Robin Hood

By: ShalCat-Kitty

Disclaimer: See chapter 1

This chapter goes out to my best friend Katie because every time I get obsessed with a new tv show, I get her addicted as well. I've been trying to get her to watch mutant x but so far she hasn't budged. When I get season one on dvd I'll duct tape her to a chair and force her to watch it. Ha Ha Ha.

Ok guys I'm back with the blazing second chapter. I hope y'all like it.

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Shalimar: 6 days earlier

With jogging clothes and headphones I ran one more lap of the sanctuary. By now I was soaked in sweat. The others were all out at the moment so I was getting some exercise. When I finished my laps, I headed for the training room.

I wrapped my hands carefully and started pounding the punching bag. I was still listening to music and moved I time with the beat. I let out any and all of my frustrations about everything that had been going on lately. Most of those frustrations were directed toward one person in particular. A smart assed elemental that I happen to know.

When I finished with the punching bag I picked up a quarterstaff and started a simulation. When that was over. It had been almost 3 hours since I started running laps. I was completely exhausted so I decided to have a bath. Before I could leave the room. I heard the others coming. I stopped as Jesse, Emma and Brennan entered.

"Weren't you supposed to be relaxing." Brennan asked.

I rolled my eyes. "You knew the whole time you were gone that I would be training. And to me that is relaxing." I told him. I started walking again and when I passed him our eyes met and I just sighed at him, we shared a secret smile. I didn't think that Jesse and Emma noticed the look I gave him, but I hope they didn't.

While soaking in my bath, I listened to some of Emma's classical music. It was surprisingly soothing and I no longer felt the need to hit something hard. Soon my thoughts drifted towards a guy with nice dark hair. It was then, I realised that my anger toward the elemental were more toward myself. I had just been looking for someone else to pin the blame on.

I didn't know why I was angry with myself for what I was feeling. Is it truly that wrong to feel that way towards a sweet and handsome young man. We were friends but something inside me had changed. It was difficult to be around him. Like if I just kissed him right in front of everyone it would be ok again. I didn't know if he felt the same but he could. He did smile at me different but that could have just been a figment of my imagination.

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Emma:

I was in my room looking in the mirror, practising my new powers and I could hear classical music drifting from the bathroom I shared with Shalimar. She must have accidentally put on one of my CDs instead of hers. I waited for it to turn off but it didn't.

"Good." I said quietly to myself. "That girl could use some real relaxation." I wondered if she had realised that I had seen the smile that passed between her and Brennan.

There was no need to read their minds though. Even if I had not been a telempath, I would have been able to tell. It was clear that they felt something for eachother, even if they did not realise it themselves. I wondered also if Jesse had noticed as well.

I decided to go to the lab. Adam was back by then. He had gone to do something, but he hadn't told us what. As of late he had been quite secretive, I thought perhaps that he had a girlfriend or something. We all respected his privacy though and did not push.

When I got there he was at the computer doing something. "Hey." I announced my presence, still standing in the doorway.

"Come in Emma, how can I help you?" he said turning around to look at me.

"I'm very well thank you." I replied courtly. "I was just wondering if you had had any developments?" I looked at the computer screen. On it there were pictures of two people. I wasn't close enough to read any of the text though. He noticed my gaze and looked over his shoulder at the computer.

"I'll explain that soon," He stated. "but perhaps It will be easier if I tell everyone at once, what do you say?"

"Well." I shifted so I could lean on the doorway. "Shalimar is having a bath and Brennan and Jesse are training. So right now is not a good time. It does not seem completely life threatening. So, I'm going to the kitchen, would you like some tea?" I asked.

"Why thank you Emma that would be very nice." He responded. I left to make us some tea.

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Jesse:

My new powers were hard to control so Brennan and I were working with them. First we started by him sending electricity at something like the punching bag and I would touch it and phase it. Each time I would alternate between letting the electricity pass through and bounce off. The young psionic walked by and stopped to watch for a moment. She was a constant observer of all things that went on in the sanctuary. I guessed it came with the territory of telempathicy.

"You guys had better be careful." She said before starting to leave.

"Hey Em. Where are you going?" Brennan asked her.

"To the kitchen for some tea. Do you guys want anything?" She smiled.

"No we're fine." I responded. She left and I watched her go until she was out of sight. Brennan caught me off guard with a little shock.

"Dude. If I weren't on your side, you would be unconscious right now." He laughed. "Don't turn you back."

"Ouch." I put my hand on my heart. "That hurt." I said sarcastically.

We started training again. This time I tried phasing the punching bag without phasing myself as well. It was harder to do but I quickly mastered it. That's when I had an idea.

"Hey Brennan. I'm bored what do you say we go for something bigger like the wall?" I asked.

"Well my electricity is kind of boring to throw through the wall." He stated blankly.

So I picked up my shoe. "How about this?" I tossed it to him.

"This sounds interesting." He tossed the shoe from hand to hand.

"Give me your best shot." I taunted. I took a deep breath and phased the wall. Brennan threw the shoe and it went through the wall.

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Brennan:

I saw the shoe go through the wall, then we heard a crash followed by a scream. I realised that the kitchen would be on the other side of the wall. "Jesse. That's the Kitchen. Emma." I spat out.

The look of pure terror in Jesse's eyes was astounding. "Oh god. Emma." He bolted out of the room. That was the fastest I had ever seen that boy move, even when he was running from GS agents. I went after him. As I got to the kitchen he was on his knees with Emma in his arms.

"Emma wake up please." He said tenderly as he brushed a piece of hair off her forehead. I could see blood on her forehead where he had brushed away the hair. Slowly I saw her open her eyes. Jesse hugged her tight.

"I thought I told you two to be careful." She said weakly. Jesse helped her up. The room filled with the smell of strawberries as a feral entered the room drying her wavy blond hair with a towel.

"What are you guy's doing? What's going on?" she asked. Adam came in behind her.

"Yes. What is going on?" he repeated.

Emma put her hand to her forehead and winced. Jesse opened his mouth to explain but her voice cut him of. "I bumped into that cabinet and it fell over. I fell too and hit my head on the counter." She covered for Jesse and I. "I'm ok though, it's just a head wound."

"That looks pretty bad." Jesse said. "We should take you to the lab and get it fixed up for you." He helped her out of the room, Adam went with them.

When they were all gone Shalimar put her towel on the counter and picked Jesse's shoe up off the floor. She eyed me suspiciously. "What really happened." I knew then, if I didn't tell her, that she would probably beat it out of me.

"Well Jesse had an idea to phase the wall and that I would throw something at it. I guess we didn't really think it over to much. " I shrugged. " I guess what happened from then on is probably like Emma said."

She looked at me sincerely. "You and I need to talk."

"Look I'm sorry Shal. It was Jesse's idea. I was just an innocent bystander." I quickly defended.

"No. We need to talk about what happened the other day after you guys saved me from Gabriel." She got a few steps closer and my mouth went dry. I wasn't very good in situations like this.

"Oh that." I choked. "I…um…uh." I couldn't speak. She smiled. She had moved close enough now that our faces were only inches apart.

"OK. Some other time." She kissed me on the cheek and tossed me Jesse's shoe, which I dropped, as she left. All I could do was stand there looking through the doorway like an idiot. How was it that she always managed to shake me up so much.

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Adam:

I could tell from the second Emma told me what happened, that she was covering for Jesse. We were in the lab and I bandaged her head. Jesse watched the whole time, then he and Emma left.

When they were gone I remembered that Emma had gone to make us some tea, but hadn't finished. So I decided to follow through with her earlier plan. When I got to the kitchen. The Cabinet had been righted again and everything put back inside. Also Brennan was sitting on the counter starring at what looked to be Jesse's shoe.

"What's wrong Brennan?" I asked him. He jumped at my voice. He was absorbed in thought and hadn't heard me come in.

"Oh it's nothing." His lie was transparent, but I didn't push for more information. Sometimes when it came to this team of new mutants it was better to let them work out their own problems.

"I'm gonna make myself some tea. Do you want anything?" I walked over to the teapot and found a teabag.

"No thanks. I'm good." He took the shoe, picked up a towel from the counter and left. When I was finished I sat down to drink my tea. Then I called everyone to one of the computers to show them the info I had.

"These two." I pointed to the screen. "Are new mutants. They are fraternal twins, Robin and Will Cunningham. They are both very powerful psionics, Yet the database says nothing about either of their abilities. They want to join us." I told them.

"You mean they want to join the underground?" Shalimar asked.

"Not exactly." I tried to think of a way to explain it. "They want to be our eyes and ears, inside the strand. They want to be part of Mutant x."

"Ok." Jesse said. "That makes a little more sense."

"But won't Gabriel know that they're phony." Emma interjected. "I mean he'll either know himself, or someone else with psionic abilities will sense that they're lying." She did have a point.

"I asked Robin the same thing and she told me that they had a way that no one would know." I explained.

"You mean you've already met with one of them." Brennan spoke up. "And you believe her. " He shook his head at me as if I had been duped.

"That is Will's power. If someone wants or fears (even in the tiniest way) that something is true, he can convince them that it's true."

"Ok I guess we should give them a chance, but we should still be cautious." Emma said.

"Agreed." Jesse said.

"Agreed." I said.

"Agreed." Shalimar and Brennan said.

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TBC

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Hey look I went back and fixed the whole thing so if this is your first time reading this chapter, ignore the comment in italics at the beginning of the next chapter. It is referring to something I changed after some very nice reviewers pointed me in the right direction.