I do not own Mutant X, or anything related to it.
Sorry it took me so long, i have had a million things going on, projects, trying to get my friend out of her house with out having a big deal over it. Let me tell you, you never want to upset a mother that doesn't want her daughter to move out, expecially if she knows you, for the longest time i feared that, that mother was going to come get me, and ask me where her daughter was. Well with out making you want any longer, here is the next chapter, sorry it took so long.
Chapter 3
Mutant X didn't go to the warehouse. Jesse was regretting it but he knew that he did the right thing.
Cat was hanging against a wall. Genomex agents had expected Adam's mutants to show up to save her but either they didn't know or were warned. That was why Cat was being beaten.
Cat's past flashed behind her closed eyes. She saw her father take her to the basement and chain her up. He would whip her and smack you. You would never hear the whip or other things that were hitting her back. The Basement was sound proof. She stopped screaming from the pain a long time ago. He started the beating when her mother left them. He probably would have taken her younger sister, but she felt she needed to protect her. So Cat took the beatings everyday, for her sister. Her back was covered with scares that were again once again being opened after being closed for six years. After 6 months of her fathers beatings she could block the pain from her mind, but now after six years she had forgotten how back it hurt.
SanctuaryAdam called Jesse into the lab to talk to him.
"Yea, what is up?" Jesse asked him as he walked in.
"Catheren you knew her before she was 16 correct?"
"Yea, why?"
"She has scares on her back that would indicate a whip and fire or possibly hot metal hit it. Do you know anything about it?"
"Yea."
"Could you tell me?"
"When she was 11 her mother left. Her father became violent and would take his frustrations out on her. She would take her sister's punishments everyday along with hers. He would whip her; hit her with chairs, metal, or hot metal all to teach her a lesson. She would come to my house after the beats and I would help her clean them up."
"And no one heard this happening?"
"No, their basement was sound proof even in he house you couldn't hear it happening. It was his way of teaching her the lessons she should know. He worked for the military which had taught him the ways of tortured. First hitting (beating) next fire, then ice, then noise. After the third people usually out crack. The noise usually didn't occur. But Cat would never crack for him, no matter how hard he tried. At 11 and a half she stopped screaming even though he had started hitting her harder. He would have used electricity but he didn't have it. He would starve her for weeks sometimes. It was sometimes to bad that she would be almost hospitalized."
"That man was in the military, why would they teach anyone those things?"
"That was his job in the military. He tortured the people they caught. After that they discharged him because he got so much fun out of it. Then he met Cat's mom, had Cat six years later had her younger daughter. When Cat was 11 her mom left, her father became violent, he stopped the violence when he had met his wife, now she was gone and on one could stop him."
"Why didn't they lock him up?"
"He wasn't all that violent until he lost his wife. Then everyday after she turned 11 her dad had a plan for her. He had heard about what Genomex said they were dong and decided that he wanted to have Cat be part of it. So everyday before the beatings she would be taken to Genomex for tests and stuff."
"How o you know this Jesse?"
"I followed her one day, she told me about her beatings, but I didn't know what she did before them. She never told me. I would ask and be told that she couldn't talk about it. So one day I followed her there. Ghosted through the walls and stayed out of sight. I watched what you and your lab mates did to her."
"Jesse I wasn't present when they were working on her. Ashlocke was my patient. All I did was help them understand what her body was going through. Don't get mad at me, please, Jesse."
"I am not, it was just all the tests and all the stuff that she went through. I just get upset when I see things happen to her. I was her only friend and she was mine. We trusted each other with our lives. Some days she would come over after the beatings and she would collapse on my bed and start shivering from exhaustion. When I put a blanket on her, I touched her she was frozen. Adam not even holding ice or something from a freezer is as cold as she was."
"I am sorry Jesse. I don't know any of the things that they did to her. They just had me look at the blood work. She started going to Genomex when she was a little younger but her powers started showing up at 11 and she was going to get a check up when she was 14. When she turned 15 people started experimenting on her to see the extent of her powers. I remember one of the scientists tell me about a girl that was the most powerful new mutant they had seen. But it is getting late and maybe you should go get some sleep."
"Yea, you're right I am really tired, see you tomorrow."
Jesse went to his room, and got changed into his sleeping clothes. He climbed into his bed and went to sleep. Immediately as he fell asleep her was with Catheren who was lying on her stomach. Jesse saw the marks on her back.
"Jesse was torn from his thoughts by Catheren.
"Jess."
"Cat what the hell happened?"
"You didn't show. They were waiting, but your team didn't show up. You got the message?"
"I didn't think that was real. I told them about it though."
"I am glad, Jesse that would have happened if you did go, if I didn't show it to you. I am glad you listened to me."
"How do I know this is real?"
"When we were like six, I think and my mother told he that she was going to have a little girl I ran to your house and told you. I knocked on your door; your mom answered and said that you were still sleeping. She let me in and I ran up to your room. I jumped on your bed and woke you up. You were very tired. But when I told you, woke-up immediately and started jumping on your bed with me. But then we both fell off, but I landed on top of you. And we laughed."
"I remember you doing that, and I remember the bruise that I had on my back from it. I forgot all about it."
"There is no power in the world that can bring back someone's memories, they can hide them or show them, but if you forget they cannot find it there. I didn't even tell my parent that I did that. I told no one about it."
"I didn't either, even when my mom came in and asked what the loud thud was."
"That is why this is reality, well, this is real, you are not kidnapped and you wont be for awhile, until I see good out come don't let Adam have you come to rescue me. You don't know where I am and I wont tell you either."
"Before when you were in my head you were showing me the future. But now is this what will happen to you?"
"No this is happening to me now. I just knew I had to convince you that you weren't kidnapped I could feel your doubt. I had to tell you that you were safe at your new home."
"But what about you. You are hurt. Why?"
"They think that I know where Sanctuary is. They wont take no for an answer."
"Do you know?"
"Yes, but only because Adam had told me about it once before he left Genomex. He felt so bad for what had happened to Ashlocke and me that he came down, to the pods to say good-bye and sorry. He told us will me that he was going to his favorite. Which was when I got a hit off of him. It was the head quarters of Mutant X in the mountain side."
"We have to get out of there. Where ever you are. You are hurt." Jesse said with so much passion in his voice. It sounded like her was going to start crying.
"Not yet Jesse. You cannot get catch. If you do then I have to worry about you getting hurt. I cannot stand having you hurt Jess because of me. You need to listen to me. If you don't then you will be hurt badly, your whole team will. I've seen it. I will make you forget about most of the conversation if you start you start to come her. Trust me I can."
"I want to help you "
"You will but not at the moment. Promise me you wont come for me yet" Jesse didn't Answer. "Jesse promise me."
"Fine I guess I wont right now but I will when you tell me to okay."
"That's fine. I have to go though. I will talk to you soon."
"Why do you have to go?"
"Someone is coming and …well…you don't want to watch."
"Who says?"
"Well I know how hard it was the first time you went through it. I don't want to put you through it again."
"I am staying, you cannot make me go. I want you to know that. Let me see how to get you out of here."
"Fine while you are here my mind will let you go through the building so you can know the lay out. Okay."
"Good."
"What ever you do don't go into the bright light where you cannot see anything beyond or you will be out of my mind okay."
"Got it."
"The darkness. I don't want you to go into either. You wont like it there okay."
"Okay." He said with a questioning tone in his voice.
The guard came in and took Catheren and brought her into a room. Jesse didn't follow. He did what he was told to. He looked around the holding area. He saw the bright light but believed that Catheren's warning was true. So he didn't bother to enter the rooms with the bright lights. But h wanted to with the darkness. He didn't know where Cat went know. But the darkness was calling to him. He knew that if he wanted he could easily remember the lay out. He had a memory like that. He went around the center and knew were everything was, except what the darkness hide from him. It was the only in one area though. He hadn't seen Cat anywhere or heard her. He found the door to the outside, but since Cat said not to go into the bright light he didn't go out and look around. Every night Jesse would be looking around the building. One day he got a little clumsy and tripped on something. He fell into the darkness. Finally when his eyes adjusted to the dark, he looked around, he heard voices, then a scream.
"Cat!!!" Jesse yelled as he recognized the scream
She probably couldn't hear him but he defiantly heard her. When he finally got to where the scream came from he had heard it three more times. He looked through the window in the observation room. Nobody could see him for he really wasn't there. He looked and saw Cat suspended in midair. Some mutant was holding her there while Ashlocke and Mason questioned her.
"Where is Mutant X's head quarters?" Eckhart asked
She didn't answer.
"You know you cannot hold out on us forever, right?"
"I can hold out for as long as you do this. I don't know anything about the head quarters."
"Sure you don't. We will see about that one." Ashlocke said
Jesse couldn't peel himself away from what he saw, his best friend being hurt, because of him, because of Mutant X. He wanted to go in there and help her but he couldn't. He really wasn't there. She was. She told him not to go into the darkness because she didn't want him to see her like this.
When Jesse woke-up. He knocked Shalimar off of his bed.
"Calm down. Will you?" Shal said
"Why are you here?"
"You screamed bloody murder. I came in and you looked scared so I stayed. Do you want to talk about it?"
"I need to talk to everyone at once if I am going to tell anyone."
"Ok, I will wake everyone up that didn't go back to bed after your scream."
"Wait…what do you mean?"
"When you yelled you woke everybody up. They all came to your door by the time I had opened it. I told them I would check on you. So either they are all still out there or they went to back to bed."
With that said Shalimar left. Telling Jesse to change and meet them near the dojo.
When Jesse got there everyone was up despite the late hour. Jesse told them about what happened. About them holding Cat in a base and for the last two weeks he had been walking around it in his dreams. He left out the part about the beatings and the first conversation he had with her. Well at least the beginning of it.
"That doesn't explain why you screamed." Brennan said just before he yawned.
"You are leaving something out Jess if you want us to be able to help you, you have to tell us everything." Emma added
"I am not leaving anything out." Jesse said
"Don't lie to me Jesse I can feel it. You cannot hide a lot form me but you are. Tell us what it is please." Emma said
"Jesse we need to know if we are to know and understand what happened this morning." Adam added
"Fine. When I first went there I was in her room, cell. Her back was bleeding. I felt like I was 11 again when she had first come to me I wasn't there and I found her on my bed asleep." Nobody understood what he was talking about but Adam. He was glad, he didn't want everyone to understand what he was going through. But he knew that they had to know. "She also warned me. She told me that I could look about but I couldn't go in the bright lights, I would be back in my own head. Then she told me not to go into the darkness. She didn't really explain that one. Tonight I pretty much knew where everything was. But for all the times they had taken her she was never anywhere to be seen. The darkness was on my side and I tripped over something when my eyes finally adjusted I saw what I had seen years ago."
"And that would be what Jesse?" Shal asked
"Catheren being beaten." There was a long silence nobody knew what to say. They didn't know what it felt like to have that happen to see that happen.
A/N: Tell me what you think, if i get one review i will up date sooner than if i don't get any. I have to other chapters already uploaded i just need the reviews for them.