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Underlying Tragedy: … This is true. If I did, I'd make you Karasu's loverbitchwhore.
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"He betrayed her!" Kay roared at Koenma. He looked at her sadly, "Yes. Shortly after, I had your sibling's memories erased, having "normal" childhood memories put in place of them, and sent you three off to live in the Ningenkai." Something didn't click with her, "So why did you not know who I was?" Koenma looked nervous, "Well, papers got misplaced… You see," He stuttered slightly, "Andwelosttrackofwhereyouweresentandtowhom." He said that last part it seemed like one word, but Kay had used this trick many times to avoid punishment, and understood it perfectly. "You lost me?" She stated more than asked, "Yes…" Admitted Koenma, "Believe me, I felt terrible." Kay sighed, her mother had been murdered, no – more than murdered – betrayed, by the one she trusted more than anyone.
'How could he? How could she? How could she put such faith into someone that was destined to betray her like that?' "Why did he do that?" She asked quietly. "No one knows. It's like he just… Snapped." Koenma admitted.
He looked at Kay for a moment, "If you'd like, you can stay here for a while. I'll have someone show you to your mother's old room. Kay looked up, "She wasn't my mother." Koenma looked shocked, "But-" "Biologically, maybe, but that counts as little. I need to get home to my real mother. I'm sure she's worried sick."
Then she thought better, no, her mother probably wasn't worried. Her mother didn't worry too much about her. "I'm quite sure she's fine, Kay. I had a shape shifter take over for you and Melissa." "WHAT!" Kay yelled in an outrage; he had someone take her place? "Just because I thought that explaining everything would take a while," He held his hands up in his defense. "Hn," Kay muttered, not really knowing what else to say.
"Koenma?" Kay asked, "You and I are the only ones that know about my empathy, right?" Koenma raised his eyebrows, "Yes, unless Hiei was listening, but I doubt he's that curious, why?" Kay didn't answer. She didn't want anyone knowing, she wasn't sure why, but it seemed kind of personal. "Let's keep it that way."
"There's still more you should know, but that can wait until later. Hiei, you may come in now," Koenma shouted at the door. It opened immediately, revealing Hiei. "Would you please show Kay to the room in the East Wing that's always locked?" "Hn." Was the reply, "oh Kay," Koenma said suddenly, "here." He tossed her an old brass key as she stood up. She gave him a questioning look, "It's to unlock the door." She nodded and followed Hiei out of the office.
'Murdered? Betrayed? That bastard! How could she have been so stupid?' Hiei glanced at her, and she felt a twinge of pity. Realizing where it was coming from, she was suddenly furious "Don't you dare." She said warningly at Hiei, who raised an eyebrow in return, leading her up a flight of stairs. "Don't read my mind, and don't pity me." "Hn. I don't 'do' pity." Kay glared, "But you like to snoop around in people's minds. Don't." "Hn."
Hiei led Kay down a series of hallways and up a few more staircases; she was positive she would get lost on her way out without a guide. They finally came to a stop at the end of a hallway in front of a solid oak door with a few designs carved into it. "This is it. Someone will be by later to get you for dinner."
"…Okay, thanks." She said as Hiei walked off again. Kay took the brass key out of her pocket and unlocked the door. It opened silently to reveal a spacious room adorned with a few weapons hanging on one of the walls, a king-sized bed in the far corner.
Kay, not really caring what the room looked like, walked over to the bed and sat down, scooting to where her back was in the corner of the room. From here she brought her knees to her chest, grabbed one of the pillows, and hugged it until she fell into a fitful sleep, muttering "stupid, stupid…"
Kay woke up, hearing voices outside the door, 'What now?' She thought as she stretched her legs and got up. She walked by a full length mirror and realized she still had that wound on her side from her fight with Karasu, "Oh, right…" She hissed as she touched it, realizing it was still quite painful.
On the dresser was a giant first aid kit; 'Handy,' she thought as she opened it and took out gauze and those little alcohol pads. Quickly cleaning and dressing the wound, she lowered her shirt and walked over to the door feeling as though she really just didn't want to see anyone right now, and noticed the walls had turned grey.
She blinked; they were dark blue before – and the furniture had changed as well. 'That's interesting…' she thought as she opened the door to reveal Melissa. "Oh, hey. How did you find me?" "Youko showed me." She said with a slight blush. Kay kept a straight face, but the room behind her immediately turned a deep red with dark wood furnishings.
Noticing Melissa's questioning look, "Yeah, I don't know." Shaking her head and opening the door wider, "Come in, apparently this was my mother's room. My real mother."
Not knowing how much her friend knew already, Kay sat down on the bed and stared at the balcony that stood next to the window, which had a window seat. 'Windows are nice,' she thought dreamily. She continued looking around the room, noticing that it held little knickknacks in various places, a few pictures on the dresser across from where she was sitting, a grandfather clock that stood next to the door, glowing from the inside, and another door. 'I wonder where that goes to,' Kay thought as she stood up suddenly and walked over to it. Upon opening it she saw it was a bathroom, a very large bathroom with marble furnishings. She closed the door and went back to sit on the edge of the bed, crossing her legs.
"So what did you find out?" Melissa asked. "I'm the child of an idiot and a traitor. You?" Melissa grinned, "I'm the daughter of an A class fire demon and my mother… Guess she knew how to pick 'em." Kay laughed, "Lovely." She noticed the room turning a light shade of yellow as she laughed. She saw Melissa looking around the room as well, "Guess it has something to do with emotions…" Kay explained as best she could, "My mom was empathic… Maybe she had this room made so she could be alone and keep everything in check." "Makes sense," Melissa agreed.
There was a knock at the door and Youko popped his head in, "Dinner time, gals." He said with a grin. "I didn't say you could open the door." Kay said, noticing that the room quickly became dark red again. Youko looked around, "Well that's interesting," He noted, completely ignoring what she had said. "Well, come on, I'm sure you don't know they way to the kitchen yet." 'Yet?' Kay thought as she watched Melissa jump up to go hug Youko, 'what does he mean "yet"? How long does he think we're staying here?'
Youko led the two of them past what looked like a cafeteria filled with ogres and what Kay assumed were demons. 'This place is so cool!' She thought excitedly, 'finally something interesting!'
They entered a perfectly normal looking kitchen in a part of the building that resembled a house. 'It's like a house was built into this place.' Kay noticed Yusuke and Kuwabara were sitting at the table; they seemed to be having some kind of eating contest, cramming as much food as they could into their mouths as fast as they could. Hiei was at the opposite end of the table, watching them with a disgusted look on his face, and Shuiichi was next to Hiei, eating politely, not paying any mind to the pigs. When Youko walked in, Shuiichi looked up and greeted the three of them, "Hello, please, sit." He said, motioning to the empty seats.
Kay watched blankly as Melissa took a seat next to Youko, leaving the only empty seat left at the end of the table, across from Hiei and next to Kuwabara. 'Yeah, thanks…' she thought sarcastically as she took her seat. Only when she began to observe everyone did she realize they were eating with… chopsticks? She looked at Melissa, who returned her questioning look. Not wanting to seem rude, or worse yet – a "baka" as Hiei had put it so many times, she picked up her chopsticks and attempted to use them without killing anyone.
'So far so good,' She thought as she noticed Shuiichi was smiling warmly at her, but looked concernedly at her side. "Oh, I took care of it." She said, answering his unsaid question. She held up a piece of food proudly with her chopsticks, only to apply too much pressure and have it fly across the table into Hiei's face.
Time seemed to slow down; Yusuke and Kuwabara stopped eating and stared at Hiei wide-eyed, the smile left Shuiichi's face, and even Youko stopped staring at Melissa to see what would happen. But that was nothing compared to the glare that Hiei sent her; it made her blood run cold. "Oops…" She said, barely above a whisper, hoping he wasn't really planning on killing her.
Hiei looked as if he was going to stab her, or something just as painful, but just then Melissa made a squeak as her chopsticks went flying into Yusuke. "OW!" He yelled, covering his eye where he had been hit, "What was that for?" "S-sorry!" Melissa managed to get out, Kay intervened, "We don't know how to use chopsticks - no one uses chopsticks in Florida - where are we!" she asked suddenly, pulling a dramatic pose, "And why the hell didn't we ask that when we got here?" She stared at Melissa, who shrugged.
Shuiichi laughed lightly, "You're in Japan." He got up and walked over to one of the drawers near the sink and pulled out two forks. Kay blinked, "Japan?" She asked in a daze, "How are we in Ja- Oh never-mind." She said, not really caring. She rested her head on her fist, "When are we going back?" She asked as she thanked Shuiichi for the fork. "I'm not sure, whenever you want to, I suppose." He answered, "We're not going to keep you here, but it is in your best interest."
Shuiichi led Kay out of the kitchen when they were finished, saying something about Koenma wanting to speak with her again. When they arrived at his office, Shuiichi turned to her, "I'll stay here if you want, so when you're done I can show you back to your room," "No, that's okay Shuiichi," Kay said, "I'll wander aimlessly for a while, I want to see how big this place is." She added with a smirk. Shuiichi smiled, "Alright, have fun." He said and walked off.
Kay knocked, "Come in." Koenma said. She walked in, "You wanted to see me?" "Yes, there's more to tell you, please sit down." She sat down, still staring at that pacifier of his, wondering just how he could talk with it. Sadly, Koenma noticed; "Are you staring at my pacifier again?" He asked, slightly annoyed.
Kay looked up, "Uh," 'Convincing lie, convincing lie...' "No?" She asked, more than said, 'Oh, score one for idiot me.' "I mean; No." She stated again. It would've sounded convincing, but it was already 4 seconds too late to matter. Koenma gave her a look and sighed, disregarding it.
"Yusuke works for me as a Spirit Detective." Kay nodded, not really knowing why. "He works on special cases involving demons and criminals from the Makai in order to protect the Ningenkai." 'What? Ningenkai? Makai?' "Demon world and human world." Koenma said, as if reading her thoughts, "Ah," She said, still not understanding what he was going on about. "I want you and Melissa to stay here and train, to unleash the rest of your abilities and if you'd like, join Team Urameshi." "Team Urameshi?" she asked, "Yes, that's what we call Yusuke, Shuiichi, Youko, Hiei, and Kuwabara." "Mmhm." "It would be in your best interest," He continued, "This way if you're attacked again, you'd know how to defend yourself-" "I defended myself just fine." Kay said sharply. "Yes, but you were still wounded." "That's only because I underestimated him and didn't know what he was capable of." "Still," Koenma tried to reason, "with proper training, that won't happen again."
Kay nodded, "What about my parents? I kind of have a life in Florida, and it's going on without me." Koenma looked at her, "Well, either you can go back home with an erased memory," Kay cringed at the thought, "Or you could stay here. I could have your parent's memories erased, along with everyone you ever knew." Kay looked outraged, "But that's horrib-" She stopped, thinking she really wasn't all that memorable, anyway. "Are those the only options?"
"No, I could have a shape shifter take over for you. That way no one would ever know you left, and you could go back when you were done training." "But my life is boring. I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through that. And besides, they'd mess it up." She said, crossing her arms.
Koenma sighed, "Okay, well you can stay here until you make up your mind, and the shape shifters are in place until you do. But keep in mind that if you go back with no memory of your demon abilities, you could be attacked again, and you would have no way of defending yourself…Unless of course we start this all over again."
Kay nodded, "Anything else you want to tell me? I'm kinda tired; got up at 5AM this morning… Not to mention got in a pretty nasty fight…" "Yes, actually," The tiny ruler said, "You've probably experienced periods of time when you feel as though you're going to ice over completely, am I right?" "Actually, I did ice over." Kay corrected him.
"…Ah. Well that's because you had a lot of pent up spirit energy, and it needed to be released. I have a feeling that since you had so much of it pent up inside, it got Karasu's attention, and if you go back with no memory of this, it could happen again, and therefore attract more unwanted attention. However, now that your powers have awakened, somewhat, that shouldn't happen to the degree it has in the past. As of earlier today, your temperature was probably a cool 85°-" "Whoa." Kay's eyes widened, "But I don't feel any different…" Koenma looked at her seriously, "Kay, if your temperature goes above 95°, you'll suffer severe spirit energy loss, and you might even die."
She blinked. "95? That's it? Okay sure, as long as no one lights me on fire, I think I'll be fine." "I'm serious." Koenma stared at her, making Kay roll her eyes, "Yeah, yeah, I hear you. Anything else?" He sighed, "No, that's it for now. Since you're staying for the time being, you'll start training tomorrow." "Wait, so I don't have to go to school?"
"Not if you don't want to, no." Kay studied Koenma for a few seconds, 'is he serious? Either he's the coolest guy in charge I've ever met, or the most irresponsible.' She resisted the urge to pick him up and hug him to death as she stood up, "Okay." She smiled, "See ya around." She said, walking out the door.
Hallways. That's all there seemed to be in this place. Kay didn't understand how this place could possibly be so big, but she had never felt more lost in her life. She was lost, true enough, but she kept going. Partly because she was too stubborn to go and ask for help, but mostly because she didn't think she could find her way back to Koenma's office.
Kay kept wandering, that's all she seemed able to do at the moment; she had no idea where she was. She finally came to the end of the main corridor she had been walking through, coming face to face with two large wooden doors that resembled entrances to those temples you saw in Japan, or at least what she had seen of them.
Without thinking twice, Kay pushed open the doors to reveal what looked to be a giant dojo. "Whoa," She breathed, admiring all the training equipment and weapons adorning the walls. She walked in and over to one of the walls, admiring the collection of sharp, pointy things hanging from it when the doors closed with a bang.
Kay jumped and looked around but didn't see anyone. '…That's unnerving.' She thought as she went back to studying the tools of destruction. Kay reached out a hand to touch one of the swords, maybe pick it up, not such a bad idea, right?
Apparently it was; as soon as her hand touched the hilt of the katana she found herself on the ground with it at her throat. She was in such a state of shock; she didn't even realize that she had shut her eyes. Only when she heard breathing, and realized someone was holding her down did she open them; coming face to face with an angry-looking Hiei.
"Is this entirely necessary?" she asked, returning his glare. "Hn." Caitlin narrowed her eyes. Then, noticing he was straddling her, raised an eyebrow and said "Gee, shouldn't I be the one on top?" Hiei stared at her for a moment; when the meaning of what she'd said sunk in, his eyes widened, then he just looked shocked.
Kay couldn't help it; she burst out laughing. Covering her face with her hands, she laughed until she ran out of air, then laughed some more when she realized that Hiei still had that look on his face. "Baka onna," Hiei said as he got up, "You shouldn't be in here." "Hn. I was just looking around," She said, standing up and dusting herself off. "Why are you in here?" She asked with a questioning look.
"Hn. None of your business, onna." He said smartly. Caitlin blinked, 'Onna? That's not my name…I'm pretty sure that's not my name. He's insulting me again, isn't he? Stupid Hiei and his Japanese. Fine, two can play at this game.' She thought evilly, "Fine, sunshine. I'll go play somewhere else." 'Sunshine? Sunshine? All my years of insults, and that's the best I've got? Oh he should've just killed me…' Hiei stared at her. Kay stared back. This went on for a while, neither one backing down, neither one blinking.
'He's just standing there.' She thought dully, 'And for some reason it's making me very angry…' Hiei just continued to stare, which made her even angrier, "You know, it really bothers me when people have a staring problem" She informed him, glaring a bit. "Hn." He replied.
That did it. Kay didn't know why, but for some reason she really wanted to hurt him right then. Concentrating on his feet, she tried to make them freeze to the floor, but as soon as she blinked, he was gone. "Whaaa?" "Behind you." She heard. Turning around she saw Hiei, "How did you-" "You're to slow." He sneered, and disappeared. Kay's eyes bugged out, 'Dubya tee eff, mate?' She looked around her, just barely seeing afterimages of him. 'Oh my God, there's no way he's that fast – that's not possible!'
She got hit in the side. Lucky for her, the same side Karasu got her, and right on the wound. Kay fell down and cringed, unbeknownst to her, her eyes turning silver. "Dammit, Hiei" She seethed, "What was that for?" "Learn to fight." "I can fight just fine!" "Hn. Hardly." His voice echoed throughout the room, making it impossible for Kay to pinpoint where he was for any kind of attack, "You're just a weak little onna, barely stronger than a ningen. You're pathetic."
She held back a growl as she realized she couldn't attack him because of his speed. Then she suddenly got a brilliant idea; she put her hands on the floor, hoping to the Goddess Hiei didn't trample them, and iced the entire floor. Kay snorted as she heard a loud crash in the corner of the dojo just a few yards away from her.
Looking up, she saw Hiei was having quite a bit of trouble standing up, "What was that?" She asked him, staying on the floor, not quite sure if she'd be able to get up either. "Hn." He glared at her. "Right." Kay rolled her eyes and attempted to stand up; surprisingly enough, it worked. 'WHOO!' She thought, 'I wonder if I can 'skate' to the door…'
Pushing off with her right foot, she slowly began to move in the direction of the doors, balancing on her left. She was almost there when a sandbag hit her dead on. "Oof!" She fell down hard. Clutching her once again bleeding side, she glared in the direction the sandbag had come from.
"Hiei what's your problem!" She yelled, realizing that the gauze on her side needed to be changed and treated professionally. "If you can't dodge that, how are you going to dodge this?" Kay looked up, "Dodge wha-" She was kicked in the head immediately and was knocked over completely. "AH!" She screamed at him, "What was that for!" "Hn." Hiei fell down with a thud again.
How he managed to get from the corner of the room over to her and kick her with that much force was beyond her – he didn't even seem capable of walking. All she knew was that he didn't know how to maneuver himself on the ice, but then again, she didn't either, she just… Did.
Kay grabbed her head where she had been kicked, noticing a rather large lump there now. She really didn't appreciate that. Then Kay noticed how Hiei was getting to her; even though he couldn't stand on the ice, if he kicked off the wall he could propel himself at her – though not very gracefully - hit her, and still make it to the wall on the opposite end of the room in order to try again. She blinked, 'Wow, he really wants to hurt me.'
She watched Hiei stumble and crash into the wall again, cringing because he had hit it with such force, then got an idea; When he pushed off again, she made a wall of ice directly in front of her. He hit it with a loud 'CRACK'. Kay stared wide-eyed as the shadow of Hiei collapsed and slowly attempted to get back up. 'I am gonna die.' She thought.
"Can you please tell me why you're attacking me!" Kay asked frantically, not wanting to die right then. Hiei managed to regain his balance by not moving and glared at her, unsheathing his katana. Kay stared at him, wondering what she did to incur his wrath when he sneered at her; 'That can't be good,'
The ice directly under Hiei began to melt, making Kay worry a bit. Then she felt a burst of energy coming from him, and the rest of the ice in the room melted. She looked around and thought 'He's a fire demon, isn't he?' Hiei began to rush at her, and she managed to dodge, receiving a small cut on her shoulder from his katana. "You'll have to create stronger ice to beat me, onna." He said coldly. Kay glared at Hiei, wondering if that was even possible. 'Maybe I could beat him if I could figure out how to use my wind powers… But how do I do that?' She took a step back and slipped on something, stumbling a bit: 'What th-' Kay looked down at the puddles of water on the floor left from the ice, but it was red – from her blood.
Looking at her shoulder she noticed the cut was deeper than she'd thought, and it had been dripping down to the floor, there were also several on her legs and stomach; all quite bad. Why hadn't she noticed them before? Hiei couldn't possibly be that fast, that just wouldn't be fair. But life wasn't fair, and he was probably faster than she could ever hope to imagine.
'That bastard,' She thought viciously, 'how dare he attack me without a reason!' Kay flung her hand out and yelled "Icy wind!" A strong gust of wind filled with shards of ice flew at Hiei, sending him crashing into the wall behind him with numerous cuts on him. 'Icy wind? Where did that come from?' She thought, then realized she didn't really care. Hiei stood up quickly, shaking off the ice. He was about to attack her again when there was a voice from the doorway, "That's enough, Hiei."
Kay spun around to see two guys watching Hiei and herself; when had they come in? "Yeah Hiei, Ya don't wanna kill 'er, do ya? Don' answer that." Said the other one; he was a little taller than the one next to him with bushy red hair, blue eyes, and a horn. 'A horn?' Kay thought, staring at it, 'he's got a horn… Nice.'
She directed her attention to the one that spoke first; he was about her height with blue hair that had aqua spiked bangs and pale blue eyes. He intrigued Kay. He spoke with a calm voice, "My name is Touya," he stepped forward, out of the doorway, "Koenma asked me to come here and train you to wield your ice powers. He thought it'd be more appropriate if you were taught by an ice instead of a fire demon." Touya motioned to Hiei.
"An' I'm Jin!" The redhead spoke up suddenly, flying over to Kay, grabbing her hands, "The Windmaster! I'll be helpin' ye with yer wind powers a bit." Hiei glared at the two, sheathing his katana. "Hn." Kay rolled her eyes, "Hey Jin, I'm Kay – but you probably already knew that."
Touya answered for Jin, "Yes, Koenma filled us in. We just wanted to see what you already knew before training tomorrow, so we had Hiei attack you." Kay made a face, "Oh, I'm sure he hated that…" "Yes and no," Hiei said flatly, "Weaklings such as yourself deserve to be attacked so they may see how pathetic they truly are, but you did take quite a bit of time out of my day." "Oh? What do you have to do?" Kay asked, "Seriously, what do you do?" "Hn. Train." Kay stared at him, "You need a life." Now it was Hiei's turn to make a face, "I am alive. I have a life." "No, it – oh, never mind…" She sighed, thinking how weird demons were,
and walked to the door, "So, am I done being attacked? Can I go to bed now?" Touya stared at her, "Don't you want to have your wounds treated?" Kay looked down again; her jacket was pretty much soaked in her blood and had large tears in it, her pants were in the same shape. "'Eh, I'll deal." She said, walking out.
After a few minutes of aimless wandering, Kay wished she had asked where the infirmary was; she was feeling a little sore from the fight and really wanted to go to sleep. 'Oh well,' She thought sleepily, 'I'll just find my room, shower, pass out, and wake up for training tomorrow.' Kay wondered if that's all training was; being attacked. If it was, she wasn't sure if she was going to like it, and she had no idea how she was supposed to learn how to use her powers more efficiently. 'Maybe my room is… That way.' Kay rounded a corner and crashed into a running Melissa.
"What the?" Kay blinked. She was on the floor now. Great, now she had to get up again. She was starting to feel really drained, and wasn't sure how much longer she could keep walking. Too much had happened that day. Kay stared at her friend, feeling slightly panicked, wondering if it was her or her friend, "What's wrong, Lissa?" She was about to answer when she noticed Kay's condition, and instead just stared.
Kay continued, "… Why were you running?" "Why are you covered in blood?" Melissa asked frantically, "What happened to you?" "It's a funny story, really, I'll have to tell you sometime. Why were you running?" then a thought hit her; Youko. What had he done to her? "What did Youko do?" she said with malice, though retaining her calm appearance. Not receiving an answer, she repeated, "What did he do?"
Melissa shook her head, "It's okay Kay, really, he just said something that…" She trailed off, "…Took me by surprise, I guess." Kay stared at her, wondering what he could've said, "Mind if I ask what?" Melissa blushed a little, "He… He said he loved me." "He's lying." Kay said suddenly, "Trust me, I'd know." "Yeah, probably… But he said it with such sincerity… It just caught me off guard, and I didn't know how to react to it; he wanted me to move in with him – wait, are you sure he doesn't really love me?" She started to tear up, 'Oh, fuuuuuuuuudge…' Kay thought, slouching slightly.
True, she knew Youko felt something for her friend, but was it love? 'Probably not,' she thought, 'he's too much of a player.' She honestly had no idea if he loved her; she didn't know what real love felt like, and she hoped she never did. Love was a weakness and a waste of time, but not to Melissa. She wanted to make her friend feel better, wanted to say something right, but no words came to mind; she had never been very good at this. Kay finally decided what to say; "He doesn't love you, Lissa."
Kay watched painfully as Melissa's eyes began to tear up even more, but she dared not break eye contact for fear of seeming like she was lying. She didn't want to hurt Melissa, really, but in the long run, she knew she was doing her a favor; the kind of love she saw everyday never lasted, and it only ended in heartbreak and betrayal.
It would be better this way. This way Melissa couldn't get hurt, this way she could be strong. "Oh," Melissa squeaked, finally standing, "I didn't think so… But, he just seemed so…" "He was lying. He's had a lot of practice; it's what he does." Kay said coldly. She hadn't meant it to sound so cruel; it had just come out that way. She looked up at her friend from her still sitting position, feeling incredibly sad. Kay finally stood up and began to pet Melissa, "It's okay," she said in a calm voice, "don't waste any emotions over him; he isn't worth it." Melissa just stood there, staring blankly into space.
"Has anyone showed you to your room yet?" Melissa managed to shake her head, "No," "Okay, well you can stay in mine until we figure out where yours is, okay?" Melissa sniffed and said, "Okay, come on, let's get you cleaned up." Motioning to Kay's now bloody apparel. Kay smiled, "Yeah, Kay got the crap beaten out of her," she said, speaking in third person again. "I'd hate to see the other guy." Melissa countered. They both laughed as they continued wandering the hallways.