Chapter 6

Jesse knew he couldn’t stay massed for more than a couple more seconds, he could already feel his body trying to breathe again. Lexa’s body was still exploding with light and the second he unmassed he was dead. He fought the sensation as long as he could but he finally felt himself letting go and his body returning to normal. He closed his eyes and waited for the lasers from Lexa to hit him, they didn’t. He opened his eyes to see Brennan holding Lexa’s body in one arm, he had shot a sub dermal governor into Lexa’s neck to control her powers, it was a slightly modified version of the one Genomex had used. Brennan must have remembered that it was kept in one of the lower drawers and somehow been able to get close enough to Lexa to use it. Brennan gently lowered Lexa back onto the bed and Shalimar jumped off the floor and moved over to Jesse.

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah, that was a close one”

Jesse looked over to where Adam was pulling himself up off the floor, the two of them moved back over to their research station.

“Looks like everything’s still in one piece, well done Jesse”

“Let’s just hurry up and finish this cure”

Jesse quickly turned back over to look at Lexa, Brennan was still at her side, Shalimar had also moved back into position at the other side of the bed. Lexa looked pale and Jesse felt an ache in his heart at the site of her looking so vulnerable. He and Adam were really close; it shouldn’t take much longer now.

Two hours after arriving at this new sanctuary Adam and Jesse were done; he turned to find the others still had not left Lexa’s side and let them know he was injecting her with the cure.

“Now all we can do is wait”

It was another 2 hours later when Lexa finally woke up, she sat up on the bed almost immediately.

“Hey, how are you feeling?” Shalimar asked

“Okay I guess, what happened?”

“Your structure destabilised, Adam fixed it”

“That’s good”

“Are you kidding me its great” Shalimar said as she wrapped her arms around Lexa’s neck pulling her into a hug, Lexa hugged her back and then Shalimar pulled back as Brennan pulled her into a hug.

“I’m glad you’re okay” he said as he planted a brotherly kiss on her head, he then let go and put his arm across Shalimar’s shoulders. Lexa turned to Jesse and wrapped her arms around his neck and Jesse pulled her close.

“You scared me” he said

“Scared me too” Jesse pulled back and smiled as he planted a quick kiss on her lips. Adam watched the scene in amazement. Lexa was openly showing affection for the entire team, especially Jesse, and the whole team including Brennan was showing the same for her. Last time he checked the team were still having major trust issues especially Brennan and Lexa and now it appeared as though those issues had never been there and Lexa was as much a part of the family as the rest. He had never expected Lexa to become so involved or open with the team and it amazed him how much the team loved her and how much she loved them.

“Thank you Adam” Lexa’s statement of gratitude pulled him back out of his own thoughts.

“You’re welcome and now that we know it works we can dispense it to the rest of the mutant population, starting with you two” he gestured toward Brennan and Shalimar who happily walked over to him and received their injections.

“Right, I’m starving” Brennan said

“Me too” Lexa said with a grin on her face

“Let’s see what we can have for dinner then” Shalimar said laughing and walked out with her arm around Brennan’s waist and his arm around her shoulders.

“We better hurry before Brennan tries to help Shalimar cook” Lexa said also laughing, Jesse held out his arm to Lexa who jumped off the bed and took it walking out of the room with Jesse. Adam watched as the four of them left the room and knew he had a lot of catching up to do. These were all different people to those he had left and he couldn’t help but feel a little like the outsider now.

“Are you coming Adam” he heard Lexa yell back, for someone who had just nearly died she was extraordinarily cheerful, he shook his head and followed them out of the room.

Authors note: It’s kind of sad to see the end of my first ever Mutant X Fanfiction but on the bright side I’ve already started writing the sequel. It’s called Enemy Within and I’ll probably post it really soon, thanks again to everyone who reviewed and I hope you enjoyed it.