(Maria's POV)

Clay showed me into a the room I'll be staying in, to my surprise in was quite big than I thought it would be.

Looking around I found that I had a bathroom of my own and a little space for whatever I wanted to put, and as far from the bed it was so huge and comfy.

If I had to be honest this was possibly the nicest place I've ever stayed in, not even my old apartment had a big bathroom.

"There's a fully stocked bathroom for everything you would need, if whenever you get hungry the public kitchen is straight down the hall or just buzz what you'd like to eat and someone would bring it to your room." Clay said while placing my stuff on the bed, taking off my shoes and jacket I looked at him with a smirk.

"I get room service too, jeez if I didn't know any better this place might be a hotel." I joked, he chuckled at that then began pulling something out of his pocket.

"Professor Broom had this made for you, and this so that only you can get in your room be sure to keep this on you at all times." He said then placed an card ID in my hand and a metal key.

"Thank you Clay, um can I ask you something?" I questioned, he looked at me and had a smile on his face.

"If it's about HB, don't take it personally he doesn't like new people that much. Sometimes he can be a dick but once you get to know him he's a good person." He said, looking down at my hand I shook in response

But I wonder...why did he react that way when touching my hand.

With that the only thing we talked about Clay made his way out the room and telling me goodnight, placing the items given to me on the night stand I began unpacking my clothes into the drawers.

Gracefully my duffle bag and suit case zippers were opened and the clothes lifted up in the air and flowed over into the open drawers, while that was going on I began changing into my sleep wear.

A nice pair of comfy sweats and a gray tank top, undoing my bra underneath I discarded it on the floor and stretched my body.

There's just something about being out of my bra that feels like heaven to my boobs.

After every last item was unpacked I placed the bags underneath the bed frame and began getting settled to go to sleep, rubbing at my eyes I laid down and stared at the ceiling.

Never had it crossed my mind that I'd ever go to another secret agency again, specially how I was treated and what happened the last time.

I don't even remember what happened, everything went dark when Dr. William kept trying to put me through the shock experiments. It still hurts just thinking about having to go through that, but after I came to everything was gone.

The building completely disintegrated to the ground, everyone that was there turned to dust and scattered clothes. Some of the people I had close to making friends with were gone because of me.

Closing my eyes to go to sleep I snapped my fingers so that the light went off, turning on my side to get comfortable I placed the blanket over myself like a cocoon of warmth.

Thinking of happy thoughts and memories I used those to help put myself to sleep, this always helps me sleep although it wasn't always like this sometimes listening to her sing would put me to sleep like before.

I don't even remember what she looked like but her voice still plagues my dreams.

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For some reason I wake up to someone yelling, sitting up on the bed I rubbed at the tiredness in my eyes.

When moving my hands away I freaked out when noticing how smaller they appeared to be, yanking the blanket off myself I realized the clothes I was wearing before now changed into a pair of child-like pajamas.

They had Powerpuff girls patterns on them, getting off the bed I looked around to see that I was in a unfamiliar room.

A sudden sound of a loud bang startled and caught my attention, for some reason I began to feel the urge to investigate what's going on.

Quickly I rushed to open the door and went into the hallway, from the stairwell the sound of a woman pleading and crying could be heard from downstairs.

"Johnathan please stop.. Maria is sleeping.." the woman pleaded, then a man's voice boomed with a sharp smack echoing in the air.

"I don't give a shit if she wakes up, so many times you always pick that little bitch over me!" He yelled with rage, without even second guessing I began descending down the stairs.

When making it down and finding where the noise was coming from I stopped at the doorframe of the living room, there stood a man with a his hands clenched and face angered with sweat.

The woman who was crying stayed kneeled at the floor with her nose bloodied and face bruised, for unknown reason the woman was familiar to me and I spoke without thinking.

"Mommy...what's going on?" I asked quite nervously while eyeing the man who was glaring right at me, she staggered up to her feet and went over to me.

"No... nothing sweetheart, everything's fine we're just talking." She said trying to make it sound believable, reaching out I touched at her cheek where a dark bruise was forming at.

Wincing at my touch she grabbed my hand and kissed it tenderly, she stood up to her feet and began ushering me towards the stairs.

"Go back upstairs sweetie , I'll be up after Johnathan and I finish talking." She said calmly, my eyes shifted from her to him and I felt frightened with how Johns demeanor appeared to be.

"Listen to your mom and go upstairs Maria, now!" He ordered causing my body to shake, I couldn't help but sense something sinister about his thoughts and what he wanted to do.

"I.. to leave.." I said without realizing it, Johnathan eyes widened with anger at my choice of words.

"The fuck you just say to me?" He questioned, my mother got in front of me as he made his way over to us.

"Jonathan don't she's doesn't know any better." She pleaded but was met with him grabbing her by the arm and throwing her down to the ground.

"Stay the fuck out of it Sherry , Maria wants to act like a big girl and speak against me. Got anything else you wanna tell me to do, huh well do ya?!" Johnathan yelled while grabbing onto my arms and shaking my body violently, tears began forming in my eyes.

"You're hurting me..let go please!" I cried as his grip started to tighten more and crushing my arm, he wouldn't listen to my cries and still yelled in my face.

My mother got up from the ground and tried pulling his hands off me, she begged for him to please leave me out of this.

His right hand finally let go of me but what he did really caught me and my mother off guard, he smacked her right across the face hard and made her fall head first to the floor.

"The fuck I tell you to stay out of it you stupid bitch!" He yelled to her, sad and angry at what he did to her I retaliated by biting his arm at still held onto me.

"Gah! You fucking little shit" he screamed and punched me without flinching, falling to the ground my cheek hurt really bad.

Before I could even move or cry the top of my hair was grabbed and forced me to get up to my knees, crying in pain I tried prying his hands of me.

" You fucking little bitch, think you can just bite me and get away with it?!" He asked in rage, I could hear my mother screaming for him to let me go

In that moment everything seemed to begin tuning out, I started to feel myself losing control.

"Leave us alone!" I screamed then sudden darkness clouded my vision, I could hear the scream of Johnathan fill the house.

"Maria no!"the sound of my mother screeched from the darkness.

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(Normal POV)

Maria shot up in a fit of sweat and heavy panting, her body trembling in effect to from the surreal dream just now.

Placing a hand to her cheek she couldn't help but feel a slight stinging sensation forming on it, right in the exact spot where that man punched in her dream.

"Why does my cheek hurt...it all felt too real.."Maria thought to herself.

Wiping the sweat off her forehead Maria looked over at the digital clock beside the bed, it was two-thirty in the morning.

Only getting about four hours of sleep, not wanting to go back to sleep at the moment she got up from bed and made her way to the bathroom.

Turning on the faucet Maria splashed cold water to clean off the sweat still on her face from the dream, the cool sensation felt good against her warm skin.

A face of that woman in the dream was still boggling her mind, she called her mom but it's just hard to actually try and recognizing her before.

"Was she my mother...damn it why is it hard to remember this shit." Maria groaned angerly to herself, shutting off the faucet she decided to head down to the study.

Hoping that reading the book she found before would ease her frustrations, grabbing the room key Maria walked out the room and began walking down the hall.

Knowing that Hellboys room was coming up she made sure to keep quiet in hoping to not have him hear her, taking a slight moment to stop and look at the metal door to his room Maria wondered why such a legendary man would have a high security door outside his own room.

Though I wouldn't blame Professor Broom... I'd keep that guy in lock down too..

Getting back on track Maria made it down to the study, looking around first to make sure no one was in there, specially inside the aquarium if Abe was swimming around.

Sighing with relief she looked through the bookshelf from before and found the book that was becoming her new reading interest.

Picking it up Maria found a spot on the reading couch and made herself comfortable, flipping it open she let her mind fill with the paranormal knowledge it holds.

(Hellboys POV)

I woke up from for some unknown strange reason, like something was calling to me from my slumber.

Groaning I sat up from the bed and rubbed at the sleep from my face and eyes, looking at the clock to see it was about a quarter to six in the morning.

Ahh damn it might as well get up and ready, not like I was enjoying my sleep or anything.

For unknown reason my dream kept on going back to the newbie Maria, ever since touching her hand there was this strange feeling that sent chills throughout my whole body.

And then I almost felt drawn to her being, which pissed me off so I acted the only way I knew that would throw her from getting comfortable with me.

Being a dick is basically my second talent, minus the whole coming from hell and is the Lucifer's son.

Groaning I got out of bed and put on my pants to cover up, cracking the knot in my neck I stepped over to the small monitor to my door and buzzed it for Clay to let me out.

"Surprised to see you getting your this early." Clay said with humor while letting the door open, rolling my eyes I walked out and gave him a friendly nudge on the shoulder.

"Yeah yeah, what does the boss have for the agenda today?" I asked while walking down the hall side by side with him.

"The usual, going over basic necessities and such. Brooms having Liz train with the newbie and see what she's capable of before sending her out with you guys in missions." He said, that caused me to get annoyed.

Fucking great..

" He knows I hate training someone new, I work better alone." I said through gritted teeth,Clay sighed then rubbed the back of his head.

"Yeah I know, but come on man take it easy on the kid she hasn't had it easy in her life." He said, I glanced over at him with a raised brow in curiosity.

"Hell's that supposed to mean, everyone her has had it a sad story." I said, Clay looked at me and shook his head.

"Not like hers man." He said then turned down right into the study, I was about to question about what he knew more than letting on before he stopped in his tracks.

Being able to look over him I saw what caught his attention, it was Maria on the reading couch. She was knocked out with a book placed against her chest, Clay looked back at me with a smile before going over to where she was.

Carefully he peeled the book out of her hands and placed it on the table beside the arm of the couch, I watched as he placed a hand on her bare shoulder and within seconds she jolted up.

Her hand launched out and grabbed at Clays neck, while the had fire forming all around it.

"Woah woah hey easy there Newbie!" I yelled then ran over to pry her off him, before I could even touch her she turned around and was about to raise her fist to me.

When our eyes met I was thrown off by how different they appeared from the last time I saw her, blackish vein we're around her eye sockets while the color of her eyes were bright white.

It looked like she finally realized what was going on because her eyes changed back to normal and she stepped entirely back away from me.

Clay was rubbing at his neck from where she grabbed him, all the while I'm staring as Maria was looking at both of us and noticing that tears were faintly forming in the corner of her eyes and slipping down her cheek.

"I..I'm...I'm sorry Clay." She said before brushing past me and exiting out the room down to the hall, I was straight up confused as fuck and now ever so curious to what the hell is this girl.