Alright I don't own Hellboy, obviously.

I have made it so Nuala and Nuada survived and they are now working with the Bureau. What happened was when H.B. took the crown off Nuadas head Liz took it right then and melted it. In so doing she disabled the army permanently. This story takes place about two years after that time, in reparation Nuada is now working with the Bureau.

Chapter 3

The ride back to the base was quiet. I knew it was because of the fight we had just encountered, but part of it was because Nuada was stunned by my revelation. When we reached the base we were greeted by panic and fear.

"He has the same symptoms as the other agents." Another agent ran up to us and I acted immediately.

"Take me to him." I ran after him as I stripped my bulletproof vest off and threw it to the floor. When I made it to the hospital room I found him lying on the exam table.

"Hey there. How are you feeling?" I ran to him and began looking into his eyes. They were blood shot and it looked as if blood vessels had burst in them.

"Not so great." His body was covered in black blisters like I had never seen before.

"Well, you don't have to worry. I'm going to make you better." I smiled at him as I bent over one of the blisters.

"No, I'm going to die. Just like the others." Tear fell down his face, I grabbed his face between my hands and wiped those tears away.

"No, you will not. I promise you that." I ran around the room gathering what I would need to use to get the samples that were required. When I was done I held a scalpel in my hand and was looking down at him.

"Do the blisters hurt?" I asked preparing one of the blisters to be popped.

"No, they don't hurt." He whispered.

"Well, this might hurt." I punctured the side of one of the blisters and let the contents fill a test tube. I heard his breathing increase, I knew it hurt but the sooner I was able to get the samples I needed the sooner I could make him better. I stayed in the hospital for days testing everything I could to make the man better. But no matter what I tried it seemed to fail, the disease was like a virus that attacked the body. That was why the fever broke out, the virus began to die off at that point but by that time the body was so weak it couldn't fight any longer. Why the temperature plummeted I couldn't answer that as of now. I was getting frustrated as I tried everything and constant failure became my best friend with in those few days.

I jumped violently when I heard a nock at the door. It was to my surprise it was Nuada, he held a small plate of food. He walked into the room slowly looking from me to the patient on the table.

"How is he?" He asked putting the plate on the table I was sitting at.

"Getting worse." I rubbed my hand over my eyes hoping that I was imagining the look in Nuadas eyes.

"How much longer does he have?" He asked pulling up a chair to sit next to me.

"Not much longer, his body temp is starting to fall. He lost consciousness yesterday, just before he was hallucinating, he was saying very odd things." I stood to look at his readings. His body temperature was now and 70˚, it wasn't much time until I had to act. It would drain me completely for nearly one day to do it but I had no choice.

"Would you go get Abe, and H.B. for me?" I turned to look at him hoping he would be compliant.

"Yes, I will." He stood and walked to the door. "How long has it been since you slept?" He turned back to me with concern in his eyes.

"Oh, lets see," I paused to think about it for a moment, how long had it been since I slept? "It has to have been months." I looked up at him, he was confused that much I could tell. I looked at the monitor, the temp was 65˚ now.

"You need to hurry, I don't have much time." I looked back to find him already gone. I went to the sink and washed my hands and my face. I couldn't believe how quickly his body temp was dropping. It was remarkable, I ran my hands along his body trying to see if there was anything else that had changed with his progression. It hadn't, once the blisters had faded, which had only been hours when they first appeared. His temp held at 110˚ for three days and now it was starting to plummet. I took one last blood sample as I heard Abe and H.B. coming into the room.

"H. B. I'll need you to find a place for me to rest once it's done. Abe while I'm out go over all the data I collected and see what you can get out of it." I walked to the mans head and placed my hands at his temples.

"What is she doing?" Nuada walked into the room quickly.

"You're about to see my talent, Nuada." I said as I closed my eyes and concentrated on what needed to be done. I could feel myself drain quickly into the man, I opened my eyes slightly to see if it was working. My hands and arms were starting to glow a bright white, it radiated around the room. I looked at Nuada, he had his hand over his mouth. I pushed harder then, my heart had accelerated at the look in his eyes. I could feel the light engulf my whole body as I finished, I pulled my hands away and nearly fell to the ground. Luckily enough H.B. had been prepared for it and caught me before I fell.

"Go, over the findings, Abe." I was out, my body was drained after healing the agent. All I could see was black.

My eyes opened slowly and I found myself lying in a warm comfy bed. I stood up quickly to see where I was, I was in my old room. The room I had occupied for years before I had run off to Russia to escape. I rose out of my bed to find I was in new clothing, I was in loose cotton pants and a loose t-shirt. Liz must have changed my clothing. I stood wondering how long I had been out, I knew I didn't have much time till someone would come in and check on me. I jumped in the shower and got dressed even faster. I didn't even bother to dry my hair before I ran off to find Abe. He was in the library with Nuala looking over all my notes and data findings.

"Abe." I walked into the room and hoped he would have some sort of answer for me.

"Hello, Voirrey. Did you sleep well?" Abe walked over to me holding a folder in his hand.

"What have you found?" I omitted the pleasantries, there was business that needed to be taken care of first.

"I have a few ideas. In the blood test, the last that you took from the agent, I found his blood to be missing a key amount of nutrients." He handed me the results and flipped through it and was amazed at what I saw. I felt a light click in my brain, it was starting to make sense.

"Voirrey?" I turned to see H.B. in the doorway. "How do you feel?" He walked toward me quickly.

"Fine." I walked passed him just as fast. "I need to get to the hospital." I looked back at him to see a frown on his face.

"Aren't you coming?" I smiled as he smiled. We walked to the hospital quickly.

"Do you think you found something?" He asked as we walked.

"I think so, Abe is amazing." I flipped through the folder in my hand. "I think I'll be able to develop some sort of vaccine to immunize all the agents." I smiled at him and he laughed at my enthusiasm.

"How is the agent?" I asked him.

"He's fine. Perfectly healthy, Manning gave him a few days off."

"How long was I out?" I looked concerned.

"About five hours." He laughed at the look on my face.

"Good, it felt as if I slept for longer than that." We entered the hospital to find Nuada sitting on the exam table with his shirt off, he had removed the bandage that I had placed there.

"Oh, let me look at that." I dropped the folder on the counter and went to look at his wound.

"Hey, I promised Liz I'd watched the kids for her. She wants to go shopping." I waved at him as he backed out of the room.

"It looks infected." I reached for some alcohol wipes.

"It is. I forgot to change it." He was looking at my face as if he wasn't sure if I was really there to not.

"What?" I asked.

"How old are you?" He asked leaning forward.

"Not as old as you." I smiled wiping his shoulder, I was hoping to see him wince but there was no reaction on his face.

"How old are you?" He moved to stand but I pushed him back with my hand, a big mistake. He exhaled quickly which took my by surprise, I removed my hand quickly not wanting him to get any more information on me.

"What did you see?" I asked moving away from him.

"Not much," He sat back letting me do my job. "Please would you bandage my shoulder? It is starting to hurt."

I moved closer to him and wiped it down with a alcohol wipe.

"Should I be worried about Nuala? I she in pain as well?"

Nuada shook his head. "Our connection is weakening, Abe is severing the connection."

"How so?" I asked taping down the gauze.

"All our lives our hearts were as one, now that Nuala has found someone else to share her heart with it is weakening. Once I find my own love, it will be severed completely." He looked at me in a way that made me worry. I wanted to get back to Russia sooner.

"What year were you born?" He asked moving so quickly that I thought we were going to hit heads.

"If I tell you will you stop trying to touch me?" I pulled back as I saw his hand start to move toward mine. He nodded as he folded his arms.

"I was born in 1492, in England. My father was a lord." I placed my hand over the gauze and felt my hand begin to emit light. I pulled back the gauze to find his shoulder completely healed.

"There, all better."

"I can see why you became a doctor." He smiled at me, the first smile I had ever seen him smile. He ran his hand over his shoulder. "Thank you."

"Your welcome." I turned to my research and locked myself up in the hospital creating the vaccine. I ran test after test and found it to work the best, eventually I would have to develop a better vaccine. It wouldn't be hard now that I had all the information I deeded. I decided to take a rest from my work the vaccine needed a few days to germinate to get the proper potency. To get the proper affect I left to go out for a walk through the halls. I ended up where I normally did when I needed a break, the library. When I walked in I found the room to be empty I walked over to the fire place and lay down in front of it. I closed my eyes trying to quiet my mind. But I had constant thoughts running threw it.

"Voirrey, what are you doing here?" I turned to see my father standing in the doorway of my room. I stood knowing what was coming.

"Nothing father, I was merely praying." I wasn't lying, I had prayed that the lord would take my father away from me forever. I hated my father and couldn't wait till the day I would marry and be rid of him. But then, I would marry a man just like him.

I opened my eyes quickly to see Nuada looking down at me.

"Are you alright?" He asked bending over me.

"Yes, bad memory." I sat up and turned to him.

"Is there something wrong?" I asked looking at his face.

"There is." He sat down next to me folding his arms. "A problem with your fighting skills, your too rusty."

I laughed. "That's the problem? What do you suggest I do about it?" I stood and stretched I heard popping from my back as I did so.

"Practice with me." He stood looking at me hopefully. I hesitated, it would be a full contact sport. The chances of him touching me and getting information out of me where high. But I did need to practice, badly.

"Yes that should be fine. Let me go change, and then I'll meet you in the gym?" He nodded, a smiled appeared on his face once again as I walked out of the room. I headed back to my room to change into proper cloths, I knew I had a spare pair of gloves in my room that I had left here. That could better my chances of him not being able to touch me.

I changed quickly and went to the gym. I found him already warming up with one of his own weapons, which reminded me I had forgotten my own. I didn't even remember where I had placed it.

"Here." I looked back at him, he held my sword our in front of him. "I picked it up off the floor when you ran to help the agent. Are you ready? Do you need to warm up?"

"I'll warm up as we go." I took the sword form him and I saw him laugh at my gloves.

"What, you expect I'll make it easy for you?" I smiled as I swung the sword around my head stretching my muscles. I had my back to him and quickly turned to lung at him. He smiled as if he was ready for it. He grabbed my arm holding me there.

"So predictable." He flung me off as he lunged at me, I fell to the ground with him on top of me. I kicked him off of me and began to back him up against the wall with my strikes.

"Am I as rusty as you remember?" I asked holding him against the wall with my sword at his throat.

"Yes." He grabbed my neck and pushed me back just enough to knock my sword out of my hands. Even without the sword in my hands I wasn't going to give up that easy. I fell to the ground and he knelt down over me with his sword pointed at my throat.

"Do you give?" He asked. I acted before he could prepare for it. I pushed the sword away from my neck and threw off his balance and rolled him over. The sword fell from his grip leaving him defenseless, I straddled his chest and squeezed my legs together as tight as I could. He pulled against it but I had a good grip on his chest.

"Do you give?" I knew my victory wouldn't last long as I smirked down at him. He grabbed my knees and pulled them apart and threw me to the side. I rolled away and hit into my sword. I picked it up quickly and prepared myself for his next attack.

"Having fun?" I looked to the door to see H.B. standing there with a smile on his face. Nuada took this as a chance to take me off guard he managed to knock my sword out of my hands and get me on my back. He pinned my arms above my head, all I could do was kick in protest.

"Do you give?" He asked. I nodded as he rolled off of me.

"Voirrey, Manning would like a word." H.B. said watching me glare at Nuada.

"Where is he?" I asked standing up and grabbing my sword. "I want a rematch." I pointed back at Nuada and he smiled back at me.

I followed H.B. down a long hallway that lead to Manning's office. Manning sat in his chair with a folder open on his desk.

"Manning, what did you want to see me about?"

"I just wanted to hear your progress." He motioned for me to sit but I remained standing.

"I have a vaccine germinating now. It will need about a week for it to be ready for distribution. We still need to find out where it came from, I believe someone is sabotaging this department, Manning. That person needs to be found and punished." He nodded as I finished.

"How will we find who is behind it?" He asked.

"Well, we now have one survivor and we will have many more after this we must interview them and get as much information from them. I believe the men inflicted will know who gave it to them."

"Can I trust you to be in charge of that?" He asked, I was slightly crest fallen I was hoping to get back to Russia as soon as possible.

"Yes. I can do that." I turned and walked out of the room. As I walked back to my room I saw Nuada down the hallway talking with his sister. He was smiling as he was talking, I had to wonder what it was that they were discussing but I took a different route to my room to avoid them. Nuada, one person here I didn't think I could find myself wanting to get closer to. Just when I thought I knew what I wanted I found myself wanting something else, Nuada.