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Ok guys here is chapter 1 I hope your liking this story so far.

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Chapter 1: A little surprise

"Come on Jess, we better go and see if Shals ok"

"Uh yeah ok"

He looked like he'd just seen a ghost, which he supposed was kind of right.

They walked into the lab. Brennan had lay Shalimar on the med bed and Emma was sitting on a chair near Adam.

"How's Shal?"

The molecular was trying his hardest not to look at Emma.

"I'm running a scan now. I think she's ok, just the shock"

Adam was taking a blood sample from Shalimar's arm when she woke up. She didn't speak; she just looked over at Emma.

Brennan looked at Emma too. He had to ask her; as much as he didn't want to he knew he had too.

"What happened to you Emma? We thought you were dead"

"Well" her voice was barely a whisper

"I'm not even completely sure myself. I remember the explosion at Naxcon, I remember being in pain then I just have this feeling of falling for so long. Everything goes black after that until I found my way home."

She let out a sob let out a sob, and then Shalimar reached out and took her best friends hand.

"I've been gone so long. I thought you'd all forget me."

She dissolved into tears as Brennan put his arms around her.

Lexa was standing by the door watching all of this play out in front of her. She looked like a lioness surveying her territory. She didn't like this. She had seen what Emma's "death" had done to them. They'd almost fallen apart. And now she walks back in like the prodigal daughter, well there was no way Lexa Pierce was going to let herself be forced out by a ghost. She had to guard her place, the team didn't need another member and she certainly didn't want one.

Emma had stopped crying but Brennan still had a protective hand on her shoulder. She couldn't understand why Jesse wouldn't even look at her. He was leaning against the wall, his blue-grey eyes looking anywhere but at her.

Adam was running Shal's blood test with a slightly concerned look on his face. He'd noticed something he hadn't expected to find.

"Jesse, Lexa maybe you could go and reset the security codes, just to be on the safe side"

Lexa got the feeling Adam was trying to get them out of the way, but she left the lab anyway. Jesse was just glad to have an excuse to leave at last.

"Emma, you look exhausted, why don't you go and get some sleep in Shalimar's room for a while. We can talk properly in the morning."

Emma shot Adam a curious look

"Lexa's in your room"

Emma gave them a weak smile as she walked out of the lab and headed to the ferals room.

"Ok Adam, what's going on?" Brennan asked.

"Well after Shalimar fainted I thought it was just the shock of seeing Emma, which it probably mostly was but I took a blood sample just to be sure."

"What did you find? What's wrong with me?"

Adam smiled at them both before he answered.

"That's just it there's nothing wrong, as such, in fact you're in perfect health, considering"

"Considering what?"

"Considering that as far as I can tell you're about 12 weeks pregnant"

"What?" both Brennan and Shalimar had said this at the same time. They were shocked but they were both smiling.

"I'm pregnant?" Shalimar couldn't quite believe it.

"I'm gonna be someone's dad"

"yep" Adam answered both of them with a grin on his face.

"I won't know exactly how far along you are until I run some more tests"

"Wow" Brennan looked down at his feral girlfriend and gave her a passionate kiss. Adam looked away so they wouldn't see him blush.

An hour later Adam had finished running his tests on Shalimar and confirmed that she was exactly 13 weeks pregnant. Jesse and Lexa had finished changing the security codes and eventually headed to their rooms. Brennan had gone off to bed too but only after Shal had promised not to be too long.

The feral only needed to knock once before Emma told her to come in. They hugged for 5 minutes, each of them crying on the others shoulder. Shal had started to ask Emma about what had happened to her but she wasn't ready to talk about it yet so the psyonic changed to subject.

"So what did Adam want to talk to you guys about?" she could tell it was something good, she'd felt the waves of happiness coming form her feral friend before she'd walked in the door.

"Well I'm sure Bren won't mind me telling you first. I'm pregnant."

"Oh Shal, that's wonderful, congratulations"

They hugged again. Emma remembered something that had been bugging her.

"Who was that girl standing by the lab door?"

"Oh I forgot you don't know Lexa. Well it turns out that Adam set up another Mutant X team before us and she was on it. Her name's Lexa Pierce. She helped us to find Adam after the explosion."

She saw the shocked look on Emma's face.

"What happened to Adam?"

"He disappeared. For a while we thought he was dead too."

30 minutes later Shalimar had finished telling the redhead about everything that had happened in her absence. She could see the psyonic's eyes starting to droop and suggested that she get some sleep.

"Actually I should get to bed too; I am sleeping for 2 now"

She smiled as she patted her tummy

"Good night Em"

"Night Shal"

Emma was asleep before her head hit the pillow.