Chapter 2

Five minutes later they were walking through the door to Emma's appartment. Looking around Shalimar could tell that Emma hadn't lived here very long. She had the basic furniture but they were still some unpacked boxes.

"Nice place." Shalimar said.

Emma shrugged. "It's home." She said simply, "Now are you going to tell me what's going on?"

Shalimar nodded and motioned for them to both sit on the sofa. Once sitting down she grabbed a newspaper from the table. Opening it she showed Emma the headline that read: 3 murdered and 4 still missing.

"What's this got to do with anything?" She asked confused.

"The 7 mentioned there are all new mutants that we saved at some point. Yesterday those people who were in the ally came after me and I barely got away. They're after us. I don't know who they are but they're strong."

Emma sat there inbetween confusion and shock, "Are you ok?" She asked without thinking. Even though things had been bad between them she was still concerned for her former team mate.

"Yeah apart from my knee im fine."

"Let me look." Emma asked moving closer to the feral.

"No it's fine honestly."

"Have you even had it looked at?" Emma asked knowing that Shalimar was lying.

"No but it's fine. Really it doesn't need looking at."

"Shalimar please I saw you limping. Please it would make me feel better."

Shalimar sighed knowing that Emma wouldn't give up. She rolled her jeans up carefully. Emma gasped when she saw the ferals knee. It was badly bruised and swollen with anasty cut going around the side.

"How can you say that that is fine. No wonder you couldn't fight." Emma said standing up and walking into the small kitchen. She returned with a first aid box and sat down. She pulled Shalimar's leg over her lap and started to clean the wound. She could feel Shalimar flinching and tried he best to be careful. Once she had cleaned it she started to wrap her knee in bandage. Once that was done she smiled over at Shalimar letting her know that she was finished.

"Can I get you a drink or something." She asked the blonde who was busy rolling her jeans back down.

"No it's fine. I better be going any way." She said standing up.

"Wait." Emma said standing up and grabbing her arm, "You said yourself that it's not safe out there. Where are you staying?"

Shalimar shrugged. "Just around." She answered.

"Well stay here tonight. It would make me feel better knowing that your safe."

Shalimar nodded but Emma could tell that something wasn't right.

"What is it?" She asked sitting them both back down.

"It's just the last time I saw you I nearly killed you and now your being so nice and I don't know what to make of it. I just thought that you would hate me that's all."

Emma was silent for a few moments, "Like you said Adam's death effected us all differently and yeah you did try to kill me but how many times have you saved my life. When Adam died you and Brennan decided that violence and revenge was your only way to grieve, you lost control and didn't know right from wrong any more. Jesse stopped communticating with us and things fell apart."

"I guess your right but I still let you and Adam down. All of us did."

"How's that?"

"Well I know that Adam wouldn't have wanted us to stop and you were the only one willing to carry on with mutant x."

"Yeah well that was a long time ago. I guess we've all moved on since then."

"Yeah. Have you seen Brennan or Jesse since?" Shalimar asked hopefully.

Emma shook her head. "No I havn't really been out much. Tonight is the first time that I've actually been out apart from when I go to work."

"You're working?" Shalimar asked surprised.

Emma laughed. "Yeah what do you think pays for all of this?"

Shalimar gave a slight laugh. "So where are you working?"

"I got my old job back. Any ways what are you living off?" She asked.

"I'd been saving ever since I joined mutant x so I've just been using that."

Emma nodded then yawned, "I think i'll go to bed I've been pretty busy this week at work. Thank god for the weekend." She said smiling down at Shalimar.