Old Flame

Chapter 8: If Your Gone

Pain made tears swim before her eyes, but she refused to cry. She gritted her teeth and glared at Eckhardt, Jade wouldn't say anything to put Adam or the other mutants in danger, she didn't care what they did to her.

Eckhardt frowned a little and looked at Cole. "So tell me, what information did you get me on Mutant X's safe house? Hmmm?"

Cole smiled and pulled out a disk and tossed it onto the desk in front of Eckhardt.

"I got all the information that you wanted..." he said with a pleased smile.

Jade glared at Cole, she looked at the disk and used her powers to lift it off the desk. The pain using her powers caused was almost unbearable, but she'd felt it before. The disk slammed down on the desk, shattering in little bits, once that was done Jade's body went limp as she lost conciousness.

Eckhardt glared at Cole and looked at the agent behind him. Cole doubled over in pain. Looking up at Eckhardt in surprise as he sank to the floor.

"Your losing my patience. I suggest that you take her back to her cell and find out how to get that information on Mutant X back." He turned his chair and looked out the window, the conversation obviously over.

Shalimar looked at Jesse "are you reading anything on the sensors?"

Jesse looked at the pannel infront of him and shook his head. "Nothing yet, but we are only starting to get readings on Genomex. So we should be able to track her down...l hope."

Shalimar looked at him "we'll find her and get her back to the Sanctuary safely."

Jesse noddeed and turned his attention to the pannel and trying to find Jade.

Lucas jumped up as the door opened a bit and Jade was tossed inside. The agents didn't give the others in the room a second glance before shutting the door again.

Jade moaned softly, her body shaking from the shocks.

Lucas moved to her and knelt down "Jade...Jade..." he said softly, giving her a soft shake.

Jade moaned softly and opened her eyes slowly and looked up at Lucas, her vision was blurred. Terrible pain shot through her "Adam..." she moaned Lucas face becoming doubled.

Lucas looked confused for a moment "Adam? Jade, who's Adam?"

Jade's eyes closed the virus she had before had been reactivated. She licked her lips "Adam...Mutant..." her voice a whisper.

Lucas's eyebrows raised "Mutant? What what your trying to say?"

Jade forced her eyes open again and she looked at Lucas there were now 3 faces floating above her. She tried to nod her head and she grabbed his hand and held it tightly.

"Adam..." she repeated, her skin turning pale and had spots of sweat.

Brennan looked at Adam and moved to stand beside him. "They will find her and she will be fine."

Adam turned his head to Brennan, worry was written all over his face. "l know they will find her. It's how they will find her that worries me."

Brennan smiled and put his hand on Adam's shoulder. "She's a strong mutant Adam. I really don't think that she would do anything to put you in danger or us. But at the same time that will probably put her in danger, Shalimar and Jesse should be there soon. Jade will get back here just fine."

Adam turned and studied Brennan before smiling. "I knew that somewhere inside that tough guy attitude was a smart guy waiting to come out. Now go help Emma and Krysta they found another new mutant and are trying to find a location."

Brennan nodded and spoke quietly. "Try not to worry Adam... We all know how much she means to you, so we'll get her back."


With that he turned and walked out of the lab, leaving Adam in silence. Adam stared at the screen, he put his head in his hands trying to think positively, but the mere thought of Jade not returning was almost too much for Adam to bear this time.

"I think l found her..." Jesse said excidely.

Shalimar grinned and looked at him. "Where is she?"

"She's in a cell with l think 5 other mutants. I can get us to her."

Shalimar grinned at him again and looked for a place to land. "Good, lets land, get inside, get Jade, get out and get back."

qJesse laughed and pointed to a good spot and made sure things were ready for landing.

qA few minutes later the Double Helix was cloaked and landed. "Were here Adam, were going in. Hopefully we won't be that long."

qShalimar and Jesse got out of the Double Helix and headed towards the door that lead down into Genomex.

Lucas looked at Jade and felt her forehead, she was getting a fever. He sighed softly and shook his head "damn Genomex..."

He turned and looked at the other mutants in the room, "can any of you help me?"

Two girls who sat huddled in a corner just shook their heads and stayed trembling next to each other.

Another man, older then Lucas stood and walked slowly over to him and Jade and knelt down. He smiled kindly at Lucas and then turned his head to study Jade, he moved Lucas's hand off her forehead.

"I doubt we can help her son. I am sure that this man she's been calling for probably could or would know someone who could help her."

Lucas looked at the man and sighed softly and looked back to Jade. "But how do we find him? We can't just walk out of here, they will kill us. Besides where would we even start looking for this man?"

"I don't know. But we must try to help her, she will die if we don't." The man put his hand on Lucas's shoulder and lifted his head as if he either heard something or saw somethign in his head.

"People have come for her. They will help her, help us."

Jesse followed Shalimar down the quiet hall, already 5 G.S.A guards lay unconcious behind them. "We need to go left at this corner. From the trace l did, l plotted out several ways to get to her."

Shalimar nodded and stalked forward to the corner and peered around it and grinned. "Looks like we get to fight some more..." she said turning her head and looked back to Jesse, a pleased grin on her lips.

"You always did like fighting to much. Well if your ready for a fight, then so am l. Lets get to Jade and the mutants get them out of here and get back to the Sanctuary."Jesse said stepping up beside Shalimar and then stepped out around her and moved into the hall.

Guards turned as they heard Jesse's footsteps and ran at him. Jesse turned solid and swung at the first guard, sending him flying, he turned his head seeing Shalimar lung for the other guard knocking him flying into the other guard.

"Way to go Shal. Do you ever fight fair?" he asked with a grin.

Shalimar looked at Jesse and stuck out her tongue. "Sometimes. Now come on, we have to hurry."

Jesse nodded and the two continued their way down the hall, making their way towards the room where Jade and Lucas were.

Emma looked over to Krysta and smiled. She showed the new mutant some relaxation techniques and smiled at how easily Krysta caught on.

Krysta stopped moving after a few minutes and sat down. She raised her eyes to Emma and cleared her throat as she thought.

"This search for Jade. It isn't a normal search is it? It's much more personal then that, right?"

Emma paused in her movements and looked at Krysta as she spoke. She sat down beside her and thought over her answer, before answering.

"Your right, this isn't a normal search. Jade means the world to Adam, it would kill him to lose her again."

Krysta tilted her head to the side, "again?"

Emma nodded "l don't know what happened. But Jade used to be a Mutant X member, one of the first...but she left the Sanctuary, she didn't tell Adam why she was leaving or that she was leaving."

Krysta lowered her eyes and sighed softly. "Poor Adam. This must be like that happening all over again, if l can help...in any way. Then l want to, l have a lot to make up for..."

Emma looked at her and put a arm around her shoulder. "It was your brother who took Jade, not you. You have done nothing to us."

"I could of told you, l could of saved Jade..." she whispered.

Jesse ran down the hallway, leaving Shalimar to take care of the guards at the end of the hall. He opened the door to the room and looked inside, he stared as he saw Jade on the floor two mutants kneeling beside her.

"Jade?" he said hurrying to her side.

Lucas looked up at him "who are you? Are you a friend of Jades?"

Jesse nodded his head. "Yes, l am. I'm Jesse."

The older man looked at Lucas "he's telling the truth Lucas."

The man looked at Jesse.

"She needs to get help. We think that some man named Adam can help her..."

Jesse smiled at that and nodded.

"Come on, are they all comming with us?" he asked looking around at the other 3 mutants.

Lucas nodded and stood and moved to talk to the others. A minute later they were all standing around Jade, Jesse scooped up Jade before Lucas could and nodded to the door.

"Follow me. A friend is keeping the guards busy, come on."

The small group of mutants quickly left the room and Jesse back tracked the way he'd came. The group looked around them as they followed Jesse, Lucas kept close to Jade, glancing at Jesse every few minutes.

Shalimar turned and gave the group of new mutants a quick smile and then kicked out behind her, her eyes flashing for a moment. "Glad you guys made it so quickly. I'm not sure how much longer l could of held them off."

Jesse smirked and nodded towards the exit. Shalimar waited till Jesse lead the new mutants down the hall before following, making sure noone got lost.

Lamont looked at Eckhardt and held his hands behind his back.

"You wanted to see me Mr. Eckhardt?"

Eckhardt cleared his throat and looked at Lamont for a moment, before looking back to his computer.

"You have done well. The new mutant Jade has been overcome with the virus again, though she is quite stubborn in revealing information about Mutant X. Though this will have to change you understand. It might be best if you persuaded her to talk, let her know that it is in her best interest to cooperate, before that nasty virus takes care of her for good."

Lamont shifted his feet and nodded.

"Yes, sir. I will talk to her right away, is there anything else sir?"

Eckhardt tilted his head studing the other man.

"I do not tolerate failures Mr. O'Mearain. So l expect results, l've waited for this mutant to be in my possession and l expect that those who will be working with her, will be treating her properly."

"Of course sir."

Lamont turned and walked out the office as Eckhardt turned back to his computer.

Brennan smiled at Emma and Krysta as they sat talking. Adam's voice interupted their conversation, but smiles soon came over their faces.

Emma gently knudged Krysta with her shoulder.

"See? I told you that we'd get Jade back just fine. Now come on you two, we'll be needed to talk to the new mutants, while Adam takes care of Jade."

Brennan grabbed Emma's arm and turned her back to face him and Krysta.

"What do you mean take care of Jade? What's happened Emma?"

Emma looked at them and sighed "Genomex reactivated the virus. Jade's in bad shape."

Adam sighed in relief as he heard that Shalimar and Jessie had gotten Jade along with 5 other new mutants. Though the news about the virus disturbed him greatly, as he waited for Shalimar and Jesse to bring Jade to the lab he took the time to go over the information he'd gathered on the virus the first time.

Despite Jesse saying that Jade would be fine, Lucas had stubbornly set his mind on going with Jade to the lab. Jesse shrugged his shoulders and looked at Shalimar who just grinned and lead the others to a spot they could sit down and talk.

Jade murmered Adam's name again, this time Jesse told her soothingly that he was taking her to Adam.

"Will she be okay?" Lucas asked his eyes worried.

Jesse looked at the younger mutant and smiled "she should be fine. Adam is very smart, he knows everything...he will find a way to make her well again."

Lucas looked at Jesse and spoke a little quieter "Adam is here?"

Jesse cast a glance at Lucas again and nodded. He knew the signs, the young mutant had developed a crush on Jade, with that new knowledge he smiled again.

"Yes, Adam wouldn't let anything happen to Jade. Trust me."

Jesse walked into the lab, with a quieter Lucas trailing behind him. He laid Jade on the chair and looked at Adam.

Adam quickly stood and moved to Jade's side, he immedetly lifted her hand and checked her pulse, then he sent a curious glance at Lucas. But his eyes turned quickly back to Jesse as he spoke again.

"Get her ready for the scan. Do you know what happened?"

Jesse quickly shifted her on the chair and got her ready for the scan. Then he looked over to Adam who was back at the computer.

"The virus was reactivated, probably by Eckhardt or one of his agents."

Adam sighed and glanced at Jesse and then Jade.

"Start Scan" he said and walked to Jade and watched the scan for a second. He looked at Lucas and smiled.

"I take it that this is one of our new mutants?"

Jesse smiled and moved to Lucas's side.

"Adam this is Lucas, Lucas this is the leader of Mutant X Adam."

Lucas smiled at Adam, studing the man that Jade had kept asking for.

"Hello. I was wondering who Adam was...l'm glad to know that it was someone that could help Jade."

Adam raised his eyebrows at the young mutants comment. He turned to look back at the computer "stop scan" he said, looking back to Lucas.

"She said something about me?" he asked a bit curious.

Jesse looked at Adam hearing the curious tone in the man's voice.

Lucas shook his head slowly.

"No, after the G.S.A brought her back...she was unconcious. She kept saying your name, nothing else. Though when l asked her who Adam was, she managed to say Mutant..."

Adam looked thoughtful and moved back to the computer.

"Visual diagnostic" he said quietly, not sure what he'd find was wrong. He looked over the results as Lucas stood close to Jade, staring down at her.

Jade hadn't moved, or said a word since after they had arrived.

Adam turned to Jesse "get the vaccine that l made for her before. I will have to make it stronger this time..."

With that said Adam turned back to the computer and started to work on a stronger vaccine, his thoughts consumed with the urgency of making sure he didn't lose Jade again.