A/N: Hey guys sorry for the delay on this one but my brothers computer accidentally erased the three chapters I had typed and saved, and re-writing them these past couple of weeks have been just pure hell. So here is the first of the now next four chapters.

I promise to update TP as much as possible. A little motivation does help you know, so please RR. And enjoy!

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SANCTUARY…

Adam's footsteps could be heard as he paced the floor of his office. He had decided it was best if he waited until Shalimar and Brennan returned to say what he had to say. Yes he hadn't been exactly truthful with his team about the ties that bound the Javier's and the De Santos, who were now known as the Madison's. In fact he had purposely kept the information from them to protect the families. Adam stared at his computer screen, the information was there but he couldn't understand why he himself had not seen it before.

The De Santos had come to him before the birth of their children. Adam himself hadn't even known if the babies would have survived the birth. He had been the one to put them into the underground in the first place. Why would they have kept the twins abilities a secret from him? This is where he smirked and shook his head; of course they would keep their children's abilities a secret. Adam had known about little Cory's abilities, she had been the first one to exhibit them at the tender age of 10 months. Glancing over the papers that were on his desk he sighed once again. Nothing had ever been said about the sister Cody.

"You did what you had to, didn't you Charles?" he smiled sadly at the thought of his old colleague. They had worked together closely for 8 years. Adam placed another disc into the computer; thanks to the hours of decryption program they were now accessible. On the screen came a family picture. A young man in his twenties dark brown hair sticking out to there (Charles), was holding an infant in his arms, next to him was a woman with long blond hair (Lilly), another infant in her arms. Between them was a little boy about 5 years old, head full of brown locks, grinning. They had been happy back then. Before all the mess, 'I was the one who did this to them.' He thought to himself as he pulled up another file on screen.

It was a picture of the twins at the age of 2. Catalina Corinne De Santos. 'Cory'

Lillian Dakota De Santos 'Cody'. She never even made it to her third birthday. He remembered when the twins had been brought to the office, they had been barely a year and they could already walk without assistance. He smiled sadly at the memory. Why in the world had the death certificate said that Cory had died… "Of course, why wouldn't they?" he said to himself. They had done it to protect there surviving baby girl…

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Emma had felt sadness coming from the older man, a great deal of grief as well. It had caught the Psionic off guard. She was meditating in the dojo, trying to get a feel for Jesse when Adam's emotions swarmed over her. Emma had to put her mental walls back up until they died down a bit. When she was sure it was safe she gently lowered the walls that she had learned to control in the past 8 months. Instead of reaching back out to Jesse, she tried for Adam and was hit with a mental image. *Two toddlers running around, both brunettes giggling. One of them was faster than the other, both smiling up at a younger Adam* All of a sudden Emma felt something deep inside of her stretch out it felt like a small tug before the stretching had stopped. It was enough of a distraction to erase the mental image of the babies. It was as if someone was using Emma to anchor themselves, and she had a feeling it was coming from the sleeping Molecular. There was something going on in the med-lab, deep in the minds of the unconscious mutants.

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Brennan and Shalimar had just pulled into the large garage in Sanctuary, thanks to Ariana the 17-year old mutant most of his injuries had been completely healed. He was now in clean clothes and walking on his own. Shalimar smiled inside maybe everything would be all right after all. The two new mutants walked just past the dojo when Brennan stopped. Glancing upwards he saw the brunette sitting with her legs crossed underneath her. Her arms at were limp at her side and had a calm look on her face. A smile tugged at him, as she spoke softly. "It's good to see you up and about." Her blue eyes opened and settled on him.

"Good to be up." He replied as she descended the stairs and threw a punch to his arm.

"Ouch, Em I just got done being healed." He yelped rubbing his arm where she had hit him.

"Don't ever do that to me again!" she said in all seriousness. "You guys should have called in when you were in trouble."

"I'm sorry we were in the middle of getting out ass's tossed around out there," he retorted. Something in the way the brunette's blue eyes went round made him feel a pang inside for being so sarcastic. She had only been worried for their safety. For some reason he sensed there was something more going on? "Emma, what happened?"

"Just be more careful next time, all right?" she replied with a little more calm as she hugged him. Brennan wasn't one to question Emma's concern, but there was definitely something more than his and Shalimar's not calling into Sanctuary for help that was bothering her. "I Promise." He said closing his arms around her small frame, and kissed the top of her head. "Good."

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She had been standing in the doorway of his office for some few minutes now just watching as the older man stared at the computer screen with what seemed to be a deep sadness. He even looked as if he was ready to cry, something that the blond feral had never seen before. It made her question her own anger as much as his reason for doing what he had kept from them.

"Someone's been keeping secrets from us." Were the soft words that slipped from her mouth causing the older man to break his gaze from the computer screen. "Shalimar."

"You wanna tell me why you hid the fact that you knew who these families were from us?" not even bothering to let him get a word in edge wise she continued. "Or that you worked with one of them?"