The doors of a large study opened to reveal and elderly man flipping through several different FBI agent files spread over the top of his wooden desk. A young girl of barely seventeen walked into the room munching on her usual breakfast apple.

"Morning Papa, what are you doing?" she asked sitting on the side of the desk and flipping through a tossed aside file.

"Trying to find a replacement for Agent Clay." Professor Broom said picking up a file with the name Meyers, John T. printed neatly on the inside cover.

"He looks promising," said the girl looking over her father's shoulder. "But either way Hellboy isn't going to like it."

"Well, with all due respect, your brother will just have to...deal with it." The man said looking at his daughters beautiful smile.

"I guess he will..." she said kissing her father on the forehead. "But im sure not delivering the news." She started to leave the room when she was stopped by her fathers voice.

"Lillyan." He said, and she turned around to look at him questioningly. "I have another doctors appointment today, so you will have to help Abe with his reading."

Her head dropped, "If I didn't love you so much, I would burn all those books." She left the room after wishing her father a good day.

She walked through the silver hallways heading down to the main room of section 51, where she would most likely spend the rest of her afternoon flipping pages for her physic fish friend Abraham Sapien. She didn't really mind as much as people thought she did, because she would do absolutely anything for her father. She walked past rooms of scientists in white lab coats and agents in suits having board meetings, but ignored most of it as she was lost in her own thoughts. She had lived in this building her entire life, being left at the front gates when she was barely a newborn. She knew that Professor Broom wasn't her biological father and for obvious reasons that Hellboy wasn't her real brother either, but she loved her weird family all the same. She finally reached the huge golden doors and slowly pushed her way through them.

"Alright Abe..." she stated waltzing into the room. "What books shall we read today?" she climbed a ladder that reached the second floor of the large room almost every inch of its walls covered in books.

"Are we still on G?" She had found it easier to keep track of all the books that had already been read if she went in alphabetical order.

"Abe?" "Abe?" "ABE!?" She looked down at the tank of blue water only to find her aquatic friend listening to his underwater headset.

Becoming slightly agitated that she had not been noticed this whole entire time, she slipped off her right converse shoe and chucked it at the side of the tank. Hitting the tank with a loud BANG! Abe jumped and looked around startled till he eyed Lillyan sliding down the long ladder with four books in her arms. She stopped short of the tank, dropped the books on the floor, crossed her arms and tapped her shoeless foot.

"Im sorry Lynx," he said removing his headphones, "Did you need something?"

She sighed, grabbing her shoe and placing the four books she had picked out on their stands.

She turned and looked at Abe, "The Professor had another appointment today, so I will be turning the pages of your books this evening Sir." She said in a way she thought a butler might, slightly bowing at the end.

Abe gave a half-amused look and started his reading. Lillyan pulled an iPod out of her pocket, but instead of listening to music, she played solitaire in order to hear when Abe needed the pages turned. Lynx was a nickname that she had been given by her cat-loving big brother, only the Professor was permitted to call her Lillyan without getting a blood chilling stare. Nearly half the day had gone by before her father entered the room to join herself and Abe.

"Hi Papa," she exclaimed jumping out of the chair she had been sitting in. "How did it go?"

"Same as always," the Professor replied. "Our newest recruit should be arriving shortly, so why don't you go get ready? "

She gave her father a respectful nod then quickly ran out the door to put on some more reasonable clothes. Her room was actually kept quite neat for being a teenager. The walls of her room were covered in pictures, her favorite one hanging just beside her bed. A long four framed snap shot of her and Liz Sherman making funny faces in a carnival picture booth. Nearly five years ago, when Liz was still happy to be living at the Bureau. She quickly grabbed a pare of dress pants and a nice tank top, changed, then hustled back to the main room to hopefully meet the BPRD's newest agent. As she neared the door, she could already hear Abe going off into one of his show-off physic monologues.

"Agent John T. Meyers, T stands for Thadius, Martins older brother. Scar on your chin happened when you were ten, your still wondering if it's ever going to fade away."

"How did it..."

"He." Lynx said entering the room, "Not it."

"Agent Meyers, I would like you to meet my daughter Lillyan," the Professor said gesturing to her.

She walked over to Meyers shaking his hand, "Call me Lynx."

"And this," her father interrupted, "is Abraham Sapien. Discovered alive in a secret chamber of St. Trinian's Hospital in Washington, his name was taken from the inscription stuck to the side of his tank." The Professor gestured to the scrap of paper encased in glass.

"Icthyo Sapien, April 14, 1865." Meyers said reading the paper.

"The day the Abraham Lincoln died, hence Abe Sapien," the Professor stated.

"Sort of a bad joke," Lynx butted in.

"But how does he know so much about me?" Meyers asked.

"Abe posses a unique frontal lobe, unique, that's a word you'll hear frequently around here." Professor Broom stated picking up a rotten egg, Meyers covered his nose, but Lynx just rolled her eyes. "Rotten eggs.." the Professor continued, "a delicacy, Abe loves them."

"Sir," Meyers started, "where am I exactly?"

"As you entered the lobby there was an inscription," stated the Professor. "In the absence of light, darkness prevails. There are things that go bump in the night Agent Meyers, make no mistake about that." He said glancing at his daughter. "And we are the ones who bump back."

The Professor lead Meyers out of the room, no doubt to introduce him to Hellboy.

"So what do you think Abe?" Lynx asked leaning against his tank.

"Not a chance." He said shaking his head.

She laughed at this, knowing exactly what he meant. Her brother was a real tough guy and Meyers really didn't seem like his type, especially since him and Clay were such good friends. Plus he was already grounded which wouldn't put him in an any better mood. Her father had just walked into the room, when the warning sirens of a new mission started to ring.

"Lillyan," her father said gesturing for her to come with him.

"Yeah Papa?" she said running over to him.

"I think it's time you joined your family in the field," he said smiling at her.

The look on her face was one the he would never forget. The pure definition of happiness was spread across it. She literally ran out of the room to change into her Agent outfit that she had been working on for nearly three years. Her father had never permitted her to go on a mission before, because they had always seemed to dangerous. Now however, she was going on eighteen, and he realized that he wouldn't be able to keep her in the Bureau forever.