Authors Note: Hey! I did this one before my birthday which is on the 17th of this month. Hehehe!
Thanks to:
Enorm87: thanks! What else could I say!
Molecular_Psionic: I don't know why they don't like it either. LOL!
Theblondeone07: I know exactly what ;you mean! I hate it too when they remove Emma form the cast.
M.B._Wade: hi Maddy, I've read your story it was really great. I was planning to write another fic that is similar to that one—you know what I mean—reviving Emma. Oh well. Thanks for the review.
Goldstranger: yeah! Emma is often doubted by these people. Hmmmmmmmp. Thanks for the review girl. Love you for it.
Bjvision: Well it is strong but shalimar's love for brennan is stronger…you know what I mean? LOL
Here's the new chapter! Have fun
Underestimated
~Thought ~
Memory
/Sounds/
"Conversation"
Chapter 28
Emma sat silently in the center of the dojo doing her meditation. It has been two days and she already forgot about Gabriel. She was just happy that Shalimar is with them again.
Jesse and Brennan went out of the Sanctuary to do the groceries. Adam told them that Emma and Shalimar should have their rest after all that had happened in the group. Brennan and Jesse swore to treat them like princesses.
Adam through the potion he made to make them forget Emma. He knew that it wouldn't be necessary anymore. He even told Emma that he had made one and he promised that he would not make any in the near future. Emma told Adam that that would not happen again.
Emma smiled as she meditated. The reason why she went away was because she was underestimated. The event between Jesse and Shalimar was just added to it. She was very happy about the serenity that she is feeling.
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Shalimar observed the psionic from afar. She could see Emma in her usual yoga position covered with sweat all over her body after series of training. Shalimar was there while Emma was still kicking the solid hologram's ass and now she is still observing her on her meditation.
Shalimar grinned inside and she breath in deeply, preparing herself for her plan. Throwing her golden locks, she walked slowly towards the meditating psionic. She walked up the dojo and sat beside Emma.
Emma felt the presence around her and she smile. "Hi Shal!" she said with her eyes still closed, she took a last breathe in and then look at her feral friend.
"Hi!" Shal replied as she tried to avoid Emma's emeralds.
Emma resigned from her meditation and sat comfortably facing the feral. With legs still crossed, she faced Shalimar and took her hand. "What is it?" she smiled.
Shalimar didn't know how to begin. She bit her lip and looked away, then faced Emma again. "I don't know how to start."
Emma smiled as she pushed some of Shalimar's golden hair away from the feral's face. She sat up right and flipped her sweating hair backwards. "Start anyways you want."
Shalimar's chest rise and fell as she took another deep breathe. She looked at the psionic and bit her lip again. "I've been wanting to tell you this…" Shalimar stopped and observed Emma's reaction.
Emma's heart started to pound hard but she was able to hide her emotion from the feral. She could already sense where this talk is leading them.
"I'm really sorry, Emma. I didn't mean to hurt you." Tears begun to show from the feral's eyes. Emotions begun to rise and her pain extended its way to Emma's senses.
Emma smiled. She was right. Shalimar wanted to talk about what happened between her and Jesse. She took her towel and gave it to the feral. "It's alright, Shal. Jesse told me everything and I understand both of you."
Shalimar gazed at Emma, a bit amazed. She didn't know that Jesse had the guts to tell Emma anything at all. She gazed at her long enough and then she asked. "Really?"
Emma answered it with a nod. She knew that it is hard to explain what had happen but she is willing to accept any alibi.
"Really?" Shalimar repeated and Emma nodded again. "…And it's okay with you?" Emma nodded again. "O my god!" she threw her arms around Emma. "Thank you. Thank you for understanding us."
Emma rubbed Shalimar's back as to comfort her. She was telling her the truth. She must have been hurting but she is telling the feral the truth. She understands. But what is it that she understood? She still doesn't have the slightest idea.
Shalimar continued to release her tension on Emma's shoulder. "Thank you Ems and sorry at the same time." She pulled away. "I didn't mean to fall for Jesse."
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Brennan and Jesse are on their way home. They have all the grocery items that Adam told them to buy at the back seat while Brennan drive the camaro and Jesse sat on the passenger's seat.
"I didn't know it was really hard to do grocery." Jesse whined as he released his seat belt to grab the pizza, which he bought, at the back seat.
"Yeah! It was really boring. I don't know how the girls could manage to still be smiling after doing the groceries." Brennan added with a little smile on his face. He glanced at Jesse who was starting to nibble with his pizza and shook his head.
"The girls are really amazing, don't you think?" Jesse signaled Brennan to have some pizza but Brennan refused it.
"I know." Brennan replied.
Jesse smiled at himself and then he started another conversation. "What do you plan now? I mean you and Shalimar."
Brennan glanced at the molecular. "What do you mean plan?"
"You know, wedding and stuff." Jesse took another bit as he grab a can of soda from the back seat.
"Wedding? She's not even my girlfriend yet." Brennan smirked.
"There!" Jesse exclaimed. "Then shy don't you start planning about making her yours." He smiled and played with her brow.
Before they knew it, they are no w in the Sanctuary. Jesse closed the pizza box as they entered in the trans stable of the Sanctuary. Brennan parked the camaro and then both went out, took the groceries and marched to the kitchen extension.
"I'll check where the girls are." Jesse said, leaving Brennan to arrange the items.
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Shalimar continued to release her tension on Emma's shoulder. "Thank you Ems and sorry at the same time." She pulled away. "I didn't mean to fall for Jesse."
That caught Emma's attention. "What?" she willed Shalimar to repeat what she had said.
"I didn't mean to fall in love with him. We didn't mean to have an affair." Shalimar explained.
"Wait Shal." Emma begged Shalimar to stop as she took some air for herself. "I'm sorry but I'm at a lost here. Are you telling me that you… and my Jesse…"
Shalimar nodded. "It wasn't supposed to be this way Ems. We were about to tell you." Shalimar paused and took Emma's hand. "But I'm happy you understand." She smiled.
Emma could feel her heart breaking again but she chose to hide it. How could Jesse lie to her again? How could he do this to them?
As they were having a short talk, Jesse marched in the dojo. "Hey ladies." He greeted.
Emma threw Jesse a glance and then she stood up, wanting to contain her feeling. "I'm gonna leave the two of you for a while." Emma forced a smile but Jesse knew that something was bothering her.
"Emma, are you all right?" Jesse inquired.
Emma just nodded.
"We just had our talk, darling." Shalimar told Jesse.
"Yeah and she told me about…everything." Emma stressed the last word and left.
Jesse was left confused with Shalimar. "What did you talked about?"
"About what happened between us. I told her that it was not your fault. That we didn't know what we were doing." Shalimar replied.
"Did she believe you?" Jesse again as he cannot believe that Shalimar had the strength to actually tell that.
"I really don't know Jesse. She said that she understands and that you already told her everything but then she seems up-set."
"I'll see what she'll do." Jesse said and begun to leave but Shalimar got him by the elbow and stopped him.
"No, Jesse. I think she needs to be alone for some time." The feral gave tried to convince the molecular and she succeeded.
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Emma tearfully closed her door behind her. She really thought that Jesse and Shalimar had a reason for doing what they did but she didn't even imagined that the reason would be something about betraying her. The pain tortured her mind as if it just happened today. The rawness of the pang taunts her.
~How could you do this to me Jesse? How could you have done this to me? I trusted you. ~ Emma thought as tears freely streamed from her emeralds. And what was it that Shalimar called Jesse? Yeah, darling…she called him darling. Emma could almost vomit at the thought. She sat on her bed still covering her mouth to hide the sobs.
She closed her eyes but the picture of Shalimar beneath Jesse's naked body haunted her being. She could imagine Jesse's lips kissing Shalimar; she could imagine how Shalimar's moan must have aroused Jesse.
Would it be cruel to enter Shalimar's mind and know her past? Emma dared and then she decided… oh, what the hell. She's screwed anyway. She just wanted to know what happened just before she saw them. Emma focused her energy to invade the private thoughts of Shalimar.
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Shalimar sat silently on her pane and she thought of the success of her plan. ~Emma would be gone in no time ~ she thought.
"This is not the time to think about that."
A voice caught Shalimar's attention. ~Gabriel, my love ~ her mind called out when she saw him on her bed sitting with his knees crossed. She came towards him but Gabriel stopped her.
"Emma is using all her power to see what had happened between you and Jesse. You have to use your mind and twist the scene a little." Gabriel explained
Shalimar's brows met in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Emma is a telempath so she would sense your emotions. Try to imagine making love with Jesse." He commanded as he walked towards her and gently caressed her cheeks.
"But..."
"Just do what I say. I'll help you fake it." He promised and Shalimar did what she was told. She lie down on her bed and closed her eyes as she let her mind do the working.
Meanwhile, Gabriel used his kinetic power to lock the door and then he sat beside Shalimar. He closed her eyes as he entered the feral's mind.
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Emma was having a hard time focusing her powers and then something bumped in her. It was Shalimar's emotions. Emma was a little bit surprised. The flood of emotion came to her as if on purpose. ~Is this what am I looking for? ~ She asked herself as she was taken into a trance. She was still on her bed but her mind took her to somewhere else. She looked around. It was the feral's room.
Emma saw an electronic calendar. It was dated on the time she found Jesse and Shalimar together. No one was in the room then suddenly the door opened.
"Shal,"
It was Jesse with the same white shirt he wore that day. "Jesse!" Emma called out but Jesse seemed not to notice him and that made her sure that it was the scene she was looking for. But it was a little weird for her. She hasn't been in a trance like this. Maybe it her powers have evolved. She really doesn't know but what's important is she'll know what really happened.
"Shalimar!"
Emma heard Jesse again and then the bathroom door unlocked and Shalimar went out.
"Jesse, what are you doing here?" Shalimar irately asked. "You are not supposed to be here. What if Emma finds you?"
Emma could see Jesse' breathing became constricted and then he run toward Shalimar. Jesse wrapped his arms around the feral and kissed her. It was a long eager kiss as if he really needed it.
"I can't go on like this, Shal. Emma wants to announce our engagement today. If Adam gives us his blessing, then I would never get to hold you again." He told her after their lips parted from the wet kiss.
"But you were her's first." Shalimar pulled herself and turned around from him.
Emma could see the tears in the feral's eyes. As much as she wanted to kill her, she could feel for her at the same time. Tears are building up from her eyes but she refuse to let them go. She was afraid that it will destroy the connection. Then she heard Jesse's voice again.
"Tell me what you want me to do and I'll do it." Jesse's eyes were serious and he was standing in determination.
Shalimar turned around and walked near the molecular. She lifted her hand and touched Jesse's face. "Pretend you love her."
"Shal," Jesse moved away as he could not stand the idea.
Shalimar followed him and she held hugged him from the back. She rested her head on his broad back as her hand rested on his washboard abs. "She needs you, Jess. She'll die without you." She moved away and willed Jesse to look at her. "I know you still care for her. Maybe not like before but you still care for her as a friend. You'll learn to love her again."
Jesse looked at Shalimar and then he sighed. "Make love with me one last time then I'll be her's forever."
Emma bit her lips after hearing Jesse's sentence and then the real throbbing started when Jesse started kissing Shalimar again. Emma could see every movement they were making. She could see how Jesse's hands move quickly to unbutton Shalimar's blouse; she could see how Shalimar undo Jesse's pants.
Her tears slowly parted from her eyes as Jesse grabbed Shalimar's behind and carried her naked body on her bed. Emma's knees shook when Jesse made a wet path from Shalimar's neck down to her blessed breast.
Emma bit her lips when Jesse's tongue played with Shalimar's nipples and then it lick the feral down to her wetness. Emma clenched her fist when she heard Shalimar's moan while Jesse licked her down there.
Emma heard voices coming from outside. That was the only time she realized that Shalimar and Jesse forgot the door. She saw Brennan outside the door with shocked expression on his face. She saw herself too but she torn her eyes from herself and Brennan to look at Shalimar and Jesse again.
Emma was holding her breath when Jesse went back to face Shalimar and he pried the feral's legs apart and then…
Emma snapped. That was all she could take. She opened her eyes to escape the trance. She could not believe that that was what transpired that day. It was not even Shalimar's fault. The feral was even doing her a favor. Jesse just didn't love her at all. How could she be so blind?
Tears came like storm from her tear ducks as the pain of lose engulf her being.
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"Oh my god!" Shalimar opened her eyes as the vision she made ended. "The vision felt so true." She added as her body still shakes for the pleasure she had with the virtual sex. "Would Emma believe that?" she inquired.
"She will." Gabriel assured her.
Shalimar smiled at him. "Poor Emma. She would live her life thinking that I was the one helping her and Jesse is just cheating on her." She laughed devilishly and then she looked at Gabriel. "So are you taking me with you now?"
Gabriel caressed the feral's cheeks. "Not yet my love but it'll be soon. We just have to wait for Emma to leave the sanctuary."
"But what if she doesn't leave?"
"Oh, she will… she will." There was a taunting smiled that appeared in Gabriel's eyes.
Poor Emma. Why didn't she sensed that it was all a set up? What would happen to her and Jesse? Will Gabriel finally succeed in pushing Emma away? What would happen to the team?
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***Lyza***
Hey guys. I was really wrapped up with my pregnancy and boy it's hard. Anyway tell me about what you think about the story now. A little bit more and we are almost done. Thanks for staying with me this long. Please keep on reviewing.... love you... mwuahh!!!!!!!! (",)ccccc…
