Emma roamed the lab, watching her sleeping friends. Shalimar Seemed to relax a bit since Adam came in an hour earlier and gave her another injection. Jesse though had a pained expression on his face. She wanted to use her powers to help him but the promise she made to Adam and the urgent tone he used when he told her not to use her powers again made her hesitate.
Instead she picked up a syringe and injected Jesse with another dose of tranquilizers - he moaned a bit when the needle punctured his skin, but a few minutes later he calmed down a bit and the monitor that displayed his brain activity seemed to settle a bit - the spikes on the chart becoming smaller and further apart.
She went over to the computer and started punching in a few keys - it was no use, until she could get the main power grid back up she had no way of getting the surveillance cameras back up and seeing what was going on with Brennan in the garage.
*
He was in the hall, it seemed like he was still in Sanctuary but somehow it was different. Darker, and the walled seemed to be twisted somehow. He opened the door to what was supposed to be Shalimar's room but it was empty and dark - he was actually too afraid to go inside.
He could hear heavy breathing from a distance but there didn't seem to be anyone around.
Then he realized it wasn't heavy breathing he was hearing - it was whispering.
He tried to find the source, tried to figure out who was talking and what they were saying but all he could make out was a few syllables.
He checked the other rooms - Jesse's, Emma's... but there was no one there either. The further he made it down the halls the words seemed to make more sense - even though he still couldn't figure out what they meant.
When he concentrated he realized suddenly that even though he didn't understand them he somehow knew what they were saying non the less.
"Help me..."
"Help me..."
With terror he realized that the voices were coming from his own head.
*
Emma shook out from her daze at the sudden sound of crashing somewhere outside the lab. She ran outside and looked for the source of the noise but saw nothing at first. When her eyes finally adjusted to the dim lights she saw Adam sitting on the floor in the corner - his back against the wall.
"Adam?" she rushed to his side "Adam? Are you ok? Adam talk to me!"
"I can't do it" he was breathing "I don't know... I can't remember the formulas"
"What formula Adam? What re you talking about?"
Suddenly she saw something shift in his eyes - it was like the Adam she knew was fighting to surface again
"It's the virus, I have it"
"What do you mean you have it?" her voice shook with fear and terror
"Listen to me carefully Emma" he grabbed her by the shoulders "The virus, it attacks the brain, that's why you're the only one who isn't infected, because you can close off your mind. There's a formula in the computer - you'll need to make the antidote yourself. You need to get me sedated, then you need to lower you defenses and link to us - all of us. This virus is psychological we can only deal with it that way. The antidote will take care of the physical affect of the virus - but only you can deal with the psychological ones"
"But if I lower my defenses won't I catch the virus too?"
"there's no other way!" he was breathing very hard now and his grip on her shoulders was starting to cause her pain. Suddenly he let out laughter, a mad laughter that sent shivers down her spine "there's no other way! We are all going to die!!!"
She stepped back from his as a different look came over him - the look that was in his eyes when she first found him, and now that she thought about it, it was the look that was in his eyes when she walked in on him talking to himself in the lab earlier.
# the virus must work slower on him because he isn't a new mutant # she thought to herself still looking at him as he talked to himself angrily and tried to punch the walls around him # that's why he's been able to fight it longer when Jesse's, Shalimar and Brennan couldn't #
She looked at him again and noticed he was staring right back at her - a mad look in his eyes like nothing she'd ever seen before, she actually found herself afraid of Adam.
She remembered what he said about Shalimar and the others "we need to sedate them before they hurt themselves or someone else"
Did that danger apply only to them because they were mutants or did the virus actually make people dangerous?
Instead she picked up a syringe and injected Jesse with another dose of tranquilizers - he moaned a bit when the needle punctured his skin, but a few minutes later he calmed down a bit and the monitor that displayed his brain activity seemed to settle a bit - the spikes on the chart becoming smaller and further apart.
She went over to the computer and started punching in a few keys - it was no use, until she could get the main power grid back up she had no way of getting the surveillance cameras back up and seeing what was going on with Brennan in the garage.
*
He was in the hall, it seemed like he was still in Sanctuary but somehow it was different. Darker, and the walled seemed to be twisted somehow. He opened the door to what was supposed to be Shalimar's room but it was empty and dark - he was actually too afraid to go inside.
He could hear heavy breathing from a distance but there didn't seem to be anyone around.
Then he realized it wasn't heavy breathing he was hearing - it was whispering.
He tried to find the source, tried to figure out who was talking and what they were saying but all he could make out was a few syllables.
He checked the other rooms - Jesse's, Emma's... but there was no one there either. The further he made it down the halls the words seemed to make more sense - even though he still couldn't figure out what they meant.
When he concentrated he realized suddenly that even though he didn't understand them he somehow knew what they were saying non the less.
"Help me..."
"Help me..."
With terror he realized that the voices were coming from his own head.
*
Emma shook out from her daze at the sudden sound of crashing somewhere outside the lab. She ran outside and looked for the source of the noise but saw nothing at first. When her eyes finally adjusted to the dim lights she saw Adam sitting on the floor in the corner - his back against the wall.
"Adam?" she rushed to his side "Adam? Are you ok? Adam talk to me!"
"I can't do it" he was breathing "I don't know... I can't remember the formulas"
"What formula Adam? What re you talking about?"
Suddenly she saw something shift in his eyes - it was like the Adam she knew was fighting to surface again
"It's the virus, I have it"
"What do you mean you have it?" her voice shook with fear and terror
"Listen to me carefully Emma" he grabbed her by the shoulders "The virus, it attacks the brain, that's why you're the only one who isn't infected, because you can close off your mind. There's a formula in the computer - you'll need to make the antidote yourself. You need to get me sedated, then you need to lower you defenses and link to us - all of us. This virus is psychological we can only deal with it that way. The antidote will take care of the physical affect of the virus - but only you can deal with the psychological ones"
"But if I lower my defenses won't I catch the virus too?"
"there's no other way!" he was breathing very hard now and his grip on her shoulders was starting to cause her pain. Suddenly he let out laughter, a mad laughter that sent shivers down her spine "there's no other way! We are all going to die!!!"
She stepped back from his as a different look came over him - the look that was in his eyes when she first found him, and now that she thought about it, it was the look that was in his eyes when she walked in on him talking to himself in the lab earlier.
# the virus must work slower on him because he isn't a new mutant # she thought to herself still looking at him as he talked to himself angrily and tried to punch the walls around him # that's why he's been able to fight it longer when Jesse's, Shalimar and Brennan couldn't #
She looked at him again and noticed he was staring right back at her - a mad look in his eyes like nothing she'd ever seen before, she actually found herself afraid of Adam.
She remembered what he said about Shalimar and the others "we need to sedate them before they hurt themselves or someone else"
Did that danger apply only to them because they were mutants or did the virus actually make people dangerous?