Chapter 2
When Emma entered the lab Adam was still working away.
"Hey Adam."
"Hello Emma, what can I do for you?"
"I want Brennan's phone number."
"It's over there on the table."
"Really, I can have it just like that?"
"Yes, the only condition being that you get him to change his mind, and come back here we could really use his help."
"I'll try, see you tomorrow ." Emma grabbed Brennan's phone number and walked out of the lab towards her and Jesse's room for the night.
(Rec Room - Next Morning)
Emma sat alone on the rec room at 5 a.m. even though she wanted to be back in bed. Adam had told her that if she wanted to get a hold of Brennan at home to call really early. She had tried his home phone twice, cell phone twice, and work once but with no luck.
"I'll give it one last try." Emma sighed as she dialed Brennan's home number and it rang, and rang.
"Hello." He answered
"Brennan you answered the phone."
"Emma is that you? Oh man how have you and Jess been?"
"We're good. How'd you know it was me?"
"Come on you're my baby sister how could I not recognize your voice."
"I'll give you that." A pause and then, "I heard you talked to Adam."
"Yeah he got my number somehow but Emma I can't come back to Mutant X."
"Why the hell not?"
"A lot has happened Emma. I have a job that I love and a great place to live." At this point Shalimar walked into the rec room with a cup of coffee in her hand. She sat down across from Emma.
Emma then put the speaker phone on even though Shal gave her a look that told her she wasn't talking, and didn't want to hear him either.
"Brennan we need you here, not to mention I'd like to see you."
"I'm sorry Emma I just can't right now. I'm working on this huge case at work and there are people around Sanctuary that don't ever want to see me, and I can't go back there. There are too many memories there, good, and bad." Both Emma and Shalimar could hear the sadness in Brennan's voice.
"You mean one person Brennan. Shalimar wants you here as well, we all need your help Brennan, please."
"I can't Emma, if you ever want to drop by just give me a call, but I've got to go to work. It was good to hear from you though. I've missed you, and Jess."
"We've missed you too, what ever you do Brennan, be careful, and I may just pay you a little visit."
"Alright, later Emma."
"Bye." Emma turned off the phone and looked at Shalimar.
"Well that was a bust."
"Yeah." //God he's still got that sexy calming voice.//
"You sound relieved Shal."
"I am, a little. I really wasn't ready to face him. Deep down I'm still pissed."
"At yourself or at him?"
"A little bit of both actually."
"Maybe if you talk to him Shal."
"No, no I can't and he won't want to talk to me, he never wants to see me again. Besides it's tool ate for us, and I don't even want there to be an us anymore, I have Jacob."
"Did he say that he never wanted to you again?"
"Yeah he did." Emma was shocked she knew Brennan loved Shalimar more than anything in the world.
"Let me guess you broke up with him and then he said it, he was probably just angry and hurt."
"Why would he be hurt if he was going to break up with me anyway Emma?"
"Maybe he wasn't Shal did you ever think of that."
"Yeah I have, and that's why I've been living in regret but something inside me told me he was so I went with my instincts."
"I know what you've told me Shal, but when I said your name I felt so much sadness coming off of him, not to mention regret."
"The past is the past Emma, and I just want to move on with the future."
(Sanctuary - 1 week later)
It had been a long week for the team. They had successfully finished putting the safe houses back together, and had already put two of the new mutants into the Underground. One a water elemental, and the other a canine feral.
"Can everyone meet me in the lab." Adam's voice was heard over their new com rings.
Within a couple of minutes everyone was in the lab waiting for Adam to start.
"Since this is going to take longer than we all thought, I just wanted to know if you guys wanted to pick anything up from your places."
"We're good here Adam." Emma replied after receiving a nod from Jesse.
"Shalimar?"
"Yeah there's a few I wouldn't mind getting if that okay."
"It's no problem, when do you want to go?"
"The sooner the better."
"Okay well I'll drop you off in about 15 minutes then when you're done you can give me a call, and one us will pick you up."
"Sure, meet you in the hanger in 15." Shalimar walked out of the lab to get ready to go. When she got to her room she called Jacob and told him she was coming by her apartment to pick up a few things, and he told her he'd see her there.
(Helix - Half hour later)
"We're here." Adam announced as he landed the helix in the empty park about three minutes away from Shalimar's apartment.
"Adam?"
"Yes."
"Would it be okay if I spent the night?"
"Call me in the morning, it's late anyway."
"Thanks Adam."
"Once again it's no problem."
Shalimar walked into her apartment to find Jacob sitting on the couch. He got up and walked towards her once he seen her walk through the door.
"Please tell me you can stay the night, I've missed you so much I don't want to let you go."
"Of course I am."
(Shalimar's Apartment - Next Morning)
Jacob had left earlier for work, and Shalimar was just packing the last of her things while she was doing so she found a picture of Brennan that had been buried away in her closet. She had packed it before they had broken up. She shoved the picture in her duffle bag so that Jacob never stumbled across it.
Just as she was about to call Adam her ring started to beep.
"What's up?"
"Shalimar are you ready to go?"
"Yeah Adam, I was just about to call you what's going on?"
"We just got a lead on a group of about fifteen new mutants in Connecticut. I need you to drive out where they are, and wait for the rest of us."
"Where are Jesse and Emma?"
"They're out with the Helix on another lead here but we just don't have time to wait for them to get back. We'll all meet you there as soon as we can." Adam gave Shalimar the location of the new mutants and Shalimar put her bags into her jeep and took off.
"Oh and Shal, there's one last thing."
"What's that?"
"Be careful."
"I will."
(Connecticut - Beaches - 2 hours later)
Shalimar was 10 minutes away from the location of the new mutants when out of no where she ran over push pins that we sticking upright on the road. She kept control of her jeep, and brought it to a complete stop on the side of the road. She got out to inspect that damage.
"Who the hell would put these there?"
"We would." She turned around to face a group of teenagers, all about 18 or 19 years old.
"And you would be?" Shalimar said as stepped away from her jeep and towards the bush area where the teenagers were standing.
"Not someone who likes you." They surrounded Shalimar and she knew even being one of the strongest new mutants out there that she couldn't take nine young, pissed off new mutants alone. It was times like these she wished Brennan because no matter what he always had her back.
"How long are you guys gonna be?" Shalimar asked into her ring.
"About 15 minutes why?" Jesse answered.
"Oh just because I found nine of our fifteen, and let's just say they aren't happy."
"That's right we're not. Mutant X left us high and dry, and now it's time for payback."
"Listen to me for a minute kid, we didn't leave you high and dry, as you put it. We were in danger and…"
"We don't want to hear your excuses and we don't want to give you guys a second chance either."
"I figure since you're the only one talking, and since you don't how or when to shut you must be the leader of this little pack."
"That's one reason why we don't want to give Mutant X a second chance, you don't even now who we are. Unlucky for you, we know who you are, Shalimar." The group attacked Shalimar three at a time. Then once they notices her getting tired the three she had knocked down before were back up with the other three and attacking her six at a time. She was tired, and somewhat out of training. They got her down. She laid on the ground unconscious for a minute.
When Shalimar opened her eyes she found the big mouth leader, Jeremy kneeled over her about to his her one last time as the rest of the new mutants got up from the ground and watched Jeremy take one member of Mutant X out of the equation.
"One down, four more to go." She felt the breeze of his fist coming toward her face. This was it, this was how she was going to go out, beaten to death by a bunch of teenagers. She passed back out, and the last thing she remembered was seeing a blue streak in the air.
"Didn't your mom ever tell you not to hit a lady." Brennan had only shocked Jeremy enough to get him away from the women he was kneeled over about to hit.
"I never had a mother thanks very much." Jeremy stood up, and dusted of his pants.
Jesse landed the Helix when he seen Shal's jeep, and a black escalade with police lights mounted in top.
"Adam what the hell are the cops doing here?"
"I have no idea Emma but we better hurry up, and get Shal."
Emma, Jesse and Adam ran into the bush after Shal. They found a tall dark guy fighting off about four new mutants, and Emma and Jesse ran over to help him out. They ran right into the fight as Adam ran to Shalimar's side.
// A week and a half into this and we already have one wounded.// Adam thought.
"Brennan! What the hell are you doing here?" Jesse asked when he seen who he was fighting along side him.
"I could ask you the same thing." Another new mutant took a swing at him. Brennan ducked at shot a coil at him.
After about 10 minutes Emma, Jesse, and Brennan had finished off the new mutants and they were now all lying unconscious on the ground. Adam came running over towards them, and started to talk.
"Brennan what are you doing here?" Emma walked up to him and gave him a huge hug.
"I was just heading home when I seen the jeep on the side of the road, and decided to get out and see if I could be of any help. Instead I found a group of teenagers who turn out to be new mutants surrounding an unconscious women. So naturally I shocked the one kid of her, and then the rest is history. What are you guys doing here?"
"Brennan you saved Shalimar." Emma said realizing that Brennan wasn't aware of this fact yet.
"What?"
"The women you saved was Shalimar. You always did have her back." Jesse said as he shook Brennan's hand, and gave him a pat on the back. "Anyways you better get out of here before the cops come. Hold on a minute why are you in Connecticut?"
"I live here why? I though you guys knew that, and I wouldn't worry about the cops, the Escalade is mine."
"No, none of us did, not even Adam. Brennan why do you have police lights on her Escalade?" Emma asked.
"I'm a cop, can you believe that."
"Oh like the ones on Law and Order?" Jesse asked for some reason unknown to Emma, and Brennan.
"Yeah like them."
"Emma, Jesse we have to go, Shalimar is out cold, and it looks as though she has a few bruised ribs, and a mild concussion, not to mention we have no idea where the cops are." Adam interrupted.
"Don't worry Adam there aren't any cops around." Emma said. "The only person here other than us, is Brennan."
"Brennan, where?" Adam couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"Right here Adam." Brennan steeped away from the tree he was leaning on.
"What are.."
"Emma, and Jesse will fill you in."
"So does this mean?"
"No." //I can't believe this is saved my ex-girlfriends life without even knowing it. What would have happened if I hadn't stopped. Shalimar would dead, the most beautiful women in the world would be dead. I'm just thankful that she's okay, and that she didn't see me, and I really didn't see her because only problems and heart ache could come of that.//
"I'll speak with you later then but right now we need to get Shalimar back to Sanctuary." Jesse carried Shalimar into the Helix, and got ready for takeoff as Emma attended to Shalimar. Adam was talking to Brennan outside about Shalimar's jeep, among other things.
When Adam walked back into the Helix he went up to Jesse and told him he was going with Brennan and that's explain everything later on.
Jesse ran out of the Helix so Adam could get Shalimar back to Sanctuary. Jesse then got into Brennan's Escalade.
"Yeah Mulwray here. I need a tow truck at Beach, and Sunset."
"Okay thanks Roberts, and make sure the jeep gets towed to my place. It's, a friends."
"Alright later." Brennan hung up the phone, started the Escalade and then looked at Jesse.
"Jess, man you need a serious haircut."
"I missed you man." They both laughed, and Brennan headed towards his place.
They pulled up to Brennan's place, and Brennan parked the Escalade in the three door garage.
"Nice house." Jesse commented. If there was one thing Jesse knew Brennan had it was good taste. However, Brennan simply laughed at his best friends comment, and unlocked the front door, and then opened it.
Brennan walked in soon followed by Jesse, who's jaw dropped when he seen Brennan's house that really wasn't a house at all but rather a huge loft. The loft had everything including a winding staricase that led to four bedrooms. It had high fifteen foot ceilings. As Jesse walked further into the loft it was getting harder to believe. The place was amazing.
"So what do you thing?" Brennan asked.
"What do I think, well I think I'm gonna like being here for the next little while, that's for sure."
"Well you'll pretty much have the place to yourself, and just wait until you see the view, and my backyard." The two guys walked to the back of the loft, and Brennan opened the curtains.
"As if the home theater system, and fire place aren't enough the beach is your backyard."
"Just wait till you see upstairs."
Over the next half hour Brennan gave Jesse the grand tour and they were now in the living room chowing down on, of course, pizza.
"So what's your side of the story?" Jesse finally asked.
"What story?"
"You, and Shalimar."
"Listen Jess it's not really something I want to talk about."
"I figured that but you're going to tell me whether you want to or not."
"What's to tell, she broke up with me." Brennan stood up, and walked towards the kitchen.
"She just didn't want you to break her heart, so she wanted to do it before you did."
"Before I did what? Ask her to marry me." Brennan said under his breath but it was loud enough for Jesse to hear.
"Hold on, so you're telling me you weren't going to break up with her but ask her to marry you?"
"Bingo, are you satisfied now?" Brennan asked sitting back down, and handing Jesse a beer.
"So this place is amazing, when did you buy it?" Jesse asked changing the subject.
"Yeah it is but it gets lonely sometimes. Anyway I bought it almost two and a half years ago."
"Wait its only been two years since we left Sanctuary. You bought this place before?"
"Yeah it was supposed to be for me, and .." Brennan didn't have to finish because his cell phone rang.
"Mulwray."
"Okay, I'll be right in." Brennan put his cell phone back in it's case. "Sorry Jess I have to go. Make yourself at home."
"Where are you going?"
"To work."
"So you really are a cop."
"Wow Jess you're getting smarter."
"Well I've been smarter than you so you shouldn't be talking."
"I'll get you back for that one." Brennan put his jacket, and shoes on.
"Hey Bren how long are you going to be?"
"I have no idea, see you when I get back, whenever that may be." Brennan opened the front door, and then turned around. " Oh, and Jess, one last thing, don't eat everything." Brennan walked out the front door, and headed towards the police station.
TBC
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When Emma entered the lab Adam was still working away.
"Hey Adam."
"Hello Emma, what can I do for you?"
"I want Brennan's phone number."
"It's over there on the table."
"Really, I can have it just like that?"
"Yes, the only condition being that you get him to change his mind, and come back here we could really use his help."
"I'll try, see you tomorrow ." Emma grabbed Brennan's phone number and walked out of the lab towards her and Jesse's room for the night.
(Rec Room - Next Morning)
Emma sat alone on the rec room at 5 a.m. even though she wanted to be back in bed. Adam had told her that if she wanted to get a hold of Brennan at home to call really early. She had tried his home phone twice, cell phone twice, and work once but with no luck.
"I'll give it one last try." Emma sighed as she dialed Brennan's home number and it rang, and rang.
"Hello." He answered
"Brennan you answered the phone."
"Emma is that you? Oh man how have you and Jess been?"
"We're good. How'd you know it was me?"
"Come on you're my baby sister how could I not recognize your voice."
"I'll give you that." A pause and then, "I heard you talked to Adam."
"Yeah he got my number somehow but Emma I can't come back to Mutant X."
"Why the hell not?"
"A lot has happened Emma. I have a job that I love and a great place to live." At this point Shalimar walked into the rec room with a cup of coffee in her hand. She sat down across from Emma.
Emma then put the speaker phone on even though Shal gave her a look that told her she wasn't talking, and didn't want to hear him either.
"Brennan we need you here, not to mention I'd like to see you."
"I'm sorry Emma I just can't right now. I'm working on this huge case at work and there are people around Sanctuary that don't ever want to see me, and I can't go back there. There are too many memories there, good, and bad." Both Emma and Shalimar could hear the sadness in Brennan's voice.
"You mean one person Brennan. Shalimar wants you here as well, we all need your help Brennan, please."
"I can't Emma, if you ever want to drop by just give me a call, but I've got to go to work. It was good to hear from you though. I've missed you, and Jess."
"We've missed you too, what ever you do Brennan, be careful, and I may just pay you a little visit."
"Alright, later Emma."
"Bye." Emma turned off the phone and looked at Shalimar.
"Well that was a bust."
"Yeah." //God he's still got that sexy calming voice.//
"You sound relieved Shal."
"I am, a little. I really wasn't ready to face him. Deep down I'm still pissed."
"At yourself or at him?"
"A little bit of both actually."
"Maybe if you talk to him Shal."
"No, no I can't and he won't want to talk to me, he never wants to see me again. Besides it's tool ate for us, and I don't even want there to be an us anymore, I have Jacob."
"Did he say that he never wanted to you again?"
"Yeah he did." Emma was shocked she knew Brennan loved Shalimar more than anything in the world.
"Let me guess you broke up with him and then he said it, he was probably just angry and hurt."
"Why would he be hurt if he was going to break up with me anyway Emma?"
"Maybe he wasn't Shal did you ever think of that."
"Yeah I have, and that's why I've been living in regret but something inside me told me he was so I went with my instincts."
"I know what you've told me Shal, but when I said your name I felt so much sadness coming off of him, not to mention regret."
"The past is the past Emma, and I just want to move on with the future."
(Sanctuary - 1 week later)
It had been a long week for the team. They had successfully finished putting the safe houses back together, and had already put two of the new mutants into the Underground. One a water elemental, and the other a canine feral.
"Can everyone meet me in the lab." Adam's voice was heard over their new com rings.
Within a couple of minutes everyone was in the lab waiting for Adam to start.
"Since this is going to take longer than we all thought, I just wanted to know if you guys wanted to pick anything up from your places."
"We're good here Adam." Emma replied after receiving a nod from Jesse.
"Shalimar?"
"Yeah there's a few I wouldn't mind getting if that okay."
"It's no problem, when do you want to go?"
"The sooner the better."
"Okay well I'll drop you off in about 15 minutes then when you're done you can give me a call, and one us will pick you up."
"Sure, meet you in the hanger in 15." Shalimar walked out of the lab to get ready to go. When she got to her room she called Jacob and told him she was coming by her apartment to pick up a few things, and he told her he'd see her there.
(Helix - Half hour later)
"We're here." Adam announced as he landed the helix in the empty park about three minutes away from Shalimar's apartment.
"Adam?"
"Yes."
"Would it be okay if I spent the night?"
"Call me in the morning, it's late anyway."
"Thanks Adam."
"Once again it's no problem."
Shalimar walked into her apartment to find Jacob sitting on the couch. He got up and walked towards her once he seen her walk through the door.
"Please tell me you can stay the night, I've missed you so much I don't want to let you go."
"Of course I am."
(Shalimar's Apartment - Next Morning)
Jacob had left earlier for work, and Shalimar was just packing the last of her things while she was doing so she found a picture of Brennan that had been buried away in her closet. She had packed it before they had broken up. She shoved the picture in her duffle bag so that Jacob never stumbled across it.
Just as she was about to call Adam her ring started to beep.
"What's up?"
"Shalimar are you ready to go?"
"Yeah Adam, I was just about to call you what's going on?"
"We just got a lead on a group of about fifteen new mutants in Connecticut. I need you to drive out where they are, and wait for the rest of us."
"Where are Jesse and Emma?"
"They're out with the Helix on another lead here but we just don't have time to wait for them to get back. We'll all meet you there as soon as we can." Adam gave Shalimar the location of the new mutants and Shalimar put her bags into her jeep and took off.
"Oh and Shal, there's one last thing."
"What's that?"
"Be careful."
"I will."
(Connecticut - Beaches - 2 hours later)
Shalimar was 10 minutes away from the location of the new mutants when out of no where she ran over push pins that we sticking upright on the road. She kept control of her jeep, and brought it to a complete stop on the side of the road. She got out to inspect that damage.
"Who the hell would put these there?"
"We would." She turned around to face a group of teenagers, all about 18 or 19 years old.
"And you would be?" Shalimar said as stepped away from her jeep and towards the bush area where the teenagers were standing.
"Not someone who likes you." They surrounded Shalimar and she knew even being one of the strongest new mutants out there that she couldn't take nine young, pissed off new mutants alone. It was times like these she wished Brennan because no matter what he always had her back.
"How long are you guys gonna be?" Shalimar asked into her ring.
"About 15 minutes why?" Jesse answered.
"Oh just because I found nine of our fifteen, and let's just say they aren't happy."
"That's right we're not. Mutant X left us high and dry, and now it's time for payback."
"Listen to me for a minute kid, we didn't leave you high and dry, as you put it. We were in danger and…"
"We don't want to hear your excuses and we don't want to give you guys a second chance either."
"I figure since you're the only one talking, and since you don't how or when to shut you must be the leader of this little pack."
"That's one reason why we don't want to give Mutant X a second chance, you don't even now who we are. Unlucky for you, we know who you are, Shalimar." The group attacked Shalimar three at a time. Then once they notices her getting tired the three she had knocked down before were back up with the other three and attacking her six at a time. She was tired, and somewhat out of training. They got her down. She laid on the ground unconscious for a minute.
When Shalimar opened her eyes she found the big mouth leader, Jeremy kneeled over her about to his her one last time as the rest of the new mutants got up from the ground and watched Jeremy take one member of Mutant X out of the equation.
"One down, four more to go." She felt the breeze of his fist coming toward her face. This was it, this was how she was going to go out, beaten to death by a bunch of teenagers. She passed back out, and the last thing she remembered was seeing a blue streak in the air.
"Didn't your mom ever tell you not to hit a lady." Brennan had only shocked Jeremy enough to get him away from the women he was kneeled over about to hit.
"I never had a mother thanks very much." Jeremy stood up, and dusted of his pants.
Jesse landed the Helix when he seen Shal's jeep, and a black escalade with police lights mounted in top.
"Adam what the hell are the cops doing here?"
"I have no idea Emma but we better hurry up, and get Shal."
Emma, Jesse and Adam ran into the bush after Shal. They found a tall dark guy fighting off about four new mutants, and Emma and Jesse ran over to help him out. They ran right into the fight as Adam ran to Shalimar's side.
// A week and a half into this and we already have one wounded.// Adam thought.
"Brennan! What the hell are you doing here?" Jesse asked when he seen who he was fighting along side him.
"I could ask you the same thing." Another new mutant took a swing at him. Brennan ducked at shot a coil at him.
After about 10 minutes Emma, Jesse, and Brennan had finished off the new mutants and they were now all lying unconscious on the ground. Adam came running over towards them, and started to talk.
"Brennan what are you doing here?" Emma walked up to him and gave him a huge hug.
"I was just heading home when I seen the jeep on the side of the road, and decided to get out and see if I could be of any help. Instead I found a group of teenagers who turn out to be new mutants surrounding an unconscious women. So naturally I shocked the one kid of her, and then the rest is history. What are you guys doing here?"
"Brennan you saved Shalimar." Emma said realizing that Brennan wasn't aware of this fact yet.
"What?"
"The women you saved was Shalimar. You always did have her back." Jesse said as he shook Brennan's hand, and gave him a pat on the back. "Anyways you better get out of here before the cops come. Hold on a minute why are you in Connecticut?"
"I live here why? I though you guys knew that, and I wouldn't worry about the cops, the Escalade is mine."
"No, none of us did, not even Adam. Brennan why do you have police lights on her Escalade?" Emma asked.
"I'm a cop, can you believe that."
"Oh like the ones on Law and Order?" Jesse asked for some reason unknown to Emma, and Brennan.
"Yeah like them."
"Emma, Jesse we have to go, Shalimar is out cold, and it looks as though she has a few bruised ribs, and a mild concussion, not to mention we have no idea where the cops are." Adam interrupted.
"Don't worry Adam there aren't any cops around." Emma said. "The only person here other than us, is Brennan."
"Brennan, where?" Adam couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"Right here Adam." Brennan steeped away from the tree he was leaning on.
"What are.."
"Emma, and Jesse will fill you in."
"So does this mean?"
"No." //I can't believe this is saved my ex-girlfriends life without even knowing it. What would have happened if I hadn't stopped. Shalimar would dead, the most beautiful women in the world would be dead. I'm just thankful that she's okay, and that she didn't see me, and I really didn't see her because only problems and heart ache could come of that.//
"I'll speak with you later then but right now we need to get Shalimar back to Sanctuary." Jesse carried Shalimar into the Helix, and got ready for takeoff as Emma attended to Shalimar. Adam was talking to Brennan outside about Shalimar's jeep, among other things.
When Adam walked back into the Helix he went up to Jesse and told him he was going with Brennan and that's explain everything later on.
Jesse ran out of the Helix so Adam could get Shalimar back to Sanctuary. Jesse then got into Brennan's Escalade.
"Yeah Mulwray here. I need a tow truck at Beach, and Sunset."
"Okay thanks Roberts, and make sure the jeep gets towed to my place. It's, a friends."
"Alright later." Brennan hung up the phone, started the Escalade and then looked at Jesse.
"Jess, man you need a serious haircut."
"I missed you man." They both laughed, and Brennan headed towards his place.
They pulled up to Brennan's place, and Brennan parked the Escalade in the three door garage.
"Nice house." Jesse commented. If there was one thing Jesse knew Brennan had it was good taste. However, Brennan simply laughed at his best friends comment, and unlocked the front door, and then opened it.
Brennan walked in soon followed by Jesse, who's jaw dropped when he seen Brennan's house that really wasn't a house at all but rather a huge loft. The loft had everything including a winding staricase that led to four bedrooms. It had high fifteen foot ceilings. As Jesse walked further into the loft it was getting harder to believe. The place was amazing.
"So what do you thing?" Brennan asked.
"What do I think, well I think I'm gonna like being here for the next little while, that's for sure."
"Well you'll pretty much have the place to yourself, and just wait until you see the view, and my backyard." The two guys walked to the back of the loft, and Brennan opened the curtains.
"As if the home theater system, and fire place aren't enough the beach is your backyard."
"Just wait till you see upstairs."
Over the next half hour Brennan gave Jesse the grand tour and they were now in the living room chowing down on, of course, pizza.
"So what's your side of the story?" Jesse finally asked.
"What story?"
"You, and Shalimar."
"Listen Jess it's not really something I want to talk about."
"I figured that but you're going to tell me whether you want to or not."
"What's to tell, she broke up with me." Brennan stood up, and walked towards the kitchen.
"She just didn't want you to break her heart, so she wanted to do it before you did."
"Before I did what? Ask her to marry me." Brennan said under his breath but it was loud enough for Jesse to hear.
"Hold on, so you're telling me you weren't going to break up with her but ask her to marry you?"
"Bingo, are you satisfied now?" Brennan asked sitting back down, and handing Jesse a beer.
"So this place is amazing, when did you buy it?" Jesse asked changing the subject.
"Yeah it is but it gets lonely sometimes. Anyway I bought it almost two and a half years ago."
"Wait its only been two years since we left Sanctuary. You bought this place before?"
"Yeah it was supposed to be for me, and .." Brennan didn't have to finish because his cell phone rang.
"Mulwray."
"Okay, I'll be right in." Brennan put his cell phone back in it's case. "Sorry Jess I have to go. Make yourself at home."
"Where are you going?"
"To work."
"So you really are a cop."
"Wow Jess you're getting smarter."
"Well I've been smarter than you so you shouldn't be talking."
"I'll get you back for that one." Brennan put his jacket, and shoes on.
"Hey Bren how long are you going to be?"
"I have no idea, see you when I get back, whenever that may be." Brennan opened the front door, and then turned around. " Oh, and Jess, one last thing, don't eat everything." Brennan walked out the front door, and headed towards the police station.
TBC
A/N: Hope you liked the chapter. Thanks for all the reviews they really mean a lot to me, and they keep me writing so please review. Ciao, for now.
