"Who are you? LET GO OF ME!" Emma demanded as he threw her back against a wall clutching her throat.

"That's for me to know and you to find out." He leaned in and kissed her once again, this time bruising her lips.

Emma struggled free from the kiss and whipped her lips off in disgust before he pinned her arms above her head.

"What do you want?"

"Some information," He leaned in and whispered in her ear, " and you." Her entire body locked up as she felt his breath crawl over her skin. His hand traced her entire body capturing every curve. Emma had never felt so physically violated as she did then.

"Don't try to struggle. You'd only make things worse,"

"You see Miss Delauro- Em. Is it okay if I call you Em?" The mutant calmly said as he transformed into Brennan.

"Go to hell!" She gritted after had spitting in his face.

Whipping it from his face he glanced at her with disappointment, "See, now why did you have to go and do a thing like that?" He lifted his hand and backslapped her across the face causing her lip to split open and bleed.

Emma shook off the blow to her face; there was no way she was going to give him the satisfaction of breaking her.

"Screw off!" She hissed.

This time the man made a fist and uppercut it right into her broken rib causing her to scrunch over in pain.

"It doesn't have to be like this Em. I don't want to hurt you."

"Why are you doing this?" She spit out between breathes.

"Why? WHY?" He violently shoved her head back on the wall grasping her face in his hands.

"I thought for sure he would've mentioned something about it to you by now."

"Who are you talking about?"

"You're not as bright as I thought you were. I lost the one person I would have done anything for and he took her away from me. Now he's going to pay. Starting with you."

Lifting his hand he reached up and touched her bloody lip. Taking his other hand he took her left hand and slipped off her com link smearing her blood on it. He placed the ring on the ground with hopes of it being found. With her arms secured by his behind her back he pushed her forward.

"Let's go, my boss is expecting us." Emma had no choice, but to go with, for she was in no condition to take the mutant out.

*The entrance of the tunnel*

Brennan had managed to make it down into the tunnel. Closing his eyes he concentrated on Emma hoping to make a connection. At first there was nothing, he stood in pure darkness. In an instant a bright light flashed as it brought his mind flying through a type of wormhole as fast as the speed of light. His head began to ache as he passed through a wall of emotions. He felt the pain, joy, suffering, torment, happiness, satisfaction, and disappointment from everyone. Then-it all stopped. There was nothing again except a woman's scream in the distant. A few feet from him stood an object he couldn't make out. As it soon came into focus he saw Emma. She was there lying on the ground. Her arms and legs were filled with cuts and bruises. There was blood that covered her lips; tears were streaming from her beautiful blue eyes and the look of desperation and fear on her face screamed out for help. ~EMMA~ He wanted to help her right then and there, but he couldn't. She really wasn't mere inches away from his grasp. He couldn't just walk up to her and hold her in his arms and tell her everything was going to be alright, that he'd never let her go again. A tear began to form in his dark brown eyes before another object approached her. Brennan stepped forward as to shield Emma from this thing that he was sensing such anger from. As it turned it's face towards Brennan, Emma faded away leaving Brennan in the dark face to face with a monster. ~NO! EMMA! ~

Snapping back to reality his whole body shook from the experience. "No," he whispered taking off down the tunnel towards the hit he got off of Emma. Nothing was going to stop him. He ran for hours never stopping to rest, there was no time, for Emma was in trouble.

As the hours past Brennan arrived at the spot where he had seen Emma. Searching the area he saw dark puddles on the ground. Leaning down to get a closer look something caught his eye. He stepped toward the gleaming object. It was her com link. "Damnit!" He carefully picked it up as if it were of great value. Before he could place it in his pocket a voice rang from the other side.

"I've been waiting for you Mr. Mulwray."

"ECKHART!"

TBC! Thanks to all of those still reading. It might be a while until I update, because of lovely college finals. I plan on getting at least one more out before June 1st, who knows, I might post two if I'm in the mood ( Anyways, thanks for reading and reviewing!