After half an hour of thinking about it, Lexa quickly walked into the hall where Jesse was doing something clever with the computers.
Before she lost her nerve, she stood behind him, breathing slowly. "Jess, I need to talk to you."
"Good. I need to talk to you too. I did some background checks on some of the unstable mutants and guess who's name popped up. Shalimar's date." Jesse said, as he made a holographic projection of Mitch Reynolds file appear in front of them.
Quickly skimming Mitch Reynolds information, it told them all they needed to know. He was a mutant and worked for Genomex way back when.
"It may not be the same guy Shal's meeting tonight." Lexa suggested. Coincidences happen.
"Given our luck, I wouldn't be too careful." Jesse said. He spoke into his comlink ring. "Shal, you there?" They waited a few seconds. No reply. "Shal, this is serious."
"Yeah Jesse." She sounded a little pissed off. "What's up this time?"
"Your date worked for Genomex. Plus, he's totally unstable. We have records of his medical file in front of us." Jesse reported.
"Oh god." Shalimar muttered, not caring if anyone heard her. "Are you sure it's the same guy?"
"That's what I said." Lexa said.
"How many guys named Mitch Reynolds can there be?" Jesse argued. "It says here that he's a temporal molecular. He can fast forward or slow down the molecules surrounding him."
"That's very interesting Jesse, but my date is stable and I met him in the underground. I'm fine. Quit worrying and stop looking up my dates on the mutant database."
"Fine, but if you don't come home tonight or if he attacks you, I'm allowed to say I told you so." Jesse complained.
"Fine. Night Jess. Why don't you and Lex do something fun, doesn't sound like your evening is going fantastically wonderful from this end. Night." With that, Jesse knew the conversation was over.
"I'm gonna look into Mitch Reynolds some more just to make sure." Jesse said without even looking at Lexa.
"Okay." Lexa replied quietly.
"Didn't you wanna say something to me earlier?" Jesse turned around, facing Lexa for the first time since their little chat. He decided that if she didn't want anything to happen, nothing had to. Their relationship was purely professional. He'd just forget it ever happened.
"Oh, it was nothing." Lexa smiled. Quickly turning around, she returned to her room. Maybe she wasn't ready to be involved with Jesse yet.