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 5: Spreading

            Jesse stumbled into the lab phasing through the door and walked up beside Adam who was over by the computer.  Adam jumped when Jesse cleared his throat.  He turned around with a smile on his face.

            "Jesse you startled me.  I didn't hear the door slid open," he stated.

            "That's what I came to talk to you about," Jesse started as Adam gave him a confused look.  "I didn't use the door.  I phased right through it!"

             "What are you talking about?"  Adam asked still very confused.

            Jesse huffed.  "I can't stop phasing through things."

            "WHAT?"  Adam asked shocked.

            Jesse walked up to the table and pressed his hand down to the table and it passed right through.  "I can't go back to my normal mass," Jesse explained turning to face Adam.

            "This is not good," Adam announced. 

            Adam grabbed a needle and went to take Jesse's blood; it passed right through his arm.  "Emma, Shalimar, Brennan can you guys come to the lab, we have a bit of a problem," Adam ordered into his comring.

            No one replied but soon all rushed into the lab together.  They all looked worried as they walked over to Adam and Jesse.

            "What's wrong?"  Emma asked nervously.

            Adam sighed.  "I think our problem came a little bit more complicated."

            "How so?"  Brennan asked.

            "I think Jesse's been infected with Shalimar's disease or whatever she has," Adam explained.

            "What?"  The trio asked in unison.

            Jesse went up to them and stuck his had out towards Emma and his hand went right through her.  "Shit," Brennan said out loud.

            "That's what I thought," Jesse agreed.

            "How did this happen?"  Shalimar asked shocked as everyone else was.

            "What ever Eckhart injected into you must be contagious," Adam guessed.

            "So is it spreading by touch or what?"  Emma wondered.

            Adam rubbed his chin think about how it was spreading to the others.  "Well if it was spreading by touch then Brennan would have been the first, because Shalimar touched him first when we found her."

            "So what else could it be?"  Jesse asked as he attempted to lean up against the chair and fell backwards landing on the floor.  "FUCK!"

            Brennan couldn't help but laugh but Emma elbowed him in the rib cage shutting him up.  Adam smiled, "Well I can't think of anything that Shalimar might have done to infected you."

            They all stood in silence; Shalimar looked around at everyone but focused on Jesse's face noticing the bandage.  "Well what about the scratches on his face, that's the only thing I can think of that I did to him and no one else, and I was also Feral when it happened," Shalimar suggested.

            "That could be possible," Adam said.  "Actually you might be right."

            Shalimar smiled in satisfaction, and was going to go on when Brennan butted in.  "Ah, Shalimar I think its time to put you in the force field," he announced looking at her as he pointed with his thumb outside.  The sun was just about to fully set, and they all knew she could go feral any second.

            Shalimar sighed and nodded in reply, then started walking off over to the stairs heading down to the training floor, with Brennan right on her heels.  He walked into the middle of floor with Shalimar and stopped right behind her.  "I hate this part," Shalimar told him with her back towards him.

            "I know Shal, but Adam will find a cure," Brennan said reaching out and placed his hand on her arm forcing her to turn around and face him.

            He had a huge reassuring smile on his face, and Shalimar knew he wouldn't let anything happen to her.  "I hope you're right."

            "I am," Brennan, replied placing his hand underneath her chin, bringing her face up so he could give her a small but passionate kiss.  "I'll be the first one to see you in the morning," he told her after breaking away from the kiss.

              "You better be or else," she said softly, before Brennan walked out and locked her in with a force field.

            Brennan returned to the group, but not without looking back at Shalimar seeing her sit down on the floor and watch him leave her.  All three were in a heated discussion on how Shalimar and Jesse could possibly be cured.

            "I'm not sure what's causing them to lose control of their powers, it would be easier if I did," Brennan heard Adam state as he walked up to them. 

            "I want to know exactly how Shalimar is passing it?"  Emma asked still worried that they all could have it and not know it.

            "I'll need some more blood to do tests in a program that might tell us how exactly," Adam walked over and grabbed his equipment to take Shalimar's blood, and walked over to the stairs with everyone else right behind him.  When he reached the stairs Shalimar looked up at his her eyes glowing red and snarled at him.  "Well I don't think I could get any right now so, I'll have to get in the morning when she's back to normal," Adam explained motioning to Shalimar, they all nodded in agreement.  "So you all go get some sleep, and Jesse you might be normal in the morning to, who knows?"

            "I'm not going to go postal like Shalimar did?  I'm I?"  Jesse asked.

            "I don't believe so, you'll just have to make sure that you don't accidentally walk in on someone, in the bathroom or something like that," Adam said jokingly.

            Brennan and Emma laughed at Adam's joke, but Jesse rolled his eyes at them all then walked off and phased through the door and disappear.  Brennan and Emma walked over to the door right after him and headed to their own rooms.

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            Brennan woke up around three o'clock and couldn't fall back asleep; he slowly got out of bed and put on some comfortable clothes.  He crept slowly out of his room and headed down to the lab.  The lights were off and he turned one set on so he could see his way over to the stairs. 

He saw Shalimar asleep on the floor right up next to the force field; he went over to the computer and turned it off.  He then walked over and lay down beside her, watching her as she faced away from her.  Her hair was draped over most of her face and her knee tucked up close to her chest, so she was in a tight ball.  She stirred for a moment and rolled over facing Brennan.  She could feel his body heat and wrapped her arms around him, then twined her legs with his.  Shalimar glanced up at Brennan, her eyes were still red but a smile quickly crossed her face before she snuggled closer to his chest and fell asleep.  Brennan closed his eyes and drifted off into a deep sleep as he heard Shalimar purring softly to him.

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            Shalimar eyes fluttered open as she felt the morning sun shine in on her.  She found herself wrapped in Brennan's arms and her head imbedded into his neck.  She couldn't remember how she came to be like that, but she liked it very much, she could stay in his arms forever.  Shalimar watched him closely as he slept peaceful.  Shalimar couldn't resist any longer, so she started kissing him.

            Brennan suddenly woke feeling someone's tongue enter his mouth and kiss him passionately.  He recognized that kiss and tongue anywhere, so he pulled Shalimar closer to him, kissing her passionately for several minutes.

            Shalimar final broke away from the kiss to catch her breath; she smiled at him giving him a small peck on the lips.  "Good morning," she whispered to him.

            "Good morning to you to," Brennan replied.

            "So did you like my good morning kiss?"  Shalimar asked him placing her forehead against him.

            "Hell yes!  I wish I had that wake up call every morning," Brennan answered.

            Shalimar gave a small laugh and asked him another question.  "So how did we end up this way?"

            "I couldn't sleep last night, so I decided to come down here with you," he explained.

            "Were you the one that took down the force field?"  Shalimar asked with a huge grin.

            "Ya, I wanted to be close to you," he replied with a little blush.

            Shalimar saw him blush and quickly kissed him again, "Didn't you think I would rip you to shreds, or try to kill you?"

            "Nah, I just knew you wouldn't hurt me, because… I love you," Brennan confessed to her once again.

"I love you to," Shalimar said in return, then leaned in towards Brennan's lips.

Their lips nibbled each other softly, before they turned it into a stronger more passionate kiss.  Shalimar brought her hand up and ran it through Brennan's hair, as Brennan did the same with her long blonde hair.  Their tongues whipped around inside each other's mouths.  Shalimar's hand moved down from his hair and down his chest unbuttoning his shirt all the way down.  Brennan's hands moved down to her waist and then down grabbing her ass, he rolled over on to his back pulling her along with him.  She straddled his groin and started pulling his shirt off as her delicate long blonde hair surrounded their faces.  Brennan removed his hands from Shalimar's ass and slid them up underneath her shirt and started rubbing her back.

Adam entered the lab and walked over to the computer, he suddenly heard loud moaning noises coming from the training floor.  He walked over to the stairs and saw Shalimar on top of Brennan; a rush of panic rushed over him thinking Shalimar was still feral.  He quickly cleared his throat trying to get their attention.

Shalimar and Brennan both heard someone at the top of the stairs.  Shalimar quickly got off of Brennan and stood up.  She looked up and saw Adam standing there with his arms across his chest.  She pulled her shirt back down over her belly and ran her hand through her hair as Brennan stood up putting his own shirt back on.

"I'm glad your feeling better Shalimar," Adam announced from the top of the stairs.

Both Shalimar and Brennan blushed at the fact that Adam had almost caught them having sex on the training floor.  "Much better, thank you," Shalimar replied.

"Good I want to do some more tests," Adam said before turning away from them, heading back over to his equipment.

Shalimar huffed and looked at Brennan rolling her eyes, he gave her a smile.  She started walking over to the stair to head up to Adam, she suddenly felt Brennan's strong arm around her waist and she also slipped her arm around him and they walked up stairs together.

Shalimar jumped up on a chair and held her arm out for Adam to take her blood.  "I don't need your blood," he said with a smile.

"Why?"  Shalimar asked a little confused.

"I need some blood from Brennan and a skin sample from underneath your fingernails," Adam told her.

"Ok," Brennan replied switching seats with Shalimar letting Adam take a vial of his blood.  Adam then moved on to Shalimar and got some skin from her.

"So why do you need Brennan's blood?"  Shalimar asked curiously, just as Emma walked in looking pissed. 

"What's the problem?"  Adam asked her not answering Shalimar's question.

"He's the PROBLEM!"  She said angrily, pointing at Jesse who phased through the door right behind her.  "He walked on me!  Good thing I was dressed," she explained.

"I didn't mean to, I forgot," Jesse replied with a sly grin on his face.

"Sure you did," Brennan said sarcastically as Shalimar and Adam laughed at Jesse.

Emma rolled her eyes as Jesse smiled at her giving her a small wink.  "So did you find out how Shalimar's passing the virus?"  Emma asked getting off the subject.

"I was just about to do the tests," Adam replied.

"You never answered my question," Shalimar said impatiently.

"Oh right," Adam said looking up from his work.  "I need to mix his blood with your blood for one test and then his blood with your skin cells, to see how it's spreading," he explained.

Both Emma and Jesse were confused and out of the loop.  "What?"  They both asked.

"I took Brennan's blood because he hasn't been contaminated yet, so when I mix the blood with blood and blood with skin cells, from that I can find out which sample mutates," Adam explained to them all, as he continued the test.

While they waited for the tests to get done Emma started up a conversation with Shalimar, and the guys had their own little conversation.  "So Shalimar I see there wasn't any feral incident like the other night."

"Nope no feral stuff," she sort of lied, what happened earlier that morning wasn't feral but it was like the same thing she did to him when she was feral.

Emma saw Shalimar glance quickly at Brennan, "You love him don't you?"  Emma asked.  "Don't lie either," she added.

Shalimar sighed, "Ya I do."

"I knew it!"  Emma said softly.  "Does he know?"

"OH ya!"  Shalimar answered giving her a devilish smile.

"What did you do?"  Emma asked wondering what she did to him.

"Well lets just say he knows, and don't you dare read me," she threatened.

"I promise," Emma, said disappointed.

"The test is done!"  Adam announced they all quickly huddled around him.  "Whoa!"

"WHAT?"  They all asked at once.

"Both of the samples are mutating," Adam explained to them.

"Oh great," Shalimar said throwing up her hands.  "So now I have to make sure my blood doesn't touch anybody else's or that I don't scratch someone.  Now where's the fun in that!"  Brennan reached over and took Shalimar's hand in his to calm her down a bit.

"Yes that's right, we'll all have to be a little bit more careful around you," Adam replied.

"At least we know how it's spreading," Emma said to them all.

"Ya but know all I need to do is find a cure for Shalimar and Jesse," Adam explained.

"If you can," Shalimar replied softly.

TBC

A/N:  I have to admit some of you were right on with how I was going to have it spread.  Now all I need to do is think of a way to cure it and I'll be all set.  So there won't be any more chapters until I think of something, so any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far and to Kipurrz for editing all my chapters!  PLEASE REVIEW!!!!