"Hey Jess." Emma said cheerily. Although she knew Jesse wasn't interested, she couldn't help but smile whenever they spoke. She glanced at her watch; it was 10:30pm.
"Hey Emma, what's going on?" Jesse sighed. Emma was a really great friend, but he could never see her as anything more than that and frankly, it was getting annoying when she flirted with him.
"I have some info you might want to know about." Emma bit her lip. This was it. She could just let Shalimar and Brennan go and elope. Jesse might just decide he's better off without Shalimar and turn his attention to her. But those were a few too many 'what ifs' than she could handle.
"What is it?" Jesse asked, not really interested. Probably just minor gossip, Jesse sighed.
"Shalimar and Brennan plan to elope!" Emma said squeakily.
"What?" Jesse shouted, so loud so that Emma had to remove the phone from her ear. "When? How?"
"Tonight, they're going to walk through the forest." Emma replied. She felt slightly guilty betraying her friend's confidence and telling the person she least wanted to know.
"I've got to stop them!" Jesse said in a raging fury.
"Ok, but-" Emma was stopped short by the sound of Jesse hanging up. Emma looked at the phone. "You're welcome." She muttered, sometimes she didn't know if talking to Jesse was worth it as he still only ever cared about Shalimar. But love means never giving up, right? Putting the phone back on the wall, she pondered whether she did the right thing. What if I could make Jesse love me as much as I love him? If Shalimar were out of the picture, wouldn't he turn to me? I must go after Jesse! And with that, Emma got into her jeep and drove to the forest in hopes that she could, for once and all, win Jesse's heart.
Meanwhile…"Now, Ms. Troy, is it?" Eckhart's voice always boomed confidently.
"Diana, please." Ms. Trot's voice was soft, but held a small element of tolerance.
"Quite. Diana, then, it says here that you're a pheramonal psionic." Eckhart waved a file in the air, containing all the information about Diana Troy.
"That's correct. I can manipulate the hormonal imbalances in any living creature. In short, sir, I can make people fall in and out of love." She smirked at her power proudly.
"Very impressive." Eckhart said, taking a seat behind his desk while Diana remained standing. "How long have you been working here Ms. Troy?"
"6 months, 12 days, 2 hours and 42 minutes." She replied precisely.
"Have you enjoyed your experience so far?" Eckhart asked, stretching his fingers.
"Yes sir." Diana replied, still standing.
"I have a job for you." Eckhart sat up straighter. "Are you interested?"
"Yes sir." Diana smiled; she was always ready to serve.
"Have a seat." Eckhart ordered. She did as he asked, but kept everything very professionally. "Now, first of all, you should know that we've tapped Mutant X's phones so that we can keep an eye on those hoodlums." Diana nodded in understanding. "Well, we have discovered that Ms. Fox and Mr. Mulwray have decided to elope." Eckhart explained. Diana still looked lost at what he was trying to tell her.
"But what does that have to do with me?" Diana asked.
"Well, Mr. Kilmartin is going after them, as he seems to have affection for Ms. Fox, but we have a feeling that Ms. DeLauro will go after him as well." Eckhart continued. "We plan to execute a plan called 'Brillo Pad', which will collect all the electricity power in Europe for about 24 hours so that we can construct a machine that will direct us to any mutant on the planet." Diana still looked slightly confused. "If the electricity is gone for more than 3 hours, Mutant X will probably figure out that it's Genomex and stop us, but we only have one chance at this. Basically what I need from you is a distraction." Eckhart finished and Diana finally caught on.
"So you want me to mess with Mutant X's emotions so that they'll be blinded with love, long enough for Genomex to create this machine?" Diana summed up.
"Yes." Eckhart simply answered.
"Ok. When do I start?" Diana asked.
"Tonight." Came the devilish reply.