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Melissa could still feel every once of electricity pulsing through her stitched body, including her heart. Despite being a mostly man-made creation, she could still feel some pain. The electricity volts pumping in her veins is certainly proof of that.
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Thousands, if not millions, of volts pulse through her heart, to the point where she wonders how and why her heart hasn't given out from cardiac arrest due to all of that electricity.
She could still remember every shock delivered to her body. Her father and his assistant Mei testing her physical limits with every shock. The voltage increased after each one as does the level of pain she is forced to endure.
She still remembers the heart monitor connected to her beeping erratically. Her heart rate skyrocketing to around 320 beats per minute. Far beyond any normal physical human limits.
She remembers all the times her heart should have flatlined. All the times her eyes roll upward to the back of her head as she gasped for air.
Ba-Bump! Ba-Bump! Ba-Bump! Ba-Bump!
Melissa awakens from her dream. Well, it was less of a dream and more like the aforementioned memories of pain. She was sweating like crazy and she was noticeably hyperventilating. "Mel! Are you alright?!" She hears a familiar voice cry out.
The young pale skinned daywalker vampire rushed to Melissa's side. The stitched undead girl looked like she was struggling to breathe properly. His vampiric senses honed in on her heart and lungs going haywire in her chest. He places his hand on her sternum, trying to get her to calm down.
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"Look at me, Mel. Try to breathe, alright?" Izuku said, rather concerned about Melissa's well-being. He was also worried that, given her heartbeat and breathing were accelerating, he might have to give her CPR.
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Melissa's heart and lungs eventually did calm down, allowing her to catch her breath. "Are you alright?" Izuku asked, his vampiric senses still focused on Melissa's heart. "Yeah," Melissa panted. "I'm fine." "You're clearly not," Izuku replied. "Did you have another nightmare or something?"
Melissa sighed. "No. It…it was about me and my dad." She would explain her dream and every last painful detail surrounding it. Izuku knew Melissa's relationship with her father was a rocky one to say the least, but this was something much more traumatic.
He can't imagine the kind of pain she went through. All that electricity entering her heart. That must have been the most painful thing in the world for her.
So, Izuku did what anyone would do. He comforted her, placing his hand on Melissa's heart, much to her confusion.
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"It's ok, Mel," he said softly. "Your heart is beautiful. And I don't want anything bad to happen to it or you." Melissa let out a soft gasp as her face blushed slightly. He really said that he didn't want anything bad to happen to her.
That was the first time her heart pounded from something other than pain: compassion. All the while, Izuku simply listened and felt the strong pulses of Melissa's beating undead heart.
Ba-Bump! Ba-Bump! Ba-Bump! Ba-Bump!