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A Matter of Honor	By : purenightshade Category: M through R > Mutant X Views: 1579 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: A matter of Honor

Author/pseudonym: Nightshade

Author websites: http://www.angelfire.com/anime/makosmusings

Characters: Adam, Jesse

Rating: The ratings vary from chapter to chapter, but it�s intended to be NC-17

Pairing: Non-shipper, non-slash, involves original characters

Status: incomplete

Series/Sequel: series

Spoilers: As of yet, no spoilers

Disclaimers: All Mutant X characters are copyright to their respective owners. Honor and Claudia are my original characters and should not be taken or used without my permission.

Summary:A New Mutant�s powers start to evolve out of control and it�s up to Adam and the team to help put them back under control. An old friend of Adam�s returns to haunt him.

Send all comments to nightshade@catlover.com
Episode 21: Relapse
The instant Honor saw that Claudia and Adam had left, she dashed upstairs to change out of her ripped jeans and baggy sweatshirt and into a pair of tight tan colored pants and a light purple button up silk shirt with a � sleeve. She sat brushing her hair until the door bell rang. Looking out the window first to make sure that it really was him and not someone else, she went back down to answer it. She opened the door and gave Jesse a big smile and a kiss. �I�m so glad to see you,� she told him. �I was going crazy helping Claudia get ready for her little date.�

Jesse laughed and came in, handing her a bag so that he could take his jacket and shoed off. �I�m only glad to be of service,� he said, mock bowing.

She swatted him lightly. �Behave, you.�

�I thought you liked it when I didn�t,� he teased, putting his hands on her waist.

�Slow down there, cowboy,� she said, tracing lazy patterns across his chest with her fingers. �Save that for a little later. I don�t know about you, but I�m starving!�

�And here I�d been hoping that I�d be wanted more than food.�

�If I�d eaten more at dinner, I would, but I wanted to see you so bad that I couldn�t. Now that you�re here, that�s not a problem and my appetite is back.�

He nodded, smiling. �It�s so nice to be wanted. I wouldn�t say no to something to snack on. I can try to be patient.�

�Pizza�s good for you?�

�That�s what I suggested on the phone.�

�That�s why I figured it was ok. Are there any toppings that you don�t like?�

�Not particularly, no. Whatever you like is fine with me.�

She held up the bag. �You brought a movie?�

�Yeah. Hope you like it. It�s one that Shalimar and Emma are both fond of.�

She kissed him again and led him into the living room, setting the bag down on the coffee table. He sat down on the couch and she straddled him, cupping his face in her small hands. He put his hands back on her waist. �I�ll be back after I go order us something to eat.�

�Do you have to go just now? You look so sex like this.�

�If I don�t go now, you won�t get a chance to take advantage of it as I�ll have starved to death.�

�We can�t have that, now can we? Hurry back?�

�If you�re patient, you might just get your special treat early.�

He raised an eyebrow. �Now what might that be?�

�You�ll just have to behave yourself and find out in due time.�

�Go make that call,� he said reluctantly, running his hands up her sides. �Just hurry back, ok?�

She smiled at him. �I won�t be long. Why don�t you pop that movie in while I do this?�

He nodded and she got up, heading for the kitchen. He sighed and went over to pick up the bag, taking the movie out and popping it into the DVD player. He left in on the menu, waiting for Honor to get back. While he waited, he thought about what this special treat was. His mind was half way through a list of possibilities when Honor came back.

�Food will be here in twenty five minutes,� she told him. �Now if I can just last that long.� She joined him on the couch.

He sidled up beside her, leaning in. �I think I can keep you distracted while you wait,� he breathed, brushing the side of her neck with his lips.

She giggled and pushed him away. �You know as well as I that if I let you start that, we�ll both get so wrapped up in it that I�ll miss the pizza guy and therefore starve. Do you think you can hold that thought for a little?�

He sighed again and looked down at her. �It�s lucky for you that I�m crazy about you. I wouldn�t take this from anyone else.�

Gently, she pushed him back against the arm of the couch, lying down on top of him. �Trust me, Jesse. It�ll all be worth it in the end. Now, be a dear and start the movie? Your arms can reach the remote better.�

�That depends,� he said casually. �Can I get a kiss first?�

In response, she kissed him passionately, not letting him go for a good minute. �Was that enough to warrant you granting my request?�

�If you keep kissing me like that when all I was expecting was a quick little one, oh hell yeah!� He reached across to the coffee table and picked up the remote, starting the movie. As the opening credits rolled, they repositioned themselves so that Jesse�s back was up against the back of the couch and Honor�s back was up against him. He wrapped his arms around her and she linked the fingers of one hand with one of his. He kissed the top of her head. There was a contented smile on her face as she burrowed back as close to him as she could get. She closed her eyes for a moment, opening them when Jesse poked her in the ribs.

�The doorbell just rang, Honor,� he told her. �If you want your food, you might just want to answer that.�

Blushing, she got up and answered the door, apologizing to the delivery man as she paid him. After closing the door, she took the steaming box back to the living room. Jesse had sat up while she was gone. He looked at her with a puzzled expression on his face.

�Are you ok there, Jesse?� she asked, sitting down and putting the pizza down on the coffee table.

�I was about to ask you the same thing.� He touched her cheek. �When you closed your eyes there, you passed out cold.�

She smiled apologetically. �You�re just so comfortable. I must have fallen asleep.�

�You weren�t asleep, but unconscious. It took me forever to get your attention.�

�I didn�t even know I�d gone out.�

�That worries me.�

�Relax, will you? It�s probably just a blood sugar thing. Even though Adam�s procedure got rid of my illness, there are still side effects from it. If I don�t eat a certain amount in a day, I get sick.�

He nodded. �Better get eating. Unless, of course, you want me to hold you down and force it down your throat.�

She laughed. �As entertaining as that would be under any other circumstance, I�ll pass, thanks.�

Jesse opened the pizza box and handed her a slice. �Ladies first.�

She took the slice, maintaining eye contact as she bit into it. He laughed at her. �I�ve never seen anyone who could make eating a slice of pizza look so�sexy.�

�You�re so full of it,� she teased, taking another bite. �Help yourself. I can�t eat a large one by myself.�

He picked up a slice. �I could if I were hungry enough.�

She finished her slice. �Would you care for something to drink?�

�Sure.�

�What would you like?�

�Surprise me.�

�Brave man,� she said, raising an eyebrow.

�Maybe I�d better come with you.�

�There�s a thought,� she said, getting up. Jesse followed her into the kitchen. She opened a cupboard and took a pair of glasses down. �Take whatever you want.�

Jesse opened the fridge and peered inside, trying to decide what he wanted. Just as he reached for a bottle of pop, he heard the sound of a thud immediately followed by breaking glass. He turned around to see Honor sprawled on the floor, her hands bleeding from cuts made by the broken glasses she�d been holding. Without even closing the fridge, he rushed over to her side, cradling her head in his lap.

�Honor? Honor wake up!� He shook her, but there was no response. Everything he tried met with failure. He got up and went for the phone just as the front door opened. Jesse looked out into the hallway to see Adam and Claudia sneaking in. �Come in here, quick! Honor needs help.�

Adam looked at him, confused, but both he and Claudia followed Jesse back into the kitchen. Adam knelt down beside Honor�s prone form, feeling her forehead and checking her pulse.

�It�s faint, but it�s still there. Do you have any idea what happened?�

Jesse shook his head. �She passed out earlier, but she told me that it was just low blood sugar. She had a slice of pizza and we came in here to get something to drink. My back was turned when she collapsed. Is she ok?�

�I don�t know.� Adam turned to look at Claudia. She had an expression of panic on her face. �Do you have any ideas?�

She shook her head. �To my knowledge, this has never happened before. She had some dizzy spells when her telempathy started to show up, but nothing that lasted longer than a few hours.�

�I�d like to take her back to Sanctuary and run some tests,� Adam said after a few minutes of thought.

�What good is that going to do, Adam? You�ve already run tests on her.�

�Calm down, Jesse.�

�Calm down? My girlfriend is unconscious and you�re asking me to calm down?�

Claudia walked over and cuffed him on the head. �You won�t be any good to her if you don�t. I�ve known her for a lot longer than you have. Help Adam get her back to Sanctuary. Or would you rather take her to a hospital and try to explain about her mutation?� Seeing the stunned look on his face, she nodded. �I thought not. I know you�re upset, but this isn�t Adam�s fault.�

Jesse looked at her as if she�d lost her mind. �He was the one who made her a mutant. He�s taking too long in finding a more permanent solution to her growing mutation. How could any of this not be his fault?�

Rolling her eyes, she smacked him again, a little harder this time. �If Adam hadn�t done what he did, she would have died a long time ago and you never would have met her. Care to keep placing the blame?�

His shoulders slumped and he sank to the floor on the other side of her head, taking one of her bleeding hands into his. Wordlessly, he nodded, agreeing to Adam�s suggestion. He stood and bent down to pick her up.

Adam walked out into the hallway and activated his comring. �Shalimar, I�m coming back to Sanctuary. Honor�s hurt. Have the lab ready for us.�

�Is she going to be ok?�

�I have no idea. She just collapsed. She seems ok for the time being.�

�Right. Do you need anything else?�

�No. Just be ready for us.� He turned it off again and helped Jesse get Honor into the back of his car. Claudia drove Jesse�s car back. Neither she nor Adam really thought that Jesse would be in an mental condition to drive. Jesse sat in the back of Adam�s car, holding Honor with her head in his lap. On the way back to Sanctuary, Jesse picked as much of the glass out of her cuts as he could before gently wrapping her hands in the soft white bandages Claudia had given him just before they left. That done, he couldn�t think of anything more to do than cradle her head in his lap until they got there.
Gently, Jesse lowered Honor down onto a diagnostic bed and held her hand in both of his. Adam went over to the control panel and pushed a few buttons. �Jess, you�re going to have to move away. I know you don�t want to, but it�ll interfere with the scans.�

Giving her hand a final squeeze, Jesse backed away, hovering nearby. Brennan, Emma and Shalimar stood beside him with Claudia on the other side of the room, near the door. He watched nervously as Honor was scanned. When it finished, he rushed back to her side.

�What�s wrong with her?�

Looking at the screen, Adam shook his head sadly. �I was afraid of this. Her mutation is going out of control again. It�s gone beyond what I saw when Shalimar and Emma first brought her here.�

�What about that drug you�ve been working on to help with that?� Jesse looked up at Adam, a desperate look flashing across his face. �Will that work?�

�I�ll have to run a test on it to be sure. I know, Jesse, I know, but I want to be sure that it�ll help. If not, I can modify it so that it will.�

�Can you wake her up?� Emma asked. She looked agitated, but most of that was picked up from Jesse.

�I don�t think it would be a good idea. We don�t know if she�s in any pain.�

Emma walked over to the other side of the diagnostic bed and looked down at Honor�s still face, opening her mind. �I�m not feeling any pain. There�s not much of anything going on there emotionally. It�s almost like she�s in a deep sleep.�

�Do you think it would be safe?� Shalimar asked her.

�I don�t see anything that indicates one way or the other.�

Jesse�s eyes pleaded with Adam. �Wake her up.�

�Keep in mind that I�m doing this against my best judgment.� Adam filled a syringe and poked her in the arm with it. �I can�t even say for sure that this will work.�

Jesse stood beside her, stroking her hair. Emma and Brennan left the lab. Adam got to work running a test on the drug he�d created to help Honor, Claudia sitting nearby with her eyes on her young friend. Shalimar stood still, watching Jesse for a while, her heart going out to the young molecular. Carefully, she walked up beside him.

�Jesse, is there anything I can do for you?� she asked.

He turned to look at her. �No, thanks.�

�You really should sit down at the very least.�

�I�m not leaving her.�

�You�re going to sit down or I�ll knock you out.�

His eyes hardened. �That�s what it�ll take to get me away from her.�

Shalimar held his gaze for a while and then smiled. �I�ll go get you a chair,� she said, leaving. She returned a few moments later with a tall stool. �You let me know if there�s anything else we can do. Ok?� He nodded and sat down, not taking his eyes off Honor.

Not long after that, Honor�s eyes fluttered open. She looked around her in a daze before looking at Jesse. She didn�t seem to recognize him at first.

�Honor? How do you feel?� Jesse asked, running a finger over the skin of her cheek.

�My right arm hurts like hell and my hands feel funny. I�m a bit dizzy as well, but I�m fine otherwise.� She looked at him carefully. �Why am I in Sanctuary?�

Adam and Claudia walked over to stand on her other side. �You don�t remember?� he asked.

�If I remembered I wouldn�t be asking,� she said crossly.

Jesse glared at Adam before looking back down at Honor. �What�s the last thing you remember?�

�We were getting something to drink in the kitchen.�

�Nothing else?�

�No.�

His look of concern grew. �When you were getting glasses out of the cupboard, you collapsed and cut your hands up on the glass. Adam and Claudia showed up shortly afterwards and we brought you here.�

�Am I ok? Is there anything wrong?�

�As near as I can tell, you�re still mutating. I can stabilize you for a little while, but it will only be temporary. I�m running a simulation right now on something that might be a more permanent solution.�

�Might be?�

�We�ll know shortly.�

Honor winced. �You might want to hurry on that. I�m not feeling so good.�

Jesse ran his hand over her forehead. �What�s wrong?�

�My stomach feels like its being squashed. It�s making me nauseous.�

He looked up at Adam. �Can you give her something for the pain?�

�That could make things worse,� Adam replied as Honor convulsed in pain. Jesse�s hands kept her from falling off the examining bed.

Emma winced. �Adam, she�s in a lot more pain than she�s showing. I can feel it and it�s not pleasant.�

Honor winced. �That�s really putting it mildly, Emma.�

Shaking his head, Adam took a syringe off the table and walked towards her. �Before I give you this, I want you to understand something. This is Ephenol. It will temporarily stabilize your mutation. It will do things to your head. You�ll think your all better but you won�t be. Under no circumstances are you to leave Sanctuary while under the drug�s influence. Do you understand?�

She gave him a half smile. �I don�t have any immediate plans to do so.�

Being as gentle as he could, he poked the needle into her shoulder. Even so, she looked very uncomfortable. �There. Jesse, take her someplace where she can rest. The less moving around she does, the better. Keep her calm and still.� The look Adam gave Jesse left no doubt as to the real meaning to his instructions.

Jesse nodded and carried Honor out of the lab and back to his room. Emma, Brennan, and Shalimar left as well. When they were gone, Claudia turned to Adam. �I hope you can help her.�

Adam slid his arms around her, hugging her to his chest. �I hope so, too.�
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