Chapter 6
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No turning back.
"You come to the dominion tonight and we'll return Adam safe and sound to the rest of the group. You on the other hand won't see them again. Or you can leave him here to die and stay with the others." Nikki explained.
"Will I see Adam before he come back to make sure he's ok."
"Yes we will let you see Adam obviously so you can let him know where to find the rest maybe give him a message from you to them but that's it. You also can't go and see the others and ask them for help. You have to choose Shalimar. Make your choice now."
"Ok I know what I choose….." Shalimar took a deep breath.
"Well..." Nikki said getting impatient.
"I'll come to the dominion, I'll be there tonight at 7pm." Shalimar said placing a hand over her stomach.
"Good choice Shal, I'll meet you at the gate so you'll be let in and not killed. See you tonight bye." Nikki hung up.
Shalimar did the same then spun round on her chair and looked around her room. She walked over to her wardrobe and took out her rucksack and placed her clothes in it. She also got out another small bag to put other things in. Then she went into the bathroom to get some more of her stuff she needed. As she was putting everything in the bags she glanced up at the pictures by the side of her and Brennan's bed; There was one with the entire group together smiling and laughing, one of her and Brennan kissing and the other of Emma with Adam before she died and he was taken. She sat on the bed and looked at them one by one. She considered bringing them with her but thought against it as it would only upset her more when she was at the dominion away from them all. She wrote a note for the team and left it on the bed knowing they would find it there. She zipped the bags closed and got up to look outside the door to find out where about Lexa and the guys were. She saw Lexa on the computer with her back to Shalimar and the guys were nowhere to be seen. She glanced up at the coat rack and saw that Jesse and Brennan's coats were gone and she assumed they had gone out. She grabbed the bag off the bed and picked her coat up, put them on and quietly walked out of sanctuary and away from her family.
When Nikki finished talking to Shalimar she straight away went upstairs to see her boss and inform him of the good news. He heard her enter his office and said,
"How did it go?"
"Shalimar has agreed to come here or the grounds that she sees Adam and then he's returned to the others. I assume this is ok?" Nikki questioned wondering whether or not he was really going to give up Adam or just keep them both here.
"Yes Adam will be return, she can see him quickly before he leaves." He replied.
"Sir we could just trick Shalimar and keep the both here." She suggested.
He turned to face her, "I never go back on my word Nikki and besides once they find out she's here they'll all come to her rescue and we'll capture them all. So we'll still win."
"You really are a genius." Nikki smirked. "I'll go and wait at the gate she said she'd be here at 7 and its half past 6 now."
"You do that Nikki and remember she is not to be harmed by you or anyone else no matter what." He said sternly.
"Yes sir." She replied and walked out of his office and towards the entrance of the dominion.
About an hour later Shalimar arrived at the Dominion headquarters and saw Nikki standing at the entrance waiting for her. Nikki turned around and spotted Shalimar so she ordered the guards not to attack and to open up the gates. Shalimar walked up to her and followed Nikki into the building.
"I'm glad you came Shal it'll be like old times you and me together again, on the same side."
"Yeh just the same except you know the obvious things; this sides bad not good, I have friends and a family you don't and I was blackmailed into coming here you weren't." Shalimar stated. Nikki turned and glared at her.
"I do have family and friends Shalimar all around me here. Just like your work mates are your family these are mine." Nikki turned back and carried on walking.
"Sure keep telling yourself that, everyone likes you so much Nik how could I have not noticed." Shalimar said sarcastically. Nikki didn't respond so she continued, "Everyone loves how you boss them about and treat them like slaves. It's funny how when they see you coming they realise they need to be walking in the other direction. Or as they walk past try not to get eye contact with you in case you say or do something to them. Having people afraid of you is not having a family or friends. It just makes you a bitch."
"I'd shut up if I were you. I promised that I wouldn't hurt you but oh well he'll forgive me as long as I don't hurt the baby." Nikki warned her. Nikki stopped walking as they came to a door she knocked and from inside Shalimar heard a man's voice say enter. When they walked Shalimar knew they were in the office of Nikki's boss, the person that had caused all of this. She saw him turn around in his chair and looked her up and down.
"So you're Shalimar?"
"Wow you don't even realise who I am, so obviously the stupidest person got to be boss. I guess you just missed out Nikki." She said turning to her.
"Feisty little thing aren't you. But hey I like that in a girl that's why I've got my Nikki."
"Sleeping with the boss there's a surprise." He laughed while Nikki just glared at her.
"That's something you've never done is it Shalimar, you'd most likely consider it like sleeping with your dad. That's why you're here to save him bring him back to the family. But you know you won't be able to go back as well. So I have a question why, why save him and bring him back to the family for the fact that you're still going to lose him?"
"He'll be alive at the end of the day, that's all that matters."
"So your baby doesn't matter, Brennan, Jesse and Lexa don't matter. You don't matter is that what you're saying?"
"They matter as well but they'll have each other they're soon get over me not being there when Adam returns. They'll be fine." Shalimar said hoping she sounded confident as that what she wanted to be.
"You really think they'll get over you? That's quite sad if they can just forget you that easily."
"I never said they'd forget, they would cope without me. They'll move on."
"Brennan can move without you and his child? Well that's certainly not a good boyfriend or father. Well actually as far as he'll be concerned he'll just be moving on from you. Doesn't know anything about the little one does he?"
"No I never told him. Why ask questions you know the answers too? It seems quite boring and pointless to me."
He laughed again and smirked, "But not to me, and in this building I'm all that matters. I get what I want."
"God what is it with you lot and smirking is it some kind of bad guy thing? Smirk if you're evil type thing."
"A sense of humour I'm liking you more and more Shalimar. It's a shame you didn't join us sooner, we could've had so much fun."
"No thanks and I'm not joining you. I never agreed to that I agreed to come here to say Adam and give up my child not give up myself."
"But do you honestly think you'll be able to go back to your family. Think they'll let you back in their club do you." Shalimar looked at the ground, "You broke one of the main rules of being in a family, to trust each other and be there for each other. You're meant to go to each other and talk things through before you act. But you didn't you just did what you wanted and they won't like that. When they find out you gave up your baby do you think Brennon will forgive you?"
"They won't find out. I'm not going to tell them." She said looking up.
"But Lexa might. She hates keeping secrets so she'll admit it to Jesse most likely and then he'll tell Brennon. Jesse would hate you for it s well, he's like your big brother and you left without saying goodbye. Hard thing to forget that is."
"Will you just stop ok? You've got what you wanted I'm here now just take me to see Adam so he can go back to the others and they can start moving on."
"Fine let's go. Stress isn't good for your baby." The three of them walked down the stairs and down a few corridors until they came across another door and stopped. Nikki typed in the pin code and the door opened up. They walked in and Shalimar had tears in her eyes at what she saw.
Lexa hadn't got anywhere in locating Adam's files and decided to make her and Shalimar a cup of tea. She hoped that by now Shalimar would be calmer, as it wouldn't be good for the baby if she kept getting so stressed. She looked up at the clock and realised the guys had been gone for an hour and wondered what they were up to. 'Most likely getting drunk or at least Brennan will be' she thought. She pushed open the door to Shalimar and Brennan's bedroom with her foot, as her hands were full. She looked around and dropped the cups to the floor. She stood there in shock as she saw that quite a few of Shalimar's things had gone and the wardrobe door was open and only a couple of her clothes were in there. She walked into the bathroom and noticed everything of Shalimar's missing from there. She walked into the bedroom and saw a note lying on the bed. She picked it up and read it,
Brennan, Jesse and Lexa
I'm really sorry but I've gone and I'm not coming back. Don't bother looking for me I'll be quite impossible to find. You won't be able to contact me either as I'm leaving my phone, my comlink and the other equipment we use that has tracking software on it. I love you all so much you're my family. I hope you can all forgive me eventually and Brennan please find someone else out there that can make you happy you deserve it. None of you will understand why I'm doing this you're most likely think that argument has just upset me and I'll be back soon. But you're wrong, if you don't think that you'll think I've gone after Adam on my own and I haven't done that either there's no need. Jesse and Lexa talk to each other just open up and admit what's going on and is clearly obvious for everyone to see. If you don't you'll end up regretting it for the rest of you lives and I know that's not something you want. Trust me everything will be fine in the end.
Goodbye, love you all
Shalimar
Lexa finished reading the note and collapsed on the bed crying. Brennan and Jesse were landing the helix when they head something smashing in the distance. They looked at each other and started towards to main building looking for the girls. The ran into the kitchen and heard someone crying, they looked around and noticed the broken cups and coffee stains in front of Brennan and Shalimar's bedroom. They walked into the room and saw the same scene Lexa had when she walked in but with Lexa curled up on the bed crying. They had never seen Lexa show much emotion so this took them by surprise. Jesse went over to her and wrapped his around her pulling her close.
"Lexa what's happened? Where's Shalimar?" he said softly. She looked up at him and Brennan and picked up the note next to her.
"Re...read ….th…this." She stammered handing Jesse the note. He read it aloud so that Brennon could hear as well. Tears gathered in his eyes by the time he was finished he heard Brennan slide down the wall and onto the floor. He turned towards him and saw that his head was in his hands. Jesse tried not to break down as they had and knew someone had to remain strong but he couldn't help it. They all stayed together in the room crying together at the loss of Shalimar.
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