Caretaker
Dead or Alive?
"Why do you care about her safety?" Allen asks.
"Because, Allen Walker, she's connected to me some how, and I want to know why," Gabby answers. "Come on, I'm coming with you on the train. I know the nearest gate is at least an hour away."
An awkward silence fills the cabin of the train. It's been thirty minutes since they entered the train, and Allen refuses to speak with Gabby. Until now, that is.
"Is the chemical inside her?" he asks quietly. Gabby turns away from the window.
"Considering the fact that she's unresponsive proves that the chemical didn't work. But it wouldn't matter either way," she explains.
"What do you mean?"
"The Noah inside her had already started to awaken when we first met. When someone realizes that there's a Noah hidden in them, it starts to awaken more and more as time goes by. Because the Noah hates innocence so much, it jumps the process of turning into one. Since Caretaker has a crystal-type innocence, it roams around in her blood, creating a nasty Noah versus innocence duel."
"So right now, Caretaker's body is battling with the Noah memories and innocence?"
"Exactly, if she loses, she dies and my Ability side returns to me. If she wins, well, that's something we'll just have to find out, now won't we?"
"Who is it that returned?"
"I'm not sure, the Earl told me his name was Matt Kamelot. He's apparently the fifteenth Noah."
Allen and Gabby burst through the gate door as the Matron has a gurney ready. They set Caretaker nice and easy on it, then roll her to the medical wing. Once they have her in the hospital bed, they inject her with an anesthetic. She starts to fidget again, then begins to scream in pain. Allen and everyone else have to stay outside the hospital wing. They see Caretaker's body start to move up and down violently.
Hours pass, and the screaming never ceases. Everyone is worried about their golden-haired friend. Not once has someone came out to tell everyone that she was going to be okay.
Finally, Matron exits the medical room and heads straight towards Komui's office.
"The chemical inside her has made a rejection. Fortunately, the Noah that resides inside her has killed it off. The Noah girl inside the infirmary said that she'll be 'up and about in no time'. Why is she here?" Matron asks.
"I'm about to find out," Komui says as he lifts from his desk. He heads towards the infirmary. He opens the door, and sees Gabby sitting besides Caretaker looking bored. Her feet are positioned on the bed and she leans back on the chair. Her dress frills are everywhere.
"You must be the section chief," Gabby says as she notices him come in.
"And you must be the Noah girl," Komui says back. She raises a brow.
"Well, I pleased to hear that you know who I am."
"Why are you here? I thought Noah hate being near so much innocence?"
"Please, I'm dying just by sitting here. I'm only here until this girl wakes up, then I gone."
"Why?"
"Her Noah said that she's connected to me some how, I want to know how. I've never seen or heard of this girl in my life, how in the world would she be connected to me?"
"That's a great question, but I think you need to be somewhere other than here. According to your dress, that is."
"Ah yes! The dinner party! I completely forgot about it!" Gabby lifts herself from the chair quickly and starts to walk over to the door. She stops before she opens it. "Tell her to look through her record when she wakes up! Then, maybe, it'll tell me who she is."
A month passes, and the golden-haired exorcist wakes up. After three days, she is able to walk, fight and jump around. What's strange, was that it usually takes a month for a person to actually start walking, let alone try jumping. As Caretaker was trying to walk again, she could hear everyone's conversations, fights and actions. It's all very strange to her.
"Say, Caretaker, has your Noah really awakened?" Allen asks whilst taking a ginormous bite of his food.
"I can't say, Shadow hasn't talked to me since it happened," Caretaker answers as she takes a bite of her noodles. Libya notices her golden-haired friend's wrists.
"Whoa! Say, Caretaker?" Libya asks in surprise.
"Yeah?" named person asks with a mouthful of noodles.
"Your innocence. . . it's gone," Libya says whilst pointing to the girl's wrists. Caretaker stares at her for a moment, then laughs nervously.
"Very funny, Libya. That was actually pretty convincing," she says.
"Seriously, it's not there, look!" Caretaker glances at her wrists just to make her be quiet. She then realizes that she's right. There's no blood red bracelets around her wrists anymore. No cross engraved spots where the blood had burst when she was a child. Nothing, just plain wrists; looking as though nothing had happened to them.
"Ah, about time you noticed."
"What the hell-" She shoots up from the table, and runs towards Komui's office. Libya, Kanda and Allen follow pursuit. She bursts into the room and slams her hands on his desk.
"It's gone! My innocence is gone!" she says confusingly. Komui takes a glance at her wrists and sees there's nothing there anymore.
"You're right, there isn't any. . . Do you know where it went?" he asks.
"No, I don't-"
"The Noah inside you must have taken it," Libya states.
"Of course, that's exactly what happened," Caretaker mumbles. "When my body was rejecting the chemical, it must have been removing both it and my innocence."
"Maybe that's why Gabby was here, to see if you would survive the battle?" Allen wonders.
"No, she only wanted to know why Caretaker is connected to her," Komui answers. "By the way, she said to look through your record."
"Will do," Caretaker says.
"That means the Earl will be coming for you," Kanda says icily.
"I'm going to be fine, he won't come for me. I make my own decisions, and what I want now is to be apart of the Order," Caretaker explains.
"Of course. Just be cautious, there are people here who despise the Noah. Not everyone will treat you with the respect that you had before. Just be wary about that," Komui warns . Caretaker nods.
"I'll probably need a new uniform, by the way. One that indicates that I'm a Noah," she says. Komui nods.
Check it out, Caretaker lives! She's now a Noah working for the Order, how weird would that be? Matt Kamelot is the main character in the story, Shadow of Madness. You can find here as the longest chapter story written. There's over one-hundred chapters in it, and they're all amazing! Review please!
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