Disclaimer: Although a girl can wish, I in no way shape or form own Mutant X or any of the characters.

Part Four: Power Outage

"Come back over here. You need to lay down." Brennan commanded and Shalimar listened. She was beginning to think that it was more than just a few bruised ribs that were bothering her.

Unable to argue, Shalimar simply stumbled back over to Brennan and lay down by him. After ten minutes, Brennan thought she was asleep when he heard her say, "You said you loved me."

"What was that?" Brennan asked, thinking he'd heard her wrong.

"You said you loved. . ." Shalimar stopped as another coughing fit took over her. She hadn't been doing too well before the attack, but now she was worse. "You said you loved me."

Brennan looked down at Shalimar. She was lying on the ground curled up in a tiny ball; she looked like child, "I did say that and I do love you." He's said it before thinking she was asleep, but it seemed important to say now.

"I. . . love. . ." Shalimar never finished as she coughed again and then passed out.

Brennan thought it was good she was asleep until he realized he didn't see her moving at all. Quickly checking for a pulse, he found none and realized he had to do something.

He tried doing CPR but because his arm was broken it wasn't working and he thought about shocking her. 'If I do this, I'm going to lose a lot of energy. Energy I don't have but it could bring her back.'

He didn't need to think again as he shocked her three times with an increasing voltage. On the third time he collapsed next to Shalimar and fell unconscious. He didn't know if it had worked or not, but he'd had to try.

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"Adam, there's the Helix." Emma said pointing out the window of the helicopter. Apparently Adam had a few tricks up his sleeve including a helicopter that Mutant X knew nothing about until this moment.

Knowing that they could very well need a hand Adam had also called in Jeremy, a new mutant safe house operator to help with the rescue.

"Adam, they're not in there. Nobody is." Emma looked back at her mentor. She couldn't feel anyone in there; it was empty.

Setting down, the team ran to the downed aircraft and began to look around. Adam looked around trying to find some clue as to where they had gone.

"Jesse, you try and see if you can get this up and running and Emma, you see if you can locate Shalimar and Brennan. Jeremy, we're going to go find Bren and Shalimar but I want you to stay here in case Mason decides to show up." Everyone nodded and went about their tasks.

Ten minutes later Emma shouted, "They went into the forest. I got a hit off Brennan. He is week and in a lot of pain but he's alive and I think I can lead you to him."

"That's great, Jesse we're going to need your help so leave the Helix for now."

As they headed off for the forest, nobody said anything. Emma was still probing for Brennan and Shalimar. Adam was to busy worrying about what he'd find and Jesse was wondering why Emma hadn't felt anything from Shalimar.

That only happened in two cases, and one involved the death of the woman he thought of as his sister.