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Tears ran down Emma's cheeks. She held Jesse tight with both arms and cried silent for her

two friends. Big rocks crashed down from the warehouse and destroyed it piece for piece.

Another pillar broke down and buried a cat under it. Emma closed her eyes and sobbed. She'd

lost two of her best friends and she had not been able to help them. "Why Jesse," she

whispered. "Why do we rescue others when we're not able to help our friends?" A voice

interrupted her "Emma? I became no answer from Brennan and Shalimar. Are you all right?"

Adams voice was so far away. "They're dead Adam, Shalimar and Brennan.We couldn't

help them, they burned. Brennan went into the burning building to help Shalimar and Jesse

but only Jesse came back! They're dead.," she stopped talking when a big piece of the roof

crashed down and a few trees in the little forest behind them caught fire. "Emma, how's

Jesse?" "He's unconscious but all right ,I think." Silence. "Emma, stay where you are, I'll

Come to you!" The young woman nodded soundless an closed her eyes. __________________________________________________________________________

Brennan knew this was the end. He pushed himself nearer against the wall but the flames

followed him. Shalimar was still lying unconscious in his arms and he realised that he didn't

search for a pulse. He grabbed her wrist and searched for a pulse but couldn't find one. She

was dead. She had already been dead when he'd arrived to rescue her. Everything was in vain,

he could never have rescued her! He brushed some hair out of her pale and dirty face. His

hand glided to her throat and he searched again for a pulse but there was again nothing.

Nothing, only the coolness of her face in the heat of the fire. Brennan couldn't breathe

anymore, the smog was too much but he didn't care. His eyes burned like hell and hot tears

ran down his dusty cheeks. It was like he could hear the hiss of his evaporated tears. One

pillar broke down and he could see the sky through the whole in the roof. It was blue, without

any cloud. He pulled Shalimar lifeless body tighter into his arms, gently, as if he was in fear

that she could get hurt. The flames shot higher. "I love you," he whispered into Shalimar's ear

although she would never hear it. Then the roof crashed down and fell over him. A few

seconds later a rock fell on his head and he passed out. He betted that he would die right now

but he didn't. The flames went back , hissed over him and the roof that buried him caught fire.

Darkness surrounded him. He could hear his heart beating and wished, it would stop so he

hadn't to deal with Shal's death. He realised that he had to fight to get Shalimar out of here so

Adam could safe her life. He kicked against the metal of the broken roof and could feel its

heat. The plate gave in under his kicks and slid away. The elemental pushed some burning wood

away, burned his hands but managed to climb out with Shal in his arms. With all his might he

jumped over the hot ruins into safety.

"Shalimar's no pulse," he coughed as he saw Adam and Emma near the Helix. He lay her

form gently to the ground, next to Jesse. Emma saw, that Adams hands trembled while he

examined the feral. "I'm sorry," he whispered with a shaking voice. "She's dead, I can't do

anything for her. Her neck bones are splintered. Emma sank on her knees and buried her face

into her hands. Brennan just stood there and looked at the dead woman. She looked like she

was asleep, only the cut on her forehead could tell that she wasn't all right. He touched her

had and tried to held back the tears that started to fill his tears. He loved her so much but now

it was too late to tell her. He felt a hand on his shoulder but didn't move. "Brennan, please get into the Helix, the older man said and pushed him away from Shalimar. He went a few steps, than turned back to Shalimar for a last time. She lay on the ground, her face as beautiful as it has ever been. The sun let her hair gleam like a kind of gold and he couldn't realise it. He couldn't realise that she was dead, gone forever and why her. The sky was so blue. He thought that it had to by dark and rainy but there was not one cloud in heaven. The sun shone warm, some birds flew through the air. When the Helix launched, he smiled. There could be not better whether to die for a feral, who loved nature and its beauty.

Brennan lay down the red rose on the edge of the gravestone. "Shalimar Fox" it said and he re- read the signs several times. It was only a name, nothing about the person who lay in this grave, about her life, about the things she'd fought for and died for. Brennan took a deep breath. Everything had got so unnecessary since she'd died. Jesse and Adam had changed. Both of them had gotten silent and serious, only Emma was the same and tried to comfort everyone but Brennan knew that this was only show. Brennan kissed his fingertips and pressed them against the stone. He knew that he would be away for a long time and he felt like letting her go just in this moment also she'd died two moth ago. Without her, working for Mutant X had lost its meaning and he had decided to leave the team to start his life over again. Pictures of Shalimar, lying lifeless and cold into his arms came to his mind. He turned around and went between the gravestones to his car. He had to let her go even it was hard. "I'll love you forever Shal", he thought before leaving this place for many years.

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