Chapter 4

"Maybe you should just talk to him alone." Emma suggested to Shalimar just as they were approaching the lab.

"No. We do this together." Shalimar said firmly before walking into the lab where Adam was at his computer desk.

"Adam may we talk to you?" The feral asked placing a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and looked up at the two women standing by his side.

"Take a seat." He said waving his hand towards the chairs next to him. An uncomfortable silence followed for a few moments until Shalimar broke it.

"Adam I know last night was a bit of a shock for you. We were told what you said and it really hurt us. I really thought that you would be ok with this..."

"Shalimar I ne..." Adam tried to interupt.

"No Adam please let me say this. This isn't just a quick fling. We love each other very much and we're not asking for your permission but for your support. I can't speak for Emma but your support would mean a great deal to me." Adam looked back and forth between them before speaking.

"Im sorry if I hurt you, that was not my intention. What I said was unforgivable but I didn't mean it like it sounded. I think the reason why I said those things is because I have always thought of you as my children, so I see everyone in this team as brothers and sisters. Please don't think that it was because of you two, if it had of been one of you and one of the guys I would have still reacted like that."

"Oh thank God. I thought that you were mad at us and were gonna make us choose between our relationship and mutant x or something." Shalimar laughed out

"You know I would never make either of you leave the team. Your far too important to me for me to do that."

"So everything is ok? I mean you don't have a problem with us?" Emma asked.

"Yes everything is ok and Shalimar you do have my support. I have to admit it is going to be wierd seeing you two together though."

"Yeah I think everyone is going to need time to get used to it. That's one of the reasons why we kept it to ourselves for a long time cos even we needed time to get used to it." Emma said reaching for Shalimar's hand and giving it a reasuring squeeze.

"Well I can tell that your happy." Adam said standing and giving them both a kiss on the cheek before walking out of the lab.

"See I told you everything was going to be ok didn't I?" Shalimar said standing up and pulling Emma up with her.

"Yeah you did." The psionic said smiling.

"And now that everyone knows we get to make out more often." Shalimar added stepping closer to Emma. Emma laughed and sat down on the chair next to her and pulled Shalimar so that she was standing between her legs. Shalimar cupped Emma's face and leaned down to place her lips over the redheads who's hands were on the ferals lower back pulling her as close as possible. After a few moments Emma let her hands roam further down under the waistline of her pants. Shalimar moaned at the feeling of Emma's warm hands on her skin, she pulled back.

"Maybe we should take this to the bedroom." Shalimar asked in a husky voice then started placing kisses down Emma's neck.

Emma smiled. She loved how easy it was to turn Shalimar on and loved even more that it was her who was turning her on.

"MMmmm. I think we should go and have lunch with the guys." Shalimar pulled back and stared at Emma.

"Your kidding, right?" Emma tried to keep a straight face and shook her head. She loved teasing the feral.

"When did you become such a tease?" Shalimar asked smiling. Emma stood up and started to pull Shalimar towards the door.

"Since I started going out with you. Guess your starting to rub off on me." Emma laughed.

"Yeah but I never turned you on, twice so far today may I add, then just totally go off and do something else." Shaliamr whispered as they were entering the kitchen.

"Hey guys." Emma said to the three men, she turned to Shalimar "I'll make it up to you later."

"Hi, So what you gonna make up for?" Jesse asked oblivious to their subject of conversation.

"Oh nothing that you would be interested in." Shalimar said micheviously smiling at Emma.

"Oh ok." The molecular said his mouth full witth his lunch.

After lunch Adam asked Shalimar and Emma to check out one of the safehouses as there had been reports of disturbances. He told them to take one of the cars with it being quite close. Once they arrived they checked around looking for any signs of intruders. They were just about to get into their car and leave after finding nothingwhen a GSA agent jumped out on them.

"You could at least help me." Emma said through gritted teeth while blocking punches from the GSA agent. Shalimar looked down from a ledge not that high up that she had just jumped on.

"Oh come on, it's only one agent and you need the practise. Besides consider this payback for all the teasing you've done today"

"Fine" Emma spat out. She delivered a sharp kick to the agents groin which made him fall back in agony.

"Happy now?" Emma asked while looking up at Shalimar.

"No that won't keep him down forever." Shalimar replied flashing Emma a lopsided grin.

Emma turned to look at the GSA agent still writhering in agony on the floor then turned back to face Shalimar. She went to speak to her but saw that a look of horror was plastered across the ferals face, she noticed that she wasn't looking at her but behind her. The empath quickly spun round to see that the GSA agent had gotten up and was now millimeters away from her.

Shalimar had saw the agent getting up, she had also seen the glint of the knife that he had pulled from his boot. She quickly leaped from the ledge to the ground below but she was too late.

Emma felt a sharp pain shoot through her whole body, she opened her mouth to cry out but no sound came. She looked down to see the knife being pulled out from just below her chest.