"Shal." Shalimar was standing in her room and turned around. She saw nothing. "Shal, I'm here. Look to your right."
Shalimar turned to her right and saw shocked by who she saw. "Emma?" Tears started falling down her face. "You can't be Emma. Emma is dead. She died a year ago."
Emma looked down to that ground and then back up at Shalimar. "Is that what they told you guys? You thought I was dead this whole time?"
Shalimar started sobbing. "You are dead. You died when that building exploded and fell into the water. Jesse saw them pronounce you dead. I saw them wheel your body away."
"They lied to you guys. I was never dead." She, too, started sobbing. "Shal, I'm in trouble. I need your help."
Emma started to fade. "Emma, no! Don't go."
Emma's face turned from sad to worried, maybe even terrified. "I h-have to go now. I love you, Shal. Tell Adam, Brendan, and Jesse I love them, too. Bye, Shal. I know I'll see you soon." With that said Emma disappeared.
--
"Did you reach her?" a girl asked.
A woman nodded, "I think so."
--
Shalimar shot up from her bed. She was in a cold sweat, breathing heavily. "Em-ma alive?" She started to sob.
A couple minutes later, Shalimar decided to get up and get eat something. She went in to the kitchen and made some oatmeal. She was trying to be quiet and not wake the guys or Lexa. After she took her food from the microwave, she pulled out a chair and sat that the table.
Emma, are you alive? It was hard for her not that think of the dream she just had. She didn't know what to do about it. If she tried to find Emma and it was only a dream, then she would she gone on an emotional roller coaster for nothing. But if she did nothing and Emma was really trying to contact her for help, she'd never forgive herself.
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"Brennan."
Brennan was driving his car when a voice came from next to him. "What the hell?" he looked next to him. "Your not real."
"You're right." Emma knew that they think she's dead. Now she wants them to know she's alive. "I'm not here in body. I'm not here in soul either."
Now he was confused. "Huh?"
"Let me finish. I'm alive, Brennan. I'm alive and my friend and I need help."
"I went to your funeral, Emma. I watched your friends and family mourn you. Now, you're telling me that the past year, you've been alive and well."
"Alive, yes. Well, not even close." Tears start running down Emma's face and she fades. "I have to go. Tell them I'm alive." She disappears.
"No!" he says as the car crashes.
--
Brenan wakes up. "Was that real?" His facial expression is a mixture sad, confused, and scared. He toke his covers off, got up and went downstairs. "Shal, what are you doing up?"
"I could ask the same about you." Shalimar faked a smile.
"Knock it off. What's wrong?" He knows her too well.
"Just a dream. At least, I think that is was just a dream."
"You're not sure?"
--
"Whoa!" Jesse was walking through the city when he spoted a woman that looked like Emma standing right in front of him. "Who the hell are you?"
"I think you know the answer to that." She smiled.
"Emma?" Jesse felt like his heart had been ripped out of his chest.
"I need help." Her smile turned straight. "We need help."
"We? Who is we?"
Again, she starts fading. "I don't have time to explain. Bye!" She was gone.
"What the hell was that?" Jesse woke up. Flashbacks of how Emma died and how he watched her die started coming back to him. Was the past year a lie? He tried to go back to sleep but could not so he got up.
He walked down stairs and saw Brendan and Shalimar. "Why are you two up?" he asked.
"Dreams, you?" Shalimar replied.
"Do the dreams have anything to do with Emma?" asked Jesse.
"Yea, Brennan?" Shalimar was thinking that this was not a coincidence.
"Yea, me too." Brennan said putting his head down.
"Something's up. We should let Adam know when he wakes up." Jesse sat next to Shalimar.
--
"Whatcha, working on?" Emma steps up to Adam. He's on his computer in the lab.
"Nothing really, just-," He looks at her. "What the-. How-? Who-?" He couldn't seem to finish a sentence.
"No time to explain." Emma had that same worried look she had with the others.
"Remember these number. Five, eight, one, zero. The others will fill you in on the rest."
"Five, eight, one, zero? What does that mean?"
"I have to go, Adam." She begins to fade. "Bye." She was gone."
"Emma!" Adam yelled.
--
Adam walks down stairs and sees Shalimar, Jesse, and Brendan. "Something tells me you are up for the same reason I am."
"Emma." Shalimar replies.
"She says that she is alive and needs help. Her exact words were 'We need help.'" Jesse explained.
"Are we sure this is even Emma?" Brennan wasn't sure.
"Unless our minds are playing tricks on us or we have come across someone with the same power." Adam replied.
"We have to find her then. But who is she with?" Shalimar just sat there with a blank look on her face.
"She referred to him or her as her friend." Brennan explained.
"Anyone we know?" asked Shalimar.
"Do the numbers five, eight, one, zero mean anything to you?" Adam asked.
"No." Brennan, Shalimar, and Jesse said in unison.
"She told me to remember those numbers. But why?" The four of them just sat around the table looking blankly at each other.
"So," Brennan started. "We have a mission?"
"We have a mission." Adam replied.
