Did I mention I don't own Hellboy? Also this chapter may seem like a lot of talking for no aparent reason but I am going some where with this. Please be patient.


"You're not going to be a bad father! Now stop!"

"I run around fighting monsters, being around me gets people hurt!"

"Damn it Red so do I!"

This is what Abe awoke to, he swims to the top of his tank and sees Liz standing by the golden doors and Hellboy by the fireplace, "Red, might I ask what you did this time?"

Hellboy looks at him and opens his mouth to speak but is interrupted by Liz, "I woke up this morning to find him moping about whining that he's going to be a bad father and he can't do this. Tell him how stupid he's being Abe!"

Abe turns back to Hellboy and before he can say anything Liz is yelling at Hellboy again, "You're being an idiot! You had an excellent roll model! Your father was the greatest man to ever walk this earth; I think he raised you well enough!"

Hellboy stalks over to her, "He may have been but I ran off and left him here to get killed didn't I!"

Abe doesn't here her reply because he is focusing on the presence coming toward the doors. He can feel angry, frustration, and sorrow. It takes him a moment to realize who it is. The moment he does he swims to the top of the tank and heads for the stairs.

As he reaches the bottom he sees Abby with her hand to his tank. She suddenly turns to him and before he can say anything she throws herself at him and buries her face in his chest and mumbles his name as her legs start to give.

When he feels her legs start to go he wraps his arms around her and guides her down and into his lap as he sits on the stairs.

Abby pulls her self in so she is as close to him as she can get as the tears she's fighting start to fall.

Abe holds her and pets her hair, he looks over to Liz, unsure what to do and she just shrugs.

After a few minutes Abe feels a tickling sensation on his side and he looks down to find Abby leaning the side of her head into his chest and lightly tracing one of the strips on his side.

"So this is why you were hiding?"

Abe gives a slight start because he wasn't expecting her to talk, "Yes."

Abby blinks a moment before hitting him hard in the chest and getting up, "I told you that didn't matter you idiot! My goddaughter is a cat and my last boyfriend was a bird!" She spins and starts towards Liz, "It doesn't matter what species they are, men are stupid!"

Liz nods and glares at Hellboy before Abby links their arms at the elbow and the two march out the door.

Abe sits on the steps rubbing the spot Abby had hit and Hellboy turns to him, "Did I miss something brother blue?"

Abe looks away from the door the girls had just exited and looks to Hellboy, "I think we both did."

Hellboy shakes his head, "Not about those two," he jerks his thumb at the door, "About you and Manning's daughter. What was that?"

Abe blinks a moment before standing, "I think that was me screwing up."

Hellboy raised an eyebrow as Abe climbed the stairs, "Yes, I can see that, But it look like she was seeking you out, she knew your name, but she didn't know what you looked like?"

Abe dives in the tank and swims up in front of Hellboy, "I accidentally spied on her a few times and she confronted me on it threw the kitchen door. Also she was never in here."

Before Hellboy can say anything the golden doors slam open, startling Hellboy for the second time, and Manning storms in, "Abigail wasn't in her was she?"

Hellboy blinks at him a moment before Abe's comment clicks and Hellboy realizes that Manning must be the reason Abby was so upset, "Nope, and I've been being a good freak and staying hidden."

Manning glares at him, "Well do you know where I can find Liz?"

Hellboy raises an eyebrow, "what do you want her for?"

"Because she's the only female around Abigail's age that lives down here so when she runs off she'll find Liz."

Hellboy just shakes his head, "Nope can't help ya."

As Manning turns to storm off the siren starts to go off, "Great, briefing room now!" he then takes off down the hall.

Hellboy looks to Abe who shrugs and climbs back out of his tank.


As Abby lead Liz away, Liz noticed that the farther away from the library they got the more depressed Abby appeared.

"Abby, are you ok?"

Abby doesn't say a word until she's pulled Liz into her room, "Liz I think I just blew it! I was so pissed at my dad that I didn't think and then I was sitting there in Abe's arms and I got this feeling in my stomach and I panicked and took my frustration out on Abe! Now he probably hates me!" She throws herself down on the bed and screams into her pillow.

Liz sits on the edge of the bed, "What kind of feeling?"

Abby, whose laying on her stomach, props herself up on her elbows and rubs her face, "I think I like him, like as in more than a friend!"

Liz shrugs, "Well that's perfectly normal…"

Abby cuts her off, "But I've barely known him three days!"

Liz rolls her eyes, "So, your point is? When you first meet him what did you think?"

Abby tilts her head back and exhales heavily, "The first night we talked thru the door and I thought he was smart and funny and a gentleman. And then he kept hiding what he looked like and no matter what I said he wouldn't let me open the door and last night I don't know why but it just pissed me off when he wouldn't. Then when I saw him, he's so beautiful, why would he think I would freak?!"

Liz turns to face her better, "Well first off, your father told him and Hellboy to stay hidden for a while and Abe always does what he's told, almost. Also Abe seems to be shy when he has feelings for someone."

Abby rolls on her side to look at Liz better, "He's had feelings for someone before? Wait you think he has feelings for me?"

As she said this she sat up and started bouncing slightly.

Liz grimaced slightly, "Yes to both questions. As for the other woman, she had some sort of bond with her twin that wanted to kill all humans and she took her life to stop him not that long ago."

Before anything else can be said the siren starts going off, "Well Abby, I don't care what your father says Hellboy will most likely not let me go and Krauss will object to my going on missions in my condition so Manning will just have to deal with you going because someone has to keep an eye on those two."

Abby and Liz are the last to arrive and as they enter Manning starts getting red in the face. He stands to say something but Hellboy pushes him back down with his stone hand and nods at Abby.

Liz walks over and takes the seat next to Hellboy and Abby goes to the only other available seat, between Abe and Krauss. Krauss jumps up and pulls out the chair for her.

Abby smiles at him and as she turns her attention to her father she doesn't notice the odd look on Abe's face before he to turns to Manning.

Manning stands, glares at Abby a moment before turning to his slides, "We received a request from the Scottish authorities for aid. It seems they heard about the resent Hellboy issues and thought we could help."

He pushes a button on a little remote and it shows a small house near the edge of the water and the authorities blocking it off.

"It seems that an elderly couple called the police saying that the Loch Ness monster had beached itself near their house. The police thought it another hoax until they received 8 more calls from other home owners on the coast, one even saying they tried to help it back in the water and it came right back out. Another said that the Loch Ness monster by their house had a large gash down its side. Do the police decided to investigate."

Manning pushes the button and it shows a very clear picture of what appears to be a large finned reptile with a long neck and a gash down its side. Nest to it is a handful of police officers and what appears to be a vet attending to the wound.

"The police tried sending one of the monsters nearest to this one back into the water and it came right back out, being chased by this."

He pushes the button again and it shows what appears to be a large green dog, about the size of a Great Dane and covered in kelp, chained to a tractor and straining to bite at the person taking the picture.

He pushes the button again and it shows the tractor on its side and the creature lying on its side with several bullet wounds while office still have there guns on it, its green grey blood already forming a puddle below it.

"The locals that found the Loch Ness monsters have been keeping out tourist. It seems that now that they know that the creatures do exist they want to keep it low key so that the creatures can live in peace."

Then Abby buts in, "Which can't happen if Fido is scaring them out of the water. Since Nessie isn't going back in the water yet I take it he wasn't the only pup in the litter?"

Manning glares at her a moment before pushing the button again.

The nest slide shows one of the Loch Ness monsters that is lying close to the water and several officers between it and the water. In the water there are at least 5 more of the kelp-dogs visible to just below the shoulder blades and the ripples that seem to signal that several more are surfacing.

"They're not sure the exact origins of the dogs but their was a claim put in by several teenagers years ago about sittings of animals like this going into the barn of a woman that lived by the Loch on the opposite end. The police did a search and found out that she had just passed away and her great grandson had just had funeral. The man claims that his great grandmother had these dogs in her barn that she never let anyone else near, she said that the job of taking care of them was passed on threw out the family to the female heir. The mans daughter is 14 and he says that the old lady had told him when the girl was little that all he would have to do was take the girl to the barn and the dogs would know there new caretaker and come to her. He says that he was skeptical and waited, when he final took the girl the dogs were gone. He didn't know how to explain the so he just didn't do anything about it."

When he finishes Hellboy speaks up, "so we have to find out where they are and why they ran away from home when the old lady croaked? Then how to get them back home?"

Manning clicks the button again and it shows a man and a young girl looking at the kelp-dog.

"The man is saying that if we are unable to stop them from harming the Loch Ness monsters we are to use any means to eliminate them. His daughter on the other hand claims that the old lady said once that the dogs were important to the Loch. So the authorities want us to try and get them back home."

Hellboy rolls his eyes, "so now I'm a paranormal dog catcher?"

Manning sighs before continuing, "Actually, no. As these are water creatures Abe is the obvious choice to try and do this peacefully. And as much as I hate to say it Abigail we'll need you in this as well. Hellboy you will go incase they do not go home quietly."

Manning then dismisses them to prepare.

Abby starts to turn to apologize to Abe but is stopped by Krauss, "Miss Marsel, I was just wondering if you could explain some of your abilities to me before we leave for this mission."

Abby opens her mouth, closes it, turns to look for Abe but he's already gone and then turns back to Krauss, "Sure but only if you give me a normal persons weapon too."


Many hours later Abby is sitting on a boat, on the way to the end of the Loch where all the action is when Hellboy sits down next to her, "You ok kid? You look upset."

Abby blinks and looks up at him, "You're Abe's best friend right?"

Hellboy nods his head.

"Well then do you know why he's ignoring me? I tried to apologize after the meeting but he left so fast I couldn't."

Hellboy reaches up and scratches the back of his neck with his left hand, "I don't know what to tell ya kid. He was upset when you got mad at him, but that's all I know."

Abby sighs and looks out over the water just in time to see one of the Kelp-dogs go into a dive. "We have company!"

Hellboy gets up and goes to get the others.

A short while later Abe is armed with a few weapons and diving in the water seeing if he can find out where they are and any sign of why they're attacking the other creatures.

After about 5 minutes Hellboy is leaning on the railing of the ship when suddenly one of Abe's harpoons comes flying out of the water and past his head. Mere seconds later the alarm from Abe's locator goes off.

Abby barely takes the time to find out what direction he's in before diving in the water.

After her eyes adjust to the water she sees what appears to be 20 of these dogs swimming around Abe, biting and clawing at him.

Abby lets her body go vertical and spreads her arms to the sides slightly and wills the water around Abe to start spiraling.

Just as the speed picks up one of the dogs notices her and tries to go for her but Abe grabs it by the tail and jabs his knife in its side.

Abby hers a high pitch yelp in her head and gets and remembers something Vanessa had once suggested.

Abby takes a deep breath and focuses all of her power on her telepathic link, and screeches as loud as she can.

The noise confuses the dogs long enough for Abe to get away but Abby's focus on the link causes her to lose her concentration on the oxygen bubble and the water floods in before she can suck in a breath.

She's not used to being caught of guard when it comes to water and she starts to panic.

Just as Abe realizes what is happening the dogs regain their bearings and charge right at Abby.

Abe swims forward as fast as he can and comes between Abby and one of the dogs. The dog bites down on his shoulder and whips its head to the side causing the wound to tare farther.

Abe brings his blade up and into the gut of the creature just as he feels Abby grab onto him and the Water pushes both of the up and over the edge of the boat.

Due to the lack of oxygen Abby isn't able to set them down slow and they slam on the deck, Abe lands on his back and Abby on top of him. The combined force, and his wound, knocking him unconscious.


A/N: Alright i want to first thank all of my return readers and all of my reveiwers, i love you all! Next I'm headin back to college soon so the updates will be farther apart but i already know exactly what i want for next chapter so it may be up fast, cross your fingers! Anywho you know the dril Reveiw Please!!