Hey y'all, short chapter, I know, but like I said, we are nearing the end of the movie. Don't worry though, the story will continue past the end of the movie, I promise!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters you recognize. Just Mouse.
Mouse had only been asleep for a little while when she suddenly jolted out of sleep. She sat up straight in her bed, breathing heavily before looking around. She pulled her blankets back, unsure as to what was making her heart beat so quickly, but she knew only that she needed to follow it. Mouse grabbed her kimono robe on the way to the door, throwing it on over her pale blue shorts and her white tank top before she walked out of her room and down the hall. Mouse found herself passing the hospital room on her way. Manning had already managed to get the glass wall replaced since Red's little outburst, and through it she could see Abe sleeping in the glass cylinder.
She continued past the hospital room before finding herself at the library. She opened the doors and walked in, jazz was playing somewhere in the distance, everything was quiet, and yet, everything felt wrong. Mouse shut her eyes and took a deep breath before she could hear voices echoing around in her head.
"If only you had destroyed him 60 years ago." A deep, thickly accented voice spoke in a whisper. "None of this would have come to pass… But then, how could you have known? Your god chooses to remain silent. Mine lives within me…. It will be quick."
Mouse was startled by a sound down the hall, breaking her concentration. Wishing her abilities were as strong as Abe's she moved further into the library, towards the Professor's desk.
"Oh god." She breathed before running to a wall. She hit the emergency button before she ran to the Professor's body. She knelt on the ground next to him and checked his pulse before turning him over so she could listen to his heart. Sirens were going off, but she didn't notice as she tried CPR. "He's breathing, he's breathing!" she called to one of the first people in the room.
"He's not breathing Mouse." Someone replied. "You're breathing for both of you."
"No- No, he's- he's breathing!" she insisted.
"Someone get her out of here." Another agent ordered. Someone grabbed Mouse around the middle and pulled her up, making her thrash.
"No!" she shrieked. "No, stop!" she slipped out of the person's arms, slipping in a pool of water next to the professor. She fell down, smacking her elbow against a table, splitting it open.
"Let's go Mouse." Someone said softly as she sat there on the ground, tears rolling down her face. She let him take her to a medical room where Nurse Gloria and a doctor wrapped her elbow.
She listened to them tell her how to clean it and she let them try to take her back to her room, but paused when she saw Abe in his tank, floating, but looking around, awake. She pulled away from Nurse Gloria and tried to open the door before looking at Nurse Gloria. "Mouse, you heard Dr. Hurt." She sighed.
"Look- I need to tell him-" Nurse Gloria looked unsettled and uncertain at the idea. "Please." Mouse pleaded. Nurse Gloria sighed and then stepped forward and punched in a code, the door unlocked and Mouse opened the door before running to the tank.
"Marion, are you alright?" Abe asked concern evident in his voice.
"It's the Professor Abe," she told him, pressing her hands against the glass. He put his hands against the glass and shut his eyes.
"Oh Marion." He sighed, before looking at her elbow. "You've had it looked at." He breathed.
"I wish it had been you." She looked him over, looking at the apparatus on Abe's chest. "How are you feeling?"
"Weak." He admitted. "Nurse Gloria let you in?"
"She didn't want to." Mouse replied.
"How is Red taking it?"
"No one knows where he is. He took off earlier." She replied.
"How did it happen?" Abe asked making Mouse look down with a frown.
"I'll be right back." She turned away.
"Marion-" she looked over her shoulder at Abe. "Please- Be careful."
"I always am." She replied before leaving the room. She ran upstairs and went to the room she and the Professor had done the analysis of Kroenen, stopping when she realized it was empty. "Son of a Bitch!" she shouted in realization.
She walked to the metal bed Kroenen's body had been on and ran her hand over it. She could see him sitting up and getting off of the bed, before walking over to the table they had left his things. She sighed before moving over to the table, she put her hand on it and could see him dressing, putting his wind up apparatus in and winding it, before feeling his-
"His pockets." She whispered.
She ran back to the library and paused seeing Red there cradling his father's body, holding him. She looked at everyone who stood around him and then stepped forward, placing her hand on his shoulder. He touched her hand with his normal hand and then looked at her.
"Who-"
"Kroenen." She replied.
"Not so fast, Kroenen was dead." Manning spoke up.
"No he wasn't." she replied. "He was just shut down."
"What does that even mean?" Manning asked. "Is that some sort of code you freaks-"
"Don't call her that!" Red shouted as he jumped to his feet. Manning stumbled back a few steps before Red looked at Mouse. "Go ahead."
"The Professor, he explained it to me, Kroenen, he has this wind up thing that kept him going in his chest, where his heart used to be." She gestured on herself before looking down and realizing she was just in her sleeping clothes and robe. She hastily closed the robe when she realized she was getting a few looks from the male agents. She tied it tightly and then cleared her throat. "He wasn't human- not anymore." She told them. "But he worked for Rasputin." She looked at the book and then moved the marker they had used when taking pictures. "If we want to find Rasputin, we need to find his mausoleum."
"And how do you propose we do that?" Manning demanded.
"We don't need to." Mouse looked at him. "Professor Broom did it for us." She held the book out to Manning. "Sebastian Plackba- number sixteen."
"Where is that?" he asked as he looked at the book.
"Moscow." She replied making him look at her.
"So we go to Moscow." Red said decidedly.
"Red- We need to move him." One of the medics told H.B. who looked at them and then lifted his father onto the stretcher they had brought in. "We're sorry for your loss." He said to Hellboy softly.
When Mouse got back to the medical room she noticed a post-it note with a code written on it. She took the note and punched it in, the door unlocked and she stepped into the room. "What happened?" Abe asked as she walked in.
"Someone wants us in Russia Abe." She told him softly, before explaining everything that had happened.
Three days later Mouse ran into the medical room in the morning. "How are you feeling?" she asked as she clipped a necklace behind her neck.
"Stronger." He replied. "Are you going to the funeral?"
"I wish you could come." She nodded.
"You look lovely." He told her and she smiled softly.
"I promise, the moment you're feeling well enough, I'll take you to see him." She told him.
"I look forward to it." He told her and she smiled softly before the door opened.
"Agent… Mouse." Agent Myers stuck his head into the room. "We're about to leave."
"I'll be right there." She promised him. He nodded and left and she looked back to Abe. "I'll come visit you when we get back." She told him and he nodded before she turned to go, paused, turned back and pressed her lips to the tank. Her lipstick left a clear impression of her lips, lingering there, allowing Abe to look at it, to think about what that meant.
Mouse was about to get into the car when she remembered something. "I'll be right back." She promised making Agent Myers groan.
"Mouse, we don't have time for this-"
"Two seconds!" she insisted as she went to where Hellboy was standing. He wasn't officially going to the funeral, lest he run the risk of being seen, but Mouse knew he'd be there. He hadn't spoken much in the past few days, and when he did speak, it seemed like it was only to her. "Red, I had the guys clear this earlier this morning," she pulled a small plastic bag from her purse. She dumped the contents into her hand and took his hand in both of hers. "I know he would have wanted you to have it." She told him softly. His hand tightened around the object he held in his hand before he met her eye. He gave her the slightest of nods and she nodded before she stood on her tip toes and pulled him down so she should kiss his cheek, then she ran into the car Myers was waiting in and allowed him to take her to the chapel.
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