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"Ahahahaha, I think that I am going into labor. OHH!" Lorna gasped. Oh, yes, she was most defiantly going into labor.
Brennan stared. She was WHAT?! "Oh. My. God." He gulped. His eyes grew wider as he realized that in a matter of hours he was going to be a father! He wasn't ready for this! "OH MY GOD!" he bolted up from his sitting position a panicked look on his face. "Uh, uh, um, what do I do? Adam? ADAM?!"
Over his comm. link came the startled and concerned voice of the team's fearless leader. "Brennan? What's the problem?"
"Lorna's going into LABOR that's what the friggen PROBLEM is! WHAT THE HELL DO I DO?! He all but screamed, trying desperately to keep his cool.
Adam's voice came soothingly over the comm. link. "Stay calm, Brennan. I'm coming, OK, you just need to stay calm."
"Right. Stay calm, I can do that." Brennan said in a little-more-than- slightly-panicked voice.
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Adam poked his head into the dojo where Shalimar, Jesse and Emma were standing around talking. "Lorna just went into labor. I need you to come with me." Adam informed them.
"She's going into labor? Like, as in, right now?" Shalimar asked, eyes widening in shock.
"Yes. Right now." Answered Adam, looking a little annoyed. Now wasn't the time to be asking questions that he had already answered. The three team mates stood there for a moment, various degrees of shock on their faces, digesting this. Adam understood that they were surprised and all, he really did, but he also needed their help. Now. Not later. "I said let's move!" he barked sharply. They all jumped and the girls blushed as they got up to follow him out of the dojo.
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"Oh, God, here comes another one!" Lorna gasped out. She gnashed her teeth together. The contractions had gotten steadily closer together as the time had passed and now were only a few seconds apart. "This is going to be an only child, I swear upon everything Holy, OH, MY GOD!" Lorna let out a screech like a wounded animal. She dug her fingers into the arms of the medical chair and heard the fabric rip under her nails. Lorna started cursing like a sailor, yelling every expletive that she knew, and making up a few along the way. She started cursing everyone from God, for making her a woman, to Brennan, for getting her pregnant. Oh, yes, this was defiantly going to be an only child. She thought of an aunt that she had that had seven kids. Who the HELL in their right minds would go through this torture SEVEN TIMES?
"It's coming!" called out Adam. Brennan paled at this news and looked as if he were about to faint. "Push!"
"What the HELL does it LOOK like I'm doing, you idiot? Skipping rope? I AM pushing!" spat Lorna, gritting her teeth. Good God, she was surrounded by morons. She let out another shriek, the pressure of it all was just so unbearable, it felt like it was going to tear her apart! If this baby didn't come out soon she was going to fly into a thousand pieces. And then the release, but it was so sudden, far too sudden and far too final to be real. There was crying, but that was somewhere far away. Like interference on a radio channel.
Adam was laughing. "Brennan, congratulations, you have a beautiful, healthy baby girl!"
Tears of blessed release streamed down Lorna's face. It was over!
"Brennan, here, look at you daughter!" Brennan was laughing too as he took his little creation into his arms. It didn't matter to him, he suddenly realized, that this baby was also Lorna's. It was his daughter. He was a father, he was holding his child.
"I'm a father. I'm a father." He tested out how it sounded coming out of his mouth. He just couldn't get over it. He looked up at Jesse. "I'm a father Jess." He informed his friend.
"So I hear." Said Jesse, grinning good-naturedly. He wasn't sure what he thought about this whole thing yet. Being a father didn't really fit in with Jesse's picture of Brennan. But if Brennan was willing to adjust his life to become one, then Jesse figured that he could adjust a little too.
Shalimar looked from Brennan to Lorna and then finally rested on the baby, who Adam had taken back from Brennan and was now tending to. It was done now. Brennan was a father. Lorna was a mother. The baby was THEIR child. She chewed on her lip, trying to tell herself that what she had told Lorna was true, that Brennan loved HER and that it would stay that way.
That still sent chills up her spine whenever she thought it. Brennan LOVED her. Suddenly she didn't feel so worried. Brennan, seeing her still tense look, moved beside her and took her hand in his and gave a light squeeze. "We need to talk." Brennan murmured to his lover.
Shalimar nodded. They defiantly needed to talk. "Later?"
"Yeah." With another quick squeeze of her hand, he walked over to where Adam had finished cleaning off his daughter. Only a few minutes old, and she looked so beautiful, though his opinion was a tiny bit biased. She had tiny tendrils of black hair on her head and her cheeks were rosy read, and her eyes were peacefully closed. He ran his hand over the fine strands of dark hair. He wondered if it would fall out or not. Adam turned over the precious bundle, and Brennan cradled her into his arms.
Shalimar slid over and looked at the baby. She looked so peaceful lying there in her father's arms. It looked as if she had inherited her father's dark locks, and if you looked closely you could see other traces of Brennan in her tiny features. As she was passed from Adam to Brennan, she opened her eyes and Shalimar had to draw in a breath. Those eyes were Brennan's. The same brown pools that she found herself drowning in when she gazed into their depths. Though she searched for them, she couldn't find a trace of Lorna in the little girl. "So, what are you going to call her?" she asked, and Brennan looked surprised.
"Oh, right. She needs a name doesn't she?" Brennan pondered. Shalimar rolled her eyes. Leave it to Brennan to forget something like that.
Brennan chewed his lip momentarily and Shalimar saw the danger sign. Any second now he was going to start pacing and jar that precious bundle. "Here, why don't you let me hold her, please Brennan?" Brennan nodded and slid his daughter to Shalimar. At the movement the baby whimpered but quickly settled down. "Aww, that's a good girl. You're such a sweetie, yes you are!" Shalimar cooed.
Brennan, true to Shalimar's prediction, started pacing up and down, a frown on his face. He shot a look at Lorna. "I don't suppose you already have a name picked out, do you?"
She just shook her head in a kind of bored way. "You name her. I really don't care."
Brennan scowled. She didn't CARE? What the Hell kind of mother didn't care what their child was called? "Any ideas?" he asked his team, looking at them hopefully. Adam looked thoughtful, and the rest just shrugged helplessly. He sighed and looked at his daughter in Shalimar's arms. His face softened. "She's so little." He said in a low voice, almost a whisper. "But you can see that she's so full of life. Just look at her, I feel like I've known her all my life. He slid an arm around his lover and gazed at the baby. HIS baby. "Every time I look at her, I feel so proud, you know?"
"Well, that's it then, isn't it?" said Shalimar.
"Huh?" What's it?" Brennan asked her, confused.
"You just gave her her name Brennan."
Brennan stared. "I did?" He didn't RECALL naming her anything.
"Aisha Abigail." Stated Shalimar. Brennan looked at her confusedly. Now he KNEW he hadn't named her that. The rest of the Mutant Xers looked at her as if she had sprouted another head. She shrugged a little self-consciously. "Aisha means life, and Abigail means father's joy. Isn't that what you just described?"
Brennan looked down at his daughter again. Aisha. He said it out loud a few times and decided that he liked the way it sounded. That was it then. Aisha was her name, of course it was. "Hello, Aisha." He said in a reverent whisper.
"Well," said Adam, effectively breaking the moment, "Now that we have the most important thing taken care of, we're going to need a few things."
"Like what?" Asked Brennan.
"Things for the baby. Most of the stuff we need is in the safe houses, we can just borrow some until we get a chance to go shopping. You know, a cradle, diapers, baby clothes, bottles, formula, it's all there, we just need to get it HERE. Jesse, Emma, I need you to go to safe house 2 and borrow some, alright?" After you get back we can se up a place for the cradle and the baby's things, at least until Brennan figures out what he's going to do. And Brennan?"
"Yeah?" asked the mutant in question.
"Get some sleep, you look like Hell."
"What about her?" Brennan asked, pointing to a now sleeping Lorna.
"I think that she'll be out for a while. Here, Shalimar, why don't you give Aisha to me, I think that you and Brennan should talk." Adam took Aisha from Shalimar.
The two waited while Jesse and Emma went to the Helix and Adam went off, saying he wanted to do a check up on Aisha and make sure that there were no complications. They stood there awkwardly for a moment. "Come on, we need to talk." Said Brennan finally, and taking Shalimar by the hand he led her out of the room.
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The two sat in silence on the floor of the dojo. Both of them nervous and unsure of what to say. "Shalimar," Brennan started slowly, hesitating and unsure.
"Yes?" she prompted him, after a short pause.
"I want to keep the baby." He informed her, biting his lip. "But. Well. I don't know if I can do it Shalimar. I mean, I didn't ask for this, you know. Yesterday, everything was so simple, and now, God Shalimar! It's not even twenty-four hours later and things are so messed up! I'm a father, I have a DAUGHTER Shalimar. And I don't know if I'm going to be able to handle all this. I've screwed things up with you and I have all these new thoughts.." He trailed off. "I don't even know if I can still be in Mutant X. It's going to be hard enough raising a child. I'm not sure if I could fight Genomex at the same time. When she gets older, how am I going to tell her that she's a child of ra- '' He cut himself off.
Shalimar stared at him. Had he been about to say what she thought that he was going to say? "Rape?" she asked, with her eyes wide.
Brennan gave a short laugh. "Yeah. Rape, Shalimar, what else do you think it is when you are forced into intercourse against your will?" He glared bitterly at the ground.
Shalimar paused to digest this. "I guess that I didn't think of it that way, I mean, right after, you were there, and you were making jokes, you just didn't seem like a victim."
"I thought that I loved her, Shal. I did love her, but. It wasn't real. It was all just an illusion, you know? Not real." He repeated to himself. He picked up Shalimar's hand in his. "This, Shalimar? This, with you? THIS is real." He lifted the hand and kissed her fingertips. "Everything feels different with you, better, everything is harder and faster and so much more intense. Sometimes I can't breathe when I'm around you. Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning, and I don't want to come up for air. You are so much more real than she could ever be, do you get that Shalimar?" He kissed the palm of her hand. "Real." He affirmed.
She ran the hand over his cheek and he nuzzled against it contentedly. He closed his eyes blissfully. "I love you Shalimar. I really do." he whispered softly.
Shalimar lifted his chin and he opened his eyes to look into her brown ones. "I love you too, Brennan. Don't worry so much about the future. We'll figure something out. I promise."
Brennan smiled and worked his way around her and then enveloped her in his arms. He rested his chin on her hair. "What did I ever do to get lucky enough to deserve you?" He murmured, swaying back and forth with her slightly. He kissed the top of her head softly.
"I'm not sure." Answered the feral playfully. Then more seriously, she added, "C'mon, Brennan. We should get you to bed. Adam was right, you could use the rest, and you look exhausted." She got up, though reluctantly. It was very comfortable wrapped up in Brennan's arms, but she could tell all this pressure and stress was really wearing him down.
"Yeah, bed sounds good." He said, stretching. Then, with a twinkle in his eye, he added slyly, "You want to join me?"
Mockingly she raised her eyebrow at him. "Brennan Mulwray, are you trying to seduce me?"
"But of course!" declared Brennan, with a serious look on his face. "Is it working?"
Shalimar barely brushed her lips against his. "Do I look seducible?" she asked in a husky whisper, straddling his hips.
"Um, from this vantage point, yes, you look incredibly seducible." Brennan informed her, a little smirk playing across his lips.
"Really? Do I now?" She licked his ear and grinned when she felt a shudder go through his entire body. "Well, Brennan, I should THINK that an avid reader like yourself should know one of the most important rules."
Brennan blinked in puzzlement. Rule? What rule? And what did his liking to read have to do with anything? "Shalimar?"
"Yes?"
"What on EARTH are you talking about?"
"The most important rule Brennan." She said, unbuckling his belt.
"Which is?"
Shalimar looked up from her ministrations. She looked around and then leaned forward and whispered into his ear, like it was a secret, "You think I look seducible, Brennan? Well, the most important rule is- Never judge a book by its cover." And with that, she slid off his lap, and walked away, smacking him with his own belt, which she had finished removing.
Brennan's mouth dropped open. He closed it, only to have it drop open again. 'Ok, you can stop with the carp impressions now!' He thought to himself. His mind flashed back to the scene at the hotel. 'Oh, yes. She is most DEFINATLY a sadist.' He thought firmly. And with that, he got up and stumbled tiredly off to bed.
Adam had finished the tests he had been running on Aisha. He had checked on Brennan and Shalimar, to find that Brennan was fast asleep and Shalimar was fixing up a place for the baby, 'To surprise Brennan'. It would seem that the two had kissed and made up. So Adam had volunteered to take Aisha until Brennan woke up. He took her to his bedroom and lay her on the bed.
Meanwhile, in the med lab, Lorna opened her eyes and sat up.
Lorna looked around for the heaviest thing that she could find. She managed to scrounge up an extra piece of spare pipe. Carefully she tuned into her feral instincts. There was another feral here, one with skills much more developed than her own, she would have to be very careful. But she wasn't after the feral. She walked silently through Sanctuary. She wouldn't even have to hunt her prey. She opened the door silently. Adam had his back to her, bending over Aisha on the bed.
Hearing a noise he started to turn around. "Is that you Sha-" he turned to face Lorna. She swung the pipe like a major league slugger, pretending that Adam's head was the ball. Adam slumped to the floor. Lorna stood there a moment, still clutching the pipe, making sure that he wouldn't move. When he didn't, she dropped the pipe and rushed over to her baby. She picked her up and looked around, then fled the room with her. She ran to the garage and quickly chose a car. She slipped in, noticing that there were no keys. No matter, Brennan wasn't the ONLY one who could hotwire a car. In a minute the job was done and not even knowing where she was going, nor CARING where she was going, she took off.
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"Ahahahaha, I think that I am going into labor. OHH!" Lorna gasped. Oh, yes, she was most defiantly going into labor.
Brennan stared. She was WHAT?! "Oh. My. God." He gulped. His eyes grew wider as he realized that in a matter of hours he was going to be a father! He wasn't ready for this! "OH MY GOD!" he bolted up from his sitting position a panicked look on his face. "Uh, uh, um, what do I do? Adam? ADAM?!"
Over his comm. link came the startled and concerned voice of the team's fearless leader. "Brennan? What's the problem?"
"Lorna's going into LABOR that's what the friggen PROBLEM is! WHAT THE HELL DO I DO?! He all but screamed, trying desperately to keep his cool.
Adam's voice came soothingly over the comm. link. "Stay calm, Brennan. I'm coming, OK, you just need to stay calm."
"Right. Stay calm, I can do that." Brennan said in a little-more-than- slightly-panicked voice.
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Adam poked his head into the dojo where Shalimar, Jesse and Emma were standing around talking. "Lorna just went into labor. I need you to come with me." Adam informed them.
"She's going into labor? Like, as in, right now?" Shalimar asked, eyes widening in shock.
"Yes. Right now." Answered Adam, looking a little annoyed. Now wasn't the time to be asking questions that he had already answered. The three team mates stood there for a moment, various degrees of shock on their faces, digesting this. Adam understood that they were surprised and all, he really did, but he also needed their help. Now. Not later. "I said let's move!" he barked sharply. They all jumped and the girls blushed as they got up to follow him out of the dojo.
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"Oh, God, here comes another one!" Lorna gasped out. She gnashed her teeth together. The contractions had gotten steadily closer together as the time had passed and now were only a few seconds apart. "This is going to be an only child, I swear upon everything Holy, OH, MY GOD!" Lorna let out a screech like a wounded animal. She dug her fingers into the arms of the medical chair and heard the fabric rip under her nails. Lorna started cursing like a sailor, yelling every expletive that she knew, and making up a few along the way. She started cursing everyone from God, for making her a woman, to Brennan, for getting her pregnant. Oh, yes, this was defiantly going to be an only child. She thought of an aunt that she had that had seven kids. Who the HELL in their right minds would go through this torture SEVEN TIMES?
"It's coming!" called out Adam. Brennan paled at this news and looked as if he were about to faint. "Push!"
"What the HELL does it LOOK like I'm doing, you idiot? Skipping rope? I AM pushing!" spat Lorna, gritting her teeth. Good God, she was surrounded by morons. She let out another shriek, the pressure of it all was just so unbearable, it felt like it was going to tear her apart! If this baby didn't come out soon she was going to fly into a thousand pieces. And then the release, but it was so sudden, far too sudden and far too final to be real. There was crying, but that was somewhere far away. Like interference on a radio channel.
Adam was laughing. "Brennan, congratulations, you have a beautiful, healthy baby girl!"
Tears of blessed release streamed down Lorna's face. It was over!
"Brennan, here, look at you daughter!" Brennan was laughing too as he took his little creation into his arms. It didn't matter to him, he suddenly realized, that this baby was also Lorna's. It was his daughter. He was a father, he was holding his child.
"I'm a father. I'm a father." He tested out how it sounded coming out of his mouth. He just couldn't get over it. He looked up at Jesse. "I'm a father Jess." He informed his friend.
"So I hear." Said Jesse, grinning good-naturedly. He wasn't sure what he thought about this whole thing yet. Being a father didn't really fit in with Jesse's picture of Brennan. But if Brennan was willing to adjust his life to become one, then Jesse figured that he could adjust a little too.
Shalimar looked from Brennan to Lorna and then finally rested on the baby, who Adam had taken back from Brennan and was now tending to. It was done now. Brennan was a father. Lorna was a mother. The baby was THEIR child. She chewed on her lip, trying to tell herself that what she had told Lorna was true, that Brennan loved HER and that it would stay that way.
That still sent chills up her spine whenever she thought it. Brennan LOVED her. Suddenly she didn't feel so worried. Brennan, seeing her still tense look, moved beside her and took her hand in his and gave a light squeeze. "We need to talk." Brennan murmured to his lover.
Shalimar nodded. They defiantly needed to talk. "Later?"
"Yeah." With another quick squeeze of her hand, he walked over to where Adam had finished cleaning off his daughter. Only a few minutes old, and she looked so beautiful, though his opinion was a tiny bit biased. She had tiny tendrils of black hair on her head and her cheeks were rosy read, and her eyes were peacefully closed. He ran his hand over the fine strands of dark hair. He wondered if it would fall out or not. Adam turned over the precious bundle, and Brennan cradled her into his arms.
Shalimar slid over and looked at the baby. She looked so peaceful lying there in her father's arms. It looked as if she had inherited her father's dark locks, and if you looked closely you could see other traces of Brennan in her tiny features. As she was passed from Adam to Brennan, she opened her eyes and Shalimar had to draw in a breath. Those eyes were Brennan's. The same brown pools that she found herself drowning in when she gazed into their depths. Though she searched for them, she couldn't find a trace of Lorna in the little girl. "So, what are you going to call her?" she asked, and Brennan looked surprised.
"Oh, right. She needs a name doesn't she?" Brennan pondered. Shalimar rolled her eyes. Leave it to Brennan to forget something like that.
Brennan chewed his lip momentarily and Shalimar saw the danger sign. Any second now he was going to start pacing and jar that precious bundle. "Here, why don't you let me hold her, please Brennan?" Brennan nodded and slid his daughter to Shalimar. At the movement the baby whimpered but quickly settled down. "Aww, that's a good girl. You're such a sweetie, yes you are!" Shalimar cooed.
Brennan, true to Shalimar's prediction, started pacing up and down, a frown on his face. He shot a look at Lorna. "I don't suppose you already have a name picked out, do you?"
She just shook her head in a kind of bored way. "You name her. I really don't care."
Brennan scowled. She didn't CARE? What the Hell kind of mother didn't care what their child was called? "Any ideas?" he asked his team, looking at them hopefully. Adam looked thoughtful, and the rest just shrugged helplessly. He sighed and looked at his daughter in Shalimar's arms. His face softened. "She's so little." He said in a low voice, almost a whisper. "But you can see that she's so full of life. Just look at her, I feel like I've known her all my life. He slid an arm around his lover and gazed at the baby. HIS baby. "Every time I look at her, I feel so proud, you know?"
"Well, that's it then, isn't it?" said Shalimar.
"Huh?" What's it?" Brennan asked her, confused.
"You just gave her her name Brennan."
Brennan stared. "I did?" He didn't RECALL naming her anything.
"Aisha Abigail." Stated Shalimar. Brennan looked at her confusedly. Now he KNEW he hadn't named her that. The rest of the Mutant Xers looked at her as if she had sprouted another head. She shrugged a little self-consciously. "Aisha means life, and Abigail means father's joy. Isn't that what you just described?"
Brennan looked down at his daughter again. Aisha. He said it out loud a few times and decided that he liked the way it sounded. That was it then. Aisha was her name, of course it was. "Hello, Aisha." He said in a reverent whisper.
"Well," said Adam, effectively breaking the moment, "Now that we have the most important thing taken care of, we're going to need a few things."
"Like what?" Asked Brennan.
"Things for the baby. Most of the stuff we need is in the safe houses, we can just borrow some until we get a chance to go shopping. You know, a cradle, diapers, baby clothes, bottles, formula, it's all there, we just need to get it HERE. Jesse, Emma, I need you to go to safe house 2 and borrow some, alright?" After you get back we can se up a place for the cradle and the baby's things, at least until Brennan figures out what he's going to do. And Brennan?"
"Yeah?" asked the mutant in question.
"Get some sleep, you look like Hell."
"What about her?" Brennan asked, pointing to a now sleeping Lorna.
"I think that she'll be out for a while. Here, Shalimar, why don't you give Aisha to me, I think that you and Brennan should talk." Adam took Aisha from Shalimar.
The two waited while Jesse and Emma went to the Helix and Adam went off, saying he wanted to do a check up on Aisha and make sure that there were no complications. They stood there awkwardly for a moment. "Come on, we need to talk." Said Brennan finally, and taking Shalimar by the hand he led her out of the room.
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The two sat in silence on the floor of the dojo. Both of them nervous and unsure of what to say. "Shalimar," Brennan started slowly, hesitating and unsure.
"Yes?" she prompted him, after a short pause.
"I want to keep the baby." He informed her, biting his lip. "But. Well. I don't know if I can do it Shalimar. I mean, I didn't ask for this, you know. Yesterday, everything was so simple, and now, God Shalimar! It's not even twenty-four hours later and things are so messed up! I'm a father, I have a DAUGHTER Shalimar. And I don't know if I'm going to be able to handle all this. I've screwed things up with you and I have all these new thoughts.." He trailed off. "I don't even know if I can still be in Mutant X. It's going to be hard enough raising a child. I'm not sure if I could fight Genomex at the same time. When she gets older, how am I going to tell her that she's a child of ra- '' He cut himself off.
Shalimar stared at him. Had he been about to say what she thought that he was going to say? "Rape?" she asked, with her eyes wide.
Brennan gave a short laugh. "Yeah. Rape, Shalimar, what else do you think it is when you are forced into intercourse against your will?" He glared bitterly at the ground.
Shalimar paused to digest this. "I guess that I didn't think of it that way, I mean, right after, you were there, and you were making jokes, you just didn't seem like a victim."
"I thought that I loved her, Shal. I did love her, but. It wasn't real. It was all just an illusion, you know? Not real." He repeated to himself. He picked up Shalimar's hand in his. "This, Shalimar? This, with you? THIS is real." He lifted the hand and kissed her fingertips. "Everything feels different with you, better, everything is harder and faster and so much more intense. Sometimes I can't breathe when I'm around you. Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning, and I don't want to come up for air. You are so much more real than she could ever be, do you get that Shalimar?" He kissed the palm of her hand. "Real." He affirmed.
She ran the hand over his cheek and he nuzzled against it contentedly. He closed his eyes blissfully. "I love you Shalimar. I really do." he whispered softly.
Shalimar lifted his chin and he opened his eyes to look into her brown ones. "I love you too, Brennan. Don't worry so much about the future. We'll figure something out. I promise."
Brennan smiled and worked his way around her and then enveloped her in his arms. He rested his chin on her hair. "What did I ever do to get lucky enough to deserve you?" He murmured, swaying back and forth with her slightly. He kissed the top of her head softly.
"I'm not sure." Answered the feral playfully. Then more seriously, she added, "C'mon, Brennan. We should get you to bed. Adam was right, you could use the rest, and you look exhausted." She got up, though reluctantly. It was very comfortable wrapped up in Brennan's arms, but she could tell all this pressure and stress was really wearing him down.
"Yeah, bed sounds good." He said, stretching. Then, with a twinkle in his eye, he added slyly, "You want to join me?"
Mockingly she raised her eyebrow at him. "Brennan Mulwray, are you trying to seduce me?"
"But of course!" declared Brennan, with a serious look on his face. "Is it working?"
Shalimar barely brushed her lips against his. "Do I look seducible?" she asked in a husky whisper, straddling his hips.
"Um, from this vantage point, yes, you look incredibly seducible." Brennan informed her, a little smirk playing across his lips.
"Really? Do I now?" She licked his ear and grinned when she felt a shudder go through his entire body. "Well, Brennan, I should THINK that an avid reader like yourself should know one of the most important rules."
Brennan blinked in puzzlement. Rule? What rule? And what did his liking to read have to do with anything? "Shalimar?"
"Yes?"
"What on EARTH are you talking about?"
"The most important rule Brennan." She said, unbuckling his belt.
"Which is?"
Shalimar looked up from her ministrations. She looked around and then leaned forward and whispered into his ear, like it was a secret, "You think I look seducible, Brennan? Well, the most important rule is- Never judge a book by its cover." And with that, she slid off his lap, and walked away, smacking him with his own belt, which she had finished removing.
Brennan's mouth dropped open. He closed it, only to have it drop open again. 'Ok, you can stop with the carp impressions now!' He thought to himself. His mind flashed back to the scene at the hotel. 'Oh, yes. She is most DEFINATLY a sadist.' He thought firmly. And with that, he got up and stumbled tiredly off to bed.
Adam had finished the tests he had been running on Aisha. He had checked on Brennan and Shalimar, to find that Brennan was fast asleep and Shalimar was fixing up a place for the baby, 'To surprise Brennan'. It would seem that the two had kissed and made up. So Adam had volunteered to take Aisha until Brennan woke up. He took her to his bedroom and lay her on the bed.
Meanwhile, in the med lab, Lorna opened her eyes and sat up.
Lorna looked around for the heaviest thing that she could find. She managed to scrounge up an extra piece of spare pipe. Carefully she tuned into her feral instincts. There was another feral here, one with skills much more developed than her own, she would have to be very careful. But she wasn't after the feral. She walked silently through Sanctuary. She wouldn't even have to hunt her prey. She opened the door silently. Adam had his back to her, bending over Aisha on the bed.
Hearing a noise he started to turn around. "Is that you Sha-" he turned to face Lorna. She swung the pipe like a major league slugger, pretending that Adam's head was the ball. Adam slumped to the floor. Lorna stood there a moment, still clutching the pipe, making sure that he wouldn't move. When he didn't, she dropped the pipe and rushed over to her baby. She picked her up and looked around, then fled the room with her. She ran to the garage and quickly chose a car. She slipped in, noticing that there were no keys. No matter, Brennan wasn't the ONLY one who could hotwire a car. In a minute the job was done and not even knowing where she was going, nor CARING where she was going, she took off.
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Rockergurl; Watch out for that cliff....
Kitta Cat; What was that scene between Shalimar and Brennan? That was so FLUFFY!
Rockergurl; Its Bren/Shal fluff! So who cares? Now, all you readers out there, and I KNOW that you're out there, I can see you! See that little button down there that says 'Go'? Why don't you do me a favor and press it and leave me a little review?