"Lexa!" Jesse yelled. Lexa came into the hall with a fast poise; annoyed that Jesse thought he could call her at his whim.
"What?" She replied.
"I did some digging on Shal's date and it doesn't look good. He used to be Eckhart's right hand man a couple of years ago, but then he just up and left. I bet Eckhart was pissed. How or why he got away I don't know, but a few months ago a guy was found murdered. Guess who the prime suspect was?"
"Mitch. But that doesn't make sense. Why kill a guy after ditching the GSA? Anything that makes mutants stand out in society are instantly tracked by the GSA." Lexa said.
"That seemed weird to me too. So I looked at his medical files again. He was pumped full of drugs which affected him psychologically. That's why he's with the crazy. He doesn't know what he's doing and he's a mutant, which makes him all the more dangerous." Jesse explained.
"We have to go after this guy. What evidence was there for the murder?"
"A homeless man supposedly saw this guy slow down time and watch while Mitch killed someone." Jesse reported. Lexa leaned down beside Jesse, reading the screen. Jesse inhaled Lexa's soft scent that gave him a light-headed feeling of wooziness.
"Ok, we should call Shal and get her back here. At least until we know what's what." Lexa said, snapping Jesse out of his haze and nodded with agreement.
"Shal, it's an emergency." Jesse waited, but there was still no reply. "Shal, it's serious." No reply.
Jesse turned to the computer screen and tapped into her comring frequency. "Her comlink ring is deactivated."
"Try Brennan, he knows where she went to dinner." Lexa suggested.
"Brennan?" Jesse said. "Bren, it's kinda important." No reply.
Jesse checked Brennan's comlink ring statistics. His was deactivated too. "This is getting weird. Maybe something happened to them." Jesse said, worry in his voice.
"Way to stay positive. Can you trace their rings from the last location the rings were active?" Lexa asked.
"Yeah. Give me a sec." Jesse said, tapping into their comlink ring mainframe system. Waiting a few seconds for it to load, it finally came up. "The last place for Shalimar was Valentino's – a restaurant down on Maine." Jesse tapped a few more keys. "And Brennan was… at Valentino's too."
"So that means they were probably taken a few minutes after we talked to Shal." Lexa concluded.
"Right, she must have just arrived at the restaurant. That's what must of happened." Jesse agreed. "We should head down there. If there's anyway to find them, that's our best shot." Jesse said, pointing to Valentino's on the computer screen.
"Let's go then." Lexa said, heading for the Double Helix. Jesse ran after her. He knew she was going to be stubborn to work with, but this wasn't about them. It was about Brennan and Shalimar.