Day 2
Only one day had passed, and the team was getting nothing but nervous. Lexa was the worst one on taking the whole thing. She had trusted the Dominion almoast her whole life, and was having a hell of a trouble figuring out which side to take now. She was deep focused on that thoughts when someone knocked on her door. She didn't hear the first time, but the second one was unavoidable. She stood up crankily, obviously not wanting to talk at all, and opened the door lazily.
"What do you need Jess?" She asked in such a cranky tone that Jesse could notice she didn't even mean the saying.
"I want us to talk a bit. I want to help you." Jesse said as he tried stepping in her room but Lexa got in his way stopping him from coming in.
"Maybe later." Lexa said. Jesse nodded trying not to seem hurt and left. But he did was hurt. On his way to his own room he tried not thinking about her, the woman was driving him nuts. He wanted to confort her, to help her, but she wouldn't let him.
"I know she is not like that... maybe I have to let HER know that.." Jesse said aloud as he passed next to Brennan's room. He was lying on his bed, arms behind his neck, staring at the ceiling and flashing sparks from his eyes. Jesse went on walking as he realized what he had just seen.
"Brennan?" Jesse asked confused staying outside the door never entering his room. Brennan quickly looked at him and the sparks dissapeared.
"Jess, I didn't know you were there." Brennan said not caring to even look at the man. He went on with the ceiling staring, and now muttering things Jesse tried to hear but wasn't able to.
"No, really?" Jesse said ironically since it was more than obvious that the man was drowned on his own thoughts. "How long have you been able to do that?" Jesse asked as he stepped in and sat on a chair next to Brennan's bed.
"About a couple of months..." Brennan replied lazily. He didn't want to talk to Jesse and the molecular could notice that.
"Suddenly I feel so alone..." Jesse teased himself. The man was admirable. In the worst things, he always stood calmed and cool to find out a solution. He didn't stand angry for too long, and he was always understanding their friends emotions even if they hurt him. Brennan realized just how rude he had been seconds ago, and focused his staring at Jesse.
"Im sorry Jess.. Im just.." Brennan couldn't finish.
"I know." Jesse said as he left. He went straight to his own room this time, not wanting to even try on Shal's mood.
After a few hours, Jesse was back at researching with Lexa helping. Brennan taking a peacefull nap, and Shalimar bored as hell. She had been training for hours with holograms and was interested in getting some better action. She passed Jesse and Lexa and didn't even try to ask them for some sparring. She knew who her best oponent would be.
"Oh yeah.." She moaned to herself as she thought of bothering the elemental. She went straight to Brennan's room and didn't even knock. She entered at once and got used pretty quickly to the darkness around. Changing her eyes to feral mode, she found Brennan lying on the bed and sleeping so peacufully it almoast hurt her what she was about to do. She sighed and approached to him slowly stopping just a few steps from his bed.
"Im really sorry Bren.." Shalimar said bursting into laugher. She ran towards Brennan's bed and jumped on it landing on his chest. She started tickling him so hard that it didn't pass much for Brennan to wake.
"Shal... s.. stop.. Shal.." Brennan said laughing really hard. Shalimar went on taking advantage of his sleepy state as she tickled him for several seconds. Finally, Brennan managed to catch her both arms and hold her tight to him so she wouldn't move.
"I apologised before, you know..." Shalimar said putting up her best smile. Brennan looked at her with a "you're gonna pay" look. "I did!" She defended herself among more and more laugher.
"Im taking you were bored and decided to bother someone else uh?" Brennan said grinning, still holding her.
"Exactly." She replied still wide smiling. Brennan gently took away one strand from her hair to have better access to her face. Then he leaned for a kiss but Lexa stepped in not bothering to knock either. Shalimar and Brennan broke appart very quickly and looked at her with innocent looks. Lexa sighed and then returned their looks with a knowing one. She cleared her throat as she prepared herself to speak.
"Jesse and I were investigating this senator, and we found out something. You gotta come now. If its not too much trouble for you two.." She left. Shalimar and Brennan stood up sharing weird unconfortable looks and followed the molecular.
"Guys, look at this." Jesse said as he made bigger an image of a man in around his 50's. "He is our guy." Jesse cleared.
"So? He doesn't know what hair styiling means..." Shalimar said enphatizing the fact that the man had the most horrible hair ever.
"Look at this man.. the one next to him... Bryan Kallix.." Jesse said as he amplified the image even more which showed some sort of light coming out of his hands.
"Oh my god.. he is a mutant.. he is THE mutant! But why would he want to kill him?" Shalimar asked aloud.
"Many reasons.. money, fortune, prestige.. women.. who knows.. thing is, we gotta keep an eye on this guy, just to make sure he doesn't anything .." Brennan said as he waited for his teammates to response.
"Today is Sunday.. we only have three more days to go... And we didn't even had the chance to train!" Jesse was the one speaking now.
"Speak for yourself." Shalimar said with a teasing smile. "Which reminds me, im gonna go take a shower.. if anything comes up you let me know." The feral said as she left towards her room. She got rid quickly of her clothes and left them in the middle of her room, then she entered the bathroom and started the shower. She was dirrty as hell, after training for that much time you would think so. She went on cleaning herself, as the water gently hit her body. She was tired too, tired from everything, fighting, losing those who she cared about. Afraid of losing those who she did have, afraid of everything. And that visit they had of their future selves wasn't helping. What the hell had happened in there? Why was future Brennan acting so coldly and mean? Why did her future self was so glad to see Jess and Lexa? And why didn't they tell them more, their clothings, their futures... they knew nothing. Shalimar finally finished up and grabbed a towel, which she put on quickly. She was freezing. She stepped out the shower and started drying herself up when she looked at the mirror. She freaked out. Someone had written something on it while she took the shower.
"Tomorrow: Jesse's death." Shalimar read on her mirror. It was lipstick what was on it. She took a few steps back trying to digest what she had seen. What was that about? Who wrote that and why? That was all in Shal's head, she then started thinking it was some kind of joke. But whoever of her teammated who did this had to have some twisted sense of humor she didn't find funny at all. She put her clean clothes on and didn't even bother to dry her hair, she left her room and walked down the stairs immediately searching for her friends. She sensed them on the rec room and so she headed there.
"Well that was funny." Shalimar said crossing her arms with an angry look. Everybody turned to see her. Brennan, who was sitting on the couch watching some tv was the first one to turn around even before she spoke. Jesse and Lexa were still researching untill they heard the feral's tone.
"What are you talking about? Shal you're all wet, you're gonna get sick.." Brennan said as they all noticed Shalimar didn't dry herself too well. She was soaking the whole floor.
"I don't care. I wanna know who did it." Shalimar said still angry as hell. Brennan approached her.
"Here, take this." He said as he handed her his sweter. "Now, tell us what happened." Shalimar looked at the man in front of her. "He didn't do it. He wouldn't." She said to herself taking his sweter.
"Im gonna ruin it, im all wet." She said giving it back to him.
"I don't care. Now, put it on and tell us." He said one more time as he crossed his arms to listen to her.
"I was taking a shower and when I stepped out I..." She gave them her back. She didn't want to stare at Jesse when saying what she was gonna say. "I saw something written on my mirror.." She managed to say that, dumb of her since their friends were obviously going to ask what was written.
"Shal..? Are you okay? What was written on it?" Brennan asked her possing a hand on her shoulder.
"You can see it yourselves.. go up to my bathroom and you'll.." She couldn't end up that line. "Whoever did this... I wont forgive it easy let me say." She ran leaving the rest of the teammates quite confused. Brennan, Jesse and Lexa did what Shalimar said before. They went straight to the feral's room and to her bathroom. Jesse was the first one entering it, followed by Lexa and later Brennan.
"What the...?" Jesse said as he read the messagge. He froze. Lexa read it too, and so did Brennan. They all looked at Jesse and said nothing for almoast one entire minute. Then Lexa spoke.
"C'mon Jess, this can't be serious.." Lexa said possing a hand on his shoulder. Jesse got rid of it and left the room.
"Jesse! Hey!" Brennan called for him as Lexa and him followed the molecular. Jesse entered his room and closed the door behind not letting anyone in. Brennan tried to open it but found it locked.
"Jesse! Come on we saw you get in! Talk to us!" Lexa said sounding desperated. It was one of the first times Brennan could see the cold woman worried.
"Jess, open the door." Brennan said. Neither Brennan or Lexa received an answer, which made their concern even bigger. They were afraid the molecular trying something.
"NO.. he wouldn't.." Lexa said in a loud voice. "He wouldn't take off right?" She asked Brennan hesitantly.
"There's only one way to find out." He backed Lexa off and kicked Jesse's door with all his strenght. Jesse was in there. Suddenly Lexa and Brennan felt so relieved to see him in there.
"You're the one fixing that, you know.." Jesse said looking at the broken door. Brennan grinned as both him and Lexa entered Jesse's room.
"Tell me.. none of you did that right?" Jesse said never looking at his friends. Brennan could sense the fear on his tone.
"You can't be asking that. Of course we didn't!" Brennan said at once. Jesse nodded and went on looking at the walls.
"I see." The molecular replied one more time.
"Jess don't worry we're not gonna let anything happen to you. Just.. forget about that." Lexa said as she saw Brennan standing up and taking off.
"Forget about that..." Jesse repeated. "Funny... its about my death we're talking about Lexa.. I can see you're not worried but try to hide that from me please." He said coldly. Brennan was no longer in there. He took his coat and started leaving.
"Where do you think you're going?" Shalimar asked worried. She was still wearing his sweter even she had dried herself a bit.
"Out." He answered as he went on walking out.
"Brennan! You can't leave! Not now.. Jesse is danger, but we could possibly be too.. we need to stick together." Shalimar said desperated. She didn't want to admit it, but she was scared as hell. Just the same feeling she went through while being at Naxcon. Where she lost two of her family. Two. Only three left. And she wasn't letting them leave too.
"I'll be fine." He said in a cold tone as he left. "Im sorry Shal.." He muttered low enough for someone to listen, but Shal could. She turned around and headed to her own room.
END OF CHAPTER TWO
A/N:
Thanks to all reviewers:
Brigitta 1: Thanx for the comments.. yeah, we never get enough of them now do we? And you are not the only one tells me has an idea of why Shal hugged Jesse like that.. guess we´ll have to wait and see.. Impulse5: Glad you like it so far.. and yeah, I will add more Jess and Lexa scenes.. I just hope im getting their relationship right.. gotta take into account I never actually saw those two together.. yeah, still in season 2.. Deathlioness: Thanks Ill try to update as soon as I can Loveconquers: thanks.. always nice to hear from you.. You know im your fan I just love ur stories sooooo much.. Fanofbuffy:Thank you, I will. canadian-chic14: Thanx luv! And you are getting the hint, but you are not quite there yet.. Cathy2005: lol.. whatever you didnt understand just tell me.. Francheska: Thanx that was nice of you.. MariShal: One is good, two just feel better... lol.. Thank you, and I guess we will see some of Jess and Shals brother sisterly relationship... Aniki19: Lol.. good to know it caught your attention.. and Ill try to update as soon as I can.. Keep on guesing, you are getting near.. Tracey: Thanks, you will have more of them I promise..
There it goes.. another chap.. tell me what do you think of it... Oh, and I had the idea of doing this fic as a week, when every chapter is gonna be a day.. anyway, I hope you're liking it so far... All I can say, is future sucks.. trust me. Paris
Only one day had passed, and the team was getting nothing but nervous. Lexa was the worst one on taking the whole thing. She had trusted the Dominion almoast her whole life, and was having a hell of a trouble figuring out which side to take now. She was deep focused on that thoughts when someone knocked on her door. She didn't hear the first time, but the second one was unavoidable. She stood up crankily, obviously not wanting to talk at all, and opened the door lazily.
"What do you need Jess?" She asked in such a cranky tone that Jesse could notice she didn't even mean the saying.
"I want us to talk a bit. I want to help you." Jesse said as he tried stepping in her room but Lexa got in his way stopping him from coming in.
"Maybe later." Lexa said. Jesse nodded trying not to seem hurt and left. But he did was hurt. On his way to his own room he tried not thinking about her, the woman was driving him nuts. He wanted to confort her, to help her, but she wouldn't let him.
"I know she is not like that... maybe I have to let HER know that.." Jesse said aloud as he passed next to Brennan's room. He was lying on his bed, arms behind his neck, staring at the ceiling and flashing sparks from his eyes. Jesse went on walking as he realized what he had just seen.
"Brennan?" Jesse asked confused staying outside the door never entering his room. Brennan quickly looked at him and the sparks dissapeared.
"Jess, I didn't know you were there." Brennan said not caring to even look at the man. He went on with the ceiling staring, and now muttering things Jesse tried to hear but wasn't able to.
"No, really?" Jesse said ironically since it was more than obvious that the man was drowned on his own thoughts. "How long have you been able to do that?" Jesse asked as he stepped in and sat on a chair next to Brennan's bed.
"About a couple of months..." Brennan replied lazily. He didn't want to talk to Jesse and the molecular could notice that.
"Suddenly I feel so alone..." Jesse teased himself. The man was admirable. In the worst things, he always stood calmed and cool to find out a solution. He didn't stand angry for too long, and he was always understanding their friends emotions even if they hurt him. Brennan realized just how rude he had been seconds ago, and focused his staring at Jesse.
"Im sorry Jess.. Im just.." Brennan couldn't finish.
"I know." Jesse said as he left. He went straight to his own room this time, not wanting to even try on Shal's mood.
After a few hours, Jesse was back at researching with Lexa helping. Brennan taking a peacefull nap, and Shalimar bored as hell. She had been training for hours with holograms and was interested in getting some better action. She passed Jesse and Lexa and didn't even try to ask them for some sparring. She knew who her best oponent would be.
"Oh yeah.." She moaned to herself as she thought of bothering the elemental. She went straight to Brennan's room and didn't even knock. She entered at once and got used pretty quickly to the darkness around. Changing her eyes to feral mode, she found Brennan lying on the bed and sleeping so peacufully it almoast hurt her what she was about to do. She sighed and approached to him slowly stopping just a few steps from his bed.
"Im really sorry Bren.." Shalimar said bursting into laugher. She ran towards Brennan's bed and jumped on it landing on his chest. She started tickling him so hard that it didn't pass much for Brennan to wake.
"Shal... s.. stop.. Shal.." Brennan said laughing really hard. Shalimar went on taking advantage of his sleepy state as she tickled him for several seconds. Finally, Brennan managed to catch her both arms and hold her tight to him so she wouldn't move.
"I apologised before, you know..." Shalimar said putting up her best smile. Brennan looked at her with a "you're gonna pay" look. "I did!" She defended herself among more and more laugher.
"Im taking you were bored and decided to bother someone else uh?" Brennan said grinning, still holding her.
"Exactly." She replied still wide smiling. Brennan gently took away one strand from her hair to have better access to her face. Then he leaned for a kiss but Lexa stepped in not bothering to knock either. Shalimar and Brennan broke appart very quickly and looked at her with innocent looks. Lexa sighed and then returned their looks with a knowing one. She cleared her throat as she prepared herself to speak.
"Jesse and I were investigating this senator, and we found out something. You gotta come now. If its not too much trouble for you two.." She left. Shalimar and Brennan stood up sharing weird unconfortable looks and followed the molecular.
"Guys, look at this." Jesse said as he made bigger an image of a man in around his 50's. "He is our guy." Jesse cleared.
"So? He doesn't know what hair styiling means..." Shalimar said enphatizing the fact that the man had the most horrible hair ever.
"Look at this man.. the one next to him... Bryan Kallix.." Jesse said as he amplified the image even more which showed some sort of light coming out of his hands.
"Oh my god.. he is a mutant.. he is THE mutant! But why would he want to kill him?" Shalimar asked aloud.
"Many reasons.. money, fortune, prestige.. women.. who knows.. thing is, we gotta keep an eye on this guy, just to make sure he doesn't anything .." Brennan said as he waited for his teammates to response.
"Today is Sunday.. we only have three more days to go... And we didn't even had the chance to train!" Jesse was the one speaking now.
"Speak for yourself." Shalimar said with a teasing smile. "Which reminds me, im gonna go take a shower.. if anything comes up you let me know." The feral said as she left towards her room. She got rid quickly of her clothes and left them in the middle of her room, then she entered the bathroom and started the shower. She was dirrty as hell, after training for that much time you would think so. She went on cleaning herself, as the water gently hit her body. She was tired too, tired from everything, fighting, losing those who she cared about. Afraid of losing those who she did have, afraid of everything. And that visit they had of their future selves wasn't helping. What the hell had happened in there? Why was future Brennan acting so coldly and mean? Why did her future self was so glad to see Jess and Lexa? And why didn't they tell them more, their clothings, their futures... they knew nothing. Shalimar finally finished up and grabbed a towel, which she put on quickly. She was freezing. She stepped out the shower and started drying herself up when she looked at the mirror. She freaked out. Someone had written something on it while she took the shower.
"Tomorrow: Jesse's death." Shalimar read on her mirror. It was lipstick what was on it. She took a few steps back trying to digest what she had seen. What was that about? Who wrote that and why? That was all in Shal's head, she then started thinking it was some kind of joke. But whoever of her teammated who did this had to have some twisted sense of humor she didn't find funny at all. She put her clean clothes on and didn't even bother to dry her hair, she left her room and walked down the stairs immediately searching for her friends. She sensed them on the rec room and so she headed there.
"Well that was funny." Shalimar said crossing her arms with an angry look. Everybody turned to see her. Brennan, who was sitting on the couch watching some tv was the first one to turn around even before she spoke. Jesse and Lexa were still researching untill they heard the feral's tone.
"What are you talking about? Shal you're all wet, you're gonna get sick.." Brennan said as they all noticed Shalimar didn't dry herself too well. She was soaking the whole floor.
"I don't care. I wanna know who did it." Shalimar said still angry as hell. Brennan approached her.
"Here, take this." He said as he handed her his sweter. "Now, tell us what happened." Shalimar looked at the man in front of her. "He didn't do it. He wouldn't." She said to herself taking his sweter.
"Im gonna ruin it, im all wet." She said giving it back to him.
"I don't care. Now, put it on and tell us." He said one more time as he crossed his arms to listen to her.
"I was taking a shower and when I stepped out I..." She gave them her back. She didn't want to stare at Jesse when saying what she was gonna say. "I saw something written on my mirror.." She managed to say that, dumb of her since their friends were obviously going to ask what was written.
"Shal..? Are you okay? What was written on it?" Brennan asked her possing a hand on her shoulder.
"You can see it yourselves.. go up to my bathroom and you'll.." She couldn't end up that line. "Whoever did this... I wont forgive it easy let me say." She ran leaving the rest of the teammates quite confused. Brennan, Jesse and Lexa did what Shalimar said before. They went straight to the feral's room and to her bathroom. Jesse was the first one entering it, followed by Lexa and later Brennan.
"What the...?" Jesse said as he read the messagge. He froze. Lexa read it too, and so did Brennan. They all looked at Jesse and said nothing for almoast one entire minute. Then Lexa spoke.
"C'mon Jess, this can't be serious.." Lexa said possing a hand on his shoulder. Jesse got rid of it and left the room.
"Jesse! Hey!" Brennan called for him as Lexa and him followed the molecular. Jesse entered his room and closed the door behind not letting anyone in. Brennan tried to open it but found it locked.
"Jesse! Come on we saw you get in! Talk to us!" Lexa said sounding desperated. It was one of the first times Brennan could see the cold woman worried.
"Jess, open the door." Brennan said. Neither Brennan or Lexa received an answer, which made their concern even bigger. They were afraid the molecular trying something.
"NO.. he wouldn't.." Lexa said in a loud voice. "He wouldn't take off right?" She asked Brennan hesitantly.
"There's only one way to find out." He backed Lexa off and kicked Jesse's door with all his strenght. Jesse was in there. Suddenly Lexa and Brennan felt so relieved to see him in there.
"You're the one fixing that, you know.." Jesse said looking at the broken door. Brennan grinned as both him and Lexa entered Jesse's room.
"Tell me.. none of you did that right?" Jesse said never looking at his friends. Brennan could sense the fear on his tone.
"You can't be asking that. Of course we didn't!" Brennan said at once. Jesse nodded and went on looking at the walls.
"I see." The molecular replied one more time.
"Jess don't worry we're not gonna let anything happen to you. Just.. forget about that." Lexa said as she saw Brennan standing up and taking off.
"Forget about that..." Jesse repeated. "Funny... its about my death we're talking about Lexa.. I can see you're not worried but try to hide that from me please." He said coldly. Brennan was no longer in there. He took his coat and started leaving.
"Where do you think you're going?" Shalimar asked worried. She was still wearing his sweter even she had dried herself a bit.
"Out." He answered as he went on walking out.
"Brennan! You can't leave! Not now.. Jesse is danger, but we could possibly be too.. we need to stick together." Shalimar said desperated. She didn't want to admit it, but she was scared as hell. Just the same feeling she went through while being at Naxcon. Where she lost two of her family. Two. Only three left. And she wasn't letting them leave too.
"I'll be fine." He said in a cold tone as he left. "Im sorry Shal.." He muttered low enough for someone to listen, but Shal could. She turned around and headed to her own room.
END OF CHAPTER TWO
A/N:
Thanks to all reviewers:
Brigitta 1: Thanx for the comments.. yeah, we never get enough of them now do we? And you are not the only one tells me has an idea of why Shal hugged Jesse like that.. guess we´ll have to wait and see.. Impulse5: Glad you like it so far.. and yeah, I will add more Jess and Lexa scenes.. I just hope im getting their relationship right.. gotta take into account I never actually saw those two together.. yeah, still in season 2.. Deathlioness: Thanks Ill try to update as soon as I can Loveconquers: thanks.. always nice to hear from you.. You know im your fan I just love ur stories sooooo much.. Fanofbuffy:Thank you, I will. canadian-chic14: Thanx luv! And you are getting the hint, but you are not quite there yet.. Cathy2005: lol.. whatever you didnt understand just tell me.. Francheska: Thanx that was nice of you.. MariShal: One is good, two just feel better... lol.. Thank you, and I guess we will see some of Jess and Shals brother sisterly relationship... Aniki19: Lol.. good to know it caught your attention.. and Ill try to update as soon as I can.. Keep on guesing, you are getting near.. Tracey: Thanks, you will have more of them I promise..
There it goes.. another chap.. tell me what do you think of it... Oh, and I had the idea of doing this fic as a week, when every chapter is gonna be a day.. anyway, I hope you're liking it so far... All I can say, is future sucks.. trust me. Paris