Robin Hood
By: ShalCat-Kitty
Disclaimer: See chapter 1: I'll write it but only because I don't want to get sued even though I've already told you and it's pointless from hear on in, cause if the characters and basic plot weren't mine at the beginning why would they be mine now or in later chapters for that matter.
Thank you so much all you guys who pointed out the whole Jesse shoe thing. I kinda thought he couldn't phase stuff like that but I wasn't sure. Also thank you very much psionic-sweety The changes I made were mostly your idea. Just to let anyone know those changes were not my idea. That brilliant streak came from psionic-sweety
Something Brennan says in this chapter will be recognised by any Alias fans out there. (Vaughn. Season two. Episode 13: Phase One.)
Ok this chapter goes out to anyone who reviewed the first or the second chapters, or both. Because anything you say can and might be used to help me.
Hope you like it.
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Jesse: later that night.
I was watching tv in the rec room and I was nearly asleep. Then there was suddenly a hand on my shoulder. "Can I join you?" I heard the young psionic's voice. I put my legs down on the floor to make room for her.
"Sure Emma." I smiled and she sat down.
"Whatcha watching?" she asked while taking a handful of my popcorn.
"Some tv movie. I wasn't really paying attention to it. I don't even know what's going on." I admitted.
"I could tell." She giggled.
"How long were you watching me?" I asked defensively. She had probably just seen me start to drift off.
"Only a minute or two, but long enough." She took the bowl of popcorn and looked at the screen. I watched her for a couple seconds before looking at the screen myself.
After a few minutes I still didn't understand so I turned to her again. "Are you as sleepy as I am?" I tried to start a conversation. I decided I didn't like the movie.
"Yes. I'm a little sleepy, but you aren't." her playful smile lit up at the confused look on my face. "I just made you think you were tired."
"That wasn't very nice was it?" She giggled a little more at my response.
"Well I'm not the one who came up with the idea to throw your shoe through the wall." She absentmindedly touched her forehead at the memory. She gave a small gasp in pain.
"What you did was justified. I'm so sorry. I wasn't thinking." I reached out to touch her forehead. "Are you ok?"
"Yes I'm fine." With out even realising what I was doing, I ran my fingers down her cheek. She looked into my eyes questioningly. I dropped my hand back to my lap. I kept my feelings in check though because if I felt or thought too hard, she would sense exactly what I was feeling.
"Thank you for covering for me. I don't think he bought it though." I stared into her eyes intently they pulled me in.
"Well the movie's over I should probably get to bed. As I said, I'm a little sleepy." She still held my gaze. I don't think either of us blinked as I took the empty popcorn bowl from her and set it down.
"I should probably do the same." I said turning off the tv with the remote then setting it down. We both stood up and still our eyes were locked. I don't know how long we stood there, in our trance.
Emma looked away for a second and I followed her gaze to the doorway. A few seconds later Shalimar came through.
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Shalimar:
I walked into the rec room to find Jesse and Emma. They were both leaving though, probably off to bed.
"Hey guys." I said smiling.
"Hey." Jesse said as he left.
"See ya." Emma said as she followed suit. When they were both gone, I went to the kitchen to get a snack before I went to bed. As I entered the kitchen, I saw that I wasn't the only one with the idea. He was sitting on the counter.
"Hey Bren." I said to the elemental. I smiled and received a weak smile in return. "You ok?" I asked concerned.
"I'm cool, it's just. What if these people aren't what they say they are?" he seemed worried, he wasn't the only one.
"It seems we're in the same boat you and I. So we're going to have to watch each others backs. Ok." I jumped up on the counter beside him. He nodded. While sitting there I forgot why I was there.
After a moment he spoke. "You know Shalimar. It's hard." There was something in his tone, an undertone of something very intense. His face was serious and I could almost feel his electricity radiating from his whole body.
"What?" I was almost afraid to ask.
He took a deep breath. "What happened or at least almost happened between us, you and I." He flexed his jaw muscle. He wouldn't look at me. "I'm gonna say something and it'll either be obvious to you or seem presumptuous. Either way I've got to say it. This isn't working. I don't know what the hell to do."
My eyes burned into the side of his face. I wanted him to look at me. "What?" I said.
He closed his eyes for a second and opened them. "I think you know what." His voice was smouldering, about to explode. He was near tears, so was I.
"I need you to tell me." I knew as soon as I had said it that, it would put him over the edge. But there was no way to avoid it.
He looked me straight as the crow flies in the eyes. His eyes were burning with electricity. "You need me to tell you that when Adam sends you on operations without me, I can't sleep at night. You want me to tell you that when we're going over missions, I have to force myself to remember what we're reviewing when all I want to do is kiss you." I didn't know how he had managed to stop himself from yelling.
Talking quietly was a much smarter thing to do though because the sanctuary was pretty open and if you were yelling, anyone else could hear you. We both had tears in our eyes just from pure emotion. I smiled. "Sometimes it is hard to remember what we're supposed to be talking about." I admitted.
"That's what I'm talking about. What makes me crazy." He started. "It's hard to hide something like that, from you, from the others. It's like they wouldn't understand, I don't know what to do anymore." He sighed and looked at his hand on the counter beside mine. "I mean it's like if I kissed you, everything would be ok."
I put my hand on top of his and our fingers intertwined. "I know." I said. Feeling the same as he. "but then I think if I do that, then we'll either have to hide it from everyone or just come right out and--." He silenced me with his lips.
We kissed slowly and tenderly. It quickly heated up though and we pulled each other closer. I put my hands around his neck and played with his hair. The suppressed emotions that we had both been feeling exploded out of us tenfold. I pulled away a little but kept kissing him, while trying to keep myself under control.
"You know." I accented each of my words with a passionate kiss. "We should stop." We slowly pulled away and I swallowed, he still had his hand on my cheek and he played with a strand of my hair. I put my hand over his.
"I know. Some one could see." he stared longingly into my eyes. "Good night Shalimar." He kissed my forehead, jumped off the counter and left. I just smiled to myself as I watched him go.
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Emma: 5 days before chapter one.
I yawned and opened my eyes. I liked the morning maybe not in the sense of waking up early but in the morning every thing is new. It all has new perspective. Everything is calm and peaceful. I stretched and got out of bed. I had a quick shower and got dressed.
Then as I left my room Shalimar passed by, she was smiling. No, she wasn't just smiling. She was glowing. "Oh Emma." She acknowledged me. I walked a little faster to keep up with her bouncy pace. "Adam wanted to see us all as soon as we've eaten breakfast." She said.
"Ok. Where are you headed?" I asked her. She smiled and turned to go in a different direction than I was headed.
"Training." She waved. She turned around just before she was out of sight. "Oh and tell the guys for me will ya, about Adam. When they finally get up that is."
"Bye." I waved. I thought that maybe she just drank too much coffee. I went to the kitchen and made myself some breakfast. I was just sitting down when Brennan came in.
"Hey." His greeting was just as peppy as Shalimar's. It was kind of creepy.
I smiled. "Hey." He went about making his breakfast and sat down. "Adam wants to see everyone when we've all eaten." I picked up my dishes and started to leave. "If you see Jesse, can you tell him for me?" I left and went to watch Shalimar train. It was always quite interesting to see my team-mates kick but, even if it was virtual but. It was almost an hour later that we were all in the lab and Adam was ready to explain.
"Ok guys. Robin and Will Cunningham have agreed to meet." He pointed to a screen. "A café." On the screen was a picture of a café, which I found a little redundant because we all knew what a café looks like. "Emma and Brennan, you guys will come with me to meet them. Jesse and Shalimar, you guys will stay here and hold the fort ok."
"Sounds good to me." Shalimar said.
"Me too." I was glad that I got to meet them, The inflection in Adam's voice when he spoke about them made them sound like nice people.
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Adam: Early that afternoon
Brennan, Emma and I walked into the café. We all satdown at a booth. Soon after that, Robin and her brother joined us.
"Hello." I said to her mostly but also to her brother. "This is Emma and this is Brennan. "I said, gesturing to each of them respectively.
"I'm Robin." She introduced herself. "And this is Will." She gestured to her brother. Both Robin and Will had brown hair and green eyes. We sat and discussed how they would contact us and how we could get information, decoding processes and other stuff like that. After about an hour we were all done so we decided to head back to sanctuary.
"So, I guess that will be all. "Will said. He smiled at Emma and she smiled back. "I can't wait to meet the other members of your team. Shalimar and Jesse was it?"
"Yes. Perhaps you will meet them soon." I suggested although I didn't really care.
"That could be difficult. The more we see you, the more we put everyone in danger. If Gabriel saw us with you he might think we were in league with you." Robin said. Even though she and I had met many times. But that was different.
I motioned for Emma and Brennan to get up then we all started to leave. "We'll be in contact soon." Will told us. With that we left.
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Brennan:
"So Emma do you trust them?" I asked her in the car on the way back. Adam had taken a different car. He wanted to stop for something before heading back to sanctuary.
"I think they seem very trustworthy, I didn't really ever doubt them." I didn't like her answer. I still wasn't convinced that they were good for their word. I went back to driving. I was ok with Robin but Will just seemed as if he was up to something.
The smile he had given Emma wasn't just friendly. I knew that if it had been Shalimar he was smiling like that at; I would have wanted to rip his head off. I just didn't like the guy.
When we got back to the sanctuary. We found Jesse training. "Hey Jesse." I said and kept walking toward my room.
On the way I turned a corner and I saw Shalimar jogging. I was reminded of when she had discovered her new power by kicking my ass. This time I jogged in front of her and started jogging backwards.
"Hey Shal, how's it going?" I smiled. She looked at me and kept jogging. I was concentrating on not tripping and she just laughed when I looked down at my feet.
"No." She told me. "Look here." She pointed to her eyes. I did what she asked. By concentrating on her movements I could tell when to turn. We made almost a whole revolution of the sanctuary and slowed down to a walk before we reached the training room. Then I started walking beside her until she came to a stop.
"Well that was fun. "I said a little bit out of breath.
"Yeah. You seemed to be getting good at it too. " She smiled.
We walked past the training room but the others didn't notice us. Jesse was still training and Emma was watching him. When we got to Shalimar's room I stopped at the doorway.
"Oh come on Brennan, you've been in my room plenty of times before." She pulled me in and closed the sliding door. "Have a seat. I'll get changed and be out in a minute." She went into the bathroom that her and Emma shared and I sat down like she said.
A moment later the bathroom door opened and she came out wearing black leather pants and a tree quarter sleeve black shirt that had a split in the front showing off a small triangle of her stomach. I loved her clothing; she always managed to look good. Even the jogging clothes she was wearing made her look good.
"You look good." I told her. She came over to me and she sat in my lap leaning back so her head was on my shoulder.
"Really" she giggled and I looked her in the eye. She was so happy. I nodded and gave her an affectionate kiss.
"Doubt though the stars are fire." I started to quote Hamlet. "Doubt that the sun duth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt my love. Oh my dear Shalimar. I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best or most best. Believe it I do." She just melted. "It's from Hamlet." I told her.
"That was amazing Brennan." She kissed be. "It was beautiful."
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TBCThat hamlet quote, I got from (Joan of Arcadia. Freedman after Judith dies.)
So this chapter had a lot of fluff, but I promise there will be some but kicking eventually and even some confusing prophecy and some other stuff, but I guess you have to keep reading to see what will happen. Don't forget, if you tell me about any problems I'll try to fix them. Unless the story wouldn't make sense if I changed it.
