OMG! I looked back on the previous chapter, and I realised that Jesse didn't say a thing! Just for that, this chapter is going to be full of JesseLexa action! Enjoy!
Sorry if these responses are a little short, I'm really tired as I write them
Princess Pinky – I got the idea from Emma's power, but it isn't the same thing and I'm glad you liked the shocking bit! They'll be more of Connor's pre natal antics! And who says Barbas is gone forever? ;)
Rylecrow – Glad you enjoyed it! It's good to say new people like my story!
Piperfairy63 – Yeah I loved that episode! Glad you liked the chapter!
Pyrena – Phoebe will get a rude awakening when it comes to her sisters in 'United As Three' I thought it would be good for Brennan to propose! I haven't shown much of his relationship with Phoebe!
Wyatt333 – Willow? She's so cool! And you'll need to wait and see about Barbas!
Stepford Witches'Lexa! Watch out!' Jesse pushed her out of the way and massed out, making the lightning from an attacker bounce off harmlessly. Jesse then threw out his hand, sending a frigid blast of thermal energy from his palm; he had learned to focus his new power into an independent substance, so that he could throw out searing hot beams, or sub zero blasts. The Strand member's eyes widened as the beam came towards him, he ducked out of the way, letting the cold blast hit a pillar behind him.
Brennan, Lexa and Jesse were fighting with the Strand, Phoebe had wanted to go with them, but the others had put their feet down and told her to stay at Sanctuary, as she would be safe there and that she would slow the rest of them down as she wasn't as fast as she used to be.
Brennan fired an electrical arc at the frozen pillar, causing the pile of wood that was held on top to come down on at least five Links. He smiled at his work before quickly putting up an electrical shield to stop acid from hitting him. He put his comring up to his mouth
'Phoebe, any time would be good!' he shouted sarcastically into the ring
She groaned on the other end of the line, 'You know, I'm not as fast on the keyboard as Jesse is! Give me some freaking time!' she hit a key one last time and let out a 'Ha!' in triumph, 'Okay! Lexa, it's your turn, the boys will keep them busy while you get in and get out! Stay in touch!'
'Got it, Mom,' Lexa sarcastically.
'Okay,' Phoebe began typing on the keyboard again, ignoring Lexa's remark, 'Alright, Lexa? As soon as you open the door, there's three guys in there, they're hiding behind stuff, but I think you can take them,' Phoebe had scanned the floor plan with the temperature sensor, knowing that there was people inside.
'Got it,' Lexa crept up the stairs of the building, she could still hear the odd crackle of electricity and a scream of pain, but apart from that, she was completely out of the battle. She reached the door and shrouded herself in light, making her invisible, carefully placing her hand on the knob; she was surprised when the door disappeared in a flash of light! Careful not to let go of the handle, she quickly took this advancement into account and pushed open the door, just because it was invisible, it didn't mean it had went into thin air.
'Okay, one of those guys must be a feral, because he's coming at you from behind!' Phoebe told her. Lexa quickly spiralled round on the spot and sent a powerful beam of light at the dark haired mutant that was running at her, knowing that it usually took a lot for ferals to go down. Unfortunately, her little light show had attracted the attention of the other mutants in the room, who were now looking at the space where the light had come from.
'It must the invisible one that Ashlocke warned us about!' the female said.
The other woman gave a smirk, 'Why do you think I'm here?' she put up her hands, releasing a blue gas into the air, which cancelled out Lexa's invisibility and exposed her!
The other woman threw an energy ball at Lexa, who managed to flash out of the way just in time and flash back in behind them, hitting both Links with lasers. Lexa ran to the next door and pulled it open, she entered and smiled, the room was completely empty! She was about to walk over when Phoebe's voice started in her head.
'No! Don't! There's lasers in that room!' Phoebe shouted, she was looking at the infa red view of the room. Lexa sighed and put her hands on her hips,
'What do you suggest?'
'Uh… Oh! Use the potion I gave you, it will make the lasers show up,' she turned to the leader of Mutant X who been behind her, watching the screen and listening to the conversation.
'Okay,' Lexa took a blue potion from her pocket and threw it down to the floor, a navy gas rose from the ground, much like the one that the mutant had used to reveal Lexa when she was invisible.
'Okay Lex, it's all you now,' Phoebe said as the gas exposed thin red lines that stretched across the room. Lexa merely nodded to herself and put out her hands, she channelled her power and her palms began to glow with a blinding light, she made a slow gesture with her hands, pushing back the lasers and bending them with the light coming from her hands. She made it to the other side of the room and instead of opening the door carefully, she pulled back her arms, and then threw them out, causing light to fly from her fingers and blast the door to smithereens. But she was too late, Gabriel Ashlocke was already here and he was holding the serum that Mutant X had been sent to recover.
Lexa put up her hands and they began to glow, 'Hand that over or you'll get a taste of this little light mine,' she snarled. He gave his trademark creepy smile before pulling out a potion vial,
'I'd love to stay, but I've place to be, people to kill,' she was about to fire when he threw the potion at her feet, Lexa's skin glowed a purple colour before returning to normal, she stumbled back, effected by the potions magic. He smirked again before releasing an energy blast at her, sending Lexa into the concrete wall fast enough for her to make a dent in it; she smirked at her unconscious body before fading out.
Adam looked on as Brennan and Lexa were fighting about the mission.
'Are you kidding me! Where were you when I was facing Ashlocke alone, huh? Maybe destroying half the building by bringing most of it down on the Links, which could have killed them!'
'What! Nobody told you to go alone! You could have waited for me and Jesse to finish off the mutants, but no! Lexa Pierce has to go solo all the time!'
'Alright, both of you, enough!' Adam ended the fight as Jesse came in.
'Adam, they're both right we were severely outnumbered and Lexa could have been killed,' he said,
'Well, Phoebe can't go on missions, especially since she's beginning her final trimester,'
'I don't think it would have made a difference if she had been there or not! There were about fifteen Links there!'
Phoebe walked into the computer area with a smile on her face, but it vanished as soon as she saw that her teammates were in the middle of an argument.
'We may be four of the most powerful witches, put we can't go up against that many of our own kind, especially since the only way to end the fight is to kill them!'
'You guys…' Phoebe tried to start
'What were we even doing there anyway! It seemed as if the entire Strand was there and you didn't even know that we were going after! What do you think we are? Adams Angels? We don't work for you anymore! You abandoned us and now you come back just so you can see a magical baby being born!' Lexa said
'Hey, I've…' Phoebe was cut off again, this time by Brennan,
'Lexa, how would you know how many Strand members were there? All you had to do was get the serum and get out, but you couldn't even do that right!' Lexa was about to respond with a venomous comment, but was interrupted by Phoebe putting her fingers in her mouth and letting out a shrill whistle.
'God, do I need to go into labour to get any attention around here?' Phoebe looked around everyone.
'What is it?' Jesse spoke,
'This!' she slammed a pad down on the desk, 'I just cracked the Ashlocke vanquishing spell!'
The pad was handed around everyone as she explained, 'I got to thinking, what was the most powerful vanquishing spell I have ever used? And I remembered! The spell that calls upon the power of my entire family line! So I went through the files on the computer and found all the previous members of Mutant X!' Lexa looked up at this, 'So if we can pull from the power of every Mutant X member…'
'Then we might have enough power to get rid of Ashlocke!' Jesse beamed at the paper in front of him. Lexa looked as if she was about to say something, but then she groaned and put her hand on her head.
'You okay?' Jesse asked with a voice full concern
'Yeah… I just need to go lie down for a bit,' she replied and walked away, leaving the others confused.
Adam was typing furiously on the keyboard in the lab, he heard the door hiss open and Jesse walked in. they both remained silent as Jesse leaned against the wall with his arms folded.
'So, are you gonna tell me what this serum was?'
Adam sighed and rubbed his temples, 'It was a substance designed to contain powers, if an experiment was a failure, then we'd take their powers away…'
'Throw out the runt and get a new guinea pig?' Jesse finished with a scowl on his face.
'Well… I wouldn't have put that way myself, but yes,' he began typing again.
'Why would Ashlocke want something that could take his powers away?'
Adam turned to him 'That's what I'm trying to find out,'
Jesse was about to ask another question, but was off by a low whirring sound.
'What the hell…' he walked out of the lab to follow the noise. He saw Phoebe standing outside Lexa's room, gawking.
'What is it? Ashlocke?' Jesse slowed his running pace as he neared,
'No, worse! Lexa. Vacuuming.' She pointed into the room.
Jesse peered into the room and saw Lexa frantically pushing a vacuum cleaner around the floor.
'Lexa, what are you doing?'
She looked up and beamed, 'Oh! I couldn't relax so I thought I would some cleaning! You know me, any excuse of pick up a duster!' she gave them another grin before returning to cleaning.
'We do know you, and that couldn't be farther from the truth,' Phoebe commented. Lexa turned off the vacuum cleaner and turned to them, 'You know, when was the last time we had a home cooked meal in this place? We need something other than junk food, especially with a baby on the way!' she squealed excitedly and left the room, touching Phoebe's stomach on the way out.
Jesse stood with a shocked look on his face, 'Anyone think that Ashlocke did something to her?'
'Possible, although I don't see how turning her into that is going to help him!' Phoebe exclaimed. Brennan walked in with his hands in the back pockets of his jeans and with a confused expression.
'Was that Lexa back there?' he said, pointing in the direction he had come from.
'Yes,' Adam replied, Brennan looked even more confused, 'Don't ask,'
'Well, maybe she just wanted to tidy her room,' Jesse piped up; wanting to find a rational explanation for the fellow molecular's behaviour.
'I don't think so Jess, she asked me if I wanted steak or lamb chops tonight! Lexa can't and won't cook!' Brennan said.
'Okay, you guys try to find out if Lexa's been taking Prozac or something, but Brennan and I have a doctors appointment,' Phoebe broke the news carefully.
'What! But what about the serum that Ashlocke has! You're,' she cut Jesse off
'Jess, I feel as if my ankles are about to explode, I can't sleep, and I'm tired all the time, if you don't let me go then you're gonna have one pissy mama on your hands!' The men gave her a blank look, knowing that Jesse shouldn't have challenged the hormonal witch.
'Okay, go, but be careful!' he shouted as Brennan helped Phoebe walk down to the garage.
'How long before the potion takes effect?'
'Well, it should start to change her personality, then her morality,'
Gabriel put his hands together and put his elbows on the table and stared at the serum in front of him, he was well aware of its powers and had decided to be wary of it, since he wouldn't want to lose his powers after getting a second chance from the evil Charmed Ones.
'So we should be expecting her to bring the pregnant one to us soon?'
'Yes, can I ask sir? Why are you wanting the with child witch here? She poses the biggest threat as she's a Charmed One and carrying the first pure witch baby in centuries,'
'Because…' he lent back in his chair, 'She's gonna be my queen,'
'Okay, this gel's going to feel a bit cold,' the doctor said as he squirted some gel onto Phoebe's stomach. Phoebe and Brennan exchanged a worried look, Connor, they had decided his name, had been shocking anyone who touched Phoebe's stomach, the only people who he left alone were the members of Mutant X. She sent a telepathic message to the baby inside of her If you don't shock the doctor man, I won't eat onion cookies for a week. She smiled when she got a kick in response and looked at the screen as the doctor moved the ultrasound probe around her stomach.
'There's the head… and his legs… Hmm? That's strange,'
'What? What is it?' Brennan asked, now extremely concerned.
The doctor turned around and smiled, 'Don't worry, it's not your baby, it's just the machine, I think it's broken, either that or there's too much static electricity in her womb!' he laughed and turned back to the hazy screen, 'Hmm… well, we can't see the baby if the screen isn't working, but from your blood results, I'd say he's completely healthy!'
Phoebe and Brennan knew that Connor had been responsible for the interference of the ultrasound, they both looked at Phoebe's stomach as they came out of the clinic.
'Well, I guess he's camera shy,' Brennan said
Phoebe looked at her stomach, 'You're grounded,'
Jesse had been watching Lexa in the kitchen for the past two hours, she had been cooking a feast ever since the others had left, and she had smiled all the way through. She had changed her clothes, instead of the tight black clothes she wore, she was wearing a light yellow dress that was just above her knees, Jesse didn't even think she owned colourful clothing! The hummed a tune as she seasoned some exotic dish, it was at this point that Jesse realised that this wasn't the Lexa he knew and… liked?
'Do you know when Phoebe and Brennan will be back?' she asked with an eerie smile.
'Erm… they should be back any minute, you know, Brennan called you uptight earlier,' Jesse lied, trying to get through to the real Lexa.
'Hmm…' was her response
'And Phoebe was complaining about your fighting skills,' Jesse moved closer to her.
'Really?' she replied, finally! She was turning back, 'I'm just going to have to make her a basket of muffins!'
Jesse's head dropped at that, he had went through every magical resource that Phoebe had brought with her when she had come to Sanctuary, and he still couldn't find anything that could help! He had tried showing her pictures of Leo, pictures of the team together, nothing was getting through.
'We're home!' Phoebe's voice came from the main area. Jesse walked out to find Brennan taking Phoebe's coat from her, he smiled, it had been only a year ago that Brennan had been a real ladies man, now he was a father to be and someone's fiancé!
'Hey, how was the doctor?'
'Electrifying. How's Lexa?' she dismissed his question
'Uh… worse, she hasn't stopped smiling since you left! You got any suggestions?'
'Well, I saw her get hit with a potion when she fought Ashlocke, that probably has something to do with it, I'll go see if I can get through to her with my powers,' she waddled over towards the kitchen.
Jesse caught the glint of happiness in Brennan's eyes as he watched Phoebe walk off.
'She really has changed you,'
Brennan came out of his daze, 'What?'
'Phoebe. She's changed you, all of us actually, for the better!'
'Of course she's changed me! I'm a father and husband to be!'
Jesse laughed, 'You nervous?'
Brennan smiled weakly, 'I'm a wreck, but I wouldn't change anything,'
'Really?'
'Yeah! I mean, this year has been a roller coaster, but we wouldn't be standing here right now if it weren't for her,'
'Yeah… and it's not just this year, Emma dying, Shal leaving… it's been a journey,' Brennan nodded solemnly, 'Listen Bren, about a best man…'
Brennan laughed, 'Like you even need to ask!'
Both of them laughed, it had been a while since they had talked like this. Phoebe came back into the room and groaned, putting her hands on her cheeks and stretching her face.
'Okay, magic is definitely at play, I've tried everything! Empathy, telepathy, telempathy, psionic blasts… someone's locked up her head tight!'
Lexa suddenly came through waving a wooden spoon, 'Dinner's ready!'
What! What do you mean the potion won't work!' Gabriel slammed his fists down, causing the mutant to shake.
'I'm sorry! It's seems that the potion doesn't spread as far as morality without the persons blood!'
'Damn it!' he paced the room, the mutant was shaking violently, afraid of what Gabriel was going to do next. He suddenly released an energy blast, instantly killing the mutant and making himself feel a lot better
Dinner had been a mostly quiet affair, Lexa was still acting weird and was getting worse by the minute, she stood up from the table and took the plates away, and going into the kitchen to prepare dessert. Jesse had had enough of her behaviour and he realised the only way to fix her would be to shock her back to her old self.
'Lexa, we need to talk,' he followed her into the kitchen.
'Oh! Don't tell me you're allergic to dessert!' she whined.
He stared at her blankly, when shook his head, 'No, this is about how you're acting,'
'I'm doing what a woman is supposed to do,' she began clattering the plates,
'Lexa, this isn't the you that I like! This isn't the you that I'm in love with!' she kept clattering dishes. Jesse took a deep breath; he would have to go to his last resort. He walked towards her and turned her to him forcefully, but gently. He kissed her passionately, holding the sides of her head while she just stood there, completely bewildered by what was happening. Even after she glowed purple, indicating that the magic had left her, she began to return the kiss by jumped up and wrapping her legs around his waist while her hands roamed through his sandy blonde hair.
Phoebe felt her empathy kick in, and was hit by one of the most powerful waves of love she ever felt, she smiled as she realised what had happened.
Sorry that this was a bit shorter than usual, but I thought I would do some Sanctuary sappiness lol!
Chapter 28 ' Crash Course' will be up soon!
I have some recommendations for stories if anyone is interested; they have my seal of approval so that means there are of very high standard lol!
Destiny (and prequel)by Pyrena
Children of Light (and prequels) by Princess Pinky
Simply Charmed by wyatt333ANNOUNCEMENT: I now have pictures of the following people, Aidan, Pamela, Brennan's three sisters and Connor and Faith from Phoebe's vision, if you want them, just put a request in your review and I'll send them to you! And if you can guess this question correctly, I will send you profiles of FUTURE CHARACTERS!
What is Aidan's last name?
The answer is here somewhere! Find it and I'll send you the profiles!
