COMPLETE! Well here's the final chapter, I hope you enjoyed this tag team style of writing. Of course I didn't originally plan on it but it worked out very well. Once again I only edited it so review to give your comments to the writer.

Shalimar lay awake in her bed for two hours thinking whether she was making the right decision or not before she decided to get up, take a shower and hoped everything would work for the best.

"Hey man" Jesse said walking up to Brennan who was sitting on top of the stairs of the dojo.

"Hey Jess what's up?" He said not looking away from the spot on the wall he had been staring at.

"Not much, did you talk to her?" he asked referring to Shalimar

Brennan shook his head yes "she won't talk to me though." He said with a frown "she won't listen to me, she won't even look me in the eye for more then two seconds!" Brennan said getting frustrated.

"Well just give her a little time" he gave him a reassured smile, but it didn't seem to do any good

"How's Emma?"

"Adam can't figure out what Gabriel did to her and so there is nothing he can do right now"

"Oh, you want to play some basketball?" he asked, quickly changing the subject noticing that it upset him to talk about it. Jesse noticed what Brennan did and smiled thankful that this subject did not have to continue. He nodded and both walked up the stairs to where the basketball hoop was. As they were getting ready to play Brennan turned to where he thought he had heard something,

"Did you hear that?"

Jesse shook his head no; "you're hearing things"

"Yeah, you're probably right" he shook the thought out of his head and started playing.

*****

Shalimar sighed in relief that she had managed to sneak out without being caught, not that she had to try hard not to be heard. When she was a couple miles away from Sanctuary she starting wondering if leaving her friends without saying goodbye to their face was the right thing to do but as quick as that thought was in her head it left. She told herself that leaving was the right thing to do, saying goodbye would just be too hard and Adam wouldn't let her go anyway.

She rode for an hour until she got to the warehouse where Gabriel had told her to go to. She parked her bike hid the keys in her bike and walked into the warehouse. The second she entered Shalimar found her self surrounded by five new mutants and a couple that stood farther from her than the rest. To her left she found a man of about 5'2 with blond hair and very bulky. Next to him stood a slightly taller brunette girl. The Two girls standing not very far from her look like identical twins both with light brown hair. But the one that caught her attention more was the man closest to her right. He had dark hair, dark eyes, and was tall. He instantly reminded her of Brennan and she felt all the hurt inside.

"Shalimar" she snapped her head away from the man to her right and to the familiar face of Gabriel Ashlocke.

"Glad to see you came, I knew you would." he turned his head the girl standing next to him. "See, I told you it would work didn't I Sharon?" she nodded in reply they both turned their attention back to Shalimar.

"Cut the crap. We had a deal! I only came so that you would tell me what you did to Emma"

"Well Shalimar, I didn't know you wanted to get straight to business. In that case I have a bedroom in the back where we won't be disturbed." he smiled seductively at her, she let out a low growl.

"What did you do to her?" she ignored his comment but that didn't mean she hadn't heard it.

"What if you change your mind and leave after I tell you what I did?" she looked at the guys and the girls surrounding her then looked at him.

"Just tell me what you did to her and as long as Adam finds a cure you have my word I won't leave."

"You know Shalimar you are such a loyal friend. I don't know why you are here after what Emma did to you."

"Well it was you that was controlling her" She shot back.

"Oh is that what you think? Well Shalimar, let me inform you that I did no such thing. All I did was tell her to relax and be loose with the help of Sharon here of course and the rest well the rest was all Emma's doing."

His comment seemed to have gotten her thinking about her decision to come here but she threw the thought out as soon as she realized she was thinking it. "Just tell me what you did to her!!!" she shouted, her voice becoming horse.

"It's simple really and it's not what I did to her, it was all thanks to Sharon." he gave a smile to the girl next to him.

"Well right about now Emma is probably having a mental battle between her conscious and unconscious emotions" he then went on. "What am I talking about you ask? Well she's battling with the her every day emotions like being nice, comforting, caring and the emotions she keeps well hidden like being relaxed not having to worry about hurting people and not showing her true feelings."

"How do you reverse it?" she asked getting irritated with him.

He looked at Sharon who only shook her head "I can't reverse it. I'm not strong enough."

"All you have to do, I'm sorry, Adam has to do is find someone strong enough to reverse it" Shalimar hoped that Adam had heard all that.

****

Adam had moved to the computer as soon as he heard the familiar voice of Shalimar. He heard everything that was exchanged between the two and was surprised that he hadn't even noticed she was not at Sanctuary. He quickly began tracking her comlink when the signal disconnected he cursed out loud.

"What's wrong Adam?" Jesse asked as he and Brennan made there way toward him.

"Shalimar went to Gabriel to find out what he did to Emma. We have what we want now, the reason why Emma's brain waves are so high," Adam sighed. "and he has what he wants now, Shalimar."

"What!" Brennan shouted. "What do you mean he has her?!? we have to go get her back right now!! Did you get a location?"

"Brennan, take a deep breath would you? I know you are worried about her but we can't just go in there and get her out, first we have to make a plan. I don't have her location but I have some sources that might know where the strand is. Jesse I want you to get on the computer and search the database for a very strong psionic. That is our only chance of getting Emma cured and then hopefully she will get a hit off of Shalimar and we can go get her"

He turned to Brennan who was obviously displeased with the way Adam was doing everything, he just wanted to go get Shalimar back. Adam seemed to know what he was thinking and continued "we can't go in there with just two new mutants and myself. We will be incredibly out numbered and then we won't have a chance of getting her back at all."

Brennan nodded but it didn't mean he had to agree with the plan. "Do you have anything for me, or can I just go to my room" He said unpleasantly.

"No, nothing at the moment." Brennan turned and left the lab and made his way to his room. He glanced at the door to Shalimar's room and hoped they would get her back, it just wouldn't be the same without her. Then all he had to do was fix everything between them.

****

Shalimar woke up to find her self in a dark room not remembering what had happened and then it all came rushing back at once. One second she had hoped Adam had heard everything and then out of nowhere she was hit in the back of the head by the man that reminded her so much of Brennan.

"Even his look alike hurt me. That's telling me something," she thought to herself.

"Shalimar you're awake. How did you sleep? The bed wasn't to uncomfortable was it?"

"What do you care how I slept and for the record just being here is uncomfortable." She growled at him less than pleased about being here and his stupid little questions that did their job of getting on her nerves only made it worse.

"Oh Shalimar, why do you always have to be so harsh, don't you see that I care for you?" Shalimar just rolled her eyes, she had heard all this before.

He got angry and entered her head. "Why do you have to be like this Shalimar? I love you, he doesn't. You're in love with the wrong guy and you know it. He has done nothing but hurt you, don't you want something better then that?" He stopped in hopes that she would answer him and tell him he was right but she just sat there and stared at him as if he hadn't said a word.

"Well, now I will leave you but we'll see if you change your mind by the time I get back." He left her head and in a matter of seconds images began to fill her head.

****

Jesse got up from the computer letting it do its job on finding a Psionic and went into the lab where Emma lay on the bed. He stared at her for awhile and all the anger he had toward her for kissing Brennan and leading him on vanished. He smiled and left when he heard the computer beep.

He looked at the photographs of the people that matched what he had been searching for. Two female three male he looked at the profiles of all of them. The men were not as strong enough to do the job. He looked at the two girls remaining one was young yet strong, very strong. She once helped wipe out the memory of a large audience that had witnessed a fight between a group of mutants and GSA agents. She was the one, all he had to do was tell Adam.

Adam returned with a small smile on his face. "Jesse did you find anything?" Jesse nodded. "Josephine Parker. She's only sixteen but she is a very strong psionic"

"Did you find out where they are Adam?" Brennan walked toward them.

"Yes, they are at an abandoned warehouse. I want you two to go get Josephine and explain to her why we need her while I work a plan. We'll still need Emma to help find Shalimar it's not exactly a small warehouse." Both nodded and hurried to the Double Helix.

***

They reached the building where the girl was supposedly living. Jesse knocked once… no answer. He knocked again… no answer he tried a third and a fourth time when no one answered they turned to leave but the door swung open.

Both Jesse and Brennan looked at the young girl standing in front of them she looked much older then she was. "Hi, can I help you?" she asked looking at them strangely.

Neither answered for a few minutes. "Look you just interrupted my shower so you better have a good reason for it other then just standing there." She told them a bit annoyed, but there was no harm in what she had said.

"Hi" Jesse said shyly noticing the girl had been in the shower no wonder it took her forever to get the door.

"Look, we need your help." Brennan said not wanting waste anytime.

"What do you mean you need my help, you don't even know me."

"Can we just come in, we can't talk about this out here."

"No! I don't even know you so would you please just leave"

"We know you're a… new mutant" Jesse said the last part quietly. "So can you please help us?" The girl looked him in the eye and saw that he wouldn't cause her harm and let them enter.

Brennan and Jesse told her about themselves and Mutant X and explained the whole story to her. She sat there for a few seconds quiet. "And I'm the only one that can help you?" she asked not believing that part, she was only sixteen.

"Yes, you're the only one strong enough for the job." Jesse replied. She nodded as though thinking.

"Okay, I'll do it. Just give me time to change and don't try anything 'funny' I'm a psionic after all." She told them with a grin. It felt like eternity before the girl came out of the room she had entered only moments before.

***

Standing before Emma, she turned to the older man that had told her what she needed to do. She sighed and returned her attention the women lying on the bed. She concentrated for a full five minutes before she started to break that link that was there. Josephine had felt it the instant she had entered Emma's mind. She slowly began breaking the link piece by piece, like breaking apart an intricate puzzle.

***

Gabriel was lying on his bed when his head started to feel like someone was pounding it with a sledgehammer. After what seemed like forever the pain stopped but he had a minor headache like a bunch of needles poking at the back of his mind.

Shalimar was relieved that the horrid images of Emma and Brennan together and of Brennan rejecting her stopped, yet she was worried that Gabriel was coming. She waited several minutes, when no one came she put her ear close to the door to listen and see if someone was coming. When she didn't hear anything she tried the door handle which was surprisingly unlocked. Guess the part of the images stopping wasn't part of Ashlocke's plan.

She made her way down the halls without being detected by anyone. Just as she thought she was free a strand member yelled after her. Shalimar started running for the door, threw it open and fled down the street into an alley. She found herself at a dead end and surrounded.

"Great just what I need." She said and started to fight. The odds of winning this one were slim and she knew it. She felt a kick hit her back and she fell to the floor trying to catch her breath but the kicking didn't seem to stop.

"Gabriel doesn't want her dead!" Sharon yelled at the other members and they refrained from kicking knowing all too well what Gabriel would do to them if they killed her. Just as two of the men bent down and picked her up by the shoulders bolts of electricity came at them from the other end of the ally. The two dropped Shalimar to the ground as they collapsed. She made a small cry as she slammed to the floor.

Brennan ran over to her as Jesse, Emma and Adam fought the remaining mutants. "Hey, you okay?" He asked her with a smile on his face. She didn't answer him but just stared at him.

"Shal please say something, I know you're mad at me but just tell me your going to be okay. Please." He wanted to hear it from her.

She knew Emma was under Gabriel's control, still it hurt her. She gave him a small smile, she had never been able to stay angry with him. "It hurts" she told him. He noticed she was having difficulty breathing.

"Adam will fix it when we get to Sanctuary" He smiled at her glad she was no longer mad at him. "Hey Shal?" he said softly.

She opened her eyes and looked at him. "Do you think that maybe we can go out to dinner or a drink or something?" he asked quietly.

"I'd love too." She said it so softly that he hadn't heard her and took it as a bad sign

"If you don't want to it's fine, I understand." he was stopped by her reply

"Brennan, I said I would."

"Oh, okay" he said as he started turning red and looking a bit sheepish.

Adam and the rest of the team ran over to Shalimar and Brennan. "Hey you okay?" Adam asked concerned.

"I can't breathe." was all Shal answered.

Brennan carried her into the Helix, when they entered Jesse flew them back home. Emma went to where the rest of the team was. "I'm so sorry you guys. I didn't mean to do any of the things I did" she turned her attention more to Shalimar "I'm so sorry Shal it's all my fault you got hurt." Her eyes began to water.

"It's not your fault" was all she could say before she started coughing up blood, which only seemed to make Emma sob even more.

"She's right Emma, it's not your fault, you didn't control what you did." Brennan told her.

"I knew what I was doing and I should have stopped myself but I didn't"

"Ashlocke was controlling you, you didn't have a choice Emma. Don't be so hard on yourself" Adam told her.

"Yeah but she could have died because of me."

"Yes she could have but she also didn't because of you."

The Double Helix landed and they rushed Shalimar to the lab. The team waited outside as Adam bandaged Shalimar. He came out after an hour or so.

"How is she Adam?" asked Emma who had stopped crying but her cheeks were still tear-stained.

"She has broken her rib and punctured her lung but after some time she will be fine. So I need you guys to make sure she doesn't go fighting holograms any time soon. Or running the usual. I don't want the stitches to break."

"Can we see her?"

"She's asleep and I suggest you all do the same and you can see her in the morning." All three nodded and went to their rooms.

Brennan walked to the lab as quietly as he could when he couldn't get any sleep. He walked into the lab and right over to where Shalimar was lying. He smiled. "She's so beautiful, even when she's hurt" He was pulled out of his thought.

"Hey"

"Hey" he said quietly "How are you feeling?"

"I'm ok…" she paused "Brennan I'm sorry for the way I reacted to you, I didn't know. I knew you wouldn't hurt me like that but I just couldn't get the images out of my head and then Gabriel he…" she was cut off.

"Its okay Shal… what ever that sick bastard told you it's not true ok? What ever you saw I would never do that to you okay?" she nodded.

"Now why don't you get some sleep so you can recover and you and I can kick his ass." He gave her a kiss on the forehead and turned to leave but was stopped by hey hand holding on to his arm.

"Stay" He turned around

"Are you sure?"

"Please" she gave him a small smile that always got to him and she knew it. "I don't want to sleep I'm not tired anymore" he nodded grabbed a chair that was by the wall and sat by her.

"So where do you want to go for dinner" He asked, getting a conversation started.

"Well it depends."

"On what?"

"Are you going to pay?" she asked innocently

He gave a little laugh. "Of course!"

"Umm… there's a new restaurant I have been wanting to try out I hear it's good, they have everything."

"Sounds good to me"

***

Next morning everyone was up bright and early happy to have the whole team together again. Adam walked into the lab not surprised to find Brennan already there. "Morning Adam!"

"Morning. How did you two sleep?"

"Great" they both answered.

Adam raised an eyebrow and shook his head "Adam can I go get some food? I'm starving." He nodded

"Just don't do exhausting activities unless you want to be back in that bed" She nodded.

"I won't."

"Ok go eat you are not looking to good." He teased.

"Thanks Adam" she said as she and Brennan left for the lab.

***

"Hey Emma do you want to go out some time?"

"Like a date?"

"Yeah if you want to that is"

"Are you sure you still want to after what I did?" she asked upset with her actions.

"I'm positive now stop blaming your self." She nodded and he smiled, happy she had accepted. Brennan and Shalimar walked into the kitchen to find Jesse and Emma already there.

"Hey guys" Shalimar greeted

"Hey Shal, how you feeling?"

"Great can't wait to eat though." she smiles at Emma knowing well what she was thinking. "Don't even think about it Emma, I know what you're thinking and I want you to stop. It wasn't your fault." She walked over to the fridge. That conversation was over and Emma knew it.

***

"I can't believe you lost her," Gabriel yelled furiously.

"Gabriel we'll get her next time. Getting Emma wasn't hard the first time we can do it again" Sharon told him calming him down a bit.

"But they will know what to do next time" he shouted at her.

"We'll find a way."

"We better" he told her warningly "Before my time is up"

Tell me if you think I should continue on from this point to form an on going story or should I just make each story separate. Basically I want to know if you liked my style of writing (The first 4 chapters) and if you liked that idea cause I got a truckload of ideas just waiting to be written down. So feedback please!