"This isn't about us, this is about Lexa and Jess!" Shalimar shouted. Ever since Brennan and herself had left the restaurant and had begun walking down the beach, all they had done was argue.
"If you don't want to be here, you don't have to be." Brennan replied, angered by Shalimar's tone of voice.
"I'm just saying that if they go after this Mitch guy because of me and something happens to them, I'd never forgive myself." Shalimar said.
"They wouldn't be that stupid! You're getting upset over nothing." Brennan argued.
"Look, I've always trusted my instincts and I'm not about to stop now. Take me home." Shalimar said, almost through gritted teeth. If Shalimar wasn't making Brennan seethe, he would have suggested calling them on their comlink rings, but at the moment, he just wanted the night to end. Shalimar had gotten a 'bad feeling' about Lexa and Jess earlier and had said they had to go home; Brennan blamed her 'bad feeling' on the food. This is where the argument had rooted from.
"Fine." Brennan said, giving up. I don't think I can even attempt to salvage tonight into a romantic getaway. "Sometimes you can be so dramatic."
Hearing Brennan's hurtful remark, she decided not to act on it. Someone had to be the grown-up of this piece and it certainly wasn't going to be Brennan. Shalimar didn't like arguing with Brennan, despite what he may think, but right now she was more in tune with what her instincts were telling her than her boyfriend, and her instincts were telling her that something was wrong.
Walking back down the beach, it was unusually silent and both were smouldering from the fight. It was their first fight as a couple and it felt totally foreign.
To Brennan it was as if he saw an entirely different side to Shalimar. A more annoyingly persistent, stubborn side who wouldn't listen to what he was saying. Wait a minute, I've encountered that side of Shal many times, but it's only ever taken effect this time. Maybe this relationship was doomed from the start. Whatever was going on with them, he didn't want to think about it, he just wanted to get back to Sanctuary and prove Shalimar wrong.