Forever is only up to You

Authors Note: The only characters I own, are the bouncer and Cole, everyone else belongs to the Gods of good TV. The title to the story will make sense later.

Rating: I'm gunna keep this rating at 'M' for future swearing, abuse, and of course F/F

Reviews: PLEASE & THANK YOU!

The feverish sound of music floods my senses as I move my body to the beat of the music. My dance partner, what ever his name is, tries to move in time with my beat, but fails miserably as I shrug him off and continue at my own solo act. After a few moments of ignoring the other man, he finally takes the hint and leaves me to my own amusement as I finish my dance to the song.

When the song has ended, I search the crowed frantically for Emma and her boyfriend, it takes me a moment later to finally point them out as they sit causally at a booth not far from the bar. I smile happily at the obviously happy Emma as her boyfriend, Cole, talks to her.

As I slowly make my way towards the lovely pair, I shoot Emma a flirty grin as she matches her playful one with mine. We smile and giggle at our playfulness for each other when out of know where, Cole, obviously offended by the exchange of grins, rudely grabs Emma's attention as he suddenly begins to yell at her. I can't tell what he's saying to her, what with the music and all, but I can tell he's angry and once again Emma's getting the full blast of his anger and jealousy.

I frown as I watch Emma just sit there, taking all of Cole's fruitless comments about me, cause God knows that he's that damn concerned that Emma and I are secretly screwing behind his back. Even though we aren't, I mean, come on she's with him and I really prefer the single life, believe it or not.

I try to give the troubled couple a moment of privacy as I make my way to the bar to get myself another drink. After a few concerned glances in Emma and Cole's direction, I suddenly find my self-marching over to the couple with my drink in one hand and a tight fist in the other. The closer I get to the couple the madder I get, as I watch the saddened look on Emma's face while Cole's going off on her like it's the forth of July and all the fireworks have all gone off all at once.

The closer I get, I manage to get the gist of what's up Cole's butt this time as he immediately shuts his mouth when he realizes that I'm right next to him. I flash him a fake smile as he avoids eye contact with me, my attention then turns to my best friend Emma whose looking down at the table with an embarrassed expression on her face.

I smile in her direction as I ask, "may I have this dance?" Emma smiles at my request as Cole frowns, "you may" Emma replies as she moves to stand right next to me. "Oh but Shalie, you still have your drink to finish." Cole cuts in as I frown at the use of his stupid nickname for me, "no problem Colette" I shot back with my own nickname for him as I take the glass in my hand to my lips and begin drinking the beverage like a shot.

When I finish the small beverage I smile slyly at a frowning Cole as I slam the glass cup in front of him before reaching for Emma's hand, guiding her to the dance floor. Ok, so maybe downing that drink so quickly wasn't such a good idea I say to myself as I begin to feel the alcohol build a barrier like feeling around my body as I feel my head and arms sway without a care as Emma dances along side me.

The moment is perfect, I'm dancing with my best friend for the first time in along time since she started seeing that Cole guy. I smile at her blissful expression as we laugh and dance and continue to have a great time. I don't concentrate on my dancing as much as I seem to be more interested in Emma's beautiful smile, which I can't remember the last time she had smiled. It seemed like forever, forever to long to hide such a beautiful smile.

When the song has ended, changing from an energetic beat to a slow sensual beat, we decided mutually that it's time to leave. So as I try to follow Emma's path through the crowd of people, she stops suddenly when she notices as well as I, that Cole is gone! She turns around to face me as her face turns to worry, "Where can he be? He was supposed to sit here and wait for me," Emma stated, as I looked to her in my drunken pity.

"I don't know Emma, maybe he went home," I say out loud to her, but I know deep in my mind that the bastard left her here because of one thing, jealousy. And as Emma shakes her head in disapproval and sadness I put my arm around her and hold her close to me as I say to her, "don't worry Emma…let's just go home and get a good nights sleep…talk to him in the morning".

She flashes me a disappointed smile as I frown at her apparent unhappiness, "What's wrong Emma?" "I don't want to leave…not without knowing where Cole is, I should make sure that he did actually leave, before we go." Emma explains to me as I respond bluntly, "I'll ask around…give me a minute" and off I go.

I walk as steadily as I can to the bouncer, who stares down at me with his deep brown eyes and big plum muscles as I ask, "hey, I was just wondering if you've seen my friends gir-boyfriend" Shalimar replied as she mental kicked herself for making the mistake well he does have girly hair, and girly features Shalimar thought to herself as the big man answered her in his low thunderous voice, "what does he look like?"

Shalimar thought for moment before answering, "well, he has shaggy longish orange hair, grey eyes, about 5'9", slim build, dorky, egotistical, conceited, unintelligent, infuriating, prejudiced, unappreciative, emotional, and-" "ok, ok I get it" interrupted the bouncer as he couldn't help but laugh. "He left about 10 minutes ago, looked all depressed and mad if you don't mind me saying" The bouncer replied as I shrug my shoulders while stating humorously, "bad case of PMS I guess".

And with that, I walk away from the bouncer as he laughs at my response while I try to pinpoint where exactly Emma is. After a few moments I catch her hanging by the bar talking to the bartender, so I quickly walk over to the flustered Psionic and tap on her shoulder lightly, "ready to go" I ask as Emma swings around and smiles innocently. "I don't know, I can't leave without Cole" Emma replies as I watch her sympathetically, "Em, he's gone…the bouncer told me he left ten minutes ago, now come on" I reply as I try to avoid the sad look in Emma's eyes as I guide her towards the exit.

For the entire ride back to Sanctuary, all I hear about is how upset Emma is with Cole. I sit in my seat in the back while Emma pilots the Double Helix, "I can't believe the nerve! And all because I danced with you and not him!" Emma stated angrily as I sat back and listened to Emma attentively as I struggle to find the right words to respond to her.

"I'm sorry Em" "don't be sorry Shalimar, you didn't do anything wrong…I just didn't think-" "Emma you didn't do anything wrong, you were just having a fun time with your best friend. There's no reason for him to be mad at you" I interrupt as Emma falls silent for a moment before responding in a hushed whisper that I almost didn't hear if it weren't for my feral hearing, "I know…but why do I feel so guilty?"