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 7: One Down
It was the middle of the afternoon and the President had just arrived at the park to give his speech. This was like no other speech; Shalimar and Lydia still did their patrolling, as the rest stood around the President.
"Shalimar Lydia. Keep your eyes open," Deacon ordered.
"Don't worry we will," Shalimar replied.
The President was almost finished with his speech, when he crumbled to the podium floor holding his head. Deacon and Eliza were right by his side.
"What's wrong sir?" Deacon asked.
"My head, someone's in my head," he whispered.
"Come on lets get him out of here," Deacon ordered as they helped The President to his feet. Secret Service agents surrounded him as the walked over to the car. The people watching the President's speech, started running away, all wondering if he was shot or something else.
Shalimar and Lydia almost got run over by the thousands of people running from the seen. Shalimar could hear Lydia yelling her name from the other side of the crowd, but she wasn't paying attention. She was watching a group of people run over to the junkyard. Shalimar noticed Kelly in the middle of the group, and she started running after her.
"Shalimar where are you going?" Deacon asked into her earpiece.
Shalimar couldn't stand it any longer; she took the earpiece out and through it on the ground as she ran into the junkyard.
Lydia, Zeke, and Ben were the closest ones to Shalimar and started running after her.
Shalimar entered the junkyard and noticed a group of six or seven New Mutants. "You know it's not nice not to invite people," Shalimar said smartly as they all whipped around to face her.
Kelly stepped forward as the other's stood and watched. "Shalimar good of you to join us, Ashlocke will be very pleased."
"Go screw yourself," Shalimar replied angrily.
"I'm going to have to contain you if you don't cooperate." Kelly stated.
"Go ahead, make my day," Shalimar said, she wanted a good fight.
Kelly stepped forward and through up her hands, creating a huge fire circle around Shalimar. Kelly laughed as she saw Shalimar eyes widened in fear.
Lydia, Ben, and Zeke ran in after Shalimar, they stopped dead in their tracks when they saw Shalimar in the middle of a circle of fire. "Zeke make it rain," Lydia demanded.
"All right but it's going to take a few minutes," he replied.
"Well we don't have a few minutes," Lydia said before seeing Kelly and the rest of The Strand come out around the fire towards them. "Oh, shit!"
The fight started immediately, the three were out numbered. Lydia felt someone push her out of the way, trying to move through the huge fight. She glanced over to see a man run towards the fire and jump through, Lydia wasn't sure to be happy or nervous that he jumped in. She notice two more people join the fight, she watched them attack The Stand with amazing force.
Brennan had seen Shalimar frozen in the middle of a circle of fire; he jumped through the burning flames, pushing past mutants on his way.
"SHAL!" Brennan yelled to her, trying to get her attention. She wouldn't budge; he grabbed a hold of her waist and started moving her. It felt good to touch her again; he had missed her so much, even if he hated her. Brennan pulled her out of the fire and started shaking her trying to snap her out of her trance.
Deacon and Eliza ran as hard as they could to the junkyard were they saw their teammates fighting other New Mutants. Eliza immediately jumped into the pool of people, but Deacon hung back looking for Shalimar who he did not see. Then he spotted her; a man had his hands up at her neck, choking her. Deacon was furious, he ran right over to them.
"Shal snap out of it!" Brennan demanded as he shook her.
Brennan was going to continue to talk to her when he was bolded over and knocked to the ground. He struggled to get up, but someone's fist met him across the face, "You're not going to hurt her," the man said angrily.
"I wasn't going to hurt her MAN!" Brennan yelled as the man hit him again.
Brennan was pissed off; he found the strength to get to his feet quickly and faced the man. He gathered a huge amount of energy, he through it at the man. The guy moved quickly. All Brennan saw was a blur, as the man came up in front of him. The man moved too quickly Brennan couldn't block any of his punches or kicks. Brennan soon had a bloody nose, the man quickly kicked him across the face send him to the ground. Brennan lied on his back, his whole body ached he felt like he had some broken bone and many bruises.
Deacon walked over to the man he had beaten to the ground. He smiled and stood over him. "This will teach you," Deacon said as he straddled over him, and started punching him in the face and chest. Brennan could barely feel the pain anymore, he finally couldn't keep consciousness, and everything went black.
Shalimar was still frozen scared by the fire, as her friends scared off some of the New Mutant's. She could hear moaning behind her and finally was brave enough to turn around. Shalimar found Deacon beating someone senseless, she looked down at the person, and she could barely recognize the man from all the blood that flowed from his face and chest. Her eyes widened with fear, she ran over and lunged at Deacon tackling him like a football player.
Lydia, Ben, Zeke, and Eliza finished off a couple of New Mutant's when they noticed Shalimar take out Deacon.
Shalimar and Deacon stood up, Shalimar eyes flashed yellow, "You lil' son of a bitch."
"Shal he was trying to kill you," Deacon explained wondering what had gotten into her.
Shalimar couldn't stand it anymore; she attacked him with all her might. She threw a couple of punches into his stomach; Deacon groaned as he gripped his stomach, he didn't fight back. Shalimar couldn't resist, she gabbed his head and brought it down onto her knee, causing him to hit the ground in pain. Shalimar looked at him tempted to hit him once more but she turned around and ran over to Brennan.
The rest of the team managed to make it over to Shalimar, they just stood back wondering what had happened. Shalimar bent down besides Brennan's still form, tears rolled down her eyes as she whipped away the blood on he face with her hand. "Brennan I'm sorry," She whispered.
Lydia heart sank when she heard Shalimar say his name, the rest of them looked around in confusion. "Who is he?" Zeke asked.
Shalimar held her breath as she slid her hand down to check for a pulse, Shalimar sighed. "Thank god!" She had found a weak pulse, when Emma and Jesse came running over.
"Who is he?" Zeke asked frustrated that no one would answer him.
"God Brennan," Emma said nervously as she and Jesse pushed by the crowd.
Shalimar looked up at them with tear's streaming down her face. "I'm sorry," she told them.
"It's ok Shal, he'll be ok." Emma said giving her a hug.
Jesse looked down at Brennan, he didn't look to good, and blood was everywhere, on his chest and face, it was hard to look at him with out causing his stomach to feel wheezy. "I'll go get the Helix," Jesse said before taking off into the middle of the junkyard.
"I should have stopped this mess," Shalimar admitted, still sobbing.
"Shal it wasn't your fault," Emma said trying to calm her down.
"If I wasn't so scared of the fire I would have seen Deacon beating him up," Shalimar told her.
"Shal, he'll understand," Emma explained.
She glanced up at Emma and noticed Deacon had finally gotten up and was standing behind her, watching them. "Why you bastard," She was going to go after him again when Emma tried to grab onto her. Shalimar burst right passed her, she was just about to reach him, but Lydia was right there. She grabbed onto Shalimar waist and held her back.
"Shal calm down, he'll be fine," Lydia said reassuring, Shalimar looked Lydia right in the eye, she sighed and backed off.
Jesse finally came with the Helix, "Alright lets get him to the lab." He said over his comring.
"I'm coming too," Shalimar announced as she gentle brushed Brennan's face with her fingers, before he disappeared from his spot.
"Shal you can't go!" Deacon said angrily. "That's an order!"
"Order my ass," Shalimar said smartly.
"We have to finish the mission," Deacon explained.
"Screw the mission, you guys can handle it without me," Shalimar told him.
Deacon was about to protest again, but Lydia butted in. "Deacon shut up and let her go, my god." She huffed and walked up to Shalimar. "I'm going to miss you."
Shalimar smiled and pulled the feral into a hug, "I'll keep in touch."
Lydia smiled, "That's if you can find me."
Shalimar laughed and looked over at the rest of the team, "It's been a blast guys, hope to see you again."
"We'll miss you Shal," Ben said as he put his arm around Lydia when she walked back over to them.
Shalimar nodded in reply and turned to Emma, "Let's go home."
Emma smiled then the two boarded the Helix, Shalimar immediately went to Brennan side. "I'm so sorry, Brennan." She whispered.
"It's good to have Shal back," Jesse admitted as he started head by to Sanctuary.
Emma sighed, "Ya but I wish it wasn't under these conditions."
Jesse nodded, "Adam we're on our way back, and Brennan's hurt real bad."
Adam face showed up on the screen in front of him. "What happened?"
"It's a long story, that I don't know exactly," Jesse explained. "But we brought back someone who does."
"Who?" Adam asked.
"Shalimar," Jesse said bluntly.
"Shalimar's with you?" Adam wasn't sure if he had heard Jesse right.
"Ya she's here looking after Brennan," Jesse replied.
"How badly hurt is he?"
"It's not good Adam, you should see him, he looks like he got run over three or four times," Jesse explained.
"Alright I'll have the lab ready," Adam told him then the screen went black.
Emma went back to see how Brennan was doing, Shalimar looked up when she heard her walk up, Emma noticed that her eyes were now red and puffy from the extensive amount of crying she had done. "Emma is he in pain?" She asked almost choking on the words.
Emma sighed and concentrated on Brennan.
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Emma found Brennan sitting by himself he was surrounded by fog. "Brennan." She said softly as she sat down beside him.
Brennan huffed, "Can you see them?" He asked her out of the blue.
"See who?" Emma was confused she couldn't see anything.
Brennan pointed in front of them, Emma then could see to figures in front of them kissing. She couldn't quite see who it was because they kept fading away.
"Emma make them stop, please make them stop. I can't handle it anymore, I just want to die," Brennan begged her. "Please kill me now, get rid of my misery."
"Brennan who is it?" Emma asked.
Brennan closed his eyes and rocked back and forth. "Make it stop," he repeated over and over again.
Emma stood up and walked closer to the figures, Emma rolled her eyes seeing it was Shalimar and that guy Deacon. She knew Brennan couldn't handle it anymore, or he would eventually died of a broken heart. Making her way back over to him, Brennan looked up at her.
"I don't care if I ever see her again," Brennan confessed.
"You don't mean that," Emma said.
"Yes I do!" Brennan said angrily. "I HATE HER!" He started screaming over and over again.
Emma gripped her head as his words echoed around her, she couldn't stand it anymore she broke their connection.
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Shalimar watched as Emma came back from Brennan's mind, "So?"
"He's not in pain anymore," She lied to her best friend.
"Good," Shalimar said with smile as she returned to Brennan's side.
Emma sighed and went back to talk with Jesse. Jesse was at the controls just waiting to reach Sanctuary. "We have a problem," Emma announced.
"What?" Jesse said turning around to face her.
"Brennan. I went in to his mind to see if he was in any pain," Emma began then paused.
"And?" Jesse asked.
"Well I'm not quite sure if Shalimar being here is going to make things any better," Emma explained.
"Why?"
"Brennan is replaying the scene of Shalimar kissing that other guy, he's so angry. He kept saying he hates her, and never wants to she her again. I couldn't stand the yelling anymore I had to leave," Emma told him.
"Ah, man. Well what if Shalimar explains to him why she did it?" Jesse offered.
"I'm not quite sure if he'll even get close to her, to let her explain," Emma huffed and slummed in her chair.
"We'll figure this thing out when we get Brennan fixed up," Jesse said as they reach Sanctuary.
"I hope you're right," Emma knew Adam could only fix up Brennan's physical wounds, but it's was going to be Brennan's choice to mend his emotional wounds, before it's too late.
TBC
A/N: So what do you guys think, should I continue the story or just leave it there? If you guys don't want me to continue then I won't!!! BUT if you do tell me in a REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't even started writing Ch. 8 yet!!
