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Everyone keep in mind that Josh is a girl, cause I am no longer calling her Joshene.

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Chapter 8: Betrayal

Brennan woke up to find a light shining directly into his eyes. The light immediately cause his head to pound. He put his arm up to shield his eyes. Until he had woken up, he had forgotten where he was. He looked down beside him, to find Mari looking up at him.

"Morning Brennan," she said as she pulled away from him. "Sorry I think I might have moved and woke you up, I wasn't aware that I fell asleep on you."

"No problem," he said. "Where's that stupid light coming from?"

"Overhead," she said pointing. "It's the only light we have, unless you count the window over there, and before you try, it has bars on it."

"Where are we, some sort of jail?"

"No worse," she said. "We're in a dungeon."

"Dungeon? How do you know?"

"Cause it belongs to the Dominion," she said, no wanting to tell him the other part, but fearing she had too. "And I've been here before."

"Oh, so what did they do here?"

"Torture people until they got the info they want. But I thought they had closed this one."

They both heard the footsteps, and stood up. The steel door opened and two armed guards walked in. Behind them came a man in a business suit. "Mr. Mulwray, Ms. Rosario, how nice of you to join us."

"Oh no, not you." said Mari.

"You know him?" asked Brennan.

"Yea, this is Agent Burnett."

"The jerk you tried to kill Jesse!" said Brennan, looking at the man that Lexa had told him tried to kill Jesse while Lexa and Jesse were being held by the Dominion a few months ago.

"Yea, that would be me." Agent Burnett. "Now if you two please, wouldn't mind shutting up, thank you."

"What do you plan on doing to us?" asked Mari.

"Oh don't worry; there will be no torture, physical anyway."

"Cut the crap," said Brennan. "Tell us or else."

"Or else what? You going to go all sparky on me? Please, don't hurt me. NOT!" said Burnett. "You wouldn't dare, cause if you pay attention to which way the guns are pointed, you would realize my guys are pointing at Mari, which will die if you attack me!"

Brennan glanced at both guns and realized Agent Burnett was telling the truth. But she had the power to put up a shield, surely they knew that. Then as if catching the look on Brennan's face Mari pulled up her hair, Brennan saw a subdermal governor. If it weren't for that, he would risk it. "Ok, just tell us what you are planning on doing to us?"

"Killing you from the inside out," he said taking a remote control device out of his pocket. As he clicked a button, a panel the right side of the wall began to open. "This is what I like to call Must See Mutant TV."

Then he pushed another button, turning on what looked to be 7 different televisions. What Brennan and Mari saw made their hearts stop. They were looking at what appeared to be alive feed from... the Haven!

Brennan was the first to speak, "How do you get cameras in there? No one is supposed to know where it is!"

"Well, as luck would have it, we have someone on the inside. Last week our person received an invitation to join Mutant X, and after we made sure to give Agent X the cameras and other things, Agent X, was a member of Mutant X."

"Who?"

"No, can't tell you that. I think it will be more fun for you to see it for yourself. So I will leave you with these wonderful televisions. Just a note, when nothing is happening in the room with a camera, the screens will be off."

"You won't get away with this!" said Mari. "Mutant X is not that stupid, they will figure out that someone is betraying them!"

"Yeah, of course they will, but the question is, how long will it take? And will it be too late?" he said as he turned and walked out the door, followed by the two guards.

"Brennan, what are we going to do?"

"I have no idea, but I do know that our team is looking for us right now. And they always win." he said, hugging her close. "Let's watch this, cause when the team does show up, I want to tell them who betrayed us!"

"Yeah, you tell them, while I kill the person."

"Yeah, that's my girl." he said as they sat on the floor and watched events unfold at the Haven. Brennan couldn't help but smile on the inside, and was thankful Mari wasn't an empath, because he didn't want her to know how much he liked calling her his girl!

"Adam! We're back!" yelled Shalimar. Her and the other girls walked the Creator into the lab, were they thought Adam would be, but he wasn't.

Josh spoke into her com-ring, "Adam?"

"Yeah?"

"Where are you?"

"On my way back to Haven, I had to go out for something."

"Are you stupid!" yelled Shal. "We just got you back and you risk getting caught for what?"

"Shal, I had to pick up someone. I was careful, no one saw me."

"Adam, how far are you away from Haven?" asked Skylar.

"I am pulling into the garage now."

"Good, cause you are the only one who has someone."

"You got him?" asked Adam, the sound of surprise evident in his voice.

"You sound surprised?" said Emma. "What you thought we couldn't do it?"

"Never had a doubt, ok yeah I am surprised."

"So who did you have to pick up?" asked Emma.

"Me," said a voice behind the girls.

As they all turned, Emma screamed. "Michael!" and ran into his arms. "I thought your flight wasn't going to land till morning."

"It didn't, Adam sent a private jet for me." he said as he kissed her. "So introduce me to your friends."

"This is Shalimar, my best friend, Gage, Josh, Skylar, and the rest you can meet later when they are here and awake."

Michael shook hands with the girls. Shalimar could tell Emma was really in love with him. She could remember when she had thought Emma and Jesse would make a cute couple, now it was plain to see, why that never came to be.

"And who is this ..." started Michael just as he looked at the face, of what appeared to his dad with white hair. "What the..?"

"This is the Creator; we don't know his name, yet. Mike, it's a really bad time to tell you this, but Adam is a clone." said Emma.

"What? My dad is not a clone!"

"Yes I am, I'm sorry I wanted to tell you, but I just found out a few months ago, and was kidnapped, and afraid of how you would react." Adam admitted.

"Dad, I only found a recently that you were in fact my dad, and it's gonna take more than a little clone thing, to make me run now."

"Thanks."

"No problem. Got anything to eat? I am famished." said Mike.

"Your always hungry." said Emma. "Come on, I will fix dinner everyone."

"Brennan, look at that screen." said Mari pointing. Brennan looked at in the direction on her pointing.

"Is that?"

"Yeah, Jess and the others in the hospital."

"Well at least we know they are alive."

"Yeah, and that helps. I was so worried about them."

"Hey it takes more than a 2-story drop to hurt my buddy Jess."

"Yea, no offense, but he doesn't look like it."

"Yeah, and Dasi looks like she hasn't slept in days."

"She loves him you know."

"Dasi loves Jess?"

"Yeah, what are you blind?"

"No, just don't notice love like girls do."

"Yea, guys don't feel it the way we girls do either." she said angrily.

"What do you mean?"

"Guys think love is something that can go for a few months and end. And that's fine with them. But girls want something to last forever."

"And you think guys don't?"

"Some guys do, I admit that, just not any of the losers I have ever met."

"Well maybe you should aim higher."

"Maybe I should. But I don't want to get hurt again."

"Sometimes you have to risk it, in order to find something worth keeping forever."

"Yea, and when did you get all philosophical?"

"I'm not, was just thinking out loud." he said glancing over at her. Her long dark brown hair was falling on her shoulders. She glanced up at him, and he saw her dark brown eyes looking up at him, her eyes were so in depth, he could stare at her all...

"Brennan, why are you looking at me like that?"

"Cause I was wondering why a girl as beautiful as you would ever have a problem finding a guy."

"I said I had a problem finding nice guys."

Before Brennan could stop himself, he leaned over and gently brushed his lips with hers. And to his hearts delight, she responded, before pushing him away. "Why did you that?"

"I don't know; I just did."

"I thought you were different, but apparently you are like all the other guys."

"What?"

"You're with Shalimar!" she yelled.

Just the sound of her name brought the blond feral into his mind. "I know, I don't know what I was thinking."

"I don't know, but it better not happen again. You might not care about her, but I do!"

"I care about her, but..."

"I don't want to hear it, it's between you and her."

"Your right, never mind. Can we just go back to watching please?"

"Fine, but don't even think of trying that again."

"Fine."

As everyone sat down to eat, they heard Max, Lulu and Shelly walk through the door. Shalimar was the first with question. "Did you find anything that might give us a clue as to where Mari and Brennan are?"

"Adam, you didn't tell her?" asked Max.

"Tell me what?" she asked angrily, looking right at Adam, she had known earlier that he knew more, but had let it go.

"That we found blood at the site of the warehouse." said Lulu, moving forward to place her hand on Shal. "It was Brennan's and Mari's."

"But we also caught a scent of someone else there, and Shelly found some marks that appear to be drag marks. So the best we can figure, they were hit from behind we guess, not sure about that, but they were taken from that location, and taken somewhere else."

"Adam, can we track there com-ring signal?" asked Emma.

"I can try," he said as he started to get up.

"It would be pointless," said Max, as he reached inside his jeans, and pulled out two com-rings, and put them on the table. Dread hit Shalimar, she knew that Brennan would never take it off, unless...

"Shal, don't think that way." said Emma. "We will find them. But we can't do anything on an empty stomach. So let's eat and then try to come up with a way to get them back, ok?"

"Good idea, Em, yeah, let's try to eat." said Skylar.

"Yeah, let's try," said Shal.

Dasi was tired and exhausted as she walked through the door going into the kitchen, she had spent the last few days at the hospital with Jesse, and had never left his side, as she walked in she saw everyone at the table eating. "Hi everyone."

"Dasi, is Jess alright?" asked Shal.

"He's still in a coma, doctor says there going to take him off the sedative tomorrow, and Jesse will be able to wake up then, I hope."

"Have you been with him this whole time?" asked Emma.

"Yeah, where else was I supposed to be."

"No, I didn't mean anything by it, I just figured, oh nothing, are you hungry, I made plenty."

"Sure, I could eat a bus right now." she said walking over to the stove and helping herself to the spaghetti and meatballs. After she fixed her plate she sat down at one of the few empty chairs, next to a guy she didn't know. "Who are you?"

"Michael, I'm Emma's husband."

"Oh, she said something about being married. Nice to meet you, my name is Dasimah, but they all call me Dasi."

"Well it's nice to meet you, Dasi."

"Thanks, so your Adam's son, right?"

"Yeah, that's me."

"And your brother was Gabriel Ashlocke?"

"Yeah, half-brother."

"Yeah, that's what I meant. Emma filled us in a little bit."

"Oh she did, did she? What else have you told them?" he said smiling at his wife.

"She told me you were good in bed." said Shal.

"No I didn't!"

"So I'm not good?" he joked.

"Of course you are," Emma said blushing. "What I meant was ..."

"I know," he said kissing her on her forehead. "Thanks everyone for making me feel welcome."

"You are welcome, your family." said Shal. She was glad for the brief distraction, and wanting it to continue, but knew it was only putting off the inevitable; the search for Brennan and Mari.

"Where's Melodie?" asked Skylar.

"She came by the hospital, she took my place beside Jesse, so I could come home for a break." said Dasi.

"You sound worried?" asked Shal.

"Well they had a relationship before, and I guess I am afraid of it rekindling."

"Hey, after dinner, I will tell you about their relationship, you will see you have nothing to worry about." said Shal.

"Thanks Shal."

Agent X walked down the hallway toward her room, she had just finished eating with the other members of Mutant X, and needed to send an e-mail to Burnett before calling it a night. She had lots to tell him, and not a lot of time.

Agent X could sake her life on them not knowing that Adam had a son, or that Ashlocke even had a brother. This was definitely big news, and she had to get it to him now.

Ok, I gave you a clue in there about who the traitor was. Now you know it is a girl. Only Melodie is clear of suspicion. Everyone one else, except the guys, and of course Mari, might be guilty, lol.