The Mistake

(Most of this chapter is a dream that Shalimar is having. I wrote the dream sequence to describe part of the reason for the dark mood that Shalimar is in during the first chapter. The dream is actually what happened to Shalimar the night before she went to the bar. Enjoy)

I'm laughing, at a joke that Jesse is telling. The joke really isn't funny mostly because Jesse can't seem to tell between the beginning of the joke to the end, he's confused as usual, but all is forgiven since he's drunk, like the rest of us. I've stumbled on to the bed, as did Jesse and Emma, for some reason we're in Emma's room and on her bed, but it doesn't matter. I'm enjoying the moment and wanting desperately to hear this oh so funny joke, I nod my head lazily as the alcohol is making my body feel so loose.

The lights are off and I'm leaning on my arm as Jesse is struggling to tell the joke through uncontrollable fits of laughter, "honestly guy's the joke is soooooooo funny-" he starts laughing again, and I can hear Emma giggle at Jesse's inability to stop laughing and tell us the joke.

Of course, being the member of the team that seems to be the biggest tease, I begin to get my very naughty idea for a good time. I sit up for the moment and feel around the bed for Emma, when I find her lying on her stomach apparently sleeping; I carefully grab onto her braw strap and pull it as much as I can before letting it go. It hits Emma with a loud SNAP and Emma shrieks in shock, screaming my name in response.

I laugh and try to avoid her hand as she tries to slap me one straight across the face. I laugh again and feel the curl of my lips as I try again to get at Emma braw strap, not a second later I managed to get my finger under her braw strap and once again, I release it with a loud SNAP in response. She shrieks once again releasing soft giggles that make me smile for no particular reason, I hear her breathing and then I hear her say to me "It's not nice to tease me like that, Shalimar". She says my name in such a way that it makes me feel a sudden urge to tease her again, see what she mite do.

I respond in my drunken slur "And what will you do?" I let the question stay thick in the air for a moment; I can tell she's trying to understand what I'm saying, she just sits there quietly and after a moment I feel her smile. I turn my attention back to Jesse who has finally managed to calm himself down enough to speak.

"Ok guys, I got the joke" Jesse said as he paused for a moment to take a deep breath.

"Ok, so this vampire walks into a bar, right?" "Right" I reply, "ok, so this vampire walks into the bar, sits down and orders a mug of hot water. Everyone in the bar goes quite when they hear what he ordered; the bartender looks at the vampire and says 'what?' and the vampire replies 'hot water please'. The bartender looks at the vampire and asks 'why do you want hot water? Vampires drink blood, this is a bar for vampires, we only sell blood'. The vampire looks at the bartender while pulling out a paper bag with something inside, the vampire replies 'I know, I want tea'."

"Eeeeeewwww" I replied as I hit Jesse a few times "that's the grossest joke I have ever heard" I said through laughter as Jesse tried to get away from my slaps, Jesse, in an attempt to get up, fell back down with laughter. "Haha come on Shalimar, you know you love those dirty jokes", I laugh and said "yeah, especially jokes about used tampons, that's by far the worst joke I have ever heard, your lucky that I'm to drunk to be offended" I giggle as Jesse tried to steady himself enough to stand. "Say what ever you want Shal, you know that dirty jokes are your guilty pleasure", I laugh as I throw a pillow at him which throws him off balance for a moment, when he regains his balance he replies in a slur saying "what ever, I'm gunna go find Brennan, see what he's up to". And with that he's gone and I'm left alone with Emma who is watching me quietly as I lay down on the bed exhausted.

As I close my eyes and begin to relax I feel Emma move closer to me on the bed. I don't bother to move since the alcohol has made me lazy, and also the fact that I know that Emma wouldn't hurt me, so there's know need for me to move when I feel her directly over me. She's hovering over my form and I can smell the alcohol off her breath and her brown hair that's getting quite long laying softly against my cheeks. I'm so drunk that I don't even realize what she's doing, nor do I care, I just look up at her and watch as the light from the hallways mixes perfectly with the dark brown in her hair. The light isn't enough to reveal her face, just her hair, and I lay there in wonder for a moment.

She murmurs something to me as suddenly the light from the hallway turns off and we're once again left alone in the dark. I feel her hand place itself on one side of my head as I hear her ask "Shalimar, where's your lips?" I'm drunk and I'm not thinking straight so I reply, "right hear" hoping that she'd hear my voice and find out for herself. But she doesn't instead she asks me again after a couple minutes "Shalimar where's your lips?" I then take her left hand and guide it to my lips and wait for her to answer. But she doesn't answer, instead she lowers her head slowly and presses her lips to mine, before I know it I feel her lips open partly and I do the same, we kiss.

We're kissing and it's slow and sensual and before I know it she's moved on top of me and our kiss deepens, I feel her tongue against mine and I feel the drunken urge to touch her. So I do, I let my hands grab her waist and I feel her shiver as she breaks away from the kiss to breath it into my mouth. Not a second later her lips are back on mine and her body gets closer to mine, our kiss begins to become passionate as I hear her moan in response after I push her tongue out of my mouth and into hers so I can taste her.

Moments passed and before I know it I hear a voice coming from outside the doorway, I hear Jesse hollering with glee "They're kissing, they're kissing!" And before I know it I push Emma off of me and I fall off the bed with my head in my hands.

I awake with a start, sweat glistening on my skin as my hand goes to my aching head. I drank too much, I drank too much and I'm not in sanctuary. I let out a laugh of disbelief as I imagine the trouble I'll be in when I get back to sanctuary. I calm myself down and check out my surroundings in a hope to see where I am, after a minute I let out a sigh of relief as I realize where I am, I'm in hotel room, thankfully alone. After a moment to clear my head I check the time to see that it's 9:30 in the morning, so I call through my calm link and wait for an answer. After a moment I hear Emma respond on the calm link "Shalimar! Thank god, where are you?" "Everything's ok Emma, I just went to visit a friend, I'll be there in an hour". There was a pause and then Emma responded saying, "hum, ok Shal whatever you say, just come back safe, I'll tell the guy's that your coming", "Thanks Em" I say as I moved to get my coat on as I walked to the door of the hotel room and closed it behind me.