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Chapter 5
"Adam?" Jesse asked with his arms still around Emma. "I think we have a problem."
Adam looked up from his work, and saw the two standing by the door. Emma looked like she hadn't slept in days, her eyes were still filled with fear and she was still shaking slightly. "What's the problem Jesse?"
Before Jesse could answer, Emma said, "please don't tell the others, but Eckhart has a partner now…sort of."
"Well who Emma? If he's working with somebody else that makes him twice more dangerous."
Emma's voice dropped into a whisper, just incase Brennan or Shalimar was around and said, "Gabriel."
"Do you want to tell me how you know about this?"
Adam's last comment triggered the memories again, and she started to cry. "He came into my dreams and…," her voice was cut off by sobs.
"Jesse, do you want to tell me what happened? I can't do anything unless I know what is going on."
"Okay, I'll tell you."
Reluctantly Emma pulled away from Jesse, not wanting to leave the protection that he provided. "I'll be in the hall while you tell him, because I can't…" she ran out with tears in her eyes.
Jesse sat down next to Adam and began to explain what Emma said to him earlier.
In the halls of Sanctuary
Emma walked over to the reflection pool and sat down. *I hate my powers, they only cause me harm.* Her own thoughts were interrupted by a quick rush of emotions. Fear, hatred, and pain. "Shalimar!"
As quickly as possible, she ran to her friend's room and opened the door. "Leave me alone…I said stop!" Shalimar continued shouting into the darkness at her attacker. Emma knew what was happening in Shalimar's head. She aimed a psi blast at Shalimar's head, hoping that it would work. Shalimar began to relax, her muscles no longer tense, but her heart was still racing. She quickly sat up in bed. "Stop!" Looking around she noticed that Gabriel had left, and was relieved.
"Shal, um…was Gabriel in your dream?"
Wondering how on earth Emma would know that, she gave the girl a slight nod. "Sometimes he comes to me in my sleep and then…"
Emma walked over to Shalimar's bed, sat down and gave her friend a hug. "I'm so sorry Shal. Now I know how you feel about Gabriel."
"You don't want to read me right now, I'm not in the mood."
"That's not what I meant."
Shalimar looked into Emma's eyes, which were filled with fear. "Did Gabriel do something to you? Because if he messed with you I swear I'll kill him. I don't care what Adam says."
Emma stared at the ground, while she began to tell her about the dream. Before she could finish, she broke into tears, and this time Shalimar was the one to give her friend a comforting hug.
"Let's go to the lab, Jesse and Adam are there and maybe Adam can help us."
Shalimar firmly shook her head. There was no way she wanted any of the guys to see her like this, scared and vulnerable. She didn't want to come across as weak, although she knew she wasn't the only one. Emma had been attacked by Gabriel too, and she hadn't been dealing with it very well. She knew they had to tell Adam, maybe he would figure out a way for them to get Gabriel out of their heads.
"Alright, come on."
They walked into the lab, and Jesse looked shocked to see Shalimar up already. Quickly walking over to Emma, he said, "don't worry, Adam's going to fix up the bio-bed. That way, we'll know when he enters your dreams."
"I don't want to sleep on the bio-bed. It may work, but I'm not the only one Gabriel's after."
Jesse and Adam glanced at Shalimar, she had the same look of fear in her eyes. "Great. Well I guess I'll think of something else. In the meantime, go eat something in the kitchen. Don't leave Sanctuary right now because we don't know what Eckhart is planning. And somebody wake up Brennan, if we're not sleeping he shouldn't get to either," Adam said with a smile.
Walking out of the lab, Shalimar mumbled something about Brennan, and took off; leaving Jesse and Emma alone. He grasped her hand softly and led her to the kitchen. "I'll make breakfast. You just sit down."
Everybody knew Jesse wouldn't cook very well, but Emma didn't have the energy to resist. She tried to relax, and forget about Gabriel as she watched Jesse make omelets.
Brennan's room
"Brennan, time to get up." Shalimar walked towards his bed, and then had a wild idea. She walked back towards the door, when she reached it she turned around. She sprinted towards his bed, and jumped on it. "Wake up Brennan," Shalimar said as she was jumping up and down on his bed like a kid on Christmas morning.
"Shal," Brennan asked groggily, "what are you doing?"
"Adam told me to wake you up. No one else is sleeping so you don't get to either," she stopped jumping and sat down on his bed.
"Why aren't you asleep? You always sleep in late."
"Emma got me up. She's been having some problems. Come on, Jesse's making breakfast," Shalimar laughed as she said that.
Brennan made a face, "maybe we should go help him."
"Yeah you're right. Let's go," she practically dragged him out of his bed and into the kitchen. "Look who got up."
"Hey Brennan."
"Want some omelets? I just made them," Jesse held out the platter with a grin on his face.
"Uh…actually Shal and I wanted cereal, right Shal?"
Shalimar smiled, "yeah."
"But you guys, I made breakfast," Jesse whined.
Stifling a giggle Emma said, "It's okay Jess, I'll eat an omelet. But you owe me big."
Walking over to her, he set the plate down, and whispered in her ear, "and just what do I owe you?"
"Guess," Emma said with a suggestive look on her face.
Brennan and Shalimar exchanged looks. Neither of them noticed how much time Jesse had been spending together, so hearing them talk to each other like that shocked them.
"Alright, I think this will help Emma." All four of them jumped at the sound of Adam's voice.
"What's the matter with Emma?"
Emma sighed; she knew Brennan might as well know, everybody else did. "Gabriel is after me and Shalimar. He made some deal with Eckhart," she was about to continue when she felt a hand grab her shoulder. Slowly turning around in her chair she came face to face with Gabriel.
"I know what you're thinking. They can't see me, so they won't be able to help you." His grip on her tightened.
"Let go," screamed Emma.
"Emma is Gabriel bothering you?"
She nodded her head, "he won't let go."
Adam tried to calm her down, "It's only in your head, he's not really touching you."
"I told you, you're mine, and when it's time both you and Shalimar are going to walk willingly into the Strand to be with me. Until then…" he kissed her and then disappeared.
"Emma are you okay? If he touched you again I swear I'll kill him," Jesse's eyes flashed with hatred for Gabriel.
"I'm fine, but Shalimar and I are in trouble. We have to get Gabriel out of our heads, or else he might get exactly what he wants."
"Will somebody please let me know what is going on?"
Adam filled him in while Jesse was trying to amuse the girls with really stupid jokes. "So how're we going to get Ashlocke? How are we supposed to protect Shalimar and Emma from him?"
Shalimar's eyes flashed yellow, "I don't need protection Brennan. I just need him out of my head."
All of the sudden one of the computers began to beep. They all ran into the lab, and Adam clicked on the screen.
"No." Adam read the screen. "Two new mutants were killed, but Eckhart managed to capture two others. They are now being held at Genomex. And we have to go save them."
A/N: I thought it would be more interesting to add Gabriel Ashlocke in the story (Ch. 4 was his first appearance). Who's going to break into Genomex? And will they succeed or is it a trap? Stay tuned and find out. And as always Read and Review!