Captain Marvel: My Mother (BOOK I)

Chapter 10

" Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. "

     - Robert A. Heinlein -

(Rouen, France, 3:30 AM)

Carol Danvers was still comforting the boy to sleep as she sat on the bed. The lizard boy leaned his head closer to her legs. She kept touching his head. He remained awake and had trouble in sleeping. The elderly half-Kree woman had understood now why he was having nightmares every evening. She recalled his memories were linked to 682's past. Those things had been bothering him which he couldn't get over with it. She waited for him to speak up as her left hand gently touched his rough scaly skin. She noticed the numerous blue scars around his body when he took off his clothes earlier.

    " Did you encounter anyone else to hurt you? " she asked.

    " Yes, there were other subjects who tried to exterminate me, " he answered.

    " You have experienced it almost everyday? "

    " Yes. That made me think I don't deserve to live at all. "

    Carol sadly sighed as she heard him. She gently patted his back and thought of changing the topic.

     " Did you ever have another friend aside from Jared before? " she asked.

     " Yes, few of them. "

 " Did he or she hurt you? "

     " No, but I will tell you a story..."

     " Okay, the floor is yours and my ears are all tuned to you. "

 

     " All right..."

(Several years ago: MTF Headquarters, United States)

    The young Kree-Lizard hybrid was sleeping inside the containment cell. He never realized how much blue blood was flowing from his body which he got from those brutal activities. His laboratory dress was fully stained and torn which he couldn't clean and repair it by himself. Moments later, he was crying and wailing intensely as the MTF soldiers heard him, especially the man who got irritated and covered his ears.

" Can't this kid just shut-up?! " the MTF soldier whined at his partner. " I can't stand his frequent crybaby moments! " 

" Still, we have to make absolute certainty he doesn't break out containment, " the other MTF Soldier commented before looking at the thing. "Still I don't blame boss about the damn thing, it's a freak of nature. "

" Yeah, I wonder why if we could sedate him. "

" Shooting makes him more agitated after a couple of minutes. And using any other chemical method results in instant flaws. The only thing we could do is just find enjoyment from his crying. "

" Well, yeah. But that kid is something else. " his partner pointed at the window which blue blood was seen and splattered on the floor.