Chapter 10: Flat line

When Shalimar woke up she realized she wasn't in the hospital anymore. Instead she was in her room at Sanctuary, Emma walked in a few seconds after Shal woke up.

"Hey" she said sounding delighted to see her.

"What, how did I get here?" she asked now really confused.

"Brennan brought you back here a few hours ago." Emma replied.

Suddenly Shalimar remembered where she was before she fell asleep. "What, where is Crystal?" she asked getting angry with Brennan for bringing her home when she told him not to.

"Relax, Adam got permission from the doctor to bring Crystal back here, she is in the lab" Emma said reassuring Shal that Brennan wouldn't bring her home without Crystal.

Shalimar got up ran out of her room to go to the lab. When she got there she found Brennan and Adam and Crystal on the med bed. She walked up to Brennan and hit him in the arm, hard.

"Owe, what was that for?" he said in a lot of pain, Shalimar didn't really know it but her punches hurt.

"You could have woke me up to say that we were moving, instead I had to hear it from Emma" she said sounding disappointed.

"Well excuse me if I wanted you to get your sleep" he said in pain, trying to shrug it off.

"Humph" she replied in disbelief.

Shal left the lab with Brennan following her. Adam left the lab to get something to eat and asked Emma to watch over her.

Adam, Jesse, Shalimar and Brennan we're having breakfast, ham and cheese omelets. Emma made it before she went to watch over Crystal for an hour or so.

Everybody had already eaten, except Adam who was working on helping Crystal, Shalimar who had been sleeping cause of the lack of sleep she was getting and Jesse who had slept in. Brennan was tickling Shalimar while she was trying to eat. Jesse was watching while putting way too much salt on his breakfast, but didn't even notice. Adam finished his food and went back to the lab, to try and get Crystal to wake up from her coma. Shalimar was getting annoyed with Brennan since she was trying to eat her food, so she punched him in the chest, really hard. Jesse burst into laughter and Brennan generated a little bit of electricity and shocked him.

After breakfast Brennan and Shalimar sat on the couch in the rec. room to watch a movie. Jesse went on the computer to play video games while Emma helped Adam.

Brennan and Shalimar were finished watching "Serendipity" and were now talking to Jesse about Crystal.

"Jesse!" Emma yelled

"What is it, Emma?" Jesse asked as worry came in his voice.

"We have a big problem," Emma answered Jesse could tell that she was crying.

"Well, tell me?" he asked sounding really persistent.

It took some time for Emma to get the courage to tell them.

"Crystal has just flat lined" Emma said trying to hold back her tears.

Shalimar, Brennan and Jesse ran into the lab. Jesse tried to help them while Shalimar started crying into Brennan arms.

"Brennan, you need to help her," Adam said trying to figure out what do.

"What do you mean?" he asked trying to keep Shalimar on feet.

"He means you have to shock her" Jesse said with a really demanding look on his face.

Brennan handed Shalimar to Emma and started to shock his daughter. That didn't help her so he made a bigger tesla coil and blasted her. But it didn't work, and then the flat line stopped but she didn't wake up. Adam checked her pulse and there was none.

"She's dead," he said with sorrow in his eyes.

Shalimar started crying even harder and Jesse picked up Shal, since she was on the ground, and carried her into the living room, Emma followed trying to make Shalimar stop crying.

Brennan and Adam stayed in the lab. Brennan was standing over Crystal's slender body trying to understand what just happened. Adam turned off the monitors.

"She's dead, Brennan" Adam said in sorrow.

"She can't be" Brennan whined trying to hold the tears from coming down.

Adam was leading Brennan out of the lab when he saw something very strange. Brennan turned around to see electricity coming off of Crystal's body. She lifted her arm to head.

"Shit, I have such a headache," she said holding her head in her hands.

She looked up and saw Brennan and Adam staring at her.

"What are you looking at, it's not like I just died," she said trying to figure out what they were looking at.

"But you did just die" Brennan replied breaking the silence.

"Huh, that's never happened to me before" she answered now really confused.

"What do you remember?" Adam asked to see if she remembered anything about them.

"Umm lets see, being in some guy named Ashlocke's apartment and screaming in pain? Why?" she said wondering how she got here.

Crystal tried to stand up but fell to the floor. Brennan ran to help her back up.

"How did he know you guys?" she asked

"Past relations" Adam answered trying not to seem to amazed.

"Let me fill you in, you were stabbed and you've been in a coma for 3 days," Brennan said telling her how she got the headache.

"Yeah, but how did I get here?" she asked sounding really confused.

"Well, Shal and I found you and we also killed Gabriel" Brennan said trying not to frighten her.

"But I wrote in the letter not to try to find me" Crystal said getting more confused.

"Well, if you didn't want Shal to look for you, here's a tip: don't leave a note and leave the COM link" Brennan said starting to laugh.

Crystal punched him and it hurt just like Shal's punch this morning.

"Oh, well I am going to see everybody" she said before standing up while holding Brennan's hand so she could stand up.

Meanwhile

Shalimar was lying on Emma's lap, on the couch, crying. Emma was trying to comfort her but she kept on crying. Jesse came back from getting Shal some water.

"I can't believe she's gone" she said between sobs.

"It'll be okay" Jesse said handing her the water.

"I can't believe she's dead" she said again

"Can't believe who's dead?" Crystal asked coming down the stairs, still holding on to Brennan's hand.

Shalimar got up to see what she heard, and was amazed at what she saw. Jesse and Emma were even in amazement with their mouths wide open.

"But you were dead" Shal said getting confused.

"So my father has told me" she said with a huge smile on her face.

Shalimar was even surprised when Crystal referred to Brennan as her father.

"Relax, mom it's not the end of the world." She said with a smile on her face.

Shalimar was even amazed that her daughter called her mom. Shal couldn't help it she ran up and hugged Crystal.

Crystal flinched "Ooh, pain" she said as she fell back. Brennan caught his daughter from hitting the stairs.

"Ooh, sorry" Shalimar said with a sorry look in her eyes.

Brennan picked Crystal up and carried her to the couch downstairs. Jesse accidentally put his hand on her abdomen and Crystal screamed in pain. After she finished screaming she punched Jesse with her fist. Jesse jumped while rubbing his arm as he left for his room. Jesse came back with his total chocolate stash that he had been hiding from Shalimar so she wouldn't eat it all. But now he thought why not give it to Crystal.