Out Of Control

Summary: Shalimar losses her ability to control her feral side, but will they team be able to find a cure before it starts spreading to the rest of them.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Mutant X. Tribune Entertainment Co. owns the rights to these characters.      But I do own any other characters.

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Notes: Italics indicate thought. Stars indicate time change or place.

Story by: Quest – shadowfox_fuse@yahoo.com, feel free to email me on any questions or well anything!

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Chapter 4: Confessing One's Love

Shalimar woke up from her deep sleep to find herself lying on the training floor, her eyes had returned to their normal brown color.  She slowly got up; she could only remember a few things from that night; such as jumping at Jesse, Emma, and Adam but not at Brennan.  She walked over towards the stairs but was knocked down when she hit the force field that held her in.

            Adam heard something hit the floor from down below, he walked over and looked down at Shalimar.  He saw her on the floor rubbing her back. 

            She looked up at him, "Why the fuck am I locked in by a force field?  Oh and what the hell is happening to me?" she asked angrily.

            "Your feral side is taking over your body," Adam answered, not wanting to tell her what happened that night.  Adam walked over to the computer and released her from the force field seeing she was her normal self.

            Shalimar ran up the stairs to him knowing he wanted to do tests on her.  She jumped upon one of the chairs and held her arm out so he could take some blood. 

            "That's strange," Adam said out loud after getting the results back.

            "What?"  Shalimar asked curiously.

            "Everything's back to normal," Adam answered.

            "And that's a bad thing," Shalimar said sarcastically.

            Adam smiled, "No it's good, I'm just wondering why you go Feral at night and human by day."

            Shalimar thought for a moment, "Beats me."

            "Me to," Adam agreed.  "Well you can go."

            "Thank you," Shalimar with a huff.

            Shalimar gets up to leave when Jesse enters the room; he sees Shalimar and turns around and leaves.  Shalimar looked over at Adam who just hung his head and she ran out after him.

            "Jesse wait, what's wrong?"  Shalimar asked running after him.

            Jesse stops and looks at her, she noticed the bandage on his cheek, "Shalimar I don't think it's going to work out between us," He stated.

            Shalimar stood there, to her own surprise she wasn't disappointed or shocked to her him say it, "I agree with you."

            "You do?"  Jesse asked.

            "For some reason I don't think of you like a boyfriend, but like a brother or a best friend," Shalimar explained, "What I can't explain is why the sudden change?"

            Jesse sighed, "Maybe you should ask Brennan that one."  Jesse walked off.            "What does Brennan have to do with this?"  Shalimar asked him.

            "You'll find out!"  Jesse said over his shoulder.

            Shalimar stood alone in the hall watching Jesse walk away from her.  She sighed relieved that Jesse was the one that sort of broke it off between them and not her; she really didn't want to break his heart.  Shalimar turned and headed to the rec. room to see if she could find Brennan there.  Of course he was, just sitting on the couch watching some TV.  He turned and looked up when he heard the door open; he smiled sweetly noticing it was Shalimar.

            "Good to see you without red glowing eyes," Brennan told her as she came and sat on the couch with him.

            Shalimar giggled, she turned and looked at him.  "What happened last night?"

            Brennan looked away from her, "Nothing."

            She knew he was lying to her, "Tell me the truth.  I mean Adam wouldn't tell me, then Jesse and I broke up, so it must have been something big," She explained.

            "You two broke up?"  Brennan asked trying to sound surprised, even though he was actually glad.

            "It was a mutual break up, we both just want to be friends nothing more," Shalimar told him.  "He did say to ask you why my feelings changed.  So here I am."

            Brennan was not sure if he wanted to tell her about it, he finally gave in after looking at her smiling at him.  "Last night when you went feral you came into my room and into my bed."

            "That's not so bad," Shalimar, said relieved that it wasn't worse.

            "Well you kinda took off your shirt and sat on my chest, then kissed me a couple of time," Brennan told her.

            Shalimar's expression changed rapidly.  "I did?" she asked him seriously.

            "Ya, I tried to get you off but you choked me then kissed me again," Brennan answered showing her the bruise on his neck from her fingers.

            Shalimar slid closer to him and ran her fingers over it, "Was that it?"

            "Ah, no!  You scratched Jesse then went unconscious," Brennan started, "Then we put you in the force field and you kind of went postal."

            "How?"  Shalimar asked not really sure if she wanted to know.

            Brennan looked at her, "Shal you lunged at everyone but…" Brennan trailed off.

            "But who?" Shalimar asked.

            "Me!"  Brennan answered.  "You wouldn't let anyone get close to me or you started flipping out."

            Shalimar blushed embarrassed by her actions, "I'm sorry."

            "No it wasn't your fault, it was your feral side," Brennan explained.

            Shalimar didn't say anything in fear that she might let out her true emotions for Brennan.

            Brennan continued.  "Adam thinks your feline DNA was choosing a mate," Brennan quickly turned his head away, but Shalimar reached over with her hand and turned his face back to her.

            She smiled sweetly at him, "Maybe I was," She said softly before giving him a smile kiss on the lips. 

To her surprise Brennan kissed her back, he wrapped his hand around the back of her neck and pulled her into a deeper passionate kiss.  Shalimar had wanted to kiss him for the longest time.  She pushed him back on the couch and straddled over him, pulled away from the kiss and smiled at him.  Brennan smiled back and pulled her down into another passionate kiss.

"Shalimar, Brennan," Adam's voice came over their comm rings.

They broke the kiss and groaned.  "Ya Adam!"  Shalimar said angrily.

"Can you come to the lab," Adam told them.

"Yup," Shalimar replied climbing off of Brennan.

They both stood up and walked out of the room towards the lab.  When they entered they saw Emma and Jesse already standing over by Adam.  Shalimar stuck by Brennan side as Jesse glanced over at the two.  Emma could feel the tension in the room, as she saw Jesse give Brennan a dirty look.

"Alright I think I know what's happening to Shalimar," Adam announced.

"Finally some good news," Jesse stated, as he looked Shalimar in the eye.

Brennan glared at Jesse, "So why is Shal going feral at night and not by day?"

"Good question, I was thinking that myself," Adam answered.  "The only logical guess I can make is that her feline side wants to hunt by night and sleep by day; most like a normal cat would."

"Well that's good to know," Shalimar said sarcastically.  "But you still don't know how to cure it do you?"

"Not exactly, that's why I would like to keep you in the force field at night until I do, that way you don't do anything you'll regret," Adam explained turning attention away from her.

"That's fine," Shalimar said with a sigh.

"So one of us will lock you up when the time comes, other than that, I'm still working on a cure," Adam told them.

"Alright," Shalimar replied as Jesse and Emma walked out of the room together.

Brennan took one look at Shalimar before he headed out of the lab as well.  Shalimar stuck behind knowing Adam had something else he wanted to talk to her about.

"Is everything ok with you and Jesse?"  Adam asked once Brennan had left.

"No we broke up," Shalimar said plainly.

Brennan sat just outside the lab door listening to the conversation intensely.

"I'm sorry," Adam replied.

"There's really nothing to be sorry about, to tell you the truth I really didn't have those kind of feelings for him anymore," Shalimar explained.

"But you do for Brennan don't you?"  Adam asked her.

Shalimar just started at him for a moment, "Ya, I have strong feelings for Brennan I always have, but I knew Jesse before him, so I guess that's why I went out Jesse.  I've gotten really close to Brennan since, I feel I could tell him anything and he would understand how I felt."

Adam took a second to think, "Have you told him how you feel?"

            "No not yet," Shalimar answered.  "But I've heard I kind of made it clear to him when I was in feral mode."

            Adam laughed.  "I've seen the way your attitude changes when you're around him, he makes you feel happy and protected."

            "Ya well I do feel different when I'm around him, for some reason everything seems to go away when he's around," Shalimar stated not knowing Brennan was right outside listening to them.

            "Maybe you should tell him how you feel," Adam suggested.

            "No I can't," Shalimar replied.

            "Why can't you?"  Adam asked her.

            "What if he doesn't feel the same way," Shalimar answered.

            "I think you'd be surprised," Adam smiled, he turned away leaving Shalimar by herself thinking about what he had said.

            Brennan couldn't hear them talking anymore, he stood up and walked away and disappeared around the corner, as Shalimar exited the lab.  Brennan stopped just around the corner, waiting for Shalimar to make a move.  He peeked around the corner and saw her moving in the opposite direction.  Brennan watched her disappear and then moved around the corner to follow her.

            Shalimar looked around for Brennan, but found no sign of him.  Brennan kept his distance from Shalimar hoping she wouldn't sense him.  He just watched her wander around the Sanctuary, wondering what or who she was looking for.  He finally moved closer to her letting her sense him, when she stopped near the garden.

            She whipped around to face him.  He was leaning up against the wall smiling at her sweetly.  "I was looking for you, where have you been?"

            "To be honest I was following you," Brennan said moving up to face her.

            "Why you little…" Shalimar started, but was cut off when Brennan bent down and kissed her.

            Shalimar let her mind go and just focused on Brennan's kiss.  She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him into a deeper more passionate kiss then anyone before that.  Brennan broke the kiss and placed his forehead against hers looking at into her eyes.  "I love you," He blurted out.

            Shalimar smiled, "I love you to," She said softly before she kissed him again.

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            It was almost nine o'clock at night and Jesse sat alone in his room, he knew Shalimar had feelings for Brennan.  He was positive that sooner or later that she was going to tell Brennan how she felt if she hadn't already.  Jesse stood up and walked over to his door, he was going to go hunt for Emma so they could talk.  He suddenly grabbed onto his head feeling a rush of pain.  It soon let up and Jesse decided to go see Adam to get checked out.  Jesse reached for the doorknob and his hand went right through.  He pulled it out immediately, he tried again but his couldn't grab a hold of it. 

Jesse closed his eyes and walked forward.  He expected to hit the door but he didn't, when he opened them he found himself out in the hallway, [Ah shit this can't be good] he thought as he ran to the lab.

TBC

A/N: SORRY FOR THE WAIT!  Hope you enjoy the story so far!  ALRIGHT now I need some help, I'm not quite sure how I'm going to cure Shalimar, so any suggestions would help me out a great deal.  Thanks to Kipurrz for editing my chapters and to everyone who has review!  PLEASE REVIEW!!!