Control 30

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Chapter 30- Werewolves

Before Brennan could get 6 feet away, Adam was up off his seat, hands raised as if to ease Brennan back. Brennan tried to side step the older man and only accomplished being held back with ease, reminding him how weak he was feeling. Some thing was wrong with him, and some thing screamed out in him that Chris knew some thing.

Adam steadied Brennan as his legs continued to wobble and give under his weight. But Brennan wasn't one to give up so easily.

Brennan couldn't ignore the vibrations along his veins and under his skin every time he thought just for one second about the dream he'd had just seconds ago. The coldness of the room did nothing for the temperature enflaming his skin and overwhelming him. Slowly, it was starting to weaken him and absorb all his strength he had left. The tingling in him was dim when he chose to ignore it for more than 5 seconds, and was slipping through his body and into every living tissue in him.

He forced him self to remain straight as a searing pain pulled at his stomach. His hand unconsciously pushed on the area, willing it to leave.

Dangerously he stared at Chris, "...What the hell is going on Chris! what's happening to me?"

The older man lifted his chin as if Brennan had challenged him in some way with his words. When he spoke, Brennan wanted to hurt him with the calmness and slowness he used.

"You body is trying to change Brennan, and this time, it must. Two nights previous to this one, a wolf in the forest attacked you. Since you have seen the cave hidden away in the forests growth, it will not be so difficult to explain to you. You saw the markings on the cave walls, and I believe one in particular seemed to stick out". His voice was all knowing and Brennan swallowed the small protest in his throat. A previous sighting of the wolf like creature in mid jump had been captured on the cave wall. Brennan tried not to shake visibly when he looked Chris back in the eyes.

Chris gave no sign of joy of catching Brennan, but continued from where he'd left off.

"The wound on your shoulder will not fully heal, but will leave a faint scar to show you've been marked by one of our kind...".

Brennan shook his head, "what is your kind?" Brennan was now leaning on the table, shivering visibly and using the full support of the table.

Chris only looked at him as if he'd missed some important detail, not answering. Brennan half growled as his body tried to conjure enough electricity to make Chris wish he's answered.

"...Werewolves Brennan".

Brennan couldn't help but give a small struggle of a laugh as he half turned to look at Shalimar who was standing up now, not 5 feet away, looking deeply into herself. The look on her face was not joking and he tried to catch the lie as he looked around at his team members, but all of them had diverted their eyes, not willing to say a lie to him.

Shaking his head, he returned his gaze back to Chris, who still sat neatly nested on his chair, surveying the situation with cool eyes. Brennan started to feel denial force a clear path into his brain, not wanting to believe it. One shred of proof that it was not real would easily satisfy him. Chris's voice matched his emotionless face, but his eyes betrayed him. They held a sparkle of anxiety and slight excitement he managed to hide well.

"Its true Brennan. All of us here can transform into wolf like beings". He stopped as if he didn't want to go on any mores, like he'd said enough.

Brennan felt his facial colour being drained away. He remembered some stupid myths about werewolves... one he didn't want to remember being, when bitten by a werewolf, you will become one. Brennan started to quiver, shaking his head with a passion now, "No...". These things were fairy tales; they couldn't really be real,

It seemed Chris got his message, and answered him, "Yes Brennan. Elayne is living proof that it is real. She was bitten, just as Damien was. But the rest of us were born like this".

Shalimar reached Brennan's side, her hands white with a deathly grip, "Cant you give him that needle again, or some thing". She was fighting the urge to just suddenly let every thing go, and start tearing the place apart in frustration. She couldn't stand to hear Brennan grunt and groan as this thing that had been an accident was being pushed onto him. He shouldn't have been going through this.

Chris shook his head, "I will not give him it again. It will only prolong the end result, and cause unneeded attention. Prolonging it may cause him to start to change at the wrong time. It would be better if he got through it now, instead of waiting for it to catch up to him". He was staring her directly in the eyes, waiting for her to argue again. But Shalimar didn't have any thing left to say or argue about. She was frozen and hollow, as she knew she could not do any more.

Brennan couldn't remember when the pain in his gut had suddenly doubled him over as he clutched his arms to his lower chest, trying to surpass the pain. The pain was starting to radiate all over him, making his skull feel like it had been split in two, and his body heat to attack him with its blaze of molten heat.

He faintly felt a small pressure on his arm, before he was being pulled out of the room, where cold air greeted him as he realised he was out side. He didn't have to look up to know Andy was the one pulling him along, always helping him. He didn't react to the stings and scratches on his arms as he was pulled into the forest, further into the trees, unknowingly being led by Andy. The thought comforted him slights, knowing it wasn't Chris.

Chris remained behind as he instructed Andy to take Brennan outside. He then turned to the remaining members of Mutant x.

"It would be best if you all stayed here-" Adam stepped forwards, quickly shaking his head, "No. He's a member of my team, I'm coming with you". Adam's voice and defensive stance held no room for arguments to be passed. Chris hesitated for a moment, surveying Adam with new eyes, before he started for the door, and Adam was right behind him.

Brennan half tumbled most of the way as his whole body started to reject every command he gave and in return for the commands, forced him to gradually lose more control over it. Andy was close enough carrying him the whole way, stopping Brennan from crumbling to the ground fully.

Brennan managed to gasp his words out to Andy as they seemed to be moving too fast, "... where... are we...going". Brennan could feel his whole body start to tighten on its self. Muscles tensed to the maximum and limbs started to lose feeling as numbness was pumped through his veins to every thing in his body.

He could hear Andy panting into his ear, who struggled to still hold Brennan who had sudden given up on walking to fight back the change. Andy shook his head, "... We're almost their. -" He grunted as his foot hit uneven ground, but continued on, determined to reach the spot in time. "-Want some advise Brennan-"he was cut off after that.

Andy's voice was a strain to hear as Brennan begun to grunt as his body started be confused on how to react to what was happening. His vision blurred the first few seconds, making Andy's voice clear, then his hearing went to the lowest, and he fell deaf to Andy's words. When every thing suddenly started to kick back up, Brennan groaned, cutting Andy off. "Aw...god. Just... make it stop...".

Andy looked down at Brennan for a moment, and then softened his words. "We're almost their Brennan. My advice is to give in... You can stop it, just give into it. It may seem like the totally wrong thing at the moment, but it will stop after a while. If you keep fighting it Brennan, it 'will' overcome you. Listen, when we get there, then you can let it happen". He too seemed reluctant for that moment to happen, but he urged on.

Brennan started to quiver uncontrollably, "Where... are we going". The urgent ness seeped into Brennan's voice as well. Andy was reluctant to answer, "we're almost there, and you'll see when we're there. Just a bit longer... a few minutes". He received a grunt off Brennan, "I'm not sure I've a few more minutes".

Those minutes trickled away like trying to hold water in an open hand, and soon, Brennan felt their speed dying and then he was being eased to the cold and flat ground. He gasped in shock when his hand touched the cold ground, and then slumped to it in relief. The trip their felt like it had jarred him badly, and he gripped a hold of small wisps of grass as they grew pitifully out of the hardened soil.

He gripped at his stomach, feeling as if a blade was being run across it, and he once again grunted and shifted about. His burning eyes caught sight of the cave, and his stomach sent a new shock wave through him. The night and shadows around them seemed to laugh at him as he made small gasping noises, trying to catch his breathe as the dream helped fuel what was taking over him, and making him wish to god that one of the others was with him.

Adam was half sprinting through the cluster of trees after Chris who was indeed running. He kept shouting back to Adam as if in a taunt, "Hurry up Adam. If you want to be there for him we must hurry".

Surprisingly, Chris was very quick for his age, and Adam was drive by the burning need to protect one of his kids. He couldn't help but blame him self as he fought past the branches of trees, and through the bushes of green. If Marc hadn't suggested they come then Brennan wouldn't be in this mess, if he was a better scientist, a better leader, a better father to them all, then he would have seen Shalimar's problem before it jumped up on them.

He slammed with half of his body into Chris who had slowed to a walk now in the clearing. Adam didn't have to apologise, as Chris didn't even seem to have noticed.

Adam looked around and caught sight of the cave that they seemed to have been visiting far too frequently. Andy was half lent over Brennan who was now curled in on him self, shivering and sweating badly.

Adam's feet barely touched the ground as he flew to Brennan's sight, half skirting across the dry and dusty ground. "Brennan are you ok!" Panic and fear were the loudest of things playing in his voice. Brennan shook his head as he clutched more tightly to his chest, "No...-" Suddenly he was shuffling about, sweat running off him like water, leaving a panicking voice to strike at Adam. "- Adam... make it stop". Adam sucked in his lower lip and bit hard, feeling his insides shatter knowing he couldn't do anything for him. Voices screamed inside his mind for him to do some things, as Brennan lay shivering and half grumbling on the ground.

Chris's voice moved him, "Adam, move back. You have no experience in this now. Andy and I will help him now. He isn't going to die Adam, and this procedure is only giving him so much discomfort because he is fighting against it".

Adam lowered his head down to Brennan and kept his voice a whisper, "Brennan... its alright. I'm here. I'm not gonna let any thing happen to you... all right". When he got a weak nod off Brennan he tried not to make the younger man discomforted when he spoke, "Stop fighting it now Brennan". Shock and betrayed flashed in Brennan's brown eyes, but Adam shook his head, "Its alright. I'll be here".

Chris was leading him back from Brennan suddenly, but Adam made sure to give Brennan an encouraging smile that only flashed for a brief moment under the desperate circumstances.

Brennan allowed his eyes to drop shut as the shivering over took him and he quivered on the ground, at a loss of control again. He was slightly glad Adam kept his distance, since he could remember the all to familiar electricity that was very much alive inside him.

He was weary when he started to allow the heat to flood into his mind, overcome him once again and making his body feel like it was vibrating. But what Adam had said made him feel slightly better, he was their, 'not gonna allow me to die now'. He tried to search relax a bit, but it was impossible during the small waves of shivers.

'Come on, just relax. Get it over with'. His mind was clouded by the fog of heat that wrapped around his mind, and when he felt the tightening of his muscles, dread powered into his gut.

'God... I can't do this. Its too much'.

A surge of heat shot through his spine, and he arched again as he had done two nights earlier.

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