Emma and Shal were working their way down. They had made it to the first floor of labs with out being noticed but now, just their luck, there were four agents on a coffee brake. Shalimar's eyes flashed golden, and she sent a glance back at Emma telling her to stay back, claming the pray as hers. Emma was all too willing to let her.
She watched as each agent was beaten soundlessly, into the world of unconscious. She doubted that any of them would remember what had happed in the past week let alone the past five minuets. When you hurt one of Shalimar's pack, you were hurt by Shalimar, it was feral law. Emma felt no pity for them.
"We got to go," Shal hissed out, and Emma nodded. Then she felt it, a kind of pounding in her head, like something wanted to get it, but she pushed it back. Thinking of it as some emotions that were trying to break through her walls. 'Probably a test on some poor mutant,' Emma thought bitterly as she raced after Shalimar.
They arrived at a wall, one with a door. The way leading down, and hopefully to Jesse. Shal was preparing, scouting, planning, resisting every eager to just smash the door open knowing that she had Emma with her. Not that Emma was powerless or weak, no, honestly when it came down to it, Shal would never want to get into a fight with her. It was just that she didn't want to be responsible for another hurt pack mate. She had already failed to save Jesse, and allowed Brennan to be hurt, it wasn't going to happen to Emma.
She was just about to give the order to move out, when she heard Emma gasp. She spun around, ready to take down anyone who had hurt her sister, but no one was there. Instead Emma was swaying, her eyes rolling back into her head. Shal growled, 'Of all the times to have a power spike, hang on Em,' Shal thought as she took hold of the girl and helped her down to the floor. 'This is coasting time….'
Emma was aware of Shalimar's presence, of her guarding her body, but she was focused on the invader. On the mind that she had only seen in shadows before.
"Get out," she growled, preparing to fling a wall between the two of them.
"No! Wait! I want to help! I need to help. I made a mistake, a big mistake and I need to fix it. Listen to me please."
Emma studied him, considering the man's words. Usually, no one could tell a lie in her mind, no one had the power to. Her mind, her world, her rules, but that was normally, because normally no one could get in like this when she didn't want them too.
"How do I know you're not lying, you broke into my mind, you could be controlling everything you do or say."
"Your mind, has it ever let someone who was going to hurt you or set you up in? Has it ever let anything bad happen to you?" The man pleaded.
Emma had to think, there were times when she had been hurt because of her powers, however it wasn't because it had just been let in. She had forced her mind to allow it, to become stronger. After all, all humans had built in shields. "Say what you came to say."
"You're in the wrong place. They knew you would look for him there, he's not there though. He's not at Genomex, Eckhart had him taken to an off base lab. It's about two miles north of the factory you where earlier. Hurry, he doesn't have much time."
With that the whole thing was over, the shadow man had pulled himself out of Emma's mind, and she was flung back to her body.
"Emma, earth to Emma, come on girl we gotta get a move on…that a girl…" Shalimar was saying, slapping Emma's face lightly.
"Shal, he's not here…Jesse's not here, we're in the wrong place," Emma said franticly as she came back to herself. "We have to get out of here…."
"Emma what are you talking about?" Shal snapped.
"I'll explain latter, but Shal we have to go!"
"How do you know he's not here? What if he is, we can't…."
"Think Shal! Have you felt him? Have you sensed him at all? If they're hurting him, that means blood right? That means sweat and screaming, right?"
Shal looked down at the floor, knowing Emma was right. She hadn't felt Jess at all. She couldn't pick out his voice, or his sent.
Emma continued on, know she was finally getting through to the feral. "If he was here you would have known the moment you stepped inside, you could find him in the bottom of the ocean, and so could I. I don't feel him. At first I kept saying it was because he was a sleep, or something, but Shal…."
"He's not here. We need to get back to the Helix."