After – Effects Chapter 2

Thanks for the reviews of my first chapter, and to the French girl who sent me the review for the first chapter, you are very good at English, better than I am at French.

Disclaimer: Don't own Mutant X, Brennan will be mine one but not today, I make no profit from this or any other story I write.

Brennan was cold, he was lying on a cold stone floor naked, he was in pain, his battered body hardly moving from the foetal position he had curled into when he had been thrown in the 6x6 box he now occupied. He had no idea how long he had been in this place he had grown to think of his hell, his hair was matted with lots of dry blood…his blood. He had long since stopped crying; he wanted to just let the Earth swallow him up, then he thought of Jesse, that handsome face and seductive smile, and began to cry again, because in his mind, Brennan would never see Jesse again, and that destroyed him.

At the same time, back at Sanctuary…

Jesse was lying on Brennan's bed, crying his heart out; he missed him so much, It had been an entire week since Brennan had been taking from them, and Jesse felt like it was his fault, he should have been more prepared, he should have guessed that Genomex would have been developing new technologies to combat their powers, they had made the sub-dermal governors to nullify their gifts and to cause extreme pain at the touch of a button. Brennan's capture had effected the whole team, Sanctuary was quiet and subdued, like someone had died, but it had destroyed Jesse, he cared more for Brennan than he cared to admit, and now he wished he could just have one minute to tell Brennan how much he loved him, "When we get him back, I'm going to tell him exactly how I feel bout him," Jesse thought to himself, and digging his face into Brennan's pillow, began to cry in earnest.

"Time to come out Mr Mulwray, it's time to play," said the calm and collected voice of Mr Eckhart, two large men in blank uniforms pulled Brennan to his feet and dragged him out of his cell. Dragging him down a corridor, they brought him into another room and sat him down on a chair, cuffing his hands behind his back.

"We have someone to see you Mr Mulwray, " said Eckhart with a slim smile on his face. With a nod, one of the guards that had dragged Brennan in walked out and after a couple of moments, dragged in a slumped over figure with blonde hair, even on the verge of unconsciousness, Brennan recognized the figure,

"Jesse!" Brennan suddenly became much more alert,

"What have you done to him, you bastard!" Brennan shouted in rage, calmly, Eckhart pulled out a small remote and pressed a button, agonizing pain ran through Brennan's body, making him scream in pain, no matter how hard he tried to let a peep out.

"Now Mr Mulwray," Eckhart said, pulling a sharp blade out of his jacket pocket, "Tell me the location of Sanctuary or a will slit your friends' throat, you have 20 seconds to comply," Eckhart said with an evil grin on his face.

"Brennan, help me please!" Jesse said, suddenly waking up, tears running down his cheeks, "Please! Help me Brennan tell him where Sanctuary is, just tell him, please…for me". Brennan knew that Eckhart's threat was very real, but he couldn't tell Eckhart where Sanctuary was, he couldn't, he was going to have to watch Jesse die, and it would destroy him.

"Times up Mr Mulwray," and without any notice, he turned round to Jesse and cut his throat with one swipe, Jesse slumped forwards, blood running down his front. Brennan screamed.

"No! Jesse," he just bent his head forward and cried for all he was worth, Jesse was dead, and he had had to watch it all.

"You could have saved him Mr Mulwray, all you had to do was tell me where Sanctuary was, but no, you have killed your friend Mulwray, I hope you can live with that, because you are going to live a long long time, here, with us, take him back to his cell". Wordlessly, the guards picked up Brennan and took him to his cell, he didn't try to resist, and he was devastated, he just lay there on the floor of his cell, crying for the one he loved.

At the same time…

Jesse was talking to Adam, "We know where Genomex is Adam, we should go in there and get him out, who knows what they've don't to him, or what their going to do to him".

"Jesse, I know your upset and angry, but if we just barge in to Genomex, we could get caught ourselves, and new mutants would be in serious danger, I'm sorry, but we can't risk it," Adam replied, looking very sad, distraught, Jesse ran out of the room and headed for the Double Helix, he would get Brennan himself.

Well, that's chapter two so tell what you think and I will write more…