Prince Halliwell – Jenna's powers will be growing just like the rest of them, so she might do it again, but you'll need to read to find out! And about the pregnancies (resists temptation to give away storyline) you'll need to find out by reading! It's killing me not being able to tell you lol! And I think this chapter is going to be everyone's favourite, it's the longest one I've ever written and with Shalimar and Connor, it's going to be amazing! And you're getting REALLY close! The finale will be about Aidan's past but I won't give away anything yet, let's just say it's a pretty big secret!
Piperfairy – I know, I liked the ending too! I can't break up my homemade couple lol! And the countdown is over! Connor's arriving today! I'm you liked Phoebe coming back!
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I Scream The Baby Electric
Phoebe sat in the darkness of a night time Sanctuary. She was staring out of the air vent that showed the squall in the sky at this very moment, clouds moved quickly as the howling wind sent them across the sky at an amazing speed, but not before letting lightning fork and flash, momentarily blinding the witch. Phoebe didn't usually like storms, but for some reason, this one fascinated her! The way she could hear the rain pound off the side of the mountain, the way she felt like the thunder shook the very ground she has her slippered feet on, and of course the force and power she felt when the lightning cut a bright hole in the inky black sky. The door of her bedroom creaked open and Phoebe was pleased when she saw her husband to be walk out out of the room in his sleeping wear, that being his boxers.
He rubbed his eyes like a small child, 'Honey… What are you doing up?'
She smiled, 'Oh, the storm woke me up, that and I had to pee,' he made a face at her honesty as he sat down next to her at the face of the dojo, 'What? You wanted to know why I was up, so…' she smirked.
'Are you sure? Because I can wake up Adam if you want a check up,'
Phoebe sighed, he had been like this ever since she had entered the last month of her pregnancy, 'Don't you dare! He was up all last night trying to find that deflective mutant, he still didn't find her,'
'Really? Well, he's got his computers on hyper sensitive or something… I switch off when he starts to talk about stuff like that,'
She laughed and pecked him on the cheek before looking back up at the storm, Brennan noticed her interest in the outside and spoke,
'I used to watch storms when I was kid,' he said.
Phoebe smiled slightly, 'Hmm… Maybe that's why I'm so hypnotised by it,' he patted her large stomach, 'Talk about your binding passions,'
But he saw through her distraction, 'Then… Why do I feel you're not telling me everything?'
Phoebe raised her eyebrows, 'Wow! For a minute there I thought I was talking to Jesse!' she smirked.
He too, raised his eyebrows, 'Hmm… Is that a compliment?'
She ignored him, 'It feel like… We're on the verge of something, you know? We're just sitting here waiting for it to happen?'
'What do you mean? A premonition?'
She shook her head slightly, 'I don't know… Maybe… It's feels like it's trying to get out. The vision I mean, but it just can't,'
'Well…' he put an arm around her shoulders, she snuggled into the his chest, 'Maybe it's not a premonition, maybe it's the baby,'
Phoebe made a curious face, 'I suppose it's possible… I mean I have developed a sixth sense about the future,' she felt his chest vibrate when he laughed,
'I'm not surprised, after seeing it for seven years. C'mon, let's go back to bed,' he got up.
'Okay, I'll be along in a minute, I just need to make another run to the bathroom!' she grinned before kissing him and letting go of his hand, she got up and looked at the stormy sky one last time, before walking off to the bathroom.
Adam began typing furiously on the keyboard as an alarm went in Sanctuary, 'Alright everyone! Get in here!'
Lexa walked into the lab casually, 'Last time I checked we had comrings, you don't need to holler and bring the mountain down on us!'
Adam ignored her comment and began to talk as Brennan and Jesse entered, 'Okay, I finally got hold of this deflective mutant! You three need to get over there now! I'll patch the coordinates into the Helix,'
'Whoa! Hold on, have you seen the storm out there? As soon as we fly out the hangar we'd be blown into the side of the mountain leaving only a scorch mark!' Jesse exclaimed.
'Alright then, drive! Either way you get need to get to her before Ashlocke does!' he urged, 'Once you're in the direct area, Phoebe will make a telempathic bond with her and help you locate her,'
'What am I doing?' Phoebe asked, waddling into the lab after hearing her name being mentioned.
'Oh, you're going to be our supernatural radar,' Lexa replied with a smirk.
The psionic witch narrowed her eyes, 'Cute. Just tell me when and I'll be ready,' she nodded confidently.
'Alright you guys, go!' Adam urged again, he was really anxious to get this mutant on their side.
Andy stood at the edge of the city, desperately trying to get in. He had tried everything! Orbs, potions and just good old fashioned ramming into it, but nothing was working. The Elders theory was that the storm which had been blanketing the entire city and surrounding area for the past few days, was magically conjured, and it wasn't allowing any magical being in or out until it had came what it did to do.
'Dammit…' he breathed, knowing that the end of Phoebe's pregnancy was eminent and he would to be there to heal if anything were to go wrong.
'Hey!' a bus driver called from his window, 'I'm taking this tour group into the city, you wanna ride?'
'Uh…' Andy looked at the invisible barrier and thought better of it, knowing that barrier would stop him even on a bus, 'No thanks, I'll pass,'
The bus driver nodded in response and drove more into the storm. The frustrated whitelighter looked up and cursed the dark clouds that were keeping him out of the city. He gritted his teeth and orbed out, knowing that there was nothing he could do.
'Ugh!' Lexa put her hood up on the waterproof jacket she had been forced to wear. The rain was lashing the streets while thunder and lightning tormented the sky, it was truly hell! The three members of Mutant X ran through the alley, the water splashing and soaking their feet as they moved, 'Okay Pheebs, now would be a really good time to get us a location!' Lexa shouted into her comring over the thunder and rain.
Phoebe frowned as she tried to locate the mutant, 'What's wrong?' Adam asked, noticing her with a confused expression on her face.
'It's strange, I can't reach this girl through any of my powers,' she replied and turned to him, 'Is it possible she's using her power to make herself untraceable?'
Adam mulled it over then answered, 'It's possible, her deflection power is a full body effect so that might mean her heart and brain also,'
Phoebe rolled her eyes, 'Figures,'
Lexa's voice came through the comring, 'While you guys slowly ponder over this in a dry, warm environment, we'll out here getting soaked and freezing our asses off!'
Phoebe and Adam smiled at the typical Lexa remark, 'Sorry guys, it looks like you're doing a visual sweep,' she smirked when she heard everyone sigh and groan.
'Ugh… Fine! But you better have a hot bath ready for me!' Lexa spat.
'Hot coffee will do me fine,' Jesse added.
'Aw… You guys are wimps! C'mon let's go!' Brennan ran down the alley.
'Phoebe…' Lexa began
'Don't worry, he won't get a warm up cuddle for that when he comes home!' she grinned.
'Good!' Lexa said triumphantly, running after the two guys.
Mutant X had been searching for an hour, they were wet, cold and tired, but they kept trudging on and tried to find this mutant. Lexa finally had an outburst, sitting down on the sodden ground and folding arms.
'That's it! I've had enough! Either this mutant shows up in the next minute, or I'm going back to the car for a heat and dryness!'
'You were covert operative before you joined us, who can you not handle a bit of rain?' Jesse asked.
'Okay, number one…' she held up her finger, 'This isn't just a little rain!' she held her hands out as if she was trying to catch the rain, 'And number two, I don't do wet,'
Brennan and Jesse sniggered, 'You don't do wet?' Brennan repeated with a smirk.
Lexa shot him a glare, 'I'm surprised you do wet, Sparky. Especially since you can't light up in a rainstorm,' she smiled sweetly at him.
Brennan's face fell, damn! He had completely forgot that he couldn't use his powers when he was wet. This would leave him at a major disadvantage if they ran into the Links. Jesse spotted something coming round the corner, 'Looks like the car heater will have to wait, Lex,' someone was walking away from them and down the alley, 'That's our girl,'
'It's about time, you boys catch up,' she stood up and disappeared in a flash of light.
'Dammit, she's gonna scare the hell out of her!' Brennan exclaimed.
Sure enough, Lexa reappeared instantly in front of the girl, 'Going somewhere?' the woman backed away and her body began to glow a yellowish colour, 'Would that be your deflection?' Lexa said with an unimpressed tone.
The girl stopped glowing, 'How'd you-,'
'We're friends of Adam Kane,' the light molecular replied flatly.
'You guys are Mutant X?' she looked at them all.
'Yeah, c'mon we need to get you out of here,' Jesse ushered her the other way, until an energy ball came flying past the team and causing a dumpster to explode. The three of them turned round to see at least ten Strand members. Lexa narrowed her eyes and prepared to fight,
'Brennan, get her back to the car,' she said, not taking her eyes off the enemy.
'Are you kidding me?' he replied, getting ready to spark up.
'I wouldn't do that unless you want to be a human Christmas tree,' Lexa warned, 'Look, your fighting skills won't be enough to take these guys down, Jesse can fight and can use his powers! You're grounded at the moment,'
Brennan hesitated before growling and lowering his hand, running towards the deflective mutant, 'Alright! C'mon! Let's go! Let's go!' he urged her, running down the dark path and back to the street.
'Ashlocke shall rule you all!' One of the more crazed Links shouted as he jumped up onto the top of a rusting forklift and roared. Lexa grimaced and assumed he was an ursine feral of some sort.
'Oh yeah? Well, tell Ashlocke I said hi!' and with a sweet smile, she released a powerful dazzle, blinding all of the Links. Jesse, who's eyes had grown accustomed to these bursts if light, took advantage of this distraction and jumped up onto a closed dumpster and shot a thermal blast at the primal witch, knocking off the forklift and onto the ground. Once the light had disappeared, so had the rest of the Links,
'Where'd they go?' Lexa looked around, slightly flinching when the thunder rumbled above her.
Jesse jumped off the crate and sighed, 'Damn… They must have escaped during your little light show,' he then realised what was going on, 'Aw man… that guy…' he gestured towards the downed feral, 'Was just a distraction, they're going after Brennan,'
Lexa put her hand to her forehead, 'Crap… And the one day Sparky's actually powerless!'
'Okay, I'll this way, you go that way,' he said, pointing in respective directions.
'Who said you get to bark orders?'
'No one, but since your last plan has now bit us in the ass, I'm in charge,' Lexa rolled her eyes and walked down the way Jesse had told her.
Jesse could hear the rain being amplified against the dirty skylight of the warehouse. Looking around cautiously, he walked in slowly, looking around every corner and even under the old conveyer belt! He had checked in with Lexa just before entering the warehouse, making sure that she was ready to come to his aid if things got ugly, knowing that this could be the perfect place for Links who had the same love for the wet as Lexa.
He spun round on the spot, hearing something like a bottle being rolled across the concrete floor, after giving the place a quick scan with his eyes, he decided to move forward. Suddenly seeing something out of the corner of his eye, Jesse quickly phased just in time to avoid a gravitational blast, which hit the conveyer belt behind him and making the metal and rubber crush itself into a crumpled sphere.
'Gravity a pretty dangerous thing…' a woman's voice said, she soon walked out from behind a set of metal stairs, 'One of these things…' she played with another gravity ball in her hand, 'Can make your body crush itself!'
'It's a good thing I have a pretty good control over my body then…' Jesse replied calmly, phasing out again as she fired another gravitational ball.
'Why do you fight us? Gabriel only wants the best for our kind!'
'Maybe! But he's going about it the wrong way about it!' Jesse shouted back, releasing two thermal blasts from his hands, one freezing cold and the other roasting hot but the Link just threw out two gravity balls and cancelled out the blasts.
'There's the problem with Mutant X, you all do things independently, while we work together as a unit,' once the smoke had cleared, Jesse saw that all of the Strand members that he'd been looking for, had all gathered during the blast and circled him.
'Lexa…' he called to nowhere, but she had heard him through her comring.
'I'm on my way,' she responded, instantly being there in a flash of light.
'I like that power more and more every day,' Jesse smirked.
'Me too,'
The woman that fired the gravity balls clicked her fingers and a massive burly man came out of the shadows, he was completely bald and wore an intimidating scowl. Veins bulged in his thick arms as he cracked the bones in his fingers. The other Links ran off after he had appeared.
'Looks like someone ate his porridge in the morning,' Lexa commented with a smile, before releasing a hot laser from her fingertips, but before it hit, the man breathed in and metal covered his body and the hot light bounced off it, hitting one of the iron beams that held the roof up.
'Metallic massing…' Jesse growled, fists clenched.
'Now you tell me…' the light molecular spat back to her teammate.
The looming man approached them. Jesse jumped in front of Lexa and massed out in a feeble attempt to protect her, but the man lifted Jesse, even in his massed out form, and threw him at an incredible speed towards the brick wall. Massed Jesse smashed right through the wall on contact and landed in the rubble, heavily injured.
'JESSE!' Lexa screamed, instantly wanting to run to him, but the man grabbed her with lightning quick reflexes.
'Hey,' someone said from the behind the foreboding man, they must have tapped his back, because he let go of Lexa and turned around to face them, she still couldn't see who is it was because of the man's build. She suddenly heard the human mountain groan in pain and he fell to the floor! But what was even more surprising was that the person that had knocked him was a woman! She had blonde hair that went past her shoulders and her eyes glowed with a hypnotising gold colour. This woman was one of Genomex's most powerful ferals, this woman was one of Lexa's best friends, this woman was Shalimar Fox!
'Shal?' the woman breathed, barely able to talk.
Shalimar ignored her so she could make a witty remark at the man, 'Think about this moment the next time you pick on someone half your size!' she unravelled the iron chains that she had wrapped around her fist, 'You okay?'
'Yeah, but Jess…' she walked briskly over to the lifeless body that lay within large broken parts of concrete and had been soaked by the outside rain. Lexa put her two fingers under his jaw and onto his neck, 'His pulse is there… but it's really weak,'
'Don't worry, I know Jess, he's a fighter!' she grinned as she pulled a potion vial out of her pocket and smashing it on Jesse's chest. His wounds disappeared instantly and he regained consciousness.
'Thank God…' Shalimar sighed.
Her friend raised an eyebrow, 'You didn't know if it was going to work?'
'Hey, I took a chance, he would have died anyway, since your whitelighter seems to be non existent, but it's not his fault,'
'What do you mean it's not his fault, and how do you know about our whitelighter?' Jesse asked, getting helped up.
'I'll explain when we get to Sanctuary, where's the Helix?'
Jesse shook his head, 'It was too dangerous to fly, we had to drive,'
The feral rolled her eyes, 'Fine where are you parked?' they were about to answer, but she put up her hand, 'Never mind, I'll just sniff out Brennan,' her eyes went feral and she jumped out the hole that Jesse's crash landing had made, the other two looked out to see her but she had already jumped off into the night.
'Well, I'm glad to see she hasn't lost her fondness for grand entrances and exits,' Jesse muttered, taking Lexa's hand and disappearing in a flash of light.
Phoebe stood at the garage entrance, waiting for her friends to get out of the car so she could greet them. She had decided to keep her power problem under wraps, since it would only worry Brennan and it as probably nothing, although it didn't feel like nothing. Her feelings of apprehension had been rising all day, and the fact that something was jamming her psychic abilities was adding to the worry, but being a psionic, Phoebe had learned how to mask her true feelings. But her spirits were lifted when she saw Shalimar appear with her friends, she grinned from ear to ear as did the feral when she saw Phoebe.
'Oh my God! Shal! Why didn't you tell me you were coming?' Phoebe exclaimed as she embraced the blond, 'Wow, your tan looks great! A lot better than in those photos!'
'Thanks! And look at you! The last pictures you sent me you weren't this big!' the woman laughed as they enjoyed each other's company.
Lexa raised her hand, 'Uh… Excuse me? Am I the only one that's confused here? You guys tried to kill each other last time you met!'
'Oh, c'mon Lexa! She was possessed! And after that whole 'fight to the death' thing, we've been keeping on contact through e-mail ever since,' the psionic smiled triumphantly.
'Oh! I've got my digital camera with me!' Shal brought out a small camera from the bag that was on her shoulder, 'You think I could develop my pictures from Rome?'
'Sure!' Phoebe beamed and began walking to her room, 'You coming?'
'I gotta report to Adam first,' she walked in the different direction, 'I'll see you later, okay?' Phoebe nodded and went into her room.
Brennan and Jesse walked away to show the deflective mutant around, leaving Lexa standing there alone, 'What am I? Chopped liver?' she muttered hopelessly to no one, feeling left out by her 'gal pals'
Shalimar grinned as she walked into the lab to find Adam, who was looking down a microscope at the time, 'Surprise!' she shouted, surprising the aging man slightly.
Adam turned around and grinned, 'Shalimar!' he embraced the girl that he had known for so long in a hug.
'Last time I heard from you, you were in Italy. Did you beating all the guys at the coliseum get too boring for you?' he joked.
'Yeah, and none of them would fight topless, so…'
'Uh huh, what'd else you get?'
'New shoes, a new language and a prophecy,' she said the last word with a dark tone.
Adam's brow furrowed, 'What do you mean?'
She began to pace the lab, 'Well I was exploring the more rural parts of the country, you know me, any excuse for the outdoors. Anyway, my curiosity got the better of me and I went into a cave that I found, which was pretty stupid since I got possessed the last time I went into one, but…'
'Shalimar…' Adam said in a fatherly tone, reminding her that she was going off track.
'Sorry. So when I went into this cave, there was a man, he called himself a shaman. He handed me this…' she pulled out a scroll of old parchment from her bag and handed it to Adam, 'And said I should give it to the wisest person I knew to decipher it. You popped into my mind immediately,' she smiled.
Adam smiled and gave the text on the scroll a once over, 'Hmm… A lot of it's deteriorated, but I think I can use some reanimation equipment to bring up a perfect copy on the computer. The part I can read is… The child of…' he narrowed his eye then looked up, 'Sorry, it's written in a very ancient form of Roman language, it's not one of my best subjects. The child of… The child of…' he leaned in closer.
Shalimar walked over to him and patted his back, 'I'll leave you with your new toy, I've got some female bonding to do,' she walked out of the lab, Adam not even realising she was gone!
The three girls sat around the computer area as the pictures from Shal's camera loaded on to the screen. Most of the pictures were scenery of cities, and they were better than postcard! But Phoebe and Lexa knew that Shalimar had done a lot of jumping to get these pictures. Another picture loaded onto the screen, it was Shalimar sitting outside a small café as the busy traffic of Rome whizzed by her as she slurped a cappuccino.
'So how was the nightlife?' Lexa asked, knowing that her friend loved to wander around in the darkness of night.
'It was great, the city looked amazing at night. It was all lit up, and seeing it all from top of the coliseum was great! There's just a sense of freedom in a place like that,' she shook her head wistfully, obviously remembering some good times.
'Wow, sounds like my kind place…' Phoebe breathed as she imagined being where Shal had been when she had taken the photo of the Rome skyline.
Shal hit her arm lightly, 'You and Bren should go sometime, you'd love it,'
'Look's like travelling the world agrees with you,' Lexa smiled as her feral friend nodded slowly.
Phoebe narrowed her eyes and looked towards the basketball court that Brennan and Jesse had set up, they were currently playing a game with the deflective mutant, Rebecca.
'Is it me, or has she been flirting with Brennan and Jesse ever since she got here?'
'It's not just you,' Lexa replied with disgust as she watched Rebecca try and get the ball off Brennan, who was holding it high. There seemed to be a lot on unnecessary rubbing of bodies as she jumped up and tried to grab the ball. The mutant finally got the ball and ran up the court, bouncing it the process, and jumped up, putting the ball into the net. She cheered herself with an infectious giggle and hugged Jesse tightly, who, being a typical man, didn't know what was going on and returned the hug, adding to Lexa's anger.
'Speaking of guys…' Shal began, 'Where do you and Jesse stand these days?'
'I tell you when I know,'
'Ah!' there was a scream from the court and Rebecca was down on the floor holding her ankle. Brennan knelt down to make sure she was alright,
'Whoa! Are you okay? I shouldn't have threw that ball so hard!' he said, cursing himself.
'It's okay!' she winced in fake pain, the girls could see she was faking it, but the boys were oblivious, 'Could you carry me to the lab so Adam can check it?' she asked in a sweet voice.
'Sure…' he replied, hoisting her up in his arms, putting one arm behind her knees and the other around her shoulders, and then walking off to the lab with Rebecca snuggling into his chest. Phoebe eyes flashed with fury and Lexa bared her teeth slightly to the smug mutant, who just stuck out her tongue without Brennan noticed. Shalimar put a stop to this by making her eyes go feral and letting out a growl from the back of her throat. Phoebe laughed at this and Lexa grinned, high fiving her old friend.
'What do you think Julie? Is this magical?' Andy asked the Mulwray witch, who was an expert on magical storms since her power was atmokinesis. Julie walked slowly towards the edge of the city and felt the barrier, narrowing her eyes every now and again.
'Hmm… Looks like Phoebe is carrying the Child of Storms,' the aging woman smiled, 'Not really a surprise though, seeing as how both her and Brennan are so powerful,'
'The Child of Storms?' Andy asked with a raised eyebrow.
Julie turned round, 'In our family, there's a prophecy, one that tells of a child who shall be born into the elements. Hmm… How does it go again? Oh yes! The gods shall unleash their fury upon the bearer of the child. That would be the storm and Phoebe,' she added, 'The forces of magic shall be prevented from interfering as the birth dawns upon the world. That part's pretty self explanatory, the barrier's stopping all magical beings from getting in or out,' she added another side note, 'And last part says, Once the Child of Storms is brought into the world, only then will the sun shine once more,'
'So it's Phoebe's baby that doing this?'
'No, but Phoebe's baby is the reason…' she sighed and turned back to the barrier, 'I could probably break the barrier long enough for you to get inside and help, but it's gonna take some pretty powerful magic!'
'You can really do that?'
She smiled, 'Storms are my thing honey, if there's clouds, I can move'em,' Julie winked and turned back the city, ready to try and lift this storm.
The Mutant X team, plus Shalimar, had been sent out again, this time to stop some Strand activity that Adam had seen reported on the news. If they were attracting the attention of the press, they had to be stopped. This meant that Phoebe was left with Rebecca for company, much to her disgust, it annoyed Phoebe that she couldn't read her, but right now, she couldn't read anyone, and she was beginning to think the storm was the cause.
For now, Rebecca was leaving Phoebe at the computers, much to the pregnant psionic's relief, who was ready to hit her! She had been asking her questions about Brennan and Jesse, like if they were single, whether she thought they were hot or not, and saying that their past girlfriends were stupid for letting them go. Phoebe had finally cracked and shouted that they were already spoken for. Rebecca had been outraged and said, 'Someday, I'll have everything that's yours,' Phoebe had just ignored this because of her temper.
Adam finished scanning the parchment with his reanimation equipment and a perfect copy appeared on the computer screen, he could finally begin to translate it! Phoebe walked into the lab slowly, taking deep breaths and holding her stomach,
'Oh, Phoebe! It's good that you're here, I was about to-,'
'Adam.' She stopped him flatly.
'What is it?'
'My water just broke,'
'What? Why did you move? You should have called me!' Adam exclaimed.
'Okay, bitching later, child birth now,' she retorted.
'You're right, I'm sorry, c'mon, let's get you up here,' he guided her slowly onto one of the bed in the lab, lifting up her legs for her. Phoebe screamed in pain as a contraction hit her,
'Brennan… I need Brennan, and Lexa, and Jesse, and… everyone!' she breathed.
Adam raised his ring to his mouth, about to alert the others, when something hit him in the back, sending him flying into the computers and knocking him out. Phoebe spun her head around to see what had caused it, and her eyes bulged out of her head when she saw Rebecca standing with Gabriel Ashlocke!
Gabriel smirked, 'Daddy's home,'
The Mutant X team entered Cybertech building, apparently Adam had located some Links causing trouble of the people in the labs and he had sent his team to find out what was wrong. Lexa had stayed in the car, refusing to get soaked again after cleaning up. It was now night, although you couldn't tell it was the day since the black clouds had been covering the city and Sanctuary all day and it was beginning to make the team suspicious. Lexa typed something into her laptop, bringing up a rap sheet on their houseguest, Rebecca. She looked on the screen and gasped when she saw what was on it, Rebecca was a Link! Andy suddenly appeared in a swirl of orbs in the back seat, making Lexa.
'Damn! Andy, where the hell have you been?' she scolded him, mainly because he had startled her.
'I've been trying to get to you guys! the storm's keeping all magic out!' he retorted, 'But we don't have time! Phoebe's went into labour,'
Lexa slammed down the screen of her laptop, 'What?'
'That's not all, Ashlocke's with her,'
The molecular's eyes widened, she had to do something, 'Okay, I'll flash over there and buy us some time, get in that building and find the others, then orb their butts back to Sanctuary!' she disappeared before Andy could protest.
Phoebe screamed again as she felt another contraction rack her body, Gabriel came up to her, putting a cold hand on her shoulder and leaning in to whisper something into her ear.
'It'll be easier if you don't fight it,' he smirked.
Through the tears in her eyes she looked at him, 'You… Can't have… My baby,'
He laughed, 'Don't be stupid, I would never dream of separating the two of you, all I need to do is turn you evil and we can rule together,' he kissed her on the cheek and stroked her back.
She let out a small laugh, 'In your… Dreams,' Phoebe managed to breath out before another contraction hit her, causing her to scream again.
Rebecca stood at the bottom of Phoebe, 'She's almost ready to begin pushing,' she said heartlessly,
'Good, and make sure you wear rubber gloves. His daddy's probably given him some electrifying powers, I'll change that once I'm his father though,'
'Now there's a laugh,' a voice said, 'You were dropped on your too many times as a kid, Ashlocke, way too many times,'
Gabriel scowled, 'Not you again…' he turned around to face Lexa.
'Sorry to disappoint you, but her child already has a father,' her face grew dark, 'And a set of godparents!' she cried, releasing a dazzle and then a laser at Ashlocke, sending him across the room, unconscious. Rebecca stood up from her crouching position and began to glow, 'Deflect this!' Lexa shouted, before hitting the mutant hard with her fist, making her fall to the floor, 'Bitch!'
Surveying her work, she ran over to her friend and stroked her head, 'Don't worry Pheebs, everything's going to be okay, Brennan's on his-,' she didn't get to finish her sentence when Ashlcoke got back and released an energy blast, sending her into the wall. Rebecca began to get back up too, holding her jaw in pain and taking back her position.
'Alright, it's time,' she said, still holding her jaw.
Gabriel leaned in and licked Phoebe's ear, 'I'm gonna make you push, whether you want to or not,' he leaned back and his eyes went red. He took control of Phoebe's body and made her push. Phoebe cried, she couldn't even control her body, 'AH!' she screamed, he was pushing her body to the limits, and since her psychic abilities were jammed, she couldn't even fire a psionic blast, she was trapped!
'I see a head!' Rebecca squealed, 'I'm gonna enjoy raising this baby in your place,' she smirked at Phoebe and brought out an athame. Ashlocke smirked evilly and smelt Phoebe's hair in a sick way, lifting it with his fingers and putting his nostrils right on it.
'GET AWAY FROM HER!' Brennan yelled, releasing two powerful bolts of electricity at Ashlocke as soon as he appeared in the cloud of orbs that had brought him here. Ashlocke was sent hurtling across the room and flew through the wall that connected to the main part of Sanctuary, but that wouldn't keep him down for long.
Shalimar ran at the Link at amazing speed, delivering a solid punch to the face, making Rebecca scream in pain, 'That was for coming on to my friends,' she then kneed her in the stomach, 'That was for trying to steal my friend's baby…' Shal then grabbed her head and threw it up, making Rebecca stand up right, before delivering a powerful roundhouse kick to her face, 'And that was for being just plain annoying,'
Ashlocke got back up, 'Get out of my way! That baby is MINE!' he screamed, releasing an energy blast at the group, but it rebounded off a massed out Jesse and hit him, knocking him out again.
'Alright…' Phoebe breathed, seeing that all the bad guys were down, 'Get this baby out of me!'
Everyone looked at each other awkwardly before Andy quickly healed Adam and Lexa, who hadn't been that badly injured.
'Alright, I'll take care of those two,' Andy gestured at the fallen evils, 'You guys deal with her,' and with that, he orbed out with Ashlocke and Rebecca.
Everyone took their positions, the Mutant X team stood at wither side of Phoebe while Adam took his place at the bottom. Brennan took her hand and kissed it before she spoke,
'B-Bre-Brennan!'
'What is it honey?'
'I'm sorry if I break any of the bones in your hand!' she blurted out through breaths.
He laughed, 'Don't worry I'm pretty strong,' he kissed her head. Adam quickly surveyed the scene from his position.
'Okay Phoebe, you've did most of the pushing already, I just need one more push, can you give me that?'
Phoebe cried and shook her head, 'I… can't!'
Lexa stroked her hair and took her other side, 'Yes you can, hun! I know you can do it!'
With the support from her friends, Phoebe closed her eyes, gritted her teeth and pushed with all her might! Brennan and Lexa were fighting back the urge to scream as Phoebe was currently crushing their hands as she pushed. Phoebe suddenly screamed as she ended her push, and Connor Halliwell Mulwray was born into the world with a hearty cry from his tiny lungs.
Adam cut the umbilical chord and checked for any external damage, he was pleased to see the baby was healthy and wrapped him in a warm blanket before handing him to Phoebe.
She wept freely as she cradled the smiling little bundle in her arms, 'We did it…' she breathed to Brennan, 'We did it…'
He grinned in response, 'We did…' he sat up on the bed next to her and put an arm round her shoulders, staring at his son who looked back at him with clear, innocent blue eyes. Connor cooed slightly and wriggled his arms and legs, still getting used to being outside. The proud parents smiled at him and he smiled back, turning Phoebe and Brennan's smiles into grins. Shalimar nodded towards the door and everyone left the two to bask in the happiness of their baby boy………
The citizens of the city that was near Sanctuary looked outside of their windows. The people that had had their umbrella's up took them down as the rain stopped, the people who had been standing under bus shelters stood on the sidewalk. They all looked up to see the sun shine down on them.
(cries) I should get an Oscar, don't you think? Lol, kidding! Okay guys, here's how the two finales are going to work, I will the two first parts to begin with, then I'll post the Part Two's as chapters 39 and 40!
Chapter 37 Mutant X Finale 'How The Other Side Kills' will be up soon!
