members of Mutant X made it to the assigned meeting point with only a few minor bumps and bruises. "OK, Lexa where do we go now?" asked Dasi. This was her first mission since getting hurt at Sanctuary, and she was in a hurry to kick some more butt.
"This way!" she said, and they all headed down a very long hallway, it was poorly lit, so they couldn't see the end of the hallway clearly. "Wait!" Max said, his Canine Feral senses kicking in. " We aren't going the right way, this hall is a dead end."
"According to the map, there is a door."
"Well maybe you have a old map, buildings change you know."
"It is a new map!"
"OK, fine you continue going this way, I am going this way!" he said pointing behind him, back the way they came. "Hold it! Someone coming!"
"And we have no where to hide!" said Dasi, "Looks like we are going to have to fight our ways out." Her happiness over getting the chance to kick butt was short lived, when about 50 GSA armed soldiers turned the corner. "What the he..."
"Put you hands up!!!" the soldier in front yelled. The Mutant X team had no choice, they were outnumbered. 10 soldiers came forth knocking each mutant to the floor, putting sub-dermal governors into the bass of their necks. "Let's move out men!"
Each mutant was hulled to their feet, and forced to march out the door with the soldiers.
What the other 4 members didn't know, was that Lexa wasn't wearing a sub-dermal governor. And as they were put into the van, they came face to face with the man that they had been fighting against, Mason Eckhart!
(((End of Flashback)))
Sitting in the car, she knew that when she entered that apartment and told Mari, that her friend would never forgive her. Lexa opened the door to her car, and got out. Slowly making her way into the apartment building. She walked through the lobby and got into the elevator going up 16 floors.
(((Flashback)))
After 2 weeks being prodded by Eckhart, Lexa had enough, and broke free, and ran away, but it wasn't long till the GSA found her and returned her to Eckhart. He showed her what the consequences were for attempting to run, he inserted a remote-controlled sub-dermal governor into the based of her neck, so she would be his little puppet.
Six months went by before Adam was able to locate the Mutant X team, and rescue them. The people he sent to rescue them, took them to a lab to have their governors removed, but they weren't able to get Lexa's out, so they deactivated it instead.
But what Adam hadn't counted on was those people he had trusted, had plans of their own. The offered Lexa a choice, one she couldn't refuse. If she came to work for them, they would help her find her brother, Leo. And so to find her twin, she did the only thing she could do, she betrayed Mutant X a second time. She handed them over to ......the Dominion!
She lied and convinced all her teammates that working for the Dominion would save more lives than working for Adam ever would. Secretly she wanted to believe that was true, but knew in her heart it wasn't. But it was for Leo, it was always about Leo.
(((End of Flashback)))
As Lexa stepped out the elevator, she took a deep breathe before knocking on the door of room 1014. She heard the television go off, and then she heard shuffling of feet coming toward the door. "Coming! ........Ye ..Lexa!"
"Hey, Mari, can I come in?"
"It's been years since I've seen you. Of course you can come in! Can I get a hug?"
"Sure." Lexa said hugging her friend, and after the embrace was over, Mari moved aside to let Lexa come in.
"Excuse the mess. I've been babysitting my little sister, she two, and not very neat!" she said jokingly.
"No, problem. What's her name?"
"Ariana. My mom took her to Puerto Rico this morning for a vacation. So how have you been?"
"Good, believe it or not I am back with Mutant X."
"Are you serious, Adam has a new crew?"
"Serious, though Adam isn't in charge at the moment."
"Who is?"
"No one! Adam was kidnapped a;most 3 months ago, and we haven't gotten him back yet. You would have been shocked, Adam is actually a clone!"
"What? Who would want to clone him?" she said laughing out loud.
"Apparently this Creator guy, cloned himself to have someone to work on the genetic structure with."
"The things I miss! I always miss the good stuff."
"So how have you been doing?"
"Good, I'm not with the Dominion anymore. I believe it or not got out after my last assignment was over."
"Why?"
"Because, I didn't trust them. Don't think I ever did."
"Me either, not fully anyway. I got out about a month ago. I've been working with Mutant X for a year now, but for 11 of those months, I was still employed by the Dominion."
"You didn't betray them did you?"
"What?"
"I'm sorry, but we both know you did years ago."
"You knew?"
"Not for sure, not until I caught up with Max last year. He said he felt something off with you that night, even before we left Sanctuary. I had my suspicions but never knew for sure. Why did you do it, Lexa?"
"There isn't a really good explanation for what I did. But, I had a brother, Leo. A twin actually. I talked him into getting treatment for his mutation so we could live normal lives. But .. I trusted the wrong people with my brother."
"Who?"
"Adam and Mason Eckhart!"
"Oh, what happened to your brother?"
"Well, Mason did all sorts of experiments on him, Leo was a molecular who was able to shift his mass to appear like other people, not all people, just ones he created. He escaped after 6 months, and I searched for him for 3 years. The night at the warehouse GSA knew that I had made a deal with Mason to find Leo, so they didn't hurt me. But then the Dominion saved us, and I was offered the same deal, work for them, and find Leo."
"So that's why you did what you did? I have to admit, ever since I realized it was you who betrayed us that night, I have hated you. But knowing the truth now. I have a brother too, Luie, remember him?"
"Yes, younger than you right? "
"Yeah, he's 15. I would betray friends to save him. And believe me his butt needs saving a lot. So believe me when I say I understand. Of course I would have to, seeing as how I am the only mutant in the family." she said laughing.
"Yeah, that means you are super-sister!"
"Yeah, so not that it isn't nice to see you, which it is. But is there a reason you are here?"
"Dasi!"
"Oh, haven't seen her!"
"Mari, Jesse told me about the note."
"Damn, if I had known you were a member of Mutant X again, I wouldn't have signed the note!"
"Well you did, so tell me what Dasi is up too!"
"She isn't doing anything on her own. Her governor, the one inserted the night of the warehouse incident, we were told it could be removed, and was deactivated, remember?"
"No, I was told hers was removed."
"Well, it wasn't. 2 weeks ago, she was staying with me at my New York apartment, her eyes went white-like, and she walked out! She was reactivated!"
"Not again."
"Again?"
"Mine was reactivated 3 months ago. But Jesse and Adam as able to remove it."
"Well, if they catch Dasi maybe Jesse can do it again."
"Maybe. Do you have any idea what she was reactivated to do?"
"She was given a metal case with a gun and 4 vials of GX81."
"GX81?"
"It is a chemical, the bullets of the guns are dipped in it. And when fired at a mutant turns there powers against them, killing them in 72 hours. Normally it used to force a mutant to do what the Dominion wants."
"How do you know all this?"
"Because I made GX81. I had no way of knowing it would be used on innocent mutants. I was told it was to be used on fugitive mutants you were doing bad things with their power. If I had known I would have never made it. Or let them have it."
"I know, the Dominion has a way of not telling the whole truth. I need you to come back with me, to help me stop Dasi."
"Back were?"
"Seattle, Sanctuary was destroyed 2 months ago, so Mutant X is living in a safe-house now."
"Lexa, I can't. I'm sorry but that's not my life anymore."
"Mari, you are the only one who knows about this GX81, which means you are the only one who knows how to make a serum to counteract the affects of this drug, right?"
"Right, I do know how to make the serum. But, the only way I will come with you, is if you promise I am not going to be forced to go on a mission, if I go it's my choice!"
"Deal, all I need you do it make the serum!"
"OK, let me pack a bag. It will be fun being a member of Mutant X again." she said walking to the closet and picking up a duffel bag that was already packed.
"OK, let's go!"
"Wait! Why are you already to leave?" pointed at the duffel bag.
"Cause I never unpack anymore. Never know when I will need to run," she said. "Will I get along with the new members of Mutant X?"
"Yes, as long as you tell them the truth, and don't hide things from them!" she said walking to the door to open it for Mari. "Trust me, I learned the hard way, not to lie to them."
That's it for now, that was a very long chapter. The next probably will not be this long, but I had to get some of Lexa's past out here.
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