A/N: No freaking way. I was checking my e-mail and all of a sudden I got this review alert which was weird cos I hadn't written anything. It turned out that it was for this story even though I had stopped writing it one and a half years ago! Gosh. I do hate myself sometimes. I always let things consume me that I don't stop to take a breather every now and again to do the things that I really like to do like writing this story for instance. Its okay you can hate me too. I deserve it. There were a lot of people who were following this story that I've been totally unfair to. Some may not still visit this storyboard but wherever you are, please accept my humblest apologies. May seem insubstantial now, but here's an update…

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

"Damn mutants!" Xavier yelled in anger as he kicked the limp body of the molecular at his feet. He was outraged by the mutant turning the tables on him and his plans. Kneeling down he snatched the gun away from Jesse's flaccid hands and stood up and pointed it to the two renegades soldiers that had allowed Jesse's attempted escape.

"I DO NOT tolerate negligence" he said menacingly to the cowering soldiers and fired two clean shots to the forehead before they could even reply. He watched their bodies fall with an angry smirk as the rest of the renegades stared in horrified silence at their fallen comrades. "Get them out of my sight" he ordered with a flick of his wrist not able to look at the dead renegades without the sight fueling his anger.

"And you Mr. Kilmartin" he said turning to the motionless body before him, "how utterly noble to sacrifice yourself to save others" he said with repulsion in his voice. "But not on my watch. I dictate the terms! You die when I say you die!" He said aiming a forceful kick to the inert body of the mutant before him.

Reaching down to take the tranquilizer dart lodged at the back of Jesse's neck he barked an order for his men to take Jesse back to his cage. "And don't forget to give him another shot of the immobilizer to make sure his powers don't come back anytime soon!" he shouted at the retreating figures.

"Damn!" he swore watching his men drag Jesse's unconscious form back to his cage. The young molecular had almost ruined his plans. One of his men had saw an opening as Jesse was about to pull the trigger and had hit him with a tranquilizer dart just in time. If the blasted mutant had died, he would have had to start all over again, he thought still fuming in anger. He had half a mind to kill the bloody mutant himself, but not without getting what he wanted first. Jesse was essential to his second phase of his plans and he was not about to throw that away. They had come too far to start over now. As it is, their plan would have to be delayed for a couple of hours until the mutant regained his consciousness enough to be in the right state of mind for the second extraction. For now he acknowledged grudgingly that he would have to wait. But once he got what he needed he swore that the mutant would pay dearly for his actions.….

At sanctuary

"We got a fix on a location. It's an abandoned warehouse about thirty miles on the outskirts of town. Take the helix and head there right now. In the mean time I'll see whether I can get the blue prints of the building and area and patch it through to you." Adam said to his team as the transmitter on the screen finally indicated that the renegade had reached the destination he was headed and was no longer on the move.

"We're going into stealth mode" Brennan said as he neared the sector where the warehouse was located.

"There it is!" Shalimar pointed out as the warehouse came into view. "Let's look for a place to land this thing."

"Wait. Let's not jump into this. We don't know what we're up against" Emma said trying to bring reason into the midst as she saw that Shalimar was practically off of her seat anxious to go in and rescue Jesse.

"Emma's right" Brennan put in. "Here's the blue prints Adam patched through that'll give us an idea of the entry and exit points of the warehouse, and then we'll do a thermal scan of the warehouse area to try and figure our Jesse's location and the number of unfriendlies we've got to take down."

Jesse groaned as he slowly opened his eyes fighting against the onslaught of light. He was still alive. Closing his eyes again, he didn't know whether to be relieved or disappointed. He just wanted this to be over. Whatever the means.

Suddenly a loud explosion blasted into the stillness of his thoughts. The warehouse became a bevy of activities. Renegades were instantly rushing out of the warehouse to check the source of the explosion.

"Now!" Shalimar yelled at Emma who immediately opened the main water gauge of the hose that Shalimar was holding. All the renegades that had come out to check on the exploding vehicle outside the warehouse were instantly drenched in a strong jetspray of water.

"They're all yours Brennan" Shalimar shouted as she jumped on to the roof of a nearby vehicle and watched as a tesla coil was thrown into the midst of soaking soldiers who fell convulsing before succumbing to unconsciousness.

Fighting against the pain that coursed through his body, Jesse struggled to his feet heavily leaning against the bars of his cage. He felt a sudden lurch of hope as he saw a familiar sight bursting through the doors of the warehouse kicking down two renegades in the process. "Shalimar!" he said barely believing his eyes. They'd come for him.

"Jesse!" He turned startled at the voice right behind him. "Emma, thank god!" he said in relieve his voice coming out as a mere whisper. "Are you okay?" the psionic looked at him through concerned eyes as she opened the lock to his cage with the bunch of keys from the guard she had just downed. "I will be as soon as I get out of here" he said wincing in pain as he stumbled out of his metal prison.

"Turn around" Emma said as she quickly opened his metal handcuffs, trying to be gentle as she saw how horribly scraped and bloody his wrists had become. Shaking her head, she was just glad he was still alive. "Did they put a subdermal on you?" Emma asked quickly scanning his neck and finding none. "Good. Quick, we've got to get you out of here." She said allowing Jesse to lean on her as they made their way to the nearest exit.

A fierce battle was raging between Shalimar, Brennan and the remaining renegades. It seemed that they had managed to down several renegade soldiers and was certainly getting the upper hand in the battle with the element of surprise working on their side.

From the corner of his eye, Jesse saw a figure make his way slowly to an unguarded exit with a laptop tucked under his arms. "Emma" he said bringing the psionic to a stop. "Xavier." He said pointing to the figure and immediately clutched his sides in pain with the assertion of his movements. "You've got to stop him. The…the computer, don't let him take it with him."

"You stay put. I'll go after him" Emma said as she set him down behind a pile of crates. "Be careful" Jesse said wincing as the movement caused a sliver of pain to run through his sides.

In the middle of the warehouse, Brennan and Shalimar were ferociously locked in battle as they took on one soldier after the other. A glint of metal from the second level of the warehouse suddenly caught Jesse's attention. He looked in horror as he saw a gun being pointed at Brennan who was seemingly preoccupied with his current battle. Jesse's heart began to race as he watched the soldier take aim. NO! BRENNAN! WATCH OUT!" he yelled in panic trying to get Brennan's attention above the loud chaos of the raging battle.

God no! He watched helplessly as Brennan fought on oblivious to the danger. He had to warn him. Mustering up whatever energy he had left and fighting against his protesting body, Jesse got up from his hiding place and broke into a run as he screamed a warning to Brennan.

Above the din of the battle in the warehouse, Brennan faintly heard his name being called. He turned to see Jesse running towards him glancing every now and again to the level above him. At once he saw the glint of metal from the nozzle of a rifle pointed in his direction. As if in slow motion, he saw Jesse flinging himself across him as the soldier pulled the trigger. Brennan quickly lighted up a tesla coil and threw it at the soldier catching him squarely on the chess as he lost his balance against the second tier railing and tumbled down to the crates below.

Turning back around, he held his hand out to help Jesse up. "Thanks man" Brennan said genuinely relieved to see Jesse and his quick actions. When no reply came from Jesse, Brennan moved closer and was taken aback to see a pool of blood beginning to spread out on the floor around him.

"Oh my god Jesse" Brennan said quickly falling to his knees and turning the molecular over as a large bullet wound on Jesse's chest from where blood was flowing freely immediately came into view. "Oh God" Brennan said gently lifting Jesse's head into his arms, his hands shaking as he inspected the damage.

"JESSE! NO!" Shalimar cried as both her and Emma rushed to their fallen friend having witness the scene from where they had been locked in battle. "Is he okay?" she asked as she knelt down beside Brennan and the fallen molecular and immediately gasped in pure horror as she saw all the blood around her. "No!" she said as a sob escaped her. "Please God no! Shalimar said as she looked into Jesse's pale face, tears streaming down her face "Please don't die on us" she whispered as she stroked the young molecular's hair.

"I don't know what happened." Brennan said meeting Shalimar's teary gazed, himself still stunned as he cradled Jesse's limp body. "Why didn't he mass? I, I thought he massed" Brennan said shaking his head as he put his hands on Jesse's wound desperately trying to stop the blood from flowing.

With her own tears streaking, Emma watched helplessly at the scene before her as blood seeped through Brennan's fingers and as Jesse's life slowly ebbed from his body.