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Last Chapter everyone, thank you for your participation and all your reviews. I Appreciate it and hope you all like this final, possibly traumatic.or maybe humorous depending on the person and their view, chapter!
Oh and you will all just have to live with the suspense.No one will ever know where she got the gun! Mwahahaha
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Burning with the need to protect her family Shalimar tore free, as free as she could as the chains still held her but were no longer hammered into the wall. She caught the first of the two by surprise as he was obviously still stunned by the revelation of his leader.
Thinking about it she realised everyone in the room was still stunned by what they had heard, except for herself of course since she seemed to be moving and very un-stunned, almost soaring through the room.
Her impact drove the telecyber boy back into the wall and she bound around the walls on all fours like the other side of her nature was known to do, letting loose a screaming growl as she struck a wall of nothing.
Frustration tore through her as she was unable to reach the girl, the air rippled as the single wall became circular to surround her, she was enclosed all around and repeatedly slamming herself against those invisible walls didn't seem to be doing any more then making herself bleed.
"A caged little lion, much safer then just a chained one, don't you think?" The telekenetic smiled down at Shalimar as she climbed back to her feet once more, she seemed to be recovering from her leaders confession fairly well.
"At least I'm only physically caged" Shalimar quipped back at her
"And what exactly is that meant to mean?"
"What do you think it means? It means you are an idiot" She said, over emphasising the last four words "You and the others serving the sociopath are all idiots, its obvious she's been playing you, using you and the others because she knew she couldn't get in here on her own, couldn't take us all. She needed the rest of you to do that-" she was cut off by a scream torn from her throat, blood pouring from a not too deep wound in her chest.
"Lashing out, isn't that a sign that you're upset because you know what I'm saying is the truth? Jenna played you with Adam, convincing you to hate him while her own rage was focused on Jesse-" More blood welled as a second cut slashed across her chest, even shallower this time. The telekenetic seemed to be loosing her will to fight.
"All she wanted was Jesse" Shalimar let it fill her eyes, that what she spoke was true. It was almost funny that it was her trying to empathise with one of the captors, that was usually Emma's job. She got to enjoy the physical violence. "The rest of us were just fun for her, she was just amusing herself with us"
The utter certainty that had filled the telekenetics eyes, that had filled all of Jenna's people's eyes, was faltering. And with it Shalimar's invisible enclosure, the wall at her back was softening, becoming malleable.
"You know what I'm saying is true, you know it, and right now you're letting her try to kill someone who didn't even know she existed until less then a hour ago" Jesse's scream came at that moment and her prison shattered as the telekenetic collapsed to the floor. Shalimar fled the room through the Jesse sized hole in the wall, the only threat left in Sanctuary was trying to kill her friend and she was not going to let that happen.
A feral roar unequalled before it issued from her as she became air bound into the other room, flying dead on at Jenna.
*****
Jesse didn't notice the onslaught stop, didn't notice that the endless beating had ceased for a moment, the respite meant nothing to him until it was prolonged enough that he began to come back into himself. It was almost as if he had been separated from his body, pushed out so that he would know not what was happening.
As he flowed back into himself, his body slowly became more real, more solid and far more painful, each bleeding, bruising wound was slowly making itself felt. Every blow that he had taken from his daughter was letting him know that it was there.
Broken ribs, bones, all of it was screaming through him as his vision finally began to clear, though one of his eyes seemed to be permanently closed, he was vaguely hoping that that was just dried blood holding it shut.
Odd that he would hope that when he knew he was going to die soon.
Through specky vision he saw his daughter once more, standing above him in all her glory, the air generators blowing through her hair, skin gleaming and eyes sparkling as she relished what was happening.
"It looks like I won't be beating you to death after all Daddy" her voice dripping with the menace and rage that her body seemed to be throwing off "One of your bad mannered friends seems to be causing a little trouble"
He knew it was Shalimar, it was just a little piece of knowledge ingrained in him, say trouble and Shalimar would pop to mind.
The gun was levelled at him again, apparently his respite from the beating had come from her searching for it, he still couldn't help wondering where it had come from. "Bye Daddy" and she was gone.
There one moment and gone the next, great pain screamed through every part of him as he wrenched his head to the side to see an orange blur begin to his encase his daughter as she struck a wall, Shalimar bouncing off her body as she did, the glow vanishing.
Time seemed to have come to a stand still as he watched the pure expression of shock on Jenna's face as she was suspended against the wall. Then she slid from it, down to her knees, then completing the fall.
He wasn't even aware of moving until he was at her side, gently as possible turning her over so that he could hold her, her blood pouring down her back to coat him and mix with his own, tears welled in his eyes as he glanced up to see what she had hit.
A large piece of metal jutted from the wall, torn from its place at some point during the fight, he let one of his hands run through her hair, incredibly silky even as blood began to cover it, her eyes were so glazed over either from the pain or shock that they didn't even hold the tiniest tinge of hatred that had been present since the first moment he'd seen her in Sanctuary.
Blood flowed from her mouth more then she coughed it up, so much blood on her, on him, on the floor and so little left inside of her. Jesse couldn't have known her for an hour, couldn't have known she was his daughter for more then a few minutes, and the entire time she had been trying to kill him but he felt her death like part of his soul had been wrenched from him with her.
Even as he felt her heart slow her eyes met his and she made an attempt strike him, her arm barely raising itself from the ground, and in her final moments she managed to speak through the blood that was now gushing from her mouth.
"I wish I could have killed you."
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AUTHORS NOTE: Hmmm, maybe there should be an epilogue? What do you think everyone, should I write an epilogue?
Last Chapter everyone, thank you for your participation and all your reviews. I Appreciate it and hope you all like this final, possibly traumatic.or maybe humorous depending on the person and their view, chapter!
Oh and you will all just have to live with the suspense.No one will ever know where she got the gun! Mwahahaha
~*~
Burning with the need to protect her family Shalimar tore free, as free as she could as the chains still held her but were no longer hammered into the wall. She caught the first of the two by surprise as he was obviously still stunned by the revelation of his leader.
Thinking about it she realised everyone in the room was still stunned by what they had heard, except for herself of course since she seemed to be moving and very un-stunned, almost soaring through the room.
Her impact drove the telecyber boy back into the wall and she bound around the walls on all fours like the other side of her nature was known to do, letting loose a screaming growl as she struck a wall of nothing.
Frustration tore through her as she was unable to reach the girl, the air rippled as the single wall became circular to surround her, she was enclosed all around and repeatedly slamming herself against those invisible walls didn't seem to be doing any more then making herself bleed.
"A caged little lion, much safer then just a chained one, don't you think?" The telekenetic smiled down at Shalimar as she climbed back to her feet once more, she seemed to be recovering from her leaders confession fairly well.
"At least I'm only physically caged" Shalimar quipped back at her
"And what exactly is that meant to mean?"
"What do you think it means? It means you are an idiot" She said, over emphasising the last four words "You and the others serving the sociopath are all idiots, its obvious she's been playing you, using you and the others because she knew she couldn't get in here on her own, couldn't take us all. She needed the rest of you to do that-" she was cut off by a scream torn from her throat, blood pouring from a not too deep wound in her chest.
"Lashing out, isn't that a sign that you're upset because you know what I'm saying is the truth? Jenna played you with Adam, convincing you to hate him while her own rage was focused on Jesse-" More blood welled as a second cut slashed across her chest, even shallower this time. The telekenetic seemed to be loosing her will to fight.
"All she wanted was Jesse" Shalimar let it fill her eyes, that what she spoke was true. It was almost funny that it was her trying to empathise with one of the captors, that was usually Emma's job. She got to enjoy the physical violence. "The rest of us were just fun for her, she was just amusing herself with us"
The utter certainty that had filled the telekenetics eyes, that had filled all of Jenna's people's eyes, was faltering. And with it Shalimar's invisible enclosure, the wall at her back was softening, becoming malleable.
"You know what I'm saying is true, you know it, and right now you're letting her try to kill someone who didn't even know she existed until less then a hour ago" Jesse's scream came at that moment and her prison shattered as the telekenetic collapsed to the floor. Shalimar fled the room through the Jesse sized hole in the wall, the only threat left in Sanctuary was trying to kill her friend and she was not going to let that happen.
A feral roar unequalled before it issued from her as she became air bound into the other room, flying dead on at Jenna.
*****
Jesse didn't notice the onslaught stop, didn't notice that the endless beating had ceased for a moment, the respite meant nothing to him until it was prolonged enough that he began to come back into himself. It was almost as if he had been separated from his body, pushed out so that he would know not what was happening.
As he flowed back into himself, his body slowly became more real, more solid and far more painful, each bleeding, bruising wound was slowly making itself felt. Every blow that he had taken from his daughter was letting him know that it was there.
Broken ribs, bones, all of it was screaming through him as his vision finally began to clear, though one of his eyes seemed to be permanently closed, he was vaguely hoping that that was just dried blood holding it shut.
Odd that he would hope that when he knew he was going to die soon.
Through specky vision he saw his daughter once more, standing above him in all her glory, the air generators blowing through her hair, skin gleaming and eyes sparkling as she relished what was happening.
"It looks like I won't be beating you to death after all Daddy" her voice dripping with the menace and rage that her body seemed to be throwing off "One of your bad mannered friends seems to be causing a little trouble"
He knew it was Shalimar, it was just a little piece of knowledge ingrained in him, say trouble and Shalimar would pop to mind.
The gun was levelled at him again, apparently his respite from the beating had come from her searching for it, he still couldn't help wondering where it had come from. "Bye Daddy" and she was gone.
There one moment and gone the next, great pain screamed through every part of him as he wrenched his head to the side to see an orange blur begin to his encase his daughter as she struck a wall, Shalimar bouncing off her body as she did, the glow vanishing.
Time seemed to have come to a stand still as he watched the pure expression of shock on Jenna's face as she was suspended against the wall. Then she slid from it, down to her knees, then completing the fall.
He wasn't even aware of moving until he was at her side, gently as possible turning her over so that he could hold her, her blood pouring down her back to coat him and mix with his own, tears welled in his eyes as he glanced up to see what she had hit.
A large piece of metal jutted from the wall, torn from its place at some point during the fight, he let one of his hands run through her hair, incredibly silky even as blood began to cover it, her eyes were so glazed over either from the pain or shock that they didn't even hold the tiniest tinge of hatred that had been present since the first moment he'd seen her in Sanctuary.
Blood flowed from her mouth more then she coughed it up, so much blood on her, on him, on the floor and so little left inside of her. Jesse couldn't have known her for an hour, couldn't have known she was his daughter for more then a few minutes, and the entire time she had been trying to kill him but he felt her death like part of his soul had been wrenched from him with her.
Even as he felt her heart slow her eyes met his and she made an attempt strike him, her arm barely raising itself from the ground, and in her final moments she managed to speak through the blood that was now gushing from her mouth.
"I wish I could have killed you."
~*~
AUTHORS NOTE: Hmmm, maybe there should be an epilogue? What do you think everyone, should I write an epilogue?