Smoldering Thoughts: Sifting through the memories 5/?
Murdock's Crazylady, Now Red and Susie also, with imput by Lacy, Flight
PG-13, I think fits the series now
Disclaimer: I don't own the team. I do own CrazyKid and Melly, they are my true child side, and Melly is a friend of mine. I sorta own Sky, but Susie owns half too, since it's loosely based on her as a kid.
© 2001 Murdock's CrazyLady (MCL)
Beta reader!!: (Yes, I have one now!!) Thanks to Red for being my Beta reader and for the help with this sometimes confusing AU fic! LOL
PLEASE send comments.

This is the sequel to Melly and CrazyKid: The 2 youngest patients/Terrors





It's hhheeeeerrrrreeeee...



A loud burst, like a car tire being popped in her ear woke Red with a start. She looked around, trying to find where the sound had come from and saw CK sitting straight up in bed, staring ahead, unblinking. Red blinked and looked closer to CK. CK seemed to be listening to someone, yet her eyes and mouth never moved. Only her head slightly moved, cocked to the side every now and then, sort of like Data on Star Trek. "CK?" Red asked, as she moved closer to CK's side. No response.



"What IS she doing?" Red asked herself. Then suddenly CK got up, walked by her, and ran out of the room as quietly and as blank as ever before. It was as though someone had a remote control to her, and had decided to play with her for awhile. "CK! Wait!" Red yelled as she got up and scrambled after her. By the time Red made it to the doorway, CK had ran around the corner towards the CW. Deciding she didn't feel like walking, Red spread her wings. "Here we go again..Darn kid!" Red said as she flew after CK.



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CK ran into W-96 and walked around the very edge of the room, looking as though she was walking an invisable tight rope, her arms out at her sides to balance. Red flew and landed at the doorway just in time to see CK seemingly throw something towards the window, and then hit the floor and cover her head screaming. Seconds later, CK peeked out from under her arms and saw it was okay to get up, and stood. Red watched as she picked up an unseen rifle, lay on on her shoulder, and continue walking on.



Red watched with her eyes open and her mouth too. CK looked like a trained military private, and Red didn't understand why. A sudden cold wind swallowed her, and she could see her breath in the room. Feeling it, Red knew something had invoked her power, and she looked up. CK, was now dressed in full camo dress uniform, helmet, gun and all. She continued to march on, through a bloody grave yard. Bodies hung half in and half out of their graves, looking as though someone had just tossed them there after mauling them. Red saw millions of lost souls and gasped. She knew where they were, and she knew that they had to get out before they were stuck there forever.



An evil spirit, a dark yet see through entity had it's hand on CK's shoulder and was leading her farther into the graveyard. CK still looked like a soldier, and she stared straight ahead, following it without a question or a protest. Red quietly followed them, and as she did, she hoped she could get CK and herself out of this alive.



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BA finally talked to Worf, whom didn't say much, even as he worked on the stack of paper work and computer filing he had looking at him. He had the task of taking all of the history they had about Christopher from the entire 4 years he had been there.



He had to send it to the parents, whom were deeply in mourning. He knew because he'd seen Chris's mom crying over him in his coffin. Worf tried to shake that memory off and continued, trying not to think about what he was doing, but he wasn't doing a very good job of forgetting the only patient he'd ever let himself get attached to.



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Hiding behind a huge tombstone, Red watched as CK suddenly wore her overalls and sneakers again, and the graveyard changed to the VA again. Now, Red stood in the doorway of the VA garage, where BA's van and Face's Corvette were kept. Red watched as the entity and CK drew all over the van with red and green ketchup. The entity was using CK's memories of Mel to make her believe she was seeing her bestfriend, and not it's true self. CK laughed and giggled as she turned the ketchup on him, and sprayed him, and he sprayed her back.



As he sprayed her, CK backed up laughing. He kept it up, backing CK closer and closer to a hole. CK soon backed up too far and fell in, screaming as everything changed back to the grave yard before CK's very eyes, she was terrified. The entity looked over her in her now 15 foot deep grave, and laughed a horrible laugh. CK knew that laugh and shivered. "YOU DEAD! YOU NOT WEAL!" CK screamed at it.



"Yes. I am dead, and you will be joining me very soon!" It said, and as CK looked down, she saw a metal ring appeared around her waist, a chain trailing from it, attached to the end a metal ball bigger than CK's body. CK's eyes grew as she pulled at it and saw it was real, and couldn't get it off. A laugh, like before, and the entity said words that sounded like they were being chanted backwards as he stood way up on the surface, over CK's shivering, crying head.



"Lemme out!" CK begged and was ignored. Water suddenly began to fill the hole, and CK screamed as she tried to stand up, but was yanked right back down by the weight of the ball. Seeing her attempts, The entity laughed. "Never learned to swim? TOO BAD!" The entity said, enjoying the horrific show as CK fought not to drown. CK screamed and cried to be let out, and as Red watched and listened, she got angry.



CK coughed as the water pressed against her chest. She was about to scream again when she realized the water wasn't cold. It was warm, and getting hotter as it filled the grave. "OH did I neglect to also say that water only comes in hot? You'll drown before you burn, but you'll burn, just like I promised!" It yelled and CK gave a few more screams. Red finally stepped out from behind the tombstone and the entoty gave her a smile only it could.



"Well, it seems we have a guest. Interested in saving the whelp? Sorry. It'll never happen." The entity said as it laughed at CK, as the water rose to her chin. Red walked closer, gave it a dirty look, and snapped her fingers. The water in the hole had gone over CK's head, and now as it subsided, CK coughed and gasped for air. Seeing CK was alright, Red looked back at the entity. "Got anything else you want to try? I'm game." Red said, pulling her sword. It laughed at her. It underestimated the royal robe wearing, sword carrying, butterfly-winged woman, and it did so badly. Red shook her head.



"Oh I might look harmless. But I am far from it. I am going to destroy you and see to it that you never return here again." Red said, and again it laughed. "You? a puny little butterfly child? Not hardly." Came it's cocky reply. Red gave it a look of sureness. "I did it once before, and I'll do it again. Oh, and if you laugh at me once more, I'll cut your tongue out and use it as a doormat." Red said, calling upon her power.



CK kept coughing as the tried to hear what was said, but she was down to far, and she couldn't hear anything no matter how hard she tried.



battle scenes here, let Red add them



(RED: the ghost is her adopted father, the one that died in the fire)





As the fight went on above, CK cried. She was scared, wet and finally came to terms that Mel really was dead. CK tried to remember what he looked like, and couldn't. That made her feel even worse.CK felt like someone had erased her mind, like she'd done to many computer hard drives before.



CK made fists with both hands and screamed Mel's name as loud as she could. She was so emotion-ridden, that she began to glow. Her body felt numb, and then full of life as her power grew. Her hair began to glow in a self-made wind as anger overcame her fear. CK opened her tear filled eyes and looked down at the chain holding her down. Reaching down, CK grabbed hold of the chain and broke it with an angry, tearful stare. Then she stood up, and looked up at the enterance. Seeing the bright lights and flashes, CK got even angrier and hunched down as far as she could, jumping up, she made it out--Of a 15 foor hole---and landed on the muddy bank above.



Neither of the 2 fighting noticed, Red, nor the entity. CK stood there, with a metal ring around her waist, a chain dangling behind her like a tail, watching the power filled fight, an angry yet scared look filled her face. CK felt like all she could do was cry, and she did. CK realized, as she stared through her tears at the streaks of lavendar flying through the air, that the one fighting the monster was the same lady that had been in Mel's room with her before. She was fighing the ghost CK knew so well, and CK was both shocked and proud. Someone cared. Someone was fighting for her. FOR HER! CK smiled through her tears, silently cheering Red on.



figured I better let the ending of the fight for you too, so I can learn your fight techiques! LOL you can doctor the last paragraph to sound more like a story and not a boring ben stein voice, lol.



After the fight, the graveyard disappears and the room is normal again. CK colappsess to her knees, crying. The realization, the finalness of the death hits her, and it hits her in the heart. Red comforts her, beginning the strong relationship between them.



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