Authors Note: I could not believe that I have come to the end of the fic. *sigh* I will really miss you all.
Oh, I have started writing 3 fics. I don't know what to finish first. One is about Emma after the first episode in the 3rd season (into the moonless night) the second is about Brennan and Emma which is set, well somewhere before Lexa came and the third is about Shalimar and Brennan love affair. All this does not involve Lexa… *grins* (okay, so the fic which is set after the 'into the moonless night' involves Lexa. (I don't hate her, okay. I just want Emma back. Duh as if I could do something about it) so help me decide please. What will I be posting next? Choose from the three, okay. The Majority will win hehehe! Tell me soon. Mwuah!
Special Thanks to:
Maddy: I'm not sure what you meant with your comment but I'm still thankful. I hope you'll email and tell me what it really meant. Thanks.
Theblondeone07: I love it when she multiples too. I just hoped she got a lot of time to do that. Anyway, email me okay!
Gold: Don't worry dear. Gabriel will get the punishment he so much deserves.
Telempath: hahaha! I love the idea of emma dividing herself like that. LOL. Thanks for the review.
BJvision: Well, I believe that Gabriel is only powerful because of his mutation but if not for it, he's hopeless. We've seen it..i mean how he pleas when other mutants are not around to protect him. Hahaha! *evil grin*
Aur: Yeah, but I'm afraid the story would end soon. Thanks dear.
Enorm87: I'll this could be the last. It depends on all of you! Hahaha! Thanks for the review. I so love them…
Here's the last chapter! (or is it? Hahahaha!)
Underestimated
~Thought ~
Memory
/Sounds/
"Conversation"
Chapter 33"Shalimar!" Jesse hollered when he saw the feral running across the hallway on her way out. "Shalimar, it's us…it's me. We are here to help you!" his hands are stretched out to reach out to her.
"Stay back, if you know what's good for you." She warned him as she slowly back away. Her mind is troubled. Why is Gabriel afraid of them? Why is he pushing her away? ~to keep you from them~ a voice spoke in her mind. ~He's protecting me~ her wits defended. ~protect you from what? These people? These people won't even harm you~ "NO!" she thought allowed.
But Jesse could not let her leave. He stepped closer to her as Brennan appeared behind him after a few minutes. Jesse glanced at Brennan "Where's Ashlocke?" he asked him.
"Emma has him." Brennan replied and then faced Shalimar. "Shal, come with us."
"You want me? Come and get me!" she said and then her eyes turned golden yellowish. She turned around and started to run again as if a creature running away for its life.
Seeing that Shalimar is getting away, Jesse and Brennan started to dash after her. They sweated like dogs but Shalimar was quicker and she just won't let them gain on her. She kept running and leaping from time to time.
Realizing that they couldn't catch her, Jesse thought of something. When he saw Shalimar about to grab the doorknob of the exit door meters away from them, he decided to use his powers. He placed his hands on the wall that is connected to the door and phased it including the door.
Shalimar gasp when her hand passed through the door and she turned to her side finding Jesse phasing the wall.
When Jesse saw that Shalimar's hand was through, he unphased it—capturing Shalimar with the unphased door.
Shalimar irately glanced at Jesse and then back at the door. Using her feral power, she tore the door from its frame. Jesse and Brennan gasp as they remembered how strong Shalimar could be. Shalimar screamed as she angrily pulled her hand out of the solid door and then she finally decided to face the elemental and the molecular. She leaped onto Jesse and clawed him with her sharp nails leaving Jesse's face bleeding with soars. Brennan wrapped his arms around Shalimar's body just to pacify her… "Shalimar, please!" he begged her but to no avail.
Shalimar was red with anger and her feral nature is on the loose. "I'll kill you!" she hollered. She grabbed Brennan's arms and pushed it away from her throwing Brennan's body with it.
Jesse stood up and thought for a while… ~would I dare? ~ He thought to himself and then he decided to try. Inhaling deeply he grabbed Shalimar's arm and then massed himself, massing Shalimar with him.
Shalimar didn't know that Jesse could do that. She was puzzled and was she couldn't move—literally. Her organs massed with her and she had hard time breathing.
Brennan panicked when he saw Shalimar becoming red with queasiness. He tried standing up but failed miserably. Instead, he screamed at Jesse. "Let her go Jesse." And Jesse did after seeing that he was already choking the feral to death.
Shalimar collapsed at the floor struggling for fresh air. She coughed and breathed in deeply. Her face, that was once red with anger, now red in fear. She could have died. She didn't know that Jesse could mass around him like that.
"What were you thinking, Jess? You could have killed her!" Brennan demanded. He saw Shalimar in an almost dying form and it fueled him.
"I'm sorry!" Jesse apologized. "I didn't have much of a choice. She could escape from us soon.
Brennan glanced at that feral and he was surprised to see her weeping.
******
Gabriel was flustered. He swore he saw Emma just behind Brennan before he turned to Jesse. Was Emma that quick now?
"Well, now that you've asked, maybe."
Gabriel heard Emma's voice from behind him. He turned around and he got more confused when Emma was still standing behind Brennan. ~This is just a trick ~ he chanted to himself.
Emma sensed that and she answered him—aloud. "Maybe…" the Emma behind Brennan said. "…Maybe not..." the Emma in front of him added and then punched him.
Gabriel fell on his bed. He lifted his hands and nursed his bleeding nose. He wanted to use his laser eye beam again but it only works when he could see and Emma already knew that so she used her ability and blocked Gabriel's sight. "Argh!" He whimpered in irritation. He then placed his hands together to create an energy ball but Emma was quick and she distracted him with a strong blow on his belly.
Gabriel twisted his body in excruciating pain. His only hope was his powers but Emma was not giving him a chance to recover.
"Poor you!" Emma taunted. "All your mind power and you didn't even see this coming." She uttered and then she gave him a hard slap on his face. "All your powers in elements and you couldn't even zap me with a laser or an energy volt." Emma already tapped into Gabriel's powers making her in control of him. "This would teach you not to mess with other people's mind." She hollered and then she grabbed him by his collar and threw him on the wall. She wanted to kill the devil—Gabriel but she remembered Shalimar. She knew that the feral would so love to be the one to kill the bastard when she is already back to normal.
Emma glanced at Meg. "Watch him for me?" she asked her and Meg nodded. She was about to go when she thought she is not yet finished. She walked towards Gabriel's bleeding form, knelt down beside him and then she slapped him hard. "That's for manipulating Cole." She told him and then slapped him again on the other side of his face. "That's for controlling us." Then she gave him a punch on the face. "That's for using Shalimar!" and then a punch on his belly. "That's for parting Jesse from me!" Emma stood up and spat on him. "I'm not the same naïve girl you knew. I could be really bitchy if you'd ask for it." She raised a brow and then left him.
*****
Shalimar wept like never before. She could feel her heart break into pieces as she really wanted to be left alone this time. "Why can't you leave me alone?" she demanded.
"Because you do not belong to him. Because you do not belong here!" Brennan softly said. He really wanted to get Shalimar back to normal but he didn't know how.
"And where do I belong? To you?" Shalimar forced herself to laugh but the laughter was shallow even to herself. "That was what I thought. That was what I believed in but you never saw me Brennan. You never noticed me. All you could think of is Emma…Emma …Emma!" Shalimar was slowly turning back to herself after Emma severed Gabriel's connection but without Brennan knowing it. Shalimar should be her normal self now but because of all the tension, Shalimar started pouring herself out without control. All her deepest pleas; all her deepest sorrow was now laid before Brennan's mind.
"I love—"
"Stop it!" the feral cut Brennan's sentence.
Emma was watching them all along and she now decided to walk into the scene. She knew what Shalimar needed and she is ready to give it to her. "He's not the enemy, Shalimar." Emma called out.
Shalimar turned on Emma's way when she heard her. "You!" she hollered before she leaped and landed just in front of Emma. Shalimar gave Emma a quick strong blow in the belly and it made Emma falter on her knees.
Jesse run in Emma's help but Emma stopped him. "Stay back, Jess. This is just me and her."
"Would you really dare?" Shalimar teased her. "You, a psionic versus a feral—me?"
"You have underestimated me a thousand times, Shalimar." Emma said before she got back at Shalimar with a roundhouse kick.
Shalimar was surprised with that attack but she got back on her feet with in a few seconds. She did a somersault and was planning to hit Emma with a kick but Emma averted it effortlessly. Shalimar slowly stood up and eyed Emma. "I estimated you, just fine." She replied. "Weak!" she added.
Emma shook her head. "No, Shal. You only see yourself as the most powerful. You cared for us too much that you didn't want us to get hurt; not knowing that pain is a part of life's lesson. You protected us so much that you never realized that the group was trying to do the same to you." She sighed.
Shalimar was frozen on her place. Tears were streaming on her face and hated the feeling that she is in now.
"You care too much for Brennan that you didn't notice how he cared for you. How you are necessary for him even if he never notice it. All you see in him is his care for the rest of the team." Emma continued.
"That is not true!" Shalimar protested. "Don't judge me like that, Emma. You don't know me."
"That's where you're wrong. I know you Shalimar. I know you better than you know yourself." Emma said softly and she stepped closer to the feral. "I've been in your mind. I was in your mind—day and night, guarding you and keeping you safe from Gabriel."
"You were?" Shalimar never knew that. She thought that Emma cared less about her.
"You are my best friend. I'm willing to give you anything." The empath smiled at the feral and then walked over to her and pulled her in a tight hug. Shalimar only needed to be loved and to know that she is love—of course she also need the dose of mayhem. "Welcome back Shalimar." Emma whispered. She gave her a blast of relaxing starburst and then she looked at her. "Welcome back!"
*****
Gabriel lay motionless on the floor after Emma beat the hell out of him. He knew that he was powerful but he was never strong. He knew that without his mutation he would be nothing. Now, his only hope is to see Shalimar again.
His eyes glowed when he saw Shalimar walked into the room. "Shalimar darling." He called out.
Shalimar stood in front of him and stared at him. "Game's over!" she uttered and then knocked him down.
Gabriel shook his head. "NO!" a tear fell from his eyes. "You are mine, Shal. Darling." He tried connecting with him but Emma was on the job again and he could not even get through to her mind.
"Game is over scumbag!" Shalimar repeated as he grabbed him by his collar and lifted him from the floor. Gabriel could see Emma behind Shalimar and she was grinning at him.
"Time to die!" Emma taunted like a child and then she glanced at Shalimar giving her the time to get back at patient zero. Shalimar gave Gabriel couple of punches but then she decided that Gabriel was so beaten up already and there was nothing much left to do. Again, she grabbed him and lifted him from the floor and then she threw him away against the door hoping that the door could hold him but it didn't. The door was torn from the frame and Gabriel fell down outside with a broken neck.
Emma looked at Brennan and signaled him to use his power and then Brennan joined his hands and created a huge energy ball and then he threw it at Gabriel. The electricity was so strong that it burned everything around Gabriel. "True that I can never be your match…" Brennan uttered. "But your power can never match the power of a group, a family." He looked around him and found them smiling with him.
Adam didn't stop them. It was Gabriel's time to die and this time he has to make sure that Gabriel would stay dead. Brennan and Jesse was a little flustered when Adam went near the almost burned Gabriel and started picking up Gabriel's remains. "What are you doing?" Brennan demanded.
"Making sure that he stays dead." Adam answered and smirked at him.
Brennan shook his head and laughed. It was not that long before the group laughed with him.
When Adam got all that he needed, he stood up and faced the group. "Let's go home." He said and he glanced at Shalimar.
"Yeah… let us go home." The feral said.
"And let us try to stay close at home…" Emma added and grinned.
MUTANT-X-MUTANT-X-MUTANT-X-MUTANT-X-MUTANT-X-MUTANT-
***Lyza***
What could you say? Is this good enough for an ending or you want a final one… tell me okay… thanks for the review… I can't say how enjoyed I am reading your reviews and writing for your entertainment. *cries* I'll miss you all… *sob -- sob* by the way, who among you have a link on MX chatroom? Invite me please. I mean invite me again…hehehe! Oh, I wrote the link of the Underestimated site but it was not allowed by the fanfic site so I'm trying again this time ~ world wide web (www) dot (.) geocities (geocities) dot (.) com (com) slash (/) resplendents1 --- that's it. I hope you understood what it meant and I hope you would visit it. Okay! Bye! Hope to hear from all of you! Ciao! www.geocities.com/resplendents1 bye!
