Well we are done with the flashbacks! Now we are going to hit present time. I promise that the next time you guys need to be prepared for something I'll let you know. Please help me get the word out that I was formerly known as mxangel and now write under the pen name bohemian babe. If any of you write and would not mind doing so, could you please leave a note about that in an author's note at the top of your story? It would be a greatly appreciated gesture. Anyway, on to the story. I hope that you are all are enjoying this story. Please leave me a note to tell me if there is anything you'd like to see happen later on, or if there was anything during the flashbacks that you thought should have been in there. You will see why later. Sage360 is inspiration for Jesse's new hairstyle. If any of you have read 'clublights' you'll get it. If you haven't do read it! Redhead2, Love the stories! i so happy htat you started a new one! i lost my old account about the time you finished troubles of the past so i had to back track and read it before i read the new one! i will review you soon and be just as thorough as i was with you when i was mxangel. you can hold me to that! so enjoy my loves!

Chapter 10.

Present day.

Brennan left his room having made the phone call to the girl. Cheri was now the only person who could help him set things right.

As he made his way down the hall he heard the door to Jesse and Lexa's bedroom slam shut. Looking up he saw Jesse standing outside the door, his whole body showing how stressed he was.

"The results not good?" Brennan asked quietly as he approached the other man.

Jesse took a deep breath to relax himself before looking up. "I don't know what's harder on her. The fact that we can't conceive or the fact that she's got no one to talk to about it."

"Have you talked to Adam to see if you could help in anyway?"

"He told me what fertility tests to run and when everything came back ok he said there really wasn't anything he could do. I've talked to all the doctors we've ever worked will and they cant figure anything out. I've even had a shrink tell me that Lexa and I are too stressed out."

"She's done a one-eighty on this. I can remember when she used to have a whole list of reasons why not to have a child."

"And now she's got a longer list on why she wants one." Jesse shook his head. "I guess I'd better talk to her."

"Yeah. Maybe the shrink is right though. I would have thought she'd be pregnant by now with you two trying every night for the last eight months."

"We've all been stressed after this last year." Jesse ran his fingers through his hair, pushing the now almost shoulder length locks back. "She also realized that today was the day I would have officially become a doctor."

"And it reminded her of her fight with Shal." Brennan added. "Somehow I think even all of this would be easier if Adam hadn't left."

"He stayed for a month, long enough to find out that her ghost would haunt his as long as he stayed here. I think we've all considered leaving at one time or another. He didn't have it in him to come back to the team same as I didn't have it in me to go back to medical school as I had planned."

"And none of us felt like working on the Underground. How is Toni doing at that?"

"She has her work cut out for her, but I think she'll be ok. I guess it's probably too much for one person, but for now she can make due."

"We all will. I'm going to pick up some stuff for the Helix. I'll be back in a while. Good luck with calming her down."

"I'll need it." Jesse sighed and phased through the locked bedroom door.

Three hours later.

Brennan stood outside an ice cream shop waiting. When he saw the small brunette approaching he went in and got in line to order.

"Hello, Brennan." Cheri half whispered as she stood next to him. "Get the ice cream to go and we'll talk in the park."

"Strawberry still your flavor?"

"I knew you'd never forget." She turned and walked outside.

A few minutes later Brennan walked out carrying a cone of strawberry for her and one of vanilla for himself and joined the girl.

"So why did you ask me to meet you?" Cheri asked as they strolled in the shade of the old trees.

"I need you to send me back in time."

"Altering things could cause trouble."

"Cheri, I really need this. I've tried living with out her, but I can't do it. If you send me back to a week before she died I wont tell her anything, only try to warn her."

"Meet me tonight. Here at midnight if you want a chance to save her."