"How?"
"Aside from the paper work and Emma's words does it really matter?" Shalimar held up a familiar picture. This one has a younger Adam sitting in the middle of hardwood floor, holding a light haired toddler in his lap. "While they were fixing Brennan, I found this buried underneath the papers that he found in that old house, kept it." Adam picked up the picture and held it in his trembling hands. "Adam, Why didn't you tell us?" He looked up as Brennan and Emma came into the room. "He was protecting them." Emma said gently still in a calm state. "but it didn't work did it?"
"Who's them?" Brennan asked as he took the seat in front of Adam's desk. Shalimar turned to see that Emma held no anger in her tone or face which slightly confused her, after all they had been lied to. She supposed it had been with good reason, but it still hurt her. The feral too the seat by Brennan. "Cody's family." Emma said passing the information towards Shalimar and Brennan. "How does the missing Psionic fit in this?" Shalimar asked.
"The Javiers, the missing Psionics, were… are blood kin to the De Santos Family you know them as the Madison's." Adam replied looking back at the screen where the happy family were imprinted. "As in Cody Madison." Shalimar said.
"Yes, her father and I worked together in the same division back in Genome X. I left the company before he did. Just before the birth of their daughter he came to me for help and I was able to place him and his wife and their first child deep into the underground."
"Help from what?"
"They were trying to get away from some people who wanted to bring harm to their unborn child. They knew about their daughters powers before Charles and Lilly did. Believed that they could use her future Thermal Abilities to their advantage. A biological weapon." he paused a moment and seemed to be reliving the memory of which he spoke of. "I was able to put them into an early form of the Mutant Underground… Unfortunately, I didn't see them again until he came to me with news that their baby girl had began developing mutant abilities."
"What happened to her?" Brennan asked looking up from the information in his hands. He could tell by the tone in Adam's voice that things didn't go so well. "By the time they brought Cory in her in cellular structure had already been deteriorating for some time. There was nothing that could be done for her, eventually she died."
"Adam… I'm so sorry." Shalimar said her brown eyes holding to his as she saw the brief moment of pain in the older man's dark brown eyes, he only nods in understanding. Brennan frowned as he came upon the death certificates. Two of them in fact, comparing them. "Cory was the baby with the power right?" he continued when he got confirmation in the form of a nod. "Then why are they after her twin?"
Shalimar looked back at Brennan in confusion, Emma stood besides the blond looking right at Adam. "What twin?" Shalimar asked snatching the papers from Brennan's hands before he could let go, nearly ripping the paper in half. "Easy Shal."
"Oh…"
"They're not after her twin… because Cory never died." Emma said delicately trying to ward off all the confusion and pain in the room. On one part a strong note was trying to hold itself off expertly, wavering from time to time, she knew this was coming from Adam. The wild confusion and hurt thread weaving in and out was coming from Shalimar, this she knew how to tame. There was a slight amusement to Brennan's confusion which irritated her a bit. "Actually Cory…" Emma leaned walked over to the desk retrieving a black and white photo out from the envelope and handing it to her team mates. "Is alive and well, she's been in our hands for the past couple of weeks. She's the one the GSA and the hunters have been after all this time." Emma said as Brennan and Shalimar looked over the papers spread out beyond Adam. "Excuse me?" Shalimar looked backed at Emma as if she had grown a second head.
"What are you talking about Em. This is Cody" Brennan shifted in his chair, the black and white photo is the picture that Jesse had pulled up from the Y.M.R.C. files. An eight year old Cody.
Emma leaned against the edge of the desk for support. "No it isn't. Cory was the one who developed telekinetic abilities at ten months, and later thermal abilities." Emma continued. She had figured this out just after she had read through most of the papers, and information that had been decrypted. "Cory is the girl who is laying unconscious in the med-lab."
"Emma sweetie…" Shalimar said holding up one of the death certificates. "She died… you can't just for… oh my god." She mentally smacked herself as the pieces jumped at her in a jumbo-tron size, hell her and Jesse had been forging identification papers for years! It was entirely possible for someone to do the same for a death certificate. Or person. Duh.
"The dying baby they brought to Adam, the baby who's cellular structure broke down wasn't Cory it was Cody. Cody was the one who died, since these people were so fused on the idea that Cory was this powerful child her parents switched the twins identity's fooled everyone including Adam. They buried Cody under her sisters name so that they would stop hunting them." Emma explained.
"Since it wasn't mentioned that Cody had any mutant abilities, to my knowledge, I guess they figured Cory would be safe living under her sisters identity." Adam finished wording what he had just figured out just moments ago.
There was a long silence as this information sank into each and every one of them. They had in their place a new mutant who had been running and hiding since the day she was born. The Javier's had been part of her family. And now they were in the hands of Genome X people.
Finally it was Shalimar who broke the silence with a look back in the direction of the lab.
"Genome x are the ones using the Javier's to track down Cody all this time. But I still don't get how they knew to get to her through Jess."
"That's what we intend to find out, but right now our priority is to find the Javier's as soon as possible." Adam said gathering the papers up and placing them back into the single envelope.
"They could be anywhere from here to…" Emma as that tugging sensation came back in full force, causing her to lurch forward she would have hit the floor had it not been for Brennan. He caught her just as she fell forward. "Emma you alright?" but before the psionic could answer she felt the strong tug again fallowed by a sharp image. *Jesse and Cody fighting against a swarm of Shadows.*
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MED-LAB
We move in on the two sleeping mutants, the dark haired elemental had moved into a position were she was slightly curled up on her side, a dark bruise is slowly forming on her abdomen spreading slightly underneath the elastic of the back shorts. The ECG machine shows that her slow heart beat is now increasing. Her breathing is a bit ragged. Jesse is still in the same position as before with his head resting just on her stomach, his breathing has changed as well although not a ragged as hers. ECG machine begins to hike up a bit. As the two lay in joined sleep a figure appears before them a dark smile appearing on it's face. Places a hand on Jesse's temple. "Murderer…" she mumbles, pulling back we see it's Agent Mora bruised but still alive.
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