Enigma

Enigma hissed softly as the scent of bleach hit her, even after all these years she still couldn't set foot in a hospital setting without cringing.

"He'll be ok 'Nigma," Sarah said as Engima came in the room.

Enigma breathed a small sigh of relief. She'd already lost one child she didn't want to lose her adopted son as well.

"How bad is it?" she asked biting her lip worriedly.

"Luckily she missed his jugular...barely though, he's definitely going to need to stay here for a while," Sarah replied.

"Any chance he'll turn?"

Sarah shook her head, "The girl is a mutant, the only thing we need to worry about is it getting infected."

"Where is she?" Enigma asked keeping her voice as even as possible.

"She's in the tank." It took Enigma a minute to remember what the tank was.

Enigma nodded her thanks and made her way down to the holding cell affectionately nicknamed "the tank". It hadn't been used since Enigma first came to the mansion over fifty years ago. She marched down there getting angrier with every step.

Artemis

Artemis shivered on the cold stone floor, partly because it was cold but mostly because she was afraid. She didn't mean to hurt him, it had just happened. One minute Judas was bearing down on her the next Kurt was bleeding out in front of her eyes. She curled her knees up to her chest trying to make herself as small as possible, almost as if she could disappear. She could hear the angry footfalls coming down the hall and knew she'd really done it. She searched frantically for a place to hide unfortunately no such place could be found.

"What the HELL did you try to kill my son for?" Enigma shouted baring her canines her yellow eyes burning with a motherly hatred.

When that garnered no response other than a "deer-in-the-headlights" look, she rushed toward the Plexiglass slamming her fist against it, "ANSWER ME YOU BITCH!"

"I didn't mean to," Artemis replied finally, her voice sounding very small.

"That's the best you can come up with? 'I didn't mean to?'" Enigma hissed. "HE SAVED YOUR ASS AND THAT'S HOW YOU REPAY HIM!"

"I was having a nightmare...I thought he was my step-brother." Artemis kept staring at the floor, hoping it'd swallow her whole.

"You'd do that to your own brother? You are a sick twisted fuc-"

"HE RAPED ME!" Artemis screeched, tears welling up in her eyes. "I've had nightmares ever since. Especially since I had Seth, I'm afraid he'll try to hurt him."

Enigma opened her mouth to say something but found the words got stuck in the back of her throat.

"I'm sorry I hurt your son, truly I am and I swear if there was anything I could to to fix it I would but I can't," Artemis whispered understanding the cerulean mutant's pain.

Artemis fingered the gold locket her mother had given her as a child, humming the lullaby she'd sing her

every night. Enigma's ears perked up immediately. "Where'd you hear that tune?"

"What?" Artemis asked.

"Where'd you hear that tune?" Enigma repeated.

"Mother used to sing me to sleep with it every night when I was small," Artemis replied. "Why?"

"Just curious," Enigma said a small flicker of hope rekindling itself in the back of her head. "Maybe Erik was right, maybe Nyx didlie."