Disclaimer: See Part One

Chapter 1-

Nearly three years later, Jesse was working at the computer. He was tired but stable for the time being. He was breaking down and Adam had advised him not to use his abilities for awhile until he could find something that would allow for more control. There was a cry from Shalimar and a crash. Jesse was up and at the top of the stairs before another sound could be made. A little boy with Emma's blue eyes and Jesse's shaggy blond hair stood at the bottom of the stairs, looking at Shalimar with wide eyes. "Auntie Natty?" he sobbed, his little hands clutching a computer disc.

Jesse looked at Shalimcket, before lifting the boy. "What's your name?"

"Skyler Kilmartin. My momma calls me Skye."

"Who was your momma?"

"Emma DeLauro."

Jesse staggered, his eyes glazing and dazed. Shalimar took the boy and sat Jesse down. "Easy Jesse. Breathe. Jesse, you have to breathe."

Jesse took a gasping breath and looked at the little boy. "Is your momma okay?"
"Yep, but she's hiding. Auntie Natty teleported me here so that my daddy could keep me safe."

Jesse nodded, taking the little boy b/p>

"Skyler Kilmartin. My momma calls me Skye."

"Who was your momma?"

"Emma DeLauro."

Jesse staggered, his eyes glazing and dazed. Shalimar took the boy and sat Jesse down. "Easy Jesse. Breathe. Jesse, you have to breathe."

Jesse took a gasping breath and looked at the little boy. "Is your momma okay?"
"Yep, but she's hiding. Auntie Natty teleported me here so that my daddy could keep me safe."

Jesse nodded, taking the little boy back and taking him into the lab. "Adam!"

Adam looked up at Jesse's desperation filled cry. "What's wrong, Jess?"

"This little boy's name is Skyler Kilmartin. He says his mother is Emma DeLauro and his father is Jesse Kilmartin. Could you maybe prove that?"
"Sure, Jesse. Come here, little boy. My name is Adam, but you can call me Grandpa."

The little boy nodded his thumb firmly in his mouth. Adam did a quick scan, comparing his DNA to that of Jesse's and Emma's. "This boy is the son of Jesse Kilmartin and Emma DeLauro. His DNA is a perfect match."

Jesse nodded, pulling the disc out of his pocket and putting it into the computer. Hacking into it, he pulled up one of the video files on it. A beautiful woman looking exactly like Emma showed up on the screen. "Before you think that I am my sister, let me introduce myself. I am Natalie DeLauro."

Jesse hit the pause button and called Brennan through their COM rings. "Brennan, get to the lab, quick. There's someone you need to see."

Brennan came running into the lab, stopping first at the sight of the boy and then the Emma look-alike on the computer screen. Jesse started the message over again and then went to lift the boy into his arms. "Before you think that I am my sister, let me introduce myself. I am Natalie DeLauro. The little boy's name is Skyler Kilmartin, and he is Emma's son. He was given to me when Emma was forced into hiding by the GSA. That was nearly two years ago. If I am not with my nephew that means that I could not get away from them and I just barely managed to get my nephew to safety with you, Jesse. I am either dead or I have been captured with the intention to capture my sister as well. Listen to me well, Jesse Kilmartin. Emma is alive. But you must get to her first. Emma told me that your caliber with a computer well outranks mine, so I have encoded the directions to my sister in a CD that Skye should have in his knapsack. The other video message on here is one that Emma recorded some time ago for your eyes only. Please, save my sister. I cannot have her son grow up without her. He loves her too much. Skyler is a molecular and psionic hybrid. He's almost three years old and his gifts manifested early. Tell him I love him everyday and retrieve my sister. Only with you is she safe. She loves you, Jesse. Never forget that. Good bye and take care of Skyler for me." And with that the screen went dark.

Brennan turned to look at Jesse as he picked up the little boy. "Welcome home, Skyler. I'm your daddy."

Skyler looked at Jesse with wide eyes, before throwing himself into Jesse's arms. Jesse tightened his arms around him before he burst into tears. "This is your Aunt Shalimar, and your Uncle Brennan. And this is your Grandpa Adam."

"'Lo." The little boy whispered, waving a tiny hand before burying his face into his daddy's shoulder.

Watching Jesse stare at the other video icon, Shalimar approached the boy. "Hey, Skye, are you hungry?"

"Uh huh."

"Okay then, let's go get you something to eat. Your daddy has something he needs to do."

Skyler nodded and leaned away from Jesse toward Shalimar. Jesse smiled at Shalimar as he handed his son to her. "Thanks Shal. I'll be there in a minute."

Shalimar nodded, kissing her baby brother's pale cheek. "Take all the time that you want, Jesse. Brennan and I will keep baby Skye occupied."

Jesse nodded, placing a gentle hand against Skyler's head, kissing his forehead softly. "Be good for your aunt and uncle."

"Yes Daddy."

Jesse smiled, waving as Brennan and Shalimar left the room. Adam reached out, touching Jesse's shoulder. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. Can I just have a few minutes alone? I want to watch Emma's message for me."

Adam nodded, squeezing Jesse's shoulder before leaving the lab. Jesse reached out, curling his fingers in indecisively before touched the icon. Emma's face popped up immediately. "My dearest Jesse, if you're watching this, my sister and I can no longer protect our son. That's right my love, our son. As you know, I was a virgin and you were the only man I was ever with. There was no doubt in my mind when I realized I was pregnant whose son it was that I carried. He looks so much like you and for a few months, he was all I had of you. I know you must be asking why I didn't contact you, why I didn't ask for help, but the answer was simple. They had a tracker on me. The bullet they shot me with was a tracking device. I spent my entire pregnancy running from place to place before I finally could get the device out and run one final time. I couldn't bear to have them find Sanctuary, so I stayed away. And I took off my COM ring so that you could not track me and take me back to where I could have been a danger to you all. I still have it, however. I wear it on a chain around my neck so that if I ever need you, I can call you.

"I'm sorry I have hurt you, but everything I have ever done was for your benefit, my own. I am in Cairo, Illinois. I cannot give the exact location in case this falls into the wrong hands, but my sister will apprise you of my location. She's an amazing hacker, but you are still too far out of her league to stumble with the encryption she will no doubt invent to tell you where I am. I love you my dearest, please do not hate me. And I hope to see you and our son soon. Stay safe."

Jesse started to rifle through his son's backpack, coming up with a music CD. Biting his lower lip, he jogged out of the lab and up to the computer console. Inserting it, he instructed the computer to run the CD. A blank MS Dos screen came up. His eyes narrowed and he set to work. Within a matter of thirty minutes, he had decrypted her code and was looking at very concise and precise instructions to Emma. He printed them off and then deleted the encryption, reconfiguring the CD back into a musical CD with no evidence of the data that it had previously housed. Then he leapt down the stairs, taking them two by two and dashed into the kitchen. "I've found her. She's in Cairo, Illinois. I have the exact instructions to her house. We have to go get her before the GSA can get to her."

Adam looked at Brennan. "All right. I want you, Shalimar and Brennan to go, Jess. Skyler can stay here with Grandpa, huh?"

Skyler nodded, smiling around the big mouthful of candy that Adam had obviously handed over to his grandson. Jesse rolled his eyes and kissed his son on the forehead. "We're going to go get momma, okay, Skye? I need you to be very good for your grandpa. Can you do that for daddy?"

"Uh huh. Love you Daddy."

"Love you too, buddy. I'll be back with momma soon."

The little boy nodded, hugging his father before watching him leave. Jesse managed to get to the hanger before his knees buckled. Brennan caught him, holding him tightly. "Are you sure you should be going? Maybe you should stay here and get some rest."

Jesse shook his head. "No. I don't have very long. I'm going to see Emma again before I die."

Shalimar looked at her brother. "You're not going to die, Jess."

Jesse looked at his sister with a small, sad smile. He had never told her that he was sick. He knew she knew that he was ill, but she didn't know that he had cancer. Now was as good a time as any to tell her the truth. "I have end stage cancer, Shal. Unless they can find a miracle cure, I'm going to die. Just get me on board and into a seat. I'll be fine from there."

Shalimar looked at Jesse and then at Brennan, before nodding. "Okay then, let's get the hell out of here."

Jesse sank into a chair in the back before closing his eyes. His eyelids fluttered slightly as he felt the plane lift off the hanger floor, but he was too exhausted to open them completely. He fell asleep and slept the whole way to Cairo. When he woke up, he realized that he couldn't feel his left leg. "Jess, you okay?"

"I can't feel my left leg." Jesse confessed, reaching to grab the console in front of him, dragging himself to his feet. He swayed a bit but steadied. "Come on. We have to get Emma. I want her safe in my arms, and not where the GSA can get a hold of her."

"What are we going to do about Natalie?" Shalimar asked slipping under Jesse's left arm so that he was supported and could walk, albeit with a massive limp.

"We'll worry about Natalie when we get there." Brennan said, taking Jesse's other arm, leading him carefully down the ramp. "For right now, let's worry about getting Emma back into Jesse's arms and return her to her son."

Shalimar nodded and they left the cloaked Helix, walking toward the town nearly half a mile away. They stopped at a drugstore, Brennan going inside to grab a pair of crutches for the heavily hobbling Jesse. "Here Jess. Maybe these will help."

Jesse nodded, slipping the crutches under his arms and hauling himself forward toward the house where Emma was hiding out. When the three teammates arrived at the end of the walk, Shalimar and Brennan remained at the gate as Jesse crutched his way to the front door. Balancing himself on the crutches, he took one hand away to knock on the door. The door opened and there she was. Her hair had gone from its natural brown to a sedate red, but her blue eyes were still the same. They sparkled slightly, utter joy slamming into her as she realized that Jesse Kilmartin was standing on her porch. "Emma." He breathed, starting to sway.

With reflexes like a cat, Emma had Jesse around the waist, using her own body as a buffer as the man she loved collapsed into her arms. His eyes were closed and his head was nestled into his favorite spot between her breasts. Emma's head bent over his head. "Oh Jesse." She whispered, laying one pale cheek against his sunny hair.

Brennan and Shalimar came up. "Emma, look at you, you're beautiful."

"Where's Skyler?"

"He's with Grandpa, no doubt being spoiled to his heart's content."

"How's Jesse?"
"He has end stage cancer. He doesn't have much time left."

Emma's grip tightened around Jesse, her lips curling into a sad smile as Jesse snuggled closer into her warm body. "That was the only thing that I hated about being in hiding. I was missing all of the time that Jesse was healthy enough to still be with me."

Brennan smiled, bending to lift Jesse into his arms. "Come on, Em, let's go home." Shalimar said, taking her best friend by the hand and leading her after Jesse and Brennan.

As Mutant X was entering the Double Helix, Emma was watching Jesse. Brennan carried the unconscious young man into the very back part of the jet, setting him on the med bed in the back. He pulled the straps over Jesse so that he wouldn't get hurt during take-off and during the flight. Emma sat down in the chair opposite the bed, taking his strong, capable hands into her own delicate ones. Taking her ring off the necklace around her neck, she slipped it onto her finger for the first time in three years and spoke into it. "Adam?"

"Emma? Are you okay?"

"We're coming home, Adam. I'm coming home." Was all she said, before cutting off the connection and focusing her attention on Jesse.