I know I keep on promising you people action but there's so much preparation to do. The rescue thing will be in the next chapter...I really do promise this time round.
Thanks you for all the reviews, I'm extremely happy that you're all enjoying...or atleast the people that reviewed are and if you don't review you have no right to be pissed when you don't get what you want. And any suggestions for an ending would be appreciated. I think I know what I'm gonna do but happy or sad etc. etc. would be nice.
Have a nice day.
***
Shalimar looked down at the ground below. She was flying in the Helix to the safehouse that Brennan and Jesse had been taken from. Adam was researching the GSA. So far he had found only minor snippets of information, nothing that could tell them where the two members of Mutant X were being held. He had also been searching for Rebecca. She was the one who had asked for the help of Mutant X. Shalimar figured that she had either been threatened and was now in a GSA holding cell with a subdermal governor in the back of her neck and a pod with her name on it or she had aided the GSA voluntarily and was strolling round happy as Larry. Either way Shalimar was gonna find her.
The computer in front of her beeped and as she pushed a button Adam's face appeared.
'I found the records of Safehouse 5. Rebecca was there at the same time as four GSAgents.'
'That still doesn't help me as far as working out whether she was a help or a hindrance to them Adam,' Shalimar replied.
'Yes but you haven't heard the full story. Right after the transmission a burst of power is shown coming from the building. And then five people left pretty quickly.'
'So she was forced to send the message and then preceded to get the hell out of there.'
'Seems like it. And then the GSAgents must have come back just in time to pick up Brennan and Jesse.'
Shalimar breathed deeply. They were getting closer to finding their lost teammates.
'Are you playing nice with Lexa?' Adam asked playfully.
Shalimar shot him a dirty look as her mind was jolted back to the woman sitting in the chair behind her, staring through the small window at the ground below her.
'I'm playing just fine with her,' she replied. She still didn't get why Lexa had had to come with her when she would have surely been more use back at Sanctuary.
'Shalimar, I'm not asking that you be best friends with her, I don't have that right. But please just try and be civil,' Adam pleaded.
'I'll let you know as soon as we find something,' she replied before breaking the link between her and him. She hated being told what to do, always had, but she was more annoyed because she knew he was right. And that was happening way too much lately for her own comfort. She steered the invisible Helix down towards the roof of the safehouse and landed smoothly. She turned around and saw Lexa watching her.
'What?' she asked coldly.
'Nothing,' Lexa replied as she stood up and pulled her jacket on.
Shalimar rolled her eyes and opened the doors. There was no way she could even be civil to a woman that she couldn't even hope to figure out.
Lexa's eyes flicked across to where Shalimar was standing with her back to her and she smirked. Adam had told her so many times how stubborn the feral could be but she hadn't fully believed him...before she had met Shalimar. She had no idea how Adam expected her to be able to get along with her but it seemed pretty impossible.
***
'Wow.'
'What?'
'This place is amazing,' Lexa replied as she looked around her at the safehouse. She had seen one of Adam's safehouses when he had first gotten her out off Genomex but since then she hadn't been near one. And they had changed. It wasn't quite as impressive as Sanctuary but she was still thoroughly dazzled.
Shalimar looked at Lexa like she was crazy before vaulting over the gangway railing onto the floor below. She was desperate in her need for some kind of information and even stairs seemed like a waste of time.
Lexa's mouth hung open as she watched. She didn't know why she was so suprised at Shalimar's abilities. Having worked for Genomex she had heard all about what ferals could do but seeing one in action was a different matter entirely.
Shalimar's eyes glowed orange and she walked further into the room. She looked into the kitchen as she walked past and saw broken glass on the floor. She walked in further and could hear the crunching under her feet but there was no other sign of life.
She walked back out into the main room, straight past Lexa. Shalimar's eyes scanned the area quickly before coming to alight on blood on the floor. She rushed over and crouched down next to it. She sighed and looked away. It wasn't that she couldn't stand the site of blood, she just knew what it signaled for Brennan and Jesse. As she looked away she noticed an ID card. She picked it up and looked at all the details. It had presumably been dropped by a GSAgent but all it had on it was a picture, an 8 digit number and a black strip.
'Adam.'
There was a few seconds pause before he replied.
'I've found an ID card but Genomex has gotten all discreet so there's nothing on it that tells us anything.'
'Alright. Get back here quickly so I can take a look at the card. Maybe there's some way of linking it to a location.'
'Lexa, we're going.'
She looked up from where she had been standing and saw Shalimar running up the stairs. She followed. She hadn't heard what Shalimar had been saying to Adam but she had gotten the gist of it from Shalimar's body language. She was not happy with the result of their search.
***
'Have you found anything?' Shalimar asked, the urgency and desperation evident in her voice.
'No. Not since the last time you asked which was exactly two minutes ago,' Adam replied, irritation evident in his.
She stalked out of the lab, leaving Adam to get on with his work and slammed straight into Lexa. The two rebounded and Shalimar muttered a distracted apology before carrying on.
Lexa leant against the smooth wall and began to wonder, not for the first time what she was doing there. She wasn't wanted, that much she knew. But why had she been so eager to get involved in the first place. When Adam had asked her to fill in at Mutant X she had jumped at the opportunity, but she had no idea why. There was the whole family issue. She had never had one, atleast not one that she cared to remember. Genomex had been her first real home and she was ashamed that that had ever been her state of mind. But why she was putting up with so much crap from Shalimar she had no idea. She could have walked out at anytime but she hadn't. Maybe she felt sorry for Shalimar. After everything she had been through didn't she deserve a break. But just because Shalimar was hard done by didn't mean that she had the right to take it all out on her.
Lexa walked towards the sound of water, needing something to calm her down. She sat down next to the secluded pool and tucked her legs underneath her body. She made a firm decision to give Shalimar the benefit of the doubt. The feral had been through so much recently Lexa couldn't even imagine the pain. So, she was going to let it all slide, atleast until she could get out of there and back to her old life at which point she might consider giving Shalimar a piece of her mind.
She looked up at the window and saw the full moon shining through. She followed the rays down towards the waters surface. She held out her hand and watched as they slowly shimmered out of their original shapes and became starlike objects. They sparkled and glowed in the dark environment.
'Very pretty.'
She turned her head sharply and looked in to Shalimar's eyes.
'Thanks,' she replied cautiously.
'I just thought I should apologize for my behaviour earlier. I'm going through some extreme...shit. I just thought I should let you know that its not you...it really is me. You've come at the wrong time.'
'When would have been a good time?'
'I don't think there would have been one,' Shalimar answered after a pause.
Lexa looked back down at the water, down at the rays of ghostly light emitted by the moon and saw they had changed again back to their original shimmers.
'Shalimar.'
They both turned and saw Adam's head appearing through the doorway of the lab. They both stood and ran towards him, wondering what he had found.
'What have you got?'
'A group of buildings in the middle of town. The strip, once I hacked into it gives the location of Eckhart's new premises and he's clearly decided to get a little closer to the action this time round.'
'So, what are we waiting for? Lets go,' Shalimar said.
'No,' Adam replied. 'We can't just bust in there. We need to atleast have a plan.'
Shalimar stared at him, open-mouthed. As per usual he was being cautious but this was Brennan's and Jesse's lives they were talking about.
'And what's your big plan then?' she replied angrily.
'We send Lexa in.'
'What?' the two women replied simultaneously. They looked at each other both wondering what the hell Adam was thinking?
'Shalimar, it makes sense. The GSA will be watching out for you. They will know that you will be making some sort of move to get back Brennan and Jesse and they'll be prepared. They have no idea that Lexa is working with Mutant X. And plus if this is going to be successful you have to be in the Helix ready to get them all out of there.'
'Adam, you cannot be serious. Lexa has not been trained like I have. If she's discovered what's she gonna do?'
'I can do plenty,' Lexa retorted, offended that Shalimar was underestimating her.
'Yeah, you can distort moon beams, real helpful,' Shalimar fired back.
'Hey, hey!' Adam said, trying to get the focus of the pair back onto what was important. When he had got it he carried on. 'If Lexa fails then you can go in there and do your thing.'
She looked into his brown eyes and saw the old Adam, the one who never backed down when he had come up with a plan, the one who always took charge when everyone else was floundering.
'I can't lose them,' she said calmly.
'I know,' he replied.
***
'The entrance is here,' Adam said, pointing at the computer screen. 'And Shalimar will land here. Lexa, you should probably go in one of the cars because I'm not sure how far reaching their security cameras are.'
'And all I have to do is swipe the card and I'm in. There's no fingerprint things or anything.'
'Can you tell she's never done this before?' Shalimar said with a smirk.
'Yes, I'm sure,' Adam said with a reassuring smile at Lexa and raised eyebrows at Shalimar. 'You'll go in and along this corridor,' he continued, indicating areas of the computer screen. 'Brennan and Jesse are being held here.'
Lexa watched as Adam's index finger moved across the screen and came to a stop. She was as nervous as she had ever been but was determined to get through this mission. She had a whole lot of life to live yet and she was not going back into a Genomex building just to get stuck there. Shalimar's somewhat good natured teasing was not gonna make her back down...and she kind of guessed that that was the point.
'Shalimar, you'll keep an eye on Lexa and go in as soon as something goes wrong.'
'Okay. What time are we going in?'
'Its nine pm now. We'll go in 45 minutes to get there in an hour. For now, I suggest you go and get some rest.'
Adam turned back to the computer. He wanted to check all the details again, just to make sure that they were all correct. His intention was to keep an eye on all the feed from the security cameras. He would run a loop so that when Brennan, Jesse and Lexa were leaving none of the security team would know.
Shalimar walked out of the lab. She wasn't nervous but she really wished that someone was there to talk to her. Before going out on a mission there had always been a sense of excitement, atleast for her and that had been created by the people around her. Emma would laugh with her as they got ready, Brennan would always be ready to have a last minute sparring session with her and Jesse would check everything over with Adam so they could see everything from every angle. But she could not afford to fail this time round. She could not lose two more friends.
Lexa went straight to her bag. It had been left by the entrance to Sanctuary when she had turned up with Adam and she had forgotten it since, being a little too preoccupied with other things. She unzipped the front pocket and, using her abilities manipulated the overhead lights so they shone in. Having found what she was looking for she slipped the chain round her neck and did up the clasp. She glanced down at the silver cross. She wasn't religious, never really had been but there was something about crosses that made her feel more secure. Maybe it was the idea that there was someone watching over her, making sure that she was okay.
She stood up and breathed deeply before walking towards the water, the place where she felt most at home. When she had been a kid, living with her parents, before they had found out about her abilities there had been a lake near her house and everyday during the holidays she would go there, to sit, to read, to draw, simply to relax. She had loved it there and water seemed to calm her more than anything else. And she figured that Shalimar probably wasn't the person to be around at that moment in time.
'Trying to calm yourself down.' The question floated down from the dojo. Lexa hadn't seen Shalimar sitting there and she looked up, wondering how the feral always seemed to find her and how she always seemed to know what was going through Lexa's head.
'I did the same thing before my first mission,' Shalimar continued as Lexa sat down by the edge of the water. 'I was freaked by everything that was going on and there was nobody else I could talk to about any of it. Jesse went through the same thing when he first turned up and I'm sure that Brennan and Emma did too.'
'How did you get round the nerves,' Lexa asked.
'I don't remember, and even if I did it probably wouldn't help you. We all get over the freakiness in our own way.'
'How do you do this? All the time, facing the possibility that you'll lose everything, everyone that means anything to you?'
Shalimar looked down at the water and the reflection of the moon that it held, flickering on its surface. She didn't know. For the past month she had been in some state of shock and had been carrying on as normal, trying to get through everyday without even the slightest hint that it would get better. And now she was doing it because she had to, she had been telling the truth when she had told Adam that she couldn't lose them. But after that... She had no idea what she was going to do, whether she was going to leave Mutant X and Sanctuary or whether she was going to stick it out, work through the pain. She would confront that decision when she had to.
'We should probably get ready for the mission.'
'You didn't answer my question.'
'You noticed that too huh?'
Thanks you for all the reviews, I'm extremely happy that you're all enjoying...or atleast the people that reviewed are and if you don't review you have no right to be pissed when you don't get what you want. And any suggestions for an ending would be appreciated. I think I know what I'm gonna do but happy or sad etc. etc. would be nice.
Have a nice day.
***
Shalimar looked down at the ground below. She was flying in the Helix to the safehouse that Brennan and Jesse had been taken from. Adam was researching the GSA. So far he had found only minor snippets of information, nothing that could tell them where the two members of Mutant X were being held. He had also been searching for Rebecca. She was the one who had asked for the help of Mutant X. Shalimar figured that she had either been threatened and was now in a GSA holding cell with a subdermal governor in the back of her neck and a pod with her name on it or she had aided the GSA voluntarily and was strolling round happy as Larry. Either way Shalimar was gonna find her.
The computer in front of her beeped and as she pushed a button Adam's face appeared.
'I found the records of Safehouse 5. Rebecca was there at the same time as four GSAgents.'
'That still doesn't help me as far as working out whether she was a help or a hindrance to them Adam,' Shalimar replied.
'Yes but you haven't heard the full story. Right after the transmission a burst of power is shown coming from the building. And then five people left pretty quickly.'
'So she was forced to send the message and then preceded to get the hell out of there.'
'Seems like it. And then the GSAgents must have come back just in time to pick up Brennan and Jesse.'
Shalimar breathed deeply. They were getting closer to finding their lost teammates.
'Are you playing nice with Lexa?' Adam asked playfully.
Shalimar shot him a dirty look as her mind was jolted back to the woman sitting in the chair behind her, staring through the small window at the ground below her.
'I'm playing just fine with her,' she replied. She still didn't get why Lexa had had to come with her when she would have surely been more use back at Sanctuary.
'Shalimar, I'm not asking that you be best friends with her, I don't have that right. But please just try and be civil,' Adam pleaded.
'I'll let you know as soon as we find something,' she replied before breaking the link between her and him. She hated being told what to do, always had, but she was more annoyed because she knew he was right. And that was happening way too much lately for her own comfort. She steered the invisible Helix down towards the roof of the safehouse and landed smoothly. She turned around and saw Lexa watching her.
'What?' she asked coldly.
'Nothing,' Lexa replied as she stood up and pulled her jacket on.
Shalimar rolled her eyes and opened the doors. There was no way she could even be civil to a woman that she couldn't even hope to figure out.
Lexa's eyes flicked across to where Shalimar was standing with her back to her and she smirked. Adam had told her so many times how stubborn the feral could be but she hadn't fully believed him...before she had met Shalimar. She had no idea how Adam expected her to be able to get along with her but it seemed pretty impossible.
***
'Wow.'
'What?'
'This place is amazing,' Lexa replied as she looked around her at the safehouse. She had seen one of Adam's safehouses when he had first gotten her out off Genomex but since then she hadn't been near one. And they had changed. It wasn't quite as impressive as Sanctuary but she was still thoroughly dazzled.
Shalimar looked at Lexa like she was crazy before vaulting over the gangway railing onto the floor below. She was desperate in her need for some kind of information and even stairs seemed like a waste of time.
Lexa's mouth hung open as she watched. She didn't know why she was so suprised at Shalimar's abilities. Having worked for Genomex she had heard all about what ferals could do but seeing one in action was a different matter entirely.
Shalimar's eyes glowed orange and she walked further into the room. She looked into the kitchen as she walked past and saw broken glass on the floor. She walked in further and could hear the crunching under her feet but there was no other sign of life.
She walked back out into the main room, straight past Lexa. Shalimar's eyes scanned the area quickly before coming to alight on blood on the floor. She rushed over and crouched down next to it. She sighed and looked away. It wasn't that she couldn't stand the site of blood, she just knew what it signaled for Brennan and Jesse. As she looked away she noticed an ID card. She picked it up and looked at all the details. It had presumably been dropped by a GSAgent but all it had on it was a picture, an 8 digit number and a black strip.
'Adam.'
There was a few seconds pause before he replied.
'I've found an ID card but Genomex has gotten all discreet so there's nothing on it that tells us anything.'
'Alright. Get back here quickly so I can take a look at the card. Maybe there's some way of linking it to a location.'
'Lexa, we're going.'
She looked up from where she had been standing and saw Shalimar running up the stairs. She followed. She hadn't heard what Shalimar had been saying to Adam but she had gotten the gist of it from Shalimar's body language. She was not happy with the result of their search.
***
'Have you found anything?' Shalimar asked, the urgency and desperation evident in her voice.
'No. Not since the last time you asked which was exactly two minutes ago,' Adam replied, irritation evident in his.
She stalked out of the lab, leaving Adam to get on with his work and slammed straight into Lexa. The two rebounded and Shalimar muttered a distracted apology before carrying on.
Lexa leant against the smooth wall and began to wonder, not for the first time what she was doing there. She wasn't wanted, that much she knew. But why had she been so eager to get involved in the first place. When Adam had asked her to fill in at Mutant X she had jumped at the opportunity, but she had no idea why. There was the whole family issue. She had never had one, atleast not one that she cared to remember. Genomex had been her first real home and she was ashamed that that had ever been her state of mind. But why she was putting up with so much crap from Shalimar she had no idea. She could have walked out at anytime but she hadn't. Maybe she felt sorry for Shalimar. After everything she had been through didn't she deserve a break. But just because Shalimar was hard done by didn't mean that she had the right to take it all out on her.
Lexa walked towards the sound of water, needing something to calm her down. She sat down next to the secluded pool and tucked her legs underneath her body. She made a firm decision to give Shalimar the benefit of the doubt. The feral had been through so much recently Lexa couldn't even imagine the pain. So, she was going to let it all slide, atleast until she could get out of there and back to her old life at which point she might consider giving Shalimar a piece of her mind.
She looked up at the window and saw the full moon shining through. She followed the rays down towards the waters surface. She held out her hand and watched as they slowly shimmered out of their original shapes and became starlike objects. They sparkled and glowed in the dark environment.
'Very pretty.'
She turned her head sharply and looked in to Shalimar's eyes.
'Thanks,' she replied cautiously.
'I just thought I should apologize for my behaviour earlier. I'm going through some extreme...shit. I just thought I should let you know that its not you...it really is me. You've come at the wrong time.'
'When would have been a good time?'
'I don't think there would have been one,' Shalimar answered after a pause.
Lexa looked back down at the water, down at the rays of ghostly light emitted by the moon and saw they had changed again back to their original shimmers.
'Shalimar.'
They both turned and saw Adam's head appearing through the doorway of the lab. They both stood and ran towards him, wondering what he had found.
'What have you got?'
'A group of buildings in the middle of town. The strip, once I hacked into it gives the location of Eckhart's new premises and he's clearly decided to get a little closer to the action this time round.'
'So, what are we waiting for? Lets go,' Shalimar said.
'No,' Adam replied. 'We can't just bust in there. We need to atleast have a plan.'
Shalimar stared at him, open-mouthed. As per usual he was being cautious but this was Brennan's and Jesse's lives they were talking about.
'And what's your big plan then?' she replied angrily.
'We send Lexa in.'
'What?' the two women replied simultaneously. They looked at each other both wondering what the hell Adam was thinking?
'Shalimar, it makes sense. The GSA will be watching out for you. They will know that you will be making some sort of move to get back Brennan and Jesse and they'll be prepared. They have no idea that Lexa is working with Mutant X. And plus if this is going to be successful you have to be in the Helix ready to get them all out of there.'
'Adam, you cannot be serious. Lexa has not been trained like I have. If she's discovered what's she gonna do?'
'I can do plenty,' Lexa retorted, offended that Shalimar was underestimating her.
'Yeah, you can distort moon beams, real helpful,' Shalimar fired back.
'Hey, hey!' Adam said, trying to get the focus of the pair back onto what was important. When he had got it he carried on. 'If Lexa fails then you can go in there and do your thing.'
She looked into his brown eyes and saw the old Adam, the one who never backed down when he had come up with a plan, the one who always took charge when everyone else was floundering.
'I can't lose them,' she said calmly.
'I know,' he replied.
***
'The entrance is here,' Adam said, pointing at the computer screen. 'And Shalimar will land here. Lexa, you should probably go in one of the cars because I'm not sure how far reaching their security cameras are.'
'And all I have to do is swipe the card and I'm in. There's no fingerprint things or anything.'
'Can you tell she's never done this before?' Shalimar said with a smirk.
'Yes, I'm sure,' Adam said with a reassuring smile at Lexa and raised eyebrows at Shalimar. 'You'll go in and along this corridor,' he continued, indicating areas of the computer screen. 'Brennan and Jesse are being held here.'
Lexa watched as Adam's index finger moved across the screen and came to a stop. She was as nervous as she had ever been but was determined to get through this mission. She had a whole lot of life to live yet and she was not going back into a Genomex building just to get stuck there. Shalimar's somewhat good natured teasing was not gonna make her back down...and she kind of guessed that that was the point.
'Shalimar, you'll keep an eye on Lexa and go in as soon as something goes wrong.'
'Okay. What time are we going in?'
'Its nine pm now. We'll go in 45 minutes to get there in an hour. For now, I suggest you go and get some rest.'
Adam turned back to the computer. He wanted to check all the details again, just to make sure that they were all correct. His intention was to keep an eye on all the feed from the security cameras. He would run a loop so that when Brennan, Jesse and Lexa were leaving none of the security team would know.
Shalimar walked out of the lab. She wasn't nervous but she really wished that someone was there to talk to her. Before going out on a mission there had always been a sense of excitement, atleast for her and that had been created by the people around her. Emma would laugh with her as they got ready, Brennan would always be ready to have a last minute sparring session with her and Jesse would check everything over with Adam so they could see everything from every angle. But she could not afford to fail this time round. She could not lose two more friends.
Lexa went straight to her bag. It had been left by the entrance to Sanctuary when she had turned up with Adam and she had forgotten it since, being a little too preoccupied with other things. She unzipped the front pocket and, using her abilities manipulated the overhead lights so they shone in. Having found what she was looking for she slipped the chain round her neck and did up the clasp. She glanced down at the silver cross. She wasn't religious, never really had been but there was something about crosses that made her feel more secure. Maybe it was the idea that there was someone watching over her, making sure that she was okay.
She stood up and breathed deeply before walking towards the water, the place where she felt most at home. When she had been a kid, living with her parents, before they had found out about her abilities there had been a lake near her house and everyday during the holidays she would go there, to sit, to read, to draw, simply to relax. She had loved it there and water seemed to calm her more than anything else. And she figured that Shalimar probably wasn't the person to be around at that moment in time.
'Trying to calm yourself down.' The question floated down from the dojo. Lexa hadn't seen Shalimar sitting there and she looked up, wondering how the feral always seemed to find her and how she always seemed to know what was going through Lexa's head.
'I did the same thing before my first mission,' Shalimar continued as Lexa sat down by the edge of the water. 'I was freaked by everything that was going on and there was nobody else I could talk to about any of it. Jesse went through the same thing when he first turned up and I'm sure that Brennan and Emma did too.'
'How did you get round the nerves,' Lexa asked.
'I don't remember, and even if I did it probably wouldn't help you. We all get over the freakiness in our own way.'
'How do you do this? All the time, facing the possibility that you'll lose everything, everyone that means anything to you?'
Shalimar looked down at the water and the reflection of the moon that it held, flickering on its surface. She didn't know. For the past month she had been in some state of shock and had been carrying on as normal, trying to get through everyday without even the slightest hint that it would get better. And now she was doing it because she had to, she had been telling the truth when she had told Adam that she couldn't lose them. But after that... She had no idea what she was going to do, whether she was going to leave Mutant X and Sanctuary or whether she was going to stick it out, work through the pain. She would confront that decision when she had to.
'We should probably get ready for the mission.'
'You didn't answer my question.'
'You noticed that too huh?'