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"You didn't see who was next or you couldn't?" asked a confused Jesse
"Neither. There wasn't anything it was just total darkness" he replied still staring off in space
"How is that possible?" Emma asked him
"I don't know" he replied getting up and walking away from the team
Brennan and Jesse went to follow him but Adam stopped them. "No I think he needs to be alone right now"
"Adam we need answers" snorted Brennan
"I know but think about how you would feel if you went into the future, which you are seemingly connected to, and found.... well nothing" replied Adam, Brennan didn't reply "Let him be for now. We will question him later"
The team nodded in agreement but Emma decided to ignore Adam's warning and went in search of Marc. She found a few moments later in the garden still staring off into space.
"What aren't you telling us?" she asked as she approached him
"I should've known I couldn't hide from a psionic" he snorted in reply never looking at her
"So what aren't you telling us?" she asked again taking a seat next to him
"I can't stop it. I had hoped that with your help I could stop the plan but now...."
"Show me what the other future was like"
"Why?"
"You said that Brennan was so unhappy and that you wouldn't go back and change things but now I am sensing differently from you. So I want to see what you saw"
Looking at her for moment he could read the desperation and fear in her eyes. Nodding slightly he turned towards her and opened his mind allowing her to enter his thoughts and memories of what the other future was like for everyone.
As she connected with his mind Emma saw the day Shalimar died, Brennan's reaction to it as well as Adam telling him she was pregnant. She also saw Jesse's death and her departure from the team some time after. But what affected her most was seeing the events that changed the past. She could feel Brennan's pain and grief as well as his excitement when he got the chance to see Shalimar happy and alive all leading up to his total relief when she was saved.
After the link was broken she felt like she wanted to cry and felt it even more since she knew what Marc was planning on doing. "Now do you see why I wanted to stopped the design any other way possible?" he stated to her as he returned his attention to the garden
Emma silently nodded before speaking "and I want you to go to the future again"
"I told you I didn't see anything"
"Don't make me make you go because I can" she replied grabbing his forearm making him look at her
"What's the point?" he asked as Emma began to charge a mental blast, the young man's eyes widened in fear when he saw this "ok, ok just don't point that thing in my direction" he said raising his hands in defense. "Stand back alright." He repeated his earlier actions and entered the rip he opened and stepped in.
Emma looked around to make sure no one was watching as she paced and waited for the young man to return with any information. After several minutes another rip opened and out stepped Marc.
"You were gone longer than last time so what did you see?"
"She's next" was all he said
"What do you mean 'She's next?'"
"It's moving from person to person in the order that they would have died"
"What are talking about?"
"Shalimar was the first to die, then your friend Jesse. When Brennan went back and changed history she cheated death which in turn allowed Jesse to cheat death. When we went back to that day Megan jumped in front of Shalimar, taking a bullet. Briscoe would have gotten the second shot off, killing her, if the Brennan that came from the future hadn't hit him with his electricity. Don't you see? The whole design was broken, two of you were meant to die but you didn't and until that happens the future as we know it will be totally fucked up if not non existent"
"So how do we set things right?"
"Two people were supposed to die, so two people who were there or in the bubble, so to speak, have to die" he said looking at her with sadness in his eyes
"What are you going to do?" Emma asked with some realization
"I have to go back and change things" he replied moving his hands to open a rip but Emma quickly stopped him
"No" she yelled at him
"If we don't stop this there will be no future. The design will just keep going from person to person and it is pretty fucking obvious that it has broken from out of the bubble wouldn't you say?" he yelled back
"There has to be another way"
"There isn't short of two people dying that is"
"Isn't that what your solution is?" she shot back
"It was meant to happen" he whispered
"Then why didn't you interfere then?"
"You saw how unhappy your friend was....I felt bad" he replied
"So what you don't anymore? If you do this Brennan will go back to being that unhappy person, Jesse and Shalimar will be dead and I will be god knows where"
"I'm sorry I just don't know what else to do"
"Tell me what you saw"
Looking at her in shock because he an idea of what she was going to do with the information he had "no I am sorry" he said before returning his gaze to the garden
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TBC
"You didn't see who was next or you couldn't?" asked a confused Jesse
"Neither. There wasn't anything it was just total darkness" he replied still staring off in space
"How is that possible?" Emma asked him
"I don't know" he replied getting up and walking away from the team
Brennan and Jesse went to follow him but Adam stopped them. "No I think he needs to be alone right now"
"Adam we need answers" snorted Brennan
"I know but think about how you would feel if you went into the future, which you are seemingly connected to, and found.... well nothing" replied Adam, Brennan didn't reply "Let him be for now. We will question him later"
The team nodded in agreement but Emma decided to ignore Adam's warning and went in search of Marc. She found a few moments later in the garden still staring off into space.
"What aren't you telling us?" she asked as she approached him
"I should've known I couldn't hide from a psionic" he snorted in reply never looking at her
"So what aren't you telling us?" she asked again taking a seat next to him
"I can't stop it. I had hoped that with your help I could stop the plan but now...."
"Show me what the other future was like"
"Why?"
"You said that Brennan was so unhappy and that you wouldn't go back and change things but now I am sensing differently from you. So I want to see what you saw"
Looking at her for moment he could read the desperation and fear in her eyes. Nodding slightly he turned towards her and opened his mind allowing her to enter his thoughts and memories of what the other future was like for everyone.
As she connected with his mind Emma saw the day Shalimar died, Brennan's reaction to it as well as Adam telling him she was pregnant. She also saw Jesse's death and her departure from the team some time after. But what affected her most was seeing the events that changed the past. She could feel Brennan's pain and grief as well as his excitement when he got the chance to see Shalimar happy and alive all leading up to his total relief when she was saved.
After the link was broken she felt like she wanted to cry and felt it even more since she knew what Marc was planning on doing. "Now do you see why I wanted to stopped the design any other way possible?" he stated to her as he returned his attention to the garden
Emma silently nodded before speaking "and I want you to go to the future again"
"I told you I didn't see anything"
"Don't make me make you go because I can" she replied grabbing his forearm making him look at her
"What's the point?" he asked as Emma began to charge a mental blast, the young man's eyes widened in fear when he saw this "ok, ok just don't point that thing in my direction" he said raising his hands in defense. "Stand back alright." He repeated his earlier actions and entered the rip he opened and stepped in.
Emma looked around to make sure no one was watching as she paced and waited for the young man to return with any information. After several minutes another rip opened and out stepped Marc.
"You were gone longer than last time so what did you see?"
"She's next" was all he said
"What do you mean 'She's next?'"
"It's moving from person to person in the order that they would have died"
"What are talking about?"
"Shalimar was the first to die, then your friend Jesse. When Brennan went back and changed history she cheated death which in turn allowed Jesse to cheat death. When we went back to that day Megan jumped in front of Shalimar, taking a bullet. Briscoe would have gotten the second shot off, killing her, if the Brennan that came from the future hadn't hit him with his electricity. Don't you see? The whole design was broken, two of you were meant to die but you didn't and until that happens the future as we know it will be totally fucked up if not non existent"
"So how do we set things right?"
"Two people were supposed to die, so two people who were there or in the bubble, so to speak, have to die" he said looking at her with sadness in his eyes
"What are you going to do?" Emma asked with some realization
"I have to go back and change things" he replied moving his hands to open a rip but Emma quickly stopped him
"No" she yelled at him
"If we don't stop this there will be no future. The design will just keep going from person to person and it is pretty fucking obvious that it has broken from out of the bubble wouldn't you say?" he yelled back
"There has to be another way"
"There isn't short of two people dying that is"
"Isn't that what your solution is?" she shot back
"It was meant to happen" he whispered
"Then why didn't you interfere then?"
"You saw how unhappy your friend was....I felt bad" he replied
"So what you don't anymore? If you do this Brennan will go back to being that unhappy person, Jesse and Shalimar will be dead and I will be god knows where"
"I'm sorry I just don't know what else to do"
"Tell me what you saw"
Looking at her in shock because he an idea of what she was going to do with the information he had "no I am sorry" he said before returning his gaze to the garden
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TBC