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'What do you want with me?' She had been screaming and shouting herself hoarse for atleast an hour. Nobody seemed to be listening and if they did they didn't appear to care. She looked around her, taking a break from destroying her throat.

She was chained to a chair in the middle of a huge room, what she could see of it anyway. It didn't smell too bad, wasn't freezing cold and wasn't even that dark. She could see a faint light in large rectangles. They were windows, with thick blinds pulled over them. She could even hear faint noise in the background. Presumably the people outside the room, the ones holding her hostage didn't care.

She tried to move her hand to try and feel the bruise that was gradually developing on her forehead from where she had been punched but she had forgotten the chains. She relaxed, knowing that she could do nothing. All the struggling had made her feel weak.

The door opened and a shaft of light flooded into the room. It shone into her eyes which had gotten so used to the darkness that they stung. She squinted, not wanting to close her eyes for a second, giving whoever the person was the chance to do something to her.

A figure came through the door and walked across the floor round to the back of the chair. A sharp pain flowed through her head as the person grabbed her hair and pulled her head backwards, straining her neck. She let out a cry and tears sprang to her eyes.

Looking up she saw the face of her captor. Her eyes opened wide as she recognized the face. She remembered him. He was the guy who had been at the school a couple of days ago. That day had been so weird and when Mac, Maia and Alex had left she had wanted to go with them. But she had looked across at Jesse and he had made signals that she should stay. They had worked hard to put her in the underground and she would always be grateful. She didn't want to do anything that would jeopardize that.

But she had unwittingly hurt not only Mutant X (she knew eventually they would come looking for her) but her foster family as well. They were the only family that had ever really accepted her for who she was. She had loved them like they were her real family.  And now it was all gone.

Gabriel looked down at her face. He fed off her feelings of sadness and anger. They were so weak he almost felt sick. That was why he loved toying with Shalimar. Whatever he had thrown at her she had thrown it right back into his face with just as much force. Her sadness, her anger, her pain had always been so much more intense. But this pitiful girl had something Shalimar didn't, something he needed.

Shalimar stared through the shattered window. In the alley below she could see the shards of glass and tiny splinters of wood from the frame of the window.

Sara had only been with the Trent's for a couple of months but they had accepted her as one of their own and were heartbroken that she had been abducted.

Shalimar sniffed. She could smell Gabriel all over the apartment and his scent was floating around in the air outside. But it wasn't just her sense of smell that told her he had been there. She could sense him in other ways.

Ever since he had first gotten into her head she had been able to feel him all around her. It was like they had a telepathic/telempathic link. And it didn't matter whether he was still there or had been there five days ago. The length of time simply determined how strong the feeling was.

He had definitely been here.

'We need to know absolutely everything about what happened.'

Shal heard Adams voice waft across the room and mix with the sounds of the city. He had been comforting the family for half an hour, the Trent's were good friends of his and he wanted to make sure that they were okay before he made them relive the experience. The rest of the team had been checking the other rooms of the apartment while Shal checked the kitchen/dining room for clues. Adam had just begun to question Melissa and John Trent (their own daughter Nadine was still too scared) and he was trying to get as much information from them as possible.

Suddenly movement on the rooftop opposite the building Mutant X was in caught her eye. She growled quietly under her breath and lifted her leg to step onto the outer ledge of the window.

'Shalimar?' Jesse said as he entered the room. What the hell was she doing? Adam looked up from where he was sitting on the edge of the coffee table just in time to see Shalimar make the 15-foot jump from the window ledge to the roof opposite.

Hearing the commotion Brennan and Emma ran in from one of the bedrooms and the bathroom respectively. Brennan ran across to the window and looked over. He could see Shalimar in a defensive stance and then she dropped to a crouching position as an anonymous persons leg flew over her head.

Brennan climbed out onto the ledge and then boosted himself with his shiny, new abilities from it to the roof. He landed next to Shalimar as she flipped herself over her own head and managed to kick the anonymous guy to the floor. He landed on his back and Shalimar leaped through the air to land with one of her feet resting heavily on his chest.

'Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?' she said loudly whilst applying pressure to his chest.

Keeping silent the guy glared at her. 

'You don't wanna talk? See and now I feel all un-loved,' she joked as she kicked him in his side. He let out a loud grunt and tried to roll over but Shalimar was keeping him pinned to the ground. Brennan walked over to the two of them and taking a hold on Shalimar's arm stopped her from completely caving the guys skull in. She always was inpatient he thought with a glint in his eye.

'We should get him over to Emma or vice versa. I'm pretty sure she can get some information out of him without having to kill him in the process.'

Shalimar smirked as she lifted her foot of his chest. She bent down and lifted him off the floor so he was standing on his feet. At that Jesse and Adam burst through the door from the floor below.

Brennan slowly eased Shalimar's hands off the guys clothes and handed him over to Jesse signaling that they should take him away before Shalimar really lost all her patience.