Adam turned to the drawer beside him and removed a set a keys, tossing them the molecular's way as he explained, "Take my car. I'll keep you updated on where she's going."
Jesse gripped the keys tight and nodded in agreement, gently placing his hand on the feral's upper arm to gesture for her to follow as thy two exited the lab in a hurry.
Adam sighed upset with himself for with holding the information he'd all but confirmed not too long ago knowing they needed to be informed. He'd only wanted to be sure before he told them their conditions and didn't want to worry them with false hypothesis. Reaching for his test results emerging from the printer he sighed in the confirmation that he was in fact correct, hating and not for the first time, the fact he was usually right.
"You ok?" Jesse asked glancing over to the obviously troubled feral beside him in the car. His eyes made the trip from the road to the blonde and back again every so often as he hoped he'd see some of her sorrow flow off her face only to be disappointed every time he saw her, nothing she just seemed to be getting herself deeper and deeper in it. Even he didn't need to be a psionic to pick up on the immense pain overflowing the woman beside him. It was almost like a heat wave striking him over and over and seeming to gain strength with every passing moment.
"What do you think?" she replied her eyes remaining fixed on the screen as they monitored Emma's trail in the Helix. She had quite a bit of distance on them already as she was of course flying.
"Yeah, I guess that's a fair answer. I'm sorry all this happened today, Shal," he offered knowing it wasn't nearly good enough but unsure of anything else he could say to try and ease her incredible pain. What do say to someone whose lost two fiancé's in one day? The sub par offering wasn't enough to catch the feral's eyes however.
"Why don't you try her comlink again?" Jesse suggested for lack of any other ideas at the moment. He had to admit he never thought that Emma wouldn't be answering their call but then again he never thought she'd marry Brennan either.
Shalimar sighed at the suggestion but knew it was probably worth a shot and raised her hand to the middle of her chest as she spoke through the ring.
"Emma, can you hear me?"
The silence was not only annoying but also caused the feral's anger levels to increase at the psionic's refusal to answer.
"Emma?"
She waited another moment all the while keeping her eyes fixated on the screen as she tracked the psionic through the sky. She almost felt as if she were on a wild goose chase.
Shaking her head at the silence she turned to Jesse briefly before looking back at the screen with a pair of evil eyes as if she was looking at Emma herself.
"She's got some nerve," Shalimar informed.
"What do you want, Shalimar?" Emma's question came as a shock to both Jesse and Shalimar who each turned their eyes back to the screen at the sound of the red head's distinct voice.
"You know this is really unfair, Emma," the feral stated deciding not to hold back her thoughts at a time like this. She only wished Emma was right there so she could see and feel how angry and upset with her she was.
"It's unfair that I want to save my husband?"
Her husband, Shalimar repeated the words in her head. Every time she'd heard the psionic say that statement today it felt like another knife was thrown at her already aching heart. Not enough to kill her just enough to make her suffer more and more at the mere thought of it.
"It's unfair that you just ran off like that without even thinking about the rest of us. Taking the Helix without us so I don't get a chance to help Lara. That was really selfish, Emma."
Shalimar wanted to be shocked at her own statement but couldn't seem to allow herself to be. The psionic being selfish. She couldn't even think of a time she'd even known the woman to be selfish and couldn't believe the events that had occurred today. She pondered for a moment. Did she even believe the events that had happened today, she asked herself. Why hadn't she thought things out the way she normally would? Why hadn't any of this really occurred to her before now? She couldn't help questioning herself and wondering why she hadn't done so much sooner. As soon as she began to ponder the questions remaining on her mind she instantly jumped the train of thought for some unknown reason as she had wanted to keep questioning the strange events that had plagued her day of hell so far.
"I'm sorry, Shal," Emma finally offered, officially breaking the feral's questioning concentration. "I…I guess I just reacted. I guess I didn't realize…" she trailed off furling her brow at her own bold and impulsive actions. It was suddenly occurring to her what she had done and how she'd let her friends down but it was only to keep from letting her husband down. She could almost feel the feral's pain despite how far away she was and just knowing she'd hut her was enough to upset the psionic further and add to the already huge weight of regret on her shoulders.
Before Shalimar could question the psionic any further discomforting grunts broke their conversation as Emma clutched her head in the Helix at the extreme wave of pain she was being struck with.
"Emma, what's happening," Jesse asked wising they had a computer screen in the car to see for themselves as it was obvious the psionic wasn't enjoying herself.
A scream from the psionic's lips was their only response as the pain was becoming more and more unbearable for the red head and knocking her out of her seat and onto the Helix floor. As she realized she was being struck with more and more intense pain the psionic stood back up and reached for the controls trying to land the craft as quickly as she could.
"Emma, answer me," Jesse repeated, his worry now escalating tenfold at the sounds of the woman over the link.
"Emma," Shalimar called as she watched in shock as she saw the Helix making a rather quick and uncontrolled decent to the ground.
As much as the psionic wished to return his question with an answer she didn't even have she focused all her remaining energy, which was quickly diminishing, onto getting the craft as close to landing as possible.
As she neared the ground everything was mostly a blur to her. Her hands grasped her throbbing head as pain she'd never felt before washed over her again and again. Already on the floor and realizing she wasn't going to land the craft properly as she'd already lost too much control over it she ducked closer to the floor awaiting the collision with the earth she knew was only seconds away.
