Chapter 3: Family

The night was strange when the boys came home. Marie was confused but Mark was quick to explain the situation.

"This is Raven! We're going to hide her from Slade Wilson. I am done torturing her! She is going to stay here until we can find another way to keep her safe. All we have to do is keep her trust, keep her happy and healthy. And no matter what we do! Don't hurt her!"

The three had quickly moved into action, Marie ran around finding clean clothing. Garfield had helped Raven sit down on the couch. Mark tried to tell Raven what things were and try to have her settled down. The house was a mess as everyone ran around trying to figure out things.

"Okay, Raven… Just sit here and relax. We're going to take care of things…" Mark said, Raven tilted her head and blinked. "Okay, Garfield! Could you look after her! I need to copy out her files!"

"Coming!" Garfield ran into the living room, tripping over one of the chairs as he ran inside. "GHA!"

"Garfield! Are you okay?!" Mark ran over to his son.

"Garfield?" Raven asked, she stood up from the sofa in light shock.

"I'm fine!" He yelled as his head shot up from behind the chair. "I'll be okay, just a bruise I guess." He sat up on the chair and began to rub his leg.

Mark moved over to Garfield and looked at Garfield's leg. "Hmm… I think you strained it"

"Garfield…" Raven sat down next to Garfield before placing her hand on his leg.

"Raven, what are you doing?" Mark started, before a blue glow surrounded Raven's hand and Garfield's leg. A few minutes later Raven removed her hand.

"Uh… Wow… I don't feel anymore pain." Garfield said as he rubbed his leg one more time.

"What?" Mark started. "That's incredible! Not only can she heal herself, she can heal others!" Mark smiled with joy.

"Mew?" Raven looked at him.

"He…" Marie came into the living room, she smiled. "I made the spare room ready for her."

Mark walked up to his wife and kissed her. "Good job, Marie." He looked at Raven and smiled. "Let's get her to bed."

Garfield nodded and helped Raven up to her feet before walking her upstairs. Their house wasn't much. Just the normal american house with two floors. Their house was painted white and so was much of the inside. The hallway held many pictures of family and friends, there were many in particular that was baby pictures of Garfield, which he turned around when people came over.

The spare bedroom was nothing much, a bed, a closet, a nightstand with a lamp and a window. Garfield pulled the curtains closed before placing Raven in the bed.

"Okay, just go to sleep. Dad will check on you in the morning, don't be afraid if you don't find me. I will be going to school." Garfield said as he brought the covers over her shoulders.

"Mew…" Raven yawned before closing her eyes, Garfield smiled.

xXx

Slade Wilson stared at the metal bed that once belonged to the Subject. Anger was clear on his face, he knew that someone helped her. Did she make it to the city and got help? Did someone betray him?

Closing his eyes, he thought. Dr. Logan was oddly kind to her. But Dr. Grayson wasn't hard on her either. Dr. Grayson wasn't always there, but he seem to care about her life in some way.

Slade walked out of her room and to his office. The hallways were cleaned up after Subjects escape. Everything was sort of back to normal.

Subject 0097 was their success, 97 tries of life and the one that lives escape. Slade cursed to himself, how did she escape?

He stomped into the lab, where a few scientists worked. "Have you created a new one?" Slade asked. The lab was a pure white room, many computers and huge window that lead into a white room filled with glass tubes again filled with water and small embryons in them.

"No, we don't know how. Dr. Logan was the one that somehow gave her life." One of them said. "There isn't any sign or documents on how he did it." Every embryon in the tubes was dead DNA.

"What?"

"Dr. Logan was the one who gave her life, the one that found her a soul." Another female doctor said. "We can't make more of her, not without Logan."

"Bring Dr. Logan here, now." Slade growled. "If I can't have 97 back, I will create one stronger…"

"Dr. Wilson, I don't think that is a good idea." The female scientist said. "Creating another could be dangerous. If a female, she would become 97's rival. If male…"

"... She could reproduce?" Slade asked.

"Maybe, we don't know if she can. Logan would know, but he won't come back before tomorrow."

"He said that he needed to take his son home and he broke his leg in the forest, so he drove his car over to him so Mark could get him home or to the hospital." Another scientist said. "If his son broke his leg, I doubt he'll come tomorrow."

"I wish he would tell his secret, any secret really. Dr. Logan has a closed folder, it needs a password."

Slade thought for a while. He looked at the scene on the other side of the glass, the dead DNA was just as important as useless. He slammed his fist into the glass. "Call every police station in the city, I want that girl back!"

"Right away, sir!"

xXx

She opened her eyes to bright light. Her body was numb and tired. She heard a door open to her side.

"Good you're awake." A joyful voice said. A blond male walked into her line of sight. "I was starting to wonder if you wouldn't make it." He laughed.

"Hmm…" She mumbled.

"Well, everything of your health is fine." The blond male laughed again. "Let's see if you can walk." She felt her body being lifted.

Now that she was sitting, her eyes adjusted to the light. The male took her hands with a smile, but stopped as the doors opened again.

"Doctor Logan, are you interfering with my Subject 97?" Both turned to the door.

"N-No, Dr. Wilson, I was just checking if she was healthy and alive." Dr. Logan said.

"Good, now leave. I wish to speak with 97 alone." Dr. Logan looked at the girl before he left with a frown.

Once the door closed, Wilson looked at the girl.

"Now that we are alone, I will give you this information. Your name is Subject 97, you obey me and only me!" He yelled. "Am I clear?"

Raven's eyes filled themselves with fear she tried to crawl away, but Wilson gripped her ankle.

"Am I clear?!" He yelled louder.

"Doctor Wilson!" Dr. Logan ran back into the room. "What are you doing?! She was just born! You can't hurt her like that!"

"Don't tell me what to do, Logan!" Wilson slammed his elbow into Logan's stomach, making him crash into the wall.

Raven looked alarmed as she gave a quiet scream, she threw her hands towards Logan. Wilson suddenly slammed into the other wall.

"Put her out!" Slade yelled.

"NO!" Mark yelled.

It was too late, a syringe flew from a small sniper rifle in the wall. It hit the girl's neck and she flew to the side.

"NOO!" Logan reached for her as she fell to the floor.

xXx

Garfield woke with a scream, he was covered in sweat and tears. What was that dream? He had meet Dr. Wilson in person once when he was younger, at that time he thought he was really scary.

From that day, he went with his mother on the hospital on 'take your children to work' day. Marie being a doctor at the local hospital was much better than seeing Dr. Wilson again.

Mark and Marie came running into his room, Mark holding a lamp and Marie holding a pillow. "Garfield?!" Marie yelled as she ran to her son's side. "What happened?"

"I had a nightmare… I saw… Dr. Wilson, Raven and you, dad…" Mark sat down next to him. "I think I saw it from Raven's point of view or something... Because I saw when she woke up."

Mark's eyes narrowed. "Wait, the day she woke up?"

"Yes, I heard you say 'She was just born' and that you were worried that she didn't make it." Garfield looked into his lap. "He told her to obey and that she was just the Subject."

Mark looked at his son. "I remember that day."

"What happened after that?" He asked.

Mark sighed. "After Raven was put out, Slade put her in the metal room. She was kept from anything, me and Doctor Grayson was the only ones that cared. Grayson always eased the pressure in her torture and I… I was the only one she trusted." Mark shook his head. "I wish I never signed the papers…" He cried. "I was in on torturing that girl!" He cried.

"Mark…" Marie rubbed his back gently.

"For sixteen years, she has been tortured." He shook his head again.

"Sixteen years?" Marie asked quite shocked.

"I'm going to check on her." Garfield said as he got out of bed. He walked into the hallway and into Raven's room.

He was surprised to see her not in bed. Instead she stood by the window, her arms hanging to her side.

"Raven?" He asked. Her head turned slightly, her eyes were glowing red and her still purple iris was small. "Raven!?"

She gasped before falling to the side.

"DAD!" Garfield yelled as he ran up to Raven and held her head in his lap. Both Mark and Marie came running into the room.

"What happened?" Mark asked.

"I don't know, she just stood by the window, then she turned and she had like red eyes! Then she passed out!" Mark placed his fingers on her pulse.

"She's okay, something must have been triggered inside her. I need to get the files… I locked them in a password protected folder, only I can give life in that lab."

xXx

Okay, so I saw all the episodes of 'Elfen Lied' that was a really good show, I gotta say…