A/N Rockergurl; YEA! I got reviews!
Do you guys seriously think that if I owned MX I would be sitting here writing THIS for fun? Good, I didn't think so. Hey, thanks to my fellow Brennan/Shal lovers, innocent choir girl, Sarge, and Quest!
Chapter 2
Brennan's eyes slid open and rested on Shalimar. He gently leaned over and brushed a tendril of hair away from her beautiful face. His finger drifted down to her lips and gently brushed against him. God, she was incredible. A real wildcat in the sack, but oh, so much more. He vaguely remembered last night, a melding of flesh against flesh, Shalimar's incredible kisses, for once it was more than just sex. It was making love. He could lie there forever, just sitting there and watching her sleep, open and relaxed but he knew that they had to go. It was early and they had been up late, seeing as Shalimar had incredible stamina, but he had called into Adam that they were going clubbing and would not be back until the wee hours of the morning, and he didn't want to push his luck.
Sighing, he rolled out of bed and started to get dressed. He was belting his pants when Shalimar woke up and rolled over. "Morning." She muttered blearily, eyes still closed. Brennan just grinned. He knew that Shal couldn't function in the mornings until she had her coffee. She mostly just walked around with her eyes closed and groped around in her dresser and threw on the first thing she found until she could function enough to get properly dressed. He thought that she was cute like that, wandering around sleepily, hair mussed and with that certain glow that she always had, whether it was five in the morning or noon.
He came up behind her, wrapping his arms around her and kissing her neck, rocking slightly back and forth. It was so comfortable like this, even if their first time had been in a dingy hotel. It didn't matter. It was Shalimar, and he would make sure that the next time would be better, nicer, like they were the two people in love that they were, not hormone crazed teenagers. He grinned, thinking about there being a 'next time' with Shalimar. If he had his say there would be a whole lot of 'next times'.
Kissing her neck again, he whispered, "We should go. Wouldn't want Adam to be worried, now would we?"
"What are we going to tell them?" Shalimar wondered aloud, stifling a yawn.
"Do you want to tell them?" Brennan questioned. He didn't really care whether or not they knew that he was in love with his teammate, though he realized suddenly that he had yet to tell her that. He wasn't sure of their reaction, though Jesse would probably have a field day teasing him about it, of that he was sure. He was already on his back about his 'poetry thing' as Jesse liked to put it. But at this point, he wasn't sure if they should tell them. They would eventually, but now, it just felt nice to have Shalimar all to himself, no distractions or worries.
Grinning a slightly evil (though sleepy, so it kind of spoiled the effect) grin, Shalimar slipped her friend-turned-lover a sly glance. "Well, you know, it would be a whole lot easier to slip off together if they didn't know just yet." She trailed a slow finger seductively up his bare chest.
Drawing in a breath, Brennan forced himself to stay calm. He didn't really feel like going and taking a cold shower this morning. But it would seem that Shalimar was once again turning him into a happy little puddle of Brennan-mush. "And just what did you have in mind for us once we had managed to 'sneak off' Miss Fox?"
"Hmm? Oh, I'm sure that you can think of SOMETHING Brennan. You were really quite creative last night, you know. That thing you did with your tongue? Pure genius." Shalimar was distracted as she spoke, seeing as how she was busy torturing Brennan, trailing kisses along his collarbone and neck, giving him a taste but not actually GOING anywhere. Brennan was going insane, no woman had ever done this to him, he was always in control in the relationship.
Shalimar was now by his lips, as close as possible without them actually touching. Brennan had just about had it and was about to swoop in and capture her lips in a kiss, when she suddenly yawned in his face, completely spoiling the mood. Shalimar looked undisturbed. "I'm going to get some coffee, k?" she said in a much more chipper voice than she ever usually had in the mornings.
Brennan just nodded dumbly, and Shalimar practically skipped out of the room, making Brennan wonder if she was actually a sadist and LIKED causing him this pain. Falling back onto the bed he let out a breath of air he hadn't even realized he'd been holding. "God damn it, that woman's going to be the death of me." he muttered.
On the way back to Sanctuary, with a much more awake Shalimar and a slightly grumpy Brennan, the two said little, but Shalimar leaned against Brennan slightly and it was a comfortable silence that few people ever manage to master.
When they went inside, only Emma, early riser that she was, and Adam, who the pair suspected had never gone to sleep the night before, were up to greet them, Jesse still snoring away into his pillow. "How was your night?" Adam asked, not looking up from whatever it was that he was doing.
"Fine." They both answered.
"So Brennan, break any hearts?" she asked, teasing him.
Shalimar froze, but Brennan didn't even blink. "No, no broken hearts, though I did get on with this amazing blonde. She's smart, and funny, beautiful doesn't even begin to describe her. She is the most amazing and wonderful person I have ever met, and to top it all off, I'm pretty sure that she's the one." He gazed at Shalimar the entire time he was saying it, smiling softly.
"The one?" Emma asked.
"THE one Emma. Like soul mate material. Like marriage material. Like, she's the kind of woman that I can see myself spending the rest of my life with." his gaze still did not stray from Shalimar, who swallowed hard and gazed back.
"I wasn't planning to hear THOSE words, in THAT order coming from YOUR mouth anytime soon. When did all this happen?" asked Adam, raising an eyebrow, totally oblivious to the whole Brennan-and-Shalimar-staring-gooey- eyed-at-each-other thing. Emma, however, wasn't so dense, and the vibes she was picking up off these two were amazing! Love was coming off these two in waves; she didn't even need to be a psionic to tell that.
"I think that it's been a while, and I just didn't see it you know? And last night it just all clicked." Brennan broke his gaze with Shalimar. "I'm going to get some sleep. I'm bushed." With that he wandered off, heading for his room.
"Shal?" Emma asked. "Can I talk to you?"
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As Brennan was passing Jesse's door, the younger mutant poked his head out the door, still ruffled with sleep. "Hey Brennan." said the blonde in way of greeting.
Brennan blinked sleepily at his friend. "Hey Jess. How's it going?" he asked, rubbing his hand over the spot above his eye, right along the eyebrow.
Jesse looked him up and down and a grin broke across his face. "You had sex with Shalimar, didn't you?"
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"You had sex with Brennan, didn't you?" Emma stated.
Shalimar looked shocked and then blushed. "How did you know?"
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"How did you now?" Brennan was staring at Jesse, wondering if the other man wasn't half psionic.
"Well, it's obvious that you and Shal have a thing for each other." 'It is?' thought Brennan. "And you came in from 'clubbing' with Shalimar, but it's obvious you had sex, so you must have had sex with Shalimar."
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"Shalimar, I'm a woman. I know these things. The love was practically smothering me in the other room. 'Like my soul mate material, like marriage material.' It's so romantic!"
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"So was it hot?"
"Huh?"
"The sex!"
"I still don't get how you knew I had sex." Brennan mumbled.
"You did the eyebrow thing, Brennan." giving Brennan an everyone-knows-that look.
"Eyebrow thing?" Brennan questioned, raising the feature.
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"You know, I think Brennan was serious back there. I think he really loves you." Emma told Shalimar.
"Are you sure?" Shalimar looked doubtful.
"Shalimar, who's the psionic here, me or you?" Emma demanded.
"Well, you."
"So if I say that the man loves you, he does. You just have to trust me on this."
"Well, that's good to know. Because I think that I'm in love with him too." Shalimar whispered.
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"When you come home after sex, you always rub your eyebrow."
Brennan stared at Jesse like he was nuts. "Are you sure?"
"It's an unconscious habit, but if I say you do than you do. You just trust me on this."
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THE NEXT DAY...
Brennan and Shalimar ran into each other in the hall.
"Jesse knows."
"Emma found out."
"Never try and keep a secret from a psionic and a guy who pays WAY too much attention to detail." Brennan muttered.
"Should we just tell Adam and get it over with?" Shalimar asked tiredly. "At the rate we're going, he'll find out anyway."
"Jesse wouldn't know, except that it turns out that I do this thing after I get home from having sex."
"What, the eyebrow thing?" Shalimar asked distractedly.
Brennan threw up his hands. "How is it I supposedly do this thing that everyone but me knows about?"
"Don't worry Brennan; I'm sure that not EVERYONE knows about it."
Storming into over to the table, where Adam and Emma were eating, Brennan plopped down and demanded, "Is there something specific that I do after coming home after sex?"
"What, the eyebrow thing?" they both asked at the same time.
"OK, that's it. I'm going for a ride." Brennan said stormily and was about to stomp off when Adam broke in.
"While you're at it want to pick up a new mutant for me? You can take Shalimar with you."
"Fine, whatever." Brennan said running his hands through his hair.
"Well, Genomex is very interested in this one. Very top secret, all hush- hush. All I could get out of the Genomex files is that it's a female feral. Other than she's very wanted for something. This means she's either very powerful or out of control."
"Or both." Shalimar said darkly.
"Right. So you see why it's so important for us to get to her first. If we can help her than its imperative that we do, because by the sounds of it, I wouldn't want her for an enemy." Adam said seriously.
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She was being mobbed by agents. There were too many of them, in this condition she wasn't going to be able to hold them off for too much longer. Jeez, she was so stupid! But she would have to worry about her stupidity later. Right now she had to fight. Right now she had to get free. But right now she was just too weak, to clumsy, not that she had ever been particularly strong. She had people to be strong for her. But she could feel it. She was going to lose.
"HEY!" And everything froze. She knew that voice and apparently, so did the agents because suddenly she wasn't as interesting. Almost half the agents launched towards the speaker. She turned and saw him. Dark hair, brown eyes, perfect features, raw sex appeal. It was either him or his twin brother, which it must have been, because it wasn't possible for it to be him. He and a blonde woman were taking down agents at an alarming rate, and with her taking out anyone who let down their guard and got to close, the agents were quickly diminishing.
And then they were all gone, all down, some unconscious, and some soon to be dead, those were her work. Regrettable, but necessary. And he was staring at her, her delicate features and wavy hair, just as he remembered, not that he wanted to. But there was one difference. One very big, very huge, very enormous difference. "Brennan." she whispered.
His eyes hardened, and the blonde wench was glaring at her with intense hatred. Brennan's lips twisted into a sneer. "Lorna." Brennan spit out the word like it tasted bad.
"That's me."
"You're pregnant."
"What's the matter Brennan? Don't you want to be a Daddy?" she sneered back.
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Rockergurl; Bet you didn't see THAT one coming did you?
Kitta Cat; That's because only YOUR mind would think of something like this.
Rockergurl; Why, thank you! ^_^
Kitta Cat; It was not a compliment you dolt. -_-
Do you guys seriously think that if I owned MX I would be sitting here writing THIS for fun? Good, I didn't think so. Hey, thanks to my fellow Brennan/Shal lovers, innocent choir girl, Sarge, and Quest!
Chapter 2
Brennan's eyes slid open and rested on Shalimar. He gently leaned over and brushed a tendril of hair away from her beautiful face. His finger drifted down to her lips and gently brushed against him. God, she was incredible. A real wildcat in the sack, but oh, so much more. He vaguely remembered last night, a melding of flesh against flesh, Shalimar's incredible kisses, for once it was more than just sex. It was making love. He could lie there forever, just sitting there and watching her sleep, open and relaxed but he knew that they had to go. It was early and they had been up late, seeing as Shalimar had incredible stamina, but he had called into Adam that they were going clubbing and would not be back until the wee hours of the morning, and he didn't want to push his luck.
Sighing, he rolled out of bed and started to get dressed. He was belting his pants when Shalimar woke up and rolled over. "Morning." She muttered blearily, eyes still closed. Brennan just grinned. He knew that Shal couldn't function in the mornings until she had her coffee. She mostly just walked around with her eyes closed and groped around in her dresser and threw on the first thing she found until she could function enough to get properly dressed. He thought that she was cute like that, wandering around sleepily, hair mussed and with that certain glow that she always had, whether it was five in the morning or noon.
He came up behind her, wrapping his arms around her and kissing her neck, rocking slightly back and forth. It was so comfortable like this, even if their first time had been in a dingy hotel. It didn't matter. It was Shalimar, and he would make sure that the next time would be better, nicer, like they were the two people in love that they were, not hormone crazed teenagers. He grinned, thinking about there being a 'next time' with Shalimar. If he had his say there would be a whole lot of 'next times'.
Kissing her neck again, he whispered, "We should go. Wouldn't want Adam to be worried, now would we?"
"What are we going to tell them?" Shalimar wondered aloud, stifling a yawn.
"Do you want to tell them?" Brennan questioned. He didn't really care whether or not they knew that he was in love with his teammate, though he realized suddenly that he had yet to tell her that. He wasn't sure of their reaction, though Jesse would probably have a field day teasing him about it, of that he was sure. He was already on his back about his 'poetry thing' as Jesse liked to put it. But at this point, he wasn't sure if they should tell them. They would eventually, but now, it just felt nice to have Shalimar all to himself, no distractions or worries.
Grinning a slightly evil (though sleepy, so it kind of spoiled the effect) grin, Shalimar slipped her friend-turned-lover a sly glance. "Well, you know, it would be a whole lot easier to slip off together if they didn't know just yet." She trailed a slow finger seductively up his bare chest.
Drawing in a breath, Brennan forced himself to stay calm. He didn't really feel like going and taking a cold shower this morning. But it would seem that Shalimar was once again turning him into a happy little puddle of Brennan-mush. "And just what did you have in mind for us once we had managed to 'sneak off' Miss Fox?"
"Hmm? Oh, I'm sure that you can think of SOMETHING Brennan. You were really quite creative last night, you know. That thing you did with your tongue? Pure genius." Shalimar was distracted as she spoke, seeing as how she was busy torturing Brennan, trailing kisses along his collarbone and neck, giving him a taste but not actually GOING anywhere. Brennan was going insane, no woman had ever done this to him, he was always in control in the relationship.
Shalimar was now by his lips, as close as possible without them actually touching. Brennan had just about had it and was about to swoop in and capture her lips in a kiss, when she suddenly yawned in his face, completely spoiling the mood. Shalimar looked undisturbed. "I'm going to get some coffee, k?" she said in a much more chipper voice than she ever usually had in the mornings.
Brennan just nodded dumbly, and Shalimar practically skipped out of the room, making Brennan wonder if she was actually a sadist and LIKED causing him this pain. Falling back onto the bed he let out a breath of air he hadn't even realized he'd been holding. "God damn it, that woman's going to be the death of me." he muttered.
On the way back to Sanctuary, with a much more awake Shalimar and a slightly grumpy Brennan, the two said little, but Shalimar leaned against Brennan slightly and it was a comfortable silence that few people ever manage to master.
When they went inside, only Emma, early riser that she was, and Adam, who the pair suspected had never gone to sleep the night before, were up to greet them, Jesse still snoring away into his pillow. "How was your night?" Adam asked, not looking up from whatever it was that he was doing.
"Fine." They both answered.
"So Brennan, break any hearts?" she asked, teasing him.
Shalimar froze, but Brennan didn't even blink. "No, no broken hearts, though I did get on with this amazing blonde. She's smart, and funny, beautiful doesn't even begin to describe her. She is the most amazing and wonderful person I have ever met, and to top it all off, I'm pretty sure that she's the one." He gazed at Shalimar the entire time he was saying it, smiling softly.
"The one?" Emma asked.
"THE one Emma. Like soul mate material. Like marriage material. Like, she's the kind of woman that I can see myself spending the rest of my life with." his gaze still did not stray from Shalimar, who swallowed hard and gazed back.
"I wasn't planning to hear THOSE words, in THAT order coming from YOUR mouth anytime soon. When did all this happen?" asked Adam, raising an eyebrow, totally oblivious to the whole Brennan-and-Shalimar-staring-gooey- eyed-at-each-other thing. Emma, however, wasn't so dense, and the vibes she was picking up off these two were amazing! Love was coming off these two in waves; she didn't even need to be a psionic to tell that.
"I think that it's been a while, and I just didn't see it you know? And last night it just all clicked." Brennan broke his gaze with Shalimar. "I'm going to get some sleep. I'm bushed." With that he wandered off, heading for his room.
"Shal?" Emma asked. "Can I talk to you?"
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As Brennan was passing Jesse's door, the younger mutant poked his head out the door, still ruffled with sleep. "Hey Brennan." said the blonde in way of greeting.
Brennan blinked sleepily at his friend. "Hey Jess. How's it going?" he asked, rubbing his hand over the spot above his eye, right along the eyebrow.
Jesse looked him up and down and a grin broke across his face. "You had sex with Shalimar, didn't you?"
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"You had sex with Brennan, didn't you?" Emma stated.
Shalimar looked shocked and then blushed. "How did you know?"
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"How did you now?" Brennan was staring at Jesse, wondering if the other man wasn't half psionic.
"Well, it's obvious that you and Shal have a thing for each other." 'It is?' thought Brennan. "And you came in from 'clubbing' with Shalimar, but it's obvious you had sex, so you must have had sex with Shalimar."
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"Shalimar, I'm a woman. I know these things. The love was practically smothering me in the other room. 'Like my soul mate material, like marriage material.' It's so romantic!"
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"So was it hot?"
"Huh?"
"The sex!"
"I still don't get how you knew I had sex." Brennan mumbled.
"You did the eyebrow thing, Brennan." giving Brennan an everyone-knows-that look.
"Eyebrow thing?" Brennan questioned, raising the feature.
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"You know, I think Brennan was serious back there. I think he really loves you." Emma told Shalimar.
"Are you sure?" Shalimar looked doubtful.
"Shalimar, who's the psionic here, me or you?" Emma demanded.
"Well, you."
"So if I say that the man loves you, he does. You just have to trust me on this."
"Well, that's good to know. Because I think that I'm in love with him too." Shalimar whispered.
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"When you come home after sex, you always rub your eyebrow."
Brennan stared at Jesse like he was nuts. "Are you sure?"
"It's an unconscious habit, but if I say you do than you do. You just trust me on this."
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THE NEXT DAY...
Brennan and Shalimar ran into each other in the hall.
"Jesse knows."
"Emma found out."
"Never try and keep a secret from a psionic and a guy who pays WAY too much attention to detail." Brennan muttered.
"Should we just tell Adam and get it over with?" Shalimar asked tiredly. "At the rate we're going, he'll find out anyway."
"Jesse wouldn't know, except that it turns out that I do this thing after I get home from having sex."
"What, the eyebrow thing?" Shalimar asked distractedly.
Brennan threw up his hands. "How is it I supposedly do this thing that everyone but me knows about?"
"Don't worry Brennan; I'm sure that not EVERYONE knows about it."
Storming into over to the table, where Adam and Emma were eating, Brennan plopped down and demanded, "Is there something specific that I do after coming home after sex?"
"What, the eyebrow thing?" they both asked at the same time.
"OK, that's it. I'm going for a ride." Brennan said stormily and was about to stomp off when Adam broke in.
"While you're at it want to pick up a new mutant for me? You can take Shalimar with you."
"Fine, whatever." Brennan said running his hands through his hair.
"Well, Genomex is very interested in this one. Very top secret, all hush- hush. All I could get out of the Genomex files is that it's a female feral. Other than she's very wanted for something. This means she's either very powerful or out of control."
"Or both." Shalimar said darkly.
"Right. So you see why it's so important for us to get to her first. If we can help her than its imperative that we do, because by the sounds of it, I wouldn't want her for an enemy." Adam said seriously.
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She was being mobbed by agents. There were too many of them, in this condition she wasn't going to be able to hold them off for too much longer. Jeez, she was so stupid! But she would have to worry about her stupidity later. Right now she had to fight. Right now she had to get free. But right now she was just too weak, to clumsy, not that she had ever been particularly strong. She had people to be strong for her. But she could feel it. She was going to lose.
"HEY!" And everything froze. She knew that voice and apparently, so did the agents because suddenly she wasn't as interesting. Almost half the agents launched towards the speaker. She turned and saw him. Dark hair, brown eyes, perfect features, raw sex appeal. It was either him or his twin brother, which it must have been, because it wasn't possible for it to be him. He and a blonde woman were taking down agents at an alarming rate, and with her taking out anyone who let down their guard and got to close, the agents were quickly diminishing.
And then they were all gone, all down, some unconscious, and some soon to be dead, those were her work. Regrettable, but necessary. And he was staring at her, her delicate features and wavy hair, just as he remembered, not that he wanted to. But there was one difference. One very big, very huge, very enormous difference. "Brennan." she whispered.
His eyes hardened, and the blonde wench was glaring at her with intense hatred. Brennan's lips twisted into a sneer. "Lorna." Brennan spit out the word like it tasted bad.
"That's me."
"You're pregnant."
"What's the matter Brennan? Don't you want to be a Daddy?" she sneered back.
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Rockergurl; Bet you didn't see THAT one coming did you?
Kitta Cat; That's because only YOUR mind would think of something like this.
Rockergurl; Why, thank you! ^_^
Kitta Cat; It was not a compliment you dolt. -_-