Part 7

11 months later

The figure crept quietly and slowly down the hall making sure the bundle she had with her was asleep. This was the second hardest thing had had to do in the past year but she had to keep them all safe, it was her instinct to protect those she cared about even if meant hurting them. Placing a note for Adam on a table in the lab she crept towards her old room, opened the door, moved inside, and placed the bundle on her desk with another note, this one addressed to Brennan.

The tears began to fall as she looked down at her sleeping child "I know you will be safe here" she kissing the baby on its forehead "I love you" making sure to leave the door to her room slightly ajar so that if the baby cried someone would hear. With that done Shalimar once again left the place she had called home.

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Adam walked into his lab and immediately noticed the letter on the table. Picking it up he read it and without a second thought ran to where the note had instructed him to.

She could swear she could hear a baby crying. Emma thought to herself as she opened the door to her room just in time to see Adam fly by her towards Shalimar's old room. Quickly following him "Adam what is..." she never finished because there was Adam in Shalimar's room holding a small baby.

Emma was about to ask what was going on when Jesse and Brennan showed up. "What the hell is going on?" asked Jesse when he saw Adam holding a child

Adam merely looked from one to the other and then remembered what Shalimar's note had told him to do. "Jesse, Emma I want you to come with me to the lab, Brennan I believe that the note on the desk will explain everything" with that he simply moved past them and towards the lab with the baby.

"Come on Jesse lets catch up to Adam" said Emma pulling on the mans arm. She understood what Brennan was going through, he had told her what happened when he found Shal in a hotel in the city and the last 11 months had torn him up inside. The last he needed was them staring at him as he read a personal letter from the woman he loved

Picking up the letter Brennan got an instant feeling of déjà vu. Hoping against hope that the letter would tell him where to find her and confirm his suspicions that the child Adam was carrying was his, he read the letter:

Brennan,

  I know this the last thing you expected, I felt the same way when I found out. I wanted to contact you and tell but the people who I have been running from don't even know about Hailey. Yeah that is your daughter's name. I am so sorry for keeping this from you and just leaving her with you but I only want her and all of you to be safe. One day I hope to return home to you and our daughter but for now I need to stay away. Tell everyone I love them and miss them. I love you.

Love,

   Shalimar

p.s. she has your eyes

Folding the paper he just sat there contemplating what he had just read. He has a daughter, they have a daughter. Quickly he got up and ran towards the lab and towards his child.

He arrived to find Jesse and Emma making faces at the baby while Adam stood off to the side no doubt reading her test results. They all looked up when he entered. He was about ask Adam if the baby was healthy but he beat him to it

"She is perfectly fine" he said placing a hand on the young man's shoulder

Brennan smiled and walked over to his daughter and picked her up. Looking into her eyes he had to admit that Shalimar was right- she did have his eyes but she definitely had her mothers nose. He tried so hard not to cry and he cradled her in his arms and looked at his friends faces. "Her name is Hailey" he said as the baby grabbed his finger with her hand

"I know Shalimar left all her papers in the letter she left for me" replied Adam

"What else did she tell you?" asked Jesse

"She told me where to find the baby, and that she missed us and hoped that one day she would be able to return" he replied handing the note over the Jesse to read for himself.

"She asks you to run tests to see if Hailey will have the same genetic alterations as her" stated Emma who was reading over Jesse's shoulder

"Yes she did and from what I can see, whatever they did to Shalimar hasn't affected Hailey. She is however both feral and elemental"

"What?"

"She is both but her feral side is slightly stronger than her elemental side. Other than that she is perfectly healthy"

"Good" was all Brennan said as he walked out of the lab still holding a now sleeping Hailey.

"Well he took all that well" said Jesse as they watched he retreating form

"He misses her so much and yet he is happy to have a piece of her here with him" replied Emma

"Why don't you two go to the store and get supplies for Hailey" Jesse and Emma nodded and left the lab. Adam walked to his desk and opened the top drawer to reveal the second part of Shalimar's letter to him.

Adam,

 I've enclosed a sample of my blood for you to analyze. I am sorry that I didn't give you the chance to help me then but I want to be around to see my daughter grow up. Don't let Brennan come after me what I have to do I have to do on my own. Your probably wondering how I managed to survive this long and have child in the process? Well I had help and should you need any a man by the name of Dr. Strohm will be waiting for your call. He doesn't know where I will be so don't bother to ask him what he does know is what they did to me. Thank you for everything you have ever done for me.

Love,

 Shalimar