Chapter 22: Renewed

Somehow I managed to describe the situation to the others once I told them where we were. The others didn't quite understand why we were helping him and not ridding of him, but Adam's word was the final say. With Adam's consent we put Sam in the Helix and cloaked his eyes while we took him Sanctuary. He stayed quiet during the short flight there, with a few threats from Brennan if he tried to make a move against them. Shalimar watched him like a hawk...or…I guess you could say like curious cat. As I thought more about Samuel the more I was beginning to think that we had the wrong impression of him; I mean he really hadn't made a move against us like a usual enemy does. The only reason we hunted Wes was because he was powerful, maybe he wasn't as corrupt as we thought him to be and wrongly judged him?

Adam understood the threat that Samuel had made against his 'creator' so he tried to stick mainly to business. He seemed really eager to get a scan of Wes, probably to compare them with those he had of Ashlocke. I took a seat in the lab and stayed, even after a hard glare from Adam, but there was no way I was going to let Samuel Wes out of my sight, even for a few tests. Jeremy of course wasn't too far away, not wanting to let me out of his sight while this guy was around; I wasn't quite sure if it was 'cause he could kill us all if he wanted or 'cause he didn't like the a male feral being so close. My guess it was a combination of the two. Shalimar seemed to keep her distance for now, looking up more info on him using the database.

"Scans show deterioration in certain sections of your DNA composition, much like Ashlocke's except without the physical breakage. The abilities that you have are so strong that in Ashlocke's case it starts to tear him apart; now it seems your body is trying to prevent that by destroying the patterns of DNA that caused that certain mutation, which is why you are losing those abilities. I may just be able to repair those segments but there is no telling how long the repair will last before you get back to this point."

Samuel seemed to be taking note of every word that came out of Adam's mouth. "I killed my last doctor…he lied to me and I won't take that crap from no one, you clear?"

Both of us were shocked by Wes's sudden threat after he had seemed so nice since he choked me earlier.

Adam nodded, "you have my word."

Biting my lip I looked at him scared, wishing he hadn't made a promise that he might not be able to keep.

"Man I'd like to sink my claws into this freak who made us like this…You have no idea what it's like to be able to go back correct the mistakes you've made or change people's emotions, is it really right to be able to have so much power? I-" He stopped in mid thought making both of us look at him, his eyes were closed.

Flashing my eyes I got closer to him, "He's still breathing."

"Yeah, his mind must be having trouble keeping up with the mental changes and it's affecting his state of consciousness. Why don't you go check with the others and see how they're doing, I need to work on this."

Sighing heavily I said fine and left the lab to find the team had split up in their researching.

As I was searching the database again for a history on this guy I spaced out completely, which hadn't gone unnoticed by Jeremy.

"What's wrong?" he sat down next to me after kissing my cheek.

"Just a little confused, tired, bleck... you know that feeling? When staring at a computer is tolerable 'cause you're not really looking at it?" I expected him to at least laugh a little but he didn't.

"Look…I know you're going to fight me on this one, but I want you to keep your distance from that guy, alright? When Adam gets his powers restored to defeat Ashlocke he'll be dangerous. Damn I hope he knows what he's doing…neither of those two should be alive." "Yeah I know, but it seems Gabriel is a bigger threat to us than Wes…he really hasn't…" Jeremy was giving me a strange look, and then I slapped him across the face, "how dare you read my memories."

He let me get up from the computer, "he hurt you…he grabbed you by the neck."

"No…I mean yes…but that was before he knew we're on the same side" I tried to explain.

"Same side? Val we are not on the same side as this guy…hell, we don't even know what side this guy plays on, but if it includes killing Adam then I'd say he's not!" Jeremy was raising his voice, catching the attention of Shal and Jesse whom had come in a few minutes ago. "I'm going to stop this; Adam is making a big mistake" Jeremy was clearly beyond pissed off now. "Don't!" I grabbed his arm and held it tight, "Adam takes responsibility for the safety of all of us and knows how to make the right choices…granted he's made some mistakes, but so have we. If you go in there you'll give Sam a reason to attack us."

He stayed quiet and seemed defeated; Adam appeared from the direction of the lab, "it will take some time for him to recover, but I've made the repairs."

I let go of Jeremy's arm and he stepped toward Adam, "if he hurts anyone but Ashlocke…I will kill him and I will blame you."

After that Jeremy headed to his room.

Adam looked at all of us and sighed, "he'll come around…we need to get an idea of Ashlocke's location then I want you all to get some rest to be ready to fight his people."