once again i dont own mutant x so dont sue me.plz

As Adam sat down he picked up the black leather covered photo album lying on the sofa beside him. As he flipped through the pages he found the picture he'd been looking for. Lexa pierce, the light bending molecular was staring back at him looking beautiful and happy not knowing that a week after this picture was taken she'd be dead. None of them had know that and Adam wondered if she or they would have changed anything if they'd known.

He could remember it as clearly as if it had happened yesterday. They'd gotten word that some of the Dominion higher ups were planning a big meeting and he had decided they needed to be there. Lexa had been the natural choice to go in, she could bend light around herself to become invisible so they wouldn't know she was there and she'd had the most experience with the Dominion.

They'd all known it would be dangerous as she was going to be virtually defenceless once she got in there but he'd had Brennan Shalimar and Jesse positioned close by just in case. They found out too late that they were being setup.

The heat sensors had been hidden very well; he'd guessed afterwards that they'd been programmed to ignore the 5 Dominion members already in the room and focus on any other heat sources.

As soon as he heard the beeping of the sensors over his com-ring he knew it was already too late. "Get out of there now Lexa" he shouted into his com-ring. He knew that right at that moment she would probably be building up one of her most powerful light beams to throw at them but it didn't matter because they were ready for her. In one swift movement all 5 of them had pulled mirrors from under the table in the centre of the room and as the light bounced off of every mirror she screamed.

He couldn't breath; he could still hear her scream tearing straight through him. It wasn't until he heard Shalimar's voice over his com-ring that he came back to himself. "Adam it was a setup, this place is crawling with guards" he could hear her practically growl as she connected with a kick to someone's head "Shal, duck" he heard Brennan shout as the elemental shot a bolt of electricity through one of the guards. "Adam we're going to try to get to Lexa, she isn't answering her com." He had to tell them "its too late, Lexa's dead." The words ripped his heart right out of him. He wanted to scream. "What? sh-she can't be" he could hear every note of heartbreak in Jesse's voice and it killed him. "She's not dead! She's fine; she just can't answer her com that's all." The young molecular phased through 3 walls to find her. The Dominion members had long since run, the room looked completely empty. Then he saw her, lying on the floor, her dark hair framing her face. She looked like she was asleep.

Jesse refused to leave her even after they brought her back to Sanctuary. None of them had realised how much Jesse loved her until then. They buried her next to her brother Leo a few days later.

Adam turned the pages of the photo album in his hands until he found one of his favourite pictures. It had just been a normal day; things with the Dominion had been pretty quiet for a few weeks. The only thing that made this picture stand out was that it was the first time Jesse had really smiled since Lexa had died.

The picture was of Jesse, Brennan, Shalimar and Adam at Brennan and Shalimar's engagement party. They'd all been sitting round the table, finally able to have a proper dinner together for the first time in months. They were talking and laughing when Brennan cleared his throat and stood up. Adam couldn't help but smile, Brennan had already filled him and Jesse in on what he was planning to do. He watched as the tall elemental walked around the table to where Shalimar was sitting, he saw the ferals eyes widen as Brennan took the little black velvet ring box out of his pocket and got down on one knee in front of her. "Shal, I have loved you since the first moment I saw you; you are the most amazing thing that has ever happened to my life. Shalimar Fox, will you marry me?"

Adam could see tears running down Shalimar's cheeks as she gave Brennan her answer "of course I'll marry you!"

They decided to have a party that night to celebrate. Adam couldn't quite believe how proud he felt of them that night. He really did feel like their father. He felt even prouder when Shalimar had taken him aside later and with tears in her eyes had asked him to give her away. It was one of the happiest moments of his life; she thought of him like a father, he eventually found out that they all considered him their father.

As happy as he felt he was still couldn't help worrying about Jesse. He'd been quiet all night and Adam knew he was thinking about Lexa. He walked over to the younger man and put a hand on his shoulder "its ok to miss her you know Jess" Jesse looked at him like he was fighting back tears "I'd be worried if you didn't miss her" Jesse tried to say something but the tears he'd been holding back finally beat him as Adam sat down beside him with his hand still on his shoulder.

Adam looked again at the picture in front of him, all of them sitting together, so happy. He turned the pages again to find another happy picture. This one was of a young couple on their wedding day. He looked in wonder at how beautiful Shalimar looked in her wedding dress, her long blonde hair in curls and a smile on her face that could light up the universe. Brennan was standing beside his new wife, holding her hand and looking every inch the proud husband. Adam had thought he could never feel happier than he had that day, watching the 2 young mutants tell world how much they loved each other.

It had been a small ceremony on top of the mountain. Just their team and a few others but it had been beautiful all the same. They'd gotten an old friend of Adam's to perform the ceremony. It was Christmas Eve and snow was falling all around them.

He turned the pages of the photo album again until he came to one of the last pictures in it. This was one of his favourite pictures. It was of a young woman with shoulder length red hair and the bluest eyes Adam had ever seen. "Emma" he said with a smile that lit up his whole face. He looked at the little boy on Emma's knee. He had the same blue eyes as her but his hair was darker and curlier than his mothers.

It had been a few weeks before the Naxcon incident that she had come to talk to him while he was working in the lab. "Adam I need to talk to you, are you busy?" "No it's nothing that can't wait until later. What's wrong?" he noted the worry in her eyes. "My powers are getting stronger Adam, its getting harder to control them". She was scared, in fact she looked terrified. He scanned her and ran some tests which confirmed that her powers were beginning to get dangerously out of control. They talked for a while longer then he started working on a way to help her. He couldn't let this happen to her. Not to Emma.

Then naxcon happened. He knew he was going to have to run so he took her with him. He watched as she projected images of her death into their friends minds then they ran. He'd been working on a way to implant a kind of psyonic switch in her head so she could more or less switch her powers on and off whenever she liked but he had no idea if it would work.

It took him 2 months to finish it while he and Emma had to keep moving around. She'd slept for almost a day after he implanted the switch but when she woke up it worked, she could turn it on and off. She was so happy she cried but they were wonderful tears because for once they were her tears not someone else's.

She'd spent a few months travelling after that, she said she needed to workout who she really was. He hadn't even realised how much he missed her until she came back but then the Dominion had gotten him and he hadn't seen her for 3 years.

After they rescued him he thought everyday about telling her how he felt but eventually decided against it, she was young and beautiful and needed someone young enough to love and take care of her. And besides she'd never feel the same way about him.

It had been at Brennan and Shalimar's wedding that she'd smiled at him and asked him to dance with her. That was it; they couldn't stop looking at each other. They finally told each other how they felt, she'd loved him but had been too afraid to tell him, he'd loved her but been sure she wouldn't want him.

2 years later their son Adam Jack, AJ for short had been born, all curls, giggles and blue eyes. They'd decided not to get married, after Emma's experiences growing up she wasn't really into the whole marriage thing, but that didn't matter as long as they were happy.

Just then Emma walked in the door carrying their beautiful son in her arms "are you looking at those pictures again" she said with a smile "just remembering old times" "you know what we need" she said as she bent down to kiss him and put AJ in his dads arms "what" he asked suspiciously "a reunion. We haven't seen everyone for a while. I'll start phoning everyone after breakfast". He wondered if she knew how much she meant to him and how much he loved her as the walked to the kitchen with their little boy between them.