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: Mostly Grammar and Spelling.
'Thinking'
"Talking"
Story
-Flashback
Hope you all are enjoying the revamp for those that have read this before.
Chapter 6
Abe's Pov
Years of loneliness have taught me that not all of mankind can be trusted wholeheartedly, this has given me views on how to survive with one's ...lifestyle that may seem obscene but are quite necessary, I rely on the Bureau's services and in return offer my assistance in cases of the paranormal where my help might be required. I am disliked by a lot of the agents here but this doesn't bother me at all, they don't have to like me and I cannot blame them with my appearance the way it is. The dilemma that bothers me in this instance is her, her noticeably longing gazes towards me frequently through the time we spend together in a room or on a mission, the willingness to always take my side in a disagreement or during team up. Her preference of me over the big monkey is suddenly pushing me at a loss of understanding in this life I lead. Before everything was understandable, reasonable but this would be how one of the others would refer to as "taking the cake", strange phrase.
Turning in my tank, hands pressing lightly against the glass as I spotted her still asleep, resting on the cot against the wall, her form almost curled up and hair spread across her cheek, I did try not to stare, slightly. Liz turned in her sleep so she now was facing me, her hands resting under her chin comfortably and I couldn't help but smile. 'A relationship is something I never calculated could happen to someone like me...' my thoughts were interrupted as I heard an insistent beeping, signalling that the few hours we had to rest were over. I brought myself out of the tank and turned the alarm off that I had set, Liz shifting on the bed unwilling to get up having been in a deep sleep. "Liz we must get going, the others would want to be seeing us soon, there will be time for more sleep later" I softly spoke, I disliked to do it but I shook her shoulder gently, regretting it when I left a small wet patch on her clothes from where water still dripped off me, I wasn't going to dry myself just yet. I watched in quiet awe as she opened her eyes slowly, looking up at me, the smile that spread on her face made me smile in return, she was happy to see me, as always. "Morning Blue, sleep well?" she asked me in a cracked voice, dry from her short sleep, I nodded at the question replying "very well thank you Liz, yourself?" she frowned, getting up and ruffling a hand in her own hair as if to sort it out, only ending in making it more messy than it already was, "until that went off yeah" she pointed at the alarm accusingly and all but dragged herself to the door and going out it, stopping to wait for me as I glanced at a few of my ancient books thoughtfully then joining her in the hallway to start our short journey to the library.
John's Pov
I wasn't entirely sure what Abe or Liz were doing right now but back here at the library me and HB sat in chairs, separate chairs this time when I took into account that me and him alone, close was never a simple fact, it nearly always turned into something, 'except that time we almost got eaten by the giant turtle, not so fun' I mused this memory over and over distractingly till Liz pushed the doors open wide, the small bang they made as the metal handles met with the connecting walls was enough to make Brooke, who had been silently resting on the table with her eyes closed, jump up into a sitting position and look around frantically. She looked warily at them, only partially relaxing when she saw Liz and Blue carefully come over to the table, seeing her awake, not screaming or crying was a change, she looked startled but pain free and comfortable.
Lizzy kept her distance so Abe could work, he smiled at her kindly and with assurance as he stood in front of her "Good morning Brooke, would you mind if I examined your wounds?" his polite and studious tone was hard to mistrust and as expected she agreed. Watching to see what he would do, still not fully aware of the new limb like qualities she had acquired last night in her pained stupor, them both still caked in blood and from the time they appeared and still now had not moved like they probably should be doing. Blue did a quick scan of her body with his eyes, his lips pursing or at least I imagined they were from the way his voice sounded as he spoke "what happened to cause this extra blood" his webbed hand pointing to her mouth discreetly as she was looking around the room in amazement I assumed, me and HB both froze before looking at each other, the next set of actions were almost like a conversation. I raised my brows at him as if saying he should tell, I thought that was fair seeming as he understood what happened to her before I did, in reply he shook his head as a no and crossed his arms over his chest stubbornly, I frowned and moved to whack his arm, in one of those "girly slaps" he found amusing and stepped forward nervously. "Well...I, she had woken up with blood coming from her mouth, there was no warning it just happened, Red checked her mouth" at this I took the chance to glare at said demon/man annoyed before I looked kindly back to Abe "she has sharper and longer canine teeth, I think she is ..." looks almost pleadingly at him hoping he would for once read my mind 'I think she is turning into some kind of animal', I thought this, not wanting her to know my analysis incase I was wrong and I scared her further 'god please let me be wrong'.
Abe had heard me I gathered as he nodded slowly in thought, giving a soft "hm" as he looked at the girl, he then went about checking her injuries, first starting with her arm, he picked up her previously injured arm and started removing the bandages gently just encase he hurt her somehow, I saw with huge relief that the wound that had been caused by her fall had healed, not even a scar remained. He put the bandages aside to throw them away later and started removing the bandage and gauze at her wounded shoulder where she had been shot; she sat there through this with an almost blank expression, not seeming pained or uncomfortable. The wound here had also healed, again no scar. Those bandages also joined the pile, next he glanced discreetly at her tail before checking the top of her head and all were thankfully healed. Abe delicately dabbed at the previous wounds around the new ears, she squeaked loudly all of a sudden and I was hard pressed to figure out why, the wounds had healed, surely that couldn't have hurt. Abe smiled softly "I'm sorry about that, I should have warned you" I heard a snicker from Hellboy and turned my gaze on him curiously, demanding an answer with my eyes, seeing my expression, he smirked and just mouthed 'ears', then it clicked, she could feel Blue touching at her ears and this would be a new feeling to her considering she didn't know she had any, I was betting a pretty penny she would cry again but I wouldn't be happy about that.
Hellboy's Pov
This is why I hate kids, they whine, they cry, they throw tantrums and don't have any respect for their elders, not that I wanted to be called or treated like an elder but still. After Abe had spoken just now about something he should have told her she had seemed confused, wondering what he should have told her she slowly lifted a hand up to touch at her head, feeling for what was there, none of us tried to stop her, knowing she had to figure out sometime and she had a darn right to know about what happens with her body. Though I wasn't too glad at her reaction, at first she just gasped, feeling around the ears in shock then the dam broke and a water fall of tears leaked from her eyes, down her dirt and blood stained cheeks, John I noticed was at her side in an instant, reaching for her hand but she was quick this time she wailed out a cry of disbelief and pushed herself back off the table but somehow landing on all fours before she crawled back to rest her back against the wall behind the table, sobbing quietly. John again tried to console her, coming around the table and bending down to reach for her but she let out a high pitched scream, "Please don't touch me! W-what is happening to me?! What did I do wrong?!" her hands gripping lightly at her new ears as if she could pull them off or push them back into her head, I felt a shiver run down my spine and tail at the thought.
Liz by now had joined in with my lover to try to calm her, him at one side of her, Liz at the other, both speaking in hushed, soft voices but the tone wasn't really helping, she continued to sob, muttering now in a quiet voice to herself, giving up trying to keep the two from touching her, she rocked a little back and forth as she still held her ears, eyes wide "this isn't happening, I'm dreaming and I'll wake up soon, no extra ears, no extra ears...no extra ears" her breathing was getting quicker and I watched knowing I would be useless trying to calm her down, I have no patience and I would end up yelling at her, not handy in this situation. Liz started rubbing at her arm gently trying to sooth her while John took a different approach and tried to pry one of her hands from a furry ear carefully, taking a moment but succeeding. She seemed too out of it in her muttering and panting in panic to notice as he held her hand but what she did notice was his gentle squeeze of her hand with his as he spoke "Brooke, it's ok, it's going to be ok I promise and it's not your fault", something he said must have caught her attention because seconds later she was crying softly against his shoulder, curling up against him as if trying to hide from the world.
Abe's Pov
For only a moment I could tell she felt something, seen something so opening the barrier that allowed me to see into her mind I was bombarded with a majority of her thoughts all ranging around her new ears, concentrating I focused my way through all the information I didn't want, trying to find out what her reaction to John was, I passed the memory of her holding tightly to Red in the B.R.P.D truck with amusement, remembering how motherly he had seemed before I focused again on my task, I saw one try to slip past me and focused on it, the memory almost shy if possible, it opened up into a black vision, nothing visible but there was pain, nausea and heat, 'probably when she had been fever ridden and sleeping' I thought until a voice passed through the memory, it was John's, "it's ok, it's going to be ok" yes he had said that last night hadn't he, she had been awake at the time and crying out multiple times in pain, then the memory softened, the dark seemed less threatening and the pain lessened somehow, 'So she sees his voice as a source of comfort' pulling out of her mind I wasn't surprised to see that only a minute if not seconds had passed while I had searched her mind, the three others surrounding Brooke as she started to calm down, no longer panting in panic, no longer crying but just quietly resting against John as if in thought. Then she let a sigh pass her lips before she seemed to go limp against him instead of tense and curled up tight, John panicked at this but I reassured him, deciding to re-join the conversation anyway "She is merely sleeping, not to worry". Everyone seemed to relax visibly at this and we started into a quiet talk concerning what to do about the agent that had shot her to begin with, Liz chimed in with something all of us were most likely thinking "You know if he hadn't shot her then we might not have caught her and she would have suffered this by herself" Myers and myself nodded in agreement but Hellboy had to make a negative "I'm sure she would prefer that to being shot then falling from a 20 foot wall" at this the other two cast glares at him, 'since when do these two act so in unison on a subject'.
Despite all the sleep this child had gotten she did in fact need it after the blood she had lost and healing her body had had to do. The next hour passed without incident, the child sleeping soundly or so we thought, when she woke again with a start, a gasp tore from between her lips we all feared another part of the change, Liz even groaned in sympathy but all she did was look around her then sit with her back resting to Johns chest groggily, "W-what...what..." she seemed to be trying to get a question out but couldn't grasp at the words, offering her a few simple sentences to pick from, counting them off on my fingers mentally "what happened?, what are you?, where are you? one of those...?" she nodded her head slowly and managed to whisper "All", I frowned having not wanted to discuss this till I had an answer, then suddenly I remember the books with ancient texts I had noticed in my spare room this morning, I smiled reassuringly "those answers will be given to you soon, but first I have some research to do, just try to rest and know your somewhere safe" she nodded again seeming to wake up a little more now, Johns hand was rubbing one of her shoulders soothingly before he got up, tugging her up by her hand to standing, she wobbled at first then managed to find her footing, though I noticed her hand was gripping his arm for a life line encase she fell over I gathered.
Heading or almost gliding towards the dark mahogany table covered with my research material and the pile of books I had there I opened one up, one tip of a finger tracing down the list of contents for something familiar. I had noticed in the background despite trying to block them out that she wasn't really talking but Liz and Hellboy sure where, they had pulled up the discussion involving romance and dating that I felt inclined to get them to change, listening to how Liz described the perfect evening with a man was not something I even partially wanted to hear, especially since I couldn't actually do any of it with her, after all I wasn't a man entirely.
Hellboys simple comebacks were in his terms 'lame' so after so poorly losing to the fire girls witty arguments he wandered over towards me, I spoke softy "I'm busy Hellboy, make conversation with our guest", out of the corner of my eye I noticed him grimace and wondered what it was for before he started muttering "kids ain't no fun to talk to, besides I might set her off crying again...like when she noticed her ears" I nodded my head in understanding while turning a few pages searching for a chapter I was curious about "it couldn't be helped, it's not exactly comforting to know your different than everyone else ...she will get used to it" Hellboy gave a small laugh as he obviously thought up something amusing, he then spoke in such a zestful tone it was loud enough to reach the others at the far side of the room "what about when she figures out she has a tail, not sure how she can't already, it's right ther-oh crap..." I froze looking at him with something akin to a glare, a whimper was heard I didn't even need to look to know she had heard and she had reached for the blood covered tail because the next sound was a distraught cry, I could just imagine the tears working their way down her face and the matching glares of Liz and John at Red for speaking so loudly. Then I realised none of this was my imagination it was because I had turned around immediately at the whimper, she wasn't screaming at least, not yet.
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