"Jesse I need to speak to you." Brennan said looking into his best friend's eyes.

"What about?" Jesse asked although he had an feeling that he knew what Brennan wanted to talk about.

"I ... well I .... what do you think of .... " Brennan blushed as he couldn't put into words what were in his heart.

"I can say many words which may or may not embarrass you more Brennan. Or I can wait till you can find enough courage to tell me what's on your heart." Jesse said seriously.

Brennan nodded. He swallowed the lump that was lodge in his throat and opened his mouth. "I'm in love with Emma."

"I had an feeling that's what you wanted to talk to me about." Jesse nodded seriously. "I knew you had deep feelings for her from the moment when we meet you two. Have you told her?"

Brennan shook his head. "But I know she knows. She can read me like an book." Brennan looked at Jesse. "I mean literally read me like an book."

"Yea that's one part about being in love with an telepathy they can always read your mind." Jesse said softly. He remembered his one brief affair with an telepathy when he was fourteen years old. It didn't end all that well. *Wonder what happened to her?* He shook his head. "Has Emma given you an clue that she knows?"

Brennan shook his head.

"Perhaps she's waiting for you to move first. She is quite old fashioned after all." Jesse smiled gently.

Brennan shook his head. "I can't. I can't put into words what I feel in my heart."

"Yes you Brennan. Just tell her what's in your heart." Jesse nodded his head. "She knows it's the truth."

"It'll never work. She doesn't return my feelings. Forget I said anything." Brennan pushed back his chair and stood up. He pounded his right fist onto the table before turning and walking out of the kicten.

Jesse stared after his friend and frowned.

********

"Hello Brennan." Emma said smiling at her friend.

"I gotta go. I'll see you later." Brennan waved his hand at Emma and retreated toward the stairs to leave the Sanctuary.

"Bye." Emma frowned confused. *I know he loves me. But he is afraid to tell me. Why?* She looked after Brennan and flinched as the garage door slammed shut after him. *Why can't I read that part of his heart. Than I will know how to procceed and tel l him that I ... that I don't know yet how I feel about him.* Emma shook her head and turned back to the computer screen where she was doing some secretary work for Adam. *How do I feel about Brennan. I love him as an friend. But is that love that an woman feels for an man. I know he loves me like an man feels for an woman. But how do I feel?*

"Hey Emma. Almost done?" Jesse asked walking into the room from the kicten.

Emma kept staring into the computer scene not hearing or seeing her friend.

"Emma!" Jesse asked again. But he saw that she went into herself. *Thinking about Brennan and his feelings for her I bet. Wonder how she feels about him.* He turned and walked upstairs to go see what Shalimar was up to that moment.