"Well, look at what the cat's dragging in!"
"Save it, shorty, and help me lift her."

Celine and Doctor Pad barely lifted the teen onto the table. It'd taken Celine a little more then an hour to get to the medical office, and now she was totally worn out. AFter the struggling, cuts, scrapes, punches, dragging, spitting...all she wanted to do was go back to the palace and take a long bath with Chris.

"Pad, I'm gonna take a shower. Restrain her and treat her. Examine her naked if you want, I really don't care anymore. Just clean her off when you're done."

"Celine, I'm a doctor!"

"Uh-huh."

She walked to the door and chanted a phrase. A white shield surrouned the doctor and prisoner-turned-patient. Celine was not going to let her get away.

She then walked to the bathroom and disrobed, and just let the hot water run over her. It felt so good to take a shower, all she'd had since she'd gotten married were baths. Speaking of which, where the hell was Chris? He was supposed to meet him here today to look at-

CLAUDE!

She quickly got redressed and ran to the medical holding room. Near Claude was another doctor, Kyou. He smiled at her as she walked in.

"Am I interupting anything?"

Kyou shook his head. "No, no...Just doing some tests. Come in."

She came in and looked down at Claude. He looked so helpless, the young adventurer, the hero of light; now trapped inside his body in a small office in Cross. Celine ran her fingers through his wavy hair and touched his face.

"How is he, Kyou?"

"We don't know, pri-...Celine. He came in just asleep, and he's been so since last night. All we know is he's no longer physically hurt, and he's aware of his surroundings."

She bent down, close to Claudes ear. "So, you can feel this..."

She kissed his lips with passion, not just of respect. Kyou turned away.

"I have Chris, and you have little Rena...but there's always been a little connection to you, deary. So don't believe what I'm about to say."

She gave him another small kiss, then stood up, angrily.

"God damn it! I can't even shock him out of it! Wake up, Claudeee!!"

Kyou simply looked at her.

Celine reached into her pocket and pulled out the purple weapon, still looking a bit puzzled about it.

"Do you recognize this, Kyou?"

He took it from her and looked it over. "I'm not sure...there's a liquid in this container, I can't identify it. Where did you get it?"

"From the girl in the other room."

"Well, we should probobly talk to Doctor Pad, he knows a lot more about this then I do."

Celine ran her fingers through Claudes hair once again, and bent to whisper, "Wake up, Claude...I'll be waiting, to make you mine...just once...-"

"IEEEEEEE!!"

Kyou jumped, Celine only sighed. "It's the kid again, look like she woke up."

The both walked to the medical examination room.

Kyou fainted.

"OhmyGod...", Celine muttered.

In the room, the teen was frantically clawing against the magic barrier. The restraints on the table were torn away. She was naked and bleeding, probobly self-inflicted wounds. However, that wasn't the disturbing part.

Lying on the floor was Pad, broken and bloody. Eight different sized scalpels were sticking out of his back. His head was decapitated, and blood was splattered all acorss the white walls. The girls purple hair was streaked blood red, but she didn't seem to mind.

She howled again, then backed up and shot a bolt of magic at the barrier. It was innefective. Celine raised her hands at shot a ray at the youth; it passed through the barrier and knocked her against the wall. She then cast sparkling power over the room, and she promptly passed out.

Celine sat down and cried.

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