Disclaimer: I do not own Mutant X, neither does my friend Melodie (right Mel?) lol.

Thanks to Melodie for a great idea for this story, she wrote most of this by herself, with very little changes from me.

She wanted to know what happened to Mel after the break-up with Jesse, well lots apparently. In addition, I had her write her idea out, which she might want to write a longer version for herself for her fanfic, who knows, anyway, great idea!

The next two chapters are dealing with aftermath of everything going wrong right now. It gets investigated more in the chapter after these two, so after my 7 straight days. But it won't be long for this to get posted.

Chapter 30: Mel's secret

Mel walked to her room; everything tonight was just crashing down on her. Rosalie and Dax were missing, maybe even dead. The murder of Shelly last week, Mari and Brennan were dead, and Skylar, her roommate for the last 4 weeks, had been killed right before her eyes. She kept asking herself why she didn't freeze the moment and save her friend, or better yet why didn't she freeze everything to give everyone enough time to get out of the building before exploding.

In addition, she had forgotten to call her mom, and today was a day she swore she'd never miss. Picking up her cell phone from off the table beside her bed, she dialed her mom's house.

"Hi Mom, its Melodie."

"Mel, How are you?"

"I am good. I'm sorry for dropping off Alex on such short notice. How is he by the way? Is he having a good party?"

"He is doing great, but he misses you terribly and of course he is having a good party. All four year old boys have good birthday parties."

"I am really sorry for missing his birthday but I will be home soon. Can I talk to him?"

"Of course, he will love to hear from you. Just hold on a sec, I will go get him."

Silence on the other end followed by... "Here he is."

"Hi Sweetie, Happy Birthday, so tell me how does it feel to be four?"

"Mommy! I'm having cake. Grandma made it. It's chocolate."

Just as Melodie started talking to Alex, Jesse came and knocked on her door to apologize again for the fight they had, after losing his friends tonight, he felt even more compelled to make things right between them, but Melodie never heard him. Jesse kept on standing there and he heard Melodie's side of the conversation.

"That's great. Is it good cake?"

"Yeah, Grandma makes the best cake, except for you mommy. I got to go open my presents now, but I miss you mommy and I love you. I hope you come home soon."

"I miss you too and I will be home soon. I love you. Bye."

Melodie then hung up the phone. She had tears in her eyes. She missed Alex and was sad but even more so because it was his birthday. "I miss you so much," she said to herself.

Melodie turned around to see Jesse standing there. "Are you okay? You're crying." Jesse said concerned.

"I'm fine. Really I am." Melodie said trying to get Jesse to leave. "Um … Do you need anything?"

"I just wanted to know if you wanted to come out tonight to a new club downtown called Fusion with everyone. Need a break from the tension around here. Who was on the phone?"

"Oh, sure I would love to go out with you guys tonight just tell me what time you are going out later today and none of your business who was on the phone, but I am kind of busy I need to go out so I will see you later." Melodie said leaving a confused Jesse in her room and taking off to the garage. Melodie was off to the mall to get Alex a birthday present.

20 minutes later...

Melodie walked into the nearby toy store. She immediately walked to the cars because she knew that Alex loved little toy cars. After she got a cart and put in some toys, she went to get some educational toys, because Alex was going into kindergarten next year. He could already read and count to 100.

An hour later Melodie walked out to her car with presents in hand. She was going to mail these to her Mother, because that is where Alex was staying while Melodie helped fight the Dominion. She wanted the presents to get there as soon as possible, with any luck that would be tomorrow.

Melodie drove back to sanctuary. It had been 3 hours since she left at 4 p.m., but she doubted anyone would be looking for her.

"Hey Melodie your back, we're are going out to the new club at 9 tonight. Okay?" Jesse asked her.

"Yeah that's fine Jess." Melodie said walking towards her room with Jesse right behind her.

"Hey what's with you today? You seem a little spaced out today, like your mind is somewhere else." Jesse said stepping in front of Melodie.

"My mind is right where it is supposed to be thank you very much and nothing is with me today. I am the same as I was yesterday or the day before." Melodie said passing her room and going to the kitchen to get a drink of water.

"Mel, we need to talk about our fight."

"We had a fight? Which one, I forget?"

"The one where I asked you not to ask me about Emma, remember? Oh forget it, I'm sorry about all of our fights!" he joked.

"Oh yeah, that one. That wasn't a fight Jess, just me asking about something that was none of my business."

"Don't say it like that."

"Well it's true, I don't belong in your life anymore, and you made that plenty clear that night. So don't worry, you get on with your life and I'll get on with mine."

"Mel!"

"Jesse since I've joined you here, you've yelled at me about everything, from Emma to Dasi. I'm surprised you didn't yell at me for Adam getting attacked or you for the matter. I mean it was probably my fault, you never know."

"Mel I know you didn't have anything to do with the attacks."

"So now you trust me? Excuse me, I need to go throw a party entitled "First Time For Everything!"

"I trust you!"

"Not enough," she sneered.

With that said, Melodie got the drink of water than went to her room to have a nap. She was very tired from not having enough sleep lately. She put the wrapped gifts on her table and sat down on her bed, her head was spinning from everything that was going wrong in her life. She missed her son, and her friends. Melodie laid down on her bed and quickly fell into a restless asleep.

2 hours later...

After the movie, Jesse was watching was over he went to check on Melodie and see if she was ready to go out tonight. When he opened her door after knocking and getting no answer, he saw her sleeping in her bed. She didn't look peaceful, that Jesse didn't want to wake her up. Instead, he let her sleep.

Jesse went back to the living room, "Mel's asleep, so I think she probably needs rest more than anything right now, you know her and Skye were close. Poor thing hasn't been sleeping well."

"How do you know?" asked Shal.

"Cause she got up the night before when I was up."

"Oh, well, let's go to Fusion." said Emma, the last thing she wanted to do was hear about Mel, or anything painful for that matter, her Psionic abilities were being taxed to the limit.

"I'm not up to going anywhere yet. You guys have fun though."

"I'll stay behind with you then," said Lexa.

"No, you go an have fun. I'll curl up with a good book or watch a DVD or something." he said with a smile, which quickly turned to a frown. "Besides, Shal might need someone to talk to, Brennan's death really hit her hard."

"Agreed, you should be here for Shal. See you later."

"Have fun!"

Jesse walked toward his room, passing by Mel's room he realized he had left her door open. He looked inside to see if she was awake yet. She wasn't. However, something on her table caught his eyes, wrapped presents. 'Wonder who there for?'

Ok that's it for now, I swear that the relationship, which I am exploring, is a major factor in this story, second only to the war with the Dominion.

Next chapter coming up real soon. I already have it typed up just need to proofread and spell check, lol

Take care...

Until next time...