Chapter 3- Jesse is Loved

Shalimar was getting ready to leave when she saw Adam, Emma and Brennan standing in front of her, Brennan carrying Jesse.

"I thought you guys were gone," she said confused. Adam looked around, eyes wide and unreadable. Brennan shifted under Jesse's weight and grunted, "okay i can't hold him anymore."

"Set him down on the chair," Adam instructed. As Brennan set him down, he said loud enough for everyone to hear, "enough tai food for you for a while I guess." Shalimar looked at Adam for an explaination.

"I have no idea how we ended up back here. But I do know that we have to help Jesse or else...." Adam let the sentence trail off to silence.

"First we want answers," Brennan said, "who is this Erica Ramaroe person and why is she does she want Jesse?" Adam sighed and knew he wasn't gonna worm his way out of this easily.

"Okay I'll tell you," Adam sighed again, "Erica Ramaroe is an old colleage of mine who was obssessed with poisons and chemicals and such. She doesn't care if she hurts people or what happens to them after injecting them with one of her posions."

"So what does this have to do with Jesse?" Shalimar asked as she and Emma tied the unconcious Erica.

"Well if I remember correctly, Erica is Jesse's aunt," was the reply.

Shalimar slipped and the rope got tangled in her fingers. Emma looked up at Adam and her look was so saddening, Adam couldn't look straight at her. Brennan stopped dead and looked at Adam with an unreadable look.

"Why would Jesse's aunt do something like this?" Emma asked at last. Adam forced himself to look at her.

"You know that Jesse's mother and father rejected him right? Well.....it wasn't just his parents that rejected him. It was his whole family," Adam replied, "grandparents, aunts, uncles, you name it. They all saw Jesse as a freak."

"That's horrible," Emma gasped. Shalimar kicked the limp body and growled, her eyes turning golden.

"Okay Shalimar you need to calm down. Now we still have no idea what this woman has to do with Jesse," Brennan said, stating the obvious.

"Well because Jesse was rejected, Erica thought he was the perfect test subject for her new brand of poison. Which I told you two (indicating Brennan and Emma), was called Plytome. I know very little of what this poison can do, but I have been watching Proxy Blue and she has reports about people dying, and as the are dying, are bleeding out the blue liquid. I don't know what affect it may have on a mutant let alone a molecular."

"Well, I'm sure she also had an anitidote just in case....wouldn't she?" Emma asked. Adam shrugged, "it's quite possible, but I highly doubt it."

"Well then let's start searching for it," Brennan said. From her corner, Erica began to stir. She groaned and her eyes opened slowly.

"Jesse...I'm so...so," she moaned. Emma knelt down beside her and looked into her eyes.

"What is it Erica? What are you so...for?" she asked, gently and quietly. Erica moaned and rolled her head so she was looking at Emma.

"I'm so...I'm so sorry."