Chapter 4

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Authors Note-I warn you, it's short. Sorry. Nice to be able to write again though. I'm feeling better, and I promise I will get more of this to you.

Emma left their communal spot to go outside and breathe in the fresh air. Jesse was working with Adam on the dynamics of the scouting mission to find the kids that Pierce had spoken of, trying to piece together the fragments of what he had pulled from his son's mind. Emma knew he could handle and the rest he had during the tests had actually calmed him down. The waves of emotion she had from him needed some clearing as it was. Brennan noticed her escape and followed her to the upper deck of Haven, and stood for a moment in the shadows of the glass doors before he said anything.

"So, you mind telling me what you felt or saw, Emma, or am I going to have to beg you?" Brennan asked her, breaking the silence.

Emma stared at him. Even with their three year separation, this was the Brennan she knew so well. He wanted to know how to help her and Jesse. She appreciated it, but the range of emotions that had streamed from Jesse were hard to shake. His concern for both her and Jesse washed over her.

"No, you don't have to beg me, but," she stopped, looking at her shoes for a moment, "I don't know what I can do. He's so angry. It's a level of rage that I can barely tolerate, Brennan."

"Rage?" Brennan asked, "He's angry about the kids, I know. For him to attack Pierce like that is not like him, could it be the anger over the kids' deaths?"

"Probably, I'm not a shrink, but he turns off, becomes so cold when the Creator is mentioned, Brennan, he's like a whole different personality," Emma looked up at Brennan, "You have to understand, he's setting me off. I can't concentrate when he gets angry Brennan, he effects me."

Brennan nodded. Being an empath was not an easy life for Emma and he knew like they all did how hard emotions were for her. Living with Jesse like this was like living with a ticking bomb. When he went off, she would be in the wreckage is she wasn't prepared for him.

"Okay, so you think he's doing this unconsciously?" Brennan asked, "He didn't realize what he was doing to Pierce until he did it, and he was quite vicious about it."

Emma took a moment and shook the dark feelings from her mind. When Jesse had touched her, it set her into a very lonely place, darker than she wanted, loud and the smell of flesh burning made her stomach turn. While Jesse never admitted it, his experience with the Creator had really messed him up. She didn't know how to help him.

"I don't know Brennan and that's what scares me the most," she admitted, "He's hurting. This telepathy block is just part of it. I'm glad that Adam has grounded him, but, I don't know what to do."

"I don't think this block is his doing," Brennan stared at Emma for a second, "Emma, is it possible to control someone through…"

"Telepathy, yes, but," Emma looked at him, "Jesse? I think I would have seen it.."

"We all should see it if it's there, including Adam," Brennan turned, "Where are Lexa and Pierce?"

Lexa was enjoying watching Pierce run through the playground. He had begged her for an escape from the place, wanting more and more to run around. Lexa couldn't resist. As Emma had put it, you had to have energy to chase after a hyperactive 4 year old.

And what a child he was. His eyes reminded her of Leo. His smile was 100 Jesse as was the twinkle in his eyes. She pondered for a moment where she was in him. She really couldn't see it. She knew she would eventually find it, but she couldn't see the mirror that kids should be.

Pierce ran up to her, took the juice box she offered and ran back to the monkey bars where he climbed then hung upside down. Adam had told her that his running around was good for him, the time he spent in the pod had been murder to his physical development, but his emotional development needed to be out with the other kids who looked his age, while they all knew he was extremely intelligent and didn't speak like an average four year old.

Lexa snickered at the thought. She knew that when she was that age, she didn't speak like an average four year old. Jesse, well, she hadn't asked him.

Pierce, on the other hand, was not an average kid. He was built small, and the other kids didn't seem to mind that he was a little pushy toward climbing and running around. It was almost like he needed the sun to live. In a way, he did. Lexa knew her powers worked better the more that she was out in the sun. She had asked Adam about it and he told her it was mainly physiological. Lexa felt like this one she knew better than Adam.

Pierce ran up, hugged her and ran back toward the swings. She watched him swing as high as he could, and she waved as he did at her. She was beginning to get used to this. She probably could be a good mother to him, she felt like it. With the help of Jesse, Adam, Emma, Shalimar and Brennan, she knew for the first time that she could probably raise a child with her abilities.

'Hopefully he'll understand what I did and why someday,' she thought to herself, 'I just hope he's peaceful.'

She smiled inwardly. The future for the first time looked very bright. She didn't see the van that had rolled into the playground behind them. She didn't see the person who had snuck up behind her and sadly, she didn't see the gloved hand that covered her face with the cholorform until it was too late.

Oblivion hit her and she succumbed to the sweet tasting darkness.

Jesse had been running yet another search online to find anything relating to the thousands of bank accounts that the Creator and the Dominion had put together hoping to find a connection when the feeling hit him. He felt the darkness that surrounded Lexa, along with the panic. He gasped, trying to put air into his rapidly depleting lungs, and fought to control the images he saw in front of him. His eyes widened in fear.

Shalimar, who had been sitting at the computer across from him sprang to his side. She had seen this kind of look from Emma a few times and knew that something was very wrong. Jesse's stare was blank and he had begun to sweat. She took a moment, then gently touched his shaking back.

"Jess? You okay?" she asked, "What do you see?"

Jesse jumped like he had been shocked when her fingers made contact with his skin. He grabbed her hand then, shaking his head, looked into her eyes.

"I don't know, everything just went black," Jesse said softly, "I think it was Lexa."

"Lexa's out with Pierce," Shalimar said, "She should have her commring on, I know she pulled it on when she left."

"Yeah, she did, but, something is wrong, Shalimar," Jesse said, stopping. He pulled up his ready access to the commring network he had set up. Hers had gone steady. Pierce's though, which was near hers, had been moving, like he was running in circles. As they watched, it stopped.

Jesse grew silent again, gasped, looked up at Shalimar then passed out.