~~~
"Shal you ok?" Brennan asked but she didn't answer she merely walked past him to a large glass window where, inside a young girl was being repeatedly beaten.
"They beat me till they got tired but it never changed anything" she whispered as they watched the scene
Brennan's heart began to break. This was what she had described to him and the others when they were trying to convince her to reconnect with her father. How could a parent allow their child to knowingly be beaten by others just so they feel better about her nature? He asked himself. "Shalimar this isn't real. It's just like me and my step father; it's a memory, nothing more"
Shalimar watched the scene before them for a few more minutes before simply walking away from the window without saying a word.
After taking one last look at the young girl behind the glass Brennan backed away and followed Shalimar down the hall. "Are you ok?" he asked when he caught up to her
"Yeah I will be, you?"
"Yeah I think so. I would just like to know what the hell is going on" he said frustratingly
"Me too" she replied as they turned the corner.
~~~
[Sanctuary]
Adam re-ran all his scans a second and third to time to be sure what he was seeing was actually real. Somehow Brennan and Shalimar's brain wave and heart rate patterns were exactly the same. He had never seen anything like it.
It took him some time before he was able to sift through the single pattern and discern who was who. After that he simulated a separation but when he did he noticed that Shalimar's heart rate and brain activity seemed to decrease dramatically but when he recombined them her vitals went back up. He concluded that their vitals were not only the same but somehow Brennan was keeping Shalimar alive.
What troubled him was even if they were able to separate them he had no way of telling if he could save Shalimar.
***
Meanwhile Jesse was going over the video footage from the lab in hopes of discovering how their friends ended up the way they did. "Hey Emma come take a look at this"
"What is it?" she asked as she came up behind him
"I was watching the footage from the lab and check this out" he replied as he rewound the footage to the point right before the explosion "see that right there?" he said pointing to the beam of light that surrounded Brennan and Shalimar
"What caused that, the machine?"
"Not alone it didn't. If I go back a little further you can see one of the mutants fire what looks like electricity at the machine causing it to overload. He leaves, Brennan and Shalimar go to leave but the beam catches them and then the machine explodes"
"So it is possible that it was the machine that caused them to go into comas"
"Yeah but unfortunately without the machine or Dr. Holland we have no way of knowing how to reverse what has been done"
The two turned around to see a weary Adam standing there
"There is still no change?" Emma asked
"No but it seems that the machine had the opposite affect on them"
"What do you mean?" asked a confused Jesse
"Dr. Holland's machine was meant to isolate and separate specific pieces of an atom. Now I think what happened to Brennan and Shalimar was that the machine, most likely because of the overload of energy, merged their signatures instead of separating them"
"Ok now I am confused" replied Emma
"Brennan and Shalimar's test results show that their brain wave and heart rate patterns are exactly the same all the way down to their slightest bodily function"
"So how do we separate them?" Jesse asked
"I honestly have no idea" replied Adam
~~~
TBC.... Thanks for all the reviews and keep them coming. Because consider this: if the reviews don't come then I don't post. I am not trying to be mean I just want some constructive criticism about how I am doing. Considering I wrote this story fairly quickly by my standards.
"Shal you ok?" Brennan asked but she didn't answer she merely walked past him to a large glass window where, inside a young girl was being repeatedly beaten.
"They beat me till they got tired but it never changed anything" she whispered as they watched the scene
Brennan's heart began to break. This was what she had described to him and the others when they were trying to convince her to reconnect with her father. How could a parent allow their child to knowingly be beaten by others just so they feel better about her nature? He asked himself. "Shalimar this isn't real. It's just like me and my step father; it's a memory, nothing more"
Shalimar watched the scene before them for a few more minutes before simply walking away from the window without saying a word.
After taking one last look at the young girl behind the glass Brennan backed away and followed Shalimar down the hall. "Are you ok?" he asked when he caught up to her
"Yeah I will be, you?"
"Yeah I think so. I would just like to know what the hell is going on" he said frustratingly
"Me too" she replied as they turned the corner.
~~~
[Sanctuary]
Adam re-ran all his scans a second and third to time to be sure what he was seeing was actually real. Somehow Brennan and Shalimar's brain wave and heart rate patterns were exactly the same. He had never seen anything like it.
It took him some time before he was able to sift through the single pattern and discern who was who. After that he simulated a separation but when he did he noticed that Shalimar's heart rate and brain activity seemed to decrease dramatically but when he recombined them her vitals went back up. He concluded that their vitals were not only the same but somehow Brennan was keeping Shalimar alive.
What troubled him was even if they were able to separate them he had no way of telling if he could save Shalimar.
***
Meanwhile Jesse was going over the video footage from the lab in hopes of discovering how their friends ended up the way they did. "Hey Emma come take a look at this"
"What is it?" she asked as she came up behind him
"I was watching the footage from the lab and check this out" he replied as he rewound the footage to the point right before the explosion "see that right there?" he said pointing to the beam of light that surrounded Brennan and Shalimar
"What caused that, the machine?"
"Not alone it didn't. If I go back a little further you can see one of the mutants fire what looks like electricity at the machine causing it to overload. He leaves, Brennan and Shalimar go to leave but the beam catches them and then the machine explodes"
"So it is possible that it was the machine that caused them to go into comas"
"Yeah but unfortunately without the machine or Dr. Holland we have no way of knowing how to reverse what has been done"
The two turned around to see a weary Adam standing there
"There is still no change?" Emma asked
"No but it seems that the machine had the opposite affect on them"
"What do you mean?" asked a confused Jesse
"Dr. Holland's machine was meant to isolate and separate specific pieces of an atom. Now I think what happened to Brennan and Shalimar was that the machine, most likely because of the overload of energy, merged their signatures instead of separating them"
"Ok now I am confused" replied Emma
"Brennan and Shalimar's test results show that their brain wave and heart rate patterns are exactly the same all the way down to their slightest bodily function"
"So how do we separate them?" Jesse asked
"I honestly have no idea" replied Adam
~~~
TBC.... Thanks for all the reviews and keep them coming. Because consider this: if the reviews don't come then I don't post. I am not trying to be mean I just want some constructive criticism about how I am doing. Considering I wrote this story fairly quickly by my standards.
