Chapter 2 – The Message
This chapter is dedicated to 2 special guys at my school. As they gave me the inspiration for Jesse and Brennan. Thanks.
Thanks so mcuh to AscaDuin, SGVeroand Tashfan for reviewing my first chapter it's great to know people are enjoying the story.
I'm updating earlier as planned as i'll be going away for a week so you'll have to wait longer for the third chapter sorry.
"Guys hurry up dinners ready." Lexa yelled up for the 6th time. Her and Shalimar had finished making dinner for Jesse and Brennan. They had gone all out and made a full Sunday Roast with Apple Pie for dessert. The girls loved to cook as often as they could but it was a rare thing for them to be able to cook a Sunday roast as they were usually working on the cases.
"God they take ages getting ready. And they say us ladies take forever." Shalimar joked.
"Yeh I can just see them both standing in front of the mirror, adding gel to their hair and making sure the spikes are perfectly in line with each other." Lexa smirked.
"Definitely, especially Brennan. Don't get me wrong I love him to bits but he's fussier with his hair then I am. It's kinda scary." Shalimar and Lexa both started laughing and finished adding the finishing touches to the table. They both sat down just as Jesse and Brennan walked in and sat down as well. Brennan put his hand up to his hair and started playing with it making sure it was straight. The girls started laughing again and as Jesse had started eating he immediately spat the food out. But this just made the girls laugh harder and for Brennan to smirk at him.
"Did you do something to it?" Jesse started asking suspiciously.
Lexa was still laughing but she managed to say. "No it's…it's just that we…we were talking about Brennon and… and how he's fascinated… with his hair…"
"-and how he always makes sure the spikes are straight." Shalimar finished as she could see Lexa was having problems with breathing properly. She smirked at the guys.
"I'm hurt, I'm really hurt." Brennan said jokily and pretending to cry. Jesse look shocked at this. Both him and the girls were trying not to smirk
"You're hurt I nearly bloody choked." Jesse complained.
"Aww you poor men." Shalimar gave both of them a kiss on the cheek and said "Can you forgive us?"
"Sure as long I get the biggest piece of pie." Brennan smirked and Jesse threw a Yorkshire pudding at him.
"Hey that was uncalled for." Brennan retaliated by throwing a potato at him. Before the girls knew what had happened the guys had started a food fight.
"Guys stop please."
"We're not cleaning this up."
"Well if you can't beat them, join them." Lexa said and they both joined in as well. They kitchen was covered in food and so were they. Just as they all agreed to a truce. Jesse said, "Hey Brennan you said you wanted the biggest piece of pie. Well here you go." Jesse had got the pie out of the fridge and hit Brennan straight in the face with it.
Brennon licked his lips and said, "Umm Apple pie, YUM." They all burst out laughing.
"Let's order takeaway." Jesse said and reached for the phone but Shalimar reached out and stopped him.
"Let's get cleaned up first Jesse."
"Great idea babes." Brennan said. They all went and got cleaned up. But what they didn't even know was that while that where having lots of fun and joking about. Someone else was about to be in pain and suffer a lot, physically and emotionally.
"Thanks." The man said to the guard as he brought Adam to one of the high tech Recording rooms. Adam by now had figured out what was going to happen and knew he wouldn't be able to stop it or be in control of what he said. That's if he would get to say anything. "Put him there, on the spot." The man ordered someone else that was in the room. Adam looked at them and thought he recognised the person.
"Nikki."
"Hi Adam. How are you feeling?" She smirked.
"Like you care."
"True Adam I don't but still I'm interested."
"Well Nikki I'm great you know, it's lots of fun here you should start a summer camp up." Adam said sarcastically.
"There's no need be like that Adam."
"There's every need. Nikki what happened to you, please tell me you're not on their side?" Adam questioned.
"Well I won't then." Nikki smirked again and Adam could feel the hatred radiating off her. "You wanna know what happened to me. Well let's think about that for a bit shall we. I had a great life, great friends and a great home. Ok I was different but I didn't feel that different when I was with you and Shalimar. But then you sent me away decided you didn't want me anymore. No you didn't want me you wanted Shalimar, god knows why. But hey your mistake and the dominion's good luck. They have given me what you took away. A family, a hope, a new life. And guess what Adam I love it. I love the power, love the people, and love being able to this." Nikki punched Adam in the face.
"Now, now Nikki don't hurt him to bad, well at least not yet. Wait till the camera's on." The man smirked and winked at Nikki.
"Yeh your right." Nikki turned her back to Adam and walked over to the man, "Can we put the camera on now then please, Dave?" Nikki asked the man.
"Sure what every you want babe." Dave walked over to the computers and turned on the cameras, "Hey Nik you wanna do it live?"
"Yeh but let's rehearse first." Nikki requested.
"Sure, that's fine by me." Dave smirked.
"Yes." Nikki turned back to Adam, "Now it's time to have some fun."
"You know I'm kinda glad we had that food fight." Jesse said.
"Why?" Lexa asked.
"Well it saved me and Brennan the horror of having to eat it." He smirked and Brennan laughed. Shalimar threw he pizza crust at him and Lexa hit him playfully on the arm.
"Hey Shal don't start another fight." Brennan smirked.
"Oh haha very funny." Shalimar said sarcastically.
"Well I'm stuffed." Jesse told them.
"Wow, I think we all just witnessed a miracle." Lexa teased.
"Now who's the funny one." He said back
"Well that depends, on whether you mean looks or not." Lexa got up as she said this.
"Oh that's it your are so dead." Jesse went to grab her but he slipped on some of the apple pie that he threw at Brennan earlier. "Ouch."
"See that will teach you to throw things at me. They'll always come back to haunt you." Brennan picked up the pizza boxes and put them in the trashcan.
"Well I'm tired I'll see you lot tomorrow." Shalimar got up and walked into her bedroom.
"Yeh me to. Night guys." Brennan followed Shalimar.
"Night you two. See you in the morning." Lexa and Jesse both said.
"Well Jesse I think you should go and have a shower again or at least have a wash now that you've got pie on yourself again." Lexa suggested.
"Yeh good idea, night Lexa." Jesse walked to his bedroom.
"Night Jesse."
Whilst Jesse was walking to his room. He started thinking about Lexa as usual. He knew he wanted to tell her but he didn't want to risk the friendship or risk the team being broken apart again. But then he started thinking about Brennan and Shal,
'They took the risk and now they're the happiest I've ever seen. Maybe I should take the risk. But I have to do it right.' Jesse thought and started to plan what he was going to do.
Meanwhile Lexa was looking at the computer at some of the cases that they were working on. She read one case about a father that had Mutent powers and had been taken from his family but as he had been gone for a while his family now believed he was dead.
'Sounds like what happen to Adam he was like a father to us all. But I won't start to think him as dead. I can't, we'll find him he'll be fine.' Lexa thought to herself. She then said to herself out loud "We'll find you Adam I promise we'll do whatever it takes to get you back." Just then the computer started bleeping as to tell the team there was an incoming message. "What the?" Lexa said she clicked ok to receive the call.
"Hello to who ever's watching not sure who as we can't see you. Thanks to you bloomin computers now. But just in case you're not all there I think your going to want to get the rest of the team for this message because as much as I'd like to repeat myself I doubt you would."
"What the hell?" Lexa said but she got up and went to wake up the others. "Shal, Brennan wake up now. It's an emergency." Lexa yelled through into their bedroom when she opened up the door.
"Coming." They both got out of bed and Lexa went and did the same thing to Jesse. They all gathered around the computer screen, and the man started talking again,
"Well hopefully you're all there now, I was starting to get bored. And it's not a good thing for me to get bored, because when I get bored bad things tend to happen." The camera went round and Nikki punched Adam around the face.
"Oh my god." Shalimar cried out and they all stood there in shock.
"Now I do believe you all know him. If you've forgotten him already then tut tut. Now I think you have a rough idea what we're going to say well offer really." The man stopped talking and the camera zoomed in on Nikki and Adam.
"Nikki but I thought….." Brennan trailed off not really knowing what to say.
"Hi Shalimar. Obviously you're not as good as me, because you thought I was dead well guess what bitch I'm not. I told you that you couldn't beat me but no you just wouldn't listen. But look what happened I now have the upper hand yet again." Shalimar clicked a button on the keyboard.
"Oh there you are I can see you now, thanks for that." Nikki said sarcastically.
"You won't win Nikki. Better then me, please you wish. How can you be better I have a loving boyfriend, great friends, a decent home and a life." Shalimar argued back. Lexa, Jesse and Brennan had moved a little away from the screen so Shalimar was centre of the screen.
"Yeh well I have those as well." Nikki shouted
"But compared to mine they're different, they're not real."
"They are real and you want to know the difference of you and me. Where's a girl to start. But the main difference is that I have power, I have control. I can do what I wanna do when I wanna do it. Take this for example." Nikki walked over and picked up a switch she clicked the switch and Adam screamed out in pain as the electricity volts shot through his body.
"You COW." Shalimar shouted.
"AWW how sweet." Nikki said teasingly, "You care about him. But obviously you can't care about him that much as you haven't tried to rescue him yet, or even asked me what I want. But let me save you the trouble. It's simple really we, the dominion want all of Adam's information."
Brennan started to talk "But.."
"Don't tell me, but we don't have it. We know bloody well you do. So here are your options you a) give us Adam's research and we give you Adam alive, b) You give us Jesse Kilmartin, he's ends up dead and we give you Adam alive, c) you do neither and Adam dies in the worse possible way imaginable. So we'll leave you to decide, you have 2 weeks. As by then we'll have guessed your choice is C. Bye." Nikki finished and the camera turned off.
The gang all looked at each other Lexa spoke, "Well what do we do?"
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