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Trapped...

No good outcome no matter what I choose...

Caught between a rock and a hard place doesn't even begin to describe the situation I was in right then. It was more like standing on the edge of a cliff overlooking a feeding frenzy with sharks and having a pack of rabid hyenas coming at you at full speed.

Time was doing that slow itself down thing again as I stared at what lay before me. My beloved was in the grasp of the one person I hated most in the entire world and I knew full well what he planned to do to her, and worse yet, he wanted to involve me in it now. I could practically taste his rancid scent it was so foul as it clogged up my nose. I could see the tear stains streaming down Lizzie's cheeks and feel the wetness of my shirt from my own. I only had a handful of choices truthfully. I could be a horrible piece of trash and a coward, and just run... and I would probably end up killing myself out of shame and hatred for leaving Lizzie there with him. I could scream for help and pray that he didn't hurt either one of us before it came... which was unlikely. I could do what he wanted... and probably be scarred worse then I already had been psychologically for the rest of my life, possibly causing it to effect my ability to have a relationship with Lizzie... Or... I could save us both, but still risk losing her, losing my family, losing everything depending on how far it went.

Time sped up again as Bane's voice growled softly "alright bitch, it's time you learn to do what a girl is meant to do." He reached down and yanked down his briefs, exposing himself to me. I didn't look... I didn't want to know what he looked like down there. I certainly didn't want to be this close to it, close enough to smell that he probably hadn't showered in a couple days. Just that thought made my skin crawl and make me want to take an acid bath. My chest was starting to really hurt from how hard my heart was pounding. I could feel my knuckles cracking from gripping the sides of my shirt so tightly. I just stared at the floor trying to get my body to move, to do... SOMETHING.

"Kogata don't!" I suddenly heard Lizzie whisper "don't do it just RUN!"

"Shut up!" snarled Bane, clamping a paw over her muzzle again as I looked up in shock towards her. She was shaking but those beautiful green eyes were pleading with me. Not to save her... not to even get her help... for me to run and save myself. She was willing to face Bane's wrath alone to save me from seeing or feeling any of it. She loved me... she truly... loved me. It was her strength, her fearlessness, the very thing that drew me to her so strongly.

"Hey freak" Bane growled and drew my attention back to him "put it in your mouth, and start sucking. And if I feel any teeth, I'll break them out of your mouth..." He nodded down towards his groin as though I would just obey like a dog. I looked at Lizzie again and she tried her best to shake her head. If I didn't do what he wanted, he would try to force me, or just hurt her. I could barely even breath, my entire body shook so much I swear I could chisel marble with my claws if I could uncurl my fingers. What should I do?...

I got yanked out of my thoughts again as Bane's free paw grabbed a fistful of my hair and dragged my face closer to his groin. God I thought I was going to throw up I was so close to it. I could feel the warmth rolling out of his crotch and it made me sick to my stomach. "I told you to suck my dick..." he growled in an ice cold chilling voice "do it, or I'll break the girl you care most about... I'll ruin her and she'll never be able to love you again... You got that? Because this little piece of ass belongs to ME!" That threat, I knew he would do it. He wasn't lying in the slightest, I knew Bane would hurt Lizzie in every way possible just to punish me for winning her heart. Maybe that's what finally made me turn. Maybe that was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe it was just the fact that I loved Lizzie so very very much I couldn't bare the thought of that monster hurting her like that. Maybe... I decided to be like Mama for a change. I didn't even think I could pull it off if I used my powers. Bane's mind was so engraved with rage and lust to try and break us that it just might kill me to overcome that, but dammit I wasn't going to go down without a fight.

"No..." I growled softly. Bane blinked and arched a brow and yanked on my hair, twisting my head back so he could see my face. My eyes closed from the pain but I didn't cry out, I knew he wanted me to.

"What the fuck did you say?..." he whispered coldly. Very slowly I opened my blue eyes and looked him dead in his ugly gaze.

"No" I growled again and shifted my legs and carefully got one footpaw under me on the floor. Bane blinked and growled and tried to shove my head down but this time I ignored the pain. He got a few inches on me and then I started to push back. My other foot carefully scraped along the floor and made it under me and I pushed myself up, inch by trembling inch at a time until I stood in front of him and glared up at him.

"No?..." He growled and released my hair but reared back his paw as though to slap me "fine, then I'll teach you a fuckin lesson!"

SMACK!

His paw hissed through the air and connected with my cheek, leaving a nasty welt and three long gashes where his claws cut my flesh. It felt like being hit by a baseball bat. Lizzie yelped and whimpered into his paw, sobbing some as she saw me take the hit. I stumbled slightly but again I didn't make a sound, I still wouldn't give him the satisfaction. But I felt it... I felt the pain quickly welling up in my cheek and the blood trickling down slowly through my fur. But that wasn't all I felt.

I felt the surge welling up somewhere deep inside me. This was unlike any other time I have ever touched that sensation in my entire life. It wasn't just in my core and going up to my eyes it was EVERYWHERE. I could feel it spreading through my whole body all the way out to my fingertips. I slowly turned back with my hair hanging over my face some hiding my downward gaze.

"You gonna do as I ask now bitch or am I gonna have to hit you again?" I heard Bane growl. The sensation was still building, stronger and stronger. It spread into the air and I could feel it like a warm mist surrounding me. It was everywhere... it was unbelievable... and I... was untouchable...

"Fine then" Bane growled and swung again. My head snapped up and my eyes shined brilliantly with blue light, stopping his paw dead just inches from my cheek. His own eyes widened and he managed to groan out as though under a great strain "wh... what the... h.. hell?" I could feel his arm struggling to move against my hold. It was like a fly trying to push up a boot that was slowly squishing it. His paw slowly moved back and then dropped to his side. I didn't have to hypnotize him to control him... I could control his body just by thinking. I had absolute power over him.

"You're not going to hit me Bane" I said in an eerily calm voice, even to myself it was surprising "You're not going to hurt Lizzie. You're not going to hurt either one of us ever again. Do you know why?" He was shaking now, I could see it. I recognized it after seeing the fear so many times in my own reflection whenever I would hide in a bathroom from him or his friends. Only his fear was worse. Bane grew up in power, always pushing people around and making them do whatever he wanted. I grew up in submission, trying to duck the ones that would hurt me and being put down into the dirt at every turn. Bane just hit the ground face first after one hell of a fall... and he was still in disbelief.

"Wh... Why?" he finally managed to whimper.

"Because I'm unlike anything you've ever seen before..." I replied. The power in the air was growing stronger and stronger now, making my hair start to rise up and reveal more of my face and eyes. "Because you made the mistake of threatening the one person I truly love in this entire world and I will never... ever... let you hurt her." His eyes widened and he started to shake even more. I could tell he was trying to just turn and run but I had his whole body now, the only thing I hadn't taken was his own mind... yet.

His arm slowly released Lizzie and his paw uncurled from her muzzle. With a gasp she slid to the floor, shoving her clothes back into place with shaking paws as she just stared in shock and disbelief. What I didn't see... What I was too busy glaring at Bane to notice... was the lack of fear in her eyes. She wasn't afraid of me. She was just grateful, surprised, even a bit impressed. It was like when I looked at her, when I was afraid and Lizzie just stood tall and proud and fearless, willing to take on the world to protect me. I didn't know it but right then she realized what it felt like to be me and why I loved her so much. She was safe... and she knew it in her heart.

Bane's body slowly retreated into a simple stance with his arms at his sides. His eyes continued to swivel about wildly still trying to comprehend what was happening. He tried to scream for help but every time he did I knew it was coming and I shut his maw, making him bite his lip or tongue along the way so only a muffled whimper came out. He was truly losing control... and to Bane, not being in control was the worst fear he could possibly imagine.

"Y... You really are a freak!" he whimpered out "they'll lock you up! They'll lock you up and throw away the fucking key! The government will carve you up! You'll be a fucking lab rat for the rest of your life! I'll tell everyone!" He was trying to scare me. It didn't take a genius to figure out what this kind of power could bring the person who held it. Anyone who'd seen any "up and coming superhero" type of movie or show knew that. But there was one thing he wasn't counting on.

"No..." I said with a slight smirk "you won't." Then I let him feel it, the sensation of tiny tendrils of power invading his own head. His eyes widened even further and his pupils shrank to tiny little dots as I took over his very thoughts. He was under my complete control... He was my puppet, I could do anything I wanted to with him. If I so chose... I could make him a vegetable for the rest of his life... or simply make him jump off the roof of the school and paint the sidewalk red. Lucky for Bane... I wasn't like him... I wasn't a monster.

"I'll tell you what you're going to do Bane..." I said softly, stepping closer to her and looking him right in his wide, terrified eyes. "You're going to leave" I cooed "you're going to walk out of this library and you are going to forget that Lizzie and I exist until the day you die. You will never speak to, nor think about either one of us ever again. You're going to do this simply because I say so. But before you forget us you should know... Right now I could make you fold yourself in half and bite off your own nuts if I wanted to... so be grateful that I'm a cute little girl and not a vindictive bitch..."

His eyes widened again and started to roll back as my power began to wipe his mind. I started to turn but then stopped and said "oh! And one more thing..." I slowly lifted a paw and motioned with one finger for him to come closer. He staggered forward and bent down and I leaned up to his ear and whispered.... Well... I'll tell you about that part later. When I finished he straightened up and I turned around and then closed my eyes and said "Now get out of my sight..."

His whole body jumped as though struck by lightning as he regained control of it. He blinked and looked around and looked at Lizzie who shook and flexed her claws, ready to defend herself if he came at her. He then looked right past her and started walking. He brushed by me and left the aisle of books, walked down the stairs to the main floor, and right out the library front door. Bane was gone.

I'd done it... I'd overcome Bane one hundred percent and freed Lizzie and I from him forever. I felt the sensation shrink back and die down back into my core and vanish, leaving me trembling as though I'd stepped out of the water into a heavy breeze.

"Kogata?..." Lizzie's voice whispered, making me jump. I very slowly turned to look at her, terrified I was going to see a disgusted or horrified look in her eyes, as though she were staring at some kind of alien from outer space. I bit my lip harshly, almost making it bleed, I didn't know what to say.

"Lizzie I..." I started to say, but I didn't get to finish. Somewhere in the back of my mind I had known it was coming but it still hadn't prepared me for it. The cost of using my power, is that it takes a hefty physical toll on my body. The more of it I use, the heavier the toll... and this time... it was unlike anything I'd ever felt.

My entire body went numb within a half second. My brain felt like someone hit me in the head with a pickup truck. Blood began to seep out of my nose and my eyes rolled back. I don't remember anything other then falling to the floor and my entire body seizing up over and over again. I could hear Lizzie's voice screaming for help but it sounded so far away. Like I was falling down a well and she was standing at the top desperately trying to catch me. I knew I was going to die. There was no way I could use that much power and survive. But it was okay... I was happy... Lizzie was safe and sound and Bane would never bother her again. I had done what I was supposed to do... for my angel... I was ready to let go...

Okay okay I was wrong. It didn't kill me, but it damn near did! The doctors said I had three simultaneous brain aneurisms and if Lizzie hadn't picked me up and RAN me through the fields and woods behind the school, in a skirt mind you which caused her legs to look like a bloody crossword puzzle from all the bushes and sticks, to the hospital on the other side, I wouldn't have made it. It took me two weeks to finally wake up.

When I came to it felt like there was a walrus sitting on my head. My eyes slowly opened and I looked up at a hospital ceiling. A tiny whimper escaped me as I tried to move and look around.

"Kogata?..." I heard a familiar voice whisper. I turned my head carefully and saw Lizzie's beautiful green eyes looking back at me with more worry in them then I thought anyone could possibly have aside from Papa. "Oh my god..." she breathed out "you're awake!" She immediately started to cry and leaned down, kissing me right on the lips. I was so surprised I didn't even get to kiss her back before she pulled back, smoothing back my hair. "Oh God you scared me..." she said shakily "I thought I had lost you..." I couldn't believe it. After everything that had happened... Lizzie was still just worried about losing me?

"Y... You mean..." I croaked out in a dry raspy voice. She lifted a finger to my lips to shush me.

"Wait..." she said softly and turned. She poured me some water from a bottle into a paper cup and helped me drink some. God it felt so good to get some nice cold water down my throat. When I finished I pulled back and tried to speak again.

"Lizzie..." I whispered and looked up at her "you're not mad?" She looked at me as though I had just asked her if she was really a girl in the same confused manner.

"Mad?..." she said with a smile "why on Earth would I be mad?"

"Because..." I whispered, looking away "I'm a freak..."

She blinked and her ears immediately lowered back. I felt the soft gentle warmth of her paw on my cheek and she turned my face back to lock eyes with me. She smiled and then whispered "you're not a freak Kogata... you're more amazing then anyone I have ever met in my entire life and I owe you everything. I love you so much Kogata... thank you..." She started to cry again and I could feel her paw trembling as she said shakily "thank you so much for saving me..." She leaned down and just buried her face against my shoulder gently and cried. I blinked in surprise but carefully wrapped my arms around her and cried with her.

"I... I couldn't let him hurt you..." I whispered, clinging tightly to her as though I never wanted to let go ever again. She pulled back and wiped her face and then wiped my face and then had to wipe her face again because she was still crying. Then she just gave up and kept crying anyway.

"I know sweetie..." she said softly with a smile "you're incredible to have stood up to him like that... but you have to promise me one thing." I blinked and felt a twinge of fear inside me as I waited. She bit her lip and whispered "don't ever do that again... the doctors said you almost died... and... I can't lose you... I love you Kogata." I blinked in surprise but I bit my lip and then nodded slowly.

"How... how long was I out?" I whispered.

"Two weeks" she said with a nervous smile "the doctors said they've never seen anything like it before. A simultaneous triple brain aneurism is absolutely unheard of but they're blaming it on a combination of stress and head trauma."

"And Bane?" I asked shakily.

"It worked..." she whispered "what you said to him, he really did it. When I carried you out into the hall he*"

"You carried me?" I asked, interrupting her. She blinked and then nodded.

"I carried you here after you started having a seizure..." she said softly "I was so scared you were going to die in my arms I had to get you help." I blushed at the very idea that Lizzie had saved my life like that. "Bane was in the hallway and when I ran past he glanced at me and then went back to what he was doing as though I didn't even exist anymore. I was just... nothing... whatever you did it really worked."

I closed my eyes and just rested my head back in sheer relief hearing that. A smile was on my lips and I just couldn't for the life of me make it go away. Lizzie smiled and continued petting through my hair and finally whispered "there's some other people here who would be really happy to know you're awake..." I blinked and looked up at her again.

"Who?" I asked tilting my head some. She just smiled and then stood up and moved to the door of my room. She poked her head outside and then came back and stepped aside. A moment later both Bibbles and Papa stepped inside.

"Kogata!" they both said at once. I smiled and giggled some as Bibbles started sobbing like a baby and threw himself onto the side of my bed.

"Oh my God! Oh my God!" he said through sobs "I thought you were gone!" Suddenly he changed and sat up glaring at me. "Don't you EVER scare me like that again you hear me?!" He yelped as Lizzie flicked one of his ears and he looked up and then hastily got out of the way so Papa could come in close and give me a great big warm hug. I could feel his tears staining the shoulder of my hospital gown.

"I'm so glad you're alright..." he whispered in a shaky voice.

"I know Papa" I replied.

"I love you so much Princess" he said.

"I know Papa..." I replied again "I love you too."

He finally pulled back and just smiled at me and said softly "Kogata I really really have to ask you something and I don't want to upset you so soon after waking up. Can you promise not to get upset?"

I blinked but I nodded with a small smile "sure Papa" I said. I was just too happy to see him to worry about being upset.

"Why didn't you tell me you liked girls?" he asked quite plainly and calmly. The question took me by such surprise I could only do one thing...

"Wh... what?" I stammered out.

"Well..." he said with a smile glancing at Lizzie "this rather gorgeous young lady here has informed me that she is your girlfriend. Now I know girls have plenty of 'girlfriends' but considering the way she said it and the amount of dedication she's shown you by staying in this room for the last two weeks... I'm fairly certain she meant much more then just friends." Lizzie's eyes widened and she turned beat red. She hadn't meant to give up my secret to Papa. She looked at me in horror as though I would explode in anger. I just looked at Papa in absolute shock at how well he was accepting all of this.

"Well..." I finally said "I tried Papa, I really did. But... I was afraid you would be mad." He blinked some and then slowly smiled and reached out gently touching my cheek.

"Kogata..." he said softly "You can love whoever your heart tells you to love and you will still be my Princess, now and forever more." I blinked and felt as though the weight of the world had just fallen off my shoulders and down into a dark hole where I never had to see it again. Bibbles was absolutely glowing with admiration.

"Will you adopt me and be my new Daddy?" he asked Papa with bright watery eyes. Lizzie snorted a laugh and Papa blinked and just chuckled. I started giggling for a full minute before I could settle down. I was surrounded by the people who I knew absolutely loved me without question in this world. I had Papa, the one who worked so hard to provide for me and look after me. I had Bibbles, my best friend for my whole life who helped me through my toughest times. I had Lizzie, my angel, my partner, and the love of my life. And I had Mama... I couldn't see her or hear her... but I could feel her there with her arms around me, letting me know that everything was alright.

I looked up at Lizzie and just smiled as she moved closer and sat down next to me again. She leaned down and planted a soft wonderful kiss right on my lips, right in front of Papa without a care in the world. She pulled back and then said softly "you know Kogata... it's a good thing you woke up when you did..."

I blinked and tilted my head curiously "how come?" I asked softly.

"Because..." she said with a grin and a purr "Prom is this weekend and I would hate not to have my lovely date dance with me." I blinked in surprise and just blushed heavily and gazed up at her.

"I guess that means you two have to go dress shopping huh?" Bibbles said with a sigh, gazing off towards the window but slowly casting a sideways glance towards me. I opened my mouth to ask him if he wanted to go and he threw himself onto the side of my bed with his paws together. "Please!" he whimpered "Please please please PLEASE let me go! I'll do anything! I'll do all your homework FOREVER! PLEAAAAAAAAAA*"

"BIBBLES!" I said sternly and he blinked looked at me, falling silent. "Would you like to go dress shopping with us?" I asked with a kind smile. He lit up and just hugged me tight and Lizzie and Papa laughed.

"I'm glad you're awake sweetie..." Papa said softly "but, I have to get back to work and then check on your brother, make sure he's not picking at his stitches or anything." I blinked but nodded with a smile.

"It's okay Papa" I said, gently squeezing Lizzie's paw "I'll be just fine."

He smiled back and kissed my forehead whispering "I know baby." He then straightened up and turned and left. Bibbles shut the door behind him and then sat down next to Lizzie and both of them looked at me quite sternly. I blinked and looked from one to the other and shrank down some.

"Wh... What?" I asked nervously.

"Spill the beans" Bibbles said "explain the... eye glowing stuff." I blinked and then blushed and bit my lip but... if Lizzie had seen it and she didn't mind then... maybe it was alright for them to know.

"I..." I said softly "I can hypnotize males... I can make them forget what they were doing or about to do... and I can make them do something else. With Bane I just... I was so angry and so... just... built up that I took it farther then that and controlled his body."

They both just sort of looked at me for a long while before Bibbles asked "so could you hypnotize that cute male nurse into meeting me in a supply closet later today?" I blinked and then snorted a giggle and Lizzie thwopped him again.

"Bibbles!" she growled.

"What?" he replied "he's hot and he's hung like a horse! Cuz he is one!" I just kept on giggling. Leave it to Bibbles to try and exploit his best friend's super powers to get laid. When I finally calmed down I was able to speak again.

"I would but..." I said softly "whenever I use my power it drains me, physically... That's why I got so messed up after using so much on Bane." They both blinked but Bibbles nodded and smiled with a little giggle.

"Maybe when you're better then..." he murred. I smiled and winked at him and Lizzie chuckled.

"Well whatever it is or wherever it came from" she said with a smile and squeezed my paw "thank you for using it to save me..." I smiled and squeezed her paw back and she leaned forward and kissed me gently. I scooted over in the hospital bed and she climbed in and just held me close. I could hear her heartbeat in her chest... thumping gently against my ear.

Bibbles smiled and carefully climbed in on the other side and snuggled in nice and close. I was so happy... I don't think I'd ever been happier. I had my Lizzie and my Bibbles and somehow I just knew that my bonds with both would last forever... We would have many more tales to tell, many more stories to share... some good some bad, some happy some sad, some innocent, some... not... But all, were mine to share with the ones that I loved... will I share them with you?... I dunno....

...maybe...