Chapter 6:- Relation Revelation
A.N. Hey thanks to those who have reviewed and please keep it up. I only got one review for the last chapter and I'm hoping some badgering may result in more! ;) Anyway on with the story.
Brennan, Jesse and Shalimar were sat around the seating area in the main room whilst Lexa, Jamie and Baby stood in front of the. None of them looked keen to begin explanations. In fact they looked like they were facing a firing squad.
"Are you guys going to start talking anytime soon? How about I start you off with a few questions that you can provide answers to" said Brennan angrily. How the hell do you two know Adam? To be fair, Lexa you were never exactly forthcoming with that snippet of information either!"
"I have no idea where to begin or how to explain" said Lexa.
"I suppose we start at the beginning with Genomex and our creation then go on from there" said Baby grimly.
"All paths began at Genomex" said Jesse dryly.
"Yeah but where do they lead?" said Jamie mock philosophically.
"I've imagined this literally hundreds of times over the last three years. I guess I never anticipated how hard this would be to explain." said Baby looking at Shalimar.
"Let me do it" said Lexa "I have a little more distance from this than you two" she turned to her three team mates "your going to struggle to believe some of this, so just be patient and I'll explain everything eventually. You'll just have to trust me on that"
"This from the queen of distrust!" said Shalimar, eyebrows raised.
"Yeah I know, ironic huh" she said with a grin "but you have no choice, you want the truth you have to trust that I will tell it"
"Fair enough" said Jesse "were going to have plenty of questions though"
Lexa nodded. Jamie pulled Baby into his arms and she leant back against his shoulder. He whispered to her "Its going to be O.K. you know" she nodded nervously in response.
Lexa began the tale "Right, well you know that we all got our mutancy from Genomex because of treatment given to us and our parents. Well basically what happened was that Genomex kept on file the D.N.A of every parent they experimented on as well as on all of us. Adam left when he found out about the mutancy he'd caused but he didn't know that Eckhart still had the parents D.N.A samples on file." Lexa took a deep breath and began pacing aback and forth across the floor. "As mutants grew up their abilities became stronger, Genomex realised the potential of what Adam had created. They wanted to be able to create their own mutants loyal to them using the "cures" Adam created for the genetic diseases and fertility problems"
Jesse nodded "So far I'm with you; of course Eckhart would want to have his own army of mutants under his control!"
Brennan agreed "Yeah, I get it, but what does it have to do with anything?"
"You'll see" said Lexa. "See in order to create mutants, Eckhart needed to have embryos with the same genetic problems. The quickest way for Eckhart to do this was to use the D.N.A of known parents of mutants because more often than not they would create children with the same genetic deficiencies that Adam had cured. But Eckhart got greedy he amped up the levels of the cure hoping it would create stronger more powerful mutants. Mostly it meant that the foetuses never made it to full gestation. So Eckhart found the looked through the databases to find the strongest mutants alive and used their parents D.N.A to create "super mutants" if you want to call them that using the amped up cure."
Shalimar interrupted. "I see so there's a whole load of super mutants out there that we had no idea about!"
Lexa shook her head "Not exactly a load, there's only about ten left in existence, the amping up of their mutancy meant that even if they made it to birth their expiration dates were very early. Most of them never made it to their teens!"
"What a bastard! How many lives did he destroy?" said Brennan angrily. He calmed himself down "But I still don't see what that has to do with anything"
Jesse who had been quietly contemplating the information Lexa had given them suddenly said "I think I do. Lexa you said that Eckhart only used the parents D.N.A of powerful mutants right. Well think about it, Adam had the same list as Eckhart, who did Adam choose to use to create Mutant X!" No one answered and Jesse groaned in frustration. The rest of the team stared at him blankly but he could see in Lexa's eyes that he was on the right track and so he continued. "We are powerful mutants! Adam choose us because of this. Eckhart had the same information. Eckhart, he used our parents D.N.A…." his voice trailed off as the enormity of this began to sink in.
"No way that's impossible" said Brennan "I mean my Dad was dead before even I was born, I can't have a younger sibling." The three Mutant X members looked at Lexa with wide eyes demanding answers.
Lexa turned to Jesse. "Jesse's right, they used your parents samples. Brennan they still had a sample of your father's sperm, the fact that he was dead made no difference to them. They created super mutants but more importantly to you in biological terms they created your brothers and sisters.
"Wait a damn minute! You knew that we had family out there and you didn't tell us" said Brennan standing up rapidly and marching straight at lecture. "What sort of sick person are you?" he yelled.
Jesse came between Lexa and Brennan attempting to control Brennan's anger. "Brennan stop it! I'm not saying I like this but we have to trust her to explain why!" he said pushing Brennan back into his seat.
"Brennan, Jesse's right. I want answers to a whole lot of questions and I'm pretty sure you frying Lexa won't help that. Besides I think they'd do something to stop you" said Shalimar pointing to the hovering Jamie and Baby.
"Damn straight, we would! Just hear her out O.K. besides a lot of this is our fault" said Jamie standing protectively in front of both Baby and Lexa "Why don't we just all calm down and take a seat" he said trying desperately to defuse the tension.
"How can it be your fault? What have you got to do with this?" questioned Shalimar.
"We pretended to be dead for the last year, all because Adam told us it was necessary" said Baby bitterly
"What's that got to do with anything?" responded Brennan in confusion.
"Well you see…." said Lexa before she was abruptly cut off by Jesse who had been staring at Baby and in particular Jamie pensively for a few minutes.
"You thought they were dead and so what was the point in telling us we'd had siblings" said Jesse in awe focusing his gaze on Jamie. "Not if they'd died"
Lexa nodded as tears pored from her eyes. "You guys didn't need to go through any more pain not after Emma and we thought Adam had died"
"You're my brother?" said Jesse to Jamie.
"Umm yeah biologically speaking" he paused " I umm don't know what to say" he turned to Baby " We've been dreaming of this moment ever since Adam told us we had living relations and now I have no idea what to say" said Jamie in anguish.
"I have a brother. This is pretty heavy stuff! I have a…" he paused. "I don't even know how old you are" he said in total amazement.
"18 were both 18" replied Jamie.
"I have an 18 year old brother. Wow. How weird is that?" said Jesse leaning back into his chair with a smile on his face.
Shalimar appeared to have realised the physical resemblance between herself and Baby. The pair looked as if they were sizing each other up. Both eyes glazed feral yellow for a second and apparently some unspoken connection had occurred. Shalimar walked towards the still nervous looking Baby and pulled her into a hug.
"I knew I could sense something weird, something familiar" she amended "about you. But I never would have guessed this" said Shalimar tearfully. "I have a sister, your right Jess, this is unreal yet awesome"
Brennan had stood quietly watching the bizarre family well not reunion but introduction noting physical similarities between the siblings. His voice finally returned "I understand why you didn't tell Jesse or Shalimar about their brother and sister, you thought they were dead. By the lack of a third person present I guess this means that my brother or sister is dead" he said dejectedly, confused as to how he was mourning something he'd never really had.
Baby stopped Lexa before she could say a word. "No, that's not true. Devon, your brother" she explained "he's not dead, he's just missing. He joined the links a year or so back and we haven't seen or heard from him since."