Delauro: Wow, thank you so much. With reviews like that, I'm growing much more enthusiastic about this story!
Prince Halliwell: LOL Jesse reacts very much like you in this chapter.
Mony19: Aww, I'm sorry. I've never been an Emma/Brennan fan. But I will tell you that even though things will be rocky for Brennan in the beginning, he will warm up. He just doesn't want to believe it's Emma, because he doesn't want to think about loosing her again, if that makes sense.
irismoon: We are a rare breed, aren't we? I have always been a Brennan/Shalimar shipper, but I danced with who I liked Emma with. At first I thought it was Jesse, but when Lexa came into the picture, I really liked the Jesse/Lexa pairing. But then I read a blessed fanfic where Adam and Emma were paired and wow! I've been hooked on Emma/Adam ever since! I mean, it just seems to work so perfectly.
bohemianbabe: lol I don't think it's that she doesn't like Lexa, per say. But Lexa was distrust and tried to harm her mom, so Bailey was just trying to protect Emma. And as far as Adam goes, I haven't written that far in advance yet, so I'm not even sure when he'll appear yet. But I can promise you that he'll show up before the finale (there will be 22 chapters, like a normal season).
RJF: You reviewed! You reviewed! You have absolutely no idea how happy I was when I woke up sleepily this morning, trudged into my Mom's room, and then checked the reviews on my cell phone while I waited for the computer to load! I know! They really should've come back with a season 4, I was so sad when it ended. And with Emma being the one to die, it leaves so many possibilities for her to return in fics. I mean, she was a master at mind manipulation/illusion, who's to say that she couldn't of staged her own death with a simple thought? So yeah, I had to bring her and the rest of them back. Actually, there is a reason for Shalimar's temper. But uhm, heh, I'm not gonna give too much away. ;) Now for your review of chapter 2, yep, Bailey's a little telekinetic. Yep, I miss 'em too. But I did like Lexa's powers. And it waskilling me! I was like, "Don't v-v-v-vanquish!" Charmed is all I've ever known, magical show wise. It was really hard. Haha, I didn't think about that symbolically, but I think it's hilarious that you thought of that. And as I told irismoon, I'm a very avid Emma/Adam fan...You should read some of those rare fics, they're so cute! lol I'm also huge on Lexa/Jesse and Brennan/Shalimar, as you've seen me exclaim in your fics. Hint, hint.
EternalFire-angel: Wow, thank you for taking the time to comment. They really inspire me.
shyferel: Aw, thank you. I really don't understand why they couldn't of kept it going for at least another season either, it was a brilliant show. But what really irks me, is that they couldn't even give the fans closure when they did end it.
4.03 Rosa Redhead
"You and Adam!" Brennan bellowed, his voice rocketing the eardrums of everyone in the room and probably the rooms on either side of him.
"We don't have time for this!" Emma hissed, narrowing her eyes and sending a psionic globe of power into Brennan's head and knocking him out. "Get him and follow me."
Shalimar crossed over to Brennan and dropped to her knees at his side. "Why?" She pleaded, looking to Emma and back.
"Because, this isn't safe for anyone. We have to leave, now!"
"Sanctuary is gone, Emma! It's exploded! We have no place to go!"
"I do, but we need to get you on Rosa, in order to get there."
"Rosa?" The light elemental inquired.
"Let's just call it, an upgraded Helix." Emma waved her hand, moving Bailey onto her other hip. "Hurry up."
Jesse was about to help pick up Brennan, when the feral stopped him.
"I've got it, Jess," Shalimar said defiantly. She scooped up the electric mutant with super human strength and nodded her head at Emma. "Where are we going?"
"This way," Emma replied as she left the room and headed down the long corridor at a pace just short of jogging. A thin layer of raised bumps shooting across her exposed skin from the sheer cool air rushing past her,as she went along.
----10 Minutes Later----
"So this is Rosa?" Jesse asked, strapping a navy blue belt around his waist. He was gawking at the ship, which was currently in stealth mode. It was twice as large as The Helix, it also contained six seats, and a two control panels.
"Actually, Sub Rosa," Emma replied.
"As in a synonym for 'secret'?" Lexa asked, still distrusting of the psionic mutant.
"Yes," the redhead answered as she walked over to the main pilot's seat and bypassed it, walking over to the corner of the ship and setting Bailey into a small seat and strapping her in.
"This even has a car seat?" Jesse gaped.
"No, Jess, does this look like a car to you?" Emma quipped, handing her daughter a pacifier and then easing herself into the pilot's seat. "Is everyone strapped in?"
"Just one minute," Shalimar said as she strapped a still knocked out Brennan into a seat and then secured herself.
The psychic mutant pressed a few buttons and then pulled a few levers, before a low rumble hushed the people in Rosa and the giant government shielded plane lifted from the ground.
"So where exactly are we going?" The feral asked, looking curious to her long lost best friend.
"Nevada."
"Nevada?" Jesse and Lexa echoed.
"A secret underground chamber. I've kept it running since-since..." Her voice trailed off as she shifted her gaze to her daughter.
"Adam?" Jesse asked.
"Yeah." Emma shifted Rosa into auto pilot and twirled her chair to stare at Bailey, who was steadily beginning to doze off.
"How old is she?" Shal asked, gazing at the tiny reddish-brown haired child.
"Almost a year," Emma DeLauro answered. "I was about a month along when Adam and I staged my death. We knew that everyone would be after her if they found out."
"So she's a telekinetic?" Jesse asked, remembering how Lexa had been hurled down the corridor at the motel when the baby had wiggled her fingers.
"Yep, a telekinetic." Emma grinned. "She's so powerful! Much better than the partial telekinetic powers I have."
"Yeah, you never mastered those ones very well. You were always better with things that had to do with memory," Shalimar noted.
"Only when my emotions run high," the telempath agreed.
"I still can't wrap my head around the fact that you and Adam..."
Emma laughed. "It was bound to happen sometime, Shal. We were always working so closely together and one night, we just got really close.."
"O-o-okay!" Jess flailed his arms. "We don't have to go there," he said as she clamped his eyes shut trying to keep the mental picture of Emma and Adam in an intimate moment out of his mind.
"How exactly did you find us?" Lexa asked.
Emma's empathic abilities were picking up extreme distrust and splashes of dislike from the light elemental. "Like I said, someone activated their comlink and one of my scientists was able to trace it."
"We agreed not to activate those," the feline feral said as she looked at her fellow Mutant X members.
"I haven't touched mine," Lexa replied defensively.
"Nor have I," Jesse shook his head.
"I know I haven't touched mine," Shal said as she turned her attention to the passed out electric mutant. "Why would Brennan?"
"It wasn't him," Emma spoke up suddenly.
"How do you-"
"None of you did."
"Then-"
"Adam," the redhead murmured. "He must've been able to activate it from where ever he's being held."
"How do you know?"
"I'm a psionic, Jess. If it wasn't any of you, and I would know if you're lying, then it had to of been him. He's encrypted the activation codes on all of our rings."
"Our rings?" Shalimar choked.
"Our rings," Emma grinned as she produced the small comlink on a silver chain that hung around her neck and concealed under her shirt.
"But we-"
"Left that on the side of the mountain?" Emma chuckled. "Yeah, let's just say that getting that thing out of there was almost not worth it. Anyway, as I was saying, he's encrypted activation codes into the rings. If none of you did it, then he's the only one able to access them."
"Unless someone corrupted him or forced their way into his mind."
"The signal was brief, just long enough for my team to pick up on it. If it had been someone wanting to do you harm, they wouldn't of deactivated it so quickly. It had to of been him."
"Mama!"
Emma's head whirled around, her short red locks flicking across her face like wisps of fire. "Sweetie?" She cooed, unstrapping herself and walking over to Bailey. "Hey baby," she said as she plucked her daughter from the seat. "How ya doin'?"
Bailey giggled, tugging at the comlink around Emma's neck.
"Oh Em, she's adorable!" Shalimar squealed, momentarily forgetting about the crisis at hand and focusing on the adorable child that her best friend and ex mentor had produced. She slid from the restraints of her seat and crossed over to Emma and Bailey. "Can I?"
Bailey giggled and reached out expectantly for Shalimar.
"She likes you," Emma grinned as she released her daughter into the feral's arms.
"Good Goddess," Shal grinned. "She's the spitting image of you!"
"She has Adam's nose," the telempath pointed out.
Shalimar snorted. "Well, at least she didn't get his jaw line."
Before the psionic could reply, a neon orangelight began to blink on the dashboard of the ship. "You had better sit down, we'll be landing in a few moments." She scooped her Bailey Kane from Shalimar and sat her back in her safety seat, before taking her own space in the pilot's chair. "Brace yourselves, this runway isn't all that smooth," she said asRosa began to descend.