Shalimar twitched as she awoke to the sounds of a phone ringing. She felt somewhat achy as she sat herself up in bed. She turned to look at the clock beside her and rolled her eyes as she noticed the power was still out.

"Where's that phone coming from?" Emma asked as she stood from the table she sat at.

"The cell phone," Shalimar said as she began to remember the events of the night before. "It's Barbie's cell phone. It's in the pocket of my jacket. I snatched it up when she dropped it last night."

Emma headed over to the hanger the coat was on and removed the ringing cell phone to see the screen read "Incoming call from Elizabeth."

"Turn the ringer off," Shalimar ordered as she checked her watch to reveal it was eight a.m."

Emma did as she was told and smiled as she made her way to sit beside the groggy feral. She cuddled closer to her and kissed her lips in a long, loving manor.

"How are you feeling?"

"Ok actually," Shalimar answered and kissed the psionic once more. "Thank you for last night."

"You've done the same for me." Emma smiled as she rested her head on the ferals' shoulder. "I don't ever wanna hafta do that again, Shal."

"How did you do that anyway? Since when can you bring people back to life?"

"I don't know exactly. I saw that you were sort of fighting yourself to stay alive and I knew you were losing when you should've been winning. I just went into your mind and told you that you were ok. I made your body think it was ok and it wasn't at death and you just bounced yourself back and your heart was ok again."

"Well, I'm certainly glad it worked. Thank you for the healing."

"And I found out why we fought so badly. She slipped us drugs. That's what affected our performance. Except for yours yesterday," Emma said with a grin as she kissed the feral.

"That makes a lot of sense as to why I felt like that. So discombobulated."

"Well, I don't ever want curiosity to kill my cat again," Emma said as she snuggled closer to the feral. Shalimar held Emma close and turned her head to look out the window.

"Hey, the storms over."

"Almost. Just light rain now."

"Maybe we can get our car fixed today."

"Wait a minute," Emma began as she stood from the bed and headed over to Shalimar's jacket. "We should call Adam."

"With Barbie's cell phone? You think it's a good idea?"

"Why not? We should at least tell Adam what's been going on. Maybe he can tell us more about this psycho psionic stalking us."

"What if she's tracing calls made from her cell phone?"

"Well, she already knows we're here. Besides, she thinks we're both dead. I think the greater danger is not calling."

"Yeah, go ahead and call."

Emma began dialing as she walked across the room to sit beside Shalimar. She found her way under the sheets and pushed the speaker button on the phone so they both could listen.

"Hello?" Adams voice came over the phone.

"Adam, hey it's us," Emma said in relief at being able to talk to him.

"Emma, Shalimar, hey. You girls didn't take your links and I was worried about you. How's the trip?"

"Couldn't be worse," Shalimar explained.

"What's wrong?" Adam asked in his usually concerned tone.

"You mean aside from the fact our car broke down, twice, we're stranded in a storm, we were both killed, and there's a psycho psionic after us, nothing," Shalimar informed him.

"Whoa, slow down, what do you mean you were both killed?"

"Some woman showed up and killed each of us on separate accounts. She's some kind of psionic named Barbara. Luckily, her death attempts didn't take."

"I'll see what I can dig up. In the meantime, I want you both back here as soon as possible."

"Well, our car's broken down and can't be fixed probably until later today," Shalimar informed him. "Can you send the guys in the Helix to pick us up?"

"Can't do it. They're on a very important mission overseas. They won't be back until tonight if everything goes as planned."

"What?" Emma asked feeling somewhat let down by his answer. "Where are they?"

"Paris."

"Ugh," Emma let out a sigh of disgust and annoyance as Shalimar raised her eyebrows over to her.

"Well, can't you come and get us, Adam?"

"I'm sorry, Shal, I have a couple new mutants here under close observation. I can't leave."

"You have new mutants there in the lab?"

"Yes, it's very important. I think your best bet is to get your car fixed and come straight back here immediately. And whatever you do, don't confront this psionic again. She sounds very dangerous.

"Well, we can't just run away if we see her, Adam," Shalimar protested. "She could be following us for all we know. She might already know we're not dead. If we run into her we have to try and fight."

"Only if that's the last resort. I don't want you two getting hurt. She's already killed each of you once already."

"And yet here we are getting lectured," Shalimar said in a sigh.

"I'm serious, Shalimar, be careful and check back in with me as soon as you can."

"Adam, one more thing," Shalimar said as her memory sparked. "I think this girl knows us, or at least me. When we were fighting she said something about getting back at me for what I did to her. Making me suffer for her lose or something like that. I think she's out for revenge."

"I'll see if there's anything available on her. Call me back in a half hour."

"Ok, bye, Adam."

Shalimar pushed the off button as she sighed and turned to Emma.

"So now what do we do?" Shalimar asked.

"I think we should just sit tight until the car place opens and call to have it fixed. Then we can head home."

"Well, they're not open for a couple hours. Guess we might as well relax," Shalimar said as she sighed and leaned into the psionics' awaiting arms once more.