Emma headed down the hallway of the inn. She heard arguing from a nearby room and making up from another. She wished she could just make up with Shalimar and they could forget everything that had happened. She couldn't believe how stubborn Shalimar was feeling. She looked at the paintings on the walls as she walked down the hallway. It suddenly occurred to her that Shalimar must be very upset. Why else would she be asking so stubborn? It finally made sense to her. She thought she should go back to the room and insist they talk it over.

Emma turned around to make her way back to the room but found her path blocked. She looked up and noticed Barbie was standing before her.

"Oh, Barbie, hey," Emma said somewhat shocked to see her.

"Hey, where ya headed?"

"I was just going for a walk. I had a little disagreement with Shalimar."

"You two fight a lot, huh?"

"Well, not usually. Actually this is the first fight we've had since being a couple."

"Oh. Well, if you're not busy you think you could give me a hand?"

"With what?"

"I lost my cell phone case. I think I dropped it around here somewhere. It had money in it too."

Emma could hear the disappointed tone in Barbie's voice and decided she could give Shalimar some more time while she helped her look for it.

"Sure. I've been through some hardships myself lately," Emma said with a smile as the two of them began to walk down the hall.

"Thanks a lot I really appreciate this," Barbie said with a smile over to Emma as they headed down the staircase.

"It's no problem," Emma reassured her as she smiled back at her new friend.

"Why don't we check the restaurant?" Barbie suggested.

"Good idea," Emma agreed and followed Barbie towards the door.

They opened the door and headed back out into the cold rain and wind. Emma tried to cover her eyes from the rain and saw Barbie step in front of her. When Emma was able to see again she looked to Barbie's back pocket and thought she saw a black tip sticking out of it. She wondered what it was. It couldn't be the cell phone case? Why would Barbie have lied to her like that?

"Um, Barbie, what's that?" Emma asked as the stood under the overlay of the restaurant somewhat sheltered from the rain.

Barbie turned around and smiled sweetly at Emma before smacking her hard across the face before she had a chance to react. Emma's face turned red at the impact and filled with shock as she regained her balance. She braced herself to defend her life as Barbie began throwing punches at her with no pauses. Emma blocked many of them but was hit a few times as she was shocked at the fighting skill of the stranger. Emma tried her best to match the rhythm of her attacker but let every other blow through until she finally fell to the ground. She looked up to the evil look on the woman's face as she stood above her. The rain poured hard on Emma as she was now soaked and bruised. She furled her brow as she noticed what appeared to be a psionic blast leaving the woman's head and heading towards her. Emma had no time to react and before she knew it she found herself choking and gasping for breath as she felt like she was drowning. Barbie sneered back at her and kicked Emma down to the ground. Emma felt her hands and elbows scrap at the contact with the curb.

As Shalimar lay in the bed in silence she began to notice something. She sniffed the air around her and picked up a slight scent still on the bed and within the room. She wondered why she hadn't picked up on it before. She'd been concentrating so much on Emma while she was in the room that it probably hadn't occurred to her. She recognized it and realized it belonged to that woman that had been talking to Emma. She knew it was probably nothing. All it meant was that she had stayed in that room before them. But something told Shalimar she should look into it more.

Shalimar stood from the bed and left the room to make her way down to the service desk. She rang the bell as she approached and the clerk soon came over to her.

"Everything ok, Ms. Fox? Is your room satisfactory?"

"Yeah, thanks. I just had a question about who was there before me."

"Some woman. A bit of an odd one. She checked in yesterday shortly before you arrived and checked out this morning before the storm hit. Guess she didn't expect that either. I just saw her a few minutes ago. She was headed towards the restaurant with your friend."

"My friend?"

"Yeah, they left. Probably next door I assume."

Shalimar thought for a moment before a distant, faint noise almost like a scream grabbed her attention. Shalimar whipped her head around quickly at the sound.

"Emma!"

Shalimar quickly bolted out the door to find Barbie running off into the storm. Shalimar looked at the motionless Emma on the pavement and felt herself tense up at the sight.

"Help! Somebody help us!" Shalimar screamed as she rushed to Emma's side.

Shalimar looked up to see the bartender and another man from the restaurant had rushed out to see what was the matter.

"Emma! Emma, talk to me!" Shalimar felt herself near panic as she cradled the psionic in her arms. The two men helped lift Emma and bring her into the restaurant. They placed her on the floor and Shalimar rubbed her face as if to try and awaken her.

"Emma? Emma, Can you hear me?"

Shalimar noticed the man place his fingers on her wrist to take her pulse as she did the same on Emma's red neck. Shalimar felt her eyes widen as she tried to feel for a heart beat within the psionic. She looked to the man with a shocked expression on his face as well as he slowly let her hand slid from his grip.

"She's dead."