Title: "Mortal Visions"
Author: ShadowFox (Shado-Fox)
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A special thanks to Garfieldlady for helping me to translate my fanfiction from French to English.
Just two review for the last chapter... :(
Chapter 11
In the rec room, Adam is seated next to Alex, observing him while the boy remained concentrated on the television. Anna, also, has the look fixed on the station.
Adam: Alex, Emma told to me that you were 5 years old. You are a big boy now.
Alex turns the face towards Adam and his eyes meeting Adam's.
Alex: Yes.
Adam realizes that until now, he had not heard the child speak yet.
Adam: Talk to me, Alex, why is your mom like that? Did you did that to her?
Alex turns the head towards his mother then heads towards Adam again
Alex: Yes.
Adam: What have you done to her? And why?
Alex: She is calm.
Adam: Yes, she is calm. But it's not necessary that she remains in this state, do you understand?
Alex: She wants to go back home. The mean men are at home.
Adam: You won't go back home, don't worry. It's necessary that you free her now. I am going to take care of her.
Alex: The mean men are at home.
Adam: Yes Alex, I know it. You won't return there.
Alex: Your friends were at home also.
Adam is astonished of the child's remark but pursues.
Adam: Yes, Emma and Jesse went to your home to try to find your father.
Alex: Dad is not home. Dad left.
Adam: We will find him, Alex. You will be going to live in a new place with your dad and your mom. But it's necessary that you free your mom before that.
Alex turns again towards his mother, whose look is lost completely. He concentrates for one moment, under Adam's attentive eyes; a luminous ball forms itself on his forehead and strike the one of his mother. His mother blinks her eyes repeatedly before lowering the look towards her son, conscious of what he had done.
Anna: Alex! You know that I don't want you to use your power! How could you have done that!
She raises the hand, of anger, then taking her minds completely; she lowers her arm and passes it around her son's shoulders to hold him against her. She closes the eyes for one moment while reopening them, they land on Adam.
Anna: Mr Kane, I thank you. I know what Alex is capable of and I suspect that I owe you for free my mind ... He doesn't realize the range of his acts yet...
Adam: Anna, I know that it's difficult for you, but you must absolutely not return for the meantime to your home. It's too early and the men who are after you will have no difficulty finding you if you go back to home. My men left over there to look for your spouse. We will do everything that is in our power to find him and to bring back him to you. While waiting, you will remain here, I am going to install you in a room that will be more comfortable than this place...
Anna: But I don't understand why these men pursue us. We didn't do anything to anyone. Your friend insinuated that these men work for the GSA... it's not possible. My husband works for the GSA and I don't see why they would like to capture us...
Adam: Do you know what the GSA really is, Anna?
Anna: My husband's employers. I don't have to know more. My husband works for them more than 5 years and he brings back his salary every month. No one ever blamed us for being different and my husband seemed to appreciate the fact to be able to use his power in his work. That is all I know. But I don't believe that they are a part in what happens to us.
Adam: I understand... I only ask you to let us help while remaining at the shelter here. We are going to help you.
Anna looks at him and nods her head. Alex turns around towards Adam and nods his head on his turn.
Adam: I would like to make you do some exams in the event.
Anna: exams?
Adam: Yes, mainly Alex, I must see how his power evolved. It's rare that a child of this age already possesses such a power. And you, I know that you have a power also, is it steady?
Anna: I never use my power, I was a teenager when it started to appear and I didn't know what I could do and I made everything so that it disappears... useless at least... but I never used it voluntary, once I succeeded in mastering the crises that took me.
Adam: Very well. If you let me I would like to do a scan to see the stability of your mutation.
Anna: I am well. Why a scan?
Adam: A scan will allow me to see how your mutation acts on your metabolism. It's without pain and very fast. It's just a measure of precaution, don't worry.
Anna: Very well... How does the young woman who has been taken in the explosion yesterday? I hope that she is going to get better soon... This is our entire fault and I feel responsible... if she had not come to free us...
Adam: Anna, Shalimar, it's her first name, will be well soon. Her injuries are certainly serious but I did the necessary to take care of it. For this night I am going to put you in friend's room. You will be able to get settled more to your joy.
Anna: Thank you.
Adam: Tomorrow morning you will come to the laboratory and I would make the scan. While waiting for Alex, I ask you to not to use your powers here.
He taps the shoulder of the little boy, who nods. He rises then, inviting them to follow him and puts them in a free room.
Adam: You will find everything you need, like linen of toilet in the piece of furniture of the bathroom. The sheets are clean and there is a supplementary cover in the cabinet if you are cold. Get some rest.
Alex pulls at the trousers of Adam, waiving to him to lower him to listen to what he wanted to tell him. Adam kneels before the child, a smile on his lips.
Alex: She is not well...
Adam wonders about what Alex has just said, when he hears the voice of Brennan that calls him in the passageway. He leaves the room to intercept him, letting Anna and Alex in the middle of the room. While seeing the face of Brennan, he immediately thinks about Shalimar and panic surges from him like one tidal wave, nailing him there. It's with a white voice that he answers.
Adam: Brennan?? Shalimar?
Brennan stands breathless before him and breathes slowly to calm himself before speaking.
Brennan: Shalimar still sleeps,
Adam loosens his breath and feels his shaking legs.
Brennan: It's Emma. Jesse and she have just come back and she is wounded.
Adam takes his minds and turn towards Alex, the stingy in the eyes while making the connection of what he had just said with the fact that Emma was wounded... knowing only thought and hurried by the time, he leaves the room and follows Brennan in a fast step to the laboratory.
While arriving, he finds Jesse preparing the scanner and stretched out Emma on the armchair of examination, she is pale, but he can see her chest rising up into a regular interval.
Adam: What's happened?
Jesse: She was surprised by three agents of the GSA while leaving the house. They had some tasers and while we took care of each of one, the third touched her by surprise in the back with his weapon. She collapsed... I knocked the two men that remained and the other one was getting out of there as quickly as possible.
Adam: It's a taser that touched her, you say...
He approaches Emma and verifies the dilation of her pupils. Normal. While observing attentively, he sees as thrills to run along the forearms of the young woman. A finger on her stroke reassures him on the stability of her pulse.
Adam: She is going to get well. The current sends pain into her nervous system but the power of these weapons is not maximal, it puts you out of order for a certain time. In Emma's case, the only thing to hope for is that there won't be any neurological consequences... her physical constitution is not skin-deep the one of an organic and the sensitivity of the psionics is not of the more indicated in this kind of case.
Jesse: Are you going to give her something? She seems not well...
Adam: Yes I am going to inject a tranquilizer and especially to take care of the burns that the contact of the taser caused on her skin.
Jesse: The burns?
Adam: Yes, the taser entered in direct contact with her skin, it's for that she didn't take knowledge yet, the clothes didn't act as insulator.
He raises the loud of the young woman, letting appear a brownish mark in the low of her back, to the level of the fall of the kidneys.
Adam: It's without gravity, but that is going to make her feel uncomfortable for some days. Jesse, give me the fat tulle as well as gauze and the band aid to make hold the bandaging.
He catches a syringe and injects a tranquilizer in the arm of the young woman. The thrills nearly stop immediately and the features of her face relax slightly. Jesse stretches him the tulle that he deposits finely on the burns, and then he deposits sterile gauze and holds it with the strips of band aid that Jesse has prepared him.
Adam: Here it is. She should wake up shortly.
Jesse: I am going to stay next to her to supervise it.
Adam: What did you find at the Ditch?
Jesse: I brought some samples of blood back that we found in the kitchen, Emma told me to have seen it also on the floor. We checked the room of the parents again, as well as the bathroom and the husband's things disappeared. Emma also found a chain bracelet, broken, on the carpet of the passageway of the floor.
He takes the chain bracelet out of the pocket of Emma's jacket and gives it to Adam.
Jesse: It would be necessary to ask Anna if she knows to whom it belongs because the name is not complete.
Adam: I would show her tomorrow. She and her son are in a room and are going to sleep surely. They come to the laboratory tomorrow morning so that I conduct Alex's exam... his faculty's intrigues me... I didn't pay attention in a little while but he knew that you had gone to their home... how did he know it?
Jesse: I don't know I didn't speak of it; it's Emma who came to tell me that he left there.
Brennan: He may have heard Emma and me when we spoke of it.
Adam: Yes can be... but he also knew that the agents would be over there... and what he said before I know that Emma was wounded... how did he know that she wasn't well? How did he know that she had been wounded?
Jesse: Could he have been spoken about Shalimar?
Adam: No, I don't think so...
Jesse: Emma also thought about taking some spare clothes and toilet things when she was upstairs.
He bends and took the bag that he had deposited while arriving in a little while and gives it to Adam.
Adam: It is a good idea. I am going to bring it immediately so that they can get at ease.
He leaves the laboratory with the bag in his hand and heads towards Anna's room. Some questions turn in his head but he should wait to have some answers... He knocks a stroke at the door and waits for the invitation that doesn't make it linger.
Anna: Come in.
Adam: I bring you some change for you and Alex also. Emma and Jesses came back.
He lowers his look towards Alex and the boy nods the head.
Alex: She is getting better now...
Adam knows there is no doubt that he was talking about Emma. It has his curiosity reinforced only when to the extent of this child's capacities...
Adam: Yes, she is getting better now, you are right.
Adam deposits the bag on the floor and let the mother and the child, to return in the laboratory.
TBC...
Don't forget to review please...
Author: ShadowFox (Shado-Fox)
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A special thanks to Garfieldlady for helping me to translate my fanfiction from French to English.
Just two review for the last chapter... :(
Chapter 11
In the rec room, Adam is seated next to Alex, observing him while the boy remained concentrated on the television. Anna, also, has the look fixed on the station.
Adam: Alex, Emma told to me that you were 5 years old. You are a big boy now.
Alex turns the face towards Adam and his eyes meeting Adam's.
Alex: Yes.
Adam realizes that until now, he had not heard the child speak yet.
Adam: Talk to me, Alex, why is your mom like that? Did you did that to her?
Alex turns the head towards his mother then heads towards Adam again
Alex: Yes.
Adam: What have you done to her? And why?
Alex: She is calm.
Adam: Yes, she is calm. But it's not necessary that she remains in this state, do you understand?
Alex: She wants to go back home. The mean men are at home.
Adam: You won't go back home, don't worry. It's necessary that you free her now. I am going to take care of her.
Alex: The mean men are at home.
Adam: Yes Alex, I know it. You won't return there.
Alex: Your friends were at home also.
Adam is astonished of the child's remark but pursues.
Adam: Yes, Emma and Jesse went to your home to try to find your father.
Alex: Dad is not home. Dad left.
Adam: We will find him, Alex. You will be going to live in a new place with your dad and your mom. But it's necessary that you free your mom before that.
Alex turns again towards his mother, whose look is lost completely. He concentrates for one moment, under Adam's attentive eyes; a luminous ball forms itself on his forehead and strike the one of his mother. His mother blinks her eyes repeatedly before lowering the look towards her son, conscious of what he had done.
Anna: Alex! You know that I don't want you to use your power! How could you have done that!
She raises the hand, of anger, then taking her minds completely; she lowers her arm and passes it around her son's shoulders to hold him against her. She closes the eyes for one moment while reopening them, they land on Adam.
Anna: Mr Kane, I thank you. I know what Alex is capable of and I suspect that I owe you for free my mind ... He doesn't realize the range of his acts yet...
Adam: Anna, I know that it's difficult for you, but you must absolutely not return for the meantime to your home. It's too early and the men who are after you will have no difficulty finding you if you go back to home. My men left over there to look for your spouse. We will do everything that is in our power to find him and to bring back him to you. While waiting, you will remain here, I am going to install you in a room that will be more comfortable than this place...
Anna: But I don't understand why these men pursue us. We didn't do anything to anyone. Your friend insinuated that these men work for the GSA... it's not possible. My husband works for the GSA and I don't see why they would like to capture us...
Adam: Do you know what the GSA really is, Anna?
Anna: My husband's employers. I don't have to know more. My husband works for them more than 5 years and he brings back his salary every month. No one ever blamed us for being different and my husband seemed to appreciate the fact to be able to use his power in his work. That is all I know. But I don't believe that they are a part in what happens to us.
Adam: I understand... I only ask you to let us help while remaining at the shelter here. We are going to help you.
Anna looks at him and nods her head. Alex turns around towards Adam and nods his head on his turn.
Adam: I would like to make you do some exams in the event.
Anna: exams?
Adam: Yes, mainly Alex, I must see how his power evolved. It's rare that a child of this age already possesses such a power. And you, I know that you have a power also, is it steady?
Anna: I never use my power, I was a teenager when it started to appear and I didn't know what I could do and I made everything so that it disappears... useless at least... but I never used it voluntary, once I succeeded in mastering the crises that took me.
Adam: Very well. If you let me I would like to do a scan to see the stability of your mutation.
Anna: I am well. Why a scan?
Adam: A scan will allow me to see how your mutation acts on your metabolism. It's without pain and very fast. It's just a measure of precaution, don't worry.
Anna: Very well... How does the young woman who has been taken in the explosion yesterday? I hope that she is going to get better soon... This is our entire fault and I feel responsible... if she had not come to free us...
Adam: Anna, Shalimar, it's her first name, will be well soon. Her injuries are certainly serious but I did the necessary to take care of it. For this night I am going to put you in friend's room. You will be able to get settled more to your joy.
Anna: Thank you.
Adam: Tomorrow morning you will come to the laboratory and I would make the scan. While waiting for Alex, I ask you to not to use your powers here.
He taps the shoulder of the little boy, who nods. He rises then, inviting them to follow him and puts them in a free room.
Adam: You will find everything you need, like linen of toilet in the piece of furniture of the bathroom. The sheets are clean and there is a supplementary cover in the cabinet if you are cold. Get some rest.
Alex pulls at the trousers of Adam, waiving to him to lower him to listen to what he wanted to tell him. Adam kneels before the child, a smile on his lips.
Alex: She is not well...
Adam wonders about what Alex has just said, when he hears the voice of Brennan that calls him in the passageway. He leaves the room to intercept him, letting Anna and Alex in the middle of the room. While seeing the face of Brennan, he immediately thinks about Shalimar and panic surges from him like one tidal wave, nailing him there. It's with a white voice that he answers.
Adam: Brennan?? Shalimar?
Brennan stands breathless before him and breathes slowly to calm himself before speaking.
Brennan: Shalimar still sleeps,
Adam loosens his breath and feels his shaking legs.
Brennan: It's Emma. Jesse and she have just come back and she is wounded.
Adam takes his minds and turn towards Alex, the stingy in the eyes while making the connection of what he had just said with the fact that Emma was wounded... knowing only thought and hurried by the time, he leaves the room and follows Brennan in a fast step to the laboratory.
While arriving, he finds Jesse preparing the scanner and stretched out Emma on the armchair of examination, she is pale, but he can see her chest rising up into a regular interval.
Adam: What's happened?
Jesse: She was surprised by three agents of the GSA while leaving the house. They had some tasers and while we took care of each of one, the third touched her by surprise in the back with his weapon. She collapsed... I knocked the two men that remained and the other one was getting out of there as quickly as possible.
Adam: It's a taser that touched her, you say...
He approaches Emma and verifies the dilation of her pupils. Normal. While observing attentively, he sees as thrills to run along the forearms of the young woman. A finger on her stroke reassures him on the stability of her pulse.
Adam: She is going to get well. The current sends pain into her nervous system but the power of these weapons is not maximal, it puts you out of order for a certain time. In Emma's case, the only thing to hope for is that there won't be any neurological consequences... her physical constitution is not skin-deep the one of an organic and the sensitivity of the psionics is not of the more indicated in this kind of case.
Jesse: Are you going to give her something? She seems not well...
Adam: Yes I am going to inject a tranquilizer and especially to take care of the burns that the contact of the taser caused on her skin.
Jesse: The burns?
Adam: Yes, the taser entered in direct contact with her skin, it's for that she didn't take knowledge yet, the clothes didn't act as insulator.
He raises the loud of the young woman, letting appear a brownish mark in the low of her back, to the level of the fall of the kidneys.
Adam: It's without gravity, but that is going to make her feel uncomfortable for some days. Jesse, give me the fat tulle as well as gauze and the band aid to make hold the bandaging.
He catches a syringe and injects a tranquilizer in the arm of the young woman. The thrills nearly stop immediately and the features of her face relax slightly. Jesse stretches him the tulle that he deposits finely on the burns, and then he deposits sterile gauze and holds it with the strips of band aid that Jesse has prepared him.
Adam: Here it is. She should wake up shortly.
Jesse: I am going to stay next to her to supervise it.
Adam: What did you find at the Ditch?
Jesse: I brought some samples of blood back that we found in the kitchen, Emma told me to have seen it also on the floor. We checked the room of the parents again, as well as the bathroom and the husband's things disappeared. Emma also found a chain bracelet, broken, on the carpet of the passageway of the floor.
He takes the chain bracelet out of the pocket of Emma's jacket and gives it to Adam.
Jesse: It would be necessary to ask Anna if she knows to whom it belongs because the name is not complete.
Adam: I would show her tomorrow. She and her son are in a room and are going to sleep surely. They come to the laboratory tomorrow morning so that I conduct Alex's exam... his faculty's intrigues me... I didn't pay attention in a little while but he knew that you had gone to their home... how did he know it?
Jesse: I don't know I didn't speak of it; it's Emma who came to tell me that he left there.
Brennan: He may have heard Emma and me when we spoke of it.
Adam: Yes can be... but he also knew that the agents would be over there... and what he said before I know that Emma was wounded... how did he know that she wasn't well? How did he know that she had been wounded?
Jesse: Could he have been spoken about Shalimar?
Adam: No, I don't think so...
Jesse: Emma also thought about taking some spare clothes and toilet things when she was upstairs.
He bends and took the bag that he had deposited while arriving in a little while and gives it to Adam.
Adam: It is a good idea. I am going to bring it immediately so that they can get at ease.
He leaves the laboratory with the bag in his hand and heads towards Anna's room. Some questions turn in his head but he should wait to have some answers... He knocks a stroke at the door and waits for the invitation that doesn't make it linger.
Anna: Come in.
Adam: I bring you some change for you and Alex also. Emma and Jesses came back.
He lowers his look towards Alex and the boy nods the head.
Alex: She is getting better now...
Adam knows there is no doubt that he was talking about Emma. It has his curiosity reinforced only when to the extent of this child's capacities...
Adam: Yes, she is getting better now, you are right.
Adam deposits the bag on the floor and let the mother and the child, to return in the laboratory.
TBC...
Don't forget to review please...