Cat Out of The Bag | By : kbygrave1124 Category: G through L > Hellboy Views: 3399 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Disclaimer: I do not own Hellboy and I do not profit from these writings. I created OC characters such as Brooke and Marvin (Marbin).
Author Note: I am afraid that I must warn you that there is going to be same sex relationships in this story, guy/guy so if you don't like it then I advise that my story may not be the best for you to read. Also note this is revamped slightly from when I started it in 2011. Also now being revamped again slowly in 2017.
Edited: Deleted the paragraph before the story started that rambled about story books, photos and memories linking together. It did not make sense I must have been asleep when I worked on it several years ago.
'Thinking'
"Talking"
Story
-Flashback
Chapter 5
Hellboy's Pov
Have you ever been wide awake wishing you were dreaming and would wake up really soon, it feels so real and there's events that just keep coming, getting more hellish and crappy? Well today was one of those days and I wasn't dreaming, I was wide awake and I was living this moment. The second my eyes caught sight of the obvious objects poking up through the kids skull I wanted to hurl, wanted this to be a dream so I would wake up and see she wasn't in as much pain and panic as this, I hoped I had been knocked out during the chase earlier tonight but something tells me I wasn't, the fact I was almost impossible to knock out was beside the point right now. I searched the faces of the gang with me hoping to find something relieving or not so horrified, John was all but broken up as he and Liz clung to each other girlishly, I would make a joke if this were the right time for it...but it's not. I checked Abe's face now and saw a look that made me swallow thickly and start un-tensing my shoulders in almost relaxation, Blue's face was set in one of concentration, study and determination, the last I hadn't ever seen on fish boy's face before. I checked over the girl's body by eye sight alone, one of her shoes had managed to be knocked off in the flailing and her socks had holes in to the ends that I would have long ago thrown them away, I could see from this her toes were curling and uncurling repeatedly in discomfort, her knees were brought up to her chest as she lay there on her side, wrists held in my hands carefully but securely as she clenched and unclenched her hands, her nails having sometime managed to leave little surface cuts on her palms which were not even bleeding. 'At least some part of her isn't right now' my thoughts where interrupted by Blue's ever annoying "ah" response. I watched warily as he looked over to my mate and asked him to come closer which he did in any attempt to help. "I need you to rub her temples gently, rhythmically; can you do that for me please?" Abe spoke with such a soft assured voice that John noticeably stopped shaking, maybe he felt better with something to actually do rather than watch this horror show, he nodded his head, moving his skinny, paper pushing 'ex-paper pushing' hands to start rubbing Brooke's temples like asked. At first there was no difference in her behaviour, toes still curling and uncurling, hands still struggling to break free to no doubt scratch at her wounds painfully. After a minute she closed her eyes and it looked like she had fallen asleep suddenly but her breathing was too fast for that. Her chest rose and fell quickly in still obvious strain and panic but she stopped moving the rest of her body, hands still, toes still, head laying there not tossing or turning to try to relieve pressure. I noticed her wounds on her head from the new ears were now no longer bleeding, seemingly healed, which must have meant the wound from her tail was also healed by now, not a surprise given her healing power. She must be now on some sort of cloud nine, distracted by the rhythm, the rubbing also releasing her from some of the pressure the pain was causing her head, Abe was good, I'd give him that. He was good.
The ears had grown to at least two or three inches tall and the cuts on her palms were now already healed. All of us were tired, we had been standing here with her and at some points sitting for most of the night and she seemed to be actually physically asleep now. John no longer needed to keep rubbing her temples so had taken to holding one of her hands gently, encase she was troubled in her sleep, at which point he would stroke her hand soothingly, whispering again in that mothering voice, hell he was such a woman my boy scout was.
Liz Pov
Distraction seemed a key element tonight, my eyes trained to go from viewing this girl to my crush, watching Abe as he checked her constantly, as he walked from one end of the table to the other, as he reached cer- 'ok I am stopping right now, it's not right to ogle him with this child in such a state right here in front of me, ok concentrate'. It had been half an hour since she fell asleep and I noticed John was nodding off sleepily in HB's lap, hand still clutching lightly at Brooke's hand encase she were to wake or start to get uncomfortable in her sleep again. Red was holding his arms around John protectively, muscles tensed as if he would crush the man against him. I noticed the glances between the girl and John all in worry; it wasn't like him to be worried about a random stranger, heck it wasn't like John to...ok maybe it was because he had an adorably large heart. Sometime I should try to persuade Blue to check his heart encase it is a mystical power though I think it might take a few tries, lots of planning and good persuasion clothes, hmm shopping.
Abe's quiet voice broke the silence that had been sitting in the air for the last 30 minutes, I lifted my head to look at him as he did "I think that it's best some of us get rest and one or two of us at a time stay here just encase, Red why don't you take John to rest I will stay here first and Liz..." he paused as if unable to come up with a solution to something but she quickly solved it herself by saying "I'll stay with you, just encase something happens you know?" he nods "very well then, we shall swap with Hellboy and John in a few hours" he finished and I was literally buzzing with happiness at being able to get some almost alone time with my crush though I had to remember the timing wasn't amazing.
About ten minutes later saw me and Abe sitting on stool's, not risking chair's with backs or arms, encase we got too comfortable and fell asleep, right beside the table and close enough to be aware if anything happened. I was chatting in almost a whisper about a previous mission and how I had to cut about a third of my long hair off after some of it got chopped off by a demon. Red had found it hilarious and joked about it for weeks after until I had reminded him that his hair had took almost two decades to grow and I was willing to cut it -all- off for him in his sleep 'well it shut him up'.
We spent time watching her and talking quietly, trying not to wake her from her finally acquired sleep, we didn't make jokes encase we laughed, knowing it would wake her and I had a point of laughing till tears sprung at my eyes. About an hour into the watch I saw Abe gracefully pull up from his seat to look down at her arm, he picked it up slowly and lightly so he wouldn't wake her, I could only guess he had figured something out that was until she twitched, along with the next twitch came a groan of pain but then all was silent, no more twitches, I watched with Blue for a full five minutes, not one more twitch not until about twenty five minutes later after we had both sat back down and gotten into a deep discussion concerning Hellboys hair -yet- again. When she twitched this time I noticed first, I watched, sure enough another twitch, always her arm and always accompanied with a quiet groan. When the end of our watch was up and a refreshed looking John and almost refreshed HB all but danced in together we looked at them relived, we told them about the twitches and Abe showed John where a few medical supplies were and what to do with them, also how to reach him if things became...complicated. Abe then left with me following behind though intending to go a different direction so you can tell I was surprised when he offered me the cot in his spare room. His usual tank being too on show to sleep in with the three beings currently occupying his study/library/bedroom now turned temporary hospital wing. He slipped in his spare room and walked up to the large tank, getting in while I closed the door and sat gingerly on the cot, not wanting to fall asleep yet, I took in my surroundings.
A dirty emerald wallpaper covered the old walls of this small room, there was a ceiling light but it was obvious it was hardly used as the light from the tank gave enough glow into the room, thinking about this I came to the conclusion that maybe it wasn't emerald but another colour, dark blue, grey maybe even black. The walls had few pictures; all were from the same painter and were of landscapes in the mountains and forests, not original but still pretty in their own way. There was hard wood flooring under my feet and I let my eyes travel along it to find piles of old but well-kept books against the wall, lacking a bookshelf wasn't usually his style but I let it slip. The room had nothing else but the cot and the tank, so evidently I had to look to him, he was watching me, a calculating gaze as if he was reading her mind but she knew better, he wouldn't, not hers he had promised and he was too sweet and kind to do such a thing. Just to make sure I pictured myself in the shower looking to see if he reacted and if he had actually broken his promise and read her mind. He didn't even blink so she knew it was a no, he had kept his promise like the good man, creature, fish guy he was. I laid down finally relaxed as he took his eyes off me to adjust some setting in his tank for something or other, what I had no clue I was half way to nap land. For the zillionth time that night his voice crept into my mind as he started to speak, I listened half-heartedly, wanting to doze off, he said something about blankets but I didn't need them so with a whispered good night to the man I knew I loved I let myself slip into a light sleep.
John's Pov
It was running into the last few minutes of the fourth hour for Brooke's rest, I was starting to panic, no Hellboy told me I'm already panicking, I remember that because he had sworn and told me to sit down, I had been pacing for the last ten minutes back and forth in front of the table. I wanted her to wake up and be alright, not being in pain and not be crying or whimpering and not be scared, was that too much to ask for? 'Yes probably' I answered myself. I felt a cold, rough object wrap around my wrist and realised it was my lovers stone hand, he knew I had better chance of escaping from his hold if it was his flesh hand, then I would have continued pacing which he obviously didn't like. I was pulled harshly to him, falling against his chest and almost face first in his lap had his other arm not straightened me up and pulled me to sit on his lap normally, I heard his voice whispering in my right ear "much better, stay put scout". I pouted like the -boy- he made out I was sometimes, watching Brooke from here anxiously and jumping at every twitch and sleep filled murmur.
It was just cutting it close to five past the fifth hour when she bolted up into a sitting position with a high pitched yelp, she looked dazed and confused one hand at her mouth and I got up knowing Hellboy would follow and walked to her, not too quickly for fear of scaring her further. "B-brooke? Do you know where you are?...What you are doing here?" I heard HB snort at my side and turned to glare at him but he was looking at her, eyes fixed onto her hand curiously, she still held it at her mouth, she was shaking a little though that was expected, when she looked to me she stared for a good two minutes before trying to get up off the table, Hellboy grabbed her wrist gently to get her to stay put at which she let out a squeak of surprise then closed her eyes tight no doubt in pain, though I wasn't sure why all her wounds should have healed by now. I stepped forward and before she could think of trying to back up again I hugged her, not caring how she would react, it's what she needed right now and it's what I felt like giving. She sat stock still for a minute, Hellboy still holding her hand before he let go slowly at which she tightly hugged me back, desperate to feel safe again no doubt and moving her hand from her mouth. When she did Red must have noticed something I didn't, he swore quietly and tapped my shoulder, telling me just as quietly to move and when I did I stared at the small trail of blood leading down her chin from her mouth, her lips painted red with it and her teeth covered in the liquid. HB being quicker than me gently prized open her mouth with two fingers on her cheeks and peeked in to her mouth at her teeth, only seconds later and a short whine from her he let go, nodding "she's got longer canine teeth now, blood must be from them growing, their sharper too". Sharper/longer Canine teeth I muttered to myself, I started putting it together, teeth, tail, ears, she was turning into some kind of animal, the only problem I figured out I had with that was how much of a transformation she would take. I didn't want her to be completely changed, I still wanted a human side to her like Liz so she wouldn't be shunned from an average life like Red and Abe but without Abe here now, checking her, I couldn't be sure.
She looked between us both, obviously not worried about escaping any time soon though still looked reasonably panicked. Though at least she had stopped scratching her head, the dried blood caked on her fingers and under her nails was sickening enough without looking at the back of her clothes at all the dried blood stains and the bloody bandages on her shoulder and arm. Her voice came out shaken and low "W-what is happening to m-me? What did I do w-wrong?" her eyes filled to the brim with tears and I heard Hellboy sigh, I felt like sighing too, all this pain and blood and the only explanation she could conjure was it was her fault, great.
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