With a smile on her face and eagerness in her step Shalimar headed through the door to the jewelers and made her way over to the counter. She sprawled her hands onto the glass and locked eyes with an attractive, young woman standing on the other side.

"Hello, may I help you?" the attractive employee asked.

"My name's Shalimar Fox I ordered a necklace from you. Custom made," the feral informed.

The woman opened a file folder under the counter and began to search through it. Jesse and Lara began to make their way around the store browsing the glass containers.

"Ah yes, Ms. Fox," the woman said turning back to Shalimar. "I have your order right here if you'll just wait one moment I'll go and get it for you."

Shalimar nodded and the woman smiled before headed through a door on the left wall. Shalimar looked down to all the beautiful jewelry in the glass container beneath her. Every piece that caught her eye she imagined gracing the psionic and smiled at the thoughts of her love. Her eyes closed as she pictured her fiancé's face before her. She could hardly wait to present the woman with her gift and even more so her wedding ring.

Jesse walked over and stood beside the feral who still remained in her pleasant daze with thoughts of the red headed psionic she was to be marrying today.

"You're a lucky woman to have someone like Emma to get beautiful jewelry for, Shal," he told her.

Shalimar's eyes slowly opened at the words and she smiled in the knowledge he was right. She couldn't imagine anything more perfect. She turned as the sales associate made her way back behind the counter and set a felt jewelry box down on the counter. Shalimar picked it up and opened it surprised herself at how beautiful it was.

"Wow," Jesse said at the sight of the breath-taking item. "It's beautiful."

Lara approached from behind and looked over the feral's shoulder into the box she was holding.

"Well I gotta say your taste in jewelry sure has improved," she joked and smiled down at the beautiful gift. "She's gonna love it."

"It's amazing," Shalimar informed the associate and removed her credit card from her wallet and handed it to the woman.

Shalimar closed the box and tucked it into her leather coat pocket waiting for a moment before taking her credit card back. The associate smiled and handed the feral her receipt.

"Thank you, Ms. Fox."

"Thank you. You guys ready to go?" she asked looking from Jesse to Lara.

"Yeah. We still got a lot to do," Jesse informed. "Gonna go get some more of your guests?"

"I think we should take Lara back to Sanctuary first. Adam could use the help as soon as possible and it would be one less thing for me to worry about."

"Alright let's go," he agreed.

Shalimar and Lara followed the molecular out the door stopping when they saw he stood still on the sidewalk in front of the jewelers upon reaching outside.

"Jesse, what are you doing?" Shalimar asked before looking down the sidewalk to see four strangers heading for them, determination on each of their unknown faces.

"I think we got trouble."

Knowing he was most likely right Shalimar stepped in front of Lara.

"Stay behind me," she ordered, her eyes flashing yellow as she prepared herself for the battle she knew was to follow.

The next thing she knew psi blasts were launching themselves for her and she grabbed Lara's shoulder pushing her behind a car parked on the street. Looking back up she saw a few more psi blasts cutting through the air, one hitting a massed Jesse who delivered a devastating punch to the man before him at his first chance.

Shalimar's agile body leapt onto the hood of the parked car and her leg quickly swiped at the two men on the nearby curb knocking them both over. She jumped to her feet landing on the chests of both the fallen men.

"Get Emma!" the man Jesse knocked down yelled as he pointed to Lara still ducking behind the car. Jesse quickly kicked the man to the curb knocking him out.

The last man standing grinned and turned to look at the frightened red head hiding behind the car. He took a step towards her and was quickly knocked in the back of the head with Jesse's massed arm. He rushed to Lara's side and helped her to her feet before heading back over to Shalimar still standing on the two men she'd knocked down.

"Who sent you?" she asked her feral eyes showing no signs of mercy as she pushed her feet harder into their chests. The men coughed but offered no response only further angering the feral.

"I asked you a question," she repeated lifting her foot to one of their necks and pressing until he gasped for air.

"I won't tell you anything," he answered among coughs.

"You'll tell me what I wanna know or I'll rip your tongue out. Now tell me who you work for. Who wants Emma and why?"

The men were silent for a moment but remained unbreakable and instead of talking the psionic spit on the ground at the feral his eyes filled with too much pride to give her any information.

Gritting her teeth Shalimar reached down and grabbed the man's head knocking it into the cement with fury. She turned her attention back to his silent partner. He sent a psi blast in her direction and she barely dodged it causing it to fly past Jesse and Lara behind her who managed to dodge it just in time as well. Shalimar knelt herself over the psionic and grabbed his head speaking as fiercely as she could.

"This is your last chance to tell me what I wanna know before you end up like your friend here."

The man simply grinned at her offering her nothing she could use. She quickly found herself too fed up to deal with him anymore and knocked him out the same she did the previous psionic. Shalimar stood up and turned back to Lara and Jesse. She walked over to her red headed friend and put an arm around her shoulder.

"You ok?" she asked.

"Yeah I think so."

"Good." Shalimar turned to Jesse to confirm his wellness and he placed a hand on her shoulder before beginning to walk down the street.

"Let's get out of here," he told them as they followed him down the street back to the Helix as quickly as they could.