Disclaimer: I don't own Mutant X or the characters.
Chapter 1
Shalimar yawned and shifted in Brennan's arms, cuddling closer to him for warmth. The hotel that they were in wasn't rundown but it wasn't the best either. After the destruction of their home though, and the explosion at the Dominion, they didn't really care as long as they had a bed and a blanket.
"Shal?" he called softly.
"Hmm?"
"You up?" he asked pulling her closer.
"Yeah,"
Brennan looked over at the clock for what must have been the third or fourth time in the past hour. The night was passing so slowly. He groaned silently. "It's 1 AM, Baby, you shouldn't be awake yet."
She smiled against his shoulder. "Nor should you." Silence fell on them for a moment as they rested in each others arms. "Wow," came Shalimar's soft but sudden voice.
"Wow what?" Brennan asked confused. He looked down at her and saw her brown eyes shining up at him. Even with everything that they had just been through she still looked so beautiful. The tiny nightlight that was glued and taped to the top of the headboard cast a soft light onto her face making her look almost like an angel. An angel who desperately needed a good nights sleep but an angel none the less. Brennan chuckled silently at his thought but then her voice broke through to his mind.
"This brings back some memories doesn't it?"
He smiled and nodded. "It sure does. Two kids lying in the same bed for warmth and only the comfort of knowing that the other was there to get them through the night...I don't know how we ever ended up that way, Shal but I never thought we'd be back."
"It's not quite as bad as it was back then." She smiled and hugged him for a moment. "Do you remember when we first met? On the playground?"
Brennan chuckled. "Yeah, I gave you that lollipop...It was just about the size of your mouth and you could barely get those tiny lips around it."
Shalimar giggled. "Yeah, I remember that,"
FLASHBACK ...23 years ago
A five year old Shalimar sat under the jungle gym in the shade escaping the intense heat of the sun. The grass was cool against her tiny legs that her shorts left bare and her little feet dug into the sand in the sandpit as she played. No one else was playing in the sand at the moment and it was almost peaceful except for the laughter of the children playing above her and the little two year old that was playing on the built in xylophone. She sighed as the cool breeze brushed against her face.
"Can I play with you?" came a strange voice.
Shalimar looked up into a little boy's face and smiled as she nodded. Someone actually wanted to play with her.
"My name's Brennan," he said taking a seat beside her.
"I'm Shalimar,"
They played for a little while more and then Brennan pulled out two lollipops from his pocket. "Do you want one?" He asked as he held a giant red one out to her.
"Thank you," She smiled and took it from him. He opened his and managed to get it in his mouth before he continued to play. A second later he looked up and saw that his new playmate was having trouble getting hers open.
After taking the lollipop out of his mouth so he could talk he said, "Here, I'll get it for you."
Shalimar held it out. Brennan clamped the stick of his lollipop with his teeth as he pulled the wrapper off of the other one with his hands. Finally getting it open he handed it back to her.
"Thank you," she said before doing her best to get it into her mouth. In the end though she resigned to just licking it until it got a bit smaller and could actually fit comfortably into her small mouth.
Brennan nodded his reply, the lollipop taking up too much space in his mouth for him to say anything.
Two mothers watched their children play. One praying that her son would play nicely with the little girl and not through sand in her face, the other praying that her little girl would play nice with the boy and nothing would provoke her to hit him. So far everything was going well.
END FLASHBACK
"We were having so much fun and then my mother had to call and tell me I had to leave."
Brennan nodded. "We were having fun...especially me. Watching you try to get that lollipop into your mouth was incredibly amusing." He laughed when she smacked his chest.
Well that's the first chapter. Hope you liked it. Chapter 2 will be up soon.
