Chapter Two
"Hi sweetie," Shalimar said to the young girl, she turned to Dr. O'Riley, "no knows her name?"
"No," Dr. O'Riley said. "She was just dropped off here one day. No one knows who she belongs to, or where she came from."
"Do you have any video cameras?" Shalimar asked.
"A couple but the police already took a look at the tapes."
"Could I see them?"
"Sure, you can take them with you, but I don't know what you'll be able to get from them," he told her as he handed her the tapes.
"It's worth a try, thank you," Shalimar told him as she took the tapes. "I'll see you in a few days."
"You're welcome. Bye Shalimar."
"Bye," Shalimar said walking away with the little girl.
***
Lexa was in the living room, of the three bedroom apartment she and Shalimar shared, playing with EmmaLee, when she heard a knock at the door. She picked EmmaLee up and went to answer the door. When she opened the door, Lexa was so surprised to see Jesse and Brennan standing there that she nearly dropped EmmaLee.
"What the hell are you two doing here?" Lexa nearly shouted at them. "Better yet, how the hell did you find me?" She was starting to get angry; they weren't supposed to be able to find them.
"Lexa listen we really need to talk to Shalimar, where is she?" Brennan demanded.
"Shalimar's not here," Lexa answered with a smirk.
"Where the hell is she?" Brennan spat back.
"She had to…go pick sumthin' up," Lexa said as the boys let themselves in. She closed the door behind them and followed them into the living room.
"When will she be back?" Jesse asked, sitting down on the couch with Brennan.
"She didn't say, but I'll be sure to let her know you stopped by," Lexa told them, putting EmmaLee in her play pin.
"We're not leaving, Lexa, "Brennan said watching EmmaLee.
"Figured. What do you guys want with Shal anyways?" Lexa said sitting down in a chair across from the guys.
"We have to get her somewhere safe before Ashlocke finds her," Brennan said still starring at EmmaLee.
"Wait, Ashlocke? The dead guy with the links?" Lexa asked, totally surprised.
"Yeah, that's the one," Jesse told her. "Some how he was resurrected from the grave. We're not quite sure how yet, but I almost figured it out."
"Brennan, why the hell do you keep starring at her?" Lexa asked, noticing he hadn't taken his eyes off EmmaLee since she had placed her in the play pin.
"Who is she?" Brennan asked, continuing to stare at EmmaLee.
"That's EmmaLee," Lexa told him, not quite sure if she should tell him that she was Shal's daughter.
"And she would be whose kid?" He asked.
"Mine," Shalimar said walking in and surprising everyone.
"What do you mean yours?" Brennan asked finally taking his eyes off EmmaLee and starting to freak out.
"Well if you want to be more specific, EmmaLee is our daughter." Shalimar told him picking EmmaLee up. She walked down the hall and into EmmaLee's room with the baby and little girl.
"Wait our daughter?" Brennan asked, as Shalimar changed the little girl into jeans and a purple tank top with a picture of two butterflies sitting on a couple of flowers.
"Yes, Brennan, our daughter."
"But we only did it once," Brennan said, trying to reason with the situation.
"Yeah, I know," Shalimar said walking back out into the living room, with Brennan following.
"But, but we used protection," Brennan said way confused.
"It doesn't always work dumbass," Lexa said after Shalimar sat down next to her.
Jesse started laughing his head off and Brennan knocked him upside the head, as he sat next to him. The little girl went up to Brennan and sat in the chair next to him.
"What about her?" Brennan asked pointing to the young girl. "Who's she?"
"We don't know," Lexa said, looking at Shalimar.
"Right," Brennan answered.
There was a long period of awkward silence, when Brennan yelled, "Why the hell does everyone keep talking to me in my head!"
"Shalimar, I think Brennan has finally gone mad," Lexa joked.
Shalimar gave her a look then asked, "Brennan are you, okay?"
"No I'm not okay. That little kid right there and the baby keep asking me all these questions," Brennan said freaking out.
"Brennan, first of all, no one has said anything for the past three minutes. Secondly, the kid is a mute, and the baby doesn't know how to talk," Lexa explained.
"That is why I said 'in my head'," Brennan said annoyed.
"Brennan they aren't telepathic," Lexa replied.
"Yes, they are," Brennan shot back.
"No…" Lexa started before Shalimar butted in.
"Lexa, it might be true."
"You're kidding right."
"No," Shalimar said. "It explains why I heard her singing that song and no one else did."
"Shal has a point." Jesse said.
"What?" Brennan and Lexa said in unison.
"Well I'm just guessing that Shalimar and Lexa are trying to figure out what's wrong with her and since no one has said her name, I'm guessing no one knows it, and that she's a New…"
"Dru," Brennan interrupted Jesse.
"What?" they all asked.
"Dru. Her name is Dru," Brennan said pointing at the little girl.
"How do you know her name is Dru?" Lexa asked confused.
"She told me," Brennan said.
"With the telepathy, huh," Lexa said sarcastically.
"Yeah," Brennan said getting annoyed again.
***
"I want her found! Understand me!" Gabriel Ashlocke yelled at the remaining links that came back to him.
"We've been trying..."
"Well then try harder!" Ashlocke screamed, interrupting one of the links and storming out of the room.
***
"She actually talks to you, Brennan?" Shalimar asked, confused and almost sad.
"Yep," he answered.
"What does she say?" Lexa asked him, getting very annoyed with him.
"Right now she is saying that she's hungry," Brennan replied, "and she says that the doorbell is about to ring and it shall be… Adam. Her words exactly."
Just then the doorbell rang. Lexa got up to answer it, and sure enough it was Adam.
***
"Sir, I think we found her," Michael Reed, one of the links that helped bring Ashlocke back, said.
"You think! I don't want you think! I want you know!" Ashlocke screamed.
"Sir, the buyer, to the apartment we found, is registered as an Opal O'Rourke," Michael explained. "Opal O'Rourke is Shalimar's great grandmother."
"Brilliant, fantastic! Where is she," Ashlocke demanded.
TBC
A/N: sorry it took awhile to post, I forgot about... I'll try not to next time...
