Kiddy Grade mess up

By: Funahomisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)

"Is everything alright Éclair? You ran off pretty fast yesterday." Tweedledee asked Éclair almost casually as they were changing in the girls locker room for E-shift, drawing the others attention. Must be a lot of missions today or at least one big one if Eclipse seemed to call in every team.

"I had to find a place to hide a body is all." Éclair said just as casually and causing everyone in the locker room, Tweedledee, Lumiere, Alv and Dvergr, to stop and stare at her in disbelief.

"Éclair!?" Lumiere asked more than said seeing that Éclair didn't see anything wrong with what she had said.

"What? That's not the worst thing I've had to do and you know it! Besides that bastard deserved it." Éclair said defensively as she raised her hands up in a defensive move, not even noticing that this caused her shirt to drop while she stood there topless for a moment.

"Éclair your shirt." Dvergr said with a small blush as she looked away, coughing into her fist slightly to keep her composure.

"Oh right." Éclair said blinking at the garment and picking it up but not bothering to put it back on. She was changing out of it anyways.

"Wait a second…Éclair…why is there a stab mark on your back?" Tweedledee asked spotting something on the girls back and making her blink for a moment and peek at it over her shoulder.

"Oh is that still there? He must have sunk the knife in deeper than I thought." Éclair said reaching one arm behind her back to try and touch the stab mark only to hiss slightly when she did.

"Ouch. My hair got into the blood before it dried." Éclair said earning a wince of sympathy from Tweedledee and Lumiere. Long hair was always a hassle to keep out of wounds before they dried, especially considering the advanced healing factor of the E.S. members.

"Why and when did you get stabbed?" Dvergr asked looking at Éclair with narrowed eyes and making her frown heavily in return.

"Ricky's boyfriend had hit her yesterday and she called me because he wasn't leaving her alone and kept trying to hurt her again. She had barricaded herself in her bathroom when I got there and he was destroying her room. I tried to get him to calm down peacefully at first but he refused so I told him to leave while I went to help Ricky. I told him if he didn't leave then I was going to call the police since I was off duty at the time. I turned to get to the bathroom, he stabbed me just as Bonita got there, I busted his jaw and called the cops on him." Éclair said shrugging and giving a small hiss when she pulled her hair free from the wound, causing it to begin bleeding again.

"Is that why Ricky isn't here today?" Lumiere asks looking worried and upset that she didn't know anything about this.

"Yeah she's getting her face and arm fixed up. He gave her a nasty bruise and cracked her left forearm." Éclair said nodding and unconcerned about her own wound as she pulled out a brush to get the dried clumps of blood out of her hair.

"Damn." Éclair said sighing as she put the brush away and instead lifted her foot that had the legging on it. Reaching into the top of her skin tight black legging, Éclair withdrew a knife that the others didn't know was there, and then cleanly sliced off the clumped part of her hair.

"Not my best work but it'll have to do for now." Éclair said frowning as she put the knife back and frowned at her hair in the nearby mirror while the other four stared at her in disbelief and shock.

"E…Éclair?" Lumiere asked staring at the taller girl who slipped into her shoes and dress.

"What? You all may think I'm a slob but I don't like having blood in my hair thank you very much." Éclair said giving them all a look as she stepped in front of the mirror to adjust her hair to cover the cut out spot.

"I'll have to get one of the others to cut my hair when I get back. Hopefully Alice is free today." Éclair muttered as she tried to hide the spot but gave it up after a moment or two.

"Alice?" Dvergr asked causing Éclair to glance over at her.

"Yeah she's my usual stylist. She's great at her job and she has this real cute little girl that runs around the place. Diane's only four but she's a little spitfire that loves to climb all over things, I babysit her sometimes when I'm not on assignment and Alice is busy. She's supposed to start school next month actually now that I think about it." Éclair said noting that last part to herself as she glanced at a calendar.

"Let's see…" Éclair studied the calendar quietly for a moment as the others either stared at her or exchanged looks behind her back as they changed.

"I should be able to take her next Friday to get supplies. That's a day off for me and Alice is always packed on Fridays." Éclair said after a moment and earning a curious look from Dvergr.

"You're going to take a four year old shopping for supplies?" Alv was the one to question with a raised eyebrow.

"Yeah, she needs school supplies after all and Alice won't have much time to get them herself after the list comes out given her usual crowd around this time of the year. I already volunteered to do it, I just had to figure out which day would be good to do it on." Éclair said as if it were perfectly normal.

"Someone is actually letting you influence their child? Where's the father?" Tweedledee asked nay for Éclair to scowl a bit at the question.

"First off, screw you I'm great with kids! Second he ran out when Diane was barely a year old." Éclair said causing Alv to snicker.

"You have the mentality of a child so it's no wonder." Alv said earning a small chuckle from Lumiere while Éclair frowned at them.

"To be honest Éclair I'm a bit worried about you taking a child shopping as well. What if you lose her in the crowd? Plus you aren't the most… elegant or-" Lumiere was cut off when Éclair gave her an angry look.

"I've taken Diane shopping with me more than seven times and never once lost her or my patience during the trip. And elegance has nothing to do with babysitting or looking after children, considering how often you two look after kids I don't want to hear a damn thing about it from either of you. Unlike you both I know what the hell I'm signing up for and doing. So kindly keep your comments about what I do in my spare time to yourselves." Éclair said her voice nearly frigid as she gave the two of them a glare, only Dvergr and possibly Tweedledee having noticed the brief flash of hurt on her face.

"Get the kid killed. See if I care." Alv said with a snort with a smug look on her face at how angry she had made Éclair.

She wasn't smug when Éclair's fist slammed into the closed locker door just beside Alv's head, easily breaking and buckling the solid steel door.

"I'd never hurt a kid if I could help it. I damn sure won't let one get killed in front of me." Éclair's voice was a cold low pitched hiss as she glared darkly at Alv, her golden eyes appearing to glow as some of the metal scratched Alv's cheek enough to make it bleed just a bit.

"You'd think you would know that but apparently I'm not the only one with amnesia." Éclair said her unpainted lips pulled up into a sneer while Dvergr was behind Éclair reaching out to pull the taller woman away from Alv.

"What do you mean?" Alv asked alarmed and a bit startled at how quickly Éclair had moved. Alv hadn't had a single warning. Not a single warning or clue as to what the reckless red head would do until the smaller womans fist was already less than a centimeter from her head embedded in the locker.

If Éclair had aimed for her head…

"Tch. If you don't realize how much you've changed then I'm not going to tell you. Not like you would listen to a 'weak little C-class' anyways so why don't you ask your partner? I'm sure she's noticed how differently you've been acting recently, then again she's been acting weird too." Éclair said with a sneer before she pulled her undamaged fist from the locker with the sound of scraping and warping metal accompanying it.

"I might not be the Éclair you remember because of my amnesia, but you're nothing like you used to be Alv and honestly? Right now you really fuckin disgust me. Think on that for a while, if you're capable of it." Éclair said sneering one last time before she turned and left the locker room.

"She just used a good deal of her super strength with her lipstick off." Tweedledee noted while Lumiere was staring at the door Éclair had left through and Dvergr moved to tend to the cut on Alv's cheek.

"What did she mean about us being nothing like we were before? Is she already regaining her memories?" Dvergr asked after checking to make sure her daughter was okay.

"No it's subconscious. She doesn't even realize she's saying it and she won't realize it or know why she feels that way or says things like that for a while now." Lumiere said shaking her head in the negative while Tweedledee frowned.

Éclair has seemed to know exactly what she had been saying, and besides she had moved far too fast. Far faster than she had in any of the training sessions at least and almost at her original speed.

Tweedledee had her suspicions over Éclair but for now she would merely keep quiet and keep watching.

"Am I the only one who realizes that Éclair is still walking around with a stab wound in her back and likely some internal damages since the wound hasn't healed yet?"

The others only looked at Dvergr surprised at the question since they had all but forgotten about it.

Since when did she care?