I was sitting in the side of the cage where fay was, poking her cheek with one of the fingers of my prosthetic arm, one wich I myself elongated using the material of one of the ba-...
Oh yeah, I forgot I'm stupid, my bad.
I consume one of the bars of the cage and store it in my arm, it appears to be full after getting just a tiny bit of iron, I look at the cilinder that stores material in the arm, it appears to be full of some sort of liquid.
A yellowish one.
A quick thought appears in my mind as I remember we got wasted last night, but I try to control myself as I make appear a droplet in my arm to smell it.
It's not pee (THANK YOU SO MUCH GOD!!)
It... Smells sweet, is it... Is it the tea that Mildred gave me?... I don't remember if I threw that away or not, could also be one drink from last night, it's a possibility that my drunk self wanted to save some for later.
Either case, both options would result in a stale drink, I'll throw it to the floor away from the cage, I carefully keep the iron in the arm while spilling the liquid, I keep on absorbing the bar of the cage until I can finally fit my body, as I enter the cage I see fay lying down making sounds with her mouth, so I can tell she is... Alive at least, but she is still knocked out.
I feel bad for making her go bonkers, but it was fun, I won't lie. I need to make it up to her I feel...
I go out of the cage and enter the control room, surprisingly, neither Madeline or Alan are back yet, I grab a bucket from the locker inside the room and add a bit of water to it, I also grab a soft towel.
If I were to guess, I suspect that this locker is used for maintenance of the room fay is in.
I enter the room with both the bucket and the towel, and enter fay's cage aswell.
I sit on the floor, knees first, I put the bucket on my side as grab fay's head and put in on my thighs. I dip the towel in the water bucket, I squeeze almost all the water inside.
I start rubbing fay's forehead with the wet and cold towel, all while humming... A song that doesn't exist... But I feel coming from inside my soul.
I caress her hair while I rub her forehead. When I move it, little Sparks fly out for brief moments, they don't hurt at all, instead, it feels nice on my hand, after a brief moment the blue side gets brighter, I lose myself seeing it, it's hypnotic.
I find myself... At peace, all the trouble, all the stuff that has been passing for several weeks, I forget that everything exists, that I have troubles in my life, all I can think about is... That this is where I belong.
Right next to her.
- Miss cecile?.
I hear softly, coming from fay, her cheeks having a soft redness to them.
-Hi there~.
-How much time passed?.
- No idea, about like 5 mins at most?. This watch doesn't really tell the hour as far as I can tell.
I point at the watch that Alan gave me.
While I'm talking with fay, I keep rubbing her forehead with the wet towel, soaking it again and again from time to time.
-By the way...
-Hmmm?.
- Sorry for teasing you so much before, I kinda got a little too far.
-Oh, it's no problem at all miss cecile, actually, I got knocked out because it made me really happy...
Fay keeps looking me in the eyes, only to get embarrassed and look away before trying again, I can tell she wants to say something.
-Whats the problem fay?.
-O-oh it's nothing important...
-Come on, you can tell me.
-...
-Fay... Come on no need to worry about anything.
-M-miss Cecile...
-Mhmm?.
-Can we stay like this... Even if it's just a little bit longer?.
Somehow she made it.
She made me skip a beat.
-W-well of course we can, I don't have a problem with that!.
In response, fay smiles and closes her eyes, I assume she is resting her eyes some more, all while I keep pampering her. Fay's hair gets brighter, I can see my hand reflecting the light from her hair without problem.
I take the towel from her head, and I leave it in the bucket, I touch her forehead with my prosthetic.
I assume it's cold because she opens her eyes immediately, I take my hand from her forehead and put it in front of her eyes.
-Don't worry, it's just this hand, it must have felt weird didn't it? Haha.
-Oooh yeah, a little bit.
She keeps looking at it, just like how she saw my eyes just a moment ago.
-Are you... Disgusted by it?...
-W-what?! Nonono, not at all. It's just that I'm really curious about it.
-Do you want to know how I lost my hand?.
-O-only if it's not something really personal or that troubles you miss cecile!.
-Nah... Not at all, let me tell you.
You know I can absorve things right?. Then I can just use them however I like, I usually don't do complicated things, but i can, watch this.
*Cecile creates a little statue of fay using the iron from the bar, the statue is of fay transformed in a little mouse, I cluding her hair and everything*
-Wooooaaaah~.
-But I didn't have this much control over it when I was young, quite the contrary in fact.
-How young?.
-If I remember correctly, the first time I got aware of my powers it was when I was 5 years old.
-OOOOOH~
Fay looks so happy, her eyes sparkling a little bit.
-Hey why are you so happy?.
-Its just that I imagine miss cecile being a little girl and I think that you where really cute back then.
-O-oh... thank you.
Fay giggles after that
-Also it's kinda funny because I imagine miss cecile still having the same hair and the glasses hahaha-
-Hey why are you laughing? Meanie.
I pinch Fay's cheek, but softly, just enough to grab them.
-Awawa- sorry~ hehe.
-Ehemm, *clears throat* as I was saying...
When I was just a child my powers appeared spontaneously, and without me controlling them, suddenly there where teddy bears inside my arm, and suddenly, without me noticing, I just poof them out of my hand without even knowing why.
-It must have looked like magic to you didn't it?.
-... Well it IS magic.
- IT IS?!
Fay's face sparks once again... I think she thinks that everything we can do is "normal".
I won't pop her bubble.
-Anyway, my father was a scientist, kinda like me, but he was focused in chemistry, he did works for pharmaceuticals and tested the wild ideas the doctors thought from time to time.
One of them required mercury.
-Mercury is the liquid metal right?.
-Yes, and it's extremely incompatible with the human body, and that's underselling it.
As you know, kids are stupid, even more than me.
I for some reason thought that playing with the funny shinny liquid was a good idea. It wasn't.
While playing with the glass it broke in one of the counters of the house, all while having it in my hand, I guess the surprised kicked the ability inside my brain in self defense, but it was a grave mistake.
I ended up absorbing 500ML of pure mercury inside of my hand, Wich then had a party going all around my body, including my brain.
-Oh no!.
-That made faint, my father was near, to my luck, he might have heard the glass shatter and came running inside the room.
He quickly called the emergency services but by the time they would arrive it would have been too late, my father got an idea, he grabbed my head and managed to make me gain consciousness again, he told me to focus all I could so I could send all the mercury to one of my limbs, I, somehow, managed to actually do it, that was the first time I actually had control of how my powers worked, I got all the mercury inside of my right arm, it was so full of it that the skin was metallic gray all around, he used one of his belts as tourniquet he then used the sharpest knife there was on the house and... Well, he cut my arm, talking medically he did an amazing job, it barely lasted a minute, but feeling everything in that minute felt like years to me, I needed to remain conscious to keep the mercury there... The hard part was the bone, that one... Was specially long.
After he finished I fainted again, but I had enough consciousness to hear him crying and hugging me.
After that medical services came to the house, and took me to the ICU.
When I was sedated they took the remaining part that was still attached to my body.
...
Next thing I remember was lying on my bed missing my arm.
And it took until the end of school to get my prothesis. I made it myself after I started studying mechatronics. Once I figured out how to make the prosthetic, I abandoned the class and went to study medicine...
I think I have the knowledge to build myself a-.
Fay stands up from my thighs, but still is on my level, she hugs me tightly, I realize the feeling of wetness in my cheeks and in my eyes, I am crying.
I... Was crying... And I don't know for how long.
I grab Fay from her hips, I pull her towards me with strength as I start sobbing.
I let my emotions flow on Faraday's shoulder.
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