"Do you wanna talk about it?" Jesse asked glancing over to his feral friend as they flew the Helix through the air.
"Not really," she responded unethically.
Jesse could tell she was trying to keep her emotions inside at the moment but knew as soon as she was confronting Brennan and Emma she wouldn't be so good at the task and that worried him both for Shalimar and the elemental and psionic.
"What do you plan on doing when we get there?" he asked hoping for some insight into the feral's plans.
"Whatever I have to."
The response didn't ease the molecular at all and he sighed before adding, "I'm just trying to look out for you, Shal. I don't want you to do anything you might regret."
"Don't worry about what I do, Jesse," she stated.
He sighed, none of his worry diminishing and turned back to the screen realizing they were almost at their location.
Lara took one last look at the video on the computer and sighed out of sadness for her friend before beginning to walk back to the living room. She was soon greeted by Adam covered in flour in the middle of the room and a shocked look overcame her pretty features.
"Lara, there you are. I had a little accident with the cake," Adam explained.
"Looks like you fell in," she replied looking him up and down with a grin.
"I hope you can fix it," he said and turned to walk beside her back to the kitchen.
"I'm not a miracle worker but I'll see what I can do," she replied flowing him down the hall. She wasn't sure if Shalimar would still be marrying Emma after the display she saw on the computer but what else was she supposed to do while she was there? She decided if not for their wedding she might as well cook to keep busy.
"By the way where's Jesse and Shalimar?" Adam asked as he opened the door to the kitchen for the red head to walk through.
"Shalimar was worried they weren't back yet and when Jesse locked onto their location they were…kissing in a wedding chapel so her and Jesse just took off."
Adam was shocked at the news and if his face wasn't already covered in flour he was sure it would've turned white.
"Emma's cheating on Shalimar?" he repeated not believing the words coming from his mouth.
"It certainly looked that way," Lara confirmed.
"And I thought my cake was gonna be the biggest disaster of today."
"Shalimar, Jesse," Adam's voice came though into the Helix. Shalimar sighed in annoyance at the sound wanting to avoid his lecture at the moment.
"Yeah, Adam, it's us," Jesse replied bringing up the picture of Lara and Adam now in the lab talking to them.
"Where are you two headed?"
"A chapel downtown," he replied.
"Is everything alright? I heard about Emma and Brennan. Shalimar, are you there?"
Shalimar sighed before looking over the screen in front of Jesse and responding.
"Yeah, Adam, I'm here."
"Look I'm concerned Emma and Brennan might not be thinking for themselves. That's why I don't want you to over react just yet."
"Over react? Over react to my fiancé marrying my friend behind my back?"
"I know it looks bad, Shalimar, but there is the chance they were somehow influenced to do this by their attackers earlier."
"They were flirting all morning, Adam, before they even left. I just didn't think anything of it."
"Still I think it would be best if you brought them back here so I could run some tests."
As happy as Shalimar was to hear Adam agreeing there might be something wrong with them she couldn't focus her attention on it as she was far too angry with the fact they'd gotten married behind her back.
"Alright, Adam," Shalimar agreed. "I'll bring them back."
"Shal," Lara's concerned voice instantly caught the feral's attention and she pulled up the video fed from Sanctuary onto the screen before her. "Be careful," the cute red head warned and gently smiled at the blonde.
"I will."
"I'll cook you something nice when you get back," the chef promised.
"Thank you."
Before another word could be said the connection was ended and Jesse was guiding the Helix into a nearby, large parking lot.
Shalimar was surprised to find herself slightly smiling at she thought of her attractive, red headed, chef friend. She could almost taste the dinners she used to cook her and had to admit she'd missed it more than she'd let on or had ever told Emma about. She missed more than the dinners she realized and grinned to herself with the memory of her previous love.
"Remember, Shalimar, we don't want to be too harsh when we confront them. We need to get them back to Sanctuary so don't make them run off," Jesse warned.
Shalimar's smile faded as she thought of Emma and turned to Jesse.
"I know," she informed. "But Adam didn't say they had to come back conscious."
Jesse shook his head as he landed the Helix sure he was in for a bumpy ride.
"I'm going to go prepare some tests for when they return," Adam informed the red headed chef kneading dough at the counter. "Would you mind taking over things here in the kitchen for me?"
"No problem," she assured, turning to flash him a reassuring smile that set his mind at ease.
"Well it's not hard to see what Shalimar saw in you," he informed and walked past her to the door. He turned back to her as returned her comforting smile as he opened the door. "Thanks," he said before heading to the lab to prepare the tests for Emma and Brennan.
Emma and Brennan smiled as they walked arm in arm down the isle towards the exit both overly eager to start their honeymoon. The couple laughed and smiled as they looked into each other's eyes and approached the large doors of the entrance. Hating the fact that he had to temporarily let go of the psionic's hand he reached out and gripped the door handle pulling it open. He turned his face from the psionic's for the first time as the door opened and was instantly taken off guard as a fist plunged itself into is face sending him flying back into the church and onto his back in the isle.
"Brennan!" Emma yelled and quickly rushed to his side on the floor bracing her left hand behind his head. She slowly helped him sit up though he refused to stand at the moment.
The elemental groaned in pain and placed his hand to his nose which was now bleeding quite a bit. Emma turned to look at Shalimar in the doorway, her eyes yellow, and her face baring a look that could kill as she starred the two of them down.
"What the hell are you doing?" the psionic asked standing up. The fact the red head actually looked shocked only further angered the feral and her sense of rage was almost enough to knock Emma down as well.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing," she said awaiting an explanation.
Emma sighed and looked from Shalimar to Jesse slightly behind her and then back down to Brennan on the floor.
"Brennan and I have gotten married," she finally informed.
The feral's ears burned at the hurtful confession of the red head and Shalimar watched as Emma helped the dark haired elemental off the floor and back onto his feet. The sight quickly became too much for her to stand and she stepped forward with determination only to find Jesse's hand on her shoulder as he prepared to hold her back. He raised his eyes as if to warn her and remind her of their mission.
"What? Have you gone crazy?" Shalimar screamed at the psionic.
"We're in love, Shalimar," the red head tried to convince her and wrapped her arm around the elemental's waist pulling him closer to her.
"No you're not," the feral protested knocking Jesse's hand off her shoulder and stepping towards her. "I think there's something wrong with you. You're coming back to Sanctuary with me," she demanded.
"There's nothing wrong with me, Shal. I've been fighting this for a while now and I finally realized it's what I want," Emma informed.
"We'll see about that," Shalimar doubted and reached out to grab the psionic's hand not making any effort to hold a loose grip.
Emma attempted to shake her hand free as Shalimar began to drag her away but the stronger woman's hold on her wrist wasn't breaking.
"Hey!" Brennan called stepping after the two hoping he could pull Emma away but was quickly meet with the feral's fist in the face again and fell back to the ground.
"Shalimar, let go!" Emma pleaded and squirmed in the feral's painful hold. She could feel her wrists bruising and wiggled in at attempt to get the feral to release her as they approached the Helix outside.
Jesse stepped to Brennan to help him up but the elemental was already on his feet though clearly dazed from Shalimar's attacks. He saw the elemental preparing to launch an electric bolt and quickly turned to call to Shalimar.
"Shal!" he yelled and massed as fast as he could before jumping in front of Brennan and blocking the wave. As soon as he unmassed Brennan attempted to punch him but Jesse was fast enough to doge it and not wanting to hit his friend he pushed the elemental into the door of the church.
Emma and Shalimar stood in the middle of the lot not too far away watching the scene, as Emma grew increasingly worried about her husband's compromising safety. Panic quickly took her over as she watched Brennan and Jesse fighting and as Jesse punched him she decided she had to do something if she wished to help her new husband.
"I'm sorry it had to happen like this, Shal," Emma offered. Her words caught the attention of the feral who turned to look at her and question the statement.
"What?" Shalimar asked but just as quickly as the words left her mouth she was hit with a powerful psi blast and fell to the ground. Unable to bring herself to hurt the psionic Shalimar was unprepared for an attack on her from the red head and had no chance of deflecting the blast.
"We don't have to do this, Bren," Jesse said as he tried to fight back the man who was holding him around the waist against the door. "Just come back to Sanctuary," the blonde man pleaded.
Emma ran over to Brennan and Jesse and seeing Brennan hold back the molecular she decided to knock him out with a psi blast and make things easier. Brennan dropped the molecular to the doorway after he passed out and instantly put his arm around Emma.
"Let's go," Brennan informed as he and Emma ran off past Shalimar, stopping as they reached her to drop their comlinks by her unconscious body before taking off.