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Chapter 36: Breakthrough

Jesse walked into Haven carrying suitcases. Following him were Melodie and their son Alex. "Mel, did you pack your mom's house in these bags?"

"No silly, just my clothes."

"Well, at least we won't have to worry about shopping anytime soon."

"Yeah right, girls have to shop."

"So are you nervous about being back here?"

"No, just nervous about how they're going to react when they find out."

"Happy mostly."

"Mostly?"

"When they find out they will be ecstatic, but we need to wait till the right time, ok?"

"When is the right time to tell them we got married?"

"I don't know, but Shal just lost Brennan. I think we need to wait."

"You think Shal will be alright with the fact that she missed our wedding?"

"Yeah, if not we'll just do it all over again."

"You mean get married again?"

"Yeah, why not, I could marry you a hundred times more."

"Only a hundred?"

"For a start," he said leaning over to kiss her. He pulls back, and looks at their son, Alex.

"Hey Alex?"

"Yeah?"

"How about I show you to your new room?"

"I get my own room?"

"Yeah."

"Cool!"

Jesse's heart leapt every time it donned on him that Alex was his son. Alex looked up at Jesse with a big grin on his face. His smile was missing the front 4 teeth, and his blue eyes left no doubt, as to who his father was.

"Jesse?" said Alex.

"Yeah buddy?"

"You and mommy explained to me that you were my dad, right?"

"Right."

"Does that mean I can call you daddy?"

"Yeah, if you want."

"Cool, daddy!" smiled Alex. "I like the sound of that."

"Me too, buddy, me too."

Shalimar walked into the situation room to find Max working on the computer, "Do you ever go to bed?"

"No, not when I get woken up by her!" he said pointing to a sleeping Lexa on the couch. "You got another email!"

"What? Why? Does this mean I was right? Brennan and Mari are alive?"

"I don't know, it was sent a week ago, but I went into your email and got it."

"You what? How did you know my password this time?"

"I asked Jesse."

"I'm going to kill him."

"Do it later, you want to see it."

"Gee, can I?" she snarled. "What is it this time, some cryptic note I'm guessing."

"No, another video, which I haven't opened yet, you want to see it?"

"The last two sucked, why not?"

Max clicked the attachment video and watched as the Media Player loaded, and they saw Brennan standing in the cage and Mari lying in the back of it motionless. Someone reaches his hand out to Brennan, and he falls to his knees and guards run in to chain him to the side of the cage.

The man motion for the guards and some doctor to leave, and kneels in front of Brennan, and places his hand on Brennan

"What the heck?" said Max.

"What did you see?" asked Shal.

"He's was healing Brennan."

"Shut up, I can't hear!" said Shal.

"Why are you helping me?" asked Brennan.

"You will know someday, I can't heal you completely, or Burnett would be suspicious of me. But the pain should be easier to handle now."

"It is, thanks."

"Don't thank me yet. So how long did you think you could lie to Burnett about Mari?"

"Don't know what you're talking about."

"She's not dead, and we both know it."

"What was I supposed to do, let him hurt her again?"

"No you did the right thing. You must love her."

"Yeah I do, can you heal her?"

The man walks over to Mari, after a few minutes, Mari awakens, and the man leaves.

The video closes...

"It can't be!" yelled Max, loud enough to make Lexa jump, and wake up. "Wha?"

"You got to see this."

Lexa gets off the couch, stands beside Shal, and looks at the frozen screen image. "Gerald?"

"You know him?" asked Shal.

"Yeah we both do," said Max. "Shal meet Gerald Alejandro."

"Dasi's brother? So Jesse was right."

"What?"

"He says he saw him outside his hospital room."

"How does Jesse now him?" asked Lexa.

"He was in the mutant database. Plus Dasi I guess has a photo of him."

"I thought he was dead," said Max. "Dasi said she killed him, cause he asked her to. He doesn't look dead."

"Neither does Emma," said Shal.

Lexa smiled slightly, "You're right. Ok let me try to get more info from the Dominion database on Gerald, see if they know he's alive. And maybe it will lead us to where that prison is."

"Of course they do," said Lexa. "That is a Dominion doctor, Burnett."

"How do you know him?" asked Shal.

"He was the man the tortured Jesse a few months ago."

"And how do you know it's a prison?"

"Gee Shal, I don't know, the cage?"

"Oh, sorry Lexa, I just don't know who to trust right now."

"No problem, I have had more than my fair share of trust issues."

"Ok, girls, according to the Dominion, Gerald is known as the Healer. He used to heal I remember that, remember he healed Mari after Dasi tried to barbecue her when we were kids?"

"Yeah, he did." said Lexa

"Ok, apparently there is no record of him dying."

"Then Dasi lied."

"Or she was lied to, like we were with Emma," said Shal.

"Well, we'll never know cause we let Dasi go," said Max.

"Wait, yeah we do," said Lexa. " If Jesse saw Gerald outside his hospital room, Dasi had to."

"We need to get her back," said Shal.

"No we don't," said Jesse, as he came into the room.

"Jesse, when did you get back?" asked Shal.

"About 20 minutes ago."

"What do you mean we don't have to get Dasi back?" asked Max. "She lied about Gerald."

"I know, I asked her about it before she left."

"What did she say?" asked Lexa.

"She said she lied that he was dead, to protect him. Why?"

"Cause he's in that video, healing Brennan and Mari!" yelled Shal. "How could you not tell me!"

"I had no idea he was in on it! Shal you have to believe me."

"OK, we need to get back to killing these cameras, then we need to get all the team together. It's time for Mutant X to get back to what we do best."

"Kick butt!" said Max.

"You said it," smiled Lexa.

Jesse is sitting at computer when Chris and Emma walk down the stairs at Haven. Emma stops in her tracks when she reaches the bottom of the steps, and Chris reaches out to her, "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, just got a weird feeling."

"What kind of feeling?" asked Jesse looking up from the computer screen.

"Don't know, can't explain. Never had this feeling before."

"That doesn't sound like a good thing," said Chris.

"How's Melodie? Mike told me she got to go home, I'm guessing she's at her mom's."

"No, she's here at Haven."

"What?"

"I brought her and Alex here, to keep them both safe."

"Did Adam say it was alright?"

"Yes, of course he did, why?"

"Just curious."

"Yeah right, whatever, so what you two up to?"

"I'm showing Chris where everything is."

"Cool."

They all turn at the sound of someone running down the hall toward them. Chris moved between it and Emma, almost defensively. They look up to see Lexa breathlessly running into the room.

"Lexa, what's up, is something wrong?" asked Jesse.

"No, for the first time in a long time, something is going right!"

"Good news, I need that right now," said Jesse jokingly. "Let's hear it."

"I know where Brennan and Mari are!"

Been awhile since I left you people with a cliffhanger, so I decided why not, lol. Ok short I know, but I promise this is getting better, more details. In addition, whoever guesses the traitor before I reveal gets a cookie!

The cookie will be me writing a challenge, that the winner gives me.