Emma paces back and forth by the lab doors. She really does want to see her brother, but
she isn't sure what to do if she can make her way into the lab. Each time she begins to reach the
automatic doors a thought or a question stops her. After two minutes she gets close enough to the
door to make it actually open, but retreats back when the thought of 'what if he doesn't want to
see me?' enters her head. Emma begins pacing again.
"Why is this bothering her so much?" Shalimar asks Davenport as she watches Emma
pace back and forth in the window.
Davenport explains what happened with Lady. How Emma is still angry at him. Only he
mentions how he still feels guilty about putting Emma through all that.
"LeighAnna was only 16?" Brennan asks.
"Yes," Davenport answers not sure where he's going.
"How old is Lady?" Brennan continues questioning.
"5."
"And your what 1,2 years older than Emma?"
"3," Davenport says.
"Okay, three years...." Brennan says
"No, 3 minutes," Davenport interrupts.
"You're Emma's twin," Shalimar states a bit shocked.
Davenport nods his head tiredly.
"So you left Lady with Emma when you were both only 18?" Brennan asks.
Both Shal and Brennan look at Davenport. His face looks defeated. "It wasn't my wisest
decision." Davenport confesses. "Three years after I came to America I got my green card and
joined the Army. When they asked me if I wanted single housing or family housing I told them
about my daughter. Even how I needed to get her back from my sister. They told me it was fine. I
knew it wouldn't be easy getting her back. I couldn't just show up at the door step after three
years. But that's what I ended up doing. Only instead of pleading my case I pretty much came in
and took Lady. Even though I didn't know what her name was or anything about her. It was like
watching a horrible scene in a movie. Lady was crying, Emma was screaming and I was
trembling," Davenport stops he can't go on any longer.
After a long pause Shalimar asks a question that's been lingering in her thoughts. "Why
after so long did you want Lady back?"
Davenport answers her quickly. "Because I love her. She's the whole reason I came to America
with nothing more than a passport and a few diapers. I never stopped missing her from the
minute Emma took her in her arms and I shut the door."
"Why didn't you stay in contact?" Brennan asks
"Stupid male ego thing. If I'd have called, Emma would have asked me how the job search was
going and I would have had to tell her the same depressing story that it wasn't going well or it
was such a lousy job I didn't want to mention it. I know I should have, if not to tell her how I was
doing than to at least talk to my daughter." Davenport would have continued, but he hears the lab
doors open than hears Emma's retreat.
Emma stands with her back pressed against the lab wall. She heard everything her brother
said to Shalimar and Brennan. She could even feel the sincerity and guilt behind it. Why she still
can't get herself to come in the room continues to stump her. She finally gives up from sheer
exhaustion and goes back to her room.
Davenport gives a weak smile when he hears his sister leave. "Is Emilia going to be all
right?" he asks finally glad he's doing the questioning.
"She'll be fine," Shalimar answers.
"Emilia?" Brennan asks.
Davenport groans he knows it will be another game of twenty one questions. "It's a long
story," he tries to escape.
"What a coincidence," Brennan says, " we have a long time." Brennan crosses his arms and
Shalimar smirks.
"Promise it will be the last question?" Davenport bargains.
"If it explains why twin siblings have different accents and last names than yeah," Brennan
answers.
"Well than it's my lucky day. Emma and I were born under the names Emilia and Emmanuel
Donahue. We were born to a really bad man named Dr. Javelin Donahue. He married into a
million dollar fortune by a woman named Celeste. Celeste didn't trust men, she said she would
leave half her fortune to Javelin and the other half to her first born daughter. Before Emma and I
she had two other sons. Javelin wanted all the fortune and thought he would get it until Emma
was born. Javelin had a grudge against Emma from the day she was born. Than it got even worse.
When Emma was four she accidentally used her powers on Celeste and ended up killing her.
Javelin loved Celeste more than his own children. When she died he took it all out on Emma. He
beat her and used her as his own personal lab rat. A chamber maid at the estate named Louis
knew how Emma was being treated, but since she also had a twin she felt it would be a bad idea
to leave one of us there. She kidnapped us in the middle of the night. Later she placed Emma and
I in a different country, but Emma's parents moved back to America. She also switched our
names taking the Emma from Emmanuel and the Emil from Emilia so our dad wouldn't find us.
It didn't surprise either of us that Louis was found dead four days later."
Davenport looks at Shalimar and Brennan. They both have taken a sudden interest in their
knees while they are observing the story.
"You guys can't confer this with Emma. She has repressed most of it."
Brennan and Shalimar nod sadly. It hurts both of them to realize their best friend went through all
that at such a young age.
A while later the three of them change subjects. Shalimar listens as Davenport and
Brennan argue their favorite sports team in a light hearted way. They would have kept at it, but
Adam comes in and tells them that Davenport needs some rest. He also asks if Emma had come
in. They told her about her few attempts that went awry. A few minutes later Davenport is asleep
and the rest of the team begins to do their other chores.
"Lady?" Adam calls out to the little girl. Adam gets a little concerned when Lady doesn't
hear him. He calls her again only louder. Lady turns around.
"Did you hear me when I called you last time?" he asks.
"Nope," Lady answers.
"Lady, it's three o'clock why are you still in your pajamas?" Adam inquires changing the subject.
"I left my backpack in the safe house," Lady answers.
"And when were you planning on telling us this?"
"When somebody mentioned it," Lady smiles innocently.
Adam smiles at her. "Would you go ask Shalimar to bring you there and get your stuff?"
Adam couldn't miss Lady's face drop. "What's wrong?" he asks.
"I don't think Shalimar likes me too much," Lady tells him.
"Why is that?"
"She's been avoiding me ever since I got here."
Adam can't argue that he notices it too. "Listen, Emma and Jesse are trying to locate McMahon
and Brennan is busy repairing one of the computers. I need to stay here and take care of your dad.
So you can either wait for one of us to finish or you can ask her." Adam tells her.
"I'll ask her," Lady says after a minute of thought.
"I'm glad," Adam says and rubs her hair before leaving.
Lady slowly walks up the dojo stairs to watch Shalimar train. Shal's speed and grace
amazes the young child. Lady stands on a step where she feels is a safe distance and stares at
Shalimar. Shal's feral senses kick in and she knows someone is watching her. She turns around
slowly and looks directly at the little girl.
"You're good," Lady states simply.
"Thanks," Shal says not sure she should add anything else.
"Adam would like it if you drove me to the safe house to get my clothes," Lady says watching
Shalimar's every twitch.
Shal would like to think of an excuse, but she remembers what Adam said about Lady's powers.
"I will. Just let me shower and change."
"Do you want to?" Lady says as more of a challenge than a question.
Shal knows where Lady is going. "I want you to have your clothes," Shal says as she passes Lady
on the stairs.
"But you don't want to take me," Lady accuses with good cause. "Do you not like me?" She
asks.
"I think your a great kid," Shal says honestly, stopping at the bottom of the stairs.
"Then why are you avoiding me?" this time Lady's voice is flushed with confusion.
"It's the fact that you small," Shalimar says simply. Shal watches Lady's face turn from upset to
confused. "My powers make me stronger than muscle builders. Sometimes I don't realize how
much strength I'm using. I don't want that to happen while I'm handling you."
"You carried me to bed," Lady says, all of her features lightening.
"I was doing it so carefully you probably woke up," Shalimar admits
"I thought you were going to drop me."
"I wouldn't have done that," Shalimar says.
"How do you know?" asks Lady, for some reason her ears didn't tickle at that response.
"Feral reflexes," Shal answers before leaving.
The ride to the safe house was pleasant. Now that they are there Lady and Shalimar are
full of giggles and teasing. Lady goes into the safe house before Shalimar. Lady reappears again a
couple seconds later.
"Who are the men?" she asks.
Shalimar moves in front of her and opens the safe house door.
"Oh no!" Shal says.
"Who are they?" Lady repeats.
"The bad guys," Shalimar answers honestly staring at three GS agents.
she isn't sure what to do if she can make her way into the lab. Each time she begins to reach the
automatic doors a thought or a question stops her. After two minutes she gets close enough to the
door to make it actually open, but retreats back when the thought of 'what if he doesn't want to
see me?' enters her head. Emma begins pacing again.
"Why is this bothering her so much?" Shalimar asks Davenport as she watches Emma
pace back and forth in the window.
Davenport explains what happened with Lady. How Emma is still angry at him. Only he
mentions how he still feels guilty about putting Emma through all that.
"LeighAnna was only 16?" Brennan asks.
"Yes," Davenport answers not sure where he's going.
"How old is Lady?" Brennan continues questioning.
"5."
"And your what 1,2 years older than Emma?"
"3," Davenport says.
"Okay, three years...." Brennan says
"No, 3 minutes," Davenport interrupts.
"You're Emma's twin," Shalimar states a bit shocked.
Davenport nods his head tiredly.
"So you left Lady with Emma when you were both only 18?" Brennan asks.
Both Shal and Brennan look at Davenport. His face looks defeated. "It wasn't my wisest
decision." Davenport confesses. "Three years after I came to America I got my green card and
joined the Army. When they asked me if I wanted single housing or family housing I told them
about my daughter. Even how I needed to get her back from my sister. They told me it was fine. I
knew it wouldn't be easy getting her back. I couldn't just show up at the door step after three
years. But that's what I ended up doing. Only instead of pleading my case I pretty much came in
and took Lady. Even though I didn't know what her name was or anything about her. It was like
watching a horrible scene in a movie. Lady was crying, Emma was screaming and I was
trembling," Davenport stops he can't go on any longer.
After a long pause Shalimar asks a question that's been lingering in her thoughts. "Why
after so long did you want Lady back?"
Davenport answers her quickly. "Because I love her. She's the whole reason I came to America
with nothing more than a passport and a few diapers. I never stopped missing her from the
minute Emma took her in her arms and I shut the door."
"Why didn't you stay in contact?" Brennan asks
"Stupid male ego thing. If I'd have called, Emma would have asked me how the job search was
going and I would have had to tell her the same depressing story that it wasn't going well or it
was such a lousy job I didn't want to mention it. I know I should have, if not to tell her how I was
doing than to at least talk to my daughter." Davenport would have continued, but he hears the lab
doors open than hears Emma's retreat.
Emma stands with her back pressed against the lab wall. She heard everything her brother
said to Shalimar and Brennan. She could even feel the sincerity and guilt behind it. Why she still
can't get herself to come in the room continues to stump her. She finally gives up from sheer
exhaustion and goes back to her room.
Davenport gives a weak smile when he hears his sister leave. "Is Emilia going to be all
right?" he asks finally glad he's doing the questioning.
"She'll be fine," Shalimar answers.
"Emilia?" Brennan asks.
Davenport groans he knows it will be another game of twenty one questions. "It's a long
story," he tries to escape.
"What a coincidence," Brennan says, " we have a long time." Brennan crosses his arms and
Shalimar smirks.
"Promise it will be the last question?" Davenport bargains.
"If it explains why twin siblings have different accents and last names than yeah," Brennan
answers.
"Well than it's my lucky day. Emma and I were born under the names Emilia and Emmanuel
Donahue. We were born to a really bad man named Dr. Javelin Donahue. He married into a
million dollar fortune by a woman named Celeste. Celeste didn't trust men, she said she would
leave half her fortune to Javelin and the other half to her first born daughter. Before Emma and I
she had two other sons. Javelin wanted all the fortune and thought he would get it until Emma
was born. Javelin had a grudge against Emma from the day she was born. Than it got even worse.
When Emma was four she accidentally used her powers on Celeste and ended up killing her.
Javelin loved Celeste more than his own children. When she died he took it all out on Emma. He
beat her and used her as his own personal lab rat. A chamber maid at the estate named Louis
knew how Emma was being treated, but since she also had a twin she felt it would be a bad idea
to leave one of us there. She kidnapped us in the middle of the night. Later she placed Emma and
I in a different country, but Emma's parents moved back to America. She also switched our
names taking the Emma from Emmanuel and the Emil from Emilia so our dad wouldn't find us.
It didn't surprise either of us that Louis was found dead four days later."
Davenport looks at Shalimar and Brennan. They both have taken a sudden interest in their
knees while they are observing the story.
"You guys can't confer this with Emma. She has repressed most of it."
Brennan and Shalimar nod sadly. It hurts both of them to realize their best friend went through all
that at such a young age.
A while later the three of them change subjects. Shalimar listens as Davenport and
Brennan argue their favorite sports team in a light hearted way. They would have kept at it, but
Adam comes in and tells them that Davenport needs some rest. He also asks if Emma had come
in. They told her about her few attempts that went awry. A few minutes later Davenport is asleep
and the rest of the team begins to do their other chores.
"Lady?" Adam calls out to the little girl. Adam gets a little concerned when Lady doesn't
hear him. He calls her again only louder. Lady turns around.
"Did you hear me when I called you last time?" he asks.
"Nope," Lady answers.
"Lady, it's three o'clock why are you still in your pajamas?" Adam inquires changing the subject.
"I left my backpack in the safe house," Lady answers.
"And when were you planning on telling us this?"
"When somebody mentioned it," Lady smiles innocently.
Adam smiles at her. "Would you go ask Shalimar to bring you there and get your stuff?"
Adam couldn't miss Lady's face drop. "What's wrong?" he asks.
"I don't think Shalimar likes me too much," Lady tells him.
"Why is that?"
"She's been avoiding me ever since I got here."
Adam can't argue that he notices it too. "Listen, Emma and Jesse are trying to locate McMahon
and Brennan is busy repairing one of the computers. I need to stay here and take care of your dad.
So you can either wait for one of us to finish or you can ask her." Adam tells her.
"I'll ask her," Lady says after a minute of thought.
"I'm glad," Adam says and rubs her hair before leaving.
Lady slowly walks up the dojo stairs to watch Shalimar train. Shal's speed and grace
amazes the young child. Lady stands on a step where she feels is a safe distance and stares at
Shalimar. Shal's feral senses kick in and she knows someone is watching her. She turns around
slowly and looks directly at the little girl.
"You're good," Lady states simply.
"Thanks," Shal says not sure she should add anything else.
"Adam would like it if you drove me to the safe house to get my clothes," Lady says watching
Shalimar's every twitch.
Shal would like to think of an excuse, but she remembers what Adam said about Lady's powers.
"I will. Just let me shower and change."
"Do you want to?" Lady says as more of a challenge than a question.
Shal knows where Lady is going. "I want you to have your clothes," Shal says as she passes Lady
on the stairs.
"But you don't want to take me," Lady accuses with good cause. "Do you not like me?" She
asks.
"I think your a great kid," Shal says honestly, stopping at the bottom of the stairs.
"Then why are you avoiding me?" this time Lady's voice is flushed with confusion.
"It's the fact that you small," Shalimar says simply. Shal watches Lady's face turn from upset to
confused. "My powers make me stronger than muscle builders. Sometimes I don't realize how
much strength I'm using. I don't want that to happen while I'm handling you."
"You carried me to bed," Lady says, all of her features lightening.
"I was doing it so carefully you probably woke up," Shalimar admits
"I thought you were going to drop me."
"I wouldn't have done that," Shalimar says.
"How do you know?" asks Lady, for some reason her ears didn't tickle at that response.
"Feral reflexes," Shal answers before leaving.
The ride to the safe house was pleasant. Now that they are there Lady and Shalimar are
full of giggles and teasing. Lady goes into the safe house before Shalimar. Lady reappears again a
couple seconds later.
"Who are the men?" she asks.
Shalimar moves in front of her and opens the safe house door.
"Oh no!" Shal says.
"Who are they?" Lady repeats.
"The bad guys," Shalimar answers honestly staring at three GS agents.
