"Kitty!" called Keswick into the blue lighted hallways. A sinister silence was all around. A silence that you could describe best with the attribute calm, too calm. "Is that really the right location?"
"80085 Evil Lair Hill. We´re in the right place… If the phonebook doesn´t lie." Meant Rabies from behind while he was rechecking the address on his smartphone.
"KITTY! Where are you?!" shouted Keswick again and then listened if there´s any response. From a door ahead of the little group there was an almost not recognizable whimper audible. It didn´t came from Kitty that was sure.
Keswick knew her voice quiet well and it just didn´t sound like that.
"To the door, quick!" The group rushed to the door and burst it open. All three stumbled into the room and spotted Birdbrain lying motionless in a puddle of blood on the ground.
Beside him Zippy stood her hands folded. It seems that she prayed or administered the last rites to him.
"I guess we´re too late." Summarized it Madam Catastrophe coldly.
"Poor Birdbrain… But where is Katswell?"
"Katswell and the devil within her left after she finished her dark deed." Said Zippy with an unnaturally deep and demonic voice. So the question in arose if it was really Katswell who was possessed.
"Okaaay…" replied Rabies with his eyes wide open and stepped with his arms in an anti escalation position away from her.
"Kitty!" Keswick ran out of the room back into the hallways to the exit. Outside of the building he repeated, standing in the beam of a small light hanging above the door, his helpless scream again. "KITTY! WHERE A..A..ARE YOU, GODDAMIT?!"
"I´m here." Answered a quiet voice from a trash can nearby. Keswick turned surprised to the can and walked around it. On the other side and hard to spot on the first sight Kitty sat leaning on the cold metal of the garbage can. She sat there staring on her hands with eyes full of self-loathing.
"Hey, K..K..Kitty." Began Keswick carefully. He saw how she felt and didn´t want make it worse.
"Keswick. What have I done? I supposed to be a good one that is fighting the villains. I fall. I´m no more better than them. I became the worst of them."
"Kitty, just because you done these bad t..t..things it doesn´t make you a bad person."
"What is the difference between good and bad then? What defines us? If not our deeds! TELL ME!"
cried Kitty, tears began to roll down her face.
"Good people have g..g..good intentions."
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Meant Kitty bitterly.
Keswick knew that talking with Kitty was pointless at this point. He didn´t know what to say but he knew exactly what she needed now. He moved closer to her and hugged her. Kitty was really surprised by Keswick´s sudden kindness -he wasn´t the hug-guy- but didn´t refused a shoulder to lean on. "Kitty, it´s time that you v..v..visit him." Whispered Keswick in her ear and helped her on her feet.
With his hand clang to hers he dragged her towards the T.U.F.F. mobile. Like a child he sat her on the seat and fastened the seat belt. Then he sat down on the driver´s seat and drove towards the Petropolis hospital.
"You are a g..g..good person, Kitty. Never believe of s..s..something else." Keswick tried to start a conversation.
"I killed Birdbrain! That´s all my fault. And I still don´t know who sent Dudley into that coma. I reached nothing. I´m nothing better than a psychopath."
Keswick gazed quickly at her. She just sat there and looked at her hands. He had to say something, anything that would distract her.
"Snaptrap."
"What?"
"Snaptrap, it was Snaptrap. We c..c..confiscated this earthquake machine a week before the incident. Three d..d..days later Snaptrap stole it."
"What? Why haven´t you told me that right away?! Birdbrain would maybe alive then!" she shouted at him.
"So you really want to blame me?!" Anger and disbelieve was written in Keswick´s face. He didn´t want to let her blame him for the things she done. "Forget it! I wanted to p..p..protect you and protect him. I had no idea that you w..w..would kill everybody in your way. But I was sure that you w..w..would kill Snaptrap!"
"That will happen!" replied Kitty who already felt how the crowed of angry voices began to scream again.
"Kitty I beg you. You a..a..already took one life. There´s no need to take another one! That w..w..won´t bring him back! And he also wouldn´t w..w..want that!"
"So I should let him get away with that? I should really get him away with killing Dudley?!" asked Kitty not understanding how she could do that.
"Dudley isn´t d..d..dead. So show some mercy! It will may coast all of your strength to forgive but you know that the revenge will destroy you in the end."
Kitty knew that he was true so she tried to fight the anger choir down.
As they arrived at the hospital they walked in and then over the long white hallways directly to room number 86. Keswick opened the door for Kitty to let her through but she stood there frozen. "Kitty, what´s w..w..wrong?"
"I don´t think that I can handle that. I have no idea what will happen if I see him, I mean…"
Keswick had enough of her avoiding strategy. He grabbed her arm, pulled her into the room and shouted. "Jump in the r..r..river and learn to swim!"
Then he left the room as fast as he could and locked the door from the other side with a chair so Kitty couldn´t evade from that important talk.
"Keswick! Let me out of her!" She said bagging anxiously at the door. But she didn´t receive an answer. Probably Keswick was laughing into his sleeve on the other side of the door.
"Oh Kitty! You´re finally here! Awesome!" said Dudley excited in his mind. He had jumped in the air if there wasn´t this stupid coma.
Slowly and with her eyes closed Kitty turned towards Dudley. She took one deep breath to get ready before she opened them.
"Oh Dudley." She exclaimed shocked by Dudley´s sight. And she not even saw the missing of the arm because it was under the cover. She stepped close to his bed and laid her hand carefully on his chest. Kitty felt his heart beating and Dudley could feel the warmth of her small hand that spread in his body from this spot.
"Dudley… I´m sorry that I couldn´t visit you until now. I just… had some work to do." Kitty took her hand away from his chest and giggled bitterly. "Why do I lie to you. I didn´t came because I thought that I couldn´t stand seeing you. And I´m right. It makes me crazy to see you like that. It..it.. says me 'he´s lying here because you were too stupid to run out of this building.' And it´s true."
"Kitty it wasn´t your fault!" liked Dudley to say but he couldn´t.
"Dudley…" Kitty moved her lips towards his forehead and kissed him. "You maybe can´t hear me but… I love you too. Please wake up."
The corners of Dudley´s mouth twitched slightly. And that was what the reaction that came to the external world. In his internal coma world he laughed, he jumped up and down, he ran in circles… just because he was so happy. "That is a really great day… It would be the best day if I would also wake up."
"Well Dudley I… wait." Kitty finally recognized that something was wrong with Dudley´s left arm. She removed the cover and gazed unbelieving at stump which was wrapped into a blood soaked bandage.
"What… Why…" Anger rose in her by seeing that arm. Her inner voice of reason was drowned down by the headless crowed that claimed revenge. It was no longer a harmonic choir. "Vendetta, Vendetta." The thousands of voices screamed.
"He´ll pay for that. I promise you Dudley." Kitty forced the looked door open, knocked Keswick over with the door and out of the room. Dudley was alone again.
"She will kill Snaptrap! I have to wake up. I have to prevent her from doing something she might regret. But How?"
"Maybe I can help with that?" a voice suddenly said.
"Who said that?!"
