Control Within 8

Morning crept in on them all, and woke Jesse and Emma. It was 7:15 when they both exited their rooms at the same time, and gave each other the greeting of a quick, 'morning', before making their way to the kitchen. It was stocked and they found things that would suit their taste in the morning perfectly.

Adam came shortly after, giving them thanks for putting him to bed. He was straight back to work within the hour, and by the time it was 8, he was well into it.

Jesse and Emma never bothered to think of interrupting him. As they both sat munching on their breakfast, Emma remembered Brennan and Shal.

"Hey Jess, did Shal and Bren come back yesterday".

Jesse stopped the spoon of cereal half way in the air, while looking towards her. He dropped it back down and gave a small smile of knowing.

"I don't really know... they may still be out there. Just leave them to it". He scooped the cereal into his mouth with the spoon, trying not to stare too much at Emma. She had her hand on her hip, "Leave them, to what".

Jesse quickly finished and stood up with his empty bowl. "Never mind. Why don't I go see if they're back"?

As Jesse washed his bowl, Emma's eyes burned into his back, making him feel nervous. He tried to stop him self from running out the room, and when he was out, he sighed with relief.

He jogged up the flights of stairs and towards Brennan and Shal's corridor. He went to Brennan's room and gave a heavy knock. He expected a grumpy elemental to tell him to go away, but no reply came. He knocked again, "... Brennan".

After yet another no answer, he slowly started to open the door, hoping the elemental was either not there or in a good mood. When he was grumpy in the morning and Jess went too far, Jesse normally had to run for cover in the lab with Adam.

The door gave not one creek and slid open with ease. Jesse was confused when he saw the bed was still made and nothing disturbed only for Brennan's clothes half hanging out the cupboard. He fixed them back in and wandered about, wondering if the elemental really had spent the night in the woods with Shalimar.

After taking a look around, he left Brennan's room, closing the door behind him and went to Shal's door. He gently knocked on the door, and waited again. There was movement in the room, which only made Jesse think Shal was alone, and then his mind clicked that Brennan may be out in the woods.

He gave a more urgent knock, and started to jostle about on his feet in nervousness. He heard some thing thump to the floor, and stepped back, thinking Shal was running to open the door. There was a curse and then he heard feet drumming on the floor. He thought he heard Shal talking to some one, telling them to get more sleep and then in a flash, Shal swung the door open, looking slightly annoyed.

"What's up Jess?"

Jesse gave a small smile, "have you seen Brennan?"

Shal widened the gap in the door and allowed Jesse to see in. There lay Brennan still asleep. Jesse had to smile at the sight. Brennan looking like he'd just only gotten asleep and his hair was slightly messed up. Shal returned the door to her side, cutting of Jesse' view of Brennan.

"Any thing else?"

Jesse heard a slight mumble off Brennan and his smile grew bigger, making Shal give her hair a quick tidy up. "... What time did you guys get back last night?" the smile still remained as he talked.

"... I can't remember. It was late and you guys had already gone to bed. What are you staring at!"?

Jesse shook his head, "no, nothing... so, ruff night".

Shalimar flashed her eyes at him, "Bren kept having a few nightmares. Nothing major, so Jess. I suggest you wipe that grin off your face before I-"

Emma came up the stairs and gave Shal a wide smile, "Hey Shal... where's Brennan".

Jesse pointed to Shalimar's room and Emma instantly fell silent. Her and Jesse both exchanged a look while Shal stood watching, her temper was slowly building up again. She gave a low and warning growl before the other two stood straight, but neither gave her a straight look in the eyes.

"Ok. Just to clear this up. Bren, and me we went there for sight seeing, nothing else, nor did we have the intention to get lost. We got back late, and was too tired to do any thing so get the grin off your face Jess".

Jesse just shrugged and walked down the stairs, and Emma struggled to still stand there while the feral of their group stood expecting her to accuse her of some thing. She soon followed Jesse and when she was down the stairs, Jesse was standing at the bottom. When she reached him, he shook his head, "I still say they dig each other".

Emma nodded, and started to make her way towards the porch again, although she had no intention of meditating. Her and Jesse always sat scheming with each other, and putting plans into action. Mostly, their talks were about how to get Bren and Shal.

Adam was busy on his computer, checking the history of the place they were at. Marc was a friend, but he was a kind of prankster. He always helped people, but it held a hidden agenda behind it.

He found some tales of when people had came to visit the island, and claimed a creature had hunted them the whole time. People had started to go missing, and the creature was blamed. He checked to see if there was any images or any information of the creature, but all who saw it, went missing within the next few days.

Adam sighed with annoyance and tried to clear his head of the fog of the myths of the creature. Some said it was sent from the gods, to protect their land they once lived on. Others said the devil sent it to take away the tainted ones. The ones who committed the evil acts.

So far, Adam believed neither. He always thought there was a scientific explanation behind every thing that happened.

Sighing, he pinched the bridge of his nose, and then got back to work with searching.

Brennan's eyes slowly opened, and when they did, he sighed with relief and gave her a small smile.

"Hey Shal... did I wake you up". He couldn't imagine what he looked like at that moment, but she looked like a goddess. She was standing at the foot of the bed, with the doors to the balcony wide open, allowing the golden glow of the sun to envelope her.

She gave him a smile; "I've been awake for ages. I was waiting for you to get up so we could go".

Brennan lifted his head in confusion, "Go where... I don't remember you telling me?"

She gave a laugh at his state. He looked like he could sleep for a week, but he needed to get up and eat some thing. His hair was messed up still, and his clothes seemed creased from sleeping on them.

' I should have got him to change'. An image of that scene sprang to her mind and she gave a slight shiver. Already the feral was getting back on track with tempting her.

Brennan started to get up, not really wanting to, but the thought of saying no to Shal was just not possible at that moment. As he stood up, he stretched and groaned as muscles that were tense from his sleeping position gave in to relaxing. He shook his arms and started towards the door, where Shal was waiting.

As he passed, he saw her hands fidgeting at her sides but thought to deal with that later. If the feral was still annoying her, he'd just have to come up with more ideas on how to get her to relax.

He went to his room, and made sure to close the door behind him. He really didn't want any one to sneak in and scare him to death. If Jesse succeeded in doing it, he would never live it down from having the spooks of the place.

As big and as amazing as the place was, there was some thing about it that sent nerves flying through the roof, and unknown emotions to surface.
Brennan thought back to the dream he'd had. ' Was it a dream... it had to be... '. He looked around the room and started to search for some clothes. When he found them, he put the on his bed and started towards the bathroom. He turned the shower on and after undressing, and putting his COM ring on the sink, got in.

Although water weakened him, he was glad to have it. Warm water was perfect for loosening his muscles, and from the dream he'd had, every muscle in his body felt flexed to the extreme and strained.

Shalimar had also gotten her clothes ready on her bed and went to shower. It wasn't a habit the team had; it was just being out in the woods had left too many scents on her of the inhabitants of the woods. She didn't know whether to call it woods or forest, it seemed more forest, but woods was the first name that came to mind.

She went into the shower and relaxed against the warmth of the water. She tried to forget the images that randomly floated in front of her minds eye, catching her off guard. She could hear Brennan in his room, and was glad he'd also went to shower. The same scents had been left on Brennan, and she really didn't want to constantly be reminded the feral was on alert to any weakness in her it could attack. Scents made her feral side more aware of things, and prepared to set an unknown plan into action.
She got out after 20 minutes of washing her skin and hair and after a towel was filmily around her, she went into her room to dry and change.

Brennan made sure to dry his feet when he stepped out the shower. It seemed he was having a week of bad look and didn't want any injuries to follow him back to sanctuary. There were bad guys to fight, and with him with an injury, that would give them an advantage.

As Brennan walked back into his room, he made sure his clothes were still there and the same so Jesse couldn't have came in and changed them. He suddenly shivered. His window was open, and he stared at it wearily. He struggled to push away images from the dream and slowly made his way towards it. He steps seemed slow, but yet too fast. He gripped the handle on the window and started to close it. When it closed, Brennan didn't feel any better. His hand remained on the handle, seemingly glued there.

He turned around after finally letting the handle go, and surveyed the room. Nothing seemed different... but there was some thing, about it, that made him feel a bit jumpy. He was tempted to spark his hand up with the familiar and encouraging energy that coursed through him, but pushed the thought away when he remembered he was still wet.
He started to dry and got changed. He was ready to walk out the door, and unknowingly, felt around his arms and neck to see if he'd forgotten any thing. He realised he'd left his ring in the bathroom on the sink.

He still felt the awkward presence in the room, but knew he had to forget about it, or if Jesse knew he would even had that carved on his gravestone when he died.

The bathroom held nothing to make him jump at the slightest noise, but the constant dripping of water did make him feel nervous. The taps were fully turned off, and the same for the shower.

He grabbed his ring, being careful not to knock it into the sink. He slipped it back onto his finger quickly, and felt some sort of relief come over him.

A blaring noise made his heart slam into his ribs and he sucked in needed breath to take the effect off his heart. He turned to look into his room, and started to curse him self in his head. It was the alarm he'd set to wake him if he slept in. His heart fell silent for a few seconds as the alarm suddenly cut off its noise.

' Now I know its not supposed to do that...'

Brennan allowed energy to run along his fingers, and come to life in his hand. He started towards his room, trying to ignore his heart that claimed to be running a mile a second. He stepped into his room slowly, letting an old emotion come into play that always held fear at bay.

He glanced around the room, and started to move towards his bed. His cupboard that was near the door had one door hanging open. He went to it, and closed it silently.

Some thing suddenly tackled him from behind, leaving him no opening to throw the energy. It was no use any ways. With the shock of the attack, Brennan had lost his concentration, along with the hold on his power. It vanished as soon as he was slammed into the floor.

He swung around with a quick flip of his hands, and was lying facing the thing that had tackled him.

"Hey Bren".

Brennan let out a gulp of breath, "Shal... what are you doing?" she was smiling wide, a little devil glistening in her eyes. "What am I doing... what are you doing... are you trying to kill some one"?

Brennan got up off the floor, trying to work up an excuse in his head why he'd had his energy ready to burn some one to ascender. Sighing as he brushed off his clothes, he changed the subject.

"Did you turn off my alarm?"

She nodded, "it was giving me a headache. It had only been on for a few seconds and it was annoying. No wonder you have it to wake you up".

Brennan shook his legs and brushed his hands together. He could still feel the energy bubbling under his skin, waiting for any attacker to step into its path.

Sighing, he walked towards the door, Shalimar following closely behind. When they were in the hall and walking to the stairs she started talking again.

"What was it... are you still freaked about your dream".

Brennan just shrugged, "I don't know... it must be. I'm all right now. I didn't mean to wake you last night". An image of hazel eyes flashed in his mind, and then Shalimar's eyes, and he wanted it to go away. The dream was repeating in his mind, opening up more things he'd gladly forgotten.

Shalimar smiled, "don't worry about it... so, are you coming with me then?"

Brennan remembered what she had told him earlier, and gave her a smirk, "where we going".

When they reached the bottom of the flights of stairs, they were heading to the kitchen for some food.

"We're going with Adam to do some searching. He thinks he may have found some history behind this place".

"Owe..." Brennan felt his heart quicken at the thought of going back out into the woods.

'Ok Bren. Stop freaking your self out. It was just a dream, not real... I hope'.

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