Adam had managed to haul Jesse off of Gabriel. It had been tough but the fact that Shalimar was no longer where she had been helped shock him into a more passive state of mind. Emma was talking to Jesse now, trying to get him to calm down some more. He still looked murderous and she was scared that next time he would just end up hurting himself.
Adam had debated going after Shalimar and Brennan himself but he figured he needed to be here to keep an eye on Gabriel. He was leaning against the wall that Jesse had tried to push him through minutes before catching his breath. As Gabriel noticed Adam watching him he straightened himself up and threw Adam an infuriating grin. Adam wanted to punch Gabriel himself. But he had to keep watch for Shalimar. If she came back he wanted to be one of the first people she saw.
Adam looked around him. He hadn't noticed but the immediate vicinity was disappearing fast. Adam knew that if Shalimar remained in the same mind-set she had been in when Mutant X had arrived this world wouldn't be around for much longer. Gradually it would continue to disintegrate and as the areas people were in disappeared they would either get ejected from her mind into the real world or would fall into some kind of vortex. Atleast, that was the theory. Adam had never been in this situation before and not being a psionic he didn't know what the normal way of things was. Emma had never been in this kind of situation either so right now she couldn't help him out a whole lot. They would just have to wait and see.
That was the part that killed Emma. The waiting. The not knowing. She could analyse the weather and see if there was any improvement through that medium but there was no way she would be able to help if they all got sucked into some kind of black hole. And she hated the way Gabriel was screwing with all of them. Atleast when he was alive, Mutant X could have put up some kind of offence, they could have fought him. But seeing Shalimar at the point where she was considering giving it all up had drained them. They couldn't fight; they could just sit and watch on as Shalimar's life fell down around them. She wandered around trying to keep busy so she didn't over think the whole thing to the point where she got hysterical.
She could sense how much this whole thing was killing Jesse. He knew Shalimar the best; he had been with her the longest and had been through everything with her. Emma would have been surprised if it wasn't tearing him up inside to see her hurting like she was.
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