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Thank you Mari for oming up with a scene between Mel and Jesse.

This is the first of 7 straight chapters. As a think you to all of you readers for putting up with my delay in updates.

7 chapters will be posted for 7 days straight.

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Chapter25: Dream Nightmare

"Hey Jesse!" she watched him move about the room as if he were looking for something.

"Yeah, Melodie."

"What do you think about me wearing this on our honeymoon?" she asked as she stepped out of the bathroom wearing a black bikini that hugged her well-toned tanned body. Jesse almost choked as he spat out the water he was drinking and wiped his mouth. It was worth the small chill in the bathroom to see his reaction.

"Depends."

"On what?"

"Whether you plan on leaving the hotel." He grins at her imagining all the possibilities of keeping her locked in their hotel room.

"Jesse!" she giggles recognizing the look in his blue eyes. It made her feel warm all over every time he looked at her that way. She turned to place the rest of the clothes away when she felt his arms come around her waist. Soft kisses placed on her neck made her shiver a bit. "Jess come on."

"Where are we going?" she felt him smile.

"If we don't' finish this we never will." His hands slide the way up to her shoulders and down her arms, the way his finger's curl around her wrist that makes her heart beat that much faster. The way he turns, her body just a little so that he can kiss her softly on the lips. The smile melted when the kiss depends, her tanned arms come around his shoulder's holding on as he leads her backwards to the side of the bed.

Gently lies her back down being careful not to press all his weight down on her. Just enough to make her gasp. He pulls back a moment to look into her beautiful brown eyes. "I love you… you know that right?" Doesn't know why he has to ask but at that moment, he finds his answer in her eyes as she reaches up to brush a lock of blonde hair out of his eyes. She pushes herself up into a slight sitting position and kisses him softly, smiles knowingly. Clothes or what was left of their clothes just disappeared, as he caressed her skin.

"I love you too Jesse."

Emma wakes up, 'What the...? Why am I seeing that? Either Mel or Jesse must be thinking about it. However, it feels as if it was a third person.
Dasi sat in her room with tears running down her face.

'Why? Why does he dream of her? He's in bed with me, we just made love and he's dreaming of sleeping with Melodie!

I wanted to know his secret, well now I know. He loves her... He still loves her.

I guess that means we're done. I have to let him go.

Wait maybe not.

This is all Melodies fault. She comes to talk to him 3 or more times a day.

She's trying to take him from me.

I need to stop her.

And I know exactly how I am going to do it.'

Dasi looks up, as there is a knock at her door. "Dasi?"

"Come in Jesse!"

"Hey, why are you in here? Or did I dream that we just made love?"

"It was no dream," she said wiping her face and standing up to face him.

"Then why did you leave my bed?"

"I wanted to take a shower, and didn't want to wake you up."

"You ok? You look like you've been crying."

"No, just happy tears, you make me so happy."

"And you make me very happy," he said leaning in to kiss her.

Breaking the kiss, she asks, "Why are you up so early?"

"Oh, Melodie offered to spar with me this morning."

"Melodie? Wait are you ready to be sparring?"

"She'll be gentle."

"I could spar with you."

"No thanks."

"Is Mel trying to get you back?"

"What? No, of course not."

"I think she is. I mean look at all the time she is spending with you."

"She's my friend."

"I think you need to talk to her. Make sure, you make it clear to her that you are with me."

"Ok, I will, but I tell you, it isn't needed.

"Whatever."

Dasi, pictured Mel trying to take Jesse from her, and pushed the thought out and made it solid, then sent it to Jesse. 'This better work.'

Melodie punches at Jesse, who dodges swiftly. They had been at it for about 20 minutes.

As they continued to fight, Jesse took note how much Mel had improved in her fighting skills. "Have you been working out with Shal?"

"No, why?"

"Cause you fighting has improved."

"I've been working out with the GSA program."

"Why?"

"Don't want to talk about it."

"Come on Mel, we talk about everything," he said, and he thought he saw her flinch at the comment.

"All right if you must know, I feel like I am holding the team back."

"What? There you go again putting yourself down."

"No, just being honest, all I can do is freeze time, and I haven't helped one bit to find Brennan and Mari. Seriously Jesse, why did you call me to join Mutant X?"

"Cause, to be honest, when it was brought up that we could each invite a friend, I thought of you."

"After all this time?"

"Yeah weird huh?"

"No, sweet."

"Hold up," says Jesse as he grabs the wall behind him.

"You ok?" asked a concerned Melodie.

"Yeah, just need a break. Feeling dizzy and tired."

"Come on, have a seat." she said helping him to a chair in the corner, and handing him a bottle of water. "Here you go."

"Thanks."

"Your welcome. You did great for your first time back."

"Yeah, I didn't get killed..." he laughs.

"I wasn't that hard on you, was I?"

"No, it was me, still out of it."

"Well I think we've sparred enough today, we'll pick it up again later this week."

"Good. Hey can I ask you something?"

"Of course."

"You know I'm with Dasi right?"

"Yeah."

"And we're just friends now."

"Yeah, why?"

"Cause Dasi is worried you want me back."

"And you believe her?"

"No."

"Yes you do, or you wouldn't have ask. Let me tell you something, part of me will always cherish and love my time with you. Nevertheless, it's in the past. I let you go, have you let me go?"

"Yes of course."

"Then why can't we be friends? Dasi needs to grow up!"

"Don't talk about her like that!" yelled Jesse.

Melodie gets up and starts to walk out, "Jess..." she paused, the last thing she ever wanted to do, she was about to do.

"Yeah."

"When this war is over, I'm leaving and I never want to see you again."

"Mel!" he says as the door closes. He sat there stunned. He knew Melodie was right.

'Never want to see you again.'

"I have to make things right. I have to talk to Dasi, she's wrong about Mel. If Dasi trusted me, she wouldn't care about Mel." he said out loud before making his way out of the dojo.

Jesse walked into the kitchen to get a drink of water to cool down. He saw Emma sitting there rubbing her head. "You know I even missed you having headaches."

"You would," she laughs. "Why are you up so early?"

"Sparring, no wait, fighting with Melodie."

"You had a fight? About what?"

"About me being an idiot."

"More details."

"Ok, Dasi told me to tell Mel, that me and Dasi were together, and that she was wasting her time if she wanted me back. I didn't want to, but then Dasi planted this thought in my head, and…."

"She what? Why would she do that?"

"I don't know, I'm going to talk to her about it."

"You might be giving off a vibe to her Jesse, I mean she is Psionic, and if she senses you keeping a secret from her, then she might be confusing the reason."

"Do you know my secret?"

"Yeah," she lied.

"Shal told you?"

"Yeah, she wanted to talk about it, please don't tell her that I told you, that she told me."

"I won't, and to tell you the truth, I need to talk about it with someone."

"Well I'm here, it would be like old times."

"Yeah it would be, ok, so which secret do you know?"

"Both," she guessed. She hated to lie to Jesse but she wanted him to trust her again.

"Oh, well then you know I am searching for Dasi's brother Gerald, I mean, I know she says he died, I am guessing it was faked."

"Or she lied about it?"

"Why would she do that?"

"I don't know, but you have to admit it's possible."

"I guess, but I don't think so."

"Alright, so which secret do you want to talk about more?" She sensed there was something more he wanted to talk about.

"The one concerning Mel, I mean I still love her. I think it's because of the way we ended things you know. But I love Dasi too."

"But which one do you love more?"

"I don't know, really I love them both."

"Yeah, but you've loved Mel for longer."

"True, but I am with Dasi now, and I am loyal."

"But if your lying about how you feel for her, you hurting her, and that isn't right."

"But I do love her, I am not lying about that!" he said standing up and heading to the sink. While we was there, he got a glass and poured water into it, and headed to the refrigerator and got some ice. Then it hit him, "You lied!" he said turning around.

"What?"

"You lied, Shal never told you anything!"

"Yes, she did!"

"No, cause if she had, she would have told you why I won't leave Dasi."

"Jesse, I'm sorry, I just wanted to talk to you, like we used to, back when you trusted me."

"So to get me to trust you, you lied to me?"

"Yeah, it was stupid I know."

"Em, I love you, but if you want me to trust, don't lie to me."

"Ok, I'm sorry, I won't do it again."

"Ok, but I think I owe you big time, cause this has taught me something."

"What?"

"That I have to talk to Dasi, about her putting that thought in my head."

"Well, I'm glad I helped some."

"Me too, and I'm sorry about yelling at you just now, and a few nights ago."

"I understand, I wish I had put my trust in you guys. You guys would have protected me from Bryce."

"Yeah, but you know now, plus, if things would have happened any different, you wouldn't have met or married Mike."

"True, and I love him Jesse."

"I know, and I am happy for you." He said leaning down and kissing her on the forehead.

Jesse knocked on Dasi's bedroom door, waited till he heard her say, "Come in!"

"Hey Dasi, can we talk?"

"Yeah, of course we can, have a seat," she said pointing to the bed.

He sat down, and Dasi came over and sat in his lap. She leaned in and kissed him, she felt him pull away. "What's wrong?"

"I need to tell you something."

"Ok."

"You know earlier when you wanted me to talk to Mel."

"Yeah, did you?"

"Yeah, and now I've lost a great friend."

"Why?"

"Cause I listen to you instead of my heart!" he said moving out from under her and standing up. "You placed a thought in my head, or tried to."

"No I didn't," lied Dasi.

"Dasi you remember 3 months ago when I got shot and you tried to place a thought in me to calm down, but I knew what you were doing?"

"Yeah you said Emma had taught you to keep your…." She grew silent, as the truth hit her.

"Now you get it."

"Jesse, I'm so sorry."

"Look, trust is big with me, and right now, I don't trust you."

"Jesse, please let me explain!" she begs.

"Explain what, that you used your powers on me to cause a fight between me and Mel."

"I was jealous!"

"Why?"

"Cause you still love her!" she blurts out.

"What?"

"You still love her."

"Look part of me always will, but that doesn't mean that I don't love you too."

"You do?"

"Yeah."

"Then why are you keeping secrets from me then?"

"What are you talking about?"

"I heard you in the hospital, and last night, talking to Shal, you said you didn't want to hurt me, so you didn't want to tell me yet."

"Dasi, I do have a secret, and I want to know everything before I tell you, cause I don't want to tell you something that may not be true."

"So it has nothing to do with us?"

"No, of course not."

"Then do you want to stay in my room tonight?" she asks.

"Yeah, but your going to have to lose the clothes."

"So are you, no clothes allowed." She said as she stood up from the bed to kiss him, she slowly turned him around and begins to unbutton his shirt.

She removed his shirt, and sat him down on the bed. He reached up and begins to unbutton her shirt, gently kissing her abdomen. She pulls her shirt off, and gently pushed him back on the bed, and crawls on top.

They were both consumed with passion and begin to make love.

1 hour later…

Dasi lay with her head on Jesse' chest, she was even more sure of Jesse' love for her. She felt foolish for doubting him. The way he had just made love to her told her everything about his love. She gently kissed his chest, and said just loud enough, "I love you Jesse."

She had thought he was asleep, but then he said, "I love you too."

She smiled, and laid her head back down, and then just as she went to sleep, she heard him say, "I will always love you Mel."

Her eyes flew open, and quickly filled with tears. 'He thought I was Mel? He made love to her tonight, and not me. I won't stop till he hates her or I will kill her!'

Short, but it sets up one major confrontation, and it will set up an even better one, lol.

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