Friend or Foe?
Rating: PG 13- for violence/language/romance
Story by: Quest – ryan_jr54@hotmail.com or shadowfox_fuse@yahoo.com
(Disclaimer on first chapter)
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Chapter 7: Antidote
Brennan walk slowly back to the lab, his mind was play Isabel's last word over and over again. He entered the lab, Adam and Jesse looked up from the monitor. "Do you want to her the good news or bad news, first? Brennan asked them.
"Good news!" They both replied.
"The good news is Isabel told me what Eckhart did to Shalimar. The bad news is there might not be a cure for it, and also I told her we would help her." Brennan explained.
"You did what?" Jesse yelled. "Brennan you of all people want to help her."
"Trust me she did it under false pretenses. I'll explain later." Brennan said. "I think we should get back to bring back Shalimar."
"I agree." Adam said. "What did Isabel say about the serum exactly?"
"She said it controls brain functions, and that Shalimar was the first one they tested it on." Brennan explained.
"It controls brain function." Adam whispered, as he thought to himself. "Was there anything else that could help us?"
"Ya, the serum was a blue liquid and they inserted it into her brain stem." Brennan explained. "Isabel said that they gave her three shots of it which makes it kind of permanent."
"Did you say it was a blue liquid?" Adam asked.
"Ya!" Brennan replied.
Adam ran over to one of the computers and started looking through some of the programs. Brennan and Jesse walked over to him a little confused by his reaction to the blue liquid statement. "What are you doing?" Jesse asked.
"I'm looking through my files that I saved when I worked for Genomex." Adam explained.
"Why?" Brennan asked looking over Adam's shoulder.
"When I was Genomex we created a mind control serum, and it was a blue liquid. But I thought I destroyed all of the serum before I left, they must have made more without me knowing." Adam explained basically to him. "But I think I still have it."
"Still have what?" Brennan asked.
"An antidote, which I created without them knowing and I was hoping I still have my notes on how to create it, but I don't know what I called it." Adam kept working on the computer for the next fifteen minutes.
Brennan was over next to Shalimar trying to get her to wake up. Jesse was sitting next Adam who was still looking up the file, when Emma entered the lab. "What are you guys doing?" She asked as she walked up to Adam and Jesse.
"Trying to find a cure for Shalimar." Jesse replied.
"So Isabel told you what they did to her?" Emma asked.
"She told Brennan everything." Jesse explained.
Emma looked over at Brennan who was tending to Shalimar, who was still unconscious. "How is Brennan doing?"
Jesse looked over at Brennan. "Good I guess. I mean Shalimar tried to kill him how would feel. By the way how are you feeling?"
"I'm fine, your bandage stayed on nicely." Emma smiled at him, lifting up the side of her shirt to show the bandage. Jesse blushed a little at Emma's complement.
"I think I found it." Adam said out loud.
Brennan rushed over to Adam at the computer and huddled around him along with Jesse and Emma. "Do you think it'll work?" He asked.
"There is only one way to find out, I'll have to create it and give it to her." Adam explained.
"How long will that take?" Brennan asked quickly.
"A few hours, and Shalimar should be awake by then." Adam said.
"What are we going to do about Isabel? I told her we would help her." Brennan asked Adam.
Jesse looked at Brennan angrily. "I don't understand why we should, it would be like helping the devil."
"No I don't think she did this on her own free will." Brennan told him.
"What do you mean?" Emma asked.
"She only did it to find her brother. She made a deal with Eckhart that she would do anything he asked her to do if her helped her find her brother, who escaped from Genomex a few years ago, but left her behind." Brennan explained to the three.
"So her brother is a mutant to?" Emma asked.
"Ya, I guess when she was sixteen her parents gave both of them up to Eckhart because they didn't what 'freaks' living with them. Her brother was eighteen at the time and was able to escape and promised her he would come back for her." Brennan said.
"He never did, did he?" Emma asked a little sadden by Isabel's story.
"No, she's been with Eckhart almost five years and Eckhart has never even looked for her brother." Brennan said angrily.
Adam stood up. "Alright here's the plan. Jesse, Emma you go get Isabel and take her to get something to eat and Brennan you stay here and help me with the antidote."
"That's fine." Jesse said as Emma shook her yes going along with Jesse's statement.
They left together to go retrieve Isabel from the training room. Isabel's hands were starting to get num from the tight ropes that tied them together. She saw the door open slowly and entered Jesse and Emma. They smiled at her and Jesse walked over and untied her arms and legs. "Are you hungry?" Jesse asked with a big smile.
"I'm starved!" Isabel said as Jesse offered his hand to help her off the floor. She walked over to Emma with Jesse and they led her out of the room to go to the kitchen to grab something to eat.
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Adam had been working on an antidote for about an hour and still had another hour before it was finished. Brennan watched him closely as he worked on the antidote. He heard some moaning behind him and he turned around to she Shalimar moving around in the chair. "Adam!" Brennan said as he got up and moved across the room to Shalimar.
Adam looked over and saw Shalimar waking up in her chair. "I'll be right over." He yelled back to Brennan, and then turned back to his work.
Shalimar slowly opened up her eyes and was blinded by the bright lights above her. She tried to lift her arm but it was tied down to the chair, she tried to move her legs but they were also tied down. Soon Brennan showed up be side her smiling at her.
"Brennan?" She asked softly.
"Ya its me Shal." Brennan smiled at her. He reached down and touched her hand, but her eyes went Feral and she lunged up at him but was caught by the binds.
"Shalimar it's ok, you'll be back to normal soon." Brennan explained.
"You can't reverse Eckhart's serum!" Shalimar explained.
"We might have found away." Brennan told her.
Shalimar's eyes grew a brighter yellow. "I should have killed you all when I had the chance."
"You don't mean that Shal." Brennan said trying not be affected by her comments.
"Don't I? I've never been so serious in my life." Shalimar said angrily.
Brennan turned around and walked away from Shalimar as she yelled out at him. "I meant everything I said earlier. I never loved you!"
Brennan turned to face her. "That enough Shalimar! I've had enough of your shit for one day! You can say all you want and I know that the real Shalimar still loves me, so shut the Hell up!"
Shalimar's eyes turned yellow. "You know what you are Brennan. All you are to me is my little boy toy, and all I do is play around with you and make you do what ever I want, and when I get tired of playing with you I'll toss you aside like you never existed."
Brennan was pissed off at Shalimar, so he stormed off out of the lab before he did something he would regret for the rest of his life. Adam heard the lab door shut and he looked up from his work, Brennan was no were insight. Adam returned to his working figuring Brennan need something to drink or eat. Brennan stormed off to his bedroom; he met Jesse, Emma, and Isabel on the stairs. "She awake!" Brennan said angrily and kept running up the stairs to his room.
"What's wrong with him?" Emma asked watching Brennan run up the stairs.
"I don't know." Jesse replied. "Let's go check on Shalimar."
Brennan entered his room and flopped down on his bed thinking about what Shalimar said about him being her boy toy. "What if she was right? What if he was her boy toy and she was just using him? The real Shalimar wouldn't say that or would she?" Brennan didn't want to think about it any more, so he closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep.
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An hour passed and Adam's antidote was finished and he was about to give her the shot. "Where did they insert the serum?" Adam asked Isabel who was sitting by Emma.
"In the back of her neck and into her brain stem." Isabel explained.
"Jesse, help me hold her head up." Adam told him.
"Where's Brennan?" Isabel asked before Adam started. "I thought he would want to be here."
"I think he's up stairs in his room. He looked pretty upset early. I think evil Shalimar said something to him."
"Just leave him up there." Adam replied. "Jesse, hold her head please."
"Alright!" Jesse moved over to Shalimar who looked ready to kill someone.
Jesse grabbed onto Shalimar's head as she struggled to get loose. She thrashed back and forth trying to get out of Jesse's grasp. Adam moved behind Shalimar holding two large syringes with a green liquid. "Jesse try to keep her steady."
"I'm trying but, it's hard when she thrashing around like this." Jesse replied, he tried to hold her down but she was very strong. Shalimar made a last attempt to get free, so she did what her animal instincts told her. "SHIT!!" Jesse yelled grabbing his arm and jumped up and down.
Emma jumped out of her chair. "What happened?" She asked him.
"SHE FRIGGIN BIT ME!" Jesse yelled as held his arm.
Shalimar laughed and flashed her eyes at them. Emma giggled at the sight of Jesse jumping up and down and screaming like a girl. Jesse saw her laughing at him. "Hey it's not funny, it hurt like hell!" Jesse whined. "She even broke the skin."
"Oh, poor Jesse did I hurt you?" Shalimar said with a sheepish smile.
Jesse moved back over to Shalimar and grabbed onto her head again. Adam looked up at Jesse. "Are ready?"
"Ya I'm all set." Jesse replied.
Jesse pulled Shalimar's blond hair away from the back of her neck. Adam inserted the needle into her neck; Shalimar flinched as the needle moved up into her head. "One more!" Adam explained as he grabbed the next syringe.
Shalimar eyes turned yellow but she seemed to relax after the antidote entered her brain. Adam inserted the next serum, but the result was different than they expected. Shalimar screamed out and her eyes turned red instead of yellow. Her body started to shake, and then went limp. Adam checked her pulse. "She still alive."
"Lets hope it worked!" Jesse said as he put a small bandage on his arm where Shalimar bit him.
"How long until she wakes up?" Emma asked Adam.
Adam moved over to one of the computers. "I don't know. It could be days, hours, or minutes. I just don't know!"
"How about seconds." The group heard a shallow voice behind them. They turned around to see Shalimar looking at them.
"Shal is that the real you?" Jesse asked as they all move closer to her.
"I think so." She answered.
"How do you feel?" Adam asked.
"My head feels like its going to explode, but other than that I'm fine." Shalimar explained.
"No I want to kill you all thoughts?" Jesse asked her.
"No!" Shalimar replied.
"Are you lying?" Jesse asked trying to be funny.
"She's not lying." Emma explained.
"See!" Shalimar said knowing Emma used her powers to run through her mind.
"I'm glad you're back to normal Shalimar." Adam said.
"I say we go celebrate by going to get some food." Jesse said.
"But you just ate." Emma replied.
"I could go for some more food." Isabel said.
"That's my kind of girl." Jesse replied putting his arm around Isabel's shoulder.
"I could use something to eat to." Adam announced.
"Alright lets go." Jesse said. They all turned around and head for the door.
"HELLO! AREN'T YOU GUYS FORGETING SOMETHING?" Shalimar yelled at them.
They stopped before hitting the door. "What?" Jesse asked her.
"How about UNTIEING ME!!" Shalimar yelled.
"OH, I'm sorry Shalimar." Adam said walking back over to Shalimar. He untied her arms and legs; she sat up and jumped down from the chair.
"Are you going to come with us?" Emma asked.
"No I have to go talk to Brennan." Shalimar answered. "Do you know where he is?"
"He's up stairs in his room." Emma said as the group left the lab.
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Shalimar went up the stairs to Brennan's room; she stood in front of his door but didn't dare to knock, she knew that he might never talk to her again after what she said to him earlier. Shalimar took a deep breath and knocked on the door. There was no answer, so she knocked again. Nothing! Shalimar slowly grabbed onto the doorknob and opened his door. She found Brennan on top of his bed sound asleep. Shalimar moved up to him slowly and stood beside his bed and just watched him sleep. She bent down and kissed him on the lips.
Brennan's eyes shot open and he sat up on his bed. He looked over and found Shalimar standing next to him. He jumped back a little frightened that Shalimar was going to try to kill him again. "Shalimar is that you?"
"Ya it's the real me. Adam's antidote worked." Shalimar replied.
Brennan stood up and hugged her tightly like he did when they first found her, but this time she hugged him back. "I thought I lost you forever."
"I would never leave you!" Shalimar replied softly. "All those things I said before, you know I would never say or think those thing about you."
Brennan broke away from her and looked her right in the eye. "I know Shal, but I could help but wonder if those things you said were true and that you didn't love me or that I was boy toy that you were going to just toss aside!"
Shalimar put her arms around his neck. "Brennan I love you!" She pulled him down closer to her and gave him a kiss.
"I love you to Shal!" Brennan said, as he picked Shalimar off the floor and started kissing her again. Shalimar wrapped her legs around his waist and kissed him back passionately.
"But I have to tell you Brennan you're still my boy toy, but you'll be my boy toy forever." Shalimar said with a huge grin.
Brennan smiled at her and kissed her again.
"Lets get some food I'm starved!" Shalimar said as Brennan placed her back down on the floor, she then grabbed onto his hand and led him towards the door.
"I could go for some food." Brennan replied as they walked out of his room hand in hand down to the kitchen.
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"Here you go Isabel." Adam said handing Isabel an envelope. "There's a passport, divers license, and every other kind of ID you'll need."
"Thank you!" Isabel said as see took the package from Adam.
"Cya kid I'll miss ya." Jesse said giving Isabel a hug.
"I'll miss you to Jesse." Isabel replied giving Jesse a kiss on the cheek.
Emma couldn't help herself and started to cry. "Bye Isabel, I hope you find your brother." Emma said as Isabel gave her a big hug.
"Thanks Emma." Isabel replied trying not to cry herself.
"I have something for you." Brennan said to Isabel. "Here you go!" Brennan put something in Isabel's hand.
Isabel looked down at her palm and found a pair of keys. "What are these?" She asked him.
"There the keys to the Grand Am." Brennan replied.
"But I drove that one to Genomex lab. How did you get it?" Isabel asked.
"That's a secret." Brennan smiled and gave her a hug.
Isabel smiled and looked at Shalimar. "Shalimar I'm so sorry for what I put you through. I didn't mean to do what I did."
"Isabel it's ok, I forgive you." Shalimar said giving her a hug. "Plus it wasn't your fault." Shalimar smiled at her, and stepped back beside Brennan and wrapped her arms around his waist. Brennan put his arm around her shoulder and kissed the top of her head softly.
Isabel turned around and head to the front door. The team followed her out to the front steps. Isabel found the silver Grand Am outside waiting for her. She climbed in and started the engine; she waved goodbye and peeled out down the driveway.
"I hope she finds what she's looking for." Brennan said. "I know I have!" Brennan looked at Shalimar and kissed her.
"Me to!" Shalimar replied and kissed him again. The other three rolled their eyes and went back in side so they didn't have to watch Brennan and Shalimar make out on the front steps. "I love you." Shalimar tried to mumble when he kissed her.
"I love you too." Brennan replied kissing her once again.
THE END!!!!!! -I hoped you liked my story! Please lots of review. I thinking about writing another story tell me what you think.