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. Kipurrz owns Ayalia Terrana and Brad (aka Soulcatcher).

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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 7:  An Old Friend

            Brennan had fallen asleep by Shalimar's side.  He woke early in the morning and just watched Shalimar sleep, her chest rose up and down steadily.  Brennan removed one of his hands for Shalimar's and stood up.  He gently caressed Shalimar's cheek with the back of his hand.  He slowly leaned down and gave he a kiss on the lips.  Brennan was surprised to feel Shalimar's tongue enter his mouth and passionately kiss him back.  He broke away and smiled down at Shalimar.

            "How do you feel?"  Brennan asked rubbing her cheek with his thumb.

            "Like I got hit with a bus," She replied taking in a weak breath.  "Brennan what's happening to me?"

            Brennan sighed, he didn't want to look in her eyes that were filled with pain and suffering; but he did.  "I don't know Shal, I just don't know."

            "There's so much pain Brennan, it's hard to fight it," Shalimar confessed to him.

            Brennan had never seen her this scared before in his life and it worried him.  "You'll be fine."

            "You promise?"  Shalimar asked him softly.

            "I promise," he replied.  "Shalimar I'm going to do everything I can to get you better."

            Shalimar gave him a lopsided smile, but it soon turned into a terrified look.  She grabbed onto her stomach as violent pain shot through it, and her breaths became short struggling to get a breath.  "I… can't… breath," she managed to blurt out before her body started convulsing uncontrollable.

            "ADAM HELP!"  Brennan yelled into his comring, there was no reply but Brennan knew Adam was on his way down to the lab.

            Brennan gripped Shalimar's hand tightly, "It's going to be fine Shal," he said reassuring her.

            He watched Shalimar body stiffen and her eyes rolled into the back of her head.  Her body soon went limp, her chest failed to rise.  Brennan could barely see his eyes were filled with tears.  He was checking for Shalimar's pulse when Adam burst through the door out of breath; he looked like he had just thrown on whatever was closest to him. 

            "What's wrong?" he asked running up to them.

            Brennan pulled his hand away from Shalimar's throat, he looked up at Adam, tear streamed down his face, "She's…gone."

            "NO!"  Adam reached out to check for himself, there was nothing. 

Emma and Jesse rushed in just.  "What's wrong?"  Jesse asked after seeing Brennan and Adam in tears.

"Shalimar's died," Adam answered holding his tear back as best he could, Emma crumbled into Jesse's arm's as they both cried.

Brennan whipped his tears away and looked down at Shalimar's lifeless body.  "I'm not going to let her go this way!"  Brennan announced out loud as he gathered a small amount of energy on one of his fingertips.

"Brennan what are you doing?"  Adam asked nervously.

"I'm going to bring her back," he answered letting out the energy from his hand into Shalimar's chest.  Her body jolted upwards, but she still hand no motion coming from her chest.  Brennan repeated the electricity four more times, and Shalimar had not returned.  Brennan was no extremely pissed off.  "SHAL!  You can't leave me, I love you to much, please come back!"  It was the first time any of the others had heard Brennan confess his love to Shalimar.  Brennan hung his head for a moment; he looked up at the others they were all crying. 

He gathered a huge amount of energy into both of his hands, Adam looked at him horror, "Don't do it Brennan, she's gone you can bring her back."

Brennan shot him a dirty look, "She's not gone!"  Brennan let go of the energy, Shalimar's body jolted upwards like every other time he tried.  This time was different, Shalimar's eyes sprung open and she gasped for breath. 

She took many deep breaths, before glancing over at Brennan who was smiling down at her.  Her eyes once again rolled into the back of her head.  "NO!  SHAL NO!"  Brennan screamed at her.

Adam was right there checking her pulse, "It's ok she's still alive, just unconscious."

"Oh, thank god!"  Emma said relieved.

"Alright I'm going to do another scan," Adam announced walking over to the computer. 

All three stepped back from Shalimar as a yellow beam came down from over head scanning Shalimar's whole body.  Adam shook his head, not pleased with the results.

"So?"  Brennan asked him sitting back down next to Shalimar holding her hand in his.

"Her organs are starting to shut down; her liver, kidneys, one of her lungs.  It's total chaos throughout her whole body."  Adam explained.  "She will die sooner or later, and we won't be able to revive her."

Everyone was silent and just stared at Shalimar.  Brennan stood up without notice knocking his chair down; he strutted over towards the lab door. 

"Where are you going?"  Adam asked.

Brennan stopped and turned around.  "I'm going to go get that virus."

"Brennan you can't it's to dangerous," Adam told him; he didn't want another one of his children to get injured or come close to dying.

"Adam I'M NOT GOING TO SIT AROUND AND WAIT FOR SHAL TO DIE, I'M GOING TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"  Brennan said raising his voice.

Adam watched Brennan creep closer to the door, he could just let him leave and get himself killed.  He reached over and grabbed a syringe off the table, and started walking quickly after Brennan who was almost to the door.

Emma watched in horror, "What are you…?"  Adam giving her a dirty look, meaning for her to shut up, cutting her off.

Jesse and Emma watched their teacher inject Brennan with the liquid inside of the syringe.  Brennan turned around he staggered back, weaving back and forth, "What the hell?" he slowly drifted off into a peaceful blackness.

"Sorry Brennan, it was for your own good," Adam explained after Brennan hit the floor.

Emma and Jesse walked over to him, "What did you do to him?"  Emma asked shocked at Adam's action.

"He'll be fine, I just sedated him.  I just don't want him going out getting himself into trouble or worse," Adam explained.

"I can understand that," Emma replied, "but now what are we going to do about Shalimar?"  Jesse cleared his throat loudly.  "Oh and Jesse," Emma added with a smile as Jesse nodded happily.

            Adam just sighed uncertain that he should say what he was about to tell them, "I think I know someone who can help us, but I'm not sure I want to call her up," he stated as Jesse and Emma looked at him confused.

            "Take Brennan and put him to bed. I'm making a phone call."

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            Ayalia was sunning herself on the beach when her cell phone rang. "Hello? Adam!" she cried sitting up straight in disbelief.

            Back at Sanctuary Adam chuckled. Good ol' Ayalia, he thought to himself. "Ayalia listen. I need a favor. Shalimar and Jesse were infected with something. I need your healing touch to help them. Can you get here possibly within three hours?"

            Ayalia chewed on her bottom lip. She loved her mutant ability to heal but she hated it too. It took so much from her.

            "Ayalia?" Adam asked, patiently waiting for her answer.

            "Yeah I'll be there in a second. I'll get my brother to teleport me. Where are you in Sanctuary?"

            "In the lab," Adam replied.

            "Okay I'm coming. Ayalia out." Ayalia hung up the phone.

            "Off again little sis?" a tall man asked from his towel on the beach.

            "Yes Brad I'm off to save the world. Actually I've got to go help Shalimar and Jesse. Could you teleport me please?" she asked.

            Brad sat up and stretched. "For you anything dear. However, you might want to get dressed first," he said dryly.

            Ayalia blushed but hurriedly threw on her shirt and shorts. "Ready," she pronounced.

            Brad focused on his younger sister and taking the destination from her mind, teleported her to Sanctuary.

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            Jesse and Emma had managed to get Brennan to his room and into bed, they came back to hear the end of Adam's conversation.  After hanging up the phone, Adam turned around to find two pair of eyes looking at him.

            "Are you sure that was a wise thing to do?"  Emma asked him.

            "I had to do it.  I couldn't live with myself if Shalimar died, and I knew that there was at least one person out there that could have saved her," Adam explained.

            Emma was going to reply to his comment when a figure materialized in front of the lab door.  She smiled at the trio and started walking over to them.

            "Hello Ayalia, it's been awhile," Adam greeted the young woman.

            "Yes it has been," Ayalia replied, giving Emma and Jesse a nod as her hello.  "It seem you guys have been busy lately," glancing over at Shalimar.

            "Ya," Adam gave a small chuckle.

            "You said something about Shalimar and Jesse being infected?"  Ayalia asked.

            "Yes, Eckhart infected Shalimar with some kind of virus that has made her Feral DNA take over her body, which is now killing her," Adam explained the situation to Ayalia.

            Ayalia looked a little nervous as she took a look at Shalimar, she turned her attention back to the others and noticed Jesse, "So how does Jesse fit into all of this?"

            "Shalimar scratched me, and it infected me," Jesse told her, showing the faint mark on his cheek.

            "I see," Ayalia said.

            "Jesse's not as worse as Shalimar, my guess is that since she is the host of the virus that its affecting her more," Adam explained.  "Shalimar will die unless you heal her, there's just no other way."

            Ayalia sighed, she was not looking forward to this, but Adam had helped her awhile back so she owed it to him.  "Alright lets do this," she announced.

            "Thank you," Adam said with a smile.

            "Don't thank me just yet," Ayalia replied, still worried that her body wouldn't be able to handle both Jesse and Shalimar's virus at the same time.  "Jesse I'll need you to lay down on the lab chair beside Shalimar," she instructed.

            Jesse did what she said and climbed onto the lab chair.  Ayalia gave a quick smile to Adam and walked in between Shalimar and Jesse.  Adam and Emma stood back and watched as Ayalia placed a hand on each of their foreheads.  She took a deep breath, closed her eyes and concentrated on both.  She soon could feel the heat of the virus rushing up into her body from the hand placed on Jesse as she forced the virus to leave his body.  Jesse passed out half way through the healing process.  Ayalia struggled with healing both at the same time; she soon finished with Jesse feeling no presence of the virus in his veins.

            Ayalia opened up her eyes and looked down at Shalimar, she moved around behind Shalimar's head wrapping both of her hands around Shalimar's temples.  She focused all her power on Shalimar.  Her body was now starting to feel the side effects of the virus.  Ayalia could barely stand, her knees were beginning to buckle, but she used her last amount of energy to absorb the virus from Shalimar.  Ayalia's eyes flew open and she gasped for air as she completely healed Shalimar; she collapsed onto the floor unconscious. 

            Adam and Emma immediately ran over to her still body, Adam bent down and picked her up placing her on a table that Emma had cleared.  Ayalia was barely breathing.  Adam and Emma both moved Jesse so Adam could do a scan on Ayalia's body.  A yellow beam from over head scanned Ayalia's body quickly.

            "Is she going to be ok?"  Emma asked.

            Adam smiled, "She'll be just fine.  Her body has already started healing itself, killing off the virus.  She'll be as good as new in a few hours."

            "What about Shal and Jesse, are they ok?"  She asked still worried about her friends.

            "Hold on," Adam lifted Ayalia off of the chair and placed Jesse in the chair, he started the scan.  Once the beam diminished Adam looked at the findings, he gave Emma a huge smile.  "Jesse is going to be fine."

            Emma sighed with relief, "Good.  Now what about Shal?" 

            Adam hesitated for a minute before starting the scan on Shalimar.  Adam waited a minute before looking at the computer to see the results.  He didn't want to admit to Emma that he was worried that Ayalia hadn't healed Shalimar, he wasn't quite sure if her ability was strong enough.  "Oh, thank god, she's fine!"

            "She's ok?"  Emma asked still not sure if she heard him right.

            "She's going to be, she should be up in a few hours," Adam explained, he was so glad that two of his children were going to be fine, and Ayalia, he was now in her debt.

TBC

A/N:  I hope you like this chapter!  One more to go.  I want to thank Kipurrz for writing the introduction to Ayalia and Brad, and for allowing me to use her characters, so I could cure Shalimar and Jesse.  PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I love to read your opinions on my stories.