Disclaimer : Not mine

Pairing: Emma/Shalimar


"Let´s get in." Emma said reaching the doorknob of the entrance door and opening it.

"This place is pretty old" Shalimar said, sliding her hand over the dusty wall. Unexpectedly, a rat appeared of nowhere. Seeing the new intruder, Emma jumped like a little girl and let out a panicked, but low scream.

"Old and disgusting." Emma complained while grabbing the feral´s left arm. Oh my God! What am I doing!? If I keep doing things like this, she´ll probably notice I have feeling for her. Troubled, the redhead let go of Shalimar´s arm.

Shalimar laughed lightly.

"What!?" Emma had an angry and suspicious look.

"Nothing." The blonde began " It's just that you´re really cute when you´re scared, specially when what´s scaring you is a rat." She finished smiling, receiving an embarrassed smile from the psionic.

Just as Emma was about to reply to the blond, both of them heard a noise near.

"Did you hear that?" Shalimar asked Emma as her eyes turned yellow. The older woman instinctively moved closer to her friend and stepped in front of her protectively.

"Yes." Emma´s voice trembled. "Do you think it´s another rat?" She said and touched Shalimar`s shoulders gently.

The feral rolled her eyes to look back at her. "Of course I don´t think it´s another rat, or I wouldn´t be worried. I didn´t know you´re so afraid of rats." The feral said in a low voice, while trying to find out where the noise came from. Suddenly five guys broke into the door next to them.

"Oh great!" Shalimar shouted.

Three of them went straight to the feral, who did a great job avoiding all of their first attacks, then she managed to kick one of them right at his jaw, knocking him down. Another one tried to stab her in the side, but she dodged and grabbed his arm throwing him directly to the third guy.

The other two headed for Emma. She hit the first one with her psionic blast, but the second one quickly grabbed her and pushed her violently to the ground, so this way he could be on top of her. Now the redhead started to panic, the man had strong arms and was squeezing roughly her neck, she kept trying kicking his side, but her strength seemed to decrease every second. Her muscles slowly started to relax as she realized struggling was hopeless. Just as she decided to stop fighting and slip into completely darkness she felt the weight above her suddenly disappear.

"Get the hell away from her!" Shalimar yelled pulling him away from Emma, she pushed him over the wall and punched his face several times and to finish she stroke him with her knee. The men fell to the floor, clutching his stomach and groaning.

"Emma!" The feral called kneeling beside her. "Are you ok? " She asked worried.

"I am now." The psionic answered breathing hard. "I really thought that I was going to die Shal, if you weren´t here." Emma choked.

"Shhhh, it´s ok, you´re safe now." Shalimar said pulling Emma close to her, embracing her softly. "Are you sure you´re ok? "

" Yeah, I´m fine." She´s hugging me, she´s actually hugging me! It feels so good! I guess the fact that I almost got killed wasn´t so bad at all.

"We should get going now." Shalimar said helping the redhead up. Then she went straight to the man who tried to strangle Emma and pulled him up by the collar, as she rudely pressed his back against the wall.

"Where are they? The girl and the boy?" The blonde shouted.

"T-They`re on the 5th floor." He answered scared. Shalimar released him and this time he fell to the ground unconscious.

"I think I saw some stairs over there, let´s go Shal." Emma said pointing to some steps.


5th floor

"They`re over here, let´s go in." Shalimar headed for a door with Emma and opened it. "Here they are." The feral said as she saw the two kids tied down to a chair.

"Don´t worry we´re here to help." She said realizing by their faces how scared they were.

"Are you guys ok?" Emma asked untying both of them.

"Yes." The boy whispered. The girl jus nodded.

"Shit! Someone´s coming! We have to go. Now!" The feral shouted picking up the girl while Emma took the boy´s hand leading him out of the room. "Hurry up!" Shalimar shouted again while heading downstairs.


Outside near the car

Shalimar and Emma managed to get to the car before Eckhart´s men reached them. Shalimar quickly started the car and drove away.

"That was close." The redhead said relived. "Mission accomplished." she smiled and looked happily at the feral next to her.

"We did a great job." Shalimar started. "We´re great together, don´t you think?" She finished looking Emma in the eye.

"Yeah, I do." Emma replied and blushed.

"So, what about you kids? Are you two alright?" The feral asked. Both of them just nodded. "Don´t worry, we´ll get you home as soon as we can. Ok?"


To be continued…

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