Upon hearing his name Adam looked up. Her and Brennan rushed over to meet him.

'Shalimar, Brennan…' Adam said in amazement. 'How did you find me? How did you get here? Is Jesse here?' He paused slightly, 'And what about Lexa?'

'They're here. As, for everything else, we'll fill you in later.' Brennan said. 'Right now we've got to get out of here.'

'Guys?' They heard Lexa's voice over their com rings. 'Anything?' She asked desperately.

'Yeah Lex, we've got him. We've got Adam.' Shalimar replied excitedly.

'Thank God,' Lexa sighed. 'Right, lets get out of here. We'll meet you back where we came in.'

'You've got it.' Brennan said, and he and Shalimar began to head to the door.

'Wait,' Adam called after them. He rushed over to the workstation he had been positioned at and hurriedly put a memory stick in the back of the computer. He keyed in a few requests and downloaded all of the research he had done over the past couple of days.

'Ok,' he said removing the memory stick. 'Now, we can go.' They began to run back the way they had come. Shalimar leading, they began their decent down a flight of stairs. However, Shalimar's eyes glowed yellow and she motioned for the other two to back against the wall. She pointed downward and seconds later Brennan and Adam heard the sound of footsteps coming from below. Brennan formed a tesslar coil and was just about to fire when Jesse and Lexa appeared at the foot of the stairs below them.

'Jeez, I nearly fried you guys,' Brennan said.

'Jesse…Lexa,' Adam said, pleased to see them. The two smiled at him. 'Are you ok?' He aimed more at Lexa, giving her a knowing look.

Lexa nodded, 'Oh God,' she thought to herself, 'He knows.'

Luckily, before he could press her further, Brennan spoke up. 'We need to move. Someone's bound to have realised you're gone by now.

However, it had appeared that Brennan had spoken too soon. No sooner than he had finished his last sentence, the sound of alarms began blaring throughout the whole building. They all simply looked at each other and then raced down the stairs toward the exit.

It wasn't long before they heard voices and the sound of hurried footsteps behind them and below them. A team of Dominion agents appeared below them so they turned to run back up only to come face to face with another team. They were trapped.

'Ah, Mutant X. We thought you might be paying us a visit.' Said the agent apparently leading the troops in a smug voice.

'So thought you'd send out the welcome party? We're flattered,' Lexa retorted sarcastically.

'And I see you managed to find Mr. Kane here,' he said motioning towards Adam. 'To bad your efforts will be put waste.'

'Oh yeah, and why's that exactly?' Brennan shot back.

'Because you're not leaving here alive,' the agent replied cruelly.

'Yeah? Well forgive me, but I'll believe it when I see it thanks,' Lexa said coolly.

The agent laughed. 'You seem to be forgetting Miss Pierce, that your powers are of no use to you, not when we're wearing these handy little numbers,' he said pointing to his power proof suit.

Lexa was about to say something back when she felt that all too familiar sense of light-headedness and wave of nausea. 'Oh no,' she said desperately, 'Not now…'

Without warning she the tremors began and her skin started to glow translucently once again.

'What the hell?' The smug Dominion agent gasped.

Lexa staggered back against the wall as she shook even more violently.

'Lexa!' Jesse rushed forwards and tried to hold her, but to no avail due to her flailing limbs.

'Oh God, it's happening,' Adam said horrified.

'What?' Jesse yelled desperately. 'What's happening?'

'Today, her expiry date is today.' Jesse looked at him in horror and then to Lexa.

Shalimar looked up at Brennan, tears forming in her eyes.

The Dominion agent saw this as an opportunity to move in. 'Well, what are you waiting for?' he said to his team. 'Contain them.' However the team did not respond, they all appeared too reluctant to move any closer to Lexa. The light emanating from her body had grown brighter and more intense and the shaking was more violent that ever.

'Adam, what's happening to her?' Shalimar wailed.

'Her DNA, her cells, her body it's being torn apart…she's self destructing.' Adam stuttered.

Jesse looked at her helplessly, and then Lexa grabbed his arm. 'Jesse,' she stammered, 'Mass out.'

'What?'

'Just do it.' Lexa yelled. She cried out in pain and Jesse massed out himself, and the others, just before the light consumed the whole of the landing.

Adam and the remaining three members of Mutant X closed their eyes, and all they could hear were the screams coming from the Dominion.

Seconds later the light was gone and they opened their eyes. Lexa, writhing in pain, had collapsed on the floor in front of them, and the two Dominion teams that had surrounded them were all lying dead on the floor, burnt beyond all recognition.

'Oh God!' Shalimar said seeing their bodies.

Jesse dived down on the floor next to Lexa and lifted her into his arms. 'Lexa?' he said stroking her hair. 'Lexa, talk to me.'

'Jesse?' Lexa croaked. 'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry that I…that I didn't tell you, its just I…I didn't want you to worry.'

'Shhhh, it's ok. It doesn't matter now.' Said Jesse choked, cradling Lexa and holding her close to him.

'Adam, you figured out how to fix this right?' Brennan said sounding panicked. 'You know how stabilize our DNA?'

'Well yes, but I'll need a lab and the right equipment.' He said.

'Well, we can't exactly hang around here and do it. There'll be more where these guys came from,' Brennan said, grimacing as he looked at the piles of bodies. 'Our best bet is getting Lexa back to the cottage.'

'Where?' Adam asked confused.

'Lexa has a place in the Canadian mountains. Its where we've been hiding out the last couple of days.' Shalimar told him, though not taking her eyes off Lexa.

'Canada? Wait, so how did you get here?' Adam asked, the confusion becoming more apparent in his voice.

'Lexa brought us here, she can travel at the speed of light.'

'What?' Adam said.

'Look, enough with the Q&A session ok. We need to figure out what we're going to do, not just stand around talking about it.' Jesse yelled angrily.

'Jesse, you think I don't want to save Lexa? Just calm down ok…'

'Don't tell me to calm down Adam. The woman I love is dying, so don't you dare tell me to be calm.' Jesse yelled back.

'Jess…' Lexa said softly, touching his arm in comfort.

Adam looked slightly taken aback at what Jesse had said. 'The woman he loved?' Adam thought to himself. He snapped himself out of it.

'Well Lexa, even if you could muster up the strength to take us back, there's no saying that using your powers wouldn't just speed up the process.' Adam warned her.

'And if I don't, I'm dead anyway.' Lexa said tearfully. 'I have to do this.' With the help of Jesse and Shalimar she got to her feet. Once she was up she leant on Jesse, she could barely stand by herself.

'Are you sure you're ok to do this Lex?' Shalimar asked. Lexa nodded weakly in response. Shalimar shot a glance at Jesse, who was holding desperately onto Lexa.

'Ok then.' Lexa said weakly. 'Everybody hold on.' Lexa closed her eyes and mustered up all the energy she had left in her, and for what could be the last time the world disappeared around them.

Hi everybody.

Hope you like the latest chapter. Just wanted to let you know that I'm going away for the weekend so the next update will take a little longer this time. The next (and possibly final chapter) will probably be posted on Monday or Tuesday. Sorry about the wait, I know this chapter ended quite abruptly!

Please review after reading, I would be very grateful!

LexaLane