Chapter One-

Emma finds Brennan in the kitchen, leaing on the counter. As she walks closer she see's him eating a large sandwich.

Big enough to share...

She likes it when Brennan's alone, cause that usually means that Jesse and Shalimar have either left. Or they have went shopping for more stuff for the baby. The closer Emma gets to him, the more heated her body gets. She senses Brennan turn around and look at her.

" Hey Em, I thought that you went to the baby store with Jess, and Shal" Brennan said going back to eating his sandwich.

"No, I thought I stay home, not much fun though, Adam's not here, so I thought that I would come talk to you...wow, why are you eating that large sandwich?" Emma said.

Brennan smiled. " I'm hungry" he said.

" Oh" Emma said.

She stood there for a while. Brennan kept on reading his book.

" What are you reading?" She asked.

" More Whitman" he said. Emma placed a small grin on her face.

" Geez...Brennan, if you keep reading that you are gonna have every poem memorized" she said.

He laughed. " Well, I do almost have every poem in this book memorized. " I was reading Jesse one last night from the book that I had memorized" he said.

Oh him

" Are you and Jesse a couple?" Emma said.

" No, were just friends...as much as I would like it to be more...we just friends" Brennan said finishing that last of his sandwich.

" Oh...okay" she said satisfied.

Emma heard bags and walking, she could only assume one thing.

They're back

" Hey guys" Emma said tighting her fists.

They always come in at a bad time...son of a bitch

" What did you get me?" Brennan asked. Jesse looked at him and smile. " Actually, I did get you something" he said reaching into the bag. He pulled his hand out with nothing in it.

" Oops, we must have left it at the store," he said laughing.

" Very funny" Brennan said.

" Look...look at all these clothes we got the baby, I even got him a cute little leather jacket just like yours Brennan" Shalimar said.

" Cool, it will look good with his biker shorts" Brennan said.

Shalimar threw the diapers at him. Adam ran into the kitchen. " Guys, I need you in the lab and quick" he said.

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" Welcome home Gabriel" Doren said. " It took us months but we finally accomlished it and your here" he said.

Gabriel looked around. His grins wide. " It's good to be here" he said turning around to look down at all the people gathered their.

" Thanks to you...all of you" he walked to the edge of the balcony. " I can't thank you enough, you all are the reason that I live today, and once I have completed my tasks and build my kingdom, you all will be repaid greatly " he said turning to Doren and kissing him hard on the lips. Everyone clapped and cheered.

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" His name is Gabriel Ashlocke, his one of the most powerful mutants alive...and he's trouble big trouble...he thinks that because he was the first Mutant and the most powerful one that he is god, and once he gets all the mutants to come together that he can rule this world" Adam said.

" I remember him you saying something about him, when we first got here" Emma said.

" Yeah, I never thought that he would ever get out of the pods" Adam said.

" Well, what exactly does he think that all the mutants are gonna just bow at his feet...I mean come on" Jesse said.

" Well, I assume that he already has a pretty good crowd of mutants together, their probably not their on the own free will either, that's one of the way he gets the mutants their...he calls them his links".

" Links...what kind of name is that" Brennan said.

" One that plays to many computer games" Shalimar said laughing.

" Well, Adam what are you suggesting that we do" Emma said.

" Well, I want all of you..." he looked at Shalimar. " Except Shal...to go and checkout his hideout" he said.

" what do you suppose we do when we get caught" Brennan asked.

" You won't" Adam said walking away.

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In a candlelight bedroom, lay Doren and Gabriel. Panting and breathing heavily from their hours of lovemaking.

" Oh, god Gabriel" Doren breathed. " That was...was" he choked out.

" You don't know how long I have been wanting to do that" Gabriel whispered in Doren's ear.

" Gabriel, I know you said that you didn't want to talk about our plans about your plans but...what are we gonna do about Mutant X" he said.

Gabriel got off Doren. " Well, before I get any of my plans to go through, first I need to illiminate them" Gabriel said.

" How are you gonna do that, I mean, Genomex has been trying to get rid of them for almost a year now, and they can't" Doren said.

" That's because they didn't have me" Gabriel replied.

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" Adam, were here...we outside of the place you told us but, there's not a building around" Emma said looking around.

" Thats because the hideout is located underground, see if you can find some kind of entrance" Adam said through there comlink.

" Will, I'm lookin around and so far I have found nothing" Jesse said.

" Wait...what's that?" Emma said.

She walked over to a tall statue. " It has some kind of writings on it, looks like some kind of unknown language" she said.

" Can you make it out?" Adam said.

" No" Emma said.

" Well, get me a picture and send it over" Adam said shutting the link.

" Well...well...well, what do we have here?" someone said walking towards Emma, Brennan, and Jesse.