Emma shot up from her bed breathing heavily, a fine layer of perspiration on her pale pink skin. She was back in her room again, but before she could get a grip on what she had just seen another image flashed through her mind causing her to cry out in pain.
*Brennan fighting against shadows*
"Something's wrong…" she whispered hoping out of her bed and dashing down the hallway to where Adam was sitting at his computer. "Something's wrong."
"Emma… what is it?"
"Brennan, something is wrong, I think he's in trouble. They need help."
"Emma slow down a minute, and take a deep breath." Adam got up from his seat and held the Psionic by her arms, leading her over to the couches. She sat down in a huff her eyes wide with worry as she took the cup of water from Adam and gulped it down.
"Now, tell me what happened?"
~*~*~*~
Present time.
The remaining agents had drug Brennan's limp body across the hallway and with out so much as a grunt threw him into the dusty old room. He collided with the wall and slid down by the old couch. The elemental was completely out cold. Blood seeped from the side of his face, as well as his back. His clothing clung to him like a second skin from the water that had been poured onto him for the fourth time. "It's a shame really, such a thick hot body wasted." The female's sickly sweet voice commented her hands gliding over his drenched torso, down into the pocket of his jeans. Slowly back up around the back of his shirt.
"He's a weak pathetic freak Adaliah." Her partner retorted from the doorway disgusted with her infatuation.
"Yeah, still… would love to know how good he is in the… got it!" she removed the envelop from the inside pocket. "It's wet."
"What do you expect? You did after all drench the guy with water. Let's go."
"What about him?"
"He's not gonna live for long, now we got what we came for lets get out of here."
Adaliah turned leaned over brushing back the elementals dark hair. "But I wanted to play."
"I'll find someone for you to play with when we get this back to Genome X"
"Too bad sweetie. You and me could've been one hot thing. Buh-bye."
"Come on." Came the obviously annoyed partner.
"What the…?" Adaliah cried out as the envelope flew out of her hands, and into the hands of another man standing by the window. "Thanks." He said as a young black woman joined him.
"Who the hell are you two?"
"The ones who are gonna put you to sleep." A second male appeared out of nowhere snapping his fingers at them. The two GS agents fell to the floor in a heap.
Living room…
"Where is Brennan?"
"He isn't your problem anymore."
Shalimar glared at Mora in disbelief finding it hard to concentrate when Brennan had been badly hurt, and taken away. She tried to keep her heartbeat down to a safe pace, so that Mora wouldn't hear it pounding. But that was like telling Jesse to be calm in enclosed places. How could she have let this happen, wasn't she suppose to be the fast and strongest of the group. 'Family.' She scolded herself. 'You let your family down, first Jesse now Brennan.'
"Did you know that you and your sickly little pack are harboring a murdering little freak?" Agent Mora sneered as the younger feral wriggle in her seat where she had been tied to with energy based bonds. "That sick fuck you people 'adopted' has taken life. Betcha' didn't know that did you Shalimar."
"Pay attention!" Mora screamed into her face drawing her out of her thoughts. "I'm about to share with you something that is crucial."
"Why should I believe any word you say?"
"Oh, you think she's so damn innocent do you. I'm about to slap you with a little does of reality Shalimar." She motioned for the remainder of her crew to leave. As they locked the door behind them Mora removed the gloves on her hands. Leaning forward and placing her hand on either side of Shalimar's head, she grinned. "Oh, yeah… this might hurt… a lot." Tiny orbs of green light transferred from Mora's hands to Shalimar's ears causing her to scream.
~*~*~*~
"Oh come on now that wasn't so bad." Mora sneered. "Open your eyes Feral."
Shalimar slowly opened her eyes they were still in the room but there was something different just a few feet away from the GS agent was what looked like a giant swirling black whole.
"Don't fret pet, this is just a visual." Mora said as she threw a green orb into the black whole a clear picture came in the space filling it up.
It looked like a rather old neighborhood. Two children came into view one a boy and girl twelve years old. Both had dark hair down to their shoulders. They were laughing about the day they had just had. Suddenly a group runs by them when asked what they were up to, their response was an invite.
"My brother Marcus, we bother had turned 12 that year." Mora says watching the space carefully as the twins fallow the group of boys to a yard where they had surrounded a young girl. They were calling her mean names, and throwing things at her. It took Shalimar all of three seconds to guess who it was. Cody.
"With one blow that little fuck took him away from me." Mora hissed as the image showed young Cody lashing her hand out. There was a visible blast from her hand knocking the children down away from her. The twins were knocked out cold. Marcus had blood gushing from his nose. The girl was pale and limp, not moving at all. The other children leapt to there feet and ran away.
The image changes to a hospital in which both twins lay side by side as doctor's work on them. The sound of the machine going into a long high pitch tone, then nothing.
The imagery faded away leaving Shalimar feeling a bit drained. Mora turned to the weak feral her face set in a grim expression. "Now you know the truth. She has to pay for what she has done."
"It wasn't her fault." Shalimar breathed, as the bond on her hands grew tighter.
"The hell it wasn't." Mora retorted angrily. "You will tell me where she is."
"Or what?"
"Or you won't live to see your next sunrise."
"Oh come on, you went with the old sunrise threat? That is so lame."
Agent Mora looked up to see a teenage male standing by the doorway of the living room.
"Who the hell are you?"
The red head smiled at her and shrugged his shoulders. "Whoever you want me to be."
The feral stood straight up with an ugly sneer. "Then your dead."
"That is so unoriginal." He retorted.
This only served to anger the agent who dove at him, the redhead disappeared as and the feral hit the wall. She growled leaping back up to her feet, the red head appeared in the hallway. Agent Mora's eyes shifted into a dark green as she went for him, never realizing that Shalimar's bonds were being loosened up. The blond feral's eyes shifted to golden yellow, someone else was in the room with her. "It's ok." A males voice said. A light flashed and the red headed teenager was standing right in front of her. "You know, she ain't as smart as she looks."
"How'd you do that?" Shalimar asked shaking off the rest of the bonds and standing up slowly. "Magic." He said grinning. "Come on before she smartens up and finds you all loose."
"Brennan…" Shalimar started for the hall way but he grabbed her by the wrist. "He's ok."
"What do you mean?"
"I'll explain on the way, trust me."
Shalimar hesitated for a moment then fallowed the kid out the back door. The made their way out the back yard where an SUV was parked, the door slid open revealing the two mutants who had gotten to Brennan earlier. Shalimar smiled at them. "Vince? Alison?"
"Get in." Vince said with a smile all his own. Shalimar jumped in fallowed by the kid, he slammed the door shut and they rode off. Shalimar looked into the back seat where an unconscious Brennan laid. The redhead was tending to his wounds. "Is he alright?"
"He's lost some blood not much," the kid answered. "I'm Charlie by the way."
"Not much, you call that not much?" Shalimar indicated to the soaked shirt.
"Half of it's not his." The kid replied as he continued to wrap Brennan's arm.
"How did you guys?"
"Emma." Alison said before the question was completed. As the van took a turn onto a hidden road Shalimar slid into the back seat with Brennan and the kid "We got a call from Adam, and he said that Emma sensed something had gone wrong. So he sent us."