Neko: I just realized I forgot to do my rant at the beginning of the last
chapter. Well, that won't do. But I really have no choice *slaps her
forehead* This chapter is planned to be dark so be warned, and Pietro/Cami
are going to get a bit more obvious than just piggyback rides and torturing
each other. Two people have said they like Cami!
Cami: YAY! *Dances*
Lance: Can I refuse relation to her?
Neko: Oh, and if ya didn't figure out I named their mom Miya and she's
searching for them after causing general havoc in the laboratory place.
Wait a minute, why are you two here?
Lance: Scott asked me to fill in so he could go to his therapist.
Cami: And Fred's out for pizza.
Fred held onto Cami, blood seeping into his shirt from the wounds the girl had acquired ramming into the invisible wall holding them in and trying to get out. The boy's didn't understand why she was so desperate to be free; Fred had to hold her to prevent her from killing herself. The girl struggled and tried to get away before she'd went limp and became a crying mess.
The small steal box that was just big enough to hold the five of them with benches on three sides was quiet as Fred, convinced Cami wouldn't try to hurt herself again handed her to Pietro.
"What's wrong?" The speed demon stroked her hair in an attempt to calm her down and when she tried to answer him she ended up hiccuping collapsed in Pietro's arms. "If she gets hurt anymore than she is Lance is going to have all of our heads, you know."
The other three nodded in understanding knowing perfectly well what Avalanche would do to them.
"No more mentioning of him," Pietro continued, "if they're monitoring us and find out, if they don't already know that they didn't get all of us they could get him too and right now he's our only hope."
"Hidy." Cami sniffled followed by another hiccup.
"Hidy is going to be fine, Cami," Pietro tried to calm her. She just shook her head.
"I think she means that she could help, yo." Todd put in as helpfully as he could.
"Oh, yeah, we're going to be saved by a puppy." Pietro rolled his eyes then noticed Ray studying Cami with a strange look. "What's up with you?"
"She's not in any pain," Ray responded sounding perplexed, "I mean, not physically." It was true, she wasn't paying any attention to the open wound the size of a half-dollar on her temple, or the split lip, or the horribly black and blue arms. "Cami, do you realize how injured you are? Shit, we should probably get a doctor." Ray stood up to see if he could get a guard's attention.
"I am?" The wind rider sniffed a couple of times calming down, lips parted slightly as Pietro touched his finger to the crack in her lip and then showed her the blood. "I am."
"You've also got a scrape on your head and your arm is messed up pretty bad," Pietro informed smearing the blood onto his shirt to clean his finger. "You really gave the wall hell."
There was another sniff and Cami buried her face in Pietro's shoulder. "I'm used to pain," she murmured, "after they left I wasn't his little girl anymore, if I mentioned them he'd beat me, if I laughed when I wasn't suppose to he'd beat me, and when I cried he'd beat me even harder. After a while you just get numb to it." She'd been treated better than her mother though, she could remember almost every night the yelling and the sounds of skin on skin. It got to the point it was easy to sleep through. She remembered Lance holding her against him, covering her ears and trying to protect her. That had only made things worst in the long run. Thank god for CPS and paranoid neighbors.
"It's alright," Pietro cooed as Todd smacked Ray and told him to stop calling attention to them. "I'm not going to let anyone hurt you here, you know, because Lance would probable do something horrible like cut little Pietro off and feed us his cooking so we died a slow death."
"Yeah, sometimes it's scary how protective of you he is," Fred put in seriously considering sitting on both Ray and Todd.
"So is that the only reason you care?" Cami asked looking at both of them, but mostly at Pietro.
"Of course not, I care because," Pietro paused and shrugged, "well, you know."
"No, I don't."
Pietro was about to speak again when the sound of footsteps echoed down the hall, and voices came closer to their cell.
"I told you not to send your Frankenstein after them! He practically killed the girl," the first voice was saying, quite in a timid way for what he was saying.
"Yes, and now we have to waste resources patching her up!"
"Do you even care that she's a human being?"
"No, because she's not, she's a mutant being." The second voice was gruff and cold. "They should be living in the forest with the apes or something."
"I do not believe that you are saying this! They are humans as much as you and I, yet you're keeping them in cages like animals."
"And you aren't doing shit about it."
"It's not like I can do much but make sure you don't kill them!"
They stopped in front of the cell containing the Brotherhood and Fred, Todd, and Ray went on the defensive as Pietro held to Cami tighter against him.
"Oh come on," the shorter man who was balding with the voice that could make a penguin shiver huffed, "certainly by now you know that your powers are useless here."
The other man was tall and handsome, with a kind face and a worried expression. "Please, we're just going to take care of her injuries, we don't want to hurt her."
"To-late!" Pietro snapped too quickly for anyone to process. He took a deep breath then continued so they would understand. "You can take her only if I come too, make sure you don't try anything funny. You know, shouldn't we get a phone call or something? Or when the constitution said 'all men' did they mean normal non-mutant men?"
"If you'd calm down," the tall man replied putting his hands to ease Pietro down, "what we do is research mutants to see if we can get information to help humans of all types. You five are clearly evolved, we just want to see in what ways other than the obvious."
"Let me go." Cami stood up wavering slightly from a head rush and walked up to the force field. "I trust him." She placed a hand on the invisible barrier and the shorter man pressed a few buttons on the side and the wall went down long enough for Cami to collapse and be picked up by the taller one.
"No, Cami," Pietro got up and pressed his hand against the transparent wall and hung his head, "we need to get the hell out of here." He turned to the other three in the cell. "Now."
A/N: I know, short and angsty, I was planning more but next chapter. I don't know when I'll update next, anywhere from a week to a month, but I'll try to as soon as I can!
Fred held onto Cami, blood seeping into his shirt from the wounds the girl had acquired ramming into the invisible wall holding them in and trying to get out. The boy's didn't understand why she was so desperate to be free; Fred had to hold her to prevent her from killing herself. The girl struggled and tried to get away before she'd went limp and became a crying mess.
The small steal box that was just big enough to hold the five of them with benches on three sides was quiet as Fred, convinced Cami wouldn't try to hurt herself again handed her to Pietro.
"What's wrong?" The speed demon stroked her hair in an attempt to calm her down and when she tried to answer him she ended up hiccuping collapsed in Pietro's arms. "If she gets hurt anymore than she is Lance is going to have all of our heads, you know."
The other three nodded in understanding knowing perfectly well what Avalanche would do to them.
"No more mentioning of him," Pietro continued, "if they're monitoring us and find out, if they don't already know that they didn't get all of us they could get him too and right now he's our only hope."
"Hidy." Cami sniffled followed by another hiccup.
"Hidy is going to be fine, Cami," Pietro tried to calm her. She just shook her head.
"I think she means that she could help, yo." Todd put in as helpfully as he could.
"Oh, yeah, we're going to be saved by a puppy." Pietro rolled his eyes then noticed Ray studying Cami with a strange look. "What's up with you?"
"She's not in any pain," Ray responded sounding perplexed, "I mean, not physically." It was true, she wasn't paying any attention to the open wound the size of a half-dollar on her temple, or the split lip, or the horribly black and blue arms. "Cami, do you realize how injured you are? Shit, we should probably get a doctor." Ray stood up to see if he could get a guard's attention.
"I am?" The wind rider sniffed a couple of times calming down, lips parted slightly as Pietro touched his finger to the crack in her lip and then showed her the blood. "I am."
"You've also got a scrape on your head and your arm is messed up pretty bad," Pietro informed smearing the blood onto his shirt to clean his finger. "You really gave the wall hell."
There was another sniff and Cami buried her face in Pietro's shoulder. "I'm used to pain," she murmured, "after they left I wasn't his little girl anymore, if I mentioned them he'd beat me, if I laughed when I wasn't suppose to he'd beat me, and when I cried he'd beat me even harder. After a while you just get numb to it." She'd been treated better than her mother though, she could remember almost every night the yelling and the sounds of skin on skin. It got to the point it was easy to sleep through. She remembered Lance holding her against him, covering her ears and trying to protect her. That had only made things worst in the long run. Thank god for CPS and paranoid neighbors.
"It's alright," Pietro cooed as Todd smacked Ray and told him to stop calling attention to them. "I'm not going to let anyone hurt you here, you know, because Lance would probable do something horrible like cut little Pietro off and feed us his cooking so we died a slow death."
"Yeah, sometimes it's scary how protective of you he is," Fred put in seriously considering sitting on both Ray and Todd.
"So is that the only reason you care?" Cami asked looking at both of them, but mostly at Pietro.
"Of course not, I care because," Pietro paused and shrugged, "well, you know."
"No, I don't."
Pietro was about to speak again when the sound of footsteps echoed down the hall, and voices came closer to their cell.
"I told you not to send your Frankenstein after them! He practically killed the girl," the first voice was saying, quite in a timid way for what he was saying.
"Yes, and now we have to waste resources patching her up!"
"Do you even care that she's a human being?"
"No, because she's not, she's a mutant being." The second voice was gruff and cold. "They should be living in the forest with the apes or something."
"I do not believe that you are saying this! They are humans as much as you and I, yet you're keeping them in cages like animals."
"And you aren't doing shit about it."
"It's not like I can do much but make sure you don't kill them!"
They stopped in front of the cell containing the Brotherhood and Fred, Todd, and Ray went on the defensive as Pietro held to Cami tighter against him.
"Oh come on," the shorter man who was balding with the voice that could make a penguin shiver huffed, "certainly by now you know that your powers are useless here."
The other man was tall and handsome, with a kind face and a worried expression. "Please, we're just going to take care of her injuries, we don't want to hurt her."
"To-late!" Pietro snapped too quickly for anyone to process. He took a deep breath then continued so they would understand. "You can take her only if I come too, make sure you don't try anything funny. You know, shouldn't we get a phone call or something? Or when the constitution said 'all men' did they mean normal non-mutant men?"
"If you'd calm down," the tall man replied putting his hands to ease Pietro down, "what we do is research mutants to see if we can get information to help humans of all types. You five are clearly evolved, we just want to see in what ways other than the obvious."
"Let me go." Cami stood up wavering slightly from a head rush and walked up to the force field. "I trust him." She placed a hand on the invisible barrier and the shorter man pressed a few buttons on the side and the wall went down long enough for Cami to collapse and be picked up by the taller one.
"No, Cami," Pietro got up and pressed his hand against the transparent wall and hung his head, "we need to get the hell out of here." He turned to the other three in the cell. "Now."
A/N: I know, short and angsty, I was planning more but next chapter. I don't know when I'll update next, anywhere from a week to a month, but I'll try to as soon as I can!