Family Secrets
Chapter 2:- Mum's The Word
Disclamer- I forgot to put one in the lst chapter but guess what I didn't own Mutant X then I don't own them now and unless the world suddenly goes crazy I won't own them in the future either.I do however own the other chracters soI suppose thats something..
A.N - Thanks again to my brother for reading this literally a thousand times to check for stupid errors. There are probably still loads but hey on with the story.
Lexa and the young woman turned towards the laughing man. Suddenly the man spoke "You know Lex I think you might need to explain certain things to the rest of your team. I think there might be a little confusion!" he said pointing to the other members of Mutant X.
Lexa turned to face the rest of her team and saw the looks of bewilderment and worry on their faces. She wiped her face of tears and tried to explain. She looked at the two newcomers and said "I guess this isn't quite the way we imagined these introductions, is it? We are a few people short for a start! And actually I stopped imagining it that day when I saw the charred remains in that safe house! I guess it wasn't you though was it!" she said angrily. Suddenly she turned on the girl, who just seconds ago she'd been hugging, and attacked her. The woman didn't have a chance to react before Lexa had her in a one armed headlock whilst using her other arm to yank her along by the ear, like parents do to disobedient children. "You lied to me damn it! You of all people! I trusted you and you pretended to be dead!" ranted Lexa as she paced backwards and forwards dragging the girl with her.
The girl in the headlock looked to the unknown man and said "a little help here would be nice!" as she struggled feebly against Lexa's tight grip.
"Nah" replied the man with a cheeky grin "You appear to be handling this just fine"
The woman turned feral eyes onto the man and said "I'll get you for this later!" she then focused her attention to Lexa who was still pacing, dragging her along for the walk. "Come on Lexa, let go of my ear! I'm not a kid anymore, this wont work!" Lexa tightened her grip. "Oww, Oww, Oww" she yelped as Lexa made her head bend at a painful angle. Lexa continued to pace, seemingly in deep emotional thought. She blanked out the very existence of her team and retreated into her own world.
Jesse turned to Shalimar and Brennan "I'm really confused here, first there was hugging, then head locking, now Lexa's gone all trance like! What the heck is going on? Are these good guys or bad guys?"
Shalimar responded without taking her eyes off of the bizarre spectacle unfolding in front of her "recently it's kind of hard to tell the difference!"
The mysterious man walked around the still pacing pair to stand beside Mutant X. The team could now see the man more clearly; he was about 6ft with deep blue eyes and sandy slightly long hair as if he needed a haircut. There was well over a days worth of stubble on his face. He smiled and said "Trust me, we are the good guys" His smile slipped "We just need to remind Lexa of that"
Jesse looked at the man who somehow seemed familiar and asked "shouldn't we help her?" and pointed to the struggling women.
The mans smile returned "Nope, Lexa and Baby need to sort this one out on their own"
"Whoa hold it! You mean she's called Baby?" said Brennan. The man nodded.
Jesse let out a sigh of relief. "That's a pretty unique name?" he said
"She's a pretty unique person, and besides there's a pretty good story behind it" the man responded, his eyes following her every move.
Baby suddenly decided enough was enough. "Look Lexa, either you've gonecrazy which wouldn't surprise me" she said with a smile as Lexa stopped pacing in order to glare at her " or more likely your pissed as hell at me and justly so but you cant just punish me for this! Let go of my ear now! You can't seriously think this will stop me do you! You couldn't control me when I was six, its never going to happen now!" she flailed her arms erratically.
Lexa had calmed considerably "I seem to be managing just fine!"
Baby flushed feral eyes at Lexa and Lexa rapidly removed her had from Baby's ear. Lexa's anger increased. "You burned me!" she said staring at her stinging hand "Damn it! That hurt." An epiphany seemed to hit Lexa her voice took on a tone of bewilderment. "You burnt me that means that you have control of your power, you can use both now" she whispered.
Baby responded happily "Yep, you can't live with fear forever. Adam and I worked on my "issues" for the past year. I know how mad you are that we…" she looked shiftily away "well faked our deaths, but Adam said it was necessary. He said you couldn't know or else the dominion would come after us and they couldn't know we were still alive and a possible threat."
Lexa turned grim. "How is it that whatever Adam says we all do? I can't blame you really. We probably all would have done the same thing"
"You Know Adam?" Shalimar said looking at the man and woman in front of her
"Yeah" replied the man. "He kind of hung out with us during his umm death period" he smiled wryly "We can explain all this later in more enjoyable surroundings and safer"
"You're right" said Baby as she turned to Lexa. "Are we cool?" said Baby nervously.
"Yeah" said Lexa "but no more of this mushy crap! You're ruining my image" she said dragging her into a hug.
"Finally" said the man who had been watching the exchange intently. "You know we are still on top of a mountain, with dominion agents coming after you!" he said pointing at Mutant X.
The entire group looked around them in surprise, as if they'd all totally forgotten there surroundings and circumstances.
Baby laughed and walked toward the anxious looking man. She stood up on tiptoe and kissed him tenderly on the lips. She smiled "Trust you to ring us back to reality, J"
Lexa walked towards the couple, she hugged the man. "I'm glad you're O.K. Jamie but I'm not sure I like this development" she said looking at the pairs intertwined hands. "If you hurt her…."
"Lex!" said Baby cutting her off. "I might be old enough now to decide myself who I date! Besides Mum" she said with huge dramatic emphasis on Mum. "You have no right to object about inter team relationships" she said raising her eyebrows pointedly in Jesse's direction.
"Oh no. I'm backing away from this one" said Jamie releasing Baby's hand and stepping a few steps backward. "Man did I miss you two fighting like cats and dogs" he said rubbing his hands together with glee.
Jesse sucked in a breath and suddenly said "Whoa back up there! Mum?"
Baby laughed. "Don't worry to much she's not my actual mum, she just kind of took on the role. It's complicated."
Lexa shrugged. "Damn straight it is" A thought dawned upon her and she turned abruptly to Jamie. "What do you mean cats and dogs? We don't fight, we debate like mature adults! And don't think I didn't get the dog reference! Urgh I hate dogs!" said Lexa glaring at Jamie, she spun on her heel to look Baby in the eye "and I don't like what you just insinuated!" she said.
Baby looked peeved. "You wouldn't! That would mean admitting that you'd formed "attachments" she said making quotation marks with her fingers in the air as she said attachments. "You are all talk Lexa, with all this no commitment crap. You can't live by your own rules! You can't avoid it, no one can and I know the crap you've been through, I was there for most of it! But you got to get past your trust issues! I did and I dealt with my individual "uniqueness," If I can do that, then you've got to be able to admit you like a guy" Baby ran out of breath, she breathed in deeply and seemed to think she'd said enough!"
Lexa gave Baby a huge evil and then attempted to avoid eye contact with a certain individual.
Brennan who'd been suspiciously quiet said "I think, I'm going to like this kid, she has Lexa's knickers in atwist and anyone who can do that can't be bad." He winked at Baby and his grin lit up his face, Shalimar's face held a very similar smirk. Lexa glared at the pair of them before finally turning to Jesse.
"I am not a kid!" Baby yelled. But everyone ignored her.
"I suppose you agree with them?" she said.
"Yep, I get the feeling that this kid could tell me some stories I'd very much like to hear." He gave Baby a wink, and winced as he moved his wrist too quickly.
Lexa walked quickly over to him and looked him up and down. "Are you O.K.?" she said
"Yeah, I've survived worse" Jesse replied.
"Good" she said as she smacked him on the back of the head. Everyone burst out laughing.
"Hey" said Jesse rubbing the back of his head. "What was that for?"
"You work it out" said Lexa "and you" she pointed her finger at the laughing Baby, who suddenly stopped laughing. "You tell him anything, and certain things from your past may come falling out of your closet."
"O.K., O.K." said Baby putting her hands up defensively "no stories! But I have walk in closets, free for all to enter, no skeletons."
"Says the person who pretended to be dead for a year!" said Lexa with an arched eyebrow.
"O.K. so maybe your right, there might be a few teensy weensy skeletons lurking back there" she shrugged her shoulders in defeat,
Brennan looked around at the bizarre congregation. "Guys as entertaining as this is, we still have no idea where to go? How to get Adam back? We have no plan! I personally have no idea who these people are. I mean we finally get sort of introduced, well we know names but who exactly are you?" said Brennan getting angry.
Shalimar tried to calm him down. "Bren its O.K., Lexa is going to explain, everything! Right Lex!" She said glaring at her.
"O.K.O.K you guys deserve an explanation, you'll get an explanation, but not now! We need to get out of here and I have a feeling that in order to do that, we are going to need Baby and Jamie" said Lexa.
Baby continued "she's right! We have a place you can stay and a way to get you there, and if you agree to this you will get the answers you want. But I guess you have to trust us!" she smirked "Ironic that! The very people with trust issues always need people to trust them!" she said looking directly at Lexa. "I guess it's up to you" she said before putting on a cheesy voice"but hey we are here to help" she produced aridiculous superhero pose.
Suddenly both Shalimar and Baby tensed and two pairs of yellow eyes lit the darknesssurrounding them.
Jesse said "We're in trouble aren't we?"
"Yes" both Shalimar and Baby replied in unison.
The noise of safety catches being released filled the air and within seconds the entire group had a mass of red laser sights moving across their chests.
"Thought so" said Jesse grimly.