Once again I remind you this chapter is not my work but shadow_fox3553's work. All I do is edit the chapters but I still hope you like it.

Both Jesse and Adam gave one another puzzled looks at how Shalimar had reacted to Brennan. "Let's go have a talk with Emma shall we?" Jesse nodded and followed Adam out the lab. They walked to Emma's room across from Shalimar's.

"Hey Emma, you in there?!?" Jesse asked just outside her door. When there was no answer they opened the door slowly and found the room to be empty. Adam raised his ring to his mouth.

"Emma" he called out. They turned their heads to where they herd Adam's voice from a comlink. It was just past Emma's bed they rushed over and found her laying on the floor unconscious. "Oh my God, Emma." Jesse picked her up and went to the lab with Adam right behind him. He placed her on the chair in the center of the room. The familiar yellow beam scanned her from head to toe.

"What's wrong with her Adam?" Jesse asked with a worried expression on his face.

"Give me a chance to look at the monitor first" He turned around after he had seen the results with a look of disappointment on his face.

"So what's wrong with her?" Jesse asked impatiently.

"Her brain wave frequency levels are high, too high" he sighed

"So what is that suppose to mean Adam," Jesse gave him the look that said "and in English please".

"I don't exactly know how to explain it, it's kind of like having a war with your self in your mind."

"That doesn't help, so what caused it?"

"I don't know yet but I a have feeling it has to do with Ashlocke and how everything is going crazy around here"

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Brennan sat by the reflecting pool reading his poetry book. "Maybe I should go talk to her…" he told himself. "but what if she doesn't want to talk to me though?" he asked, "well then she will just have to listen." He made up his mind, closed his book and went to her room.

He knocked on the door, knowing she wouldn't answer him he walked in. He found her sitting on the bed, her eyes red and puffy from crying.

" Am I the reason she's crying?" The hurt he had expanded.

"Shal can we talk?" he asked moving a few feet closer to her bed. At the first step he took she got up from the bed and went to the corner of her room trying to get away from him.

"Shal please. Just tell me what I did." He sighed.

He ran his hand through his dark hair "Well if you're not going to talk then just listen." He looked her straight in the eye but she turned her head away avoiding his gaze. He shook his head.

"Fine!" He said sounding harsher then he had meant to which caused her to jerk her head back and look at him and a tear rolled down her cheek.

Brennan moved a few steps closer but stopped when he saw her starting to panic when she realized she couldn't back up anymore.

"Look Shal, I don't know what I did to make you angry at me, and what ever stupid thing I did I'm sorry. You're not making things easier by not telling me what I did." He looked at her with sad eyes. "Please Shal just tell me. You know I would never hurt you intentionally, you're my best friend."

His last statement only seemed to make things worse. "GO AWAY!!" She screamed.

"Would you just listen to me?" He asked "Please just tell me what I did or whatever you think I did so I can apologize. I hate it when you're mad at me" When he obtained no answer he got up and walked to the door before leaving he turned to her "I'm sorry that you would actually think I would hurt you on purpose. I thought you knew me better then that, but I guess not." With that he left her room and slammed the door of his own room after entering causing her to jump.

"Please, don't tell me you believed any of that?"

"GET THE HELL OUT!!" Her mind exclaimed.

"Shalimar you are trying too hard to get rid of me. You need me. You just don't know it yet and soon you will need me to know what I did to Emma." He told her.

"What do you mean, 'what you did to Emma'?" She asked with a note of fear in her voice, "What did you do to her?!?!"

"Why don't you go ask Adam?" with that he left.

Though she was angry with her 'friend' she couldn't help but worry and ran out of her room heading straight to the lab knowing Adam would be there.

"Adam he did something to Emma" she rushed into the lab.

"Calm down Shalimar, who's he?" He asked though deep down knew the answer to his question.

"Gabriel, he did something to her and told me to ask you."

"Well I don't exactly know what he did to her, but her brain waves are extremely high and knowing Gabriel the only thing I can guess is she having a mental battle with herself, caused by him." he told her.

"He is a very smart man"

"What?" she asked the voice in her head not knowing she had spoken out loud.

Adam thinking she was talking to him answered her. "Like I said it's just a guess, but…" He was cut off by Shalimar.

"I wasn't talking to you Adam." After seeing the puzzled look she received she quickly said, "I was just thinking out loud. Is there anything you can do, to help her?" He shook his head.

"No, not until I know what Gabriel did to her."

"I know what I did to her" Ashlocke grinned mockingly, while leaning on the wall behind Adam.

She left the lab and told Adam to tell her if he needed anything and walked back to her room.

"What did you do to her?!?" She asked again, losing temper.

"Well let's just say if I don't tell you how to reverse what I did she will die." He smiled enjoying the moment though he had no idea that his plan would change so as much as it has. But, he thought to himself, 'things are going just the way I wanted them to, not the way I originally wanted things to go but either way I get Shalimar' he couldn't help but smile.

"And what exactly would it take for you to tell us what you did to her" She saw his smile widen.

"You know all it would take for me to tell you how to reverse what I did is…" he paused as if thinking. "YOU!"

"You can't be serious," She said furiously.

"You know I wouldn't joke about something like that." She just sent a death glare at him.

"Well I will let you think about it, but remember if you don't come to me Adam will never figure out what I did and then Emma will die." He stopped, about to leave her mind.

"But then again who cares? She did betray you and hurt you, but I'm sure she enjoyed every moment she had with Brennan" He left. Shalimar picked up her alarm clock and threw it across the room causing it to bust when it hit the wall.

'What am I suppose to do?' She asked her self-trying to make up her mind. "Maybe I should just let her get what she deserves… No Shalimar!" she stopped her train of thought. "She's your best friend…. Was you best friend…oh why are things always this complicated." She thought to herself. Several minutes later she had made up her mind. For the rest of the night she had nothing else to do, so she got up, went to her bathroom, showered, then went to bed.

TBC…

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