Title: Among Shadows
Author: Paris BYTK
Disclaimer: Dont own them, mutant x characters and everything belong to
Marvel and Tribune Entertainment, im just borrowing them.
Pairing: Shalimar/Brennan, maybe some Jesse/Lexa if they are wanted.
Chapter one: The future´s death
It was a dark moonless night. Shalimar and Brennan were walking down an alley, talking about the failed mission they had just minutes ago.
"I really dont get it Brennan... I mean, Jesse tracked a comring signal there..." Shalimar said as she waited for Brennan's reply. "It better be a good one." she thought.
"I know Shal, but we're all kinda stressed right now, Jess could easily have made a mistake... we're so desperate to found them we're acting rushed and..." Brennan ran out of ideas. He certainly didnt think Jesse could made such a big mistake. The man was a genious when it came to technology and computers, stressed and all, he couldnt be that wrong. He noticed Shalimar's sudden examination on him. The feral seemed to be searching for some kind of sign that told her he actually believed what he was saying. " We searched the whole place out.. we found nothing.."
"Fine.. I just..." She stopped abruptely the walking and stood very still, her eyes going feral mode. She grabbed Brennan's t shirt softly to stop his way too. As he was going to protest Shalimar put her fingers on his lips to stop him. then she started walking very smoothly, as the feline she was, hunting, and looking for its prey.
"Are you sensing something?" Brennan finally managed to ask.
"Oh yeah... up there." Shalimar pointed a building's roof just in front of them and grinned.
"How many?" Brennan asked following Shalimar's sight peering into the darkness that sorrounded them.
"Two." She answered again, this time, her grin had become a full smile.
"Oh no.. no, no, no... dont you tell me you are actually going up there?" Brennan said trying to figure out just how high was the roof.
"Im going, you can stay here if you want and catch up with me at the end." Shalimar said as she slapped his back and prepare to jump. Brennan watched her reaching the roof and chasing someone, but he couldnt really see whatever was going on up there. Shalimar's eyes went golden again as she watched her prey. Whoever it was, it wasnt afraid nore scared, didnt try to run away either.
"Who are you?" Shalimar asked with a grin. She got no response. The person in front of her was wearing a black cloak that covered almoast all of it, from its head to its all body. As Shalimar started walking around him, he seemed to be familiar with her feral side, since he did the exact same thing. They started fighting. Shalimar attacked him but he avoided pretty easily her punch, then she jumped up giving a kick, which was again avoided by the person in black. As the fight went on, Brennan was fed up with watching and decided to get some action too. He figured he couldnt reach the top of the building just by jumping and searched for another way. With no success he decided climbing would be the best choice. And he did so, it took him almoast 5 entire minutes to acually reach the top. At that moment he could see Shalimar and the person fighting, the feral was about to be hit, but he acted faster, he formed and threw a tesla coil in seconds to the person. He was shocked when he saw a very similar tesla coil hitting his own one, coming from another person who was standing on the top of the building in front. Brennan rushed to Shalimar as they both saw the other person arrive to the fight.
"You okay?" Brennan asked Shalimar as he tried to gain his breath back.
"Yeah... they are very good Brennan... we wont be able to take them without help..." Shalimar said lifting her wrist intended to talk on her comring.
"There's no need for that Shalimar." The first person said as he approached. Shalimar stepped forward showing no fear and change to feral eyes one more time.
"And why is that?" She asked calmly. The person took his hands to its head, and carefully took out the cloak revealing itself. She was just like Shalimar, just a couple of years older. Her hair was quite long and tied in one ponytail. She was wearing a very weird black leather outfit and seemed not to be shocked at all.
"We need to talk." The just revealed Shalimar said. She glanced at Brennan and grinned rising an eyebrow.
"Whoa, slow down... who are you, and who is him?" Brennan asked pointing at the man who still wore the cloak. The man approached and took his cloak out too as he showed a couple of years older Brennan.
"What the f..." Brennan said never getting to end his sentence.
"We'll talk about that later. As shal said, we really need to talk about something a little bit more serious. Take us to Sanctuary, and fast." Older Brennan told.
( )
"Holy crap!!" Jesse Kilmartin said as he saw his friends duplicated. He stood vert still searching for differences between the four mutants in front of him, but it didnt pass much time before just found Shalimar approached and hughed him tightly. When Jesse looked up he saw tears coming down her cheek, and Brennan did that too. He approached the molecular and tapped his back.
"Did I miss something?" The other Shalimar asked the other Brennan. They stared at each other confused. Suddenly Lexa pierce entered the meeting too.
"Hey Jess, I need some help with the.." Whatever complicated technology thing she had, fell off her hands and broke into million pieces. "Oh god." Lexa said as she tried to process what she was staring at at.
"Lexa.." Shalimar said leaving Jesse and walking towards her very slowly. When she finally reached the woman, she hughed her too and couldnt help to start crying again. Immediately the older Brennan approached too and hughed her.
"Easy Shal... you know what we gotta do." Older Brennan told Older Shalimar. He wiped her tears away as she forced a grin. Then they both turned to the four people watching confused.
"What is going on here?" Lexa asked as she crossed her arms. She supported her weight against the nearest wall and waited for her answer. The rest looked at the pair wating too.
"Is very simple. We're here to warn you, to help you avoid an assasination." Older Brennan said to the team. He watched carefully for any comment and so he continued. "Tuesday 9 of June, 2004. A senator is assasinated. You and us are here to stop that." He said as cold as ice. Since the very first moment he entered he showed no emotion at all, Shalimar on the other hand, was extremely affected with this whole thing.
"Wait, you said a Senator is gonna be assasinated June, tuesday 9?? Its next week." Jesse realized loudly.
"You're good." Future Brennan said sarcasticly, only getting present Brennan's confused starings.
"We got everything, locations, information, everything so that wont be a problem. What it will be a problem is The Dominion. Lexa there is no way you're reporting this to The Dominion, got it?" Future Shalimar ordered. Lexa hesitated for several minutes, and then noded slightly.
"Wait, not that im complaining or anything, but why is this so important? I mean, in what is this changing the future? And who is our killer?" Brennan asked at once. Both visitors doubted to go on speaking, but future Shalimar felt they needed more.
"The killer is a mutant, Brennan. When they find out a mutant murdered the senator they started researching and so they found out about Genomex, and Mutant X, and everything about mutants themselves. They didn't accept the fact that people out there could be more powerfull than most people, so they started.. a.. some sort of hunting. They went investigating who's a mutant and who's not, and then they... they took.." Future Brennan noticed the woman's difficulty to go on, and sick and tired of the waiting he intterupted her.
"They took them and killed them! They killed them slowly and painfully! They keep some just to torture and force others to turn their friends in... and then they kill them as well. Its our bright little future." Future Brennan snapped.
"Brennan.." Future Shalimar started but was cut off when Lexa started speaking herself.
"That cant be possible. What about The Dominion? Arent they doing something about it?" Lexa asked not believing what she was being told.
"The Dominion?? God... they are the ones helping the goverment do this things! They turned you in damn it!" Future Brennan didnt try to hide that fact.
"No.. no, they wouldnt." Lexa said fiercely. She turned around and started walking away. Future Shalimar was faster and stopped her from leaving.
"Sorry love, you're not leaving." Future Shalimar said getting on her way. "It was our mistake telling you more than the needed.." She glanced at future Brennan and then went on. "But you gotta believe us. We're telling the truth. We're here to save everything and we wont leave till we do." She confirmed. Then she felt Shalimar's hands on her arm.
"What exactly happened?" Shalimar asked her future self. "And how can we trust you?"
"You HAVE to. Otherwise this was all useless. Go on, ask whatever will make you sure we're telling the truth here, but you already trusted us when you took us here." Future Brennan replied coldly.
"He's right. But if we're doing this, I want more. I want to know what happened to me that I became such an asshole, and how the hell you managed to get here. And why just you two." Brennan said in his better tone, knowing he was sort of mad. He sat and examined the people in front of him.
"Nothing happened. Just, we got the idea, we did it." Future Brennan answered in a rather angry tone.
"Im gonna do some research about this senator, just to be sure we're not missing something." Jesse said as he headed towards the computer room. Lexa looked confused. She wasnt sure either to trust them or just report everything to The Dominion. Something told her not to do the last one.
"So, are you telling us who are we fighting against?" Shalimar asked the pair.
"Nothing you cant take. But be sure you're prepared. Just in case." Future Shalimar said as she tapped future Brennan's arm and started leaving.
"Wait, where are you going? And why did you say "you" cant take? Arent you supposed to help us?" Brennan asked this time.
"We cant do that. Thats just and only up to you. We'll be around, we have our comrings if you need us. We'll be back on tuesday morning." Future Brennan informed as they both left. Shalimar, Brennan and Lexa shared a confused look before the last one left the room.
"There's something they're not telling us. And where are they going anyway? And why your future self almoast sofocated Jesse when she saw him?" Brennan asked. Shalimar stood up and kissed him in the cheek gently before giving her best smile.
"Dont worry. Whatever it is, we're taking it down." She assured him as she left. Brennan smiled for a minute and then went back to worrying.
A/N: Well this is the first chapter. Im starting some sort of challenge I thought and never actually had the time to start. Its setted in the beginining of third season, and its not gonna be too long im guessing. So how do you like it? Comments, suggestions, requests, anything you know I take. So dont be shy, and click that little pretty button saying submit review and you'll leave me a little messagge i would appreacciate much. Lol, well more is coming, but since i didnt write anything yet, i just have the ideas floating on my mind, i cant write a preview, but later on i will. Paris BYK
Chapter one: The future´s death
It was a dark moonless night. Shalimar and Brennan were walking down an alley, talking about the failed mission they had just minutes ago.
"I really dont get it Brennan... I mean, Jesse tracked a comring signal there..." Shalimar said as she waited for Brennan's reply. "It better be a good one." she thought.
"I know Shal, but we're all kinda stressed right now, Jess could easily have made a mistake... we're so desperate to found them we're acting rushed and..." Brennan ran out of ideas. He certainly didnt think Jesse could made such a big mistake. The man was a genious when it came to technology and computers, stressed and all, he couldnt be that wrong. He noticed Shalimar's sudden examination on him. The feral seemed to be searching for some kind of sign that told her he actually believed what he was saying. " We searched the whole place out.. we found nothing.."
"Fine.. I just..." She stopped abruptely the walking and stood very still, her eyes going feral mode. She grabbed Brennan's t shirt softly to stop his way too. As he was going to protest Shalimar put her fingers on his lips to stop him. then she started walking very smoothly, as the feline she was, hunting, and looking for its prey.
"Are you sensing something?" Brennan finally managed to ask.
"Oh yeah... up there." Shalimar pointed a building's roof just in front of them and grinned.
"How many?" Brennan asked following Shalimar's sight peering into the darkness that sorrounded them.
"Two." She answered again, this time, her grin had become a full smile.
"Oh no.. no, no, no... dont you tell me you are actually going up there?" Brennan said trying to figure out just how high was the roof.
"Im going, you can stay here if you want and catch up with me at the end." Shalimar said as she slapped his back and prepare to jump. Brennan watched her reaching the roof and chasing someone, but he couldnt really see whatever was going on up there. Shalimar's eyes went golden again as she watched her prey. Whoever it was, it wasnt afraid nore scared, didnt try to run away either.
"Who are you?" Shalimar asked with a grin. She got no response. The person in front of her was wearing a black cloak that covered almoast all of it, from its head to its all body. As Shalimar started walking around him, he seemed to be familiar with her feral side, since he did the exact same thing. They started fighting. Shalimar attacked him but he avoided pretty easily her punch, then she jumped up giving a kick, which was again avoided by the person in black. As the fight went on, Brennan was fed up with watching and decided to get some action too. He figured he couldnt reach the top of the building just by jumping and searched for another way. With no success he decided climbing would be the best choice. And he did so, it took him almoast 5 entire minutes to acually reach the top. At that moment he could see Shalimar and the person fighting, the feral was about to be hit, but he acted faster, he formed and threw a tesla coil in seconds to the person. He was shocked when he saw a very similar tesla coil hitting his own one, coming from another person who was standing on the top of the building in front. Brennan rushed to Shalimar as they both saw the other person arrive to the fight.
"You okay?" Brennan asked Shalimar as he tried to gain his breath back.
"Yeah... they are very good Brennan... we wont be able to take them without help..." Shalimar said lifting her wrist intended to talk on her comring.
"There's no need for that Shalimar." The first person said as he approached. Shalimar stepped forward showing no fear and change to feral eyes one more time.
"And why is that?" She asked calmly. The person took his hands to its head, and carefully took out the cloak revealing itself. She was just like Shalimar, just a couple of years older. Her hair was quite long and tied in one ponytail. She was wearing a very weird black leather outfit and seemed not to be shocked at all.
"We need to talk." The just revealed Shalimar said. She glanced at Brennan and grinned rising an eyebrow.
"Whoa, slow down... who are you, and who is him?" Brennan asked pointing at the man who still wore the cloak. The man approached and took his cloak out too as he showed a couple of years older Brennan.
"What the f..." Brennan said never getting to end his sentence.
"We'll talk about that later. As shal said, we really need to talk about something a little bit more serious. Take us to Sanctuary, and fast." Older Brennan told.
( )
"Holy crap!!" Jesse Kilmartin said as he saw his friends duplicated. He stood vert still searching for differences between the four mutants in front of him, but it didnt pass much time before just found Shalimar approached and hughed him tightly. When Jesse looked up he saw tears coming down her cheek, and Brennan did that too. He approached the molecular and tapped his back.
"Did I miss something?" The other Shalimar asked the other Brennan. They stared at each other confused. Suddenly Lexa pierce entered the meeting too.
"Hey Jess, I need some help with the.." Whatever complicated technology thing she had, fell off her hands and broke into million pieces. "Oh god." Lexa said as she tried to process what she was staring at at.
"Lexa.." Shalimar said leaving Jesse and walking towards her very slowly. When she finally reached the woman, she hughed her too and couldnt help to start crying again. Immediately the older Brennan approached too and hughed her.
"Easy Shal... you know what we gotta do." Older Brennan told Older Shalimar. He wiped her tears away as she forced a grin. Then they both turned to the four people watching confused.
"What is going on here?" Lexa asked as she crossed her arms. She supported her weight against the nearest wall and waited for her answer. The rest looked at the pair wating too.
"Is very simple. We're here to warn you, to help you avoid an assasination." Older Brennan said to the team. He watched carefully for any comment and so he continued. "Tuesday 9 of June, 2004. A senator is assasinated. You and us are here to stop that." He said as cold as ice. Since the very first moment he entered he showed no emotion at all, Shalimar on the other hand, was extremely affected with this whole thing.
"Wait, you said a Senator is gonna be assasinated June, tuesday 9?? Its next week." Jesse realized loudly.
"You're good." Future Brennan said sarcasticly, only getting present Brennan's confused starings.
"We got everything, locations, information, everything so that wont be a problem. What it will be a problem is The Dominion. Lexa there is no way you're reporting this to The Dominion, got it?" Future Shalimar ordered. Lexa hesitated for several minutes, and then noded slightly.
"Wait, not that im complaining or anything, but why is this so important? I mean, in what is this changing the future? And who is our killer?" Brennan asked at once. Both visitors doubted to go on speaking, but future Shalimar felt they needed more.
"The killer is a mutant, Brennan. When they find out a mutant murdered the senator they started researching and so they found out about Genomex, and Mutant X, and everything about mutants themselves. They didn't accept the fact that people out there could be more powerfull than most people, so they started.. a.. some sort of hunting. They went investigating who's a mutant and who's not, and then they... they took.." Future Brennan noticed the woman's difficulty to go on, and sick and tired of the waiting he intterupted her.
"They took them and killed them! They killed them slowly and painfully! They keep some just to torture and force others to turn their friends in... and then they kill them as well. Its our bright little future." Future Brennan snapped.
"Brennan.." Future Shalimar started but was cut off when Lexa started speaking herself.
"That cant be possible. What about The Dominion? Arent they doing something about it?" Lexa asked not believing what she was being told.
"The Dominion?? God... they are the ones helping the goverment do this things! They turned you in damn it!" Future Brennan didnt try to hide that fact.
"No.. no, they wouldnt." Lexa said fiercely. She turned around and started walking away. Future Shalimar was faster and stopped her from leaving.
"Sorry love, you're not leaving." Future Shalimar said getting on her way. "It was our mistake telling you more than the needed.." She glanced at future Brennan and then went on. "But you gotta believe us. We're telling the truth. We're here to save everything and we wont leave till we do." She confirmed. Then she felt Shalimar's hands on her arm.
"What exactly happened?" Shalimar asked her future self. "And how can we trust you?"
"You HAVE to. Otherwise this was all useless. Go on, ask whatever will make you sure we're telling the truth here, but you already trusted us when you took us here." Future Brennan replied coldly.
"He's right. But if we're doing this, I want more. I want to know what happened to me that I became such an asshole, and how the hell you managed to get here. And why just you two." Brennan said in his better tone, knowing he was sort of mad. He sat and examined the people in front of him.
"Nothing happened. Just, we got the idea, we did it." Future Brennan answered in a rather angry tone.
"Im gonna do some research about this senator, just to be sure we're not missing something." Jesse said as he headed towards the computer room. Lexa looked confused. She wasnt sure either to trust them or just report everything to The Dominion. Something told her not to do the last one.
"So, are you telling us who are we fighting against?" Shalimar asked the pair.
"Nothing you cant take. But be sure you're prepared. Just in case." Future Shalimar said as she tapped future Brennan's arm and started leaving.
"Wait, where are you going? And why did you say "you" cant take? Arent you supposed to help us?" Brennan asked this time.
"We cant do that. Thats just and only up to you. We'll be around, we have our comrings if you need us. We'll be back on tuesday morning." Future Brennan informed as they both left. Shalimar, Brennan and Lexa shared a confused look before the last one left the room.
"There's something they're not telling us. And where are they going anyway? And why your future self almoast sofocated Jesse when she saw him?" Brennan asked. Shalimar stood up and kissed him in the cheek gently before giving her best smile.
"Dont worry. Whatever it is, we're taking it down." She assured him as she left. Brennan smiled for a minute and then went back to worrying.
A/N: Well this is the first chapter. Im starting some sort of challenge I thought and never actually had the time to start. Its setted in the beginining of third season, and its not gonna be too long im guessing. So how do you like it? Comments, suggestions, requests, anything you know I take. So dont be shy, and click that little pretty button saying submit review and you'll leave me a little messagge i would appreacciate much. Lol, well more is coming, but since i didnt write anything yet, i just have the ideas floating on my mind, i cant write a preview, but later on i will. Paris BYK