Control 22

Chapter 22- Jumping to conclusions.

Helping Shalimar press the rag to the wound, Chris started to use that familiar authority, "Shalimar, press down hard on this. It may hurt Brennan, but it will slow the bleeding. Peter, and the others will be here soon-"

Brennan cut him off with a huff, "lot of good they are, Adam's the nearest thing to a doctor remember. Shal, can you call Adam on the COM link system".

Adam, Jesse and Emma were moving towards the front door of the house, when peter stepped in front of them, holding his hand out to stop them. "Where are you going?"

Adam was already pushing past him, "some of my team are hurt". That was all Peter got, but he didn't exactly let them go easily. He kept stopping them even as they got out side.

He suddenly stopped talking, and gave a stern look into the woods, before nodding and leading them forwards into the woods. Adam was carrying a small medic kit to peters surprise.

Jesse turned and saw Nick, and the two other men from earlier, following them. Shaking his head, he turned back to Adam and Emma, who were storming after Peter, who was leading.

Jesse was weary Peter knew where they were going... that was, until they sudden cam across Chris, Shalimar and Brennan. The scene took his breath away, when he saw the teary faced Shalimar, and Brennan bleeding on the ground with a wound to the shoulder.

Adam went to Brennan, while Emma tried to reassure Shalimar Brennan would be ok. She didn't seem to be listening, only watching as Adam treated Brennan.

Adam took one look at the wound and sighed, "Jesse, I need your help over here". His voice held a pang of worry, making Jesse shoot around the two female members of mutant x and to the other side of Brennan, where he was injured.

Brennan grunted as Adam once again pressed on the wound, and told Jesse to keep it held down. "Gee's Adam, try and be a bit gentle".
He received a small smile off Adam, and then it was gone, as the scientist got to work. After a few minutes of Adam tying the a clean piece of rag, where it got it from, Brennan couldn't remember, he moved back, getting some thing ready Brennan couldn't see. His eyes continued to droop and open. His head was starting to burn up, and Adam acknowledged it as a fever quite quickly, trying to hide the panic in his voice.

"Adam... he's losing conscious. I think he may have a concussion".

Jesse's voice filtered through the haze laying over Brennan's mind, making him pry his eyes back open to look at them. He didn't want them to panic. When his eyes travelled from face to face, he saw the familiar but worried brown eyes of Shalimar. She was shivering, not even responding to Emma. He sudden felt some thing inside him, tug at him and his mind recognised it as fear... no, more. Terror. He was terrified he'd lose her, and wasn't that surprised to recognise the same emotion playing in her eyes.

He tried to crawl his hand to her, and when he felt her shivering fingers brush his, caught them before they could escape. He gave them an encouraging squeeze, before the rest of his strength left, and his body suddenly seemed to sink him into darkness.

Adam worked fast, inserting the needle he had been preparing into Brennan's undamaged arm. When it was done he looked around until he found Chris, "Chris, is there some thing we can use to move him-" to his shock, Nick came behind the unconscious Brennan, and started to hoist him up, not even budging the injured arm. Some one who looked remotely like Nick, only a lot older, picked Brennan's feet up, allowing them both to easily manage with Brennan. Adam scrambled after him, not even bothering to ask questions.

When they got to the mansion, they took Brennan to Chris's office, where there was a large table sitting at the back of the room. Adam only dwelled on the thought little seconds, not really remembering seeing it there the last time they had been in the room. Chris stayed with him, and a familiar women from earlier, Elayne, who was muttering furiously, and cutting bits of Brennan's shirt to see the wound.

Only Adam, Chris, Elayne and Emma were allowed to stay in the room, while Jesse had to half carry the stone statue of Shalimar. Chris's men followed them out.

After sitting on the floor, along with the un-responding Shalimar for over an hour, Adam popped his head around the door. Shalimar did react, by jumping to her feet. "How is he?" the words sounded like a plea for some thing she wished Adam would say.

Adam nodded, "he's fine, just needs rest. Chris and me will put him to bed when were done. Jesse, take Shalimar and your self to bed please. You haven't slept in 24 hours, so get some now". With that, his head disappeared back behind the door.

Shalimar sighed, allowing Jesse to slide his arm around her shoulder, before turning and hugging him.

Over his shoulder, a figure caught her attention, who she thought she'd not see for a while yet. Fury took over, and she was already around Jesse, heading towards the direction of the person who had just arrived.

Jesse half turned, as Shalimar slipped past him, before he could do any thing. When Jesse saw who it was, he was ready to turn back around, that is, until Shalimar threw her self at him, launching an attack.

The whole hallway exploded into frenzy, as fists flew, feet kicked out, elbows smashing into each other. There were small shouts of protest, which seemed quickly cut off by a fist, and then a grunt followed.

The doors to Chris's office flew open, and Chris stalked out, face slightly scrunched with anger. When he saw what was happening, he stood where he was and waited for it to cool down.

Jesse managed to pry the kick and fighting Shalimar off of the unfortunate figure, just barely escaping a few hits by the skin of his teeth. Dragging her backwards only succeeded in her dragging him forwards again. Grunting in a vain effort to concentrate, he lifted her up off the floor, and massed, just in time as a fighting Shalimar kicked out in rage, ramming her foot back into his leg, There was no affect with him being massed, apart from a growl of pain and annoyance from her.

When she was still, her golden eyes flashed threateningly at the bloody figure that was nursing a bloody nose, and slightly swollen cheek. She gave him a smirk of victory; glad she had caused some damage.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR!"

Damien wiped his bloody nose on his sleeve, staring deadly at Shalimar who was with held in Jesse's massed hold. He dabbed at his cheek, giving it a wince and returned dangerous eyes to Shalimar.

"WELL!"

Shalimar's foot kicked out, catching Damien on the arm, luckily for him. He half stumbled back, in shock she had gotten another attack again, but shoved it aside when his eyes caught sight of Chris. Nothing was said between them, but Damien seemed to become very nervous.

Chris walked dangerously slow towards him, "where have you been? ... I couldn't find you before I left".

Damien dropped his head a moment, thinking up a plan. When his eyes returned back to Chris, he reconsidered.

"I was... out. I needed some fresh air". Damien was sweating, but showed no sign of fear in front of Chris. To the least, he showed only arrogance.

Chris sighed after a few seconds of inspecting Damien, "We'll talk later about your... walk about. Go and get cleaned up, Elayne should be up in a few more minutes".

As soon as Damien left with one last ruthful glance at Shal, Chris swung around on his heels to face her. With a small gesture to Jesse to release her, Jesse did.

Shalimar dropped easily, giving her 'brother' an annoyed glare, before turning it on Chris.

Chris's features were now entirely different from his usual calm and collected manner. He now held a spike of anger in his eyes. His face seemed like stone, ready to crush who ever crossed him. His silence seemed the worst, as if thinking of the most worst and unbelievable punishment. Shalimar quickly allowed her own arrogant attitude to appear. She wasn't one of Chris's friends, so she wouldn't let him put any authority over her.

With the reaction visible in her face, Chris gave a huff of annoyance.

Adam exited the room, "What is going on!" Chris answered before any one could start talking, "It seems Shalimar decided she needed to teach Damien a lesson. He has now acquired a bloody nose, and bruised face. She hasn't given me her explanation yet though".

Shalimar huffed, crossing her arms, "Explanation. Ok, how about this. He was the one that attacked Brennan. So he deserved what he got, and maybe even more. You told us your self, he can transform into a wolf-". Chris cut her off in sudden anger, "-YES. Just like every one in this mansion excluding you and mutant x".

Adam walked up to the group as if struggling to decide on which to agree with. "Chris, do you know if this is true? Do you know if it was Damien"?

The air hung heavy with the haze of anger poking at them all, until Chris answer collectively, and slowly as if he was watching every word he said.
"I can not keep check on Damien all the time. He is not under control of his state, so he can not be held responsible for some of his acts-"

Shalimar's anger burst as she spoke, and pointed at the room where Brennan was being taken care of.

"-Owe ye. Well why don't you go tell that to Brennan. Who was the one attacked!"

Adam stepped between them, "Shalimar stopped. We are all tired. There is no need to jump to conclusions about people. A good nights rest should do us all good, since Brennan most likely will sleep the rest of the day light, and night away. In the morning we can continue this discussion".

Shalimar considered arguing, but when tiredness suddenly hit her, seeming like a slap across the face, she glared at Chris meaning to end the discussion, and then stormed up the stairs, with Jesse following her.

Chris still seemed to be angry, "the rest of you should go to your rooms as well. Adam, is she erupts like that again, I'll have to put her in the cage down stairs, like the animal she is acting like".

Adam shook his head, "I don't think that will be necessary. I think I may have found some thing".

Chris's anger melted away, leaving a small glint of hope in his eyes.

Ok guys. That chap may have been boring, but it's leading up to some thing good... I hope.

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