Disclaimer: Mutant X is not mine. Please don't sue me. This story is just for entertainment.
Author's note: Sorry if this was a bit late. I had to finish all my lessons. My students are killing me. Of course I haven't forgot about this. I'm just a bit busy as of now. I hope yo understand.

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Chapter 22

I'm sorry

The team sat listening to the young doctor who was explaining how he got in such ordeal. Adam's eyes were roaming around as if trying to remember anything while Emma sat shaking her head showing her disbelief.

"Perhaps, but I wasn't able to finish my research." Franscis continued. "Someone wanted to get my discovery so I had to hide."

"You weren't doing a pretty good job in hiding, hiring whores to pleasure you." Emma stood up and walked to table near Adam coffee maker and refilled her cup that was emptied a while ago.

Franscis blushed for the second time feeling really embarrassed. "Give him a break, Ems." Jesse responded in defense of the young doctor. "He may be hiding but he also needs to live, you know."

"Oh and you can't live without sex?" Emma placed the coffee down and put her hands on her waist lifting her right brows at Jesse.

Jesse run his hands across his hair. "I didn't mean it that way, you know."

Emma crossed her arms across her chest. "Well, okay. Tell me what you mean then."

"I meant..."

"Enough of that, you two." Adam commanded which made them stopped immediately. "I think we have a problem." Emma and Jesse stopped quickly and had to look at Adam persuading him to continue. Adam gazed at them and started again. "It's Brennan. He is..."

There was a loud scream from outside that stopped Adam. "ADAM!" Brennan was calling out. "ADAM!" his voice sounded panicking. "Shalimar's bleeding!"

Without thinking twice, Jesse carried his feet and run outside the lab to meet Brennan and Shalimar while Emma was left in the laboratory stunned. Adam forgot about the young doctor and moved to prepare the med bed. "Bring her here." Adam called out through his com link. It was impossible to be calm due to all the shrieking Shalimar was doing but Adam is doing a wonderful job in calming himself and the team.

Franscis was left without word he knew that he has a chance now...a chance to escape...a chance which he didn't took. He finally decided to help. Brennan and Jesse burst in the lab and Franscis pushed the moveable medbed towards them as to save them the time and have Shalimar safe on the medbed. Adam on the other hand started connecting things on Shalimar and gauges started working. "YOu're going to be alright." Adam assured with a weak smile.

The air in the lab started to grow thick with all the commotion. Different computers monitor Shalimar's safety while the rest of the team stands just behind Adam since they were not really ordered to leave the lab. Emma was now aware and moving from her position. She was doing her fair job of robbing Shalimar out of pain at Adam's command. She became Shalimar's painkiller. Once or twice her knees gave in from too much pain but Jesse was there to help her up and continue helping Shalimar. Brennan, having his wife to be and his son in danger, was doing a pretty good job of taiting the floor by walking to and fro.

"Will you stop that!" Emma finally yelled at Brennan. "You are getting into my focus." She snarled at him before going back to concentration which was soon interrupted by a painful shriek from her and then from Shalimar.

"Release her, Emma!" Adam calmly but firmly commanded Emma. Emma snapped back panting from guarding Shalimar. "She's going to give in." She quickly rejoined Adam, standing up and rushing beside Shalimar. The monitors soon became frantic posing their own reading of Shalimar.

Jesse, being the one most familiar with the monitors rushed to assist. "Pulse unstable, Heart beat weakening..." No matter how Adam tried, it was not obvious that he was now too worried about Shalimar. "Adam, we are loosing her!" Jesse called out, nudging Adam back to reality.

Adam was doing his best but the contruction wasn't enough to bring Shalimar into labor. She was merely in pain and the pain was too much for her. The heart monitor was telling them enough. Shalimar's heart beat was now too weak. "Emma, please, I need you to try again and hold her for us." Emma nodded but Brennan wasn't going to stand there and do nothing.

"MOve away!" Brennan yelled at them getting ready to give Shalimar the enough shock that her body needed.
"No!" Adam had stopped him on time. He pushed Brennan aside and then glanced at Emma. "Emma, do your thing!" He yelled at her.

Emma, although she was a bit confused, followed Adam's order and gave out a psi-blast connecting Shalimar with a frightful jerk which was followed by a successful stable reaction of her heart. Adam sighed with relief then he turned towards Brennan. "I think it would be better if you leave the room for now." His voice was not suggesting but ordering.

Brennan was a bit confused but followed anyway. He backed away from the group as his eyes lingered on Shalimar as she labored on the medical bed. He didn't know why Adam acted that way when he only wanted to help Shalimar.

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"What's wrong?" Emma could not help asking Adam when Shalimar was more stable and was sleeping saftly on the medical bed. "Why did you stopped Brennan? What is the deal?" She rained questions on their creator.

Adam turned his gaze towards the younger doctor and then sighed. "I think Franscis have just explained Brennan's present state." he said sadly.

"What do you mean?" Jesse cringed but it did not took him that long before he realized. "He has it! That illness...does he?" But Adam didn't stir. He stood there near the other monitors as if thinking deeply.

"I've noticed he was weakening. I thought it was just another phase of his mutation..." Adam paused for awhile as if trying to gain composure.

"So he has it!" Emma inqueried quite worried. "Do not play around, Adam. We are not children. Tell us, does he have it?" there was a moment of bitter silence as Adam still wants to wish that Brennan does not have any illness of some sort. The silence tores through them and somehow they all understood.

Emma's eyes became watery. No she shook her head as she thought of it. This is not possible she thought. "But certainly he is not dying...is he?" her eyes teary with worried anticipation, hoping that Adam would somehow re-assured her that Brennan's state if certainly curable.

Adam could still not answer. He honestly do not have the exact answer for it. "I hope he would certainly not die." he responded silently to which Emma reacted quite violent more than expected.

"How dare you tell me that!" Emma screached at him as tears flooded her cheeks. "How dare you tell me he is dying?" she spat out raging at him.

Adam raised his gazed and started protesting to this violence. "Emma, I didn't say..."

"But that is what you are implying, aren't you?" She paused to hear Adam's response and then nagged him. "Aren't you?" she repeated but Adam stayed as quietly as he could. "You..." Emma quickly but expectedly turned to the younger doctor. "You..." she strided towards him so her finger was just an inch away from his face. "You created this stuff. Tell me, is there a cure?"

Franscis was silent. He could not dissappoint Emma nor give her false hope.

"What false hope?" Emma blurted out apperently reading Franscis thoughts. Jesse and Adam turned to Emma quite worried about her low guard that she could not read people's mind with ease. "I'm okay." she interrupted Adam's thought.

"No, I don't think you are." Adam said calmly at her trying his best to bring sense to her. "You are reading our minds again." He said quietly.

Emma glared at him. "No I'm not."

Jesse shook his head knowing very well that Emma was indeed reading their minds.

"I said, I'm not reading..." she had to pause when she saw the puzzled look on Franscis face. Emma blushed and turned away. She was angry to particularly no one. She knew no one really wanted that to happen to Brennan. From the corner of her eye she could see Jesse whispering something at Adam while Franscis was mouthing somethings at him. Emma shook her head. Loosing Brennan to another woman is okay. Loosing Brennan over death means something else.

"Look here, Emma." Adam brooke the silence and turned towards Emma, willing her to look at him too. "I'm not letting go without a fight. I'm going to do the best that I can to make him well. YOu understand?" he said at which Emma nodded and gave a weak smile then she stood up and left the lab passing by Brennan outside the lab.

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Brennan lifted his gaze towards Emma when she walked out of the laboratory. "Ems." he called out softly. Emma was so depressed to really let this go. She paused and then turned to him. "Bren." They gazed at each other trying to search each soul but Emma looked away.

"Er...Is...is she okay?" he asked.

Emma nodded. "Adam said she was not really in labor but she would be giving birth soon." Emma explained. When she finished she moved again about to leave Brennan but Brennan had stopped her on time. "I'll walk you to your room." It was not a request but a statement. He was not letting Emma walked out on him that fast now.

Before Emma could say anything, she realized that Brennan was walking her to her room. The walk seem so long and no one tried saying a word. They were both silence. Emma wanted to get into Brennan's mind but after know that the illness is contagious when a mutant uses his/her power to the bearer. She was not ready to risk it yet.

After about 10 minutes of deafening silence both mutants finally reached their destination. "Thanks," Emma said quietly still avoiding Brennan's eyes. Without warning Brennan brought his lips towards Emma and kissed her. Emma's mind was battling against itself. She felt this was wrong but a part of her wants this to happen very badly.

Brennan kissed her with hunger. He waited for this. He longed for this and he didn't want this to end. Emma found herself welcoming Brennan's kiss. She opened her lips to welcome his tongue in her mouth tasting her sweetness. Brennan's arms wrapped around her waste as if it has a mind of its own. He wanted her so bad. He needed her now more than ever.

"Brennan!"

A voice distructed them and they parted. Jesse gazed at them from a distance. Emma looked away from Jesse feeling guilty of what had happened. They stood their waiting for anyone to say anything, trapped on this ackward moment.

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