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Chapter 2

More is There Than Can be Seen

A single needle penetrated her skin in the back of her neck as she shivered, feeling the cool liquid in her nerves running up and down her brain stem. That was Emma's 11th treatment in four days. According to Eckhart, to keep her power suppressed to the point of control she'd need this three times a day every day. Emma didn't question this odd rule because all she cared was that she could single her own feelings out again and isn't influenced by anyone's feelings anymore. This built up her confidence in turn causing her to work even harder for Eckhart. Ever since Emma had joined him not a single mission failed. There was one difficulty Emma found and that was making up excuses to not perform missions for Adam so she wouldn't have to fight Eckhart or against her own goals. So far she was passing with flying colors and Eckhart's experiments were beginning to see their breakthroughs.

"Well, I'm off." Emma said putting on her jacket, and adjusting herself to face the day.

"Now don't forget today's assignment." Eckhart impressed upon her strongly.

"Where did you think I was going?" Emma remarked as she glanced back, still walking away. Emma's footsteps echoed through the halls, growing more and more faint until they faded completely away.

"I'll never understand…" One of Eckhart's higher-ranking agents came up from behind him. She was a thermal mutant with the power to project and transfer heat waves.

"Miss Darnel, what won't you understand?" Eckhart asked without even directing his gaze at her.

"How you could possibly form an alliance with that, that DeLauro girl." Darnel spoke Emma's name in disgust but spoke very professionally. Her dark red hair was pulled back in a tight bun and she wore a very plain suit.

"It's quite simple and I'm astounded you didn't see it." Darnel was intrigued by this remark.

"There's something more to this isn't there? Something you didn't tell her and isn't in the deal."

"Our compromise, does not contradict my actions. In fact it entirely supports it. They document clearly states that she will help promote our experiments as long as we find a way to stop the pain of her mutation." Darnel began skimming the files in the computer about the contents of the serum used on Emma. Flipping through files she found some very interesting subject matter.

"Well, well," She was quite surprised about what she found. Continuing looking through them, "This combination of compounds would… it would increase mutation at an alarming rate!" Darnel looked up at Eckhart with a sinister smile replacing her shocked face. "A perfect plan, you can test the affects of these serums on mutation while Miss DeLauro believes all she's getting is a solution to her problems. When, in reality it's much more than that."

"That is the idea Miss Darnel. Now if you look here," he started as he brought her current condition up onscreen. "You'll see it's well on its way already because this was her starting point." He showed her the scan of Emma before any serum was injected.

"My God! The mutant DNA doubles with every third treatment. At this rate she could be completely unstoppable by the end of the week!"

"Making her the perfect agent to accomplish all our goals."

"It doesn't secure us everything though does it? Just because she is so powerful it doesn't give us any control over her mind so that leaves us wide open if she decides we are useless to her."

"There are some things that unfortunately we have to wait and see which I very much hate doing."

"How do we even know she isn't double crossing us? After all, every night she goes back to Sanctuary and for all we know collaborating with her teammates about how to destroy us. And speaking of Sanctuary she hadn't told you where that is has she?"

"I will admit she hasn't, but for some reason I think that she is sincere in her actions and means what she does. I believe that she is blindly agreeing to do what we want because we have leverage over her. We hold the key to her happiness, the one thing that Adam can not give her. This." He said, holding up a needle full of the same serum Emma was just injected with.

"What about safe-houses? Has she given any locations? Any contacts? Anything?!?" Darnel was growing impatient with the fact that her boss may be losing his edge.

"None of that, why worry about searching all these safe-houses when we have one person who can bring all those mutants to us? We have no need to track anyone down or monitor activity. The only reason we still do is to give our psionic a little break once and a while. I am not angry with you Miss Darnel but I stress that you should think before you say or do anything in order to avoid a catastrophe."

**Later**

"I'm telling you, I don't sense this guy. How can I if I've never even heard of him?"

"He is a psionic, you are a psionic. You have the same wavelength, it should be easy."

"What's his name again?"

"Miss DeLauro I've told you already. His name is Corey Monroe. I need him in order for my experiments to be completed."

"Hey! I'm not the only one who can't find him! Apparently no one knows where he is cause his I.D. has been wiped from the world."

"Not entirely, according to the naïve outside world Mr. Monroe is dead but my team found him in a missing persons report."

"So he could be dead."

"Not by a long shot Miss DeLauro, not by a long shot." By Eckhart's voice over her communicator he seemed to be basking in his own glory about something. But that something was still yet to be discovered since she couldn't read minds.

"I'm going to have to terminate our connection now, otherwise someone might over here me." Emma was sitting anxiously on her bed back at Sanctuary.

"I completely understand… Oh and by the way good work on your assignment today." Then Emma broke the connection just as Jesse entered her room. She immediately hid her communicator.

"Hey Jesse! What, what are you doing here?" Emma spoke unusually loud and stuttered a bit. Mentally she slapped herself for not maintaining a calmer appearance.

"I was just checking up on you--" Emma interrupted him.

"Why? Did Adam send you?" Emma's tone was now full of annoyance.

"Oh, so it's not okay for me to decide on my own to make sure you're alright. After all, from what you said this morning I wanted to make sure you were feeling better. You don't exactly have the easiest power to deal with and if you're having trouble then I knew it'd be serious." Emma looked right into his eyes, a bit confused.

"What?!?" She yelled, but it was more out of surprise and confusion than anger.

"You're strong, especially when it comes to your abilities. So I figured that if you were having trouble it really was trouble. Look, I was worried about you, that's why I came down!" Jesse's last sentence was almost in anger the way he said it. Emma's mind wandered from reality as she just looked into him, whatever she felt she felt good. "Emma?" Jesse said much quieter and calmer. He had bent over so they were face to face and stroked a piece of her hair. Emma blinked herself out of her trance to listen to Jesse. "I can see you're alright now, so I'll be going." He got up and turned to leave when Emma called to him.

"Jesse!" He turned around and he didn't need to ask 'what?' because his eyes said it for him. Emma took a longer pause than she meant to before saying, "thanks." They smiled at each other. Neither of them knowing that the other's smile was for more than friendship.

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"Where is she?!? She's more than an hour late for her appointment." Ms. Darnel, Eckhart's most acquainted agent paced back and forth in one of the labs.

"Relax Miss Darnel. Miss DeLauro contacted me earlier saying that since she was feeling more than fine she'd hold back until the next treatment." Eckhart saw the look on Darnel's face and knew what it meant. "This doesn't mean an end to this… alleged alliance. It simply means that our treatment is working, which means our work will be so much easier. Any reports of proof her powers are accelerating?"

"Last time that I accompanied her in the field there were a few differences I noticed. She had a much stronger connection to those we tracked because she can now pin point each of them exactly every time. I expect that soon Miss DeLauro will be experiencing new genres to her special ability."

**Later**

"Mr. Eckhart, we can't find Miss DeLauro anywhere. It's been three hours she should've come in by now!" Some of Eckhart's agents had just returned and one reported to him.

"I think we've got something Mr. Eckhart!" Ms. Darnel gestured towards the computer screen she stood before. Apparently the good doctors have a tracking code layered into the serum. Even though it doesn't work around high electronics such as Adam's in Sanctuary or their air craft it tracks her everywhere else."

"Well? Where is she?" Eckhart had grown impatient that this deal may be down the drain.

"She's right here" Darnel pointed to a yellow dot on the map, "but she hasn't moved from that spot for at least an hour, and the vitals we're receiving back don't look good."

"Bring her in! I want every available agent out there just in case she has decided the deal is off." No one moved from his or her spots including Darnel. "What are you waiting for?!? GO!" Everyone quickly got to work and Darnel lead groups out to their vans.

** 7:55 PM **

Darnel, growing annoyed, broke entry into a restaurant closed after 4 o'clock. The agents with her were all lookouts outside.

"You better be here Emma!" Darnel said feeling like she was talking to wall. She turned a corner and there lying askew on the ground was Emma, a broken drink glass lay a couple feet from her. Staring wide-eyed for a moment Darnel then yelled for her agents. "Get in here… NOW!!!" All of them came rushing through the door and without being told two of them lifted her by the arms and the other lifted her feet, so as to get her out faster. Darnel swore to herself for almost letting Emma something happen to Eckhart's currently most prized agent.

** The Labs ** (Again)

The three men rushed Emma into the lab and set her down in the chair. The scientists surrounded her to try and find what went wrong as Eckhart approached Darnel.

"How could you let this happen?!?"

"I'm very sorry sir, I found her like this. There was little I could do!"

"We'll just see about that." Eckhart told her as he turned to examine his doctors' work.

"We've pin-pointed the problem Mr. Eckhart sir." One of the scientists started. "Right here, her DNA is surging because there's nothing to support it therefore it's causing a breakdown."

"He's very right." Another scientist continued, "The serum is what stabilizes her DNA and because it accelerates her growth she can not survive with out it. We're lucky she was brought in when she was. She could've been dead in a matter of minutes. Next time make sure she keeps her appointment otherwise next time, we may not be able to save her." Eckhart turned away from the scientists as he told them to finish up their work.

"This will work out better than I thought." He began conversing with agent Darnel. "With this serum now as a necessity, Miss DeLauro has no choice. Right now she may be freely deciding to work with us but in the future we have insurance in that area." He smiled malevolently along with Darnel. "I do love it when I have everything my way."

It was about an hour later when Emma woke up. Eckhart was there to greet her.

"Miss DeLauro, try not to screw up again."

"What does that mean?" Emma stretched a bit and got out of the chair.

"It means don't cut it so close next time otherwise you'll be your own demise. Seeing the shocked look on your voice I suppose I should explain. Ahem! You… missed your appointment by three hours, which… in turn caused the serum to lose its effect and causing your system to shut itself down. Next time be on time so no… unfortunate accidents happen." Eckhart moved aside to let Emma pass. Looking back at Eckhart strangely she continued on her way.

"Well, I thought she'd never leave." Ms. Darnel came through the doorway Emma just left through. "Would you mind informing me about this?" She showed Eckhart a folder of documents around eighteen years old. "I found them on the top of the paper work… they seem a little old to be current work, don't you think?

"If you weren't such a promising agent I would keep this from you but in this situation I suppose it's essential knowledge." Eckhart flipped through the folder and pulled up a profile, which was much newer than all the other papers. It looked about five years old. "This… young man is a mandatory supplement to my experimentation. To create new mutants I need a base subject and who better than him?" Eckhart sat down in an office chair in the lab still looking at the photo, almost longing.

"I thought Emma… I mean Miss DeLauro was-- not him!" Darnel kept trailing off without needing to fill in her sentences. "Who is he anyway? This Monroe person?"

"Corey Monroe and he is incredibly important, I can't believe I ever let him slip out of sight, though it was unexpected."

"I still don't understand. Why this one person? There have got to be handfuls of people--"

"He isn't people! He's one of them, a mutant and a powerful one at that."

"Still, there are plenty of mutants! Just pick one."

"You don't understand! Only Monroe will work because I created him! I made him a mutant!"

TBC…

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