Jess couldn't bite his lip anymore. There was already blood dripping into his mouth from the teeth marks. Harrison had formed the top half of the 'Y incision,' and had now begun the incision that went down his chest to the bottom of his stomach. So far Jess had been able to keep his mouth clenched tightly. He had managed to hold the scream that was building in him inside, but now Harrison had just reached his abdomen.
Jesse screamed, his back arching, and he pulled weakly agents his restraints. Harrison yelled, partly in surprise and partly in annoyance, "Get him restrained!"
"And then sedate him!" Jessica yelled.
"What?" Harrison said as he diverted his attention from Laura and Witson, who were none too carefully restraining Jesse, to Jessica.
"You heard me! His vitals are getting unstable! If you want him to live through your barbaric practices then you will give him a sedative or twenty minutes to rest!" Jessica said, shouting over Jesse's scream of pain as Witson pressed hard on the newly cut skin.
"There are no sedatives here, and injecting him with one would defy the point," He growled.
"Then take a break Doctor," Jessica hissed, with a more then a hint of bitter sarcasm in the word 'doctor.'
By then the incision will have begun to heal!" Harrison said, his voice matching Jessica's.
"Not if you spread the wound," Laura said, calmly.
Jessica and Harrison stopped glaring at each other and looked at her, Harrison with a look of gratitude and Jessica with a look of hate.
"Brilliant idea! That's exactly what we'll do!" Harrison then glared at Jessica, "Unless, that is, you have anything to add."
Jessica was trapped; she wanted to end Jesse's pain, but she couldn't argue with Harrison any longer. Jesse's vitals were getting dangerously close to shock. Witson, practically sitting on the new wounds, wasn't helping. "Do it, but then you have to wait thirty minutes before you touch him again," Jessica said, through clenched teeth.
Harrison snickered, and then turned back to Jesse. "Now if you will please get off him Mr. Witson, we have a solution to Mrs. Kilmont's so-called problem." Witson however, didn't seem to hear Harrison. He was pressing on Jesse's stomach to the point that Jesse was whimpering, a look of hatred and satisfaction dancing across his features.
"Mr. Witson, if you please." Witson didn't respond. "Mr. Witson?" If anything, Witson pressed harder on Jesse's wounds, because Jesse gasped and started breathing harder.
"Mr. Witson!" Harrison yelled, and still received no response. Jessica felt panic grip her, as she watched Jesse's heart rate increase dramatically. And she did the first thing that came to her; she lashed out with her mind.
"Get off of him!" she shouted as she pushed all the power she could at Witson. Witson was tossed back, into the wall. "Now then, get this over with and leave him alone."
Everyone was quiet for a minute. The only sound came from Jesse, who was gasping for breath. "Now," Jessica ordered again, which broke the silence in the room. Everyone was brought back to their senses.
Jessica watched as Harrison held Jesse still and Laura clamped the skin so it wouldn't close. Thankfully, Jesse passed out before to long, as she had to rip apart certain sections where the scallop did not cut through. Attaching the clamps could not have been pleasant for Jesse.
When it was over, Jessica made sure that Laura and Harrison had left before she exited. Witson was still lying where he fell, seemingly dead to the world, and Jessica didn't have the energy to drag him out.
As soon as Jessica left the lab, she went in search of a phone. Before, when she had promised Jesse she would contact Adam Kane, she had been lying. She was afraid of what would happen if Witson found out, or worse, Eckhart. But after seeing what they were doing, how much pain Jesse was in, she didn't think there was any option left. So she hid in the shadows of the building, outside where her cell could get a solid signal.
The view around the complex was beautiful, doing it's best to hide the vile within. It was wide-open fields all round that stretched on for miles, until it eventually ran into a forest. From the air the complex looked like a small crater with a white concrete bunker in the middle.
She had twenty minutes before she had to be back in the lab, but even less if she wanted to make sure Jesse was safe. She pulled out the number that Jesse had given her, and dialed. She heard a series of rings, and then a male voice….
Brennan felt like throttling something. Jesse was in the hands of a madman, which he couldn't help but think was his fault, and now all he could do was sit in the computer room and watch as the girls and Adam made their way to Genomex.
The red lights on the computer-generated map indicated that the team was still ten minutes out. The plan was simple: Shalimar would take out the outer perimeter guards, and Emma would take care of everyone else inside. They would make their way down to the 'Research Facilities,' get Jesse, hopefully, or so said Shal, doing as much damage as possible. Then Adam would pick them up in the Helix, and give the controls to Shal, while he and Em took care of Jess.
It wasn't that Brennan didn't think that they could handle it, after all, they had saved his ass more times then he could count. He just hated the fact that he wouldn't get a chance to break a few bones and give a few concussions. He wanted the GSA and Eckhart to pay just as much as Shal did, for hurting his best friend.
'My best friend,' he thought bitterly, 'Yeah, that's what Jess is, even if I treat him like shit.'
There was a beep on the computer, an annoying sound that Jesse some how never got around to deleting. Brennan sat up, and clicked on the new screen that had popped up. It was an incoming call alert that was one system of communication that Sanctuary had.
The two main sources of contact for New Mutants looking for a way into the underground, is word of mouth, and 'the magic number,' as Adam called it. The magic number worked basically like a cell phone call. It used a network of satellites to connect to the other line. Brennan didn't understand everything that Jesse had told him about the system, but he did understand that it was untraceable and could not be used against Mutant X. Or at least that's what Jesse told him.
Brennan typed a few commands and the caller came up.
"Hello?" Brennan said, instantly starting a trace on the call.
"Is this Adam Kane?" A female's voice said, nervously.
"No, but I work for him. How can I help?" Brennan said, with a knot in his stomach. 'Great, just what we need! Shal and Em are away trying to save Jess and now we have a new mutant who needs help!'
"This is really important, I need to speak to Kane," the woman said again, sounding a little desperate.
"Right now, Adam is preoccupied, there's a…there's a situation that has taken his full attention."
"I know. That's what I'm calling about. Jesse Kilmartin, he's…he's not going to last much longer…."
"Who is this? Who are you?" Brennan said, now sitting up and starting another, more precise trace of the call.
"They're torturing him, only Harrison calls it test, and that bitch Laura's trying to get into his pants, and Witson doesn't give a crap about any information, he just wants to hurt Jess," the woman said all in one breath. Brennan could barely understand it.
"Whoa whoa, slow down, I didn't catch any of that," Brennan said as he watched the trace program narrow down the search.
Brennan heard the woman take a deep breath and then start again. "When Harrison heard that Jesse had been captured, he asked Eckhart to give him permission to run tests. Only his so-called tests are going to kill him. That is if Agent Witson doesn't first. Look, I don't have time to explain everything to you, you just have to trust that I'm telling the truth and get over here."
"Ok, alright," Brennan said as he started to panic. The trace had just finished. It had narrowed the position to a two-mile radius from the factory where Jesse was taken. "Where exactly is here?"
"Genomex Testing Facility 29. I don't know the exact location…it's a white bunker in the middle of nowhere."
"That helps," Brennan mumbled under his breath.
"Look I know it's not a lot, but you have to hurry. Jesse doesn't have much time, especially not with what they're planning to do." With that, the caller hung up, leaving Brennan alone once again.
Ok, so you probably already know what's going to happen. Brennan's going to rush off and save Jesse...or is he?