Chapter 22

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Kagome sat motionless on the chunky couch in the small office of her psychiatrist straight out of college. The woman smiled like Barbie, and her name plate read Jenna.

"Why do you think you're here Kagome?" Jenna asked as she leaned back in her big black swivel chair. Kagome picked at the edge of the gauze bandage that covered where she'd bitten her hand earlier that week and said.

"Why do you think you're here Jenna?" Jenna frowned slightly, put her steno pad down and smiled again.

"I'm here to help you." She folded her hands together, and set her chin on them. Kagome mimicked her, smiled like her, and flatly said.

"No you're not. You're prying." In defense Jenna replied.

"I'm doing my job."

"By prying into your patients pasts or personal thoughts it actually makes your job harder, cause just like others if you were to ask me why I am here I will just clam up." And then Kagome didn't say anything else.

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Friday, which meant it was visitors day. Which meant Kurt was coming. Kagome sat on the edge of their couch in the rec room, where patients took their visitors. After lunch on Friday Kagome always waited for Kurt on this couch.

The couch dipped in the middle, and Kagome fell onto the shoulder of the person who sat next to her.

"I love you fuzz butt."

"I love you crazy lady." Kagome laughed and hit him in the shoulder with her now healed hand.

"So how are thing going at the house?" Kurt's face fell.

"You didn't see it on the news?"

"See what?" Kurt bit his lip and continued.

"There was a big fight. The professor went missing. The whole city, country even , knows mutants exist. The… the institute is gone. We're living in the underground shelters now." Kurt went on quietly.

"Is everyone okay?"

"No, everyone hates us! Evan and I got jumped after school yesterday!" Kurt yelled as he stood up. Kagome pulled him back down on the couch.

"Then you just tell them you've got a super mutant girlfriend who'll break out of her physic ward and eat their spleens if they touch a hair on you're head." Kagome finished her statement with a nice sound kiss on his lips. There came a warning from the helper, and Kagome pulled back.

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Kagome sat there on her couch waiting for her weekly visit. She felt two demonic auras come into the room, and she looked up from the book she was supposed to read for her substitute language arts class, and saw Kurt and Shippo…with bruises and scratches all over. Kagome dropped her book and froze. Shippo on the other hand shouted "Oka-san!" and ran into her arms.

"Shippo, what's that?" Kagome lightly fingered a bruise on his cheek as she kneeled in front of him.

"A bruise." He took her bigger hand in his, which had a brace around it. Kagome hugged him to her tightly, then looked up deathly at Kurt.

"What the freak happened!" Kurt looked very uncomfortable and squirmed under her glare, but spoke.

"When I went to pick him up Friday I found a bunch of Kids throwing the playground gravel at him, and kicking him." Kagome let Shippo out of her hug, but still kept him close.

"And no body stopped this but you?" Kagome seethed, and her eyes started to get a pink tinge.

"There were two teachers watching." Kagome started to breathe heavily and she let go of Shippo and sprang for the door, but Kurt caught her around the waist in time.

"Let me go!" Kagome screamed and flailed.

"Calm down!" But it was too late for that, they had already attracted a lot of attention.

"I'll calm down when I see their heads rolling at my feet! I'll teach those fuckers to mess with my kid!" The room supervisor had already slammed on a red button and there was an alarm going off.

"Calm down!" Kurt tried again, but it was a lost cause Kagome had already downed three security guards by kicking them in the face.

"No ones going to hurt Shippo ever again!" the alarm was still blaring, and five more men in scrubs came in; one was carrying a needle.

'If she keeps thrashing about like this that needle's going someplace it shouldn't! How can I make her stop!' Kurt's mind screamed.

How does any male silence his woman?

A gravely voice that came out of nowhere ran through Kurt's head. Without any other thought Kurt sand his teeth into the junction of her neck and shoulder. For a second Kagome froze, and that was just long enough for the men in scrubs to over take her. Kurt was pulled away, and Kagome was sedated.

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Kagome woke up in her room with restraints on her wrists and ankles. She looked to the doorway, cause there was no actual door, and noticed that above it was a brand new security camera, whiring so it could look around the room.

Memories consume

Like opening the wound

I'm picking me apart again

You all assume I'm safe here in my room

Unless I try to start again

Kagome arched her back and winced. Her body was on fire, she needed to move, she was going to explode. Her hands were shaking and her gut hurt. She needed to cut. With little difficulty she pulled the restraints from the bed, and threw a glare at the camera. It stopped whiring and feel down. Kagome sat up, took her head in her hands, and started to rock back and forth. She promised Kurt she wouldn't.

I don't want to be the one

The battle always choose

Cause inside I realize

That I'm the one confused

"It hurts so much" She chocked. Kagome took her hands away from her face and looked at them. Her nails, which she'd kept short for now looked very appetizing. Ignoring the pain in her chest she grew her nails out to claws and sharpened them to the point of being able to slice skin.

I don't what's worth fighting for

Or why I have to scream

I don't know why I instigate and say what I don't mean

I don't know how I got this way

I know it's not alright

So I'm breaking the habit

I'm breaking the habit tonight

Kagome closed her eyes and said a silent prayer as she started to carve holy symbols into her right shoulder, and all down her arm. The ever familiar siren went off and she could hear about ten people running down the hall, and the rolling thunder of a stretcher. Kagome worked faster.

Clutching my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I have no options left again

A doctor came through the door followed by two scrub clad guards and went straight for her. A red barrier flared up and Kagome screamed and clawed at her chest, cutting it and getting blood on the pajamas she had been changed into.

I dont want to be the one
Who battles always choose
Cuz inside I realize
That I'm the one confused

One of the guards touched the barrier and as soon as he touched it Kagome's head snapped up and she screamed.

"Get out!" And she extended the barrier so they were all forced out of the room.

"Call doctor Onizumo!" One of them called out. Kagome was too preoccupied with what she was doing to notice.

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight

On the tips of her fingers she had carved the kanji for dispel, expel, peace, holy, and exterminate. Kagome threw her head back and groaned as she stood up and shuffled towards the wide white wall.

I'll paint it on the walls
Cause I'm the one that falls
I'll never fight again
And this is how it ends

With every finger she wrote once on the wall first with the pinky…dispel,

Spirits come take him away and away,

Then with her ring finger…expel,

Spirits come take him away and away,

Then with her middle finger… peace,

Spirits come take him away and away,

Then with the index finger… holy,

Spirits come take him away and away,

Then with her thumb…exterminate,

Spirits come take him away and away.

I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
to show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight

As she finished the last 'away' Kagome felt and explosion within her chest. Kagome fell to her knees and vomited everything in her stomach, including stomach acid, along with a good amount of blood. Out of pure reflex she wiped her mouth on the back of her right hand wiping away the puke blood mixture, and replacing it with blood from her wrist.

Breathing hard Kagome rested her head against the wall, but a second later her body was wracked with those grotesque noises you make between puking fits. After an eternity of dry-heaving Kagome passed out. With a quiet squish she crumpled in the puddle of her puke and blood.

And that how that end ladies and gents…..sorry it took so long in the first place. But I've been a bit grounded. I've got a boyfriend…he's 21. I told my parents, and I'm grounded. So I'll try to get the next chapter out quick.

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