Title : "An eventful trip"

Author : Shado-Fox

E-Mail : Shadowfox@mutant-x-fr.com

Rating : PG

Summary : Adam send Shalimar and Brennan to save two young new mutants but something happens before they reach their destination.

Gender : Action/ Romance

Disclaimer : Not mine.

Thanks to Ferae Naturae for helping me to translate my fanfiction from French to English.

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They stayed there, without moving, waiting for the beatings of Shalimar's heart to calm. She didn't feel at all well. The influx of adrenaline had let her tap into a surprising power but the descent was hard and her body was having difficulty taking its ebb. She could hardly move her shoulder, which had been twisted badly during her fight against the wolf.

- « I think we're going to have to redo a splint for my shoulder. The slightest movement is unbearable. » She said, trying to stand up in spite of her weakness. - « Don't move and take off your jacket, I am going to massage you just a little before putting something back over it » he said, getting close enough to her ear for her to smell his scent .

- "Thank you" she breathed, feeling him so close. Then she removed her jacket, feeling at once the bite of the cold. She noticed that her forearms were marked with bruises, doubtless caused by the teeth of the wolf. She blessed her luck that she had been carrying the jacket, or god knows what kind of state she would have walked out of the fight in.

Brennan, groping along, helped to loosen her wounded shoulder, hearing her very discreet groans . He knew very well that she was doing everything to hide her pain, not to worry him, blind as he was, incapable of defending them, a dead weight for her . He realized what she had to bear because of him. It was his place to take care of her, but instead he hampered her and forced her to take risks.

Once the jacket was removed, he put his hands on her shoulder, slowly, hardly touching her at the beginning, out of fear of hurting her. Feeling her relax slightly, he began to massage the painful shoulder of his friend. Taking advantage of the moment to register the sensations of her skin under his skin so sweet, so soft . ' Stop it Brennan! This is not the time to be thinking of such things. The situation is

grave! ' He reprimanded himself.

Shalimar could only appreciate the moment, the cold left her under the warm caress of Brennan's hands on her shoulder and back activating pleasant sensations in spite of the insecurity and the uncertainty of their situation.

At the end of what appeared them an eternity, Brennan felt a shudder cross Shalimar's back and decided to stop his massage there, before she caught pneumonia.

- « I am going to put the bandage on tightly, to hold your shoulder as well as possible. Could you give me the necessities please. » He asked.

- « Thank you Brennan. That already feels much better, you have done miracles with my shoulder. » She said in a cheerful voice. And it was true, during the minutes that the session had lasted, she had not thought at all of her shoulder, her pain and their situation. She had been invaded by waves of warmth and tenderness that she regretted now that Brennan's hands had left her skin .

She handed him the medical supplies, with a thick bandage that Brennan applied as best as he was able around Shalimar's shoulder.

When he had finished, he helped her to put the jacket back on, carefully avoiding hurting her.

- « It's time to leave. If we stay, we are going to be transformed into snowmen. » She said, smiling. She stood up and helped Brennan to recover his feet. She looked at him attentively, the signs of pain marked his features, but he said nothing, his skin taking a bluish tint in places exposed to the bite of the cold.

' We have to find somewhere to get under cover quickly' she thought. ' He is not going to last long like this. The infection has to give him a fever. '

- « Let's go then! Faster we find civilisation, faster we can contact Adam and the others so that they will come to look for us. » He said.

They resumed the road, Shalimar at the head, guiding Brennan by the hand.

Shalimar began to get discouraged, it seemed that wherever she looked, to all sides there was nothing but a cold white extent and no signs of human life. She did not know how long her companion and she were going to be able to move in this immensity. The cold increased from minute to minute and no shelter appeared.

At the end of one hour of walking, she stopped near a trunk and made Brennan sit. She removed the jacket and put it on his shoulders, in spite of his refusal.

She went into the survival bag to find something to staunch the hunger that was beginning to torment them. Brennan rested silently, thinking about their situation and wondering if Adam and their friends were searching for them, and how long they will take in finding them. They had to have realised something, of their disappearance .

Shalimar for her part was asking the same questions but did not express them aloud. She hoped silently that help would be quick to arrive.

TBC.

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