Chapter 5: Finding Crystal
2 hours later
Shalimar woke up to see Emma and Jesse on both sides of her. She asked to see Brennan but they told her that he was cooling off in the shower. They asked what was going on.
"Crystal is my daughter." She said
Jesse and Emma just stood there, mouths wide open.
"Whose the father?" Emma asked
"Brennan." Shalimar said with tears coming from her eyes.
"Well, that would explain the hole that Brennan put in the wall." Jesse said laughing
"It's not funny, Jess." Emma and Shalimar yelled at him.
"Where is Adam?" Shalimar asked
"Talking to his contacts about Crystal." Emma explained
"I need to talk to Brennan." Shalimar said urgently while getting up off the med bed and out of the lab.
Brennan was outside looking at a picture of Crystal sleeping. "She has your eyes." Shalimar said while putting her arms around his neck. "Yeah, but she looks mostly like you, especially with your pout and she also has your long blond hair." He replied before turning around and giving Shal a passionate kiss.
"How you feeling," asked Brennan with an I need to know look.
"Fine, considering I just found out I have a daughter and that she ran away, perfectly fine." Shalimar replied in a desperate voice.
"We will and I mean we WILL find her." Brennan pleaded while trying to believe it himself.
"Yeah, I guess we will, Adam's got his contacts looking into to it and Jesse is looking for my COM link since I gave it to her." Shalimar now lay in Brennan's lap while he was caressing her hair.
"Brennan, Shalimar we got a location to where Crystal is, meet us at the Helix." Emma said through Brennan's COM link.
Shalimar and Brennan jumped up and ran to the Helix. They got in and started it up while waiting for Adam.
Adam ran into the Helix and said; "I know why Crystal had a pain in her head when we picked her up a few weeks ago."
"Why?" Shalimar asked, pleading for Adam to tell her.
"Crystal told me that she was using her electricity powers when she was fighting the GS agents. I just finished looking through her medical records." Adam told Shalimar and Brennan in a sympathetic voice.
"And." Shalimar asked persistently.
"Last month Crystal had a major head injury, her doctor who knew she was a new mutant, said that she would have to stop using her powers for a whole 2 months. If she doesn't she will have chronic head pain, if she doesn't stop immediately, she will die in the next week"
Shalimar gasped and tried to stop herself from crying. Brennan got up and caught Shal from falling. The Helix came down out of the sky and parked. Brennan, Emma and Jesse started looking for Crystal. Adam stayed inside the vehicle helping Shalimar deal with the news he had just told her.
"Uh, we've got another problem." Jesse said as he knelt down and picked up Shal's COM link.
Brennan was getting angrier by the second. Emma was the first to spot the security camera.
"Guys, we can figure out what happened with that camera.
They all went back to Sanctuary, to watch the video from the camera. When they got back home they ran to the lab and put the video in the VCR. On the video was Crystal fighting someone, she had one of her chronic head pains. Then who should come and pick her up while destroying the video feed, Gabriel Ashlocke.