Title: "Mortal Visions"
Author: ShadowFox (Shado-Fox)
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A special thanks to Garfieldlady for helping me to translate my fanfiction from French to English.
Just 2 reviews for chapt 6... :(
Chapter 7
In the laboratory, Adam works on his computer, throwing a look from Shalimar to Brennan, time to time. Not wanting to risk a hurried awakening of the feline, he continuous holds her under sedative too, a pocket of glucose, containing some antibiotics, came to replace the one containing blood. Brennan woke up for a moment one hour earlier one, disorientated, but reassured by Adam, he fell asleep again. Fatigue reads itself on Adam's face, but he doesn't want to take a rest, he wants to stay to look after any complication. He lies with his head put on his arm, sleepy, when Emma discovers him the following day morning...
Emma: Adam... Adam...
Emma blows her name closely to his ear and tries not to surprise him.
Emma: Adam... you should be going to lie down; it would be more comfortable for you to sleep.
Adam's eyes twinkles for one moment, he realizes that he is in the laboratory, that it is daylight and that Emma has just wakened him up.
Adam: No, no... I don't sleep... I closed my eyes for an instant to think...
His voice is not convincing and he knows pertinently that Emma doesn't believe a word of what he has just said.
Emma: Yes, of course Adam, but now it's time for you to go to sleep. I am going to take a break. All seems good anyway...
The small smile on the face of the young woman overcomes Adam's protests and he rises, totally exhausted by fallen asleep in his office. He stretches some seconds before checking some things a last time and he gets more conscious.
While approaching Brennan, he perceives that Brennan straightened his head and that he looks at him with sleepy eyes.
Adam: Brennan? How are you?
Brennan: Adam? What's going on? Why am I here?
Adam stands over him and directs his lamp pen in his eyes to verify his pupils.
Adam: What are you remembering precisely?
Brennan: I remember that we had left to recover a mutant with her son who was pursued by the agents of Eckhart... That we won and that there was an explosion.
He suddenly straightens himself, repulsively trying to push Adam's hand away that tries to maintain him stretched out.
Brennan: Where is Shalimar?
The concern makes his voice trembles.
Adam: She is nearby, she is well and she's sleeping.
Brennan: Her injuries were serious! I want to see her!
Adam: In one minute! Tell me how you feel first? Does your head hurt? Of the unrests of the view? The nausea?
Brennan shakes the head.
Brennan: No! I am fine! I want to see Shalimar!
He puts a foot on the ground and rises quickly, his head turns one second then gets back in place and he heads in the direction of Adam's stretched arm. He sees the screen that Emma had arranged last night, separating the bed of the young woman, of Brennan's. He advances mildly, afraid to know what he is going to find behind it. The memory comes back to him distinctly and he remembers Shalimar lying on the floor, the face in blood, unconscious, wounded...
He pulls the gate that separates them slowly and holds still...looking at his friend, stretched out on her white sheet, a teddy bear put closely to her head... her face so white... the bandaging girding on her head and the rest of her body concealed by the blank sheets that covers her.
Brennan: How is she?
His voice is broken slightly when he asks Adam... Emma approaches him and put a hand on his shoulder.
Emma: She is going to be fine Brennan. It's necessary to let her rest for the time being
She wants to reassure him, but her heart tightens itself, when she sees the distressed expression on the face of the young man.
Adam: Her injuries are clean and taking care of, Brennan... It's necessary to wait that she gains consciousness to know if there are some complications. For the meantime I did my best and it we have to wait now, until the moment she awakes. I hope it is very soon... she has a nasty fracture in the leg and two broken ribs... without counting the shoulder that I had to put back in place. While speaking of shoulders? How does yours doing?
Brennan: Heu... my shoulder?
He rolls his shoulder and grimace a little while feeling the pain to wake up.
Brennan: I will survive.
Adam: You went through a traumatism at the time of the explosion with a concussion. It can happen that you endure headaches or light dizziness. So if that is the case, it's necessary to tell me, I would give you something that will make it disappear. . Your shoulder will be painful some days but I am going to give you an anti-inflammatory that will calm the twinges. Avoid moving it too much until that goes better.
Brennan: Yes.
Brennan listens to Adam with an absent-minded ear, his lost look on the face of Shalimar.
Emma: Adam, go to take a rest, I am going to stay here with Shalimar. Brennan, go to join Jesse, he must be in the kitchen with Anna and Alex, he is not very at ease with the strangers...
Brennan: Yes.
Once again he listened without hearing. Emma sees, he is lost in his thoughts and touches his arm. He jumps and turns the head towards her.
Brennan: Heu... yes sorry....what did you say? Jesse what?
Emma: I told you that Jesse is waiting for you in the kitchen, he must be there with Anna and Alex and you know that he is intimidated when there are some strangers...
Brennan: I would like to stay here....
Emma: Brennan, she sleeps. I am going to stay here to supervise her. You need to eat something.
Brennan: You call me if she wakes up!
Emma: yes! Don't worry! Go! That means you too, Adam!
Adam and Brennan leave the laboratory, listening to Emma's instructions. She pulls an armchair and gets settled next to her friend's bed. As promised, she is going to watch over her.
In the kitchen, Jesse is seated to a tip of the table and Anna and Alex to the other tip. The silence reigns while everybody is eating their breakfast. Emma decided to relieve Adam and was putting him in charge of taking care of their guests. He prepared them something to eat and is waiting now for they finish arranging the kitchen, praying so that someone arrives and relieve him of this burden. He is not used to children and even less of the women with children... he is intimidated and feels Alex's obstinate look on him while he keeps the eyes lowered on his bowl. Brennan enters all of a sudden in the room and Jesse is relieved, on the one hand to see his standing friend and in good health, but also of more being the point of attention of Anna and Alex.
TBC...
Author: ShadowFox (Shado-Fox)
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A special thanks to Garfieldlady for helping me to translate my fanfiction from French to English.
Just 2 reviews for chapt 6... :(
Chapter 7
In the laboratory, Adam works on his computer, throwing a look from Shalimar to Brennan, time to time. Not wanting to risk a hurried awakening of the feline, he continuous holds her under sedative too, a pocket of glucose, containing some antibiotics, came to replace the one containing blood. Brennan woke up for a moment one hour earlier one, disorientated, but reassured by Adam, he fell asleep again. Fatigue reads itself on Adam's face, but he doesn't want to take a rest, he wants to stay to look after any complication. He lies with his head put on his arm, sleepy, when Emma discovers him the following day morning...
Emma: Adam... Adam...
Emma blows her name closely to his ear and tries not to surprise him.
Emma: Adam... you should be going to lie down; it would be more comfortable for you to sleep.
Adam's eyes twinkles for one moment, he realizes that he is in the laboratory, that it is daylight and that Emma has just wakened him up.
Adam: No, no... I don't sleep... I closed my eyes for an instant to think...
His voice is not convincing and he knows pertinently that Emma doesn't believe a word of what he has just said.
Emma: Yes, of course Adam, but now it's time for you to go to sleep. I am going to take a break. All seems good anyway...
The small smile on the face of the young woman overcomes Adam's protests and he rises, totally exhausted by fallen asleep in his office. He stretches some seconds before checking some things a last time and he gets more conscious.
While approaching Brennan, he perceives that Brennan straightened his head and that he looks at him with sleepy eyes.
Adam: Brennan? How are you?
Brennan: Adam? What's going on? Why am I here?
Adam stands over him and directs his lamp pen in his eyes to verify his pupils.
Adam: What are you remembering precisely?
Brennan: I remember that we had left to recover a mutant with her son who was pursued by the agents of Eckhart... That we won and that there was an explosion.
He suddenly straightens himself, repulsively trying to push Adam's hand away that tries to maintain him stretched out.
Brennan: Where is Shalimar?
The concern makes his voice trembles.
Adam: She is nearby, she is well and she's sleeping.
Brennan: Her injuries were serious! I want to see her!
Adam: In one minute! Tell me how you feel first? Does your head hurt? Of the unrests of the view? The nausea?
Brennan shakes the head.
Brennan: No! I am fine! I want to see Shalimar!
He puts a foot on the ground and rises quickly, his head turns one second then gets back in place and he heads in the direction of Adam's stretched arm. He sees the screen that Emma had arranged last night, separating the bed of the young woman, of Brennan's. He advances mildly, afraid to know what he is going to find behind it. The memory comes back to him distinctly and he remembers Shalimar lying on the floor, the face in blood, unconscious, wounded...
He pulls the gate that separates them slowly and holds still...looking at his friend, stretched out on her white sheet, a teddy bear put closely to her head... her face so white... the bandaging girding on her head and the rest of her body concealed by the blank sheets that covers her.
Brennan: How is she?
His voice is broken slightly when he asks Adam... Emma approaches him and put a hand on his shoulder.
Emma: She is going to be fine Brennan. It's necessary to let her rest for the time being
She wants to reassure him, but her heart tightens itself, when she sees the distressed expression on the face of the young man.
Adam: Her injuries are clean and taking care of, Brennan... It's necessary to wait that she gains consciousness to know if there are some complications. For the meantime I did my best and it we have to wait now, until the moment she awakes. I hope it is very soon... she has a nasty fracture in the leg and two broken ribs... without counting the shoulder that I had to put back in place. While speaking of shoulders? How does yours doing?
Brennan: Heu... my shoulder?
He rolls his shoulder and grimace a little while feeling the pain to wake up.
Brennan: I will survive.
Adam: You went through a traumatism at the time of the explosion with a concussion. It can happen that you endure headaches or light dizziness. So if that is the case, it's necessary to tell me, I would give you something that will make it disappear. . Your shoulder will be painful some days but I am going to give you an anti-inflammatory that will calm the twinges. Avoid moving it too much until that goes better.
Brennan: Yes.
Brennan listens to Adam with an absent-minded ear, his lost look on the face of Shalimar.
Emma: Adam, go to take a rest, I am going to stay here with Shalimar. Brennan, go to join Jesse, he must be in the kitchen with Anna and Alex, he is not very at ease with the strangers...
Brennan: Yes.
Once again he listened without hearing. Emma sees, he is lost in his thoughts and touches his arm. He jumps and turns the head towards her.
Brennan: Heu... yes sorry....what did you say? Jesse what?
Emma: I told you that Jesse is waiting for you in the kitchen, he must be there with Anna and Alex and you know that he is intimidated when there are some strangers...
Brennan: I would like to stay here....
Emma: Brennan, she sleeps. I am going to stay here to supervise her. You need to eat something.
Brennan: You call me if she wakes up!
Emma: yes! Don't worry! Go! That means you too, Adam!
Adam and Brennan leave the laboratory, listening to Emma's instructions. She pulls an armchair and gets settled next to her friend's bed. As promised, she is going to watch over her.
In the kitchen, Jesse is seated to a tip of the table and Anna and Alex to the other tip. The silence reigns while everybody is eating their breakfast. Emma decided to relieve Adam and was putting him in charge of taking care of their guests. He prepared them something to eat and is waiting now for they finish arranging the kitchen, praying so that someone arrives and relieve him of this burden. He is not used to children and even less of the women with children... he is intimidated and feels Alex's obstinate look on him while he keeps the eyes lowered on his bowl. Brennan enters all of a sudden in the room and Jesse is relieved, on the one hand to see his standing friend and in good health, but also of more being the point of attention of Anna and Alex.
TBC...