Control 25

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Chapter 25- never alone.

Adam and the others were all escorted downstairs to Chris's office once again. Chris was the only one who seemed to have an office as he called it. But the scattered ancient objects around the room described it in detail of a display room.

Chris took his seat rather hastily before any one could stop him in some way. When he looked forwards, Adam was standing tall, anger flickering in his dark brown eyes as he waited for some explanation. Chris raised his hand trying to silence the other mans temper before it got the better of him. But Adam jumped in with Chris giving the silent gesture.

"What the hell did you just give Brennan? Did you know what you were doing, because it seemed to me you did. How many times has this 'mistake' happened before Chris? What is happening to him?"

Chris suddenly slammed his hands on the table as he rose, cutting the scientist off and gave him an irritated glare. "Doctor Kane. I will explain this all fully if you just sit down... all of you. I'm going to say this once and only once". With the strain in his voice, every one soon took a seat, still shooting dangerous looks at Chris if his information was not good enough, there would be trouble.

Chris sighed and straightened pieces of clothing that didn't need it before reseating him self, pulling his chair in underneath him and laying his hands on the desk. He looked up with a new emotion on his face, one that spoke of the tiredness of the questions he'd already answered in some way and anger that flared when one person would even try to speak, or interrupt him.

"... I don't think this is going to be easy to explain, so I will try to explain it as best possible. Brennan is suffering because his body can't take on the change that is happening to him. His body is reacting to the wolf bite that he obtained in the woods. But I did advise you all to remain in this house for the time being-" he got a small growl of Shalimar who was gripping onto the edges of her chair, ready to pounce if he provoked her any more. He gave her a quick nod, acknowledging for the first time, which didn't get any different response.

"... It is very rare for any thing like this to happen. When another person is bitten the way Brennan was-" he mentally made a note to be careful with how he was to say this. "- They... wouldn't have lasted an hour after the attack. It is rare that some survive a bite of a wolf around this island. But Brennan did".

Chris could already see some thing sneaking into Adam's eyes. A look of knowing, but Adam was sitting with his arms crossed, in a futile attempt to not hear what he knew would come.

Chris wasn't continuing, so Elayne stepped forwards, pulling up her right sleeve of her wool jacket. "What Chris isn't telling you... is that now that Brennan has survived this long, there is a very small chance that he'll die now". She was still unravelling her sleeve from her arm when Shalimar and the rest of Mutant x breathed deep sighs of relief, but her silence brought the fear back into their eyes.

When she had her sleeve up to her shoulder, there was a round wound on the upper part of her arm, almost like a bite.

Adam's breath caught, but none noticed. Elayne sighed letting her arm drop. "I was bitten by a wolf around here-" Her eyes seemed to burn through the door they had used to enter Chris's office, before her eyes re-focused on the team. " I had the exact same symptoms as Brennan. Heat over load. Every noise was like some one ramming into my ear. Every thing sent me up the wall. My temper got worse over the days I was being taken care of. One minute I would be happy, the next ready to seriously hurt some one. Eventually I got so worked up by it all I lashed out. Brennan is going to go through the same, because he was bitten like me-" Chris bit his lip at her tone, but allowed her to continue. She could explain it better because she had been through it all.

Silence hung between every one, not knowing what to start thinking, or when to talk. Adam shook his head, shifting about, but it had already been spelled out for them all, plenty of times.

Shalimar watched Adam, and started to let her mind wonder the dangerous area of thought. Brief flashes caught her mind in a haze as she contemplated what had been said to them over the time period of being there.

Chris's angry voice filled her mind, when he was explaining to her it might not have been Damien. Her voice came first, ' "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" '.

Fear shot into her mind as her feral half screamed some thing into her ear, 'Elayne is a wolf too Shalimar. Work it out'. Shalimar found herself shaking her head as Adam was.

Emma and Jesse sat in complete silence, staring at the floor but unconsciously holding each other's hand in a tight grip. Neither moved, their minds had already given the answer they wished not to know, but it was spoken to all of them.

Adam suddenly bounced up from his seat, "who bit you Elayne". She suddenly hesitated, but Shalimar was up next to Adam, "it was Damien wasn't it. Well..."

Adam and Shalimar seemed to be tearing a hole in what ever Chris was about to say, not giving him a chance. Adam huffed as he went around Elayne to the front of Chris's table, "So Damien had a history of being 'unpredictable' in his wolf form. What's to say it WAS'NT him who bit Brennan". Chris started to shake his head, "No Adam, Damien learned his lesson-"

Shalimar was still in front of Elayne, but her angry glare was directed at Chris.

Elayne's voice cut them all in half, "It wasn't Damien. I know". Shalimar's crossed armed stance turned very dangerous, "...How?" Elayne bit her lower lip, while her eyes shone with blazing fire, "because, Damien is always skulking around after me. He... followed me to the cave that you all found. We were arguing when we heard the attack and I came to see what was happening. Damien was angry and refused to come. I wasn't about to ask him twice so I left him there... that was most likely why he was so annoyed when he came back".

With her confession, Chris's calm face twisted into an angry glare at the door, while his voice held a steady but hard tone, "So that was where he was... I told him to stay away from you, and give you some peace". He scrunched his hands on the desk, but Elayne gave him a weak smile, and the tension the enclosed Chris disappeared like a candle light being blown out.

Emma's weak voice filtered through to the angry tempered people around the room, "...so Brennan is going to change into a... a wolf then". Chris only looked at her. His look was answer enough.

"Its not all back Emma. Regardless of how he is now, he will be perfectly fine after its over.

Shalimar allowed her hands to rest on her hips, while her eyes searched Elayne and Chris, "when what's over..." A reminder of how Damien struggled with the transformation flashed in her mind. Her jaw hardened, "Who bit Brennan then?"... There was endless silence as Elayne and Chris looked back at her. They knew some thing by the sorry look they gave her.

She looked up quickly as a thumb was heard from above them. She gave one look at Chris before leaving to check if Brennan was all right.

Brennan's room

During Chris's explanation

Slowly, Brennan dragged his heavy eyelids open, and was greeted with a strange surrounding. He couldn't remember where he was, but the sense of peace and quietness almost sent him back to sleep. Prying his eyes open was a job when they closed, but he was determined to stay awake.

' Where are the others?'

He got a short memory of where they were, and it all flooded back to him. Gritting his teeth, he tried to get back to his comfort zone. Slowly, it started to drop back in place. It even made him forget for a moment, how bad he was feeling... only a moment. His eyelids felt swollen and his eyes burned when he moved them to look around the room. Every piece of muscle in his ached as if he'd worked out for a week, and his shoulder gave a weak throb in the background of it all.

He grunted with effort when he tried to lift his ten-ton arm. It twitched but didn't even make the effort to lift even an inch. Dropping his head back, he tried to activate his energy, the power that ran so deep in him he could feel it just dimly in the background, making him smile.

His fingers twitched as one or two small sparks trickled out, but that was all he wanted. He allowed the hard grip on his gut to release, thanking god he still could use his powers. Now he could feel his whole body throbbing, like it was starting to build up his strength, and every thing else. The heat was here sitting on top of him as naturally as the energy coursing in him. Shifting about did nothing, so he tried to ignore the heat and allowed his eyes to shut.

His eyes crunched as muffled voices filtered through. He was sure he could have picked one of them out as Shalimar's angry voice. It was all muffled, but he could tell she was arguing with some one. He felt warmth boil to a dangerous temperature when he picked out Chris talking back to her. His fist crunched at his side, and when he saw it, shock hit him like a wave of cold water that took the heat away.

Smiling to him self he listened more intently. There was Adam's voice, along with Shalimar, and there was even Elayne, talking lowly.

The throbbing ran from his shoulder to wash away all concentration in his mind, knocking him sick. With his throbbing head, his eyes heated back up along with his lungs. He started to pant, and when the heat didn't subside, he started to ruffle with the sheets that covered him. His eyes caught sight of a huge tree sitting not far from the mansion. But it seemed... different. It was outlined in a wavering line of smoky blues that shifted to green and if he tried to concentrate hard enough, yellow.

Some thing screamed in his mind that some thing was wrong, but he couldn't care less. His discomfort had caused him to crawl out the bed, and land heavily on his knees, and then crumbled to hands and knees on the floor. It didn't cause him any pain; only more need to get to some cold water splashed on his face.

He crawled to the bathroom door, and gave the ice-cold handle a hard twist, and continued on all fours to the sink. As he looked up, the journey seemed to high up, but he pushed up sluggishly to his knees, and gripped the sink with white knuckles as his knees threatened to send him to the hard and cold tiled floor.

He fumbled with the cold tap too much and finally gave it a hard push, where water burst into the sink. Brennan quickly drenched his face, and half his neck. The heat faded in pieces, but remained as not so strong. Brennan leaned on the sink, head rested on his arm as it stretched across the sink. He was panting again and gulped down what felt like a curse.

'What's happening to me...'

He didn't move as he heard the door to his room open, and close. He knew who it was, he didn't need to hear the clicking of her shoes on the tiled floor as she followed him in. coldness flew across him, making him pant in frustration, when was his body going to make up its mind.

She took a seat on the edge of the bath, and started to rub his back in sympathy. She couldn't help but feel that for him, while he was in such a lousy state. He gave her a small grunt of thanks, before splashing some more cold water on his face.

He shivered as the cold hit rock bottom, making feel like ice, before the heat smashed into him again. It remained, just as strong as before now. Grunting again, he cupped his hands, and splashed more and more cold water that had suddenly lost its resent affect.

Shalimar gave him a soft tap, and remembering what Elayne had said, talked softly. "Come on... lets get you back to bed". Her words were enough to make him start an attempt at moving, but he only swayed when he moved away from the sink.

She lent down, and pulled his arm over her neck, and started to lift his grumbling form. He tried to talk to her, but it came out as a mumbled up mess, so she just nodded, smiled and got him back to the bed.

He rolled onto it, sighing with relief as the bed cushioned under him. He gripped her hand, trying to talk more to her, desperate to do some thing. The way he was feeling, he just wanted to talk to some one, talk to her so he wouldn't miss her face.

She gripped his hand encouragingly back, smiling warmly down at him, but still with some sadness she could not conceal.

He shifted about, "...Shaull...Shal. I'm surry you habin to take care of me". She smiled again, not holding back her grin. He sounded so cute. She reminded her self he wasn't dying, and the dull feeling at the back of her mind winked out of existence. Gripping his hand, she talked low, "It's alright. I'm enjoying it". He gave her a quick grin, which made her flush with heat suddenly. His answer to that was plain in his grin... so was he.

She felt at a loss for words as he stared up at the ceiling, not fidgeting any more. Her heat started to waver over her as Brennan looked up at her, panting only slightly. She never wanted to look away.

"Shalimar".

Elayne had softly opened the door, and spoke in a whisper. Her eyes were filled with a small amount of guilt that she shouldn't have been feeling. Sighing with disappointment, she rose up and away from Brennan. He nodded to her when she hesitated to leave, giving her a small smile, to tell her he was fine.

When Elayne had gotten Shalimar out side the room, she took her to her room, where the walls and door seemed to thick to even scream and be heard outside.

When Elayne looked at her, she was hesitant in talking, but Shalimar didn't have any anger left in her, only a lingering feel of hope Brennan was going to be all right. Chris had said he would be, he always pulled through things, was always the strong and arrogant one of the team to let an illness of feeling sick set him down.

Elayne sighed, "He'll be alright. Trust me... Shalimar, you cant you know" Shalimar's head shot up at the words Elayne had spoken, but some thing in her mind recognised it.

Elayne continued, "You can't let any thing... happen between you two when he's like this. If you ever want any thing between you, any thing special...don't let it be ruined by this. Don't allow any thing to happen when he's like this Shalimar... trust me. I did, and I hate that person with my all now".

Shalimar nodded after a while, "I just want to help him. Its driving me insane knowing he's like this". She brushed back her golden bush of hair and sighed. She could feel him once again shifting about in his bed, grunting in discomfort. But she turned away from it; she couldn't allow her self to go to him. She knew what would happen. She still felt a burn under her skin, a burn of pressure and heat, pulsing for a brief instant.
Elayne snapped her out of her thoughts when she took a seat next to Shalimar on the bed. She gave her a small smile, already knowing what was going through the feral's mind, as it once done to her. Her smile was sad, showing she wished she had not made that mistake so long ago.

Shalimar groaned as she saw the same message as Elayne had voiced before, she needed to just leave Brennan alone for a while.

Elayne rubbed her arm sympathetically, "Don't worry. I'll keep an eye on him-" she earned a smirk off Shalimar, "- He doesn't need to wonder through this alone... he has us. Me...YOU... all your friends, and all my friends. He'll be all right in two nights. No ones every really alone".

Shalimar's head lifted up after she had slowly started to give in to Elayne's way of thinking. "What happens in two nights? ".

Elayne's smile shifted to a form where it shrunk until it finally disappeared. "... He will be up and about by late tomorrow night, but the next night... he'll be having some trouble. That's a soft way to put it".

Shalimar didn't want to imagine that. The tormenting, protective, joke-able Brennan being put through some thing like that. Images of Damien in his cage flashed before her eyes, making her grunt and close them with a might.

Elayne gave her arm a small squeeze, "Remember, he isn't alone. Not as long as I have any thing to say about it".

Finally Shalimar nodded, "And as long as I show him were here, he'll be alright". A small voice whispered in her ear from her head, 'He has to be'.

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