Darkness Falling

Bohemianbabe

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Note: for those who don't know. The chapters 2-9 will be 'flashbacks', the first chapter was a 'present day' introduction, and in chapter 10 we will re-turn to 'present day' thanks for the reviews from redhead2, molecular 12 and mxfan24 (?) cant remember that last name exactly. Sorry! More to come soon! Lotta love

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Chapter 7.

The Next Day.

The group of four sat impatiently waiting on the sofa near the computers. Lexa had been careful to position herself with both Jesse and Brennan between her and Shalimar. The two women were at an uneasy truce as they waited for the message from Adam.

When the computer finally beeped to signal that a new message had arrived the group jumped. Taking a deep breath Jesse got up and walked over to the computer. The other three followed as Jesse began to punch in the codes to play the message.

"Hopefully Jesse has decoded the coordinates that I send in the first message. I know that tomorrow is Shalimar's birthday and I wish that I could be with her then. I hate the fact that I have to make it three years in a row that I have missed the celebration.

"With that said, the day after tomorrow is the day we will meet. You are to arrive at one p.m. and I will be joining you in fifteen minutes from that time. If Lexa is indeed still with us I want her to remain at Sanctuary while the mission is in progress. Jesse has his choice to stay home with her or come to the meeting.

"I must cut this short. I will see all of you in two days." The message ended and Adam's image disappeared from the screen.

"I refuse to be left at home while the rest of you go get him." Lexa stated and crossed her arms over her chest.

Jesse, Brennan, and Shalimar exchanged glances quickly.

"We're staying here, Lexa." Jesse replied calmly. Reaching out he took her hand and pulled her to him. "I'm this close to getting to keep you forever and I'm not about to let you get away from me because of something this simple. Shalimar and Brennan can handle this one."

"None of you have even considered the possibility that this is just a set up." Lexa said as she snatched away from Jesse and began to pace back and forth in front of the others. "For all we know he's being forced to do this so someone can lure us out to kill us. If that's the case we are going to all need to go in."

"We have thought about that, Lexa." Brennan answered with an uncharacteristic calm. "If it was a trap to lure us out Adam would have never told you and Jesse to stay home. Shalimar and I will take our chances on this one."

Lexa shot Jesse a glare and left the room.

"She'll calm down later." Jesse said as he turned to face the computer. "You guys can go do whatever you need to do. I'll stay here and work on these security systems."

"I'm going to chance and then head to the dojo for a bit of a workout." Shalimar said as she gathered up her blonde locks into a thick pony tail. "Bren, you want to come join me?"

"I'll be along." Brennan watched as the feral walked out and then turend back to Jesse. "You really think it's going to be that easy to leave her here."

"I'm not stupid. She'll be fine, upset but fine."

"So are you going to try to go back to school?"

Jesse turned to face him, his expression that of sheer surprise. "I guess I might. I mean, I regret that I dropped out back then; but going back to pre-med would be hard after nearly ten years."

"It could be a step towards a normal life. A normal job, and maybe a wife and kids later."

"A normal life, now there is a good joke. Lexa would never agree to it. She loves the thrill of putting her life on the lone, and I love this work just as much as she does." Jesse typed in a few more commands on the computer. "Which one told you?"

"Lexa did." Brennan took a deep breath as he thought back to the conversation with the woman. "She sounded really proud of you. I'm not sure if it was the English lit degree or the start into pre-med, but she really sounded proud."

"She nearly flipped out when she found the English Lit degree. I guess she always say you as the poetry person and thought of me as the computer geek."

"The computer guy is the one we all know. I guess even after all these years we still have our secrets."

"And with Adam coming back there will be even more secrets around here." Jesse sighed. "It will be nice to know that you three aren't' going to die because of your powers, but I'm not looking forward to going back to all the secrets and the 'need-to-know-basis' information."

"Then we tell him that we can't operate like that anymore. It might take some time, but I'm pretty sure we'll get our point across."

"On that note I'll get to work on a file or our recent missions so we can prove that equal power does work well."

"Good luck, man." Brennan said as he walked out of the room.