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6 Months Earlier
(Jesse and Emma have been going out for three months now. Shalimar is casually seeing Brennan.)
I was in my room listening to "Breathe Me" by Sia. Music was the only way I can stop my powers from trying to connect to Brennan. I miss him. I miss our friendship. It's my fault really; I have to pull away from him. I thought that if I got with Jesse my feelings for Brennan would go away but it's been three months and the feelings are still here. I love Jesse, He's good for me. We have… Jesse is the person that I should be with. Brennan is just… I need him. Where is he? Adam sent him on a mission two weeks ago and he hasn't been back since. I hope he's okay. He is, I would feel it if he wasn't, right?
"Let's go out tonight." I jumped as Jesse walked in my room. "We haven't gone out in a really long time." He sat on my bed and smiled at me. "Everything Okay?" I must have been looking at him weird.
"I'm… I'm not in the mood to go out." I said trying not to sound as guilty as I felt. It was one of those moments that I was glad Jesse wasn't a Psionic like I was. "I'm sorry. Why don't you go out with Shalimar or Adam?"
"I don't want to go out with them. We never go out."
"We go out. We went out two nights ago to that new club down on Martin St."
"True but that was with Shalimar. I also mostly danced with Shalimar because you had a "headache" again. Also you know that Clubbing isn't my thing. I meant just us, together. Date night."
"I did have a headache." I said getting off my bed and blowing out the incense. "Why don't we stay in?"
"We always stay in." He said as he came behind me, putting his hands around my waist and kissing my neck. "We can go have a romantic dinner at the French Restaurant that you like, you can wear one of those pretty dresses, go for a stroll on the beach. Make love on the beach." He said unbuttoning my blouse.
"That sounds nice but I..."
"Emma, Jesse. Lab Please." Adam said through the comlink rings.
"Be right there." Saved by the bell. I button my blouse back up , check myself in the mirror and left with Jesse following behind me.
In The Lab
Brennan and Shalimar were already in the lab when I walked in with Jesse. I glanced at Brennan, who gave me a smile and I smiled back. I had to keep myself from hugging him. I sat down on the chair across from Brennan with Jesse sitting next to me across from Shalimar.
"Hey, when did you get back?" Jesse asked
"Five minutes ago. Hey, Emma."
"Hi, Bren." I said. I wanted so bad to hug him right then and there. I wanted to tell him how much I missed him and needed him but I couldn't.
"What's going on?" Jesse asked at Adam.
"We have a mission." Adam pulled up a very handsome man in his early 30's with green eyes and brown Hair. "This is Quinn O'Connor. He's an elemental. He creates fire from his hands. He's owns this brothel down in China Town." He said as he changed the picture from Quinn to the Brothel. It was a medium size yellow house with a green fence. If I didn't know any better it looked like a nice place to visit. "Aphrodite's Place," I guess it fits.
"Looks like an Inn." Shalimar said.
"Cause it is. It's the front. According to records, It's legit. The police know it's a brothel but they can't find proof that it is. There is a mutant trapped in there. Her name's Tessa. She saw Quinn kill one of his "girls". She's working as the receptionist." He said changing the picture to her. She looked like she was in her early 20's. She had Black hair with Purple Streaks and Blue Eyes. "The mission is to get her out and get information that the Inn is actually a brothel."
"How do you get all this information?" Jesse asked.
"A friend of mine knows her father, who happens to be a cop. He knows his daughter is there but every time he questions the people there, they say they don't know her. "
"What's her power?" I asked.
"She's a Psionic. A Precognitive to be exact."
"She can see the Future. " Brennan said to us.
"Like Tyler. " I muttered with my head down. No matter how many years have gone by the pain of losing Tyler would always be there. As I pulled my head up Brennan looked at me with sincerity in his eyes. I forced my eyes to look at Adam.
"If she can see the future then can't she just use that to escape? She could see Quinn's moves" I stated.
"If Quinn didn't have a subdermal governor on her." Brennan said.
"Whoa, Wait. Genomex, for the most part is gone. How…?" Jesse asked.
"I don't know. He must have worked at Genomex or knew someone there. I need two of you to go undercover and the other two to stay here, get more information, keep track of the other two." Adam said turning off the computer and getting the folders ready to give to us.
"So who's going undercover? Jesse and Emma or Brennan and I?" Shalimar asked.
"Brennan and Emma are going undercover; you and Jesse are staying here." He said handing everyone a folder.
"Wait. What?" I asked confused. "You never put us together to go undercover."
"True but Emma you could connect with Tessa and no offense but Jess you would stick out like a sore thumb." Adam sat down across from all of us." And anyways Brennan already has his cover at the Brothel. He's their new security guard."
"You've been working at a Brothel for two weeks?" Shalimar asked.
"Unfortunately. Quinn's an ass; he treats the girls there like their property. "Brennan said clenching his fists. "Quinn has cameras all around the property, He's very dangerous. We need to be extremely careful."
"Now, Emma when you go in. You are going for a job interview. Tessa set it up; they need a new hostess since the other one…" Adam cleared his throat and continued. "Now you will be using your real name except your last name is Spencer and Brennan's is Anderson. "
"Hostess? I don't have to sleep with anyone do I?" I asked worried. There was no way in hell that I was going to sleep with some stranger.
"No, no, no. I would never do that to you. You are just going to serve drinks and help people to their rooms. If Quinn ever wants you to sleep with someone…"
"I'll make them think we are having sex." I said disgusted. "When is the meeting?"
"Tomorrow at noon. Be there 30 minutes early. Tessa knows who you are but she doesn't know that Brennan is working with us and I want to keep it that way. Try keeping contact with each other to a minimal. We don't want Quinn or anyone knowing. Don't trust anyone there except Tessa and of course, Brennan. The girls there could be brained wash."
"I better get started on remembering my background." I said getting up from my seat.
"You want me to help." Jesse asked as he got up as well.
"Um…"
"Jesse, Shalimar I need you to start doing research on Quinn. I don't have a lot of information." Adam said going next to Jesse.
"Okay. I'll see you later then." Jesse said to me. He kissed me passionately and I could feel how much Brennan was jealous of the fact that Jesse was kissing me.
"Okay." I said as Jesse left the lab with Adam.
"I'll see you later too." Brennan said as he got up with Shalimar and he kissed her just as passionately as Jesse did a second ago to me. My heart felt like it was being stabbed repeatedly with a knife. I found a spot the floor and kept starting at it until they were finished kissing. Shalimar playfully hit Brennan for being rude and said sorry to me as she left the lab as well.
"So, going under cover together. It should be fun." Brennan said smiling at me.
"If you say so. So things seem to be going well, with you and Shal."
"I guess so. I mean we're not really a couple. We are just…"
"Friends with Benefits?"
"Yeah. Haven't you had one of those?"
"No. I am more of a relationship person. I thought you were too." I said with sadness in my voice.
"Jealous?"
"What? Don't be ridiculous. I don't care who you date or see."
"Really? Hmm, you know I don't have to be a Psionic to know that you were jealous of seeing Shalimar and I kiss."
"I'm not jealous. I love Jesse."
"You love Jesse? I don't believe that for one second. I don't even know why you guys are together anyways."
"Why?"
"You're not like Jesse. He's not wild enough for you."
"Not wild enough for me? That is the most…"
"Just hear me out." He said as he put his hands on mine. "Jesse comes from a rich family. He's use to the fancy dinners, clothes, and things. You hate that stuff. You hate dressing up, buying expensive dresses that you are only going to wear once because it's bad form to wear the same dress on a different evening. You don't care which one is the salad fork and which one is the dinner fork. They are freaking forks! Don't you get tired of being someone that you're not?"
"I have to… I have to go study my background for the interview tomorrow, I'll…I'll see you tomorrow." I started walking away from him when he grabbed my arm and turned me around. I felt like my heart was going to fall out of my chest from how much faster it was beating with his touch.
"Emma. You know it's true. You just don't want to admit it."
"Let's say hypothetically that you're right."
"I am right." He smiled.
"Brennan…"
"Okay, fine. Hypothetically.'
"It doesn't change anything. I love Jesse. We don't have a lot of thing in common and it works for us. It makes the relationship much interesting. He makes me happy." Who was I trying to convince more myself or him?
"You're lying to yourself." I could feel him getting more frustrated. "Have you noticed that you have never once said that you are IN love with Jesse. You always say you love Jesse. You're not happy. Keep telling yourself that. If it makes you feel better but one of these days you are going to wake up and realize that you could have been happy. You once told me that you don't want to live with regrets. Well, babe, this is going to be one of them if you're not honest with yourself and with Jesse because we both know how we feel about each other."
"I don't have feelings for…" Just as I started that sentence Brennan pulled me in and kissed me. I didn't kiss him at first. I was too shock to know what was happening. It took me a second to relax and kiss him back. This is what I wanted for so long. His kisses were as good as I imagined they would be. He pulled my hair and I couldn't help but let a moan escape my mouth. I wanted him to take me right then and there but I knew it couldn't happen. That it could never happen. I pulled back, slapped him and left the lab.
