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So i'm sorry that i didn't update yesterday - but here's longer chappie for you!
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xXx Tiana
Next day
It was 11am the next morning when the four of them were sat in the kitchen having breakfast. They had all slept in, as use tradition after a night off, except for Brennan. This was the time he normally would wake up anyway.
They had all ate and cleared up, sitting around the kitchen in various places, when Adam finally joined them. All the talking stopped and four pairs of eyes turned to him, all 'angry'.
'Well, well, well. And where have you been?' Jesse started off. He said it in a good impression of a pissed off parent, but it didn't come out the right way, as he was struggling to keep a smile off of him face.
'Bed.' Adam simply replied back. The others looked at each other as he went to fix himself a coffee. None of them knew of Adam getting up after them. Only Shalimar knew what time he had truly came home last night. So she decided to spill, as no one else knew what to say.
'And what exactly were you doing out until 2am this morning, mister?' she scolded. Adam turned to look at her. Shalimar wore a smug look, mixed with anticipation and the urge to laugh at the shock look on his face.
'Two am! Ooh… who was she?' Emma excitedly asked. Adam turned to look at her now.
'She was an old friend. We just caught up. That's all.' He emphasized for Emma's over imagination.
'Sure. Until two in the morning? I totally believe you!' she replied with sceptism in her voice. The other three laughed at her response but shut up when Adam threw them a stern look.
'Ok. Believe what you want. I've got to go do some research and then I'm heading out again. You guys are training today, got it?' he added quickly as he saw the girls' eyes light up as the thought of him going to meet 'her' again. But instead, they moaned.
'What? No fair!' Shalimar groaned.
'Yeah! We were gonna go shopping1' Emma joined in.
'Sorry girls. But you need to train. Can't have Mutant X fail now, can we?' Adam explained. Both girls looked at him with puppy-dog eyes and pouts. Adam tried with all his might to resist, but he really couldn't. 'Fine. Train now. Then you can go when I get back.' Both girls now smiled as Adam walked out of the kitchen, heading to his lab.
'You girls better pray that he doesn't get home as late as yesterday. Otherwise, you won't be shopping at all.' Brennan pointed out. The girls' happiness deflated for a while.
'Oh well. If not, we'll just go on one of our own special shopping tips, right Shal?' Emma asked, turning her head to face her; the boys were both oblivious to what they meant.
'Oh yeah. My favourite kind,' she said, heading out of the door with Emma, 'shopping for guy.' She finished off when they were far out of the kitchen, but still within ear shot for the guys to hear.
Jesse and Brennan looked at each other and then both simultaneously rolled their eyes. They knew they had nothing to worry about – if the girls were going clubbing, then the guys were too.
'Wanna go play Bball?' Jesse asked.
'Do you even have to ask?' Brennan replied, getting up and heading towards the basketball court, passing the girls meditating in the dojo on the way.
Few hours laterIt was 3pm when Adam finally left the Sanctuary, trashing all of the girls' plans of going to the mall to shop. By the time he got back, it was bound to be too late.
Jesse was sitting at 'his' computer, as they called it, seeing as he spent most of his time there. He hadn't meant to come across anything, but as he has, he was shocked with what he read.
Reading and making sure what he thought was true, Jesse didn't notice Emma come up behind him.
'Pur-lease!' she exclaimed, looking at the picture of the woman on his screen over his shoulder. ' I am much better that her!' The woman on the screen was actually quite beautiful. If it weren't for the fact that she seemed old enough to be their mother, Emma would have been jealous that he was looking at her.
Jesse had immediately gotten rid of all of the information considering her and turned to face Emma. The look on her face was playful, so he knew that he had nothing to worry about, but there was still something biting his insides away.
'What is it?' Emma asked, feeling the nervousness and dread inside of him. It wasn't usually there. And now she was worried about the woman that she had just seen.
Jesse contemplated what to do. If he kept it a secret, she would start to double guess him. But if he did tell her, then he didn't know what he would get himself into. That was if he was right. If he weren't right, then it would be a hell of an embarrassment for him. Adam would probably never trust him again.
Emma was staring at him, plain anxiety and annoyance on her face. Jesse knew what to do.
'Where are Brennan and Shal?' he had to make sure.
'Sparring. Why?' Emma was trying to keep her patience in check.
'Good. I don't want them to know, especially Shalimar. Not yet, not till I'm sure.' He explained.
'About what?' Emma asked in an annoyed tone. Jesse looked up at her, sighed and pulled up the lady he was reading about's picture.
'This is Tori Reed. She's the lady that Adam went to meet yesterday, and is with right now.'
'Ok. She's quite pretty. Adam said she was an old friend.' Emma looked away from the screen and at Jesse again. 'What's with her then?'
'She's no good.' Jesse simply said.
'What?' Emma laughed, but stopped when she saw Jesse shaking his head. 'C'mon Jesse. If Adam's with her then she must be fine. Why would you say that anyway?'
'Cos we've met her before. It was a year or so before you and Bren joined us. She had worked with Adam after he gave up on Genomax and set up Mutant X. She kinda helped him set this place up-'
'Well, if Adam trusted her then why not? Why are you so worried about it Jesse?' Emma broke in.
'Just let me finish 'k Emma?' Emma nodded. 'Good. Well, she helped set this place up. Adam and her were in love. Ridiculously. Yeah, I know, kinda a weird memory.' Jesse added when he saw Emma's eyes widen in amazement.
'I wish I was there.' She whispered. Jesse merely smiled before carrying on.
'Yeah. So it was the four of us for a while. It was nice, you know. Shal and I never had a proper family where we could be who we were. So it was different. But then some wired things started to happen. We had a couple of intruders, who, thanks to Shal, didn't get anything nor that far. And each time we went out on a case, there would always be GSAs around, along with other people. Thos was when the GSA was new and Eckhart had just came up with them.' Jesse took a break, deciding where to go with it. He hadn't thought about it for a long time now.
'Then what happened Jess?' Emma asked, totally into the story. She was sting cross-legged next to him now.
'Well, one day, we went out on a case. It was a false call, but there was a new mutant there. She was about 19, 20. And she was so scared. We took her to a safe house, underground and it was a couple of days before she started to talk. She described who one of them was. The leader, she thought they were. She said that the lady had dark long hair with blue eyes. She had a Canadian accent. But the weird thing was that she wasn't a mutant herself. Shal and I couldn't believe it. We convinced ourselves that it couldn't be her, I mean there were a lot of Canadians out there. But really, we just didn't want to admit that out family wasn't that perfect as we wanted it to be.' He sighed, hoping Emma got the message.
'You mean… Tori?' Emma was astounded. Jesse just nodded.
'So for a week we never mentioned it. When Adam asked, we said that she hadn't talked yet. The one night, while Shal was on her nocturnal prowl, she passed the empty room, yours now. She didn't have to strain, her feral senses helped her hear everything.' Jesse took a breath. 'She was talking to Eckhart. They were sharing plans. So Shalimar confronted her, there and then. Adam and I woke up to Tori's scream.' Jesse had his eyes closed now, like it was nightmare that he was reliving. It was real he told himself. Emma reached out a hand to cover his.
'We saw Shal attacking her. It took both Adam and me to pry her off. The computer was off. Adam tended to Tori while I talked to Shal. She told me that they were taking and sharing plans. I believed her, but Adam never did. Or he did, but didn't show it. Either way, he came up with excuses that got Tori out of it. It went on for a week. Shal and Adam not on good terms is not a pretty sight. Then one day, we all went on a case, but came back without Tori. She had disappeared, left her ring and all. Adam thought she had been kidnapped. When we got back, there was am email for him, saying that she was 'sorry'. Before we knew it, out system was hacked into. It took us 5 minutes to get them out and change the passwords. Luckily, they didn't get anything, especially the location of the Sanctuary. Adam didn't give up on her for about a year, when they met again and he saw with his own eyes that she had turned. That was it. We never saw her again. Honestly, I thought she was dead.' He chuckled wryly.
'Oh my God, Jesse.' Emma was still processing the information. 'But how do you know it's her he's meeting? If she's like that, then even Adam wouldn't risk it. Not on his own.'
'That's what I thought. I was doing a check on the system, see who's been added, any new info, and Tori's profile popped up. It's quite weird cos she's not a new mutant. So I thought that Adam might have just checked up on it. But then I found these.' Jesse pulled up some emails. The oldest was dated to a year back.
'But why has he been in contact with her for so long?'
'I dunno. I made a timeline. It's rough, but it's about 18 months after she left. A couple of months after you guys joined us. I can't get into any of them; they're all password protected. Except this one. Adam opened it and received it today.' Jesse opened it and Emma read the contents.
"Last night was great. I hope I convinced you. 4pm today? Same place. We won't stay that long this time. x T x"
'Convinced him that she's not so bad after all?' Emma guessed.
'I'm assuming so. But it's still too risky.'
'I don't understand why he didn't tell us.' Emma started to pace.
'I don't think it's cos he doesn't trust us.' Jesse guessed what she meant. 'After Tori went, Shal kinda blamed herself. We figured out that she was giving the GSA and Eckhart out passwords and cases so that they could find us. Shal told me that she had heard her creeping around at night for a couple of weeks, but she never took any notice of it.'
'Oh, poor Shal! She blamed herself for it. Knowing her, it probably took time before she got over it. Poor Shal.' She repeated, shaking her head.
'I don't think she forgave herself till you guys came. Maybe not even then. She's a feral. It's in her nature to protect her family. I guess she felt like she let us down. That's why I don't wanna let her know. We have to act normal. Or close to it.' He added with a smirk. Emma smiled back.
'So what do we do?'
'I dunno. I really dunno.' Jesse said as Emma sat back down on his lap and rested his head on his shoulder.
'Do we let Adam know?' she asked. Jesse sighed.
'I guess we'll have to. I wanna get to the bottom of this, but I don't want to do it that wrong way.'
'Hmmm. Yeah, I understand. It's up to you what we do. Whenever, I'll be there, ok?' she turned to face him and Jesse responded in a kiss. They finally broke apart when they needed air.
'What do you wanna do till then?' Jesse asked her. She thought about it for a while.
'Let's go and get the others. There's nothing we can do till Adam comes back.' Emma reasoned. She then stood up and took Jesse by the hand to go to the dojo where Shalimar and Brennan were probably still training… or 'training'.
SO?
Well that was my second chappie obviously!
I only got 2 reviews last time... pelase more this time!
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xXx Tiana