"Emma I must speak to you." Adam said looking deep into Emma's eyes.

"Did I do something wrong?" Emma tried to read Adam's mind but saw that he had blocked her off.

"No you didn't do anything wrong." Adam said reassuring. He smiled "It's just ... just what do you see yourself doing in the future?"

"Why working for you and Mutant X." Emma was surprised at the question. She frowned. "Why am I not?" She suddenly felt worried, very worried.

Before Adam could speak Jessie walked in.

"Adam we have an slight problem on our hands." Jessie said seriously.

"Can it wait?" Adam asked not looking from Emma's eyes.

"No." Jessie said.

"Emma .... " Adam began.

"We will talk some more later Adam." Emma said breaking eye contact with him and turning and looked concernedly up at Jessie. "What's the matter Jess?"

"Eckhart is at again." Jessie said.

Adam sighed deeply and put both his hands onto the table and stood up. "As usual. What is my old boss up to now?" He asked walking away from the table and Emma.

Emma got up and started to follow Adam and Jessie as they may their way downstairs but inwardly felt that she wasn't welcomed in this project. So she stopped and watched her friends walk away from her.

******

"Is everything set?" Adam asked Brennan and Shalimar as he and Jessie walked into the room.

"Yes Adam everything is set." She looked beyond Adam but saw only the doorway. "Where's Emma?"

Brennan looked up at that.

"Emma isn't going to be included in this project." Adam said.

"Why not?" Brennan asked darkly.

"Because it's not meant to be." Adam said. He clapped his hands. "Now everyone gather around the table and let's set the plan up."

The other three Mutants followed their boss's directions and sat down and turned to face him. But all three were wondering why Adam was so adamant at not allowing Emma in on this project.

******

Emma sat down on the edge of Adam's relaxation pallet and tucked her knees into her chest. She put her chin down and tried to see what the other's were doing in the planning room. But all she came up with was an blank.

"What's happening to me?" Emma softly moaned. She tried to tune into someone else who wasn't an Mutant but that also came up as an blank. "Perhaps Adam .... No I must solve this myself."

She closed her eyes and thought back to when she first meet Adam. How he saved her against Echkart. How he was the most calming inference when she learned that she was more than an human. That she was an Mutant. Tears coarse down her cheeks as her heart felt like breaking.