Rating: R- for language/violence/romance
Summary: Adam gives the team the weekend off. But when out clubbing Eckhart decides to crash the party. Taking Brennan and Shalimar hostage! (I'm not going to tell you everything it would ruin the surprise!!) I will tell you that this is a major Brennan/Shalimar fanfic. With a hint of a Shalimar/Jesse at some point.
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by: Quest – shadowfox_fuse@yahoo.com
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Chapter 8: One Mistake
Adam and Emma helped Brennan out of the Helix, as Jesse shut off the engines. Shalimar walked very slowly out of the Jet, where Jesse caught up with her. "Here let me help you!" Jesse said as he put his arm around her waist. Shalimar flinched a little, as he put his arm around her, she did not feel very comfortable with his hand that low down her waist.
Shalimar put her arm around his shoulder after a moment of hesitation, and Jesse started walking her towards the lab. "Thanks!" She said weakly.
"No problem Shal." Jesse replied with a smile.
They walked slowly down the lab without any conversation. Jesse opened up the lab door and Shalimar walked in ahead of him. She walked over to Adam and Emma, who were hovering over Brennan.
"How is he?" Shalimar asked them.
"He's going to be fine." Adam explained. "He has many bruised ribs, but only one that's broken, but it should heal within weeks."
"That's good." Shalimar replied smiling at Brennan.
"How are you doing?" Adam asked her.
"Alright I guess." Shalimar shrugged.
"Take a seat and I'll check your stomach." Adam said to her, pointing to a lab chair. Shalimar hopped up and lifted up her shirt to show her burns to Adam. "What did they do to you?"
"Electro-shock!" Brennan and Shalimar replied together.
"But why?" Emma asked a little confused on why Eckhart took and torched them.
"Eckhart knew we were at the club that night, I don't now how he knew but he did." Shalimar replied.
"He wanted to know where he could find you." Brennan said to Adam. "That's why he need to take us, because we were the only ones that knew where you were hiding."
"What did he want with Adam?" Jesse asked.
Shalimar looked at Brennan then over to Adam. "To kill him. That's why they torched us for hours, because we wouldn't talk."
"I'm sorry!" Adam replied as he handed Shalimar a large tube of cream to put on her burns.
"Sorry for what?" Shalimar said as she took the cream from Adam.
"For having you to go through that." Adam replied, and stood up to go back to work on Brennan's ribs.
"It's not your fault Adam!" Brennan replied.
"No I think it is!" Adam said angrily. "If it wasn't for me you two wouldn't have gotten hurt."
"Adam don't blame yourself, no one got seriously hurt were all fine!" Shalimar explained.
"But what if they killed one of you, I don't know what I would have done if you two died." Adam said.
"But we didn't!" Brennan said then everything went silent for a few minutes.
Shalimar lifted her shirt up a rubbed on some of the cream, on the huge blood red spots all over her stomach. "Oww, that stings!" Shalimar yelped.
"Good, that means its working." Adam replied with a sly smile. He and Emma rapped a huge bandage around his ribs; they did it four times as tight as they could.
"You could do it any tighter could you, I think you broke three more ribs." Brennan wined.
"Its either that or you could have internal damage." Adam explained.
"Pain is good!" Brennan replied.
Adam saw Shalimar place the cream down on the table. "Take that cream up to your room with, you'll need to apply it twice a day; in the morning and right before you go to bed." Adam told her.
She turned and grabbed the cream and put it in her pocket. Brennan jumped off the table to leave with Shalimar, but Adam placed his hand on his shoulder. "Take a seat Brennan, you're not going anywhere." Adam told him.
"Why not?" Brennan asked sitting back up on the chair.
"You need some rest! Get a couple of hours of sleep and then you can get up and move around." Adam ordered.
"Fine!" Brennan huffed.
"Alright everyone out!" Adam herded everyone towards the door.
"Ok we're leaving." Shalimar said. "We'll be back sometime to check on you!" She yelled to Brennan.
"I'm going to hold you to that!" He yelled back at her.
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Shalimar headed down to the rec. room to watch some TV. She entered the room and found Jesse playing pool all by himself. "Can I join you?" She asked him.
Jesse jumped. "Shit Shalimar you scared me!"
"Sorry!" She replied. "So can I join you?"
"Sure!" Jesse said. He reset the table and she walked over to and grabbed a pool cue. "So have you checked on Brennan lately?"
"I was going to go down in a while." Shalimar explained taking her turn.
"You like him don't you?" Jesse asked her.
"Ya!" Shalimar replied and everything went silent.
"I miss you!" Jesse said out of the blue.
"Don't do this Jesse." Shalimar begged him.
"Sorry I shouldn't have said that." Jesse replied. "But I do still love you."
"Jesse, I think of you as a brother. I mean we tried a relationship when we first met but it didn't work out." Shalimar told him.
"I know, but I could help but get jealous when I saw you and Brennan together all the time." Jesse explained. "I realized how much I still cared for you."
"Jesse I can't." Shalimar replied. "I don't think of you like that any more."
"Can't we try it one more time?" Jesse asked.
"No Jesse!" Shalimar explained.
He took a couple of steps towards her. "It's ok Shal, I understand." He brushed away a piece of hair from her face. She started to pull back away from him, but he pulled her into a kiss.
She let him kiss her, but thought about Brennan. She pulled away and turned around and found Brennan standing there with a very angry but sad expression on his face. He turned around a stormed out of the room. "BRENNAN!" She yelled after him. She pulled away from Jesse and ran out of the room. "Brennan wait is not what you think!" She yelled grabbing onto his arm to stop him.
"OH REALLY THEN WHAT WAS IT?" Brennan asked angrily.
Shalimar paused. "I DON'T KNOW!"
"YOU DON'T KNOW!" Brennan yelled.
"What I do know is that I love you." She told him in a calm tone.
"DO YOU REALLY SHALIMAR, DO YOU REALLY?" Brennan asked still yelling in fury.
"YES!" Shalimar yelled back.
"WELL I DON'T BUY IT, I SAW YOUR FACE WHEN WERE KISSING JESSE!" Brennan yelled at her.
"I do love you Brennan!" Shalimar said as she started sobbing.
"DON'T GIVE ME THAT SHIT SHALIMAR!" Brennan explained.
"Brennan it was nothing." Shalimar explained in between tears.
"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" Brennan yelled pulling his arm out of her grip roughly and walked away.
Shalimar crumbled down onto her knees and put her face in her hands and cried. "What have I done?" She asked herself in between sobs.
TBC - I thought I would add a little twist to the story!! How do you like it? I'll try not to leave you hang to long, I promise!!! I love some of the idea's you guys gave me for the story and I would have used them, but I all ready had most of this chapter done. Sorry! Please lots of Reviews!!!!!!!!!