Chapter Six

~Scream, "are we having fun yet?"~

It was the next morning when Kagome woke once again and she, again, wasn't alone.

Doc was there with her and she didn't like the feelings she was getting from him.

"Ah, so you're awake now? Your wounds look to be healing quite nicely, if I do say so myself." He told her pompously.

Kagome was getting the creeps from the way he was looking at her.

His aura was also disgustingly green and leaking black pussy substances.

What alarmed Kagome the most though, were the auras coming from the various prosthetics that were lying around the tent.

~Yet, yet, yet, no, no yet, yet, yet, no, no~

How could anyone heal in an environment like this one?

It was oppressive and dark and it sucked the light and care out of everything it touched.

This man has to have done many monstrous things for his aura to look like it was.

"Little miss? Little miss, are you alright?" Doc asked the girl.

She was just staring around her with a look of dawning horror on her face.

'My tent probably isn't good enough for her high class sensibilities, fucking bitch!' Doc continued in his thoughts.

"Umm… I-I'm okay. I'm just confused on where I am at the moment." She explained. (i.e. she lied)

"Yer in my medical tent at the Noah's Ark Circus, miss. I'm the medical caregiver to this 'ere group, and this is the medical tent. Do you remember about waking up before now?" He asked her.

She was quite beautiful, and he thought she would make a lovely sacrifice.

Added to the fact that she was a Phantomhive as well and he had just hit gold.

"Now, drink this. It'll help your wounds heal and the pains lessen." Doc finished by handing her a cup with some sort of herbal concoction inside of it.

Kagome sniffed it before even thinking of drinking it because there could be poisons or sleeping drugs inside of it that would incapacitate her so he could do anything he wanted with her while she couldn't struggle.

Smelling nothing except for the healing herbs, Kagome took a small sip and tasted it as she swallowed.

He was at least a very well learned doctor if he could make something so potent, yet safe for people to take.

"It is very good. It's made very well, and you seem to know your healing herbs as well." Kagome complimented his knowledge."

She could see that that had inflated his ego enough so as for him to soften towards her somewhat.

Kagome took more sips from the cup as she heard footsteps come up to the tent entrance.

A red head haired man stepped through.

Kagome thought hard for a moment, and then recognized the man.

He was Joker, and he was the leader of this circus.

He also had one prosthetic arm formed to look like bare bones.

They also had the same dark aura as the rest of the medic tent.

"Hello there again little miss! How are you feeling today?" He greeted her warmly.

"I am feeling much better. I also heal a ton faster than regular people, so I should be all better by tomorrow at the most. Then I can get out of your hairs." Kagome explained.

"Now I'll be the judge o' that, li'l missy. I'm the doctor here." Doc exclaimed.

Kagome looked at him for a moment, then responded coldly, "I am a trained medic. Also, I would know my own body more than someone whom I've just met."

He was indignant, then Joker began laughing.

"She sure is a spitfire, isn't she Doc? Wait until Beast and her team up on people. None would be able to stand against them." He joked.

Kagome turned to the side of the bed she was situated upon and placed her feet on the ground.

She then proceeded to stand up, or try to at least.

Joker rushed to catch her as her knees buckled out from under her and almost sent her crashing to the floor.

"Whoa there! I don't think you should be trying to walk right now." Joker told her.

"I need to keep up my strength." She told him logically.

He smirked at her.

"Well why don't I be your personal crutch from now on?" He teased.

Kagome had to think on it for a moment.

"Hmm… Mr. Joker, are you offering to carry me around today?" She teased him back.

That she responded to him so brazenly, shocked Joker.

It also planted a seed of doubt in his mind about whether she was actually as bad as some of the other 'ladies' that he had taken to his employer.

~It's not like you didn't know that~

End of Chapter Six