Senora's POV (Cause she's the main character)
I looked at the handcuffed man before me. He looked to be about 18-20.
"Your name's Burke?" I asked.
"Yes. Sorry, General, for coming down here, but I heard that Senora was down here, and-"
"You know my name?" I asked.
"Yes, and again, sorry, General, but I recently learned that she's my sister, so naturally I had to come and-"
"I'm your sister?"
"Yes. Anyway, her-"
"You're my brother?"
"Yes. Her mother was in a computer and-"
"You serious?" I asked.
"Beta! Calm down and let the man finish his story!" Monger yelled at me.
"I interrupted him?"
"Yes." Burke said. "As I was saying, your mother was trapped in the computer that she died near, seeing as the quantonium asteroid crashed the day she died, and managed to preserve her somehow. She told me you were here and that I had to come and the next thing I know, I must have been in the Internet or something because all of these colors were flashing and next thing I know, I'm here. Main thing is, you're in trouble, Senora."
"I'm in trouble?"
"Yes." Burke said.
"You are too!" I said. "You broke into a top secret military base-thing. If you ask me, you're way deeper in than I am."
"It wasn't my-"
"Don't give me that. I'm in trouble and I didn't even do anything to be in trouble. I just turned into a Vampire Mermaid."
"Beta..." Monger started.
"You, however, were just asking for trouble. Deciding to sneak in to a secret government-thing. PS, here's your nose back. Just found it in my business."
I heard Link chuckle a little, which is nothing new to me.
Monger, for once, seemed to take my side. "Listen, Burke-"
I heard Link chuckle again. "Burke..." he said rubbing his eye. "That's just great."
"Is my name amusing?" Burke asked. "I'll have you know that Burke means 'protection.'"
Link doubled over in laughter.
"Hey, apparently he's my brother, so lay off." I said.
He calmed down a little. "Man, your family is screwed up. 'Apparently' he's your brother. Then the cyborg mom and the psycho dad, what's next?"
"Is yours any better?" I shot back.
He looked at me blankly, then quickly averted his gaze.
I grinned.
"So, you're on my side, Senora?" Burke asked pleadingly. "Do you believe me?"
"Your accent is so cute!" I shouted.
"Burke, you do know that punishment for breaking in is-"
"Yeah, yeah, I know, but maybe-"
"No, I'm sorry, but-"
"Please, she's my sister, and-"
"Rules are rules, and I'm afraid you have to-
"No, you don't understand, I-"
"Listen, what you did was serious and-"
"WAS! I know enough English to know that's the past tense form of a word!"
I chuckled.
He continued. "Thus, stating that what I did is no longer serious."
"It's about time someone finished a sentence around here." I said chuckling.
"Therefore, I'm no longer in trouble!" Burke tried.
"Oh, I like you." I said. "We're related all right."
"What is it with your family and word tricks?" Link asked.
"Yeah!" BOB yelled.
I realized then that I was still laughing, and tried to stop. I did, but my throat started hurting like crazy.
I reached my hand to my throat, trying to massage it.
"My dear, are you alright?" Doc. C. asked.
"Yeah, just laughing so much is all."
Doc smiled at me. "It would appear you finally came around, Love."
I slowly nodded my head, which made me a little dizzy. I quickly steadied myself before anyone noticed.
"You were right, Doc, she would be okay." Susan smiled down at me. I smiled back.
I then looked over to my brother and Monger, who were in an argument over what punishment he would have. I started to worry about him. We did look a little alike. He had Mom's eyes, hair, and the whole German factor came in. I remembered the only reason Mom married Dad was to get a green card.
Doctor cockroach grabbed my hand lightly. "I'm sure he'll be all right."
I smiled at him and he let my hand drop. I realized that an imprint of his hand was still on mine, all bright white yet red at the same time.
"Yeah." Link said, "He'll be fine." He playfully smacked my shoulder a bit, causing me to fall down.
"Link, what are you doing?" Susan asked shocked.
"Oh, come on, I didn't hit her that hard, and I wasn't even trying to hurt her!"
"Senora, are you all right?" Doc asked me.
"Yeah...I'm fine..." I massaged my sore throat again.
I noticed then that the fight between Monger and Burke stopped, and they were both staring at me.
"Beta, you alright?" Monger asked.
"Yeah, why does everyone-" I took a breath, "keep asking me that." I paused. "I'm fine."
I sat down on the floor to help steady myself. Everyone looked at me worriedly.
"Oh, come on. It's not the first time I did this." I tried to reason with everyone. "I was sitting right before Burke came along."
Why was Doc's hand imprint still on my hand? I feel so sore, but I can't let everyone know that. They'll just think I'm even more of a drama queen.
I leaned my head against the wall and started to close my eyes, the light in this room was giving me a headache.
"SENORA!" Susan yelled.
I tried to slow my heart down a bit and opened my eyes. I was overreacting. "I'm fine, Susan. No need to worry." I licked my lips.
Just then, it looked like Doc had a lightbulb go off in his head.
"Water." he said.
I stared at him. Water did sound good right about now.
"What about it?" I asked.
Monger slapped his hand against his head. "Of course! Part fish!"
I switched my gaze to him. "Yeah?"
Link ran off towards a normal fridge, which was right next to a giant one. He pulled out five bottles of water.
"Hurry Link!" BOB screamed.
I could only watch as he opened one bottle of water and moved it towards me-
-and dumped it right on my head.
My eyes shot right open-which hurt a little-and was about to yell at him when he handed me another bottle.
He opened it and said, "Here, drink this one."
I reached for the bottle, then saw everyone staring at me. I held the water, and stated, "It's a little awkward to drink with all you staring at me like that."
They continued to stare, so I sighed and drank the water the fastest I could. I probably looked pathetic, but I wanted this stare-fest over with.
I looked at everyone. "Thank you, I feel much better now-"
SPLASH! I felt more water fall onto my head.
I glared at Link. "What the hell?" I screamed at him.
"Just tryin' to help." He stated.
I glared at him, then smacked him.
"That's for pushing me over!" I said.
Susan let out a sigh. "It appears you're back to normal, Senora."
"Back? Wasn't she here the whole time? Where was she?" BOB demanded.
Burke smiled at me. "Better drink the other two before they end up on your head." He joked.
I stared at him, then reached for one of the bottles. Just as I opened it, I saw Link grab the other one.
"Link, no!"
Too late. I was even more wet. Before he could grab the water out of my hands, I chugged it down. A little too fast, I guess, because I started to choke a little, but I soon finished the entire bottle in a matter of seconds.
"Success for me!" I yelled.
I saw Monger chuckling a little. "Well, I'm gonna tell my people to dim the lights in here a little for ya. Then I'm gonna have a little chat with my soldiers, see which one of 'em leaked the photo. See ya'll soon." He turned to leave, then suddenly spun back around.
"Well, Burke. I've come to a decision. You will stay here, with limited privileges, of course, and you will also be in charge of your sister. Make sure a little incident like this doesn't happen again. As for you, Beta, you will be handed a bottle of water every hour. Drink it. Burke, make sure she does. She can be really stubborn at times." With that, he turned back around and walked out the door.
