OHHHH...You guys, this is gonna be a good chapter! I planned everything out that I wanted in the chapters and OH. Prepare thy self!


Daddy. I've just about given up on you ever coming home...In fact as the days go on, I'm...I'm almost positive Uncle Red is right. Oh god Daddy...Please come home. I'm not sure I can make it much longer not knowing what's happened to you. It makes me sick. Sicker than I actually am.

Nerina was dropped off at the Hellboy Residence to visit her cousins and her Aunt and Uncle while Abe went out and did something for a scientist buddy of his. Dante and Desmond were now 14, now making her 12. She was two years younger than them and they liked picking on her about it. This time however, Nerina had held one of her note books in front of her and her hoodie wrapped around her waist. Today was an embarrassing day.

"Hey, Sweet heart" Liz smiled as Nerina stepped up to her Aunt. Liz immediately noticed the look on her face and sighed rubbing her shoulder "What's wrong baby girl?"

"I'm bleeding" She answered truthfully.

Liz looked concerned and crouched to her level "Oh my gosh baby, where!?" When Nerina looked down at the ground, and Liz saw no official evidence that she had been stabbed or physically hurt, she sighed gently and rubbed her cheek "Oh. Okay, honey, Come with me"

Liz lead Nerina to her master bathroom and pulled out a few things for her. She had closed the door and began to explain to her what was going on and that she wasn't dying. It was tough being the only other girl in the their family. She obviously couldn't go to her father being that he was male and easily blushable. It was a good feeling that Nerina could trust Liz with something as embarrassing as her period. Liz then walked her to the kitchen, made them both tea and sat down across the table and began to explain more what was going on.

"Okay, so now you know what'll happen once a month, every month...You know you're not dying. You know about puberty now, right?" Nerina nodded sipping her favorite tea, Peppermint "Good, now...is there any other questions you have?"

"Not right now, I don't think so..." Just as Nerina had spoken, Dante walked through the house and tossed his hands up in the air.

"I just peed on dad's truck! Whew! Take that old man!"

"YOU WHAT!?" Shouted Her Uncle, now getting form his chair and rushing after his son, and up the stairs.

"Actually, I changed my mind" Nerina sighed "Why are boys so stupid?"

Liz chuckled softly hearing, her son scream and her husband shout at him "Honey, I'm still figuring that one out myself" Liz sighed gently and rubbed her neck "Careful though, You're going to start having an interest in boys soon. They may stupid, and have no clue what you're talking about sometimes...or hardly ever listen to you. But they can be good things too"

Nerina giggled and shook her head "Yeah right" Liz chuckled with her and took a sip of her own tea.

"Aunt Liz?"

"What, honey?"

Nerina stared into her tea for a moment and looked up at her "Thank you"

Liz was taken by surprise for a moment and looked at her "What do ya mean?"

Nerina sighed and looked up all the way "You've the closest thing I've had to a mom...and I wanted to thank you for helping me so much"

Liz smiled at her and reached forward taking her hand "I always used to tell your father and Hellboy, that I had three kids. Dante, Desmond, and you. You're the daughter I never realized that I wanted" She giggled softly "Until I had two boys...I didn't realize how precious you were to this whole family until you came along" Nerina smiled at her "So, thank you, Nerina Lily Sapien, for being my other child. My niece-daughter" Nerina giggled at the title she gave her and got up to hug her.

Liz was the best mom, to her own boys, and to Nerina.

. . . . .

On a lazy weekend, The whole family gathered in the living room of the Hellboy residence. Nerina was sitting next to Liz. Abe was doing some form of research at the family computer, and the twins. Now 17 years of age, were wrestling with each other, being quite loud in the middle of the living room.

"Asshole!" shouted Desmond.

"Pussy!" Shouted Dante.

At some point, Liz glared over at Hellboy for him to fix the situation, but Hellboy was too into the football game to care "Red!" Shouted Liz.

"What!?" He looked at the boys wrestling on the floor. He sighed greatly and paused the TV, getting up and picking his 17 year-old sons up and off the floor, and away from hitting each other "Your mother said to stop! So stop!" He dropped them from where they hung. No damage just angry teenage boys.

"He started it!" Yelled Desmond.

"He made it worse!" Defended Dante.

"I don't care who started it or made it worse, I'm finishing it!" Hellboy shouted and looked up at Nerina "Can you believe these nut balls?" He chuckled going to sit back down.

Nerina giggled, pulling her long teal hair back in a pony tail. Hellboy and Nerina weren't as close as her and Liz, or Desmond and Abe, but they had a good connection. A year ago, Nerina wanted other skills than just knowledge, so she asked her Uncle Hellboy to teach her how to shoot a gun and how to fight hand to hand combat. The hand to hand to hand took off well, once she began to learn how to use her thick tail in the mix. Along with her size against the opponent. The gun shooting didn't go over so well with her father but she was able to get the proper lessons she needed along side the twins. Along with all this, she also got bonus lessons in how to fix up machines. Such as old cars and weapons. By the end of it, she had become quite the handy asset. She wasn't a master, but she was good enough to help Hellboy with his favorite model car.

A family weekend, with the Hellboy family and the Sapien family. Couldn't start or end with out some form of drama. Unfortunately for them, It wasn't the twins fighting that started it off.

"The phone's ringing babe...you gonna get it?"

Liz shook her head and laughed "Hell no...It can't be that important"

Abe sighed and picked the phone up himself and answered it. He frowned and looked over at the other adults in the room "Uhmm, Red? Liz?" He sounded quite confused and well, upset.

The next thing Nerina knew Abe, Liz and her Uncle Red piled into the kitchen to have an adult meeting. Dante and Desmond spread across the room, trying to listen in on their conversation. Dante looked over at Desmond and could over hear a little. All they had known was that their parents old work place, The B.P.R.D's name was tossed about a lot. Along with yelling at Abe for answering the phone. Nerina sat on the couch, a throw pillow in her lap as she hugged it's sides. She too could over hear the name of the department tossed about, and it made her worry. It made her sick to her stomach almost. Nerina had looked down and Desmond had walked behind her to look over her shoulder, then whisper to her.

"Come with us, this isn't gonna end well..." Desmond was much nicer to Nerina than Dante was and it made her feel like she had an older sibling looking out for her. However, she heard the tone in her father's voice and knew he would need her more than they did.

She shook her head gently "No thanks, I think Daddy might need me soon" Desmond nodded his head and looked up at Dante to signal they were leaving. As they passed by Dante brushed his tail against her shoulders, as a sign that he too had cared.

. . .

Half an hour had passed and Abe finally left the kitchen to look at his daughter, sitting on the couch, looking like she might fall asleep. He sat next to her and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, letting her lean on him "Where are the boys?"

"Gone. They wanted to get out of here in case Uncle red was gonna yell at them or something..." She shrugged and Abe rubbed her head.

"They're not in trouble. However, Uncle Red, Aunt Liz and I are. Turns out our old workplace wants us back because of something important that came up. It's something...I don't think we can ignore. Which means I'm going to have to go back to work here soon..." He sighed greatly and looked down at his lap "It's under new management so we think all of us are going to go back to work...Will you be okay alone at home for a couple days a week? If you want, before I go I can drop you off here so you have some one to talk to?" He implied the twins, but she would much rather stay at home.

"I'll be okay daddy, I'll learn how to cook simple meals so you won't have to when you come home..."

Abe kissed her temple and sighed gently "Thank you, little bug. I really do appreciate it" He sighed once more and looked up at the blank Ceiling "I had hoped...you wouldn't have to live through something like this, watching me go back to work...for them"

. . . . .

It had been months since the B.P.R.D had called her father in for work. He'd come home much more tired than before, and there was nothing that Nerina could do about it. Except maybe make dinner every now and then. It was burnt and over seasoned most of the time, but her father still ate it, exhausted and drained too much to notice the odd flavors and combinations of food.

On the days that Nerina was alone at home she'd call Desmond or Dante to come and pick her up so she could spend sometime with them. They were going through the same thing, overly exhausted parents who had little time for them. The boys would be turning 18 soon and they had no plans to celebrate it. Except Dante, whom had been planning on getting a tattoo sometime soon. However, Nerina and the twins were alone at home most of the time. When she went over to their house, Desmond was the one who cooked dinner and made it right. He tried to teach Nerina the correct way, but it seemed cooking wasn't her forte.

On these days, Dante and Nerina had gotten in more and more fights. Ending in physical contact between one another. Because of Nerina's sharp teeth, Dante had walked away with major bite marks. Heavy bruises from her whip lashing tail, and a black eye most of the time. Nerina didn't get away so easily either though. Burn marks on her shoulder blades, tail whips on her thighs as well, and finger print bruises from when he'd grab her too hard. Often times Hellboy and Liz came home to one of them knocked out or still fighting. It was bad. It was getting worse too.

Nerina's Daoine nature was coming out heavier and heavier the more she fought with Dante.

When out by the lake, she'd catch fish like it was nothing, take down a deer with little to no problem, and she was getting better at fighting Dante. When she took to training with her uncle, her strength was growing as she could now flip her uncle onto his back. She began to growl like a monster. Bare her teeth when angry. She was becoming more and more like a Daoine an Domhain.

One day Dante was sitting across from her and tossing pieces of food her way. Nerina had asked him to stop several times, however, her primal instincts had told her to growl at him and flash him her teeth. Dante being the idiot he was only took that as a challenge and tossed more food at her. Resulting in another tussle. Nerina had know that she was in fact a Daoine, and used this to her advantage. However, at times now that she was growing in to a beautiful young woman, her primal instincts were used for more than just fighting.

During a wrestling fight with Dante, Nerina stopped, sitting on top of him and looked down at him with glowing ice blue eyes. Her breaths had quickened and she bit him, softly though on his neck.

"N-Nerina! What are you doing!?" Of course this took him by surprise since they were fighting just a few moments ago. Dante could feel her tail interlocking with his and dragging it's self up his thigh. She seemed as if she didn't know she was doing this, and just kept going on.

It was at this point that Desmond pulled her off, getting growled at himself. A reason why he seldom interrupted their fighting "Nerina! Snap out of it!" Desmond shouted shaking her a little.

It wasn't until Abe had come home to witness Nerina's strange behavior. While Hellboy and Liz pulled the boys away from her, Abe was able to calm the beast inside her. A calm washed over her. Though her cheeks had flushed when realizing what she had done. Abe had to take her home and explain to her what was happening to her. Why she was feeling this way, and why she should learn to control it. Nerina understood him and did more research to see if she could tame her own demons.

Unfortunately, the more her Daoine side had come out in things such as fighting, and primal mating instincts, the more she felt upset about being the last Daoine. Nerina found her elf sobbing in her library nook, wondering what her life was coming too. Wondering what she should do now, now that she had gone so far.