(Normal POV)
Maria sat on the couch quietly waiting for the arrival of the others, Abraham had managed to come out of the aquarium somehow and was sitting right across from her.
"No need to look nervous, I certain everyone will be happy to meet you." He said with a smile, Maria nodded in response and smirked.
A few seconds later a guy in a suit came into the room, this must be the one named Clay. Maria couldn't help but put her finger on it, but for some reason his hair looked funny.
"Clay my boy, this here is Maria Santago." Professor Broom said while walking up to Maria and introducing her to him, she got up from her seat and extended her hand out to shake his.
Both shook in greetings, Clay takes a good look at Maria and finds her to look quite fascinating to look at.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Maria, the others are coming down the hallway right now. Take it you already met Abraham and not booked it yet, you'll be alright meeting the big guy." He said with a smirk and pulled his hand away, Maria looked rather confused at his remark.
"Big guy?" She questioned, that moment a guy and a girl came into the room.
"Maria this is John Myers and Elizabeth Sherman, they are going to be your colleagues and mentors to help you around here." Broom said, Maria went up to Elizabeth and shook her hand.
"Nice to meet you Maria, you can call me Liz everybody does here." She said with a genuine smile, Maria smiled in return and looked to John.
"Good to have a new addition to the team, can't wait to see what you can do in the field." John said enthusiastically, Liz suddenly elbowed him on his side.
Maria didn't take offense to what he said but she didn't bother to question his words, looking back behind them Maria noticed that Professor Broom and Clay were talking in the corner.
"He's doesn't want to come and meet her, I tried getting him out the room but he's fucking stubborn sir." Maria could make out what Clay was telling him, Broom looked displeased at this and rubbed his temple for a moment.
"Have Maria get settled in and situated, let me go speak with him." She heard Broom say to him, Clay nodded and headed towards Maria and the others.
"Mrs. Santago I'll be helping you get settled in and showing you where you'll be staying in." Clay said while going over to grab my things, Maria watched leave the room with a frowned on his face.
" Is everything alright with him?" She asked Liz, she sighed and shrugged her shoulders.
"Yeah, just Red's having one of his moods again. Don't take it personally he doesn't like meeting new people at first." She said, John nodded in agreement.
"Yeah trust me, first time we met he wasn't really fond of me as much." He said with a nervous smile, Maria lip quirked up a bit then looked at Mrs. Amy.
"Seems like you're doing good so far." She said joyfully, Maria smirked and walked over to her.
"Yeah but don't get your hopes up, the big guy doesn't seem fond of me." She said , Amy shook her head and Pat her shoulder.
"Don't worry, you'll do great here I know it. Remember, call whenever you need me and I'll come running." She said in sincerity, Maria smiled and hugged her.
"Thank you Amy." She said, afterwards Clay allowed Maria to walk out with her and say their goodbyes.
(Maria's POV)
After seeing go I went back inside to get myself settled into my new temporary home, talking a bit more with Liz about what to expect around here her words of advice seemed comforting.
"Just be yourself and don't worry about certain people around here, tomorrow morning we start training together. John let's go before the movie starts." Liz said after giving me a pat on the shoulder and making her way towards out the room.
Watching as they both left something told me they were going out on a date, waving goodbye at them I went to see Clay waiting out in the hall for me to follow him .
"Right this way , the room you'll be staying in is newly refurbished and has everything you'd need" Clay said making his way down the hall with me walking beside him, looking around I saw that there were more artifacts hung and placed in show cabinets.
"There's so many artifacts here, did Professor Broom actually find all of these?" I asked Clay curiously, he looked back to and smirked.
"Yep, everything here was founded by Broom over the years of his work." He said , I watched as we made our way further into the hall.
It was when we crossed what looked to be a opened safe door I began to hear what sounded like Professor Broom and someone talking, Clay didn't seemed to interested in with it and still kept going.
Despite knowing it wasn't wise to eavesdrop in listening my curiosity got the best of me, I wanted to know who it was Broom was talking to.
Probably whoever that didn't want to see me.
Stopping beside the opened door I watched as Clay didn't notice my absence and continued on the hall, leaning close to look inside I could make out what was inside.
There was stuff scattered all across the floor and a strange large amount of cats roaming around, a little seemed to have noticed me and came rubbing at my feet.
"Hey lil one" I whispered softly while kneeling down to hold the kitten in my arms, a sudden deep voice spoke in frustration from inside.
"Why the hell didn't you talk to me about having someone new coming here?! " The voice questioned, from the way it sounds he doesn't like the fact of me being here at all.
"Because I don't need to have your say so in who I allow to bring into the bureau, I am the one who is in charge here and you are to respect my choices." Professor Broom stated, he seemed to be scolding him.
"Father.. it's just.. what do we even know about this girl, what if she's an unstable time bomb?" The guy questioned, I couldn't help but feel a nerve be struck by his comment.
Why is this guy being such an asshole?
"Don't go judging this girl just based of your ignorance, give it a chance and get to know Maria. She's a very unique girl and just needs help." Professor Broom explained, I could hear the guy sighing in frustration.
"My son you mustn't let the what happen with Elizabeth and John be the reason why you're spiteful to meeting new people, Maria will be a great part of the team." Broom said with pride in his voice
Before I could hear what the guy was about to say Clays voice called beside nearly causing me to jump out of my skin, making sure not to drop the kitten I placed a hand over my heart to calm it's fast beating.
"It's best not to eavesdrop on Red when he's talking." He said while nudging his head for me to continue on down the hall, but before I could do or say anything the door opened fully up.
Knowing that I got found out I figured who ever it was would be looking rather pissed, but when I turned to see who was standing at the door my eyes looked like a deer in headlights.
What stood before me was a tall red skinned man, with shaved down horns. I've heard stories about this him but I didn't think that he was actually real.
" . you're H..Hellboy.." I stuttered nervously and in awe, I didn't know whether to be scared or freaking out that I'm actually face to face with the infamous Hellboy himself.
"And you have a damn cat, why?" He questioned irradiated like, looking down at the kitten in my arms I couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
"Oh.. I'm sorry she just came to me and I couldn't help but hold her." I admitted then placed her back on the ground to user it back in the room, when it did I got back up and looked at him again.
His eyes still stared at me with a icy glare, it was like he could see right through my nervousness. Hoping to try and ease the uneasy tension I extended my hand out to give a proper handshake.
"I'm Maria Santago..." I said while trying not to sound uneasy, he continued to look at me before looking down at my hand.
Ever so slowly he put his hand down and grabbed on to mine, I couldn't help but be even more surprised at how small mines we're compared to his own. For some reason when I felt a tiny tingle from when his hand made contact with me, and from the expression he felt it to.
Yanking his hand away he groaned and immediately slammed the door right in my face, I stood there confused and somewhat annoyed at the fact he rudely shut the door on me without saying another word.
Shaking my head I looked down to see Clay still standing there and that he saw everything, sighing I made my way over to him.
"Don't take anything he does personally, just give it some time and he'll come around. Now let's show you to your room." He said , I nodded in response and followed behind him.