Sorry it's so short, but at least it's something right?

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Emma was still half asleep when she stretched in her bed and noticed she was alone. Immediately her eyes fluttered open and she looked around. She got up and quickly got dressed before walking out of her room to see if she could find anyone.

She heard Shalimar's angry, loud voice from the living room and flinched slightly, walking faster.

"I swear to God if she doesn't shut up, I'll fucking kill her. She is completely crazy and if she says anything like that about Emma again, I'll break her neck," the feral yelled in frustration and anger.

Emma walked as stealthily as she could around the corner so she could see what was going on.

She saw both Jesse and Brennan trying to calm the blonde down. Shalimar was pacing back and forth, her eyes glowing.

"Shal, calm down." Brennan tried to say softly, only making the woman further agitated.

"Don't tell me to calm down. Do you have any idea about what she said to me or what she can do to Emma if she gets loose? She's so psycho even I'm freaked out." She looked up and noticed Emma looking at her worried. Her eyes that had been yellow through all the talking disappeared and she instantly calmed down.

"Hey, are you okay?" She asked, her tone now low and soft instead of high and forceful.

Emma smiled at her, trying her best to not let her worry show. "I'm fine. What's going on?"

"Nothing, everything is fine." The feral answered back quickly.

"Then why were you yelling and being angry?"

"You know how emotional I can get sometimes. Do you want me to get you anything? Breakfast?" Shalimar replied, trying to avoid the question.

"Actually, I want us to-"

She was interrupted by Adam talking to her.

"Emma, I need to speak with you for a moment please."

"Sure."

Shalimar sighed in relief and Emma heard it.

"Don't think you're getting away with this. We'll talk about it later and I will expect straight answers."

The blonde swallowed hard. She hated when Emma did this to her. She hated even more that she couldn't lie or keep anything from the younger girl and that Emma seemed to know her far too well for the feral's own good when it came to situations like these.

Emma walked away with Adam.

Shalimar quickly turned to see the two guys trying to keep straight faces.

"What?"

"You're so whipped," Brennan said, trying not to laugh out loud.

"I'm not," Shalimar protested and pretended to pout. They were interrupted by Emma over the com link.

"Hey Shal, I'm starting to get a headache. Can you get me some pills, something to drink and make me some breakfast please?"

"Sure sweetie. I'll do it right away."

She looked at Brennan and Jesse who were looking from Shalimar to each other and started smiling before Jesse opened his mouth. "Yep, whipped."

Then both boys started laughing.

"Shut up," Shalimar said as she walked away from them.

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Adam had taken Emma out of earshot from the other before speaking to her.

"I was hoping that you would be willing to talk with Jodi to get her to change her mind about what she's doing, make her realize it's wrong. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with her." Adam sighed.

"I'm sorry Adam, but I don't think talking to her will help. She's insane and it's not really anything I can do. Can't you put her in stasis or something? She's dangerous."

"I was hoping I was done with putting people in stasis."

"There will always be bad mutants Adam."

"Yes, but we shouldn't do this without trying everything else first. Please talk to her? Just try?"

Emma rubbed her temples and sighed. Her headache was getting stronger and she really wasn't in the mood for this. Jodi was creepy and Emma truthfully wanted her as far away as possible.

"Fine, but I can't make any promises on how it will go."

"I'm just asking you to talk to her, nothing more."

Yeah, that's easy for you to say when she hasn't been stalking you for months. You don't know what she's capable of, Emma thought, but didn't say it loud. Instead she sighed again, hoping Shalimar would get her the pills soon.

"Can you see her right away?" Adam asked hopeful.

"I think I'll wait a little. I need to eat something and get…something to drink too."

She didn't wanna tell Adam about the increasing headache because she knew he would worry and take a bunch of tests on her.

Instead she smiled at him and walked towards the kitchen to hopefully find Shalimar.

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Emma walked into the kitchen to find Shalimar had already made everything ready for her.

"Thank God," Emma said as she sat down and immediately took the pills, looking over the food Shalimar had made her appreciatively.

"Are you okay?" The blonde said as she sat down opposite the younger woman.

"Yeah, just some major headache and Adam wanting me to talk to Jodi as soon as possible."

She felt a sudden nausea.

"I…I think I'm gonna drop the food and just…go to bed for a while," the psionic said and got up. She was hit by sudden dizziness and felt her legs failing to carry her weight. Fortunately the feral was fast enough to catch her before she fell.

"Whoa Emma, what's up with you. Sure you're okay?"

"I don't know what's going on."

"Okay, just relax, I'll bring you to your room." Shalimar said as she carefully carried Emma away, appearing calm on the outside, but panicking on the inside.

"Shalimar please stop panicking, I'm fine. And it gives me more headache."

The blonde looked at her with a surprised and worried expression, but tried to calm herself down for Emma's sake.

She carefully laid her down on the bed and sat down next to her, stroking her hair, cheek and forehead.

"You have fever," she said softly. "You need to get some sleep."

"My head hurts too much. It's throbbing, I can't relax."

"Try not to focus on it. I'll get Adam to look at you."

"No, I don't want to worry him. Just stay here with me and keep doing what you're doing. It's soothing. I just need some rest and I'll be fine."

Shalimar shot her a half smile as she found a more comfortable position, never stopping her caressing of Emma.

The psionic closed her eyes and smiled at the loving gesture. She concentrated on the feeling of Shalimar's soft skin against her face as she felt her body slowly becoming heavier.

She felt her headache subside little by little as she drifted closer and closer to sleep and the last thing she remembered was the ferals hand against her cheek and her hot breath against her ear continuously whispering "I love you."

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