Ngoc Chau does not own Hellboy.
I'm at the 3rd chapter already. I hope for those Abe fans, you'll enjoy the third chapter.
And for those Johann fans, I hope you enjoyed the 2nd chapter.
Now I want reviews to help me make this the best fanfic!
Special thanks goes to my dad, who bought me the dvd of Hellboy and Hellboy 2; The Golden Army.
Thanks Dad!
Without you, I wouldn't have gotten so interested in this comic or have the reference for this fanfic!
Nancy breathed out loud. If there was one place besides her room that she adored, it was the library. So many books, so many stories, so many tales, and no one around to disturb her.
Finally she could use her eyes.
As she took off her sunglasses and tossed them onto a chair while she walked by, her eyes changed from their blind state to their true form.
She saw a large blue tank that took up about 9 yards and divided into 3 sections. It had 3 stands with thick books of philosophy lying open on each at each section.
The water was completely clear and ripple less. She still looked through for any fish that could've been swimming... or more likely dead and dying.
None.
It was very odd. Why would someone have such a fish tank with no fish in it whatsoever? Not even a plant or 2 inside.
Very, very odd.
She brushed it off.
Nancy sat at the steps in front of the fish tank and reached up with her hands.
All at once, books were flying off of shelves in the fluttering of pages and whatnot. As the books came to her, flying, all she had to do was flip through the pages, look at some specific pages if the subject really interested her, and she would have already absorbed the information in the books.
The books surrounded her in a circle, like they were children begging to be the one to receive her attention first. When she was done with what she was reading, the book would fly back up to it's original spot and another would take it's spot in front of her.
For the science books, she would absorb silently.
Myths and legends, read a page or 2.
Math, study all she could.
Poetry, read out loud because she often love the flow and sound of the phrases.
The rest would just be there to pass the time.
The hours passed by and Quartz was no where in sight....well, in her aura sight, so he must've had a more enjoyable time with his wife and wanted to prolong it.
Although she was ecstatic inside, she still did not smile.
Her smile would be reserved for one man and one man only. And he had already left this world years ago.
She would never smile, no she just couldn't smile without him.
As she sat there on the stairs, reading and reading and reading, she did not notice the blue fish man with a pack of beer in his hand walk in. She continued to look deep into the books she was reading so ardently.
Abe walked up behind her and tapped her on her shoulder, "Hello, Agent Le."
Nancy stiffened up.
The books dropped simultaneously wth light and heavy thuds on the red carpeted grounds.
Abe had just started to ask her, "Hm? What's the matter, Agent-"
"LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!!!!" she shrieked at him.
A force pushed him back, having him collide against the fish tank and cracking it a bit. The pack of beer hit the ground and started to fizz excessively.
She ran up and covered her eyes with her gloved hand, "Stop looking at me!!" she screamed.
Her hair was covering her face and getting into her mouth while she was gasping out loud. While Abe stumbled up to his feet, the doors flew open with a whoosh!
Abe had his hand out, trying to calm her down and show her that he did not intend any harm for her. But it did little to the situation.
She turned outside into the hallway, tripping all over her feet and crashing a few times in to the wall. As she was fleeing out into the hall, she was still keeping her eyes closed with her gloved hands.
She wanted to get away.
She didn't want him to know.
She would rather the entire world know and hate her than him.
She just needed to get away.
Meanwhile, Abe was just befuddled. He walked with a drunken sort of stagger to his steps towards the door. While he passed by the door, he also passed by a wooden chair that had a very noticable pair of pitch black sunglasses on it's white cover.
He remembered that she was blind, but he couldn't a recall an event in history where blind people needed sunglasses. Perhaps her eyes were over-developed to light which could be why she was declared almost blind and always wore sunglasses. He walked back a few steps and picked them up, tucking them into the almost invisible pocket of his signature black swim trunks.
He walked out of the door, again taking notice that the hinges were nearly ripped off the door and wall.
Nancy crashed into a wall and stumbled over her dress. She hit her shoulder against the wall. Not daring to cry out to the immense pain that she had herself endure just to save face and hide her secret from him, she curled up into a ball against the wall and covered up her face with her knees.
She tried so hard to at least concentrate enough will to change her eyes into a state of harmless sight.
But it was no use.
She was distracted.
By the pain she inflicted on herself,
the intense will to keep the shield to her mind up, making sure that Abe wouldn't be able to see her memories,
and the worry of what he might think of her now because of her little tantrum.
Her eyes were stuck in the monstrous weapons they were and wouldn't change until she calmed down and regained some control. But after all that worry and pain, who knew when that would be. She didn't even have enough power to call Quartz for help. (how she calls him is really interesting. It will appear in another part of so of the fanfic.)
She was worrying so much. She just sat there and continued to cry...
Suddenly, she felt a cold hand brush through her hair and the world turn black. She turned her head up and quickly grabbed for the hand that was still lingering in front of her face.
"Agent Sapien?"
She heard him chuckle a bit and ask so smoothly in that silky voice, "Are you okay, Agent Le? You took a tumble down the hall."
Nancy tightened her hold on his hand a bit and made a connection with him.
She could see in his memories how ghastly she looked when she struck at him.
She felt bad, just bad when she saw that his back was aching when she threw him across the floor. "Agent Sapien, is your back okay? Did I hurt you?" Though her eyes were completely covered behind the sunglasses, he could just imagine her eyes welling up in tears.
Abe didn't say anything, but she probably knew the answer, since she was gripping his finned hand tighter than ever.
"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry...." Nancy let go of his hand and her fingers touched the rim of her black sunglasses, "You even brought me my sunglasses. Thank you." As she attempted to stand up, he noticed that her legs were shaking so much.
"Agent Le, did you twist your ankle?"
Nancy grabbed the wall, trying to stand up as she walked alongside the wall away from him and not caring what direction she was going, "I am just fine...Agent Sapien." As soon as she finished saying his name, she lost her balance and fell forward.
She was so close to hitting the ground and earning another bruise, luckily Abe dove forward and caught her just in time.
Unluckily, while he was able to catch her, one of his hands held on her hips while the other clutched her breast.
She held onto his forearms just to not fall. "Ahh...ahh...ah." she strained out. Apparently, the bruises all over her white legs weren't the only painful things on, it seemed that she had perhaps twisted her ankle.
Just then, blushing immensely, she noticed a squeeze right where no man could touch her and he noticed that he was holding on to something unusually soft....
Nancy swatted his hands away quickly and wriggled out of his grasp. Abe, on the other hand, let go to the realization of his indecency. This resulted in having Nancy fall to the ground and having more damage done to her body.
She complained, "Oowww..."
He swooped down again and picked her up by her gloved arms, "I apologize. It's just-"
"Yes, I understand." she said as she rubbed her slightly swollen ankle.
Without the need for reading minds, he definitely knew that Nancy was hurt and needed an ice-pack at least. While carefully holding her shoulders with one arm, he swept her up with the other. Thus carrying her bridal-style.
She nuzzled into him a bit, not from affection. At least, that's what she told herself, more so out of caution of falling since he was so much much taller than her and the height was very new. She asked him in a icy voice, "What are you doing?"
"I don't need to read minds to know that you're hurt."
Nancy emitted an air that was filled scared emotions that just weighed down the room. "You can read my mind?"
Abe didn't really want to admit, but... "No, I can't read your mind."
The air disappeared, "Oh."
He headed down the hall, still carrying her with her legs just dangling limply. They kept silent. It was totally the opposite compared to when Nancy was with Johann. On the way, many of the other agents who were carrying specimens and tests and working at desks on their paperwork, would stop subtly and stare at the odd sight of the icthyo sapien and the blind invalid. Their thoughts were...
they were thinking the....
Goodness, did all the agents in the BPRD think and question about relationships between the agents? He just wanted to ignore their strange adulterated thoughts, but he couldn't. The disadvantage to being a mind reader was that he couldn't turn it off, really. Their thoughts shrieked and screamed at him. The only thing he could do was endure it with a straight face.
They didn't speak on the way to the first aid facility, she started to probe his mind again.
Abe felt a bit emasculated. He couldn't read her, but there she was in his arms reading him like he was an open book. He could tell that she was because of the strange sensation of the connection between them.
It felt different and almost forced.
So different from when Nuala touched him and made a connection. It would feel like they were joining souls, like it was the most naturalest thing in the world.
Also, another reason he knew about her power was because of Johann.
A few hours earlier, when he was looking for a pack of beer, Johann had bumped into him looking for a good book about love and poetry. Although Johann replied it was solely because Kate, who was in the UK evaluating other agents, had got him so interested in the subject. But Abe could read Johann's mind just like if he was alive like anybody else. Nancy came up in his thoughts and Abe asked him about her.
Johann started talking about her, random nonsense that Abe wasn't really interested in. But the most important detail that he heard and remembered was this; though Nancy was blind, she could read minds just like he could.
That could somewhat explain why her touch was so odd. But it didn't really explain why he couldn't read her.
It was as though she could never remember anything. She was never thinking.
Again, his mind and thoughts went back to Nuala. When she touched him for the first time, she read him easily, as could he to her. There was something special between them, they were free together from deceit and tricks. They were open together.
How could the girl in his arms be the exception?
He was so confused, he wanted the answers now! He detested being in the dark.
Literally, he was in the dark for about a hundred years of so since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln till the BPRD found him. From the same habits of being a mind reader, he could always tell a person from first glance and handshake. He didn't like being so short-handed of people.
So far, all he knew about this girl was that;
1. She was blind.
2. She could speak in numerous languages.
3. She was 17 years old.
4. Johann was noticeably infatuated with her.
5. She could be very scary sometimes and a bit crazy.
6. She had telekinetic powers and could read minds.
But that was about it. He didn't even know anything from before about her. Only some items that was mentioned in her profile folder or what was said out loud when he met her or what people had told him. Though the idea shouldn't even bother him, it did.
It had never happened before. He could not remember a time when memories or thoughts were not accessible to him.
Finally, they were at first aid wing. The doors opened to the side and whirred as he walked through. "Hello? Is anyone in here?"
There was no answer.
He walked into a room with materials and a bed. Abe tried to set her down. But Nancy did not stir. He whispered in her ear,
"Agent Le..wake up. We're here."
No response.
He put one knee against the bed and slowly guided her down. She still did not move, in fact, she was very limp. Her arms that were still wrapped around his neck and draped over his shoulders dropped to her sides as he laid her down on the bed.
She still didn't move.
He was getting alarmed a bit right now. He leaned in close and put one of his finned fingers to her neck. There was barely a pulse. He tapped her cheek a bit open-palm to get her to wake up. She still didn't.
Now, he was alarmed. He put his fingers back on her neck to get a pulse, this time, her pulse was getting slower. He was frantic. What was happening? He held onto her shoulders and raised her up, "Agent Le!... Nancy! Wake up!"
It was like she was dead. Her head hung down with her hair veiling it. She was getting colder under his touch. An odd sensation was growing from her now. It felt like he was being opened from the inside.
It was getting too much! Okay, now he was scared.
What was happening?!
If only he could read her, he could understand what was going on. But no!
He laid her back down on the bed as quick as he could and ran out. He sprinted out in the hall for anyone, the doctor that should be coming back at any moment, an agent who could be taking this way to get to a lab or so, anyone! Just when he turned out to the door, he crashed into something hard in front of him, like a wall.
He fell back on himself.
"Whoa! what're you running away from, buddy?"
Abe looked up. It was Hellboy.
"Hellboy!"
Hellboy had apperently taken off his sandy trench coat and was wearing a tight black tee that showed off his biceps and muscles. His belt with his guns and amulets hung low and proudly. It chingled as he walked.
"Hey." he greeted. He headed down the hall towards the first-aid wing. He didn't look back as he asked,
"Do you know where some of those pregnancy pills are? Liz ran out of some a few hours ago and she wants more. I dunno, but it's almost like she's getting high off of this. Can't be good for the babies, y'know."
Abe chased after him through the doors. Just by coincidence or the fates taunting Abe, he chose to go into the room where Nancy was lying to look for the pills, "Hellboy, there is-"
They both stopped at the door and was speechless to see what was in front of them.
The sight was.... indescribable.
Nancy was on the bed.
She appeared to be sitting up with her naked legs, spotted with violet bruises, just dangling over the edge of the white bed.
Her long hair covering most of the white and her face. Her face didn't look like the cold seriousness it was when she first met them, now, it looked more like a soft gentle girl.
Her eyes were still covered with the sunglasses, but with her hair covering her face, you couldn't really distinguish the sunglasses from shadow. Her gloved hands were demurely laid in front, the blanket sleeving them.
The only thing of her you could see were her hands, head, legs, and hair. Either than that, it was anyone's guess to what was under the sheets.
She turned her head to look in their direction. She quietly asked with pink puckered lips, "Where did you go?"
There was an awkward silence. Hellboy interrupted it with a heavy pat to Abe's back. "Wow! Not even a day yet and you're already doing the newbie!"
Before Abe could protest to such an accusation Hellboy grabbed him around his neck, making him come close in a sort of headlock. He put his large rock hand close to Abe's head and whispered loudly,
"Abe, I'm sure there are better places to do it than in the hospital. What if someone catches you, like the doctor? The 2 best spots to do it is in your office with the doors locked or in your own room."
Hellboy chuckled a bit as he glanced back at Nancy who was still sitting in the very suggestive position on the bed. He immediately saw the contrast of black gloves against white sheets and the small bruises,
"Hmm... Didn't know you were into leather gloves or that type of stuff. And... what was that thing called where you guys get off on the pain?.... nah, forget about it... Watcha got her wearing under there? Black negligee or straps?"
Abe attempted to explain, but all that came out was stuttering.
Hellboy assumed, "I know, straps! Liz is missing her own and that's probably where it ended-"
"I don't have her wearing anything!"
His finned hands jumped to his mouth and he stopped talking in realization to what was coming out of his mouth and the fact that Hellboy was laughing at him.
"Easy, Blue, I'm just messing with you." He walked over to the cabinet, letting go of Abe. When he reached the cabinet and started to rummage through it, he started talking to Nancy.
"Yo, what's up."
Nancy shot him a look. At least, he assumed that it was a look. Hellboy could feel her big eyes boring into him. He stopped his search and asked her,
"What's with the sunglasses. Not a lot of blind people I know wears sunglasses as much as everybody thinks. Are you blind because you're stuck with cross-eyes or something? Does it look like you stare too much and that's why you wear 'em?"
Nancy kept silent. Clearly, she was getting annoyed with his stupid questioning. If she could, she would've opened her mouth and fully explain like she did for Johann, but Abe was standing right there.
So silence was the best remark.
She wrapped herself up tighter in the blankets and shook a bit.
Hellboy asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Nancy brought the blanket up more to her face, just below the rim of her sunglasses.
"I am cold." she answered.
Hellboy scoffed a bit, "Too bad Liz ain't here. She could warm you up."
"She is talented in the art of pyrokinetic, yes?"
"Exactly."
She suddenly rolled her head and looked to the doorway, where Abe was. "Agent Sapien, might you come here?"
Abe had a sort of look that couldn't be put into words. But he still complied with what she commanded. When he came, she slowly reached out with her hands and grabbed his arms. The odd sensation returned along with the bitterness of cold. Still, she was unreadable to him.
All thoughts were turned mute to him, with a small sound that was not there before growing louder.
'No one can read me unless I allow them.'
His lips parted in surprise. She let go of him, having him stumble back a few steps.
What was that?
Did he read her thoughts then?
Or did she put her thoughts in him?
He was so.... so... he couldn't even describe what he was thinking!
Nancy sighed and dropped the blanket on the bed in a ruffled mess. She stepped down cautiously off the high hospital bed, but her legs nearly gave away. In such a situation like that, Abe would've tried to help her, but he didn't do anything.
He was just confused.
Luckily she grabbed the edge of the bed and Hellboy's tail whipped around without him looking to hold her up by the shoulders.
"Praise the tail." he said as he was still looking for the pills.
Nancy simply nodded and steadied herself.
She just stated out loud due to the polite nature that the Asian community had branded into her. "I am truly regretful that you both saw me in this state."
Hellboy's tail unraveled from her and went back to it's limpness. He turned around with handfuls of pill containers in his hands.
"What're you saying sorry for? It's no big deal. You should see me with Liz's around on her mood swings. Trust me, I'm a lot worse."
Nancy turned her head to the direction where Hellboy's voice was coming from, while still keeping her body in the direction of Abe.
"It is just that this sort of behavior should not be expected from an agent such as I. Should the BPRD agents in the Nippon sect see me like I was, I would have been severely scolded and punished."
Hellboy turned back to the pill cabinet, reaching his long hands into the bottomless shelf. "Seriously, don't be so hard on yourself. That's what I hate about the agents in the other places. They take everything so hard and they wouldn't even know the meaning of fun unless it bites them in the ass. Besides, you should see Abe when he's drinking, it's no different from you tripping to just stand up."
Abe's eyes widened, his hands raised in protest. He knew where this was heading, he could just hear Hellboy thinking out which event to tell about.
Hellboy pulled himself from the cabinet and smiled, "You outta hear this, you'll feel much better! When Abe got drunk he-"
"RED!!!!"
Everybody froze to the loud screech. The entire room felt warmer. There was only one explanation; Liz was here.
"What is taking so long? I have been waiting for hours!" she fumed. Bright orange flames danced about her, her hair flying up a bit and cascading it. Her expression would've scared Nancy, had she reverted back to her vision. Hellboy still held his cool, but there was a nervous tension etched in his features.
Abe swiftly got out of the way of Liz's rage. Aside from the obvious proposition of "Never annoy a pregnant woman", he really couldn't handle being so close to fire. it always dried him out, thus being an aquatic being.
Liz looked around the room to her boyfriend who had his back to her still looking for medicine but his face was right in her direction, Abe who was just leaning against the wall in a timid manner watching her burn, and Nancy.
Nancy was very noticeable to Liz just as she appeared to Hellboy. Nancy had taken the sheet and wrapped herself with it as she leaned against the bed frame. The way she wrapped herself in the sheet was like a cocoon, though only her head and bare legs were showing. Again, the ink blots that were called bruises contrasted greatly against pale white sheets and skin. Liz's fire died down, but not really.
Perhaps just a few degrees.
She ran towards Nancy, another mood swing in the process. Abe couldn't help but laugh sheepishly as he was witnessing a mood swing.
Hellboy sighed loudly, her anger had turned focused to something else and changed into a mothering state. Liz walked briskly to Nancy, who was still supporting her own weight against the bed. She asked in a worried tone, "Omigod! What happened to her, you guys? Are you alright?"
Though Liz was starting to tone down her flame, Nancy was still cautious. As she held out her hands to Nancy to show her that she could be trusted and that she meant no harm, a force pushed her back. The force was not hard as it had been for Abe, only subtly to warn Liz not to take another step closer. Liz's eyes went wide as to what happened, Nancy stayed unmoving like a statue. She took a deep breath and stated, "I apologize for the inconvenience, but I have a slight caution to flames. It does not agree with me very well."
The fire was completely gone now, Liz looked more like the mother one could picture than the paranormal agent she often portrayed. Her face looked so soft and gentle, that you would think you were looking at Mother Theresa. She held out her hand to Nancy again and asked, "Hey, are you alright? What's with those bruises on you?"
Nancy slowly let go of her grip on the bed and struggled to support herself on her bruised legs.
She was shaking and trembling as she gave a small bow, "I am just fine, Agent Sherman. However, I thank you for asking of my welfare and concerns."
There was an awkward silence as they watched Nancy bring her head back up to just gaze blankly about. Hellboy added on, "Geez, she's too much, huh Sparky?"
Liz walked over to Hellboy and gave him a small pat, "Don't be so rude to her, she's just being polite."
Scoffing, he countered, "Ya see? That's the trouble with Asians. They're too polite and you feel like such a pig when they talk to ya."
Nancy snapped her head in the direction where she heard him speak, "I do hope you mean that as a compliment, Agent Hellboy."
All of a sudden, Abe heard footsteps from outside the door. He went out discreetly to see who it was without drawing any attention to him from the chatter of the 3 paranormal agents.
It was an agent.
This one was a woman with dark skin and thick lips that were glossed to a rich red colour. She wore a grey power suit with a mini-skirt and high black heels.
Though the attire was a bit sexy for this line of work, she had her dark frizzy hair in a straight pony tail that started close to the top of her head and ended near the small of her back. On her face to add on more seriousness, she sported a pair of thin book-worm glasses.
This agent was Agent Mina Rull.
She marched with her head and nose held up high, and a brief memo paper in her hand. She spoke in a controled voice to Abe, "Agent Sapien, I've heard from the other agents in the office that you were spotted with the new agent, Nancy Le. Is it affirmative that she was with you, agent?"
Abe nodded his head. He blinked his dark eyes once and concentrated on the agent's mind. She had a message from Quartz for Nancy and she merely wanted to know where Nancy was.
He read more of her mind.
'So, that was why Nancy was all alone in the library.' he thought to himself.
He quickly told the agent, "Agent Rull, I'll go ahead and tell Agent Le the message. You don't have to trouble yourself."
Rull was speechless, but she knew of the paranormal agents that did have special powers. Aside from that making them famous in the Bureau and expending the power circle for this sect, it was the one reason why they continued to have more and more and sometimes increasing their funding for the BPRD.
She nodded her head once and turned on her heel to leave.
Abe turned back into the room where Liz was now acting even more motherly than they could believe and Hellboy was laughing it up. Nancy was standing there and he could see the discomfort on her stone face.
Liz was now squeezing her cheeks and fussing over how adorable she looked and would look even better without those sunglasses and if her hair was tied back in a french-braid. Nancy suddenly grabbed onto Liz's bare hands with her gloved ones and lowered her hands down so that she could speak clearly without any pinching at her cheeks.
"Agent Sapien, what was that message about?" Nancy asked in her haughty tone.
Abe replied, "It was from Agent Quartz, he wanted to-"
"Please come closer." she interrupted.
"What?"
"Please come closer." She removed her hands and stumbled steadily towards the direction of Abe's voice. She looked so helpless.
Then Liz roared out, "Geez, Abe! Help her! She's blind, she's going to trip and fall and it'll be all your fault!"
Liz had switched moods again. Hellboy started laughing at how Liz was spazzing now. She turned her attention to Hellboy, stomping towards him and bopping him right on the head with the added pain of her complaints to his hygiene.
Abe ran to catch Nancy, should she fall again or so. Abe fast-walked to her, holding his finned hands barely around her arms. Her hands automatically went to his broad shoulders. She removed one of her hands and demanded as her hand was somewhat right in front of their faces, "Your hand, please, Agent Sapien."
"Why? I could just tell-"
"You talk too much, just give me your hand."
He gripped her arm tighter to make sure if he removed his hand from her, she would fall from being imbalanced. He couldn't help but wince when he felt her dig her covered fingertips into his naked blue shoulders. He pressed his hand against hers. The usual crimson blush stretched over her cheeks. The feeling was odd and familiar. The surge of the feeling of being forced and bloated. But he could still recall a moment when he first met Nuala. She too had ordered him with such a ferocity to give her his hand. Here, this little girl had done the same thing. He felt so nostalgic experiencing this again.
The only difference to the entire thing was that he could not learn about her as he did with Nuala.
Nancy spoke out loud, just wanting everybody to hear as she read Abe's mind, "Quartz says that he has decided to stay at his new house with his wife tonight and will be back in the following morning."
She let go of his hand, turning around to just get away from him. Abe cleared his throat, "Ahem, Agent Le. I think there was another message from Quartz that you might've overlooked."
She knew that he knew.
But she had possibly hoped that he wouldn't mention it. He could see it clearly as though her thoughts were just radiating off her.
"I do not think that I had missed anything, Agent Sapien."
Abe was just on the verge of laughing a bit, "If I may, this is word for word from Quartz's message. 'Don't forget about your bedtime, 10:45 is your latest when you don't have missions. And he says that your....'"
he hesitated, scoffing back a small laugh, "'...your bunny pyjamas are what would be best to wear for tonight's cold weather, until he and his wife could buy you much warmer ones.'"
Hellboy and Abe broke into a small fit of laughter, Liz didn't know how to react really.
Mostly, it was Hellboy's laugh that filled the entire room and hallways.
"Bunny pjs? What, do they have little padded feet on them and a poofy tail?" Hellboy asked while trying to choke back his guffaws.
Nancy was trembling, due to the exhaustion of using her powers and the anger that was growing within her. All of a sudden, the same thing that happened to Liz happened to Hellboy. Except that, instead of pushing him back a few mm, he got forced out in a large round entity that sent him flying out the door and crashing into the wall behind them.
A large imprint of Hellboy and a crater-like outside was left as Hellboy fell off the dent of the wall.
Nancy whipped off her sunglasses, revealing the same set of brown eyes that Johann had saw earlier. An air of menace surrounded her as she walked stoicly towards the defeated Red agent. "Agent Hellboy, I apologize for my behavior, but I simply cannot and will not tolerate any form of ridicule at my expense."
She turned to the left to leave the 3 agents, but before leaving completely she turned around, "And for your information, the only added accessory to the pyjamas are that it has a hood with bunny ears attached and extra long sleeves."
As she walked down the hall, she called out once more, "Agent Sherman, forgive me for the damage I had done to your husband!"
Liz, who had already rushed out to the hall to help Hellboy, and Abe was watching Nancy walk steadily down the hallways and cross a corner. As the 2 of them helped him up, he asked just outloud,
"Do you think she knows the way back to her room?"
Unfortunately, Nancy, who had tried to make a dramatic exit, forcefully walked back to ask for directions to where her room was. Hellboy didn't want any part of bringing her back to her room. Let her get grounded or get a time out. With Abe as the exception, he hated psychics.
Again, he said those things outloud as he rubbed his sore head and it earned him another invisable bop on his head. Liz suggested for Abe to bring her back. Little did she know was that the 2 telepathic agents were reading her mind and said outloud simuteneously,
"Don't even think about it that way."
Liz had just wanted to play matchmaker for her dearest blue friend. This girl was the first in agents who had even the strongest or closest power compared to Abe. They were a perfect match! Too bad neither one refused to see it that way.
Liz thought bitterly to herself, 'I can't believe it! I thought this would be killing 2 birds with one stone. Abe is all depressed and shit and I need a new nanny for the team. Then I pick her and things should be all hunky-dory, I get what I want and Abe gets a girlfriend who he can relate with. But no, Abe's still hung over that Princess Nuala. What kind of man is still hung up like that, drinking every night and singing like a drunk?'
Abe was carefully eying Liz, but one couldn't really tell for Nancy.
Liz narrowed her eyes and thought slyly, 'Yeah, Abe. I know that you can hear me.'
Nancy suddenly grabbed onto Abe's forearm and reached out with her other to Liz. Her hand wavered in front, looking for a hand to grab, but Liz had her hands and arms crossed in front of her chest. Nancy's hand landed with a soft pat on Liz's swollen abdomen. Liz faltered a bit to the unexpected and uncalled for touch.
She grabbed onto Nancy's gloved hand and asked sweetly, "What is it? Do you wanna hear the babies?"
Nancy's simple little voice rang out softly, "They're so beautiful... they're so loved and they can feel it."
"Can you tell anything more about them?"
"I am sorry, but I cannot see them or hear them clearly enough to make out anything."
Liz's other hand cradled the bottom of her stomach and she pleaded to the little babies inside, "Here babies, kick or something." Nothing happened. Liz looked up to Abe,
"Hey Abe, do you think you could tell Nancy more about them?"
Abe moved towards Liz, who now had Hellboy at her back. He kneeled down as he spread his finned hand and touched her stomach nervously, he could still not get over the idea that Liz was pregnant though the evidence was clearly there. Nancy kneeled down while keeping her one hand still on Abe. He cleared his throat before he spoke
"They're hungry for..... chocolate milk.... that must be a trait of Hellboy. And, they love to hear your voice, Liz."
"Awww. Ain't that sweet?" Hellboy cooed.
"And Hellboy's voice."
Nancy still kept her hand on Liz's stomach. She concentrated, hoping to get a thought to the babies inside. She tried to transmit her thoughts to the babies, 'Little ones, will you not give us a little nudge to let us know that you know?'
No nudge or anything. The babies didn't hear her.
She sighed outloud. Unknowingly, her hand moved over Liz's stomach and touched Abe's hand. Immediately, her hand flinched away like he was fire to her touch. The imbalance and surprise to the action cause her to fall back on her self.
Liz was able to tighten her grip on Nancy's gloved hand, but that resulted in Liz tipping over slight and luckily Hellboy was behind her to hold onto his falling wife.
Liz's mouth opened up in a round O of surprise. She let go and Nancy fell back completely. Nancy was shaking and shivering, like she was freezing.
Hellboy asked worriedly to Liz, "What happened, Sparky?"
Liz staggered to stand up straight, still clutching her naked hand and rubbing it, "I don't know. It felt like static shock or something. Or like someone hit a funny bone."
Abe knew what it was, Nancy had probed Liz as she did to him. But what information was Nancy so curious to find out from Liz? He pondered on what information could be obtained from Liz that he didn't know about.
They suddenly heard a growing, "....Heh....heh.....heh.....haha...."
Hellboy looked all around, "Jeez, where's that creepy laugh coming from?"
An ominous air grew all around suddenly as all 3 agents had their eyes fal lupon the girl who was still sitting on the floor. Her hair was in front of her face and she was still shaking furiously. It was like she was possessed. No, like she was some ghost who had some material properties.
"Heh....heh....heh...haha.....haha..."
Hellboy's brow rose up ironically, "Hey, are you okay there?"
Her hand rose up and she brushed most of her hair behind her face. She was laughing.... but the strangest part of her laugh was that she wasn't smiling while she was giggling.
"What's so funny?"
Nancy was stifling back giggles, it seemed that she was having some difficulty calming down.
Her hand jumped to cover her mouth as she laugh and spoke at the same time, "Agent Sherman, does a drunk really sound like that?"
"What?"
".... When Agent Sapien sings, does he really sound like that?"
Liz was confused by what Nancy was asking now, "Uh....what are you talking about?"
Abe stepped in to explain. "She can hear thoughts."
Before Liz could respond to that, Hellboy spoke, "Yeah, I think we get it. Especially when she told us about her little beddy time and bunny feety pjs." Abe was about to explain more when Nancy interrupted him,
"Agent Sapien, would you mind explaining about my powers to Agent Hellboy?"
Abe thought quietly to himself, 'I was just going to do that until she interrupted me.' Nancy snapped her face in the direction of Abe, but didn't say anything. Abe took that as her way of saying, 'I heard that, but just go ahead and complain and don't make me waste my time talking to you'.
"It's not just thoughts, she can also look at someone's entire line of memories with a touch as well. The feeling of it.... is far different from mine. But it has almost the same results. She can.... apperently, block her mind and..... I think, put thoughts into someone else's head."
Hellboy asked dumbfoundedly, "So, she told you all that from a touch?"
Abe opened his mouth like fish, figuring out a way to answer the question when Nancy went ahead and answered, "I didn't tell him. Johann had thought it and it was from his own hypothesis." A devious smirk that had no emotion, only challenge, appeared on her face, "Is there anything else you know about me.... Agent Sapien?"
"No."
Hellboy asked out-loud, "Is that all you go from her when you.... y'know?"
"......." Abe didn't know just how to respond to that, as he opened his mouth once more to say something, Nancy waved her hand out vigorously, just trying to hold onto someone and grabbed Abe's back fin.
"Agent Sapien, may you please take me back to my room. I am tired."
He was a little surprised that Nancy was 'blind' again. He himself had just seen her walk gracefully and look towards Hellboy with what seemed like real sight. He was definitely confused now, if only he could read her mind, he wouldn't be wondering about her so much.
Abe sighed in exasperation and nodded his head. He reached for Nancy's hand behind him and as he stood up along with her, he turned to the 2 agents behind him and bid, "Good night, I'll see you both tomorrow."
As soon as they reached the elevator, Nancy asked if she could sit down. Abe let got of her hand and gently led her down to a nearby bench that was across from the elevator, he could only hope that whoever was using it wasn't going to far.
As he looked up, he saw that the next elevator was coming down in a whirr. He moved back to give it some space as it set iself down and closed with a heavy clank. One webbed foot went up until he remembered that the point of getting on the elevator was to get Nancy back to her room for a few hours of sleep at least. When he turned around and was about to call her, he stayed quiet.
There she was, she had at some point in the 20 minutes they had been waiting, fallen asleep. She slept on her side, her legs still dangling over the side, but her hands acting as a flat pillow. She was breathing silently, but looked more alive than she did when he was carrying her to the hospital wing.
As he walked up to her, he was contemplating on whether or not to wake her up or carry her once more. He decided to carry her up, she was better when she was sleeping. He picked her up like she was a giant doll but still in a sort of bridal style, and he carried her to the elevator and pressed the buttons to direct it where to go.
The elevator moved, but it seemed to be even more quieter. When the elevator came up to her floor and it stopped noisily, she still didn't stir awake.
He thought to himself as he walked thoughout the building, 'Is she really that sleepy?'
He concentrated a bit and answered his self asked question, 'Asleep, yes. Totally unconsious, not entirely since she can still block her mind.'
When he turned a corner, she shifted. Her arms that were in her lap climbed up his well-built chest. She turned inwards a bit and almost cuddled him! One hand stayed resting against his chest, while the other climbed up higher around his neck and tightened the hold on him.
'Is she hugging me?' he thought confusedly.
Then she started talking in her sleep, "....Mein Herz.....brennt....Johann..."
Abe sighed outwardly, 'Well, I don't need to read minds to know what she's even dreaming of.'
Finally when he got to the door, he typed in a code. The doors opened with clanks and mechanical sounds. He didn't know which room was hers to sleep in, so he chose the safest decision. He laid her down on the sofa in the main room of where she and Quartz were staying, but as he was getting up, her arm still held tight around his neck. He carefully seperated the both of them and left silently.
When he got to the doors and it opened one at a time simuteneously, he whispered quietly, "Sweet dreams, don't let the bed-bugs bite."
As soon as he left, a sleeping girl replied back subconsiously,
"Please....stay with....me....Abe."
So that was chapter 3.
Just in case some of you are wondering, "Mein Herz brennt" means "My Heart burns".
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