Since it's Christmas, I'm in a giving mood, so I've wrote a L & J (Lexa and Jesse) chapter and a P & P chapter! Think of it as my Christmas present to you!

Lexa's Secret

Lexa had once again left Sanctuary; she did this on a weekly basis every Thursday afternoon. Jesse had had enough of her secrets, so he decided to follow her.

She was now walking down the busy street; Jesse was hiding in the odd doorway just to make sure she didn't see him. She walked down into an alley Oh great; this looks dodgy Jesse thought as he followed Lexa's footsteps. He turned a corner to see that she was gone! Jesse looked around for any place she might have went into. There was a blinding flash was caused Jesse to cover his eyes, and when he brought his hands down, Lexa was looking at him.

'Okay, I ignored you for the first 5 blocks, but now I want to know why you're following me,' Lexa stated.

'I wasn't following you,' Jesse answered

'Oh really?' she raised her eyebrows 'Jess, I'm the one who's good at being invisible, not you, and if you weren't following me, why are you in this alleyway? Were you hungry?' she looked over to the rotting pile of food that was surrounded by flies.

'Alright, I was following you, but I just wanted to know where you go every Thursday afternoon,'

Lexa sighed and grabbed his hand 'You wanna know? Let's go,' she pulled him out of the alleyway and back onto the street.


'This is how you spend your Thursday afternoons?' Jesse asked her, they had arrived at an auditorium where it seemed to be like a dancing club for old folks.

'Hey, don't knock it! These people helped me through a lot of hard times, they're great people,' Lexa answered with a smile.

'No, I'm not knocking it, it's just not what I expected from you,'

'What did you expect?'

'Hired hit woman…' Jesse muttered

Lexa hit him on the chest for the comment as a man came up them.

'Hey Lexa!' the old man greeted her, he had white hair and seemed to be balding, but for some reason, his eyes still had the sparkle of youth.

'Hi Marty!' she answered enthusiastically 'Care for a dance?'

'Of course, pumpkin,' he replied kindly

The two began to dance to the slow jazz music the band were playing, although it was more of a shuffle in Jesse's eyes, probably because of the shape the man was in.

Jesse smiled at Lexa, this was a side of her that he had never seen before, it was care free, fun and kind. He leaned against the wall and waited for the music to end, until then he just smiled at the sight in front of him.

He sat down at one of the tables, and watched as Lexa came over to sit down with him and Marty.

'So, Lexie, this your new boyfriend?' he asked with a grin

Jesse laughed as his face turned red 'Eh… no, although he wishes he does,' Lexa replied with a smirk.

'So, what you been up to?' he asked her.

'Oh, you know, same old, same old,' Lexa replied 'Marty, are you okay?' she noticed the conflicted look on the old mans face.

'Well… I…um…' he seemed hesitant to tell Lexa the truth.

'Uh… I'll leave the two of you alone for a while,' Jesse left the two alone; as it was obvious this was going to be a private conversation.

'Lexa, I'm in trouble,'

'What?' Lexa took the old mans hand 'What's wrong?'

He sighed 'Some goons have been after me for the past week, I think they're after the papers from the company,'

'What? Why would anyone want to hunt down an old man for that?'

'Oh thanks!' Marty answered with a chuckle 'Anyway, they must want it bad, because when I got home yesterday, my place had been trashed. They had obviously scoured the place for them, but they didn't find anything, I've got them right here,' he tapped his chest, indicating that he had something in the inside pocket of his cardigan.

'Why didn't you contact me? They could have killed you! Ever since Leo died you're the closest thing to family I have! You're like a grandfather to me!' Lexa pleaded with the man.

He smiled 'Because I knew you'd be down here today, you never miss a dance with an old man,' his answer was filled with compassion for the young woman he had known for so long,'

Lexa sighed at his answer, then looked at Jesse 'I'll be right back, okay? Don't leave my sight!' Lexa warned Marty with a shaky finger and a smirk.

'I'm not going anywhere,' he replied.

She walked over to Jesse, who currently being ogled at by all the old women. He had a red face and he was looking at his shoes when Lexa came over to him.

'Look, I need a favour,' she began 'I need your help, but it's personal. All I ask is that you don't ask any questions and trust me, okay?'

He sighed at her 'I already trust you, and I'll help you out with anything you need, but first, we gotta get your friend outta here,'

'Why?'

'Because those suits at the door seem to be eying him, and I don't think they're looking for a dance,'

Lexa turned round to see that Jesse was right, they had sunglasses and dark trench coats, and were looking and pointing at the frail old man sitting at the table. The two mutants ran over to the table and quickly pointed out the men to Marty.

'Yes! That's them! I can see the bruise I gave one of them when I swung by baseball bat at him,' even in the tense situation, Jesse laughed at the old mans vigour, he was very energetic.

Lexa guided the old man towards the fire exit; Jesse exited last in case the goons got violent.

'Jess, please say you brought the Helix when you followed me,' Lexa hoped for the answer.

'Yeah, but we're gonna need to do some running and well…'

'You don't think I'm up it,' Marty finished off.

'Well… yeah,' Jesse answered guiltily

'Alright then, what do suggest we do?' Lexa put her hands on her hips and stared at her teammate. Jesse pondered over their options, them came to a solution.

'Okay, get to the top of that building,' he pointed at the structure in the other side of the road 'I'll pick you up there, if those guys catch up, just fight them off, okay?'

Marty gave him a shocked look 'My little Lexie can't fight! She can't even hold a gun properly!'

Jesse smirked the dark haired woman, who's expression said 'leave it,' so he did.

'Trust me, she'll be fine! Lexa will make sure you're alright, she great when it comes to these sort of things!'

Lexa began to make her way towards the building, leaving Jesse to wonder if he just seen her blush.


They were almost at the top of the building, but were forced to stop when Marty collapsed in the stairwell.

'Leave me Lexie… save yourself…' he breathed.

She looked down the stairwell to the men were on their tail, it wouldn't be long before they were on the same level, she would have to fight. Lexa made a mental note not to use her powers; she didn't want her 'grandfather' to know she was a freak.

She grabbed the railings of the stair banister and prepared for battle. She made quick work of the first guy, using the railings for support; she jumped up and kicked the man in the face, sending him back down the stairs he had come up. When the other two saw this, they pulled out guns and prepared to fire in the mutant and man. Lexa decided she had use her powers, she first created a dazzle so that Marty wouldn't see, then fired high powered lasers and the men, blasting them back into the wall. Lexa put Marty over her shoulder and climbed the last flight of stairs.

She kicked the door to the roof open and was glad to see the Helix was already there. Trust Jess to come through she thought as the stairwell to the plane opened up.

'Alright Jesse, get this bird in the air!' she shouted at the man in the pilots seat.

'Yes Ma'am!' he said jokingly as he retracted the stairwell and prepared for the take off. Just as the Helix began to take off, the goons burst through the roof access door and started of fire at the jet. Jesse just laughed when he could hear the bullets bouncing off the exterior, causing no damage. He stopped laughing when he saw Lexa knelt down beside Marty, who was buckled into one of the chairs.

'He okay?'

'Yeah,' Lexa replied 'I think it was all just a bit too much for him,'

'Understandable at his age… look, I know I said I wouldn't ask any questions, but I think I should know the basics if I'm going to be of any use,' Jesse asked cautiously, knowing that one wrong word could set Lexa off.

She sighed ' I'll explain when we get to Sanctuary,' she replied simply.


Once they had got home, Jesse had placed Marty in the lab and ran a series of tests to make sure that the elderly man was alright. Lexa had been sitting with him, holding his hand all the way through Jesse's tests. Marty began to regain consciousness and the first thing he saw was Lexa. He tried to speak, but Lexa shushed him and told him to get some rest. She walked over to Jesse ready to explain everything.

'Why were they after him?'

Lexa was surprised at Jesse's bluntness; usually he would wait for her to explain.

'They are after documents that he had from when he worked at Genomex,' she answered, bracing herself for her comrade's reaction.

'Genomex?! He worked in Genomex?!' Jesse calmed himself after his outburst 'Sorry, so, why do they want these documents?'

'Marty worked on the flaw of our witch genes, the fact that we can't cast spells like Phoebe and Brennan,'

Jesse raised his head 'Did he get anywhere?'

'He was close, but as soon as he found out that his findings could hurt innocent people, he left the company and took his research with him,'

'That was pretty risky, not many people quit Genomex, alive at least,'

'Yeah, I know, I never thought they would come after him though,' her eyes began to well up with tears.

'Hey…' Jesse got up from his seat and wrapped his arms around his grieving friend. She cried into his shoulder gratefully, before composing herself and wiping her eyes. Jesse knew she wouldn't want to dwell on her moment of weakness, so he got back to business.

'I take it you now have the papers?'

'Yeah, I put them in my jacket pocket when I was in the Helix,' she replied

'Okay, get them out, and tell me when Marty wakes up, I'm going to need his help,' he towards another part of the lab.

'What are you going to do?' Lexa asked

Jesse turned back round to face her 'Look, we may be able to handle the odd goon now and again, but we've always needed a born witch around to help, and your grandfather has gotten himself into a pretty deep hole,'

'You still haven't told me what you're going to do,' Lexa complained

He began to walk off again 'Just start writing spells Lexa, because by tonight, our rhymes are going to be a lot more than just nice sounding words,'

Lexa's eyes widened at his answer, he was going make them full witches!


'Hmm… it's still not going to work,' Jesse looked at the screen with a disappointed look, Marty and him had been trying for hours to perfect the gene stabilization process, but to no avail.

'Bring up that deLauro's file again, would you, son?' Marty asked. A previous Mutant X member, Emma deLauro, was the only witch documented, who had the power to cast spells. It had been revealed to the team that Emma had a lot more hidden talents to her psionic powers than she had been telling and she decided to leave so that she wouldn't have to fight and use her more dangerous powers.

Jesse complied and tapped something into the touch panel in his hand; Emma's file came up again, hopefully with some useful information. Lexa walked into the room, she had been trying to find out anything about the goons that had attacked them. She had also been writing spells, getting ready to test them out once Jesse gave her the signal. Lexa had surprised herself that day, not only had she opened up more of her world to her blond co-worker, he had comforted her and understood her in her time of need. The other thing that surprised her was that she was actually excited about the act that she might be casting spells soon!

Hey, had any luck?' she asked with a hint of hope in her voice.

'Almost there Lexie!' Marty answered enthusiastically

'Yeah. All we need to do is run this through the simulation and it should fine. How about you?'

'Well, I tested the blood I had on my shoe after kicking that guy in the face, and apparently he was hired,'

'Hired?' Jesse's eyes widened.

'Yeah, and I had a look at his background, most of the time he's escaped a sentence because of a technicality, but he must a friend in a high place, because a lot of these crimes don't go away so easily,'

'Wow, someone's did their homework,' Jesse mocked her.

Lexa gave him a saucy smile 'Why, yes I have, and I even found the location of this guys employer,'

'Really?' He answered in a surprised tone.

'Yes, so if we take him out, we get Marty his life back,' Lexa smiled at the older man.

Marty smiled 'Lexie, what would I do without you?'

'Oh, you would manage, you're a fighter,' she hugged the man.

'Alright,' Jesse picked up the ray gun that would fire the stabilization beam 'You ready Lexa?'

'Lexa?' Marty gave him a funny look 'Why would she try it out? Unless she was a mut-,' Marty stopped in mid-sentence and stared at her.

Lexa ignited the lasers of the tips of fingers to prove his suspicions true, and looked at him with apologetic eyes. Marty then broke out into a small smile 'I always knew you were special, sweetheart, I guess I didn't realise how special,'

Everyone got in position as the Jesse loaded up the gun 'You ready?' he asked her.

'As ready as I'll ever be,' was her answer.

He nodded and fired the gun; a faint orange light came from the end and hit Lexa in the stomach. She stumbled back slightly, but regained her balance and took and rest of the blast.

'Okay,' Jesse put the gun down 'Try it out,'

Lexa raised her eyes, as if she were trying to remember something, she then clicked and held out her hand.

'Hopefully now, I have the power

Give to me, a blooming flower,'

There was a small glow in Lexa's hand and a bright red rose lay in her palm after the light diminished.

'Wow… it worked!' she said triumphantly.


After blasting Jesse with the ray, both were experimenting with their new power, until Marty stopped them.

'You guys, shouldn't you be finding the person who's trying to kill me?' he said lightly.

'Oh God! Sorry Marty! We just got a little caught up,' Lexa apologised.

'Uh-huh, c'mon let's go!' he made his way towards the garage.

'Uh… wait a minute, you're not going!' Lexa grabbed his arm and Jesse walked in

'Oh yes I am! I want to know who's after me! I'll wait in the car if that will make you feel better!' he replied

'Hmm… was he the one who taught you how to be stubborn?' Jesse asked Lexa jokingly.

'No, it's just a gift,' Lexa answered as they headed towards the garage.


'Okay, remember, wait here, got it?' Lexa told her 'grandfather' again, they were sitting in the car outside the building where Lexa had traced the hitmans employer.

'Yeah, yeah,' Marty sneered.

'Okay, love you,' Lexa said as she stepped out the car.

'Love you too,' he answered.

The two Mutant X members walked down the alleyway to the entrance of the building, but stopped when they saw the goons standing at the door, fully armed.

'What are we going to do? I can't protect from that amount of bullets!' Jesse whispered to her.

'We use our new power,' Lexa replied simply.

She walked out from behind the dumpster, but just enough so she wouldn't be seen.

'You do the honours,' she said to Jesse. He complied and began thinking of a spell

'Take way their weapons of hate

Do it now with no debate,'

The guns exploded in their hands, leaving the goons shocked at what just happened. This gave Jesse and Lexa the perfect opportunity to take them out with their martial arts skills.

'Okay, you ready to face whoever's behind that door?' Jesse asked

'More than ready,' she said, full of determination

she blasted through the door and run in, with Jesse close behind, but both stopped when they realised that it was Gabriel Ashlocke behind the door.


'Oh my God…' Lexa whispered

'Not quite,' Gabriel laughed at her.

Both mutants went on the offensive, Lexa fired lasers from both her hands and Jesse massed out his arm and hit a large crate at the super mutant. Their attempts were futile as Gabriel reflected the lasers into the wall and hit the crate with an energy blast. Once the wooden debree had cleared from the air, Gabriel spoke again.

'Now, is that a nice way to say hello?' he said with a smirk

'Shut up!' Lexa shouted venomously

'Oh, c'mon, you haven't even heard what I'm going to say,'

'So talk,' Jesse's voice was a low rumble

'Certainly, gave me your grandpa's research, and I won't kill him,'

Lexa laughed at the mutant 'Gimme a break, you won't be getting to him anytime soon,'

'Is that a 'no' then?'

Lexa smirked and nodded her head.

'That's a shame, I guess he's just gonna have to get to himself,' Ashlocke closed his eyes and looked as if he was concentrating. Lexa suddenly realised what he was doing and was just in time to the see and effects.

Ashlocke took over Marty's mind and forced him out of the car and into the busy street. Lexa left the building just in time to see Marty get hit by an oncoming car, and hit the ground. Hard.

'Noooo!' Lexa screamed as she ran out into the street to tend to her last family link. Jesse was quickly following, getting out his phone and calling for an ambulance.

They had been at the hospital for 4 hours; it was edging on 1 in the morning. Lexa has fell asleep on Jesse's shoulder, exhausted from crying, but she awoke as soon as the doctor came out of Marty's room.

'How is he?' Lexa asked him, wiping away tears from earlier.

The doctor sighed 'His spine is badly damaged, and the accident has caused some brain damage, and because of his age, a lot of his bones have been broken. He is being maintained by machines right now,'

Lexa put a hand over her mouth and began to cry into Jesse's chest again. The doctor spoke again once she had stopped.

'On his file, he's put you in charge of a decision like this, what do you want to do?' he asked her softly.

Lexa looked at the white floor and then back up at the doctor 'Keep him,'

'Lexa…' Jesse began

'No! I mean, there are medical breakthroughs everyday, maybe someday they'll cure his brain damage,' her voice was high pitched and fast. She stormed down a corridor leaving the doctor with a neutral expression on his face, he dealt with this everyday.

'Just give a minute with her…' Jesse followed Lexa after talking to the doctor. He caught up with her; she was leaning on the wall, staring into space.

'Lexa…'

'Jess! Just, don't!' she shouted

'Will you just listen to what I have to say?' Jesse pleaded

She closed her eyes and sighed, Jesse took this as a yes 'He's dying, Lexa,' her eyelids tightened even more 'He's hurt, he's in pain and right now, it' s because of machines that he's still alive,'

Lexa glared at him, he decided to round things up

'What I'm trying to say is, give him his dignity. Don't drag his death out and keep him in pain just because you can't bare to lose him… I now it's hard… and I know you don't want him to die, but I also know you don't want him to be in pain…'

Lexa began to cry again as Jesse brought his arms around her and cradled her. She slowly walked back down the hall and told the doctor her decision.

Her tears were still flowing 'Can I at least say goodbye?' she pleaded

The doctor looked up from the board he was looking at and gave a kind expression 'Of course,'

Lexa entered the room and told Marty how much she loved and how much she would miss him, and that he was to say 'hi' to Leo for her. She took his hand and kissed his forehead as she gave the nurse the signal to pull the plug.


It was 3:30, and Jesse still couldn't get a wink of sleep, he kept thinking about everything that had happened that day, especially Ashlocke and what he had done to Lexa's grandfather. After they had got home from the hospital, Lexa had locked herself in her room and hadn't come out at all, Jesse thought that she blamed him for what happened to Marty, and maybe it was this supposed guilt that was keeping him awake.

There was a creak at his door and the Lexa appeared, she was dressed in yoga pants and her spaghetti strap pyjama top. Tears were still streaming down her face as she entered and room and made eye contact with Jesse. Jesse wordlessly pulled back the sheets and Lexa clambered in next to him, he realised that all she wanted was to not feel alone. He pulled the covers back over himself and her, and wrapped his arms around the trembling form next him. He kissed and top of her head and stroked her hair, calming her down and helping her fall into the peaceful sleep.


That was a little heavy, but I had to do something to make Jesse and Lexa's relationship grow.

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Chapter 16 'The Vacation's Over' will be up soon!