A/N: I don't own any Puppet Master characters, they belong to Full Moon Features and Charles Band. I do however own Archer, Elizabeth and Wildcard, Lucy and Mystic and as normal when the puppets speak it will be in italics.
Also thank you Cryptic for letting me use Jinkx and Irya in this story.
Elizabeth let out a sigh looking out of the hospital window.
She'd lost track of how long she'd been there.
All she wanted to do was return to the puppets and try to fix Blade and Decapitron's platform up.
Since she'd been here she had some ideas she wanted to run by Jinkx.
She had to keep herself busy to distract herself.
Though she was concerned that the doctors hadn't let her go yet.
She didn't know what Jinkx had told the doctors but thankfully they hadn't asked any questions about what happened.
How would she even begin to explain?
She couldn't tell the truth, that was for damm sure.
She sighed leaning back feeling bored and closed her eyes, only opening them hearing footsteps.
"Well we have some good news Miss Toulon, we'll be able to release you tomorrow." Her doctor said.
Iyra walked in and looked at the Doctor before walking over to her
"How are you?" She asked inspecting her injuries.
"You're the one that helped save me." Elizabeth said recognising the voice.
"I've been better." She replied looking away subconsciously running her hand over her bandages.
"Yes I am, my sister called me after you were stabbed." Irya sitting down handing Elizabeth a bottle of water.
"My sister would be here but she is unable at the moment."
Elizabeth nodded drinking some of the water.
"I'm glad she did. That was not how I wanted to go out." She said.
"Got too much I have to get done yet." She added glancing at some drawings she'd done for some new puppets.
Did Irya know about the puppets?
If she didn't..how would she begin to explain?
"Thank you for saving my life." She finally spoke.
"It's my job to save lives." Irya said looking at the notepad, she didn't know Lucy had hidden in her pocket.
Elizabeth however quickly noticed Lucy.
Lucy quickly hid back in Irya's pocket, the movement alerting Irya of the stowaway.
"Can I see her?" Elizabeth asked.
Irya looked down at her pocket.
"Best not, she is rather a shy thing, I just got her to start talking as of late."
Elizabeth nodded.
"I understand, they can be wary of a new person they don't know. Sometimes it takes a while to earn their trust but they are loyal."
"I hope Jinkx and the puppets are ok."
"The Puppets are okay, my sister however is not okay at the moment, but she'll pull through." Irya said sitting down and taking Lucy out of her pocket.
Elizabeth quickly recognised Lucy as the one who had attacked her.
But she wasn't angry or scared.
Lucy kept herself close to her new master.
"I hope Jinkx recovers quickly." Elizabeth said before looking at Lucy.
"What happened wasn't your fault ok. You weren't in control of what happened."
Lucy looked at Elizabeth and nodded before looking up at Irya.
"My sister got shot in the chest by someone called Kraus or Maphisto, I forget the name." She said giving Lucy's head a gentle pet.
Elizabeth's stomach dropped, her face pailing.
"He was waiting for me." She whispered, her heart rate going up.
Irya could tell Elizabeth was terrified.
"Whoever it was that shot her, well he won't cause anymore issues, person is full of bullet holes now."
"He-He's dead? He's actually dead?" Elizabeth asked.
Irya nodded.
Elizabeth leant back.
"Oh my god.. I'm free.. I'm Free!" She said, her eyes welling up with tears of joy.
She was quickly brought out of her joy by the jolting pain from her healing wound.
"The only puppet not here is Archer, she was adamant that she stayed with her, no idea why." Irya explained.
Elizabeth gave her a quizzical look.
"That's weird considering her fear of people, she'd barely come near either Jinkx or myself."
"But I'm sure she has her reasons." She added before sighing.
