This comes after Shadows of Darkness. Hope this is better for those people who didn't like the fight as much. In terms of where this is going I am trying to keep it in line with season3. There will be episodes missed out and other chapters that I have made up entirely. I won't spoil the ending for you. Enjoy and review.

"what on earth are you doing?" Lexa shouted over the noise. She had woken up to get a glass of water but had ended up following the noise Jesse was making. Jesse looked up and turned off the welding torch. He ripped off his protective glasses and turned round to look at lexa.

"What?"

"Its 3am in the morning and you're welding. I swear, insomniacs get more sleep than you do"

"It needed doing"

"At 3 in the morning?"

"Well I did start sometime after lunch but then Brennan asked me to do research, next thing you know I'm printing out pages and pages of info on the hospital and digging up graves-"

"and?" Lexa interrupted Jesse impatiently

"And it meant I didn't have time to finish this."

"it's a hunk of junk Jesse"

"Its an integral part of sanctuary's system" Jesse corrected. As Jesse's back was turned Lexa noticed the computer on. It looked like Jesse was doing two things at once. Jesse become aware of where she was looking and explained. "During the day my time is taken up helping everyone else out. During the night I get to do my own stuff"

"You even thought of saying no"

"No but I bet you're the best person to ask about it"

"I'm serious Jesse, aren't you fed up of people taking advantage of you?"

"I'm happy to help out Lexa" Jesse started to clear up things as they spoke.

"I bet you never ask Shal and Brennan for anything"

"No but I know they would help me if I asked" Jesse's comment was followed by a silence as Lexa watched him clear things away. She looked at the computer again. She was always curious as to what he did on those computers. He seemed to spent most of the day on them.

"What were you doing ?" She nodded towards the computer. Again Jesse looked up and looked in the direction she was nodding in.

"Its a security program I was writing to update Sanctuary's computers. Every time new technology comes out I either have to install it or write a new program to protect the computers from it."

"You know you scare me sometimes with the amount of computer knowledge you have stored up in your brain"

"Scares me too sometimes"

"How?"

"Knowing the damage I could do? You name it, I've hacked it"

"Bet Adam was real proud of you"

"You know Adam, he would only tell me I could do better"

"Just like a real father"

"My father spent most of his time at work or away from home just to get away from me. When I started walking through walls he sent me away to save himself from any embarrassment"

"I'm sorry"

"Yeah, I would be if you're father sent you off to Genomex" For the first time Lexa could see the pain in his eyes that his father had caused. She was stupid to think he had had a perfect childhood. One of those was very rare when you were a new mutant.

"And I thought I was the only one with a screwed up childhood"

"Don't worry, I think it's a requirement for joining Mutant X" Both paused as they thought this over. Jesse was the first to speak as he picked up another item to clear away. "I'm sorry for loading all that stuff on you"

"It's good to know you can talk to me"

"Well at this time in the morning I cold talk to anyone" Lexa laughed, glad that the mood had changed.

"Oh yeah?"

"Give it a couple of hours and I'll be telling you the day I arrived at sanctuary for the first time and cried."

"Now that I don't believe, what happened next?"

"I can't give away all my stories"

"What will make you tell me?"

"How about you help me finish tidying this lot up and then I deserve a rematch at the chess board, considering you won last time"

"I'll get the coffee" Lexa answered with a smile.