"Danica," the voice was loud and distant, "Danica,"
The girl stirred in her sleep.
"Danica!"
Danica's eyes suddenly flew open and she bolted upright panting. She looked around her to see Wade and Bradley sitting on either side and Agent Zero in the corner polishing his guns like usual.
"Danica," Wade said first, "Are you okay?"
The girl nodded and then looked down at her arms to see an IV in her arm. Dancia groaned as she noticed two more tubed buried under her skin in the other one, one for food and the other for water. She went to got take them out but Wade grabbed her hand before it even got close to the needles.
"No," he said firmly.
"I'm fine," Danica protested.
"Danica," Bradley said, "You lost a lot of blood you've been out for almost a full month,"
A month?!
Wade let her wrist go as Danica sunk back into the bed.
"Where am I?" Danica asked.
"Your in the infirmary," Bradley answered, "Stryker was furious when he heard what Victor did to you. He had Victor literally stunned and locked up,"
Danica smiled to herself when she heard that, she hated the man for what he did.
"Do you remember what happened?" Wade asked.
Danica struggled to grab the memories of that day but couldn't.
"No,"
"You were half-conscious when we found you," Bradley said, "You were losing a lot of blood. Victor was ready to actually kill you when we saw you,"
Danica noticed that Bradley was shaking when he said this, she turned to Wade to see his fists balled up so tight that his knuckles turned white.
"What else happened?" Danica asked.
Bradley looked up at Wade who softened his hard look.
"Why don't you get some rest?"
"No I'm fine," Danica said, "What else happened?"
Wade took over and said gently, "When you were unconscious it seemed like your mutation was still going...still fighting. Our shadows started fighting with us as if they unattached themselves from out body. They helped us fight off Victor and eventually Zero stunned him,"
Danica was stunned. She didn't know what to say, her mutation still working while she was unconscious on the floor losing blood.
"There is also something else," bradley said slowly.
"What?" Danica demanded.
"When the doctors went to operate on you they found something else that took them, and us, by surprise,"
Danica looked down at her stomach and then with trembling fingers roller up the lose white shirt only to choke on a scream. Were stitches were suppose to be was a black inky like shadow filled most of her stomach and chest. The shadow was in a full 360 circle and seemed to be moving on it's own.
"Almost gave Stryker a heart attack," Wade said.
Danica tried to ask what it was but her voice was blocked by a lump in her throat.
"It's your shadow form Danica," Bradley said, "It seemed that after you lose so much blood your shadow form took over the part of your body that lost blood. Doctors attached a blood bag to you but the blood only seeped out of your shadow form and onto the bed,"
Danica was only half-listening as she looked at the big black hole in her stomach which was her shadow form taking over that dead part of her body.
After two days Danica was on her feet but still in shock from what she had witnessed. She would shift into her shadow form and then back into human form only to watch as her skin would only go so far and then stop at the large shadow. Although she had a large shadow that went through most of her upper and lower trunk she was glad that a shirt would hide the shadow. As she pulled buttoned up a pair of her jeans, she looked to see Bradley standing at the infirmary entrance.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
Danica nodded as she rolled her shirt all the way down. Bradley walked over and placed an arm around her shoulders and led Danica to an empty bed where she burst into tears. Bradley cradled her gently as Danica hugged him close.
