GONE FOREVER

Rating: PG 13 for violence, language, and some sexual stuff (nothing major).  This story may turn R later, but for right now it's PG 13.

Genre: Action/ romance

Pairings: Shalimar/Brennan, and Shalimar/original character

(Summary, Author's Notes, and Disclaimer on Chapter 1)

Distribution: I don't mind if anyone wants to put any of my stories on their site, just email me first and tell me you would like to put it on your site! Thanks!

Notes: Italics with [ ] 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!

Chapter 3:  New Home

            Shalimar was taken across the city into the outskirts, to an abandoned rundown warehouse.  Kenna pulled up and parked behind a mound of scrap metal.  The two got out of the vehicle and headed over to the half broken door.  He flipped up a piece of the wall right beside the door; a red beam came out quickly scanning his eyes.

            "Retinal scan recognized," a computerized voice said.  "Welcome Agent Kenna."  The door unlocked and slid open.

            Kenna led Shalimar inside of the building; they went through a short corridor to another door.  Stopping in front of the second door another voice rang out, "Voice identification need."

            "Agent Doug Kenna," he said clearly.

            "Voice recognized," the voice said once again, and the door opened.

            Shalimar was amazed at what she saw.  It was a huge loft like apartment, a big living room, with a huge screen TV and couch's and chairs, was the first thing she saw.  Off to the right was the open kitchen that was connected to the living room.  Then to the right was a spiral iron stairway going to the upstairs.  Shalimar looked up seeing an open hallway that went round the upstairs, with only a railing on one side and many bedroom doors on the other.

            "Whoa!"  Shalimar commented not meaning to say it out loud.

            Kenna just smiled at Shalimar comment, and started walking in.  Kenna moved to another hallway off to the left, they moved by huge glass windows looking into a personal gym.  Shalimar counted at least four people inside.  Each one looked up seeing them enter the gym.  Shalimar noticed Lydia the other feral come up first.

            "Hey Kenna, what's going on?" She asked referring to Shalimar.

            The others soon came up beside Lydia, waiting for him to explain why he brought an outsider to their home.  "Everyone this is Shalimar, the new team member I was telling you about," he answered.

            "Oh, nice to meet you," Lydia said with a smile holding out her hand for Shalimar to shake.  Shalimar took her hand eagerly, Lydia looked at her for a minute.  "You're a Feral?"

            "Yup," Shalimar replied seeing Lydia get a bit more excited.  She looked at the other team member's noticing they were all in their early 20's.

            Kenna turned to Lydia, "Where's Deacon?"

            "I think his in the training room," she guessed.

            "Alright.  Can you show Shalimar to her room for me while I go talk to Deacon," he requested.

            "Sure no problem," Lydia said as she and Eliza went to show Shalimar her room upstairs. 

            Lydia and Eliza took Shalimar to one of the rooms in the middle of the horseshoe like hallway.  Lydia opened up the door and turned on the light to show Shalimar.  Lydia moved into the room and over to the back wall to open up the blinds to two window's, to let more light in.  Shalimar couldn't believe what she saw the room it was huge, but cozy.  A big queen size big up against one of the walls, a desk with big oval mirror on the back, was directly across from the bed.  In the corner by the desk was big soft looking leather recliner, with a reading lamp beside it. 

            "There's a library down stairs past the gym, if you like to read," Eliza told Shalimar, she just grinned.

Lydia walked over beside the bed to a sliding door, she opened it up to relieve a large walk in closet, that was full with many different types of clothes and shoes, to last over a year.  Also inside was a whole panel of mirrors, where you could look at your self at each angle.  Hung up on hangers were a large amount of black, brown, and tan leather jackets; some long like the ones she normal wore and then some that were short about to her waist.  Shalimar felt like a little kid in a candy story, she could believe what she was seeing.  Lydia saw the look on Shalimar's face, "I knew you would like that." 

            Shalimar nodded yes, "Very much," Shalimar glanced around the room again and noticed another door off to the other side of the desk.  "What's that door?"  She asked.

            "Oh, that's the best thing," Lydia said excitedly jogging over to the door.  "This would be your bathroom."

            The bathroom matched the room, huge.  A large shower and bathtub combo was to the far left.  In a far corner was the toilet and in the middle of the floor was European carpet.  On the right when you first walk in was a big sink and counter top, with many drawers.  A mirror paned the back of the wall behind the sink area, any many different sized towels were hung or folded near the sink and shower.

            "This is amazing," Shalimar announced.

            "Hell ya," Lydia replied with a small chuckle.  "Oh we forgot to show you something," Lydia said walking out of the bathroom and over to the door.  "Everything in the room is voice activated, you don't even really have to use the switches.  So I'll show you a few things." Shalimar nodded and waited for Lydia to start.  "Over head fan on," the fan over the middle of the room turned on slowly, "Faster speed," the fan sped up on command.  "Remove blinds from skylight," the computer followed out the order and a skylight appeared.   "Open skylight," Shalimar watched as the skylight opened letting in fresh air from outside.  "Window's open," the windows on the back wall opened as well. 

            "I'm impressed," Shalimar told the girls.

            "That's not all," Lydia said with a sly smile.  "You can return everything back to the way they were when you leave, all you have to say is 'away stasis'," as soon as Lydia said the command everything shut off and closed, even the lights.  "The door even locks when you leave the room.  Also to get into your room you have password or code, it can be either voice or keypad activated, both appear outside when the door is locked."  Lydia smiled, "I think that's everything for the upstairs, we'll show you the downstairs later.  Any questions?"

            "Ya, where are your rooms?"  Shalimar wondered.

            "Well Eliza's room is right after yours, and I… well mine is the second room from the stairs, it's also Ben's room," Lydia confessed with a blush, Shalimar couldn't help be smile.  "Zeke's room is in between mine and yours, then Deacon has the first room from the stairs," Lydia continued.

            "And very bedroom is like this?" Shalimar asked.

            "Ya just about, just things are moved around and more decorated then yours," Lydia explained.  "Okay, lets go down stairs and you can met Deacon," Lydia suggested, and getting two nods yes she led them out of Shalimar's room and down to the living room, where Ben and Zeke were watching TV.

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            While the girls were up stairs, Kenna had gone to see Deacon in the training room, in the hallway behind the kitchen. 

            Deacon looked up from his exercises at Kenna who was standing in the doorway.  "Hi Kenna," he greeted not breaking away from workout.

            "She's here," Kenna said without answering his greeting.

            Deacon stopped what he was doing and turned towards Kenna, "She agreed to help?"  He asked walking over to him.

            "Ya," he replied.

            "Does she know what she's getting herself into?" Deacon questioned.

            "Not exactly, but that will come with time," Kenna answered.

            "Time is something we don't exactly have right now," he stated.

            "I know but she will learn quickly and she's going to contribute a lot to this team," Kenna explained.

            "I hope your right," Deacon wondered as he and Kenna walked back out to the living room.

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            Shalimar as the rest of the group looked up when they heard Kenna and Deacon enter the room.  Shalimar finally got a better look at the team leader.  She couldn't believe it he was hot!  He was a little taller then her, but not as tall as Brennan.  He had a sweet smile and gorgeous eyes.  Shalimar smiled when he walked up to her, as did he. 

Deacon put out his hand, "Nice to met you Shalimar."

"Like wise," Shalimar replied.

"Well I guess I better go, before someone starts asking question on where I went," Kenna announced once Shalimar and Deacon were done shaking hands.  Everyone nodded in reply before he turned around and headed for the door, he looked back before exiting.  "And Shalimar don't get yourself into trouble, that's Adam's orders," Shalimar flashed her eyes a bright yellow color, Kenna just laughed and left.

Everyone turned and looked at Shalimar.  Shalimar felt kind of awkward with everyone starring at her.  "So you're a Feral," Lydia said trying to break the silence, even though she already had asked the question.

"Wouldn't have it any other way," she replied. 

"Did Kenna show you our profiles, or do we have to go around and explain what we are?"  Zeke asked as he and Ben joined the rest of the group.

"Ya he showed me everything, but I'm still not sure what you guys do," she answered.

"Don't worry none of us really know either," Ben said trying to be funny.

Shalimar just smiled at him, he was pretty hot and seemed like he had a very good honest personality.  She could see why Lydia had gone for him.  Lydia was going to be a close friend, Shalimar could tell, not just because she was another feral but she was energetic and seem like she wasn't the type to take shit from anybody.  Eliza seemed more down to earth, like Emma which would be nice, so she could keep Shalimar inline like Emma had to do so many times.  Shalimar couldn't really tell if she was going to get along with Zeke or Deacon.  Zeke looked like he wasn't impressed that she was there, but on the other hand he could warm up.  This was the first time Shalimar had met Deacon, but he seemed shy and kept to himself.  But this was only the first day, she knew that everything would be different after a couple of day, and by then maybe she would know exactly what they were going to do.

"Lydia, Eliza why don't you show Shalimar the rest of the downstairs," Deacon suggested, snapping Shalimar out of her little trance.

"Sure," they replied.  The two led Shalimar over to the hallway behind the kitchen to show her the training room and lab/computer consol.

Zeke and Ben stepped closer to Deacon watching the girls enter the training room, "She's hot," Zeke, stated out loud, both Ben and Deacon looked at him in shock.  "Did I say that out loud?" Zeke asked seeing their looks.

"Yup," Ben answered.

"It's true though," Deacon agreed with a sly grin.

"Oh our fearless leader does notice the opposite sex," Ben joked then broke out in laughter, along with Zeke and Deacon.

As soon as the laughter died down Zeke jumped at the chance, "So are you going to make a pass at her?"

"I don't know, not until I get to know her first," Deacon answered, getting rolled eyes from the other two.  "What?"

"Oh nothing," Ben replied and went back over to the couch to watch TV.

"Was it something I said?" Deacon asked Zeke.

"Never mind," he said before joining Ben back over at the couch.

Deacon shrugged and walked over to join his friends.

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            Brennan could barely sleep that night; he tossed and turned never getting comfortable.  Glancing over at the clock, he found that is was three o'clock and he had gotten any sleep.  He could only think about Shalimar and how he didn't know where she went or when she was coming back for that matter.  It was bugging the hell out of him; he finally got up and headed down to the lab.  The door lid open and he found Adam sitting at one of the computers working.

Adam looked up and smiled as Brennan came over and took a seat beside him.  "Couldn't sleep?"

"No all I could think about was Shal," Brennan replied rubbing the back of his neck.

Adam sighed, "She'll be back in no time."

"I know, but I'm just afraid that she might get hurt or even…well you know," Brennan explained hanging his head.

Adam reached over and placed a hand on Brennan's shoulder, "I'm sure she'll be fine, she can take care of herself."

"I know that, I'm just scared that she'll be gone for a long time and that she'll stop feeling things that she might have had before she left," Brennan sort of hinted.

Adam could tell where he was going, "Brennan," his tone made Brennan look up at him.  "I'm curtain Shalimar will not stop loving you even if she's gone for a long time."

"I hope your right," Brennan said standing up.

"I am," Adam replied with a smile.

Brennan smiled in returned before heading back to see if he could get at least a few hours of sleep after getting that of is chest.  He turned around one last time before leaving.  "Adam," Adam looked up from his computer, "Sorry if I hurt your arm earlier, I just over reacted," he apologized.

"It's all right Brennan, I understand, you were just worried about someone that you care about deeply," Adam explained, Brennan nodded yes in reply.  "Night Brennan."

"Night," Brennan said then walked off to his room.

TBC

A/N:  Sorry about the huge amount of detail, I promise the next few chapters will have more action and some surprises.  Some of the next couple of chapters might turn R because of Graphic Violence, but I'll tell you at the beginning of the chapter if it's going to be R.  THANKS SO MUCH, to the people who review I LOVE READING THEM!!! SO keep reviewing and tell me what I could change or what you like, I WANT YOUR OPINIONS!!!!