I don't think apologizing a million times would make up for 2 1/2 years without an update, but I'll apologize anyway...I'M SORRY:( I want to thank brennan-freak for giving me a kick in the arse and a poke in the side when I slacked off. I also wanted to give a huge thanks to Meg who stayed loyal to my story and every once in a while asked me ever so nicely to update. Anywayz on with the story...
------------------------------------
"We worked through the night, he's finally stable and I'm sure he will be fine barring any complications."
Samuel worked so feverishly to save the life of Brennan Mulwray, he was a handsome doctor who couldn't have been a day older than 25. With his short neatly cropped hair, and slim, athletic build he looked more like a model than a doctor.
He spoke looking down afraid of glancing at this man…no monster in the eye for fear of his life. He had heard the stories that Eckhart was responsible for, many lives ended all for the sake of a madman who had such a cold, ruthlessness to him that Samuel felt threatened even being in the same city, let alone room. The good doctor always wondered what he had done in his past life to be blackmailed as he was into working for this man. God only knows what would have happened to his family if he hadn't agreed to come to the GSA to work.
"Then things are going better than I thought. I really didn't think you could save his life, it's amazing what a little persuasion can do to a humans ability to perform…wouldn't you say doctor?"
----------------------------------------
The three of them were situated around a table discussing what they should do, up for hours since part of their family had been taken. It was actually Emma and Adam doing all the talking, throwing around ideas and then dismissing them all too quickly, realizing that they were grasping at straws. Jesse had barely uttered two words since their arrival back at home base. He finally made up his mind on a plan of action that was cleverly hatched.
"Contact Eckhart and tell him we will give him what he wants for Brennan and Shalimar"
Emma looked at Adam worriedly. "What do you mean Jesse?"
"I mean we tell Eckhart what we want him to hear" He gazed directly into the eyes of both Emma and then Adam. "By now he's probably torturing them, killing them. We have to contact him and tell him something."
"What are we going to tell him?" Emma spoke up again.
Jesse paced back and forth around the table, a deeply troubled look on his face. It was almost physically painful for him to imagine what Eckhart had in store for his family if they did not get them out of the damn place.
"Anything that would at least distract him, for a while, stop him from doing what he's planning on doing to them. Enough time to figure out how to get them out, we know Brennan is already hurt, it may be his only chance."
The young molecular stopped then, and gazed almost intently at the ground, deep in thought.
Adam knew the feeling, a sense of deep hopelessness that he felt every time one of his kids did not come back to him well. The scientist would not wish that burden on anyone, let alone one of his precious children, but he knew it was inevitable when one of them was hurt or missing. They had all grown into a family, always concerned for each other's well being, always there to share each other's pain. It's the price they had to pay for the deep bond they had accumulated over the past year, and it really had only been about a year. A stranger looking at the tight knit groups' playful nature would not believe they had only been together for such a short amount of time, it really was incredible. Now the family was faced with the dilemma of trying to get their own kin back in one piece. An unbelievably hard task it seemed.
"Yes, Jesse, you're right. This is a good strategy, the only problem is trying to figure out how to get to Brennan and Shalimar once, we know that Eckhart is preoccupied with what we have to offer him."
He turned to red-headed empath with a glint in his eye. "Emma, I need you to get into the mind of Shalimar, try to reach her, she's our only chance right now since we know that Brennan might be seriously hurt."
She looked distressed at the prospect of Brennan in pain, but she nodded her head in resolve and she clamped her eyes shut in concentration, searching for the mind of her good friend.
------------------------------------
It was horrible to feel your heart breaking, it was a physical pain in her chest that she just couldn't seem to get away from. Shalimar felt as if she was dying slowing from the inside out, and she wanted to end the pain that was her reality. The young woman's eyes were almost swollen shut from the amount of crying she had done in the past few hours and no matter how much she told herself to be strong, she just couldn't seem to stop.
Eckhart had told his goons to come in and release her from the chains that held her tightly to the walls, somehow knowing that she didn't have any fight in her. Now Shalimar was on the ground, curled tightly in a ball, hoping to god that the agony over losing Brennan would somehow abate. Over time though the sobbing turned into mere sniffling, eventually the only sounds in her cell was the sound of her harsh breathing. That is the state that Emma would enter Shalimar's' mind and the grief nearly blew the empath away.
-------------------------------------
Eckhart looked over the man on the table, covered with a sheet, with monitors and machines minding his vital signs. The doctor had said that the ventilator that was breathing for the young man would have to stay for a while, being that his lung had been badly damaged. A wound that had slowly gotten worse from being left untreated, and it had nearly caused the elemental to lose his life.
Now the only thing keeping Brennan unconscious was the sedatives the doctor had said he would wean the young man off of. Then it would only be a matter of time before he woke up on his own accord.
At that time is when the real fun would being, Eckhart thought ominously.
---------------------------------
I'm starting college in a week while holding down a full-time job as well, please be patient with meJ This story will be finished though, no more 2 1/2 year wait , this has turned into a mission! As always let me know what you think, Thanks guys!