Disclaimer: No characters are owned by me even though I am taking some liberties with the changing of Emma's powers…
Pairing: Guess three times…You're right it's Emma and Shal
AN: If you are going to read this story you have to forget all about season 3 and Lexa and pretend that Emma didn't die in the season 2 finale and that Adam hasn't disappeared.. If you can do that I'll be more than happy to say that I hope you'll enjoy this story which is very much set in an AU. Don't forget to review because if you don't I'm taking that as a sign that nobody wants more.
----"We need to find her Bren, this is driving me nuts."
"We're all worried Shal, but we don't know where she is or if she's even-"
"Don't say it Brennan or I'll kick your ass. I know that she's not that."
"How do you know?"
"I just feel it okay. They've had her for over three weeks and we don't know what they have done to her or what they are doing now. We need to make a move, track them down and threaten them, anything. We just need to do something, we can't just give up."
"I know that, but Adam said that we can't go running off, maybe that's what they want."
"I'm tired of playing by theirs or Adams rules, I want Emma back and I'm going. You can choose to come with me or stay here."
"Fine, but what are you going to do?"
"I'll find some agents and fool them into an ambush. And if they don't tell me where she is, I'll beat it out of them."
"You'll probably do that anyway," Brennan mumbled as he followed her to the jet.
----"So what are you planning to do Shal?"
"I don't know Brennan, I just figured that we should go to the ruins of my fathers company and someone will probably find us."
"That's your plan? Then we could be stuck there for hours or days…"
"Yeah, well, do you have a better idea?"
"We could go back to Adam?"
"Forget it."
"It was just a suggestion. You don't need to get so worked up about it. If we don't find anything in the ruins we can head over to the old Genomex building."
"Okay."
----"Come on, Shal. We've looked all over the place and there's no trace of Emma."
"I know there's someone here, I can smell it."
"Where?"
"I'm not sure…Hello. Who's there?"
"Shal, I don't think screaming is gonna help-"
Brennan turned as he heard noises from behind and they were quickly surrounded by agents.
"This is great Shal. You got any plans?"
"Yeah, we fight them and then let them take us."
"Are you serious?"
All the agents attacked at once and they both avoided them, but they were outnumbered and soon enough they had to give up. The last thing they noticed was being pulled into a car.
----Shalimar's senses told her they were being moved into a building, but she didn't open her eyes until she had been left in a room.
When she opened her eyes she felt her heart skip a beat. She was in a room without light and windows, and it reminded her of a prison. Her eyes flashed so she could get a better look at the room and noticed Brennan was passed out. There was only one way out and that was through a heavy door. She started to panic as she felt how her claustrophobia started to get to her. Her breathing got heavier and she closed her eyes trying to focus. When she tried to relax she heard voices outside the door and hurried to get up as she heard someone getting ready to open the door. Her eyes turned yellow again as she hid herself beside the door, her phobia long forgotten. The door carefully opened and a stream of light fell into the room. As the person took his first step into the room, Shalimar quickly kicked him in the face. When the man fell another came rushing in, but Shalimar dodged his attack and gave him the same kick the first one had gotten. A third one ran in and Shalimar readied herself for more fighting when a jolt of blue light shot through the air and the guy fell unconscious to the floor.
Shalimar turned towards Brennan and gave him a smile.
"Hello, sleepyhead. Took you long enough."
"Yeah, yeah. Let's go find Emma and get out of here."
"Fine, follow me."
----They snuck around for a while without finding anything.
"This is like a labyrinth, how the hell are we going to find Emma in here Shal?"
"We'll just have to keep looking. Looks like there are some lab rooms over there. It's guards outside, so that's probably where they have Emma."
"And what are you planning on doing?"
"Wait and see." Shalimar walked over to the guards.
"Hi, is that where you're keeping my friend?"
"The two guards looked at her for a second before one of them threw a punch that Shalimar easily dodged and returned with a kick, knocking him out. The second one tried to throw a punch too, but she just avoided it and hit him in the face.
"You need to be more careful Shal, someone can find us."
"Let's just see if Emma is in there and get her out."
Shalimar opened the door and let out a short gasp at the sight in front of her. Emma had wires attached all over her and Shalimar hurried over.
"Emma, Emma," she whispered as she started to remove all the wires.
Brennan came over and started to help her. When they were done, Brennan lifted her up in his arms and as they were about to leave the room an alarm set of.
Shalimar looked at him. "Someone must have noticed we're gone, let's hurry."
They moved as fast as they could, but didn't get far before two agents showed up. Shalimar threw a few punches that knocked them out.
"We need to hurry, Brennan."
"I'm doing my best here. We should be at the exit soon."
They rounded a corner and saw the way out, along with half a dozen agents.
"Shit. I can't take all of them out, it's gonna take too long."
"Take Emma for me a sec." He lifted the unconscious Emma over to Shalimar and started shooting electricity at the men.
Shalimar looked back and saw several men running towards them from behind.
"Brennan, we have to get out now."
"I know, let's go." He picked up Emma and they ran as fast as they could out the doors.
Shalimar got to the double helix first. She ran inside and made it ready for take of.
"Come on Brennan, hurry," she screamed out to him. "We haven't got all night."
Brennan came running with Emma and closed the door right in front of the agents' noses.
"Let's get out of here." he said breathless.
"Ok."
----Shalimar and Brennan walked towards the lab with Emma.
"Shalimar and Brennan where have you guys been, we've been worried," Adam said harshly, but stopped when he saw what Brennan was holding in his arms.
"Get her to the lab immediately."
In the lab Adam turned to them with a very serious look.
"What did you two do?"
"You don't have to be so harsh you know," Shalimar said angrily, all the shock and happiness of finding Emma gone. "A thanks or good job wouldn't be so bad."
"Shalimar this was very dangerous, both of you. I specifically asked you to not do anything rash."
"Not do anything rash? They've been doing things to her for over three weeks and you tell me not to rash?" Shalimar was screaming to him."
"You could have been captured or killed."
"But we weren't so instead of yelling at us you should help Emma."
Adam turned to Brennan.
"I had expected more from you Brennan. I told you to watch Shalimar, not help her."
"Come on Adam, what was I supposed to do? Nothing could have stopped Shalimar anyway so I helped her because I didn't want her do get hurt."
"Oh, thanks for that Bren. Like you didn't want to get Emma out of there too."
Shalimar turned and angrily left the lab.
Both Adam and Brennan sighed.
"Is there anything I can do for Emma?"
"No, get some rest and I'll check on her. I'll call you if I need anything."
"Okay."
Brennan left the lab reluctantly.
----"Can I come in?" Brennan was standing in the doorway into Shalimar's room.
"Sure," she answered reluctantly.
Brennan sighed as he sat down beside Shalimar on the floor.
"I must admit that I had started to give up on her Shal. How could you be so sure she was alive?"
Shalimar avoided making eye contact. "I just knew, I felt it. Is she okay?"
"I don't know. Adam said that there was nothing we could do yet, he wanted us to get some sleep."
"Yeah, I could use some sleep right now. Will you tell Jesse that we found Emma?"
"Yeah, I'll do it right away and leave you to try and relax."
"Thanks."
Brennan got up and closed the door behind him.
When he was gone, Shalimar took a deep breath and closed her eyes.
Like I could sleep now, knowing that they've been doing things to her. I wonder how long it's gonna take Adam to find out. I just hope that nobody finds out how I knew so much about Emma 'cause they would just be angry and demand to know why I never told them. What if Emma didn't get out of there fast enough and something really bad has happened to her? I need to take a shower and try not to think about all the questions I have. There's no point in asking all these questions now. I'll get the answers when Emma is waking up.
----"Adam, has she awoken yet?"
"You're up early Shalimar, even earlier than the normal you."
"I had to see Emma, is she okay?"
"I'll let you guys know everything when the final results are finished and no, she hasn't been awake yet."
"But you know something right? Is it bad?"
"I told you that I will tell everyone together when I have the final results. If you'll excuse me, I have some things to take care of. Can you watch her for me?"
"Sure."
"Call me if there's any changes okay?"
"Okay."
When Adam had left Shalimar let out a sigh and walked over to Emma, taking her hand in hers.
"I was so worried about you Emma. If you hadn't connected to me those times, it would have been harder to believe you were still alive. The guys thought that you might have died when the building collapsed, but I knew you couldn't pass away like that. You're safe now Emma and I need you to wake up. Just give me a sign of some sort that you're here with me."
Shalimar wasn't sure, but she thought she felt Emma tighten the grip around her hand. It was barely noticeable, but she was sure that she had felt it.
"Emma?"
A low moan could be heard from Emma and her lips slightly moved.
"Oh God, Emma. Adam. Adam, she's waking up, hurry."
"Shal?" It wasn't much more than a whisper, but Shalimar heard it very clearly.
"Emma, I'm here, you're safe."
Adam came running into the lab, followed by Jesse and Brennan.
"Everyone, out."
"What?"
"I want you guys out immediately."
Brennan and Jesse started backing away, but Shalimar didn't move a muscle.
"I want to stay with her."
"You can all see her later, but I don't want you to be here right now," Adam said at the same time as he was bending over Emma.
"You can't make that decision for all of us. I'm staying." She was screaming at him and she felt Brennan and Jesse taking her arms.
"Let go of me," she hissed and her eyes turned yellow, but the boys ignored it and started dragging her out of the lab. She tried to get loose, but they held her too tight and soon she found herself in the main room with the boys.
When they let go of her, she gave them a deadly glare before turning and walking to her room.
----There was a short knock at her door before it was opened and Adam walked in.
"I need to talk to you about Emma."
"Is she okay?"
"Mostly. I'll let everyone know everything, but you can go see her before I do."
"Why?"
"Emma said that she wanted to talk to you alone."
"Fine," Shalimar said and got up to leave. Adam stopped her.
"You have to remember that she has just woken up and need to rest so be careful with her."
"I think I know how to behave around her thank you," she spat at him.
"Look Shalimar, I understand that you wanted to be with her and all, but I did what I thought was best for her, so stop being sulky and think about Emma."
She sighed. "I know that I might have overreacted to the whole thing, but I care very much about Emma and I wanted to be there for her."
"We all care about her Shalimar, very much." They locked eyes and kept staring at each other for a while until Adam broke the silence.
"What is it you're not telling me Shalimar?"
"Nothing," she said a little too quickly. "I'll go see Emma now."
She moved before Adam had time to stop her.
----"Hey sunshine," Shalimar said as she walked in and stood next to Emma with a bright smile.
Emma smiled back even though Shal could see how tired and weak she was.
She bent over and moved a strand of hair in Emma's face before giving her a short kiss on the cheek.
"I've missed you so much," she whispered into Emma's ear before she got a chair and sat down close to Emma, taking her hand in her own.
"How are you feeling?"
"Weak."
"Yeah, except from that and tired how do you feel? What have they done to you?"
"Adam will probably let you guys know soon."
"Yes, but I'd rather hear it from you."
"To tell you the truth, I'm not really sure yet. Adam hasn't told me anything and the men that worked for Eckhart certainly didn't tell me what they did…Actually, why I wanted to talk to you were because I was hoping what happened with you and me could stay, well, between you and me."
"Of course, I wasn't exactly planning on telling them anyway."
"Good, because I don't want them to know that my…"
"That your powers have evolved. It can just stay between us, but there is one condition."
"What's that?"
"I want you to be totally honest with me and tell me everything that happened and happens. I don't want us to keep secrets from each other."
"I only promise that if you promise the same."
"Okay, I promise."
They both smiled.
"Emma, are you two done?"
"Yes, Adam. I'll let Emma rest so you can tell us the results."
"I'll be back later okay?"
"Okay."
"Try to relax."
"I will."
With a last look at Emma, Shalimar left the room and headed to meet the rest of the team.
----"I think you all want to know what has happened with Emma and the tests show…the results say that Mason has been, uh, fumbling with Emma's DNA and powers."
"What are you saying Adam?" Brennan asked confused.
"They have experimented on her and made her powers expand at the same time as they have inserted new powers. It's a miracle that she has survived it, but somehow her body have seemed to adapt the new mutations."
"Well, what can she do?" Brennan asked impatiently.
"As far as the tests show she is a telempath, a telekinetic, a feral and a thermal that can create fire or freeze things."
"You gotta be kidding me."
"No, Shalimar. I'm very serious."