"Emma, are you in there?"
"Yes Jesse, what is it?"
"Adam wants to see all of us in the lab."
"I'll be there in a minute."
Damn it, if he wanted to talk to everyone that meant that Brennan would be there and she really wasn't up for a confrontation.
She dragged herself out of the room and into the lab where all three guys were already gathered. As she walked in, Brennan gave her a deadly look, but she chose to ignore it and focus on Adam instead.
"What do you want to talk about Adam?"
"About Shalimar. I've noticed that things have gotten pretty tense around here and I would like to know what's going on."
Jesse looked on everyone with a confused look. "I don't know anything. It's Emma and Brennan you have to talk to so I'll leave you alone to figure things out." He hurried to walk out.
Adam turned to Emma and Brennan who ignored each other and only looked at Adam.
"What's the problem?"
"Nothing," they both answered in unison, still refusing to look at each other.
"Clearly there is a problem and I need a team that can work together so I suggest you two work things out."
"Look Adam, you can't expect me to be fine with that Emma is taking advantage of Shalimar when she's weak."
"I'm not. You don't even know what happened, you just jump to conclusions. Why would I take advantage of my best friend?" Emma turned to look at Brennan with fury and gave him a look that could have killed.
"I know what I saw okay." He had started to raise his voice and they both seemed to forget Adam was in the room. Emma responded with raised voice too.
"You saw nothing and you don't understand anything so I'm not gonna stand here and have a stupid conversation with you just because you expect an apology for God knows what. I certainly have nothing to say to you if you can't understand what was going on and if it's anyone I should apologize to, it's Shalimar."
"Well, how could I know that you were into girls?"
"I'm not and that's why I'm telling you you're all wrong. It really hurts that you can't see longer than…than…Just forget it, I'm out of here."
"Can't see longer than what?" he shouted after her, still angry.
"That you can't see beyond your stupid manhood."
He turned to Adam who sighed in despair.
"What the hell did she mean?"
"I think she means that you think with your penis."
"Oh forget about it," Brennan said before leaving in anger.
-
Emma was walking to her room in fury. She couldn't believe how stubborn and narrow-minded Brennan could be sometimes. She didn't notice Shalimar coming out of her room.
"Hey Emma, I-"
"No." She opened the door to her room.
"Emma, what's happened?"
"Leave me alone." And with that she flung the door right in Shalimar's face.
-
"Hey Adam, what the hell happened with Emma?"
"It's good to see that you're up, feeling better I hope?"
"Yeah, what happened?"
"Well, she and Brennan had an argument."
"Yeah, I heard. That's what woke me up, but what was it about?"
"You."
"Me? What about me?"
"About when Brennan caught you and Emma kissing. He blames Emma for exploiting you and Emma is angry because apparently Brennan doesn't understand a thing. Care to fill me in?"
"Hmm, I don't really know that much about it. Maybe I should try to talk to them?"
"I think that would be a good idea as long as you don't talk to them together."
"Okay, I'll go find Brennan and talk to him."
She walked out and went to find Brennan. Not because she cared more about him than Emma, but because it would be easier to talk to him right now. The conversation she was going to have with Emma would be much heavier than the one with Brennan…