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Chapter 17: Mari
Mari looked at the camera's as the small breakfast group broke up and the people she had come to know as her friends each went their separate ways. She was glad that Jesse was ok and awake, maybe now Dasi could relax a little knowing he was gonna be ok. It irked her that there was a traitor in the midst of the place that was her home, and here she was locked up in God knows where with... Brennan. "They're in trouble and they don't know it."
"They're smart, they'll figure it out soon."
"Oh you mean like when Dasi poisoned you guys and you didn't know?"
"That wasn't her fault and you know it."
"That wasn't my point, Jell-O for brains. We didn't know that she was being controlled till she almost killed you guys."
"You brought us back."
"We can't wait for them to figure this out on their own, it might be too late by then." she stood up and walked to the far end of their prison looking at each and every screen. "Bren… who do you think could do this?"
"I don't know but I'll tell yah one thing they had to have had help to get the drop on all of us at the warehouse like that."
Mari looked at the other active camera's at the people that had come into the Haven trying to figure out which one of her new friends had done this. "I can't believe this is happening again."
Looking back at her teammate she frowned. "What?"
Brennan gets up and stands behind her, "Take a look at that monitor." Mari looks at the one that's pointed out. "What about it."
"You can't really see it too good but it looks like someone's making a phone call."
"SO?"
"Think about it, everyone of these monitors the camera's have been pretty clear about who they're watching. Whys that one the only one that isn't decent?"
"What you think…"
"Maybe our traitor's messin' with the camera's."
"Yeah but who would know how to mess with the camera's around Haven?"
"Any one of us given the time we had to learn about the security system in the Haven."
"No it would have shown up,"
"Jesse's in the hospital he knows his program pretty well. With him gone no one would notice anything wrong with the camera's."
"WE don't really know the other's all that well Brennan. I mean we recruited pretty fast…Mel, Josh, Gage, Rosalie… What do we really know about them?"
"I don't like where this is headed."
"We opened ourselves to a whole strew of enemies Brennan."
"They're our friends…"
"You pretty much said it yourself, someone has to be pretty close to get inside." Mari didn't want point finger's but the more she thought about it the more it made sense. "What do you know about Zack and…"
"Don't even go there." Brennan was angry more at himself for not thinking about it before hand. Why hadn't the team thought of this before they opened up there doors… because no one ever thinks about these things that's why… we were too trusting.
"Someone inside got us out, they got specific people on that messed up mission, how many Feral's were out there and not one of them picked up our scent." She walked up to the camera's.
"The debris could have covered it up we were all stressed about this." he argued.
"Psionics?"
"I'm not even gonna justify what you're implying. They're our friends they wouldn't do that."
"No… you just don't wanna think they would."
"You gotta learn how to trust."
"And you gotta learn to open your eyes. Dasi turned her back on us once too remember?"
"She was being controlled."
"What's to say it won't happen again… with someone else?"
"Alright big shot, how about you run through the list of suspects with me then?" asked Brennan.
"Alright, first off Jesse."
"What! Are you insane? How got hurt on the first mission!"
"Maybe that wasn't part of the plan."
"Ok how about you?"
"What about me?"
"Maybe your the traitor."
"Hello, I'm in here with you."
"Maybe that wasn't part of the plan." he smirked, by the look on her face he knew he had gotten her. "Ok get off Jesse and don't even say Shalimar, I trust both of them with my life."
"In the short time that I've known them, I agree with you about them."
"What about Lexa? Maybe she's still loyal to the Dominion."
"Could be, but I think that died with her brother Leo."
"Ok Emma then, she faked her death, and just suddenly comes back, why?"
"You mean besides the fact that Adam called her?"
"Yeah," she answered angrily.
"Before she died I trusted her with my life. Then she died and broke the trust. But I can see her hurting us like this."
"But she already hurt you."
"True, ok next."
"Michael."
"Em's husband right?"
"And Adam son, yeah."
"The only way it could be him, is for Emma to be helping him. She's Psionic, remember?"
"I never forgot. Ok how about Dasi?"
"Ok, she has betrayed us before, but that's when she was controlled by the governor. Something you should understand right now," she pointed at Mari's neck.
"True, Alright how about Melodie, she could easily freeze time and go where we're supposed to go and set a trap and then release time and the team would never know she did it."
"But can she freeze time for that long?"
"I don't know, but I once held my shield up for 6 hours."
"Why so long?"
"My stepfather was on a rampage."
"Sorry."
"Yeah me too. But thanks, I know you understand the evil stepfather problem."
"Yeah I do, alright how about Lulu?"
"Lulu and Shelly, they are a team remember? They are loyal to each other, not sure how loyal they are to the team."
"Yeah, but they seem really sweet."
"Hello, get you brains out of your pants! The traitor isn't going to be acting evil."
"Ok, your right, and I wasn't thinking about them like that!"
"Lulu and Shelly are both rabbit feral's Brennan, why can't they get our scent? Are they even really trying?"
"Good point, but they same could be said about Max."
"And Shal, why hasn't she gone to the warehouse site?"
"Cause I gave a really good reason not to want be back."
"And I guess she never wants to see me again either, thanks a lot, I really liked her, thought I could actually be friends with her, and you blew it!"
"You kissed me back!" yelled Brennan.
"Whatever, next is Skylar."
"Who?"
"Skylar, pretty blonde, friend of Dasi's she's psionic, remember her now?"
"Yeah, don't know much about her though, she's quiet."
"Yeah, too quiet." she said looking away from Brennan. "Alright then there's Rosalie."
"Shal's friend, we can trust her."
"Friend's change."
"Next." Brennan was getting aggravated and his voice as started to show it.
"Fine, Zac..."
"We already discussed them, their my friends, move on!"
"Gage?"
"Part of Zack and Zane's team, I trust her!"
"Idiot," she smarted off at him, "Alright Max."
"Why him? From what I've seen on the video screens he's helping find us."
"Or is he?"
"Who's next?"
"Josh."
"Skylar's friend right?"
"Yeah and she's a precog."
"So?"
"Cause if she's a precog. Hy didn't she see the warehouse accident before hand?"
"Maybe cause she's new to the team. Emma once told me that precog's who control their power only foresee the futures of those close to her."
"Bull!" screams Mari.
"How the hell would you know?" asked Brennan, nearly matching her voice screaming back at her.
"Come on Brennan, stop playing dumb!"
"I'm not!"
"Yeah right!"
Hours later…"You'd think with a place like this they would at least stick to the normal 3 meals a day rule." Mari mumbled.
"This coming from the woman who works herself to death." Brennan says earning himself a glare. "I bet that's why you're the way you are."
"I'm gonna hate myself for this… but what are you talking about?"
"Nothing really, it just explains why your on the offensive most of the time. Not trusting any one and all."
"Look whose talking,"
"What the hell's that suppose to mean?" he asked as she pushes him aside and walks to the door of their cage. "You like to talk big but you're not so different from everyone else."
"You keep making this noise about me not being so different from others, what about you?" Brennan threw back, three day's in here and the two were already agitated with one another.
"What about me?"
"You are the most closed off person I know aside from Lexa and that's saying a lot."
Mari unconsciously rubs the back of her neck where the sub dermal governor was implanted. She didn't like where this was going. "Tell me something how many people have you talked to during these past couple of weeks?" she opened her mouth to respond but nothing came out. "And I don't mean the small talk that you've had going with the girls."
Her silence said a lot Brennan walked up to her leaning forward a bit. Letting his question sink in a bit before continuing. "I've seen you, you keep people at a distance."
"I'm not the only one…"
"You're right… But you're the one who's kept the most distance."
Mari turned to face the older man angry that he was calling her out on her behavior when his hadn't exactly been top notch. "It's safer that way…"
"How do you figure?" he came closer to her.
"What happened to Shalimar won't happen to me."
Flash
"Open the video," said Lexa.
As Shal and Lexa watch, the video shows her worst nightmare, Brennan kissing another woman. But not just any woman, the woman she thought was her friend.
"Shal, are you alright?" asked Lexa, already knowing the answer.
"How could he kiss her? How could Brennan do this to me? How could Mari?"
"Shal for all we know the video is a fake."
"That kiss wasn't."
"I'm so sorry Shal."
"Yeah, me too, I loved him, really I did. Trusted him not to hurt me. I'm such an idiot."
End Flash
"Mari…"
"Don't." Mari's voice was void of emotion at the moment. It looked as if she was holding together well on the outside. Inside she was a wreck they had been here for too long and how stupid could she have been? If they were monitoring the Haven, and the hospital why wouldn't they be watching the cell that was holding them too? She would never forget the look on her teammates face when the monitors had shown the kiss three days before.
Brennan could only stare at the monitor he couldn't believe that he his actions had been emailed to his girlfriend… ex now if Shal had anything to say about it. He had unintentionally done the one thing he had promised Shalimar he wouldn't do. He had hurt her in the worst kind of way.
The door to the cell wall had swung open gaining the two new mutant's attention. The agent who had thrown them in their in the first place came into view.
"How are the two guest holding up?"
"Just fine and you?" Mari snapped.
"Oh the accommodations not up to your standards?"
"Oh I just love it can't yah tell?"
"None the less its time for a little game I like to call, how much can you take?"
Mari and Brennan unconsciously took a step towards each other. In the corner of the room there was a red light recording the entire thing. "Did I mention this was going to hurt?" he grins holding up a small remote, pressing down on the button.
Mari tried not to make a sound as she dropped down to the ground as the governor was turned on high. She felt as if her insides were being crushed. "Interesting enough this special governor turns your powers against you… now what was it that you did? Oh yeah a molecular, able to put up a force field around yourself..."
Brennan could only watch in horror, as a force field blew up around her and seemed to be pushing in on her. "Stop it!" he shouts.
"What's the matter, just having a little fun."
"You sick son- of a -bi..." screamed Brennan.
"No! You know you the the sick one is? You and your little friends, your all so dumb you don't see the big picture."
"What big picture?"
The man released his finger from the control and the force field collapsed around a motionless Mari, Brennan walked over to her and placed his hand on her shoulder, "Mari?"
"She'll be out for awhile." said Agent Burnett.
"So what's the big picture?"
"That the mastermind behind all this is the last person you would ever suspect."
"Who?"
"No,no,no, if I told you it would ruin the fun." he said closing the cell door and walking away.
Brennan gently rolled Mari over on to her back and checked her pause, only to not fine one. He placed his mouth on her and began CPR, "Come on Mari, come back to me."
It took 5 minutes of trying to get a faint heartbeat. He gently picked her up in his arms and walked over to the wall with her and laid her on the floor and sat down next to her, gently placing her head in his lap.
Damn I should have rushed at him to make him stop hurting you, but I just stood there like an idiot. Please just hold on till we can get you out of here, please you have to hold on...
I know cliffhanger, thanks Mari, the cliffhanger was inspired by you. Now do you live or die? lol.