Disclaimer: HEY! Didn't you read the other chapters? For the slow-learners
among us: I DO *NOT* OWN THEM!!!
A.N.: I put a little name-joke thingy in here. Just for sport, I'd like to see if you V.P.-fans know what I mean. :p
Chapter 3: The evil in me.
~At the Sanctuary~
"Adam, I found a name to go with the face." Jesse said. "You did? Show me." Jesse called up what he'd found.
"The girl's name is Teri Jones-Scott. Part of this religious group of assassins 'Neo-Genesis' and married to group leader Douglas Scott a.k.a. The Snake." Jesse read.
"Are they new-mutants?" "No, but they do kill them. It says on their web- site, and I quote 'there are freaks among us. They need to be annihilated, so are the words of Wrath.' Really weird." "The words of Wrath? Where did I hear that before?"
"I never heard of it, but I'll look it up. Oh, I found out something else as well... Guess who their latest client is."
"Genomex?" "Dead on." "Thought so, we better warn Shalimar and Emma then." "Already tried that, I can't get a hold of them. I'm guessing Shal's is off because of what happened." "Well, they're in the hospital right?" "Yeah, that's what she said." "Then let's go."
~At the hospital~
Emma pulled away: "You okay again?"
"Yeah, thanks." "Let's get back to the Sanctuary, shall we?" "Yeah let's do that." And they left for the Sanctuary.
In the meanwhile Adam and Jesse arrive at the hospital.
"What room is he in?"
"I don't know, but he does." Jesse said pointing to a doctor "Dr. Sullivan!"
"Ah you're one of Mr. Mulwray's friends right?"
"Right. Do you know which room he's in?"
"Yes of course follow me." He walked to the elevators and went in. "He's on the third floor." When the elevator indicated they were past the second floor he stopped it.
"Something wrong doctor?" Adam asked.
"Oh no, Mr. Kane, everything's just fine." He pulled some kind of gun and shot them with it. "Don't worry, they're only tranquilizers." Sullivan smiled.
~With the girls~
They entered the Sanctuary.
"Adam?! Jesse?!" Emma called out "That's strange, no-one's here."
"Let's go check the computer." Shal suggested "Hey look Jesse found a match for the... Oh my God!" "What Shal?"
"It's Teri."
"What? Who's Teri? What are you talking about?"
"I-I can't explain, I'm going to my room" Shalimar looked as if she was going cry again and ran off.
[Shalimar's POV]
When I saw her name, her face on the screen I instantly remembered my past. The one I hid so well from the others, the one with all the mistakes, the one I ran away from. I found myself running again, this time to the safety of my room, where I quickly buried my face in my pillows to fight the tears.
Why did she had to come back? Teri was the only person in high-school who took the time and the trouble to be my friend. Everyone else thought of me as a freak, a weird kid who often came to school with cuts and bruises. But Teri.... Teri was always there for me. I could talk to her about everything, how I felt, what went on at home, everything.
Not long after, friendship turned into something more, well, intimate. One evening I did something wrong again, or so my father thought. He'd raised his hand to hit me again when Teri came rushing into the room. Yelling at my father for wanting to hit me, she told me to collect my stuff and come with her. We went to a motel and there we kissed, for the first time. But I still didn't feel comfortable in my own skin, so after four weeks I left, leaving a note for her, telling her not to come and look for me. Telling her that it was for the best. It was the first and only time I cared for a woman.
I heard a knock on my door and then my name being called. "Shalimar? Shalimar can I come in? Please..."
I strolled to the door and opened it. "Can I come in?" Emma asked me with the most concerned look ever. "Yeah, whatever, come in."
She sat down on the bed. After an eternity of silence, I had the gut to say something. "Why don't you just tell me what you want to know." "Because I'm waiting for you to tell me." "You wanna know who Teri is right?" "For starters, yes."
I explained everything, getting occasional nods of understanding from Emma. In the meanwhile losing the fight against my tears... Again. Emma put an arm around me and pulled me into yet another embrace, not that I had a problem with it. When we'd both away, she looked at me for a minute, then she leaned in and closed her eyes. My response was doing the same but just before our lips met I stopped. My brain screaming for some sanity.
"I'm sorry Emma, I just can't." I got up and left, at least I tried to. "You're not getting away that easily!" Emma's voice had turned from caring to cold, hard and commanding.
"What?" "You heard me, you're not going ANYwhere. Not this time."
"Emma what are you talking about?" "For months I've been screaming for your attention, hoping you would notice me. But no, you had to chose Brennan. Brennan for God's sake!" The last words she practically screamed. "It was always Brennan this, Brennan that. You never saw what it did to ME! ME, Shalimar, ME! I'm the one who cares most about you of this whole fucking team! Your just another score for Brennan's record, I really care about you. You belong to ME."
"Emma are you INSANE?!" I couldn't believe what she just said.
"No, I'm perfectly fine, but you're not." She took out a gun, I knew I had to get the hell out of there. "That's right FREAK! RUN!" Her laugh sounded evil to me, pure evil.
[General POV]
All the lights went out. Shalimar tried to cope with what she just heard, saw and felt. What was wrong with Emma? Where were Adam and Jesse?
"You can't get out Shalimar! I locked the Sanctuary completely, no-one can get in or out. It'll be a matter of minutes before I find you!"
~With Jesse and Adam~
They were brought to a closed wing of the hospital blindfolded and everything.
"Hey, wake up freak." A low male voice spoke to Jesse "And don't even try to use your powers. I implanted a subdermal governor so it won't help." The man took the blindfolds off.
"You! You're Douglas Scott!" Jesse said.
"Good guess freak, you did your homework. So you must be Jesse and YOU are Adam." Douglas said.
"Sullivan, you're in this too?"
"That's Scott, not Sullivan. Micheal Scott. I'm Douglas' stepbrother."
"Why are you doing this?" Adam demanded.
"First of all, we're getting paid BIG time. 1 million for each of you if you're dead. 2.5 million for every living sample. And second, your teammate, Emma, has some... Let's say issues I have to solve with her."
"Emma? What do you want with Emma?" Jesse asked.
"What, my little pet didn't tell you about her past? I'm her past, just your run-of-the-mill ex."
"You're Emma's ex?" "Correct again! I think we're dealing with a smartass here. You can shut up now."
~Back in the Sanctuary~
"Shalimar..." Emma drew the name out teasingly. "Come out, come out, where- ever you are!" Suddenly Shalimar stood in front of her.
"There you are!" Shalimar swung a fist at her, which Emma blocked with ease.
"Oh don't look so surprised Shalimar." Emma laughed "You can't hurt me, you never could." And she knocked Shalimar to the ground.
"Emma, why are you doing this?"
"I'm sick and tired of this crap." She pointed the gun towards Shalimar "So if I can't have you... Well you know what comes next."
Shalimar closed her eyes, waiting for the sound of a trigger being pulled. Everything seemed to go in slow-motion, but all of the sudden a female voice caught her attention.
"Get the hell away from her!" it yelled.
Emma looked disturbed and she turned around. "YOU?! What the hell are you doing here? How did you escape?"
Shalimar looked at the woman behind Emma... "EMMA?!"
TBC...
~~~~~
Yes, it is what you think. At this moment there are two Emma's but how? Why? Hmm... You just have to wait 'n see.
A.N.: I put a little name-joke thingy in here. Just for sport, I'd like to see if you V.P.-fans know what I mean. :p
Chapter 3: The evil in me.
~At the Sanctuary~
"Adam, I found a name to go with the face." Jesse said. "You did? Show me." Jesse called up what he'd found.
"The girl's name is Teri Jones-Scott. Part of this religious group of assassins 'Neo-Genesis' and married to group leader Douglas Scott a.k.a. The Snake." Jesse read.
"Are they new-mutants?" "No, but they do kill them. It says on their web- site, and I quote 'there are freaks among us. They need to be annihilated, so are the words of Wrath.' Really weird." "The words of Wrath? Where did I hear that before?"
"I never heard of it, but I'll look it up. Oh, I found out something else as well... Guess who their latest client is."
"Genomex?" "Dead on." "Thought so, we better warn Shalimar and Emma then." "Already tried that, I can't get a hold of them. I'm guessing Shal's is off because of what happened." "Well, they're in the hospital right?" "Yeah, that's what she said." "Then let's go."
~At the hospital~
Emma pulled away: "You okay again?"
"Yeah, thanks." "Let's get back to the Sanctuary, shall we?" "Yeah let's do that." And they left for the Sanctuary.
In the meanwhile Adam and Jesse arrive at the hospital.
"What room is he in?"
"I don't know, but he does." Jesse said pointing to a doctor "Dr. Sullivan!"
"Ah you're one of Mr. Mulwray's friends right?"
"Right. Do you know which room he's in?"
"Yes of course follow me." He walked to the elevators and went in. "He's on the third floor." When the elevator indicated they were past the second floor he stopped it.
"Something wrong doctor?" Adam asked.
"Oh no, Mr. Kane, everything's just fine." He pulled some kind of gun and shot them with it. "Don't worry, they're only tranquilizers." Sullivan smiled.
~With the girls~
They entered the Sanctuary.
"Adam?! Jesse?!" Emma called out "That's strange, no-one's here."
"Let's go check the computer." Shal suggested "Hey look Jesse found a match for the... Oh my God!" "What Shal?"
"It's Teri."
"What? Who's Teri? What are you talking about?"
"I-I can't explain, I'm going to my room" Shalimar looked as if she was going cry again and ran off.
[Shalimar's POV]
When I saw her name, her face on the screen I instantly remembered my past. The one I hid so well from the others, the one with all the mistakes, the one I ran away from. I found myself running again, this time to the safety of my room, where I quickly buried my face in my pillows to fight the tears.
Why did she had to come back? Teri was the only person in high-school who took the time and the trouble to be my friend. Everyone else thought of me as a freak, a weird kid who often came to school with cuts and bruises. But Teri.... Teri was always there for me. I could talk to her about everything, how I felt, what went on at home, everything.
Not long after, friendship turned into something more, well, intimate. One evening I did something wrong again, or so my father thought. He'd raised his hand to hit me again when Teri came rushing into the room. Yelling at my father for wanting to hit me, she told me to collect my stuff and come with her. We went to a motel and there we kissed, for the first time. But I still didn't feel comfortable in my own skin, so after four weeks I left, leaving a note for her, telling her not to come and look for me. Telling her that it was for the best. It was the first and only time I cared for a woman.
I heard a knock on my door and then my name being called. "Shalimar? Shalimar can I come in? Please..."
I strolled to the door and opened it. "Can I come in?" Emma asked me with the most concerned look ever. "Yeah, whatever, come in."
She sat down on the bed. After an eternity of silence, I had the gut to say something. "Why don't you just tell me what you want to know." "Because I'm waiting for you to tell me." "You wanna know who Teri is right?" "For starters, yes."
I explained everything, getting occasional nods of understanding from Emma. In the meanwhile losing the fight against my tears... Again. Emma put an arm around me and pulled me into yet another embrace, not that I had a problem with it. When we'd both away, she looked at me for a minute, then she leaned in and closed her eyes. My response was doing the same but just before our lips met I stopped. My brain screaming for some sanity.
"I'm sorry Emma, I just can't." I got up and left, at least I tried to. "You're not getting away that easily!" Emma's voice had turned from caring to cold, hard and commanding.
"What?" "You heard me, you're not going ANYwhere. Not this time."
"Emma what are you talking about?" "For months I've been screaming for your attention, hoping you would notice me. But no, you had to chose Brennan. Brennan for God's sake!" The last words she practically screamed. "It was always Brennan this, Brennan that. You never saw what it did to ME! ME, Shalimar, ME! I'm the one who cares most about you of this whole fucking team! Your just another score for Brennan's record, I really care about you. You belong to ME."
"Emma are you INSANE?!" I couldn't believe what she just said.
"No, I'm perfectly fine, but you're not." She took out a gun, I knew I had to get the hell out of there. "That's right FREAK! RUN!" Her laugh sounded evil to me, pure evil.
[General POV]
All the lights went out. Shalimar tried to cope with what she just heard, saw and felt. What was wrong with Emma? Where were Adam and Jesse?
"You can't get out Shalimar! I locked the Sanctuary completely, no-one can get in or out. It'll be a matter of minutes before I find you!"
~With Jesse and Adam~
They were brought to a closed wing of the hospital blindfolded and everything.
"Hey, wake up freak." A low male voice spoke to Jesse "And don't even try to use your powers. I implanted a subdermal governor so it won't help." The man took the blindfolds off.
"You! You're Douglas Scott!" Jesse said.
"Good guess freak, you did your homework. So you must be Jesse and YOU are Adam." Douglas said.
"Sullivan, you're in this too?"
"That's Scott, not Sullivan. Micheal Scott. I'm Douglas' stepbrother."
"Why are you doing this?" Adam demanded.
"First of all, we're getting paid BIG time. 1 million for each of you if you're dead. 2.5 million for every living sample. And second, your teammate, Emma, has some... Let's say issues I have to solve with her."
"Emma? What do you want with Emma?" Jesse asked.
"What, my little pet didn't tell you about her past? I'm her past, just your run-of-the-mill ex."
"You're Emma's ex?" "Correct again! I think we're dealing with a smartass here. You can shut up now."
~Back in the Sanctuary~
"Shalimar..." Emma drew the name out teasingly. "Come out, come out, where- ever you are!" Suddenly Shalimar stood in front of her.
"There you are!" Shalimar swung a fist at her, which Emma blocked with ease.
"Oh don't look so surprised Shalimar." Emma laughed "You can't hurt me, you never could." And she knocked Shalimar to the ground.
"Emma, why are you doing this?"
"I'm sick and tired of this crap." She pointed the gun towards Shalimar "So if I can't have you... Well you know what comes next."
Shalimar closed her eyes, waiting for the sound of a trigger being pulled. Everything seemed to go in slow-motion, but all of the sudden a female voice caught her attention.
"Get the hell away from her!" it yelled.
Emma looked disturbed and she turned around. "YOU?! What the hell are you doing here? How did you escape?"
Shalimar looked at the woman behind Emma... "EMMA?!"
TBC...
~~~~~
Yes, it is what you think. At this moment there are two Emma's but how? Why? Hmm... You just have to wait 'n see.