Emma sat under the tree cuddling the feral in her arms. She rubbed her head gently and moved the last bits of her hair from her face. She looked at the feral's cheeks which now bore the tears the psionic was shedding at holding her departed friend. She pulled the feral closer into her arms and rocked her back and forth as if to comfort her though she knew it was herself that needed the comfort now.

Brennan quickly reached for the defibrillator on the crash kart next to the chair and lifted them above the lifeless Shalimar. He pressed them to her chest and watched eagerly for a response. He began to lower them again when Adam turned from the monitor and interrupted.

"No, wait!" Adam quickly grabbed Brennan's hands to prevent him from reviving the feral.

"What are you doing, Adam?"

"If you shock her again it'll draw more power from Emma's supports. More than she can sustain."

"We can't just sit here and watch her die, Adam!"

"But if you use that on Shalimar it will put Emma in such a critical condition it could kill her, and it might not even save Shalimar."

Brennan stood still for a moment. He wondered why he wasn't attempting to revive Shalimar. He didn't mean to choose Emma over her but couldn't seem to move from his position to take any action. He stood frozen solid, never feeling so torn and confused in his life. He quickly pulled himself back to reality and threw the defibrillator aside. He reached down and tore the feral's shirt open to expose her chest. He placed his hands slightly above her chest and began sending electric bolts into her while Adam assisted in attempting to revive her.

As he watched the two work, Jesse stood silently at a near panic behind the ferals head. He tried to remain strong and fight the tears that were building up in his eyes at watching his best friend lie dead on the table before him. After a few minutes passed with no success Jesse felt his confidence fading. Brennan shocked the feral once more only to have the same reaction he'd gotten, absolutely none.

"Come on, Shal!" he yelled and lowered his hands once more to deliver another shock. "Shal!" Brennan began to lower his hands once more but Adam reached out and took his arm with his own hand.

"Brennan," Adam said softly. "She's gone."

Brennan looked to Adam and quickly back to Shalimar in an attempt to shrug off his words. He ignored Adam in front of him and attempted another shock on the feral. Shalimar remained still and offered no reaction to his charges. Brennan grabbed her shoulders in a panic and shook her, not knowing what else to do.

"Shalimar! Shalimar!"

"Brennan," Adam cut in once more. "Let her go in peace now."

Brennan slowly let his hands slide off the feral's lifeless body and return to his sides in defeat. Jesse's mouth stood open in shock and pain and he somehow managed to step to Brennan's side and put his arm around him. His tears were flowing freely and as he reached the elementals side he realized so were Brennan's. They both wanted to throw things and release their anger but found they were far too in shock to do either of those things.

Adam reached down and took Shalimar's hand in his own to clasp her. He hung his head and felt the painful lose of one of his dearest and most trusted friends.

Within a few moments Adam heard the alert to Emma's vitals changing and headed over to stand next to her and monitor her.

"Her breathing has slowed," he informed. "So has her heartbeat."

Both a teary-eyed Jesse and Brennan slowly turned, their deep grief apparent in both their faces and body language.

"Jesse, I'm gonna need you to get back to working on the power situation in case Emma needs it. Can you do that for me?"

Jesse stood still for a moment trying to gather his feelings and thoughts. So many things were running through his head and heart he didn't know where to begin trying to pick them apart. He stood for a moment and pondered the question. After a few seconds he whipped his eyes and looked up at Adam.

"Yeah, Adam," he replied, his voice low and full of hurt and pain. He turned and headed back to the computer control board, looking back at his best friend's dead body.

Brennan sat in the chair between the girls and took hold of each of their hands once more. He turned to Emma beside him to see how her body was trying to fight her current condition. He felt somewhat responsible for her weakened state at having used the defibrillator on Shalimar. He felt guilty he wasn't able to save his friend from a suffering death. He felt like giving up and crawling into a corner somewhere but remembered he had to be strong for his friends and for Emma. He couldn't remember ever crying so much or ever feeling so hurt. It felt like his chest was weighted down and he would swear he could literally feel the painful sting as it broke in half and hung in its place.

Emma could feel her own life slipping away as she began to struggle with her breathing. She remained in her position with her arms wrapped around Shalimar and now felt like a piece of her was missing now that the feral was gone. She tried to think of what she could do, if anything, to bring back her love. She wasn't even sure if she wanted to survive if she had to do so without Shalimar. She'd always considered the day her life truly began to be the day they met and knew it would end the day they parted. She knew she had to try and do something to reach her friend, wherever she may now be.

As Brennan sat between the two most important women in his life he noticed Emma's pulse in her wrist was becoming very faint and weak. He reluctantly released the ferals dead hand and turned his attention to the psionic beside him. He moved his chair closer to her and clasped her hand within his. His last few tears fell and dampened the back of his wrist as he was finally getting himself under control though he hadn't stopped crying.

"Adam," Brennan said softly but it was enough to get his attention.

Adam stood at the monitors and didn't even look over to him when he answered, "I know. She's fighting the machines." He watched as Emma's vitals steadily dropped and tried to remain as calm as he could though he'd never felt so nervous or scared in all his life.

Brennan looked up at the sound of the beeping increasing. He stood to his feet never letting go of the psionics hand as Adam quickly turned around. Jesse looked up from his work and quickly rushed to her side just in time to hear her heartbeat monitor stop solid. Jesse felt his own heartbeat almost stop at the sound.

Brennan began to deliver electric shocks to her in hopes of revival. He was determined not to fail her the way he had Shalimar.

"She's fighting you, Brennan," Adam said. "Keep going we can't lose her too."

Brennan and Jesse worked as hard as they could to revive the comatose psionic but she offered no reaction to their efforts the same way Shalimar had.

As Brennan continued working on shocking the psionic back to life, Jesse quickly spun around as Shalimar gasped for breath behind him. He rushed to her side in relief she was alive though he didn't know how. She gasped for breath and pushed her chest straight into the air as she did so. Jesse smiled as he took her hand in his own and felt his tears running down his face again. Adam quickly rushed over to Shalimar and smiled at seeing her alive again. He turned his attention back to Emma on the table and turned to assist Brennan in reviving her though she her body didn't seem to want to cooperate with their attempts.

Shalimar gasped for breath in the psionics arms and looked up to see her smiling down at her. She looked around to notice darkness all around them. She no long saw them in the field under the tree on a beautiful day. The only thing she saw was Emma and a surrounding darkness. She sensed the coldness all around them and realized the psionics hands were cold themselves. She looked up and noticed Emma's look was happy but she held back pain in her face as if she was afraid to show it to the feral.

"Emma, Shalimar managed. "Where are we? What's wrong?"

"Shh," Emma answered. "You're ok now, Shal."

Shalimar noticed the psionic could barely breathe and her voice was so low she almost couldn't hear her.

"What's going on, Emma?"

Emma smiled down at the feral and stroked her hair ever so softly. Shalimar wished she could stay in her arms forever but could feel a distance building between them. It made her feel a panic and she reached out to wrap her arms around the psionic.

"I can't…" Emma tried to speak but found it incredibly difficult. "I can't sustain this any longer."

"I love you, Emma, please don't go," Shalimar pleaded with pain and panic in her voice. She tried to keep her gaze fixed on the psionic but before she knew what was happening all she saw was darkness.