Shockwave 10

Kia stepped out of the shower and used one of China's towels to dry herself. They were soft and white and Kia was a little worried that she would get blood on them but that paste that Skulduggery had placed on her arm and leg seemed to be doing it's job. Though they weren't toatlly gone, at least they had closed up. Kia realized that both were on her right side and she wondered if she was favoring her left too much. It was a little strange since she was right handed so she just wrote it down as coincidence. China had been kind enough to leave out an extra set of clothes for her.
"I won't wear them anyway," she'd said with a sniff.
Kia wondered why. It was a perfectly good light blue t-shirt and a pair of white shorts. Both of which only barely fit onto Kia's small form. Maybe it was because they were too small but China wasn't that big herself. Still, Kia was grateful for the thin, leather belt that China had placed next to the shorts because otherwise she would have been too busy trying to keep them from falling to do anything else. The flip-flops by the bed were just her size and Kia wondered if China's shoe size was the same as hers. If it was, she would have to borrow some of her shoes because China had really good taste. Once she was dressed, she wrapped bandages around her arm and leg like Skulduggery had told her. Apparently, the paste was just to close the wound but she could still get an infection, or rip the scab open if she wasn't careful so she carefully wrapped herself in bandages. She checked her appearance in the mirror and noticed a small cut on her cheek.
"Tch," she said. For a girl to get a cut on her face was annoying. When she was sparring, people always wondered why she kept her guard up so high and it was because, while a guy sporting a black eye can seem tough, no girl ever wants to be in that situation. First of all, girls care a lot about their faces and second of all, people often assume things other than fights when that happens like domestic abuse so Kia would always defend her face before anything. Her sparring partners tried to use that against her and go for low jabs but against someone who is a foot shorter than you, it's a bit hard to do. Kia stared at her cut and when she was satisfied with the fact that it wouldn't scar, she left the bathroom to find Skulduggery and Valkyrie. While she had been showering, they had gone back into the library with China. Kia walked in and tried to find her way through the towering bookshelves. She finally saw them sitting around a table a little ways off but when she realized that they were talking about her, she jumped behind a bookcase a stopped moving.
"Skulduggery, are you sure that Kia will be okay?" China asked.
"No, actually. You see when she was fighting those vampires, she did it amazingly well but there was something in her eyes. You know, the same kind of thing that you see in mass murderer."
Kia was startled by those words. Had she really had that look in her eyes?
"It's something harsh, something like anger but even more pure. Afterwards, it disappeared and she was so guilty she threw up. Look, she isn't evil," Kia sighed in relief as she heard that. "But she's on her way." Her heart leapt into her throat. "That side of her is as her kinder side and really it's a battle to see who will win. Right now she's in the worst situation because she can't control either side. She'll go around hurting people when she's angry and then see the aftermath and be wracked with guilt. She's lucky that she probably hasn't been in a situtation like this before," wrong, she had been once, "But, now that she's our world she'll keep getting into situations like these. I think that I'll do my best to keep her from getting out of hand but I think that I can't control her that well."
Kia closed her eyes for a second and the image of the vampire's blood on her arm and the hole in his chest swam in front of her eyes. She opened them again.
"Well you should at least teach her about the names. If she keeps on using Kia as a name, she'll get into trouble."
"Yeah, I'll tell her."
Kia knew that Skulduggery was trying to help her. She knew that but she still wanted to run. She wanted to get away from that crazy world. She hadn't wanted this. The Fates had just decided all of a sudden that she was to be part of this and she didn't want it. Kia quietly made her way out of the library. At the door she saw the man in the bowtie.
"Hey, can you do me a favor?" she asked.
The man leaned towards her. She took that to mean, "I'm listening."
"Please don't tell them I left. I know that you want to go straight to them but I need to get out of here. Please trust me that a know what I'm doing."
The bowtie man raised his eyebrows.
"Okay, so that was an itty bitty lie. I don't completely know what I'm doing but I know what I don't want to do and that is stay here. I think I'm still uninvolved enough to stay out so please, please don't tell them. If they ask, answer, but you don't have to go now."
The bowtie man looked at her for the longest time and Kia wondered if he was just going to stand there till she left but he finally nodded.
"Thank you," Kia said and left the library.