As Emma lie on the bedspread in the motel room she couldn't help worrying about what her and Brennan were going to do about Sanctuary and Shalimar. She just got married and couldn't even talk to her best friend about it although she couldn't very well blame the feral for feeling the way she did. She looked at her watch noticing Brennan still hadn't returned from getting ice down the hall and wondered what was taking him so long.

Worried about her husband she stood up and walked to the door but only made it half past the bed before becoming too lightheaded and discombobulated to continue. Within a second the strong headache was enough to send her falling back to the bed as she brought her hand up to try and ease some of the sudden pressure in her temples. Her eyes slammed shut at the intense pain and she groaned out loud, her breathing increasing. Something inside her told her Brennan was in trouble and she jumped from the bed to head for the door again but quickly fell to the floor as the pain in her head was far too unbearable to withstand.

"Brennan!" she managed to call out among screams of pain hoping the elemental would hear her and come to her aid but instead she collapsed on the floor.

"Jesse, it's Shalimar," the feral's voice came through the molecular's comlink as he sat at the computer in the lab. He'd been pacing since the feral had left and it was the first chance he'd had to sit down and let himself simmer but as soon as he heard her voice again he was up on his feet walking back and forth before the screen.

Adam headed over to the screen to get a look at the feral's location and saw she was on her way back to Sanctuary allowing him to release a slight sigh of relief.

"Shalimar, are you coming home?" he asked hoping she'd confirm his thoughts.

"Yes. Lara's been kidnapped," she informed. "I need you to see if you can get some video feeds from around the area we were attacked. I'm sending you the coordinates now."

Jesse sat at the screen as the feral sent him the promised coordinates of their attack.

"See what you can find out."

"I'm on it, Shal," he informed and quickly got to work on the task.

"Shalimar, what happened?" Adam asked.

"We were heading to the church and we were attacked. Eight men."

"Did you question them?"

Shalimar paused for a moment thinking his question over. Why hadn't she tried to question them after the fight?

"No they were all unconscious. I was just concerned about taking them out to protect Lara. Afterwards she just disappeared and they were all unconscious I didn't even think to bring one of them back with me I just reacted."

"You mean acted on your impulses?" Adam asked.

"Yeah."

"We'll talk more about it when you get back here. Jesse's working on finding any information."

"I'll see ya soon."

As the video feed from the Helix ended Jesse looked up to Adam knowing he was withholding something from him.

"What is it, Adam?" he asked.

"What is what?"

"That look. I've known you long enough to know when yore not telling me something."

Adam sighed knowing he might as well share his theory with the molecular as he probably wouldn't let it go and since he was trying to help the situation he should probably have all the information.

"I think Shalimar might have been given some kind of performance altering compound like Brennan has."

"Like what?"

"Well Brennan and Emma were attacked by psionics and we know Brennan was affected seemingly to increase his sex drive if nothing else and Shalimar and Lara were also attacked and both started acting differently. I think Shalimar's been given something either drug or mind altering that's affecting her rationality."

"I was there the first time we got attacked she wasn't hit with any psi blasts that I saw."

"Well I believe she was altered before she left Sanctuary and Lara was as well. I ran a few more tests on Lara and as soon as I get those back we'll have more to go on. The good news is the tests I ran on you all came back negative."

"Well that's good to hear."

"So would appear someone's targeting Emma and or Shalimar."

The sound of the phone ringing interrupted their discussion and Jesse headed over to the desk to answer it.

"Hello?" he asked shocked the number was being used.

"Jesse, I need help," a familiar feminine voice came through the other end.

"Emma, where are you?" Jesse asked and sat at the computer desk to begin trying to get a fix on her location.

"I'm on Seventeenth Street at the payphone on the corner. Brennan was just kidnapped."

He could tell by the sound of her voice she was quite shaken up and worried.

"Ok calm down we're gonna send Shalimar in the Helix to come get you."

"No!" she quickly protested. "I want you to come get me, Jesse. Please."

"Ok, ok but you're gonna hafta wait until Shalimar gets home and then I'll come get you but I don't think you should stay on the street, Emma, it's not safe."

"I'm in room two fifty of the Motel 6," she informed. "Please hurry, Jesse," she pleaded.

"I'll be there as soon as I can."

Jesse hung up as Emma ended their communication and looked at the map on the screen of where the psionic was staying shifting his eyes between the information and Adam. He turned back to the screen as the helix was being parked and watched as Shalimar made her way into Sanctuary.

"What did you find out?" the feral instantly demanded upon walking into the lab.

"Nothing yet, Shalimar," Adam informed. "But now that you're here I want to do some tests."

"There's no time for that, Adam, Lara's been kidnapped."

"I realize that, Shalimar, and the sooner we determine what's wrong with you the sooner we can reverse it so you can help her."

"There's nothing wrong with me. I want to help Lara first."

"I have something I have to do," Jesse informed walking past the feral to the Helix.

Shalimar turned and watched as he left then looked back to Adam with an inquisitive stare.

"Where's he going?"

Adam sighed knowing she wouldn't let her gloss over the question no matter how much he wanted to.

"He's going to pick up Emma," he informed.

Shalimar let out an aggravated sigh at the sound of the psionic's name.

"Brennan's been kidnapped. Jesse's going to bring Emma back here so we can all work together as a team."

"So as soon as it's Brennan that needs help everyone's willing to play nice together."

"Shalimar, this is serious. Which is why I want you to let me run a few tests. Brennan's been altered and I think you may be as well."

"Well you're wrong, Adam."

"Then why don't you prove it to me. Let me run a few tests. It's better safe than sorry, Shalimar. Do it for Lara," Adam pleaded surprised to be saying any name other than Emma's in the sentence.

Shalimar sighed knowing all she waned to do was rescue her fiancé and decided she might as well make sure she's in top health before she attempted it.

"Jesse shouldn't be gone long why don't we get those tests run," Adam said gesturing for the feral to follow him to the genetics lab.

Shalimar sat on the counter waiting, anything but patiently, as Adam ran his tests. Every minute seemed to take longer to go by and all she could think about was Lara and where she was.

"Adam, we're here," Jesse's voice rang through Adam's comlink and Shalimar almost grunted at the thought of Emma back in Sanctuary. For the first time since they'd met she didn't feel like Emma had a place there in her home anymore.

"Bring Emma to the genetics lab I wanna do some tests."

"We're on our way."

Shalimar jumped down off the counter and headed for the door not in much of a mood for a Jerry Springer type reunion at the moment.

"I think I'm gonna go back to the computer lab and see what I can dig up," she informed anxious to get out of the room before the psionic entered.

"Alright," Adam agreed. "I'll come find you when your scans and tests are done."

Shalimar forced a smile before eagerly heading out of the room just as Jesse and Emma entered. She made her way to the computer station and sat down with a sigh trying to think of how she could get her fiancé back. She looked up to see Jesse walking over towards her and sighed as she was sure he was about to say something she didn't want to hear.

"Are you gonna talk to her?" he asked leaning his arm against the back of the computer.

"No," she informed flatly and began typing hoping he would leave her alone if she was busy.

"I know you still love her, Shal. Why don't you talk to her?"

"Because I have better things to do than listen to her lack of emotion regarding her cheating on me."

"You haven't even tried to sit down and have a talk with her," he reminded trying to get through to her.

"And I'm not going to. Now if you don't mind I actually care about getting Lara back."

Jesse sighed and pulled up a chair not wanting to seem insensitive about the red head's kidnapping.

"I care, Shal," he informed as the two began to search for information together.

"It shouldn't take too long to get the results back from these tests," Adam informed the psionic on the counter.

"Do you think the same thing happened to me that happened to Brennan?"

"I don't know. I won't be able to tell until all the scans are processed."

"Ok. I'm gonna go see if Shal wants to talk," she informed jumping off the counter.

Adam wanted to ask Emma what she had been thinking today but just nodded as she stepped towards the door deciding she probably had been altered in some way and knowing he shouldn't get involved if she wasn't thinking clearly. The last thing she needed right now was to be judged.

Emma headed down the hall and swallowed hard as she approached the computer where Jesse and Shalimar sat.

"Shalimar," she called standing before the desk.

Shalimar cringed at the sound of the psionic's voice and instantly stood up turning to Jesse.

"I'll be in the lab if you need me," she informed and walked past the psionic without even looking at her.

"Shalimar, wait," Emma called and ran to catch up with her down the hall. "Shalimar, please can we talk?"

Shalimar whipped around to face the red head clearly very displeased at having to see her at all.

"I don't wanna hear anything you have to say, Emma, and I certainly don't wanna hear you apologize."

"Shalimar, I know this is a complicated situation but I still wanna be your friend. I don't wanna just throw that all away."

"Really? 'Cause that seems to be pretty easy for you to do," the feral snapped and turned to leave only to find Emma's hand on her shoulder pulling her back towards her.

"I know you're hurt and-"

"I'm not hurt anymore, Emma, I have Lara now."

"You have Lara," Emma's statement was more of a question as her eyebrows raised in curiosity.

"Yeah we're getting married."

"Married? Shalimar, how can you marry her so soon?"

"So soon?" she asked surprised the psionic even had the nerve to suggest it. "At least we've dated, Emma, I didn't just decide to marry her out of nowhere."

"Well I just-"

"You don't have any say in my decisions anymore, Emma. You gave up that right when you slipped my wedding ring on someone else's hand. And while we're on that subject I'd appreciate my ring back," she informed gesturing to her eyes at the beautiful ring on Emma's finger. "There's someone else I'd much rather give it to."

"Excuse me?"

"My ring. I want it back," Shalimar restated and held out her hand.

Emma sighed and paused for a moment unsure of what to do. She looked into the feral's serious eyes and knew it would be better to hand over the ring than to fight over it. She lifted her hand and removed the ring from her finger but before she could hand it to the feral it was yanked out of her hand as Shalimar stuffed it back into her pocket. Emma couldn't help but frown at the hurtful gesture.

"Please don't hate me because I realized I love Brennan," the psionic pleaded.

"Well it woulda been a hell of a lot better if you'd realized that before our wedding day, Emma."

"Shalimar, I know you're upset but this hasn't been the best day for me either. Brennan's been kidnapped too and I've been in pain all day both emotional and now physical with the psionic headaches."

Shalimar shook her head at the fact Emma was actually trying to quilt her into feeling sorry for her.

"Yeah well my fiancé cheated on me and married my friend and my new fiancé has been kidnapped so excuse me if I don't cry for you Argentina."

"There's no need for sarcasm, Shalimar."

"Well I'd love to stand here and play the blame game with you, Emma, but anything just came up and I gotta go," Shalimar informed before storming off into the lab where Adam was researching the results of the scans.

"I'm glad you're here," Adam said as Shalimar followed by Emma entered the lab. "Jesse, can you come in here please?"

"Be right there, Adam," Jesse answered.

"Now I want to discuss what we're going to do about getting Brennan and Lara back. Now Lara was taken by whoever was working with the psionics that attacked you but what about Brennan?"

"Maybe he stole someone else's fiancé and they want revenge," Shalimar suggested giving an evil eye look in Emma's direction.

"Shalimar, please. This is serious," Adam reminded.

"I think they were the same psionics that took Brennan, Adam. When I was about to go see where he was I got this feeling like another psionic was close by. It hurt so much I passed out for a few minutes. When I felt their presence I think I got an image it might be something important," Emma said trying to think back to the motel room.

"What was it?" Adam asked.

Jesse entered the room and leaned against the counter beside Shalimar as Emma continued concentrating on the image she'd briefly saw while on the motel room floor.

"Um, it was a sign I think. Ten eighty."

"It could be an address," Jesse suggested sitting at the computer to run the numbers through the database.

"Emma, did you try to connect to Brennan?" Adam asked noticing how the question seemed to make Shalimar shift with uneasiness.

"I did but I couldn't get through. Something's blocking me. Whoever these people are they've got powerful psionics on their side."

"The question still remains who's behind all of this?" Adam asked trying to think of a possible explanation but coming up blank.

Emma shifted her eyes to Shalimar before looking down at the floor knowing her suggestion was only going to add to the wall of bricks between them.

"When Brennan and I went to pick up the flowers for…" she paused looking over to Shalimar with somewhat saddened eyes. "The wedding we were told they'd already been picked up by someone who apparently looked exactly like me."

"What are you saying, Emma?" Adam asked.

"Look I hate to suggest it but Lara and I do look an awful lot alike."

"What?" Shalimar shot back not liking the psionic's accusation one bit and somehow doubting she hated suggesting it.

"I think someone's desire was to keep us from having a wedding."

"That was your desire, Emma," Shalimar reminded taking a few steps closer to the psionic as if to confront her.

"Well the fact still remains that someone is targeting us."

"Well it's not Lara."

"We don't know that, Shalimar. Someone who looks exactly like me steals our flowers, Lara suddenly disappears and now Brennan's been kidnapped and you don't find that strange? I don't think she wanted you to get married, Shalimar, and whether or not she's behind all of this she's still a backstabber."

"Yeah well she wouldn't be the only one would she?" Shalimar stormed off towards the door infuriated at the psionic's accusation of her new fiancé.

"I just don't think we should rule her out as-"

Shalimar quickly turned back around as she stood in the doorway to interrupt the red head.

"Lara's not…" Shalimar paused still adjusting to the fact Emma wasn't her fiancé anymore. "Lara wasn't trying to ruin our wedding, Emma. I think you beat her to it when you went and married Brennan," she reminded before storming off down the hall and slamming the door to her room