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Darkness Falls
bohemian babe
Mutant x.
Archiving welcome with my permission.
Pg-13
The room was empty and dark. Its sole occupant sat in the floor against the far wall. It was his prison, and yet it was the only place he felt safe. The room she had once occupied, the room that would forever be empty.
Her life had ended so quickly and so suddenly. It had taken them all by shock. One single night had messed up everything for all of them. One was lost entirely, two had been put in their own world, and one had been separated from everything that had once been important to him.
For hours a day he’d go and sit in the room, separated from the two others. The two moleculars had turned to each other for comfort, and in the process had managed to exclude him from it all. He was alone in the world with no chance of coming back from his private hell. It was nothing that any one could sympathize with. Neither of the others knew what his true relationship with the woman had been, and there was no way that they could understand what he was going through.
Each day he prayed that it was only a night mare, that he would wake up and find that she wasn’t really gone, that she was still there. It was the one hopeful possibility that kept him alive. He was not able to function properly with out her. He needed her for everything.
In his hand he held a small piece of paper that he flipped over and over between his fingers. The debate raged on in his mind. He had one choice to make, once choice could set it all right again. Bring him back the woman that he loved, bring him back another chance at life.
Flashback.
“If you ever need anything call me.” the girl smiled at him. “Even if it is just to go back in time to keep from leaving me.” she handed him a small piece of paper with her phone number scribbled on it.
“Thank you.” Brennan took the paper from her. “Hopefully I wont have to put you back in danger.”
“Don’t worry about it. If you ever choose to call me I know it will be for a good reason.”
End flashback.
He got up and walked out of the empty room heading for the nearest phone. |
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A year earlier
Shalimar stepped into the rec area of New Sanctuary with her wet hair still dripping from her shower. It was hard for her to believe that they had managed to rebuild their entire lives in just a few months. Their new home reminded her so much of the old one, yet it was different. She couldn’t quite put her finger on where the lines blurred, between the past and the present.
She heard the sounds of Brennan and Jesse involved in a game of one-on-one over on the basket ball court. She followed the noise and stood wordlessly watching them.
The boys were so wrapped up in their game that it wasn’t until the ball rolled off the court and stopped at her feet that they noticed her. Brennan jogged over to retrieve both the ball and a kiss from the woman.
“You wanna play, Shal?” Jesse asked as he caught the ball Brennan threw to him. “Lexa said she might come and join us in a while.”
Shalimar looked down at her outfit, more specifically at the short skirt she was wearing. “Thanks, Jess, but I think I’ll pass this time. I’ve got a book I wanted to read anyways.”
“Some other time then.” Jesse agreed. He gave her a quick smile and then the two men returned to their game.
Shalimar watched them for a moment longer and then went to her room to retrieve the mystery novel that she had been working on before their last mission. With the day stretching out before her she was looking forward to finishing the novel, and maybe spending some time that evening with Brennan.
Book in hand, Shalimar headed off to find a quite space in which she could read.
Later that afternoon.
Brennan and Lexa stood in front of the jewelry counter in one of the department stores at the mall.
“Would you just hurry up and pick one already? We’re going to be late getting back in.” Lexa complained.
“If it was your ring Jess was picking out you’d want him to be thinking as he chose it.”
“Well its not my ring and it will never be my ring.”
Brennan smirked as he watched the woman suddenly become interested in looking at the display of wedding bands. “This is the one.” he pointed to a two carat princess cut diamond ring. “It is the perfect ring.”
Lexa looked at the ring he was pointing to. “You can really afford to get her that ring?”
“We have an installment plan if it is needed.” a saleswoman walked over with her false helpful smile.
“It wont be needed.” Brennan said quickly. He pulled out his wallet. “Could you get the ring for me please?”
“Of course.” the woman gave him a slightly snobbish look, but pulled the ring out of the display case and rang up the price.
That evening.
Brennan set the ring box on his dresser and then took off the t-shirt he had been wearing. He dug around in his dresser for a minute before deciding to go shower off before dressing for his dinner date with Shalimar.
After his shower Brennan pulled on a pair of black dress pants and a soft deep red dress shirt. As he went to go out the door he hesitated for a moment, considering taking the ring with him and giving it to Shalimar then. Finally deciding to stick with his original plan to give it to her the next week on her birthday he walked out of the room and headed down the hall to her room.
Shalimar smiled as she opened the door to her room and found Brennan waiting on her. “I suppose I should be ready for a fun evening?”
“Hon, with our lives you should be ready for anything.” he leaned in and softly kissed her. “But hopefully things will be quiet enough for you and me to enjoy a nice evening together.”
Shalimar’s smile brightened even further as they walked down the hall to the kitchen.
In the kitchen Brennan had set a table for two, red roses, and candles. He lit the candles, poured them each a glass of white wine and served up the meal of herb roasted chicken and pasta he had talked Jesse into making for them.
With supper on the table, Brennan pulled out Shalimar’s chair for her and seated her.
He walked around the table and sat in his own chair. For a moment silence filled the room as they looked at each other, the light of the candles reflecting in their eyes.
“Supper looks wonderful.” Shalimar said when the silence got to be too much for her.
“Jesse cooked it. I don’t think I could have boiled the water for the noodles properly.”
“Who chose the menu?”
“That part I could do. I knew that this was one fo your favorite things to eat.”
An awkward silence fell on the table.
“You know this is normally about the time we get interrupted by some big emergency that we have to go in and fix.” Brennan laughed.
“I hate when that happens. I don’t think you and I have managed to have five full dates in the last several months.”
“Well hopefully this one will make it all the way.”
Later that night.
Brennan and Shalimar collapsed onto her bed. The sheer intensity of their emotions throwing both of them into a deep need for each other. It took little time for their clothes to come off and them to begin making love. |
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The next day.
Brennan woke up late in the morning with Shalimar laying in his arms. He gently pressed a kiss to the top of her head and then pulled the blankets closer up around them. Lying quietly he could hear the sound of her breathing, the sounds from the rest of Sanctuary softly echoed into the room. Lexa and Jesse arguing over some pointless thing and the computer beeping.
He closed his eyes and tried to let himself fall back to sleep, unfortunately failing. Shalimar finally began to stir, and woke up slowly. Brennan leaned down and pressed a kiss to her lips and pulled her body close against his. When the kiss broke Shalimar laid her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. For a few moments they laid in complete silence.
“We really should get up now.” Shalimar whispered, not making a move to leave Brennan’s arms.
“I guess we wouldn’t want Jesse and Lexa to come looking for us.” Brennan agreed reluctantly.
They slipped out of the bed and Brennan pulled on the clothes he had worn the night before, not wanting to risk an awkward run in with one of the others.
A few minutes later all four members of Mutant X were sitting around the breakfast table. Shalimar noticed that Lexa was sitting unusually close to Jesse, and that the other couples body language suggested they had spent the night at least sleeping in the same bed.
Brennan also noticed the two moleculars, but dismissed the whole thing with out a second thought.
The meal was quick and quiet. Both couples were too wrapped up in their own little worlds to really talk as a group.
When the meal was over the boys went out to take care of the various jobs that they had to do while the girls stayed in the kitchen to clean up after breakfast.
“So were you two safe?” Shalimar asked when she was sure the boys were out of hearing range.
Lexa startled at the question, but then smiled. “We didn’t do anything last night.”
Shalimar raised an eyebrow. “You didn’t do anything last night? Not what your body language says.”
“We talked, kissed a little and I slept in his room in his bed. No sex involved, not yet anyway.”
“You mean in the nearly eight months you two have been ‘together’ you haven’t had sex with him?”
“Jesse and I aren’t together. I thought that you understood that I wasn’t looking for a relationship.”
“Doesn’t mean that you two wouldn’t have.” she wiped a plate dry and put it away in the cabinet. “So did you help Brennan pick out my birthday present?”
“I did and all I can say is that you will love it. It took him forever to pick out though.”
“I’m sure it is perfect. I think we’re going to a club tonight if you and Jesse want to come.”
“Exactly how do you expect me to get the nerd wonder away from his computer for that long?”
“I’m sure if you promised him a reward he’d leave the computers alone for a while.”
“I don’t think I’m up to a night out.” Lexa put away the final fork and turned to face Shalimar. “That temporary treatment Jesse tried on me is starting to wear off.”
“You haven’t told him yet have you?”
“I figure he’s got enough to worry about right now and I don’t need to add to the stress load. I’d be the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
“If you don’t tell him and you end up dead it would be worse on him. You know how he feels about you.”
“I know that it makes him weak, and that if he’s not careful his feelings will get in the way and he’ll get sloppy in his work.”
“Don’t worry about Jesse so much. He knows how to separate himself from personal feelings when work needs him too.”
“I’ll talk to him about the treatment wearing off, but I’m not promising anything else.”
“You do that much and I’ll let you have a couple of days off before I start to make you crazy about telling him how you feel.”
The two women laughed and then walked out of the kitchen.
Later that afternoon.
Shalimar walked into the lab and found Jesse sitting at his computer. She noted the look of worry and frustration on his face as she walked over to him. “I guess you and Lexa talked.”
“I don’t know what to do.” He pushed his chair back from the computer and put his face in his hands. “I cant figure this one out.”
“Give yourself some time, you’ll get it. Maybe taking a night off would help.”
“I don’t know how much time she has, I need to stay in and work till I get this thing figured out.”
“Life is too short to be spent behind a computer. Just come out to the club with me and Brennan tonight. You only have to stay out three hours at the most. You can even bring one of the hand helds and work on this at the club if you want.”
“You and Bren go out. I’ll stay home and work. I don’t want to be the third wheel.”
“You wouldn’t be the third wheel if you bring Lexa along as your date.”
“I don’t think she’d go for it. She’s made it perfectly clear to me that she’s not interested in dating me.”
“Come on, it doesn’t mean you two are in a relationship. You two can just come with us to the club, I don’t care if you don’t say a word to her the whole night. You and I both know that you want to date her, but if you don’t make a move that will never happen. The worst that could happen is that you have a horrible, boring night and the best that could happen… you spend tonight in bed with Lexa having a little fun.”
“You know its been so long that I don’t think I can even remember what that kind of fun is like.”
“All the more reason for you to get your butt out of that chair and go have some fun for a night. Maybe relearn what that kind of fun is like.”
“I’ll ask her, but I cant guarantee that she’ll say yes.”
“Just ask her and she what she says.” Shalimar called over her shoulder as she walked out of the lab.
Later that night
Shalimar watched from her bedroom door as Lexa slipped out of her room and into Jesse’s. When she heard the click of the lock on her door she smiled, knowing that her plan to get the two of them to finally hook up was working. She walked over to her bed and slipped in next to Brennan, curling up into his arms and falling asleep.
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The next day.
Late afternoon
Shalimar stood in front of her full length mirror looking at the dress she was going to wear in just a few days to her birthday party. The four had already decided to go eat at a small, but fancy restaurant on the outskirts of town near what Lexa and Jesse referred to as ‘snob hills.’ With the party only four days away Shalimar had taken the morning to go shopping for something special to wear. Only a few minutes after walking into the store she had found the perfect dress and immediately bought it.
The dress was a soft silk in a deep burgundy made in a slim cut style. There was a slit on one side that went up to mid thigh and the neck line plunged down low. Thinking carefully as she looked at her reflection Shalimar decided that the dress would look best with the diamond necklace Adam had bought her after she graduated from high school.
She pulled the necklace out of its velvet lined box and carefully fastened the clasp then looked back in the mirror. She smiled at the reflection and decided that she had been right about the necklace. Carefully she took off both the dress and the necklace and put them away safely.
She heard someone knocking on the door and quickly pulled back on her clothes. “Come in.”
Lexa opened the door, stepped in the room, and closed the door tightly behind her. “We need to talk.”
“Sounds serious.” Shalimar sat down on her bed and signaled Lexa to join her. “What’s up?”
“I guess its no secret what happened between me and Jess last night after we got back home.”
“Not really. You having regrets about it?”
“Not so much about what we did as I am about how we did it.”
“How you did it? That isn’t making much since to me.”
“Well you know its been a long time since he has, and well I’m not on any thing…”
“And he didn’t have anything?”
“Exactly. I really thought that we were safe, but I was flipping through a calendar, and well I’m not so sure that we are.”
“Well if you need me to I can run the scans so Jesse doesn’t have to know.”
“Thanks.” Lexa was still visibly shaken. “I really cant deal with this, at least not now.”
“Its no secret that you don’t want to have kids. I guess I should check into the other options you’d have just in case.”
“No, don’t bother.” Lexa pushed a strand of hair back from her face. “If it turns out that I did get pregnant because of my stupidity last night, well I know a good prenatal specialist.”
“Prenatal specialist? You’d actually go through with a pregnancy?”
“Not if the father was any other man, but I don’t know. I guess I feel like I don’t have a right to even tell Jesse that I was getting an abortion if I was pregnant.”
“He’d give you your choice. I mean I know he’d want the kid, he feels like he has something to make up for.”
“I know he’d give me a choice, but when he looks at you with those eyes, even I have a hard time saying no.” Lexa laughed slightly. “So what does he feel he has to make up for?”
“His father. Noah Kilmartin was not what a father should be, and now Jesse feels he needs to make up for that by having a kid of his own.”
“This just gets more complicated. I’ll talk to you later. I’m supposed to be letting Jesse test a new formula on me.”
“We’ll find Adam soon then Jesse can stop worrying so much, maybe even be able to spend a little more time with you.”
“Yeah, get himself in even more trouble.” Lexa walked out of the room.
Two hours later.
Shalimar walked into the lab and found Jesse working at his computer.
“You having any luck?”
“Not really. I guess I’m too tired to think. Didn’t sleep all that well last night.”
“Oh I know you didn’t get much sleep last night. Actually that reminds me of something.”
“What does it remind you of?” Jesse gave her a weird look.
“I was just wondering about what would happen with those stabilization formulas you are trying if it was used on a pregnant woman.”
“I guess worst case scenario the pregnancy would be terminated. You don’t have something you’re not telling me do you?”
“I’m not pregnant, I would tell you if I was.”
“Good.” he shook his head as an idea came to him. “God forbid I be right, but is Lexa?”
“It wouldn’t be my place to say if she was.”
“Right now I don’t care whose place it would be. I don’t know what could happen to a pregnant woman, and if she is I really need to know.”
“If she was I’d tell you, but as far as I know she isn’t.”
“She scared because of last night?”
“A little. She is at a disadvantage with this one.”
“I’ll go talk to her later.”
“Just don’t tell her I told you anything. Let her think you came up with the idea on your own.”
“Right. I’ll still be bracing myself for the worst.” He looked down at the key board. “Part of the reason I never pushed her for a relationship was because I knew eventually the subject of kids would come up again.”
“Because she doesn’t want to have kids?”
“Even as much as I love her I couldn’t choose between her or having a chance to raise kids of my own.”
“So if Alicia came back you’d go with her because she’d probably be willing to have kids?”
“I never said that.”
“So what are you saying?”
“That I cant deal with only having one or the other. If I stay with Lexa I can forget the idea of having kids with her, but if I go with having kids I lose Lexa. After all I’ve done with helping others and saving the world over and over with out any thanks I think I’m entitled to have both.”
“You are. Just talk to her Jess, and tell her what you told me.”
“Do you want her to yell at me?”
“Just humor me.”
“Alright, I’ll talk to her.”
That night
Lexa stormed into Shalimar’s bedroom in full rage. “How could you do that to me!”
“Do what?” Shalimar asked cautiously.
“You told Jesse! I thought I didn’t have to spell out that I didn’t want him to know!”
“I didn’t flat out tell him. I was trying to find out if there was any danger for you to be taking those antidotes if you were pregnant. He pulled more out of the things I left unsaid.”
“You know what it doesn’t matter. I’m never going to trust you like that again.”
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The Next Day.
Shalimar walked into the kitchen to help Lexa prepare breakfast only to be greeted with an icy stare from the other woman. She knew that Lexa could hold a grudge, but had hoped that maybe the brunette’s harsh words the day before had only been from the heat of the moment. Now, being bored through by the all-all-too-cool, cool blue eyes she knew that she had been wrong.
“I really am sorry about yesterday.” She said as she walked over to the counter and started to measure up the coffee.
“You are sorry about yesterday! I think that’s about the most irritating thing you’ve ever said to me since I got here!” Lexa shook her head. “For a group that has preached to me about trust you sure don’t seem to practice it yourselves.”
“I just was trying to find out if continuing the treatments would kill you, or possibly the baby if there was one. I did not go in there and tell him that you thought there was a possibility. That is something that you should tell him, not someone else; if it ever happened.”
“So how exactly did it come to him searching me out and bombarding me with questions about how I felt about things? And he did ask me about everything, from kids to marriage.”
“He came up with it on his own. All I did was answer him when he asked if you were scared because of the night before. I didn’t even spell out what you were scared about. He’s smart and he loves you.”
“I told him and I’m telling you, that ‘love’ word is not something I ever want to hear. I’ve lived for as long as I have by breaking off all personal feelings, and the few I allowed myself to start feeling here have been the cause of a lot of pain lately. Maybe it’s not the happiest way to live, but it is a lot easier.”
“You can have the kitchen to yourself.” Shalimar turned and walked out of the room. She was already stressed from the knowledge that maybe she had stepped over a few lines when she had talked to Jesse before, and arguing with Lexa was not going to do anything to help alleviate that stress.
Walking down the hall she inwardly cringed when she saw Jesse headed toward her. She knew that she had nowhere to hide, and therefore no way to get out of talking to him. It was a certainty that the man would want to talk to her, even if she did want to avoid that particular ritual for a while longer.
“Shal, have you got a few minutes?” Jesse asked when he reached her.
“Sure.” She gave him her best fake smile and followed him over to the sofa. “What’s on your mind?”
“I get the feeling you already half know so I’ll just go straight to the point. I all but proposed to her last night and then she made it perfectly clear that she doesn’t want a relationship.”
“I don’t think it was so much you as it was her angry with me. She thinks I went straight to you and told you everything she and I had talked about earlier.”
“So that’s why you were so selective in how you said things yesterday. You were trying to tell me with out telling me.”
“I just wanted to make sure that your antidotes wouldn’t kill her or the baby if there was one.”
“She wouldn’t have cared if the pregnancy had been terminated, only if her life had been put in danger and she might have been ok with that. She misses her brother.”
“I know she misses him, but I also know you’re wrong about something. Since I already told you most of it I may as well seal my fate. If she is pregnant she plans on keeping the baby. She said that she wouldn’t have a baby with any other man, but with you it is different. Even though she won’t say it, I think she really does love you.”
“Lets not go there for now, at least not about me and Lexa. You and Bren have any plans for marriage or kids?”
“We’ve talked about it. He and I would both love to have kids, one day; and we would like to have those kids together. I guess time will tell how that all works out.”
“He’ll be good for you. Adam and I always saw it. We used to talk about it when I was helping him with the lab work. You know, looking back I wonder if he really needed the extra set of hands or if he knew that I’d eventually have to be the one in there.”
“Maybe it was a little of both. I wish he was here so we could all stop living with a death sentence over our heads. I think that once Lexa can stop worrying about her life being on the line she can start learning to be in a relationship. Not to mention the fact that you could use the sleep and rest. You may not have to worry about your powers killing you, but you are going to kill yourself from exhaustion if you aren’t careful.”
“There will be plenty of time for me to rest after you three are stabilized. For now I get to enjoy what was always Adam’s job, worrying about everyone.”
“Just don’t kill yourself before you save the rest of us.”
“I won’t.” Jesse gave her a gentle smile and then stood up to leave. “I’ll try to calm her down for you.”
“Don’t worry about it.”
“Guys I’ve got something!” Brennan called as he ran into the room. “There was a message sent to our computer last night. It’s from Adam.”
“Let’s go see what is in the message.” Jesse said as he headed to the computers. He sat down and quickly pulled up the video message.
“Jesse, Brennan, Shalimar, and hopefully Lexa, I’m sending this message to you because there has been a slight break in the situation. I know that it has been a long time since the day that I was lead off by the Creator and the others with the Dominion, and I am hoping that you are all well. According to the original dates Lexa should have died a month ago, but I’m hoping that my capable student has found a way to at least prolong her life in his search for a cure. If he hasn’t then I address you, Brennan and Shalimar, more than I address him.
“If Lexa is gone the only job I have for Jesse to do is decoding this message for the coordinates. I am giving you strict orders to let him grieve for her as long as he needs to. I know that when he lost Emma he never got the chance to grieve for her, and I do not want that building up to bring him to a breaking point. If this does not work he may be the only chance that new mutants have.
“Once you have the coordinates wait for my next message. It will tell you when to meet me, and it will be sent to you in two days. I know that this time frame will make preparations and Jesse’s decoding that much more difficult but it is the only chance we may have at this working.
“The good news is that after this meeting takes place there will no longer be such a death sentence for new mutants. I am hoping that I have reached you before it is too late, but I am even more hoping that this wasn’t necessary at all. I have all faith in the belief that Jesse could find the cure on his own; that is why I have been careful not to contact you until I was sure that our meeting would not be intercepted.
“I leave you all for now, and will hope to see you at the assigned place and time.” The recording ended, leaving the three in silence.
“So I guess Jesse did his work pretty well since I’m still alive.” Lexa said from the doorway. Seeing the tears that were starting to form in Jesse’s eyes she walked over to him and gently pressed her lips to his. “I need to talk to him alone.”
Shalimar and Brennan nodded and walked out of the room, leaving the two to themselves.
“I know that you and Shalimar talked again today.” Lexa whispered as she slid onto his lap and put one arm around his back. “I just couldn’t tell you the truth yet. Not with the knowledge that I was still living on borrowed time.”
“So you thought it would be easier on me if you lied to me?” his tone was almost bitter, but more full of hurt.
Lexa reached up and gently brushed away the tears that had started to roll down his cheeks. “I just couldn’t let myself love you until I knew that I wasn’t going to die so quickly.”
“You know that it would have hurt me more to have watched you dying and not know how you felt about me.”
“I do.” Lexa closed her eyes and willed back her own tears. “After this is over we can start trying to work at this. I love you, and I do agree that you deserve to have everything you want, even if that is having both me and kids of your own. It may be a while before I’m ready to officially start a family with you, but if we are pregnant now I will not do anything to kill our child.”
“And if we aren’t?”
“Then you’ll just have to wait a little while before I’m ready to try for a baby. I’ve wanted kids with you ever since we started this undefined relationship with you. The majority of my hesitancy was the fact that I knew there was a strong chance of me dying during the pregnancy, but if Adam can stabilize us that changes a lot.”
Jesse took a deep breath and pulled her close to him. “If you are or are not pregnant we are still going to take this slowly. I don’t want to rush into anything, not until we have had sometime to develop as a couple. I love you too much to push you into anything.”
“I love you too.” Lexa whispered and then kissed him again, but more passionately this time. |
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The next day
Shalimar walked into the computer area to find Jesse hard at work. He had begun the decoding process immediately after he and Lexa had finished talking the day before, and had only stopped working when he had to. After nearly twenty four hours, Shalimar hoped that he was nearing the end of his work.
“There.” Jesse said as he pressed a final button. The numbers on the screen disappeared and were replaced by a map.
“You broke the inscription?” Shalimar asked as she walked over to him.
“Finally. Now all we have to do is to wait for the next message.” Jesse printed off the map and then turned to face her. “I didn’t get a chance to talk to her yet, but I promise I’ll do it soon. Yesterday was too much about me and her for me to explain why you did what you did.”
“It’s ok. I understand that you needed to talk about other things. She and I will eventually reconcile.”
“We both know how badly she holds a grudge.” Jesse turned back around and turned off the computer. “I’m going to get some sleep since I hardly got any last night.”
“Just don’t let Lexa join you or you’ll never get any sleep.”
“Like I’m going to deny her of her fun if she wants it.” He smirked slightly. “I’m too tired to deal with her right now. I’ll spend some time with her later.”
“It will be nice to get you out of the lab for a while. I was beginning to think that you were going to move in there.”
“I know it always felt like Adam lived in there.” Jesse shook his head. “He sounded so confident that I could have found the cure. He knows I don’t have much medical or science training with the exception of what he taught me.”
“He taught you well. I think you had it right when you said you thought he was teaching you so you could take his place.” Shalimar looked down at the floor for a second. “I have felt very safe putting my health in your hands over the past two years.”
“You always know what to say to me. I guess that is what happens after living with a person for what, nearly fifteen years now?”
“Yeah. You know you’ll be thirty-one soon. I can’t believe how much time has past since the day you walked into Sanctuary.”
“Do we really have to make a trip down memory lane?”
“We’ll save it for my birthday.” She leaned in and kissed him on the cheek. “Go get yourself some rest.”
“Love you, Sis.”
“Love you too, Little Brother.” Shalimar smiled and watched him walk out of the room.
“So are you done telling him the newest batch of secrets you’ve gathered?” Lexa asked as she walked into the room. She sat down at the computer and turned it back on.
“Lexa, I was really only looking out for you. I did not want to do anything that would break your trust in me.”
“What you did was a good thing.” Lexa answered icily. “You reminded me why I shouldn’t trust people.”
“I guess that means you are through playing around at a relationship with Jesse?”
Lexa snapped her view up to look at the blonde woman. “What happens between me and Jesse is our business. If you have any kind of problem with us, say it to my face instead of hinting around at things.”
“I’ve got no problem with you two being together. I’m just saying that relationships are built on trust, and if you’re not going to trust people I don’t see how you are going to learn to let him love you and to love him back.”
“I think that my emotions have already been messed with enough by you. Now if you don’t mind I have got some work that I’m supposed to be doing.”
“Just remember that he is my family, and that he was my family long before he became whatever it is he is to you. If you hurt him in any way I promise you that you will regret doing it, you might even regret the day you were born.” Shalimar turned and walked out of the room.
“I already regret the day I was born.” Lexa muttered under her breath as she opened a file. She smiled slightly as she read the first line of type aloud to herself. “Lina Blair Kilmartin or Benito Willem Kilmartin.” She stared at the names for a second and then closed out the computer.
Quietly walking she made her way to Jesse’s room. She opened the door slightly and smiled as she watched him sleep. He had come in and crashed on the bed without bothering to take off anything but his shoes. She slipped into the room and picked up a blanket from the foot of his bed. Gently kissing his forehead as she leaned down over him, she covered him with the blanket and then left the room, closing the door behind her.
“So he finally managed to break the inscription?” Brennan asked when he saw Lexa leaving Jesse’s room.
“Not too long ago. He was up all night working on it. I’ll be glad when the mission is over and we have Adam back here so Jess can finally get some rest. He’s been working almost non-stop since the day we lost Sanctuary and the Helix.”
“We’re all worried about him. He pulled through this kind of work for years under Adam’s supervision so I’m pretty sure that he can handle another day or two of it.” Brennan fell silent for a minute. “Do you want to go watch a movie or something? Shal is doing some sort of spa day thing since her birthday is in two days and Jess needs the sleep.”
“I guess that could be fun. Better than worrying over the ‘what ifs’ of meeting Adam.”
“It’s not gonna be easy to bring him back here. Things have changed so much in this last year.”
“You’re right about that one. The last time I really worked in the same place as Adam he was my leader, in the last year we haven’t had a leader. It is going to take a lot of getting used to that feeling again.”
“Somehow I don’t think he’s going to come back in as our leader. I think this time around we’ll all be equals.”
“And maybe a few other things will change.” Lexa smiled slightly. “Jesse is considering going back to college.”
“I didn’t know he ever went in the first place.”
“He has a degree in English literature, and had started to study some medicine before he dropped out. I think he was just about done with the majority of his pre-med classes.”
“So what when Adam comes back he’s going to go back to college and finish getting his medical degree?”
“He might. He just doesn’t want to bring up the subject around Shal since she got upset when he dropped out last time.”
“I guess that a lot more things make sense, especially the fact that he was able to take over the lab work with out too much trouble.” Brennan shook his head. “I just can’t believe he never told me about it.”
“Like I said, it’s a sore spot with your girlfriend. She wanted him to finish getting the degree, but he felt it would be better to focus on his job with the Underground. I think he intended to go back when things settled down, but things never really settle down around here.”
“So how did you find it out since he never talks about it?”
“I found the degree stashed away in a drawer when I was helping him go through the stuff that had survived the explosion. It’s a good thing the bed rooms were on the other side of Sanctuary or everything might have been destroyed.”
“I’ve thought of that every time I’ve played my guitar since that day. A lot of memories would have been lost if Adam hadn’t made that provision.”
“You’d better be careful or one of the others could see you going all soft with me.” Lexa laughed.
“We’ll just have to go watch us a real kick-butt action movie then.”
That night.
Shalimar lay back in Brennan’s bed trying to get herself to fall asleep. It had been a long day, and the next couple of days would be filled with even more excitement. Tomorrow they would get their next message from Adam, and be that much closer to having a chance at a real life; and then there was her birthday. For the past few days she had heard Brennan, Jesse, and Lexa whisper about some big surprise, but she could not figure out what it was.
Closing her eyes she let her senses do a sweep of Sanctuary. Once she was certain that everything and everyone was alright she managed to fall asleep. |
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Chapter 7.
The Next Day.
The group of four sat impatiently waiting on the sofa near the computers. Lexa had been careful to position herself with both Jesse and Brennan between her and Shalimar. The two women were at an uneasy truce as they waited for the message from Adam.
When the computer finally beeped to signal that a new message had arrived the group jumped. Taking a deep breath Jesse got up and walked over to the computer. The other three followed as Jesse began to punch in the codes to play the message.
“Hopefully Jesse has decoded the coordinates that I send in the first message. I know that tomorrow is Shalimar’s birthday and I wish that I could be with her then. I hate the fact that I have to make it three years in a row that I have missed the celebration.
“With that said, the day after tomorrow is the day we will meet. You are to arrive at one p.m. and I will be joining you in fifteen minutes from that time. If Lexa is indeed still with us I want her to remain at Sanctuary while the mission is in progress. Jesse has his choice to stay home with her or come to the meeting.
“I must cut this short. I will see all of you in two days.” The message ended and Adam’s image disappeared from the screen.
“I refuse to be left at home while the rest of you go get him.” Lexa stated and crossed her arms over her chest.
Jesse, Brennan, and Shalimar exchanged glances quickly.
“We’re staying here, Lexa.” Jesse replied calmly. Reaching out he took her hand and pulled her to him. “I’m this close to getting to keep you forever and I’m not about to let you get away from me because of something this simple. Shalimar and Brennan can handle this one.”
“None of you have even considered the possibility that this is just a set up.” Lexa said as she snatched away from Jesse and began to pace back and forth in front of the others. “For all we know he’s being forced to do this so someone can lure us out to kill us. If that’s the case we are going to all need to go in.”
“We have thought about that, Lexa.” Brennan answered with an uncharacteristic calm. “If it was a trap to lure us out Adam would have never told you and Jesse to stay home. Shalimar and I will take our chances on this one.”
Lexa shot Jesse a glare and left the room.
“She’ll calm down later.” Jesse said as he turned to face the computer. “You guys can go do whatever you need to do. I’ll stay here and work on these security systems.”
“I’m going to chance and then head to the dojo for a bit of a workout.” Shalimar said as she gathered up her blonde locks into a thick pony tail. “Bren, you want to come join me?”
“I’ll be along.” Brennan watched as the feral walked out and then turend back to Jesse. “You really think it’s going to be that easy to leave her here.”
“I’m not stupid. She’ll be fine, upset but fine.”
“So are you going to try to go back to school?”
Jesse turned to face him, his expression that of sheer surprise. “I guess I might. I mean, I regret that I dropped out back then; but going back to pre-med would be hard after nearly ten years.”
“It could be a step towards a normal life. A normal job, and maybe a wife and kids later.”
“A normal life, now there is a good joke. Lexa would never agree to it. She loves the thrill of putting her life on the lone, and I love this work just as much as she does.” Jesse typed in a few more commands on the computer. “Which one told you?”
“Lexa did.” Brennan took a deep breath as he thought back to the conversation with the woman. “She sounded really proud of you. I’m not sure if it was the English lit degree or the start into pre-med, but she really sounded proud.”
“She nearly flipped out when she found the English Lit degree. I guess she always say you as the poetry person and thought of me as the computer geek.”
“The computer guy is the one we all know. I guess even after all these years we still have our secrets.”
“And with Adam coming back there will be even more secrets around here.” Jesse sighed. “It will be nice to know that you three aren’t’ going to die because of your powers, but I’m not looking forward to going back to all the secrets and the ‘need-to-know-basis’ information.”
“Then we tell him that we can’t operate like that anymore. It might take some time, but I’m pretty sure we’ll get our point across.”
“On that note I’ll get to work on a file or our recent missions so we can prove that equal power does work well.”
“Good luck, man.” Brennan said as he walked out of the room. |
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The next day
Shalimar stood in front of her bathroom counter as she began to carefully style her hair. With slow motions she twisted up a section of hair around her curling iron, after a few moments she unwound the section and let it fall in a thick ringlet. One at a time she curled the sections of her hair until it was all laying in soft ringlets about her face. She pulled her hair back from her face with a set of diamond encrusted combs but let the rest of it fall loosely.
She quickly applied her make-up and then opened the zippered bag that held the burgundy dress. Very carefully she put the dress on and then her jewelry. With one final touch to her hair she was ready. On the way out the door of her room she lightly sprayed herself with her perfume and picked up her purse and shoes.
Jesse, Brennan, and Lexa were waiting in the rec room. Lexa stood in front of Jesse, straitening his tie and the collar of his shirt. Once she was satisfied that he looked right she lightly pressed her lips to his in a gentle kiss.
Brennan and Shalimar exchanged a smile as they watched the other couple. Brennan lightly kissed Shalimar and took her hand.
“You two ready to go?” Shalimar asked Jesse and Lexa.
“Yeah.” Jesse took Lexa’s arm. “Which car are we taking?”
“Two separate cars tonight.” Brennan took a nervous breath.
“Then lets get this show on the road.’ Lexa said as she started to lead Jesse out of the room.
Two hours later
The group of four sat around the table, laughing and talking. They had just finished their entrées and were waiting on dessert.
“Excuse me, Miss.” The waiter said as he stood next to Shalimar. “This was dropped off for you earlier.”
“Thank you.” Shalimar said as she took the box. Looking up at the others she toyed with he ribbon that was tied around it. “Which one of you did this?”
The other three looked at each other questioningly.
“Its not from one of us, Shal.” Jesse answered. “I guess we open it and find out.”
“Alright.” Shalimar untied the ribbon and opened the box. Lying in the box was a full length mink coat and a card. Shalimar opened the card and read what was written inside. “‘Shalimar, although I cannot celebrate with you I did manage to send this to you. Knowing how you feel about furs they are not real, but do look as if they are. Happy birthday, Shalimar. Love Adam.’”
“He sent you a birthday present.” Lexa smiled slightly. “I guess we should give you are gifts now.” She handed the blonde woman a small white box.
Shalimar opened it and smiled at the stack of gift cards from various stores. “Thank you, Lexa. I’ll enjoy these.” She answered softly.
“I’ve got two for you.” Jesse handed her a small rectangular package and an envelope. “Open the package first.”
“Alright.” Shalimar carefully un-wrapped the wrapping paper and found a book with her name across it. Flipping thought the pages she found stories from her years with Mutant X, and pictures of her with the other team members. “It’s wonderful, Jess.”
“I had it specially made for you.’ He smiled and raked his fingers through his hair. “Open the envelope now.”
Shalimar carefully slit open the envelope and pulled out a piece of paper. She stared at it with confusion. “What is this?”
“What does it look like?” Jesse shot back, still smiling.
“A class schedule?”
“What kind of classes, Shal?” Jesse asked, trying not to laugh.
Shalimar carefully studied the courses listed. “Pre-med?” Her eyes widened as realization dawned on her. “You’re going back to school to get your med degree?”
“My classes start in two months. Are you happy?”
“Happy! I’m elated!” She got up, walked over to him, and hugged him. “You are going to make a great doctor.”
“I think one more person has a present for you, Shal.” Lexa said softly.
“Alright.” Shalimar gently kissed Jesse on the cheek and then went back to her seat.
Brennan got up, walked over to Shalimar, and knelt down on one knee as he pulled out the jewelry box. “During the last four years our lives have been insane. There have been many times when one or both of us have almost been killed, and there have been times when we have hurt each other. Each and every time that I have come close to loosing you have shown me how much I love you. So tonight I want to ask you to be my wife. Shalimar Fox, will you marry me?”
“Yes, I’ll marry you.” She leaned in and lightly kissed him.
Three hours later.
Brennan and Shalimar stood outside the door of the justice of the peace’s office.
Brennan turned to Shalimar and looked at her. “Are you sure you want to do this?”
“I’m sure. I cant wait another day to be your wife.” She smiled at him. “I’m just glad that you’re friend could swing this.”
“So am I.” Brennan gently kissed her. “After this is over we’ll go somewhere special and when we get home in the morning you can announce that we are Mr. and Mrs. Brennan Mulwray.”
“I love you, Brennan.”
“I love you too, Shal.” |
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The Next Day.
11:30 am.
Shalimar and Brennan walked into the computer lab of New Sanctuary and found Jesse working at the computer.
Jesse looked up when he heard them and then briskly began to get things together. “Lexa is still asleep thanks to the sedative I gave her this morning. I hated doing it, but didn’t want to take any chances. You guys need to hurry up and get out of here because I don’t want there to be any chance of her waking up early and slipping out with you. I’ll be monitoring things from here, but there shouldn’t be any trouble. Call me before you come back in of anything goes wrong.” He took a deep breath. “I want you guys back here with in twenty minutes of getting Adam. Lexa’s last treatment could give out by tonight so we don’t have time to delay.”
Shalimar gently hugged Jesse. “She’ll be alright. We’ll be back as quickly as we can.”
Jesse nodded and chocked back his tears. “Let’s get this over with.”
1:10 pm.
Brennan and Shalimar sat crouched behind a low brick wall as they waited. With every second that passed by they grew more anxious.”
“Someone’s coming.” Shalimar whispered. She turned to her feral senses. “It’s Adam. There are about three people a block away but I cant be sure about anything further.”
“We’ll get Adam and get out of here.” Brennan whispered back.
They stood up and called to their former leader in unison. “Adam!”
Adam turned to face them and then hurried over to them. “We need to leave now. I cannot be certain, but I think someone followed me.”
“Then let’s go.’ Brennan said and started toward the Helix. Just as they reached the door three men appeared. One was carrying a semi-automatic and opened fire.
The group rushed in: Brennan, Adam, and then Shalimar. Just as Shalimar reached to close the door a bullet tore through her body, near her heart.
Both men turned as they heard her fall. Adam knelt down net to her to examine the wound while Brennan shot the three men with an electic arc.
“We need to get her to a hospital now!” Adam called as Brennan rushed to close the door and start the Helix.
“We’ve got New Sanctuary set up. Jess has expanded his training; between the two of you she’ll be fine!” Brennan called back and switched on the com link. “Jess, we’re coming in. Prep the med la, Shal’s been shot.”
“It’ll be ready when you get here!” Jesse called, already leaving the computer.
Brennan looked back to where Adam had strapped Shalimar into a reclined chair. Every fiber of his being prayed that she would pull through it.
Four hours later.
Adam nodded and Jesse pulled a sheet over Shalimar, pressing a loving kiss to her forehead before he covered her face. Both men had done everything they could to save her, but it was not enough.
They walked out of the lab to where Lexa and Brennan were waiting anxiously.
“Brennan,” Adam took a deep breath to keep his voice from breaking. “I’m sorry. Jesse and I did everything possible for her.”
Brennan put his face in his hands as he began to cry. Adam signaled Jesse and Lexa and the three walked out to give Brennan his space.
“I’ll go prep the lab for treating Lexa.” Adam whispered. “I refuse to loose another person.” He walked back into the lab leaving Jesse and Lexa alone.
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Present day.
Brennan left his room having made the phone call to the girl. Cheri was now the only person who could help him set things right.
As he made his way down the hall he heard the door to Jesse and Lexa’s bedroom slam shut. Looking up he saw Jesse standing outside the door, his whole body showing how stressed he was.
“The results not good?” Brennan asked quietly as he approached the other man.
Jesse took a deep breath to relax himself before looking up. “I don’t know what’s harder on her. The fact that we can’t conceive or the fact that she’s got no one to talk to about it.”
“Have you talked to Adam to see if you could help in anyway?”
“He told me what fertility tests to run and when everything came back ok he said there really wasn’t anything he could do. I’ve talked to all the doctors we’ve ever worked will and they cant figure anything out. I’ve even had a shrink tell me that Lexa and I are too stressed out.”
“She’s done a one-eighty on this. I can remember when she used to have a whole list of reasons why not to have a child.”
“And now she’s got a longer list on why she wants one.” Jesse shook his head. “I guess I’d better talk to her.”
“Yeah. Maybe the shrink is right though. I would have thought she’d be pregnant by now with you two trying every night for the last eight months.”
“We’ve all been stressed after this last year.” Jesse ran his fingers through his hair, pushing the now almost shoulder length locks back. “She also realized that today was the day I would have officially become a doctor.”
“And it reminded her of her fight with Shal.” Brennan added. “Somehow I think even all of this would be easier if Adam hadn’t left.”
“He stayed for a month, long enough to find out that her ghost would haunt his as long as he stayed here. I think we’ve all considered leaving at one time or another. He didn’t have it in him to come back to the team same as I didn’t have it in me to go back to medical school as I had planned.”
“And none of us felt like working on the Underground. How is Toni doing at that?”
“She has her work cut out for her, but I think she’ll be ok. I guess it’s probably too much for one person, but for now she can make due.”
“We all will. I’m going to pick up some stuff for the Helix. I’ll be back in a while. Good luck with calming her down.”
“I’ll need it.” Jesse sighed and phased through the locked bedroom door.
Three hours later.
Brennan stood outside an ice cream shop waiting. When he saw the small brunette approaching he went in and got in line to order.
“Hello, Brennan.” Cheri half whispered as she stood next to him. “Get the ice cream to go and we’ll talk in the park.”
“Strawberry still your flavor?”
“I knew you’d never forget.” She turned and walked outside.
A few minutes later Brennan walked out carrying a cone of strawberry for her and one of vanilla for himself and joined the girl.
“So why did you ask me to meet you?” Cheri asked as they strolled in the shade of the old trees.
“I need you to send me back in time.”
“Altering things could cause trouble.”
“Cheri, I really need this. I’ve tried living with out her, but I can’t do it. If you send me back to a week before she died I wont tell her anything, only try to warn her.”
“Meet me tonight. Here at midnight if you want a chance to save her.” |
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Brennan sat quietly at the table trying to eat. He hoped that Lexa and Jesse were too distracted by their own problems to notice his uneasiness.
“Brennan, are you with us?” Lexa asked.
Brennan shook his head and looked at her. ‘Sorry, just thinking.”
“Lexa, don’t do this right now.’ Jesse whispered. “Not today.”
Lexa shot Jesse a glare and returned to eating.
Brennan looked at Jesse questioningly but got no response from the blonde molecular. Silently he ate his supper until he noticed a shimmer on Lexa’s left hand when she reached for a napkin. “When’s the date?”
Lexa and Jesse exchanged a look quickly. Jesse took Lexa’s hand and gently stroked her fingers with his.
“We’re getting married at the end of the week.’ Lexa answered softly. “It’s not going to be much of anything. I didn’t feel right about having a real wedding so we’re just going to the justice of the peace.”
“After everything is settled we’re going to talk to some people in the Underground who run an adoption agency.’ Jesse added.
Brennan stared at the table for a minute, unable to speak. “Congratulations.’ He almost whispered. “I need to go take care of some stuff.” He got up and left the table.
Midnight at the park.
Brennan walked over to where Cheri was standing. “Lets do this.”
“Once you go back I can’t control things here. You’re past self will be sent to a limbo state and current time will freeze. When I bring you back you will be at a random place. It all depends on how your changes affect things. You could end up back here or across the world.” Cheri explained quickly. “I’m sending you back to a week before she died. Don’t tell anyone who you really are. Try not to do anything that will affect the time line too much.”
“Don’t worry. I’ve done this before.”
“I know.’ Cheri smirked. “When my cousin Diane sent you back. She told me that you and Ashlocke nearly ruined a lot of things.”
“That was all Ashlocke, not me. He wanted to change things, and I only wanted to save the world.”
“And in the process you nearly killed my cousin and Jesse.”
“Just send me back. I promise not to make direct changes.”
“For me to get you back I’ll need to be able to trace you.” She leaned in and kissed him. “My DNA will be temporarily bonded with yours. I’ll be able to trace you and bring you back.”
Cheri opened a portal nodded to Brennan. Brennan stepped through and suddenly found himself being whisked through a long dark tunnel.
Suddenly the whole world seemed to come to a stop. He opened his eyes to find himself in bed. The cool crisp sheets brushed against his skin and someone next to him shifted.
Looking over he saw a mess of blonde curls lying on the pillow next to him.
“Shalimar.” He whispered as he leaned over and kissed her. He put an arm around her waist and laid close to her as he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. |
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7 days to change things
Brennan woke up as the alarm clocked blared in his ears. For a moment everything felt confusing, but then he remembered it all. He tightened his hold on Shalimar, trying to memorize the feeling again. In a moment of pure passion he pressed his lips to hers in a kiss.
Shalimar woke up when she felt Brennan kissing her. Smiling, she kissed him back. Things did not take long to heat up and they soon found themselves intertwined in pure passion and love.
Shalimar giggled when they finally came down from their high and she settled into Brennan’s arms. “Morning.”
“Morning yourself.” Brennan whispered and gently kissed the top of her head. “What are you going to do today?”
“If it all stays quiet I’m going to read that book I’ve been trying to finish. You are going shopping with Lexa for my birthday present.”
“Are you sure that you want her to go with me? Doesn’t Jesse know you better?”
“He and I may think of each other as brother and sister, but he has no taste in gifts. I’ve tried and tried to teach him, but for some reason he can’t learn.”
“I don’t know. I think he got you something pretty special this year.”
“There is one thing he could do to make me happy.” She shook her head. “Forget I said that.”
“Come on, tell me what you want from him.” Brennan coaxed.
“This never leaves this room.” She gave him a serious look. “Before you and Emma joined Jesse was on the fast track to being a doctor. Adam had him in contact with some professors who were helping him get there. I guess it was two years before you joined that we started having a few problems. There was an influx of new mutants going into the Underground, and they all needed new identification. I could get the work done, but I was just learning and it took me a while. To help cope with the problem Jesse took incompletes on his classes and started to work fulltime on the Underground. He said he was going to go back after things settled down, but things kept coming up that prevented him from doing it.”
“So you want him to go back to school.” Brennan guessed.
“I know that right now he can’t, but I would love if he could.” Shalimar smiled. “He’d make such a great pediatrician.”
“It would give them a big step to a normal life.”
“Lexa would never like having a normal life, but I think Jess could use the relaxation. It doesn’t matter though. The only way Jess could co back to school is if Adam were to come back.”
“Adam will be back. It may be a while before it happens, but Adam will be back.”
“That’s when the fireworks will start. None of us will want to give up the freedom we have. Not to mention the fact that we no longer do the whole secret keeping thing.”
“I think that there are parts of our lives that we won’t ever share with everyone, but you’re right. We don’t try to keep each other in the dark when it comes to missions.”
“I’m going to get a shower.” Shalimar softly kissed him and got out of bed. “I’ll see you later. Don’t forget about tonight.”
“I won’t.” Brennan promised.
Late that night.
Brennan laid in bed with Shalimar close to him. His fingers slowly ran up and down the sleeping feral’s back as he held her. He was deep in thought, trying to figure out how to save the woman. Of all the things he had ever done this was not only the most important, but also the hardest. He refused to mess things up and lose her again. Somehow he would make sure that this time things would turn out right.
Closing his eyes he gently kissed the top of Shalimar’s head and drifted off to sleep. He had only a couple more days to figure out how he was going to save the woman, but he could not do it with out some sleep. |
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6 days to change things.
That morning
As she ate breakfast Shalimar noticed that Lexa was sitting unusually close to Jesse, and that the other couples body language suggested they had spent the night at least sleeping in the same bed.
Brennan also noticed the two moleculars, but dismissed the whole thing with out a second thought.
The meal was quick and quiet. Both couples were too wrapped up in their own little worlds to really talk as a group.
When the meal was over the boys went out to take care of the various jobs that they had to do while the girls stayed in the kitchen to clean up after breakfast.
“So were you two safe?” Shalimar asked when she was sure the boys were out of hearing range.
Lexa startled at the question, but then smiled. “We didn’t do anything last night.”
Shalimar raised an eyebrow. “You didn’t do anything last night? Not what your body language says.”
“We talked, kissed a little and I slept in his room in his bed. No sex involved, not yet anyway.”
“You mean in the nearly eight months you two have been ‘together’ you haven’t had sex with him?”
“Jesse and I aren’t together. I thought that you understood that I wasn’t looking for a relationship.”
“Doesn’t mean that you two wouldn’t have.” she wiped a plate dry and put it away in the cabinet. “So did you help Brennan pick out my birthday present?”
“I did and all I can say is that you will love it. It took him forever to pick out though.”
“I’m sure it is perfect. I think we’re going to a club tonight if you and Jesse want to come.”
“Exactly how do you expect me to get the nerd wonder away from his computer for that long?”
“I’m sure if you promised him a reward he’d leave the computers alone for a while.”
“I don’t think I’m up to a night out.” Lexa put away the final fork and turned to face Shalimar. “That temporary treatment Jesse tried on me is starting to wear off.”
“You haven’t told him yet have you?”
“I figure he’s got enough to worry about right now and I don’t need to add to the stress load. I’d be the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
“If you don’t tell him and you end up dead it would be worse on him. You know how he feels about you.”
“I know that it makes him weak, and that if he’s not careful his feelings will get in the way and he’ll get sloppy in his work.”
“Don’t worry about Jesse so much. He knows how to separate himself from personal feelings when work needs him too.”
“I’ll talk to him about the treatment wearing off, but I’m not promising anything else.”
“You do that much and I’ll let you have a couple of days off before I start to make you crazy about telling him how you feel.”
The two women laughed and then walked out of the kitchen.
Lexa headed to the lab where she knew that Jesse was hard at work going through files to find a way to permanently stabilize her.
“Having fun?” she asked as she leaned on the counter.
“I wouldn’t exactly call this fun.” Jesse looked up at her. “Did Shal give you a hard time?”
“What do you mean?” Lexa asked coyly.
“She’s got to know that you slept in my room last night. You haven’t showered so my scent must be pretty strong on you from where you were all cuddled up with me.”
“She just wanted to make sure that we acted like responsible adults. I think she’s scared we’re going to act like teenagers and have a baby.”
“Just like her to play overprotective big sister.” Jesse shook his head. “So did you want me for something?”
“You’re not going to be too happy when I tell you this. My last treatment is starting to wear off. I can feel control of my powers slipping.”
“Damn it!” he hit his fist on the counter. “I thought this one was going to last longer. Let me scan you and I’ll see what I can get for you.”
“This is not your fault.” She walked around the counter to stand by him. Gently putting her hands on his shoulders she turned him to face her and then lightly kissed him. “You have done absolutely everything you could to stabilize me. Jess, you can’t expect to find the answer in just a few tries. It took Edison hundreds of tries to find the filament for the light bulb.”
“I don’t have time for hundreds of tries. I don’t even know exactly when your date was. The last time Adam was here he locked that bit of information away from me. I can tell you the date for Brennan or Shal, but not for you.”
“Then get to work. It’s Schrödinger’s cat. As long as you don’t know how long I have you’re free to assume that you have years to work.”
“I just don’t want to mess this one up. This goes beyond you three to all of new mutants.”
“Carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders will make you old before your time.” Lexa stepped away from him and walked over to the scan chair. “Let’s see if we can’t save you from that weight a little sooner.”
That evening.
Lexa laid her head on Jesse’s shoulder as a slow song played. The couple had started out sitting silently in the booth while Jesse worked on his handheld computer, but with the urging of Brennan and Shalimar and the help of several strongly intoxicating drinks they had managed to make it to the dance floor.
Brennan and Shalimar now sat in the corner both. Shalimar leaned against Brennan and closed her eyes as she listened to the music.
“So how did you talk them into coming?” Brennan asked as he looked at the two on the dance floor.
“It is a woman’s touch. Somehow I get the feeling that they are going to stay that close for a while tonight.” She smiled slightly. “Maybe all night.”
“Score for Jesse. So what about us? You planning on sleeping in my room or do I have to invade your room?”
“I’d say that you could share a room with me tonight. Come to my room after we get home and shower.”
“I’ll look forward to it.” He kissed the top of her head. “I don’t suppose you’ll be up to a little fun then will you?”
“If you can behave yourself we might have some fun.” She twisted in the booth so she could press her lips to his. “But knowing you that will be nearly impossible.”
That night.
Shalimar lay in Brennan’s arms as they drifted off to sleep. From the faint laughter she could hear from down the hall she knew that the next morning would have its share of interesting conversations, but she looked forward to the finality she knew that tonight was bringing for Jesse and Lexa. Now that the raven haired woman had allowed herself to step into the relationship it was certain that the couple would stay together. Shalimar smiled, knowing that somehow Lexa’s love would get Jesse through the work he had to do. |
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5 days to change things.
Shalimar woke up extra early as her alarm clock went off. For the first time ever she was glad she had been the designated driver and did not have a hangover to sleep off. As quietly and carefully as she could she slipped out of bed and dressed. She made a quick stop to the kitchen and grabbed a drinkable yogurt, but then went to the garage to get into her car.
With the radio playing she drove into town and to the mall. After parking she headed in and went straight to her favorite store. It took her only a few minutes to find exactly what she was looking for. The dress was a deep burgundy made of a soft silk. The neck line plunged down low and there was a slit on one side that went to mid-thigh.
After she tried on the dress to make sure that it fit she took it, paid for it, and went back to Sanctuary. With careful moves she made sure that no one saw her so that her dress would be a surprise when she finally wore it. She took the dress out of its bag, put it on, and looked at her reflection in the mirror. Thinking carefully as she looked at her reflection Shalimar decided that the dress would look best with the diamond necklace Adam had bought her after she graduated from high school.
She pulled the necklace out of its velvet lined box and carefully fastened the clasp then looked back in the mirror. She smiled at the reflection and decided that she had been right about the necklace. Carefully she took off both the dress and the necklace and put them away safely.
She heard someone knocking on the door and quickly pulled back on her clothes. “Come in.”
Lexa opened the door, stepped in the room, and closed the door tightly behind her. “We need to talk.”
“Sounds serious.” Shalimar sat down on her bed and signaled Lexa to join her. “What’s up?”
“I guess its no secret what happened between me and Jess last night after we got back home.”
“Not really. You having regrets about it?”
“Not so much about what we did as I am about how we did it.”
“How you did it? That isn’t making much since to me.”
“Well you know its been a long time since he has, and well I’m not on any thing…”
“And he didn’t have anything?”
“Exactly. I really thought that we were safe, but I was flipping through a calendar, and well I’m not so sure that we are.”
“Well if you need me to I can run the scans so Jesse doesn’t have to know.”
“Thanks.” Lexa was still visibly shaken. “I really cant deal with this, at least not now.”
“Its no secret that you don’t want to have kids. I guess I should check into the other options you’d have just in case.”
“No, don’t bother.” Lexa pushed a strand of hair back from her face. “If it turns out that I did get pregnant because of my stupidity last night, well I know a good prenatal specialist.”
“Prenatal specialist? You’d actually go through with a pregnancy?” Shalimar stared at Lexa in shock.
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