ATTENTION!!!! I HAVE CHANGED THE ENDING ON THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER!! GO AND READ IT BEFORE YOU START READING THIS ONE!!! (Just re-read the last little section starting from "I awoke to the smell of bacon" at Adriana's POV)

I have decided to prolong Adriana's memory loss and use it to my advantage. Just FYI. Also, this is chapter 10! Yay new milestone! Special thanks to all of you who have supported me with reviews and favorites! Keep the love coming! More reviews = more chapters!

Abe hadn't come out of his tank for nearly two days now. Hellboy or Liz would bring him food, but he never talked.

It was tearing me apart, this memory loss.

I knew that the memories had to be within me somewhere… I sat for hours concentrating, trying to find my way through the maze of my mind.

It was a few days later when it happened.

I was in the training room, re-mastering my paper abilities. Well… maybe not mastering, more like screwing around with my powers.

Lying on my back, I flicked my hands around above me, making schools of fish and flocks of birds swim and fly above me. I tried switching them back from birds to fish, but they wouldn't go.

Then they started unfolding. The wings were collapsing and the beaks mangling as they began to fall left and right. After a thorough shower of crumpled papers, I was puzzled. I sat up. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get a single paper to do my bidding. I picked up a piece and held it in both hands. I stared at it, focusing all my energy in the little thing.

Suddenly, pain shot through my head. Dropping the paper, I grabbed my head and fell backwards.

When Liz appeared a few moments later, I realized I had been screaming in pain. It was slowly subsiding by the time she got there.

"Adriana! Are you alright? What happened?"

"I don't know! I was just playing around with my paper when it stopped working." I was breathing heavily, still in a bit of shock.

"What do you mean stopped working?!" She was as shocked as I was.

"Here look." I pointed my hand at a crumple of paper and concentrated. Nothing happened, but then the pain returned to my head.

Everything was a haze, the noise in my head sounded like two different types of metal clashing against each other violently.

It subsided once more and some agents were looking in the doorway, concerned.

"We need to go to the medical wing NOW," Liz said sternly as she helped me up, "And no trying to use your powers!"

On the way, we met up with Hellboy, "Hey, I heard through the grapevine that you can't use your powers?"

I blushed, "Yeah… I'm sure it's nothing though…"

"Nothing my ass! Every time you try and use your powers you scream in agony like you're being tortured!" Liz said.

Hellboy looked at me worriedly, "Damn. I better get Abe; he's the expert on these things…"

At the mention of Abe's name I felt even worse. Great, now in addition to him worrying about my memory he'll be worrying about my health… poor guy.

Liz and I turned to head to the medical wing and Hellboy continued on to go find Abe.

(Abe's POV)

I was lying in my tank, thinking of her.

Trying to find solutions to her problem, but finding none in my own mind.

A loud tapping came from the other side of the glass, I looked and saw Hellboy.

Swimming up to the glass I said, "You know that fish find tapping on the glass extremely annoying."

I expected him to chuckle, but he remained stoic, "There's something wrong with Adriana."

When he said her name I was instantly worried, "What?! What's happened? I'm getting out! One second!"

I rushed to the surface and grabbed a towel before running down the spiral staircase.

"It's her powers, they're not working. Every time she concentrates and tries to use them she starts screaming in agony and clutching her head."

My mind thought of the extreme agony she had been in the cave and I winced.

"I'll get some books on her powers; you go see how she's doing, ok?" I said and instantly went to work looking for books that had to do with human powers.

Moments later, I rushed into the medical wing to find a rather worried looking Adriana sitting in a bed with Liz and Hellboy on either side of her.

"I got the books, did the doctors say anything?"

"They're looking at some brain scans and running a blood test, but otherwise they can't find anything wrong." Liz said, getting up and pacing a bit.

I took her seat beside Adriana and handed a book to everyone, "We're going to have to skim these to find any symptoms like these."

We sat for a while, reading and waiting.

"I think I found something…" Adriana said, reading intently in her book, "it says here under 'general abilities' that loss of powers can be caused by severe stress, mental injury and…" she paused, looking at the book a bit oddly.

"Well?" Hellboy said impatiently.

"Sorry, and conflict with… other powers."

"Wait, so you're saying that there might be another super power in your head fighting with your paper ability?" Hellboy said.

"The book did say mental injury… and you have lost your memory. Is there a section on internal power conflict?" Liz said.

Adriana flipped to the index of her book, holding the other page as well, "Not in this book, check yours. Um, Abe? Could you hand me those post-its so I can mark this page?"

I picked them up and our fingertips brushed as I handed them to her.

A wave of thoughts flooded my mind:

A memory, she tried to use her powers, but a grinding sound split through her head. I could see two orbs of light, one a pale yellow and the other a deep red, clashing against each other within her.

"Abe? Are you alright?" Adriana said concerned.

I realized that I had been sitting perfectly still, "I think I just saw the two abilities clashing within your subconscious."

Everyone looked at me in disbelief.

"Well then get to work! Do a Vulcan mind-meld or something!" Hellboy said, making a silly Star Trek reference.

"Vulcan mind-melds are nothing like what I do, now Adriana, if you'd please relax completely, I need to see what is going on in your subconscious mind. This won't hurt a bit."

She closed her eyes and held my hand as I searched through to find the two abilities.

I could sense the paper ability; it was the yellow one I'd seen before. The other red one was much more powerful, and it seemed to be winning the battle.

The red orb began to clash against the yellow orb once more and Adriana started screaming.

She jerked her hand away to grasp her head in pain as the doctors rushed towards her.

They gave her an oxygen mask and told her to try not to struggle.

In moments she was unconscious, but I could still sense the conflict within her.

Suddenly, a great yellow orb burst out of her and flew upwards through the ceiling. And all was quiet.

Oh noes! What will Adriana's new power be? Will her memory have returned? Find out next time!