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!
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Chapter 5: First Attempt
It was starting to get dark as the President arrived at the podium, in front of the amazingly large crowd. Deacon, Eliza, and Ben stood off to the side of the President as he started his speech. Shalimar and Lydia each patrolled the crowd looking for something out of the ordinary.
"Shal you see anything," Deacon voice came over her earpiece.
"No nothing. Lyd you see anything?" Shalimar asked.
"No not a damn thing," Lydia voice replied.
The two girls passed each other on their patrol; they just nodded and kept going. The President was half way through his speech and neither Shalimar nor Lydia saw anything. Shalimar finally stopped; she was sick and tired of walking back and forth around the crowd. Shalimar knew something was wrong, Lydia had sensed it to when they checked out the park earlier that day, but nothing was out of the ordinary.
She huffed and leaned up against a tree and started looking out at the crowd who were listening to the President behind her. She glanced up at the rooftops of the buildings behind the crowd, and something caught her attention. Shalimar couldn't really tell what it was, she was to low. Turning around quickly, she jumped up into the tree. All she could see was a figure kneeling down, it looked like he was holding something but it was too faraway.
Shalimar looked around noticing Lydia on the opposite side of the crowd. "Lyd, look up at the rooftop right in front of you. Do you see something?" Shalimar asked.
She watched Lydia look up, "Ya I see it."
"Do you girls see something?" Deacon asked.
"Ya, we'll go check it out," Shalimar suggested, then jumped out of the tree and head over to the building.
"Okay be carefully," Deacon told them.
"We always are," Shalimar said sarcastically.
Lydia was right there waiting for her in front of the building, "Easy route?"
"Wouldn't have it any other way," Shalimar answered with a sly grin.
The two girls entered the alleyway be side the building; they walked over to the side fire escape. With one leap both jumped half way up the stairs, then ran up the rest. Shalimar looked around quickly, but Lydia tapped her on the shoulder. She pointed over to a figure hunch over by the edge of the building. Lydia motioned for them to split up and surround the man, Shalimar nodded. Lydia then moved silently to the other side of the building.
Shalimar crept up on the man silently; she was finally close enough to see what he was hunched over; her eyes widened seeing the snipe rifle. Her minded raced through the opinions she had. Lydia met her right behind the man a few seconds later.
They both reached over and tapped the man on each shoulder. He slowly sat up on his knees and turned his head around to see what had tapped him. Two fists suddenly made contact with his face, making him grabbed his nose that was broken and blood gushed all over his hands.
Lydia reached over him grabbing the rifle, as Shalimar roughly grabbed him by the collar making him stand up. Lydia through on the safety on the gun and took out the bullets dropping them on the floor.
"Who the hell are you?" the man asked angry that the girls broke his nose.
"None of you business. If you want to know the truth we should be asking you who the hell you are?" Shalimar said smartly.
"I will not tell you!"
"Wrong answer!" Lydia announced right before punching him in the stomach.
The man grabbed his stomach moaning, but Shalimar kept her grip. "Now we didn't want to do that, but if you don't tell us who you are or working for, then I'll have to let my friend here hit you again, and it could be a lot lower. If you catch my drift!" Shalimar explained.
The man looked up and sighed as he saw Lydia prepare to kick, "THE STRAND!"
"Good now were getting some where," Lydia huffed.
The man glanced up and smiled, something wasn't right he was too cooperative. Lydia saw the knife just as he swiped it at Shalimar still holding him. "SHAL!"
Shalimar lunged backwards, but not quick enough, the blade slashed across her arm causing her to loss her grip on the man. Seeing Shalimar crumble to the floor, blood gushing everywhere, Lydia didn't see the man run right passed her. She finally snapped out of it and heard the man running over to the fire escape.
Lydia whipped out her gun from underneath her jacket and pointed it at him, "DON'T MOVE A MUSCLE!" She yelled at him, causing him to stop in mid motion. "Know turn around slowly." Lydia ordered cocking her gun as she walked closer to him.
The man started to turn around, Lydia saw the flash of his handgun, as he grabbed in with one swift motion as he turned around. He brought it out to shoot her. Lydia felt like everything was in slow motion; she pulled the trigger, the bullet looked like it took forever to reach the man; she pulled it again, both bullets hit him square in the chest. He collapsed on the floor blood spilling out of his body on to the rooftop. Lydia walked up cautiously, still holding her smoking gun in front of her.
The man struggled to breath the bullets were lodged into his lungs causing them to fill with his own blood. Lydia could see blood flowing it's way out from his wounds, and mouth. She stood for a minute, watching the man die right before her eyes; she finally lowered her gun seeing his chest not rise again.
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Deacon swore he heard two faint gunshots being fired; some of the people glanced around, but most probably thought it was a car back firing. Deacon knew better, "Shal Lydia. Is everything ok?" he asked.
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Lydia jumped when she heard Deacon's voice in her earpiece. "I had to shoot him," Lydia admitted to Deacon and herself. She heard Shalimar moan and quickly went to her side. "Shal is hurt, but I'm ok."
"How badly hurt is she?" Deacon asked with worry.
"Shal," Lydia said as she bent down.
"I'm fine Lyd just a scratch," Shalimar winced.
Lydia could see the deep gash on Shalimar's right arm, "Keep pressure on it."
"LYDIA, how badly hurt is Shalimar?!" Deacon asked very worried.
"She has a gash on her right arm that's bleeding pretty bad," Lydia explained.
"I'm sending Ben over to help you with her," Deacon said.
"Alright," Lydia started helping Shalimar up, but Shal stumbled forward, "WHOA, Shal take it easy."
"I'm fine just a little dizzy," Shalimar told her.
"You've lost quite a bit of blood, but you need to keep pressure on the wound," Lydia explain, getting a nodded from Shalimar as she helped her over to the fire escape. She eased Shalimar down the stairs, until they reached the very end. Lydia glanced at Shalimar, "Can you jump?"
"Ya, it's not like my legs are broken," Shalimar replied sarcastically.
"All right, on three," Lydia said with a sigh. "One…two…" Lydia didn't even say three before Shalimar jumped down with out her.
Shalimar smiled and glanced up at Lydia, "You coming?"
"Ya, ya hold your horses," Lydia answered rolling her eyes and jumping down from the railing.
Ben finally ran in to the ally way, and over to the girls. "Are you…guys…ok?" He asked out of breath.
"We need to fix Shalimar's arm," Lydia told him.
"Should we take her to the hospital?" Ben wondered, seeing the blood dripping from Shalimar's elbow as she squeezed her forearm against the other hand trying to create the best amount of pressure.
"NO! No hospital," Shalimar snapped nervously. "They take too many tests, and ask too many damn questions."
"Are you sure Shal?" Lydia asked.
"Ya I can fix it, I just need a few things," Shalimar explained.
"Alright come to the car, I'll take you back to the hotel." Ben said as he and Lydia walked with Shalimar to a SUV part out front.
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Lydia helped Shalimar into their hotel room, and over to the couch. "I need some stuff to fix my arm," Shalimar told her.
"What do you need?" Lydia helped Shalimar talk off her jacket to get a better look at the cut. She thought see was going to puke, the slice was deep she could see the muscle tissue and some of the bone. The cut was four inches long, and was still bleeding immensely.
"Ah…I need some rubbing alcohol, antibacterial cream, gauze, and some medical supplies." Shalimar listed off.
"What kind of medical supplies?" Lydia asked as she wrote stuff down.
"I need things to do stitches," Shalimar said.
Lydia finished writing the list then stood up to go, "I'll be right back with these."
Shalimar nodded and watched Lydia leave, "OH MY GOD!" She said in pain, finally able to show her weakness, "HOLY SHIT," Shalimar glanced down for the first time to see the wound, she hadn't though it was that bad. She took in a deep breath and got up to go wash some of the blood off.
The bleeding had finally subsided and Lydia returned only fifteen minutes after she left. She came in with a metal case, and walked right over and placed it in front of Shalimar on the coffee table. Lydia opened it for her; Shalimar saw everything she listed and more.
"Thanks," Shalimar said with a smile, as she grabbed the rubbing alcohol and gauze and started cleaning the cut. She winced as the alcohol burned her skin. Lydia sat down in a chair and watched Shalimar with interest as she fixed her own injury. Shalimar started stitching, then glanced over at Lydia who was watching her, "What?" She asked her knowing she had a question on her mind.
"Where did you learn how to do that?" Lydia asked.
"Adam taught me," Shalimar answered and continued her stitching.
Lydia remember from there late night conversation's who Adam was, she watched Shalimar finish up mending the injury. "Lydia could you gab the medical tape in there?" Shalimar asked grabbing a large piece of gauze. Lydia jumped up and grabbed the tape and handed it to Shalimar and ripped pieces off for her. Shalimar then wrapped her upper arm with an ace bandage. "There!" She said with sigh and a smile.
Lydia was going to say something but Deacon, Eliza, Ben, and Zeke burst into the room. Deacon went right up to Shalimar, "Are you ok?" As he placed is hand on her arm.
She smiled and nodded yes, "It's only a little scratch."
Shalimar and Deacon had flirted a little bit, but nothing serious, Shalimar just couldn't do it. She wasn't sure if it was because of her emotions for Brennan, or worried that she didn't have any emotions for Brennan anymore and she didn't want to admit it to herself.
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SANCTUARYBrennan moped around the Sanctuary like he has done for the past six months. Emma and Jesse had given up on cheering him up. He walked down to the Lab for a meeting. Adam had kept them busy on tracking The Strand ever sense Shalimar left. He knew that's way Kenna wanted Shalimar.
Emma and Jesse were already there as Brennan came through the door, "Anything new?" He asked hoping that they might find Shalimar.
"Matter of fact that's way I wanted a meeting," Adam said seeing Brennan's attitude change dramatically.
"What is it?"
"Ashlocke is sending mostly all of his people to Los Angeles, so I believe something big is going to happen in a couple of months," Adam explained. "So we're going to keep a closer eye on him then we'll make our move."
"Good! I want to find Shalimar." Brennan said with a sad tone.
Adam sighed, "We all do Brennan, we all do."
TBC
A/N: I hope to have the next chapter up soon, but that probably won't happen because of my crazy work schedule!!! BUT IT COULD HAPPEN if I get a lot of REVIEWS!! You people don't REVIEW WORTH CRAP!!! But those of you that do YOUR AWESOME, YOU MAKE ME KEEP WRITING!!!!!!!
