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Anyways - just a warning - this is mainly B/S stuff...

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xXx Tiana

Later that night

Adam arrived home at about 8pm. The girls were trying to act angry with him, mainly so he would allow them to go clubbing. In the end, he succumbed to their 'you planned this' and 'you get to have fun' and 'IT'S NOT FAIR's and said that they could if they continued to train until they left. For the girls, this meant half an hour of training, then and hour to get ready before getting out of there at 10pm.

Jesse and Emma never got the chance to ask Adam about the meeting. He seemed happy, and when Emma allowed herself to check his deeper feelings without intruding too much, she found that he was over the moon happy and probably in love again. She didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

The club was packed, as was expected. The four of them managed to get a table, mainly because they go there too often.

The girls stayed seated as the other two went to get some drinks.

On the way there, and almost since Adam had gotten back home, Shalimar had realised that Emma was forever in a weird mood. Something's on her mind, Shalimar thought. Leaning in closer so she could talk to her, Shalimar wasn't all that surprised that Emma was off in her own little world.

'He-llo? Emma?' Shalimar asked, waving a hand in front of her face. Emma was shocked and snapped out of her dream world and looked over at Shalimar, who was sitting with an elbow on the table, chin resting on it's palm. She had a worried look on her face.

'Huh?' Emma replied, coolly as possible.

'What's going on, Em?' Shalimar asked straight out as was her nature. Emma's eyes widened for a second, but it was long enough for Shalimar to notice. She looked at her hands, her com-link ring and then back at Shalimar, who still had a worried look on her face.

'Nothing, Shal.' She said gently.

'It took you two minutes to tell me that nothing's going on? I saw the look on your face, Emma. You can tell me, you know.' Shalimar replied, just as gently, adding a half smile at the end.

'I know.' Emma smiled back. She didn't have to hesitate this time. 'I know, but not right now, ok?' she almost whispered. Emma looked out to the bar, and Shalimar followed her gaze to see the guys were coming over. Glancing back at Emma, who hadn't taken her eyes off of Jesse, she sighed and then smiled as the guys joined them.

'What's going on?' Brennan asked, looking from Emma, sitting right opposite to him, to Shalimar, who was naturally next to him.

'Nothing.' Emma said a bit too quickly. She took a sip of her drink. Brennan looked at Shalimar, not at all convinced by Emma. She just shook her head a bit. Brennan let it go.

After talking for a while, the girls couldn't wait any longer, and, as if on cue, Emma's favourite song came on. The two of them headed out onto the dance floor.

The two of them danced for a couple of hours, only stopping to head back to their drinks. The guys had joined them for an hour in between, but then headed over to the bar.

Approached by guy after guy after guy, Emma and Shalimar never got bored nor lonely. Both of them expected their guys to be jealous or something when they when clubbing, they would stop them from dancing with anyone they didn't like. Both girls had gotten used to this, realising that it was actually quite sweet.

This time, however, they hadn't done any sort of thing. During one song, Emma had dragged Shalimar back to their seats, which were empty. Their drinks were still empty too.

'Where're the guys?' Emma asked. Shalimar shrugged and then looked over to the crowd to see if there were there. When she couldn't see then there, she checked the bar to see if they were there. What she saw shocked her.

'No way!' she barley said.

'What? What is it?' Emma followed Shalimar's gaze when she didn't reply. 'No way!' She now said.

At the bar sat the two guys, with two other girls with them. They were used to the guys pulling some girls; it wasn't hard for them. But they usually kept it on the dance floor. It was an unsaid rule.

Emma and Shalimar tore their eyes away and looked at each other.

'What do we do?' Emma asked, sounding a bit pissed. Probably because her boyfriend was being a hypocrite.

'What do you think?' Shalimar replied, smirking, letting her eyes change. Emma smirked back as the two of them got up, heading over to the bar, not taking their eyes off of them for a second on their way.

When they got there, the guys realised that they were standing there, and were sussed, but the two girls didn't.

'Hey.' Brennan said coolly and calmly as if what he was doing was perfectly normal. Shalimar widened her eyes at him for a second and then went to him. This was when the girl who had been flirting with him noticed her.

Emma had gone to Jesse, put her arms around his shoulders and leaned in to kiss his cheek from behind. The girl who was flirting with him, a brunette, just looked at her, smiled at Jesse and then walked off. Emma smiled and went to sit on his lap.

'So…what was all that about?' she asked, ordering herself another drink by the way.

'Nothing really.' Jesse shrugged. He pulled her closer to him. 'Honestly, I'm glad you came when you did. She was driving me crazy. She's no you.' he dramatically sighed. Emma laughed in forgiveness and kissed him.

'Well, of course not.' She murmured back before resuming kissing him.

The other blonde who had been flirting with Brennan was taken aback by Shalimar's entrance, and Brennan's shift of attention for her to her.

'Excuse me, but I was talking to him.' she snapped at Shalimar. Shalimar looked at her in disbelief. She was standing next to where Brennan was seated, and almost opposite to the blonde.

'So?' she replied, nonchalantly.

'So… I suggest you go find someone else to try and flirt with, cos right now, he's mine.' She drooled out. Shalimar looked in shock from the leggie blonde to Brennan, who she gave an 'ain't you gonna do anything?' look to. Brennan merely smiled and took a sip of his drink. In other words, no. He was enjoying it. So Shalimar decided to do the same.

'But I don't want another guy. I want this one.' Shalimar replied sweetly, stepping closer to him, wrapping her arms around one of his. Brennan smirked at her play, and then looked back to the other girl. She was fuming.

'Tough, bitch.' She scolded. Shalimar's look changes from playful to anger. She let go of Brennan's arm and stood up straight, as the other girl stood up from her seat too.

'What did you just call me?' Shalimar demanded in a low voice, which could only be heard by the three of them on the loudness of the music.

'You heard me.' She replied. The two blondes were more or less the same height. They both looked like the only fight they could mange would be a hair pulling, bitch fight. But Brennan knew better. As Shalimar stalked closer, she had flashed her eyes and let out a low growl.

'Whoa, whoa, whoa.' He finally said, deciding that it had been enough fun and play now. He had a lock onto Shalimar's arm, and now placed an arm around her waist, pulling her reluctantly backwards to him. 'Ok. As much fun as I was having, I'm gonna stop it before it goes too far.' He gave a small smile to the other blonde, who was staring at him with narrow eyes.

'What? You're choosing her over me?' I had you first"' she exclaimed, obviously not getting the message and the look of a pissed off girlfriend. Shalimar continued to stare at her while trying to calm herself down. She didn't know why she was so angry about the fact tat she had called her a bitch. Cos you're jealous? She pushed that thought back. She felt Brennan pull her closer to him.

'Actually, she had me before you ever did. So I think that you should just go before she does something that you will not like.' He smiled as he said the last bit. The blonde girl gave him a glare, and then an even dirtier one to Shalimar, who shot one back at her, and got up and left. Shalimar watched her go.

Brennan watched Shalimar a she watched the blonde, whose names he never got, got up and left. He then saw her sigh and turn around in his arms to face him. She placed her hands on his legs and she stood in between them. They were more or less at the same height now. She still had something etched across her face.

'Hey. 'Sup?' he asked as she diverted her e yes from him. She just shook her head Brennan rubbed her back and side to comfort her, but the look never left her face. She was restless, her hands were balling up, opening and clenching, on Brennan's thighs, gently hitting him when she quickened the pace.

'Why did she get you so wound up for? And her calling you a bitch?' Brennan now asked, trying another tactic. Shalimar merely shrugged, still not looking at him.

'Ok. Look, Shal. I'm no psionic, ok? So you're gonna havta speak to me the normal way, yeah?' he gently said, dipping his head a bit to meet her eyes when they looked down. She nodded.

'It's just… something that I'm feeling. It hasn't really left me all night. Now, it's come back stronger.' She admitted. She then met his eyes, smiling shyly and shook her head. 'I dunno what it is, but I know where it's coming from, and it's scaring me.' She whispered. She wrapped her arms around Brennan's neck and he tightened his hold on her.

Brennan had never heard of Shalimar being scared before, she had never admitted it at least. After a moment, he asked her something.

'Where's it coming from then?' he whispered. Shalimar pulled away from him and looked straight at him. She heard a slow song coming on. She stood up straight.

'C'mon. Dance with me Bren.' She said. Brennan was bewildered. Her mood had changed suddenly, something that only happens when she notices something that's not right, usually when they were on a case or something.

'Shal? What is it?' he was getting a bit impatient. Shalimar continued to tug him along to the dance floor, not stopping even when he spoke. Instead she squeezed his hand briefly.

It was a secret signal between the two of them. It meant that they needed to say something to the other, but then the right time, or it meant that they were ok. So Brennan followed Shalimar as she led him to a place on the dance floor.

When they got there, Brennan wrapped his arms around Shalimar's waist while she lifted one arm around his neck, but the other holding the upper part of his arm. She rested her head onto his shoulder, glad to have his arms around her for a moment. When Brennan kissed the top of her head, it felt as if it was just the two of them there, but then the harsh reality came biting back to her.

She sighed, and she knew that Brennan realised the change in her mood as he tightened his hold around her. Shalimar held onto the same position until that song finished. Almost immediately, another slow song had started. Shalimar backed away from Brennan a bit, putting both of her arms around his neck and leaning away from his body so she could talk to him. Instantly, she missed the feel of him.

'It's Emma. And now Jesse too.' She went straight into.

'What?' Brennan laughed. He shut up when he remember how Shalimar was feeling about this. She was serious about this. It is scaring her he told himself. 'What do you mean?'

'They've been acting weirdly. I asked Emma earlier and she said it was nothing. And now I felt like Jesse's doing the same. Now, I just saw them and they're just sitting there, talking. It's not like them, Bren. You know that.' She explained.

Brennan had to admit, it was quite strange. And Jesse was acting differently for a while. But he couldn't think of why they would be like that.

'Ok. But why?' he asked. Shalimar shrugged.

'That's the question. I tried to ask, but she won't tell me. I haven't tried Jesse yet. I will soon if I have to. But I don't understand what could be so important that they wouldn't tell us?' she frowned.

Brennan thought about it, pulling Shalimar back to him. He didn't like it any more that she did, but it drove him crazy that she was so worried about it. Going through possible, and stupid, reasons to why they were blanking them, Brennan couldn't help but smile at one really stupid, but logical one that he had thought of.

'Hey Shal? Maybe Emma's pregnant.' Brennan smiled at the thought. He was glad to hear Shalimar laugh at the idea of it.

'God, I hope not!' she giggled a bit more. 'Nah, I doubt it.' She shook her head.

'Why not?' Brennan asked. The song had changed once again to another slow dance song, but Brennan and Shalimar stayed as they were, swaying to the music around them. 'It makes sense why they didn't tell us.'

'Nah. Anyways, Jesse bought Emma an alcoholic drink. You can't drink while being pregnant, 'member? And I can't imagine Jesse, out of everyone, letting her drink one.' Shalimar reasoned. Brennan thought about it.

'Well, maybe he doesn't know that she's pregnant.' he counteracted.

'Then why is Jesse acting so weird for then?' she smirked at him, quirking an eyebrow as she leaned back to look at him. He furrowed his eyebrows.

'Oh yeah. I forgot about that. Well, maybe…' he trailed off, not being able to think of a reason. Shalimar laughed. She leaned in to kiss him. After breaking apart, she told him:

'Let's stop with the conspiracies. It's probably nothing. We'll just ask them later and make sure they actually tell us something more that 'nothing' and 'I'm fine'.' Shalimar finally concluded.

'Now look who's talking. Ten minutes ago, I thought you were gonna drive yourself crazy over the fact that they're acting like that.' Brennan smirked. Shalimar smacked his chest playfully.

'Well, I guess sharing it helped a bit.' She said, smiling.

'Yeah. And the fact that it was me kind of helped, like, a lot.' Brennan boasted.

'Huh! Honey, you wish.' Shalimar replied, laughing when Brennan put on a hurt face.

'Ow! That hurt you know.'

'Really?' she asked in an innocent voice. 'Well, maybe I can make it better.' She pulled him to kiss him, hard and passionately.

After breaking apart, the two of them continued to dance, not worrying about Jesse or Emma at that moment.

SO?

Like i said ... PLEASE R&R!

I'm thinking of updating weekly... but i might do it more frequently if you tell me so!

xXx Tiana