No idea

Doctor takes the sleeping mutant to his tent. He placed her on an exam table. He rolls up her sleeve and finds the green marks on her skin.

“Are they tattoos?” He asks out loud. He leans down to smell her arm to see if he could smell ink. He only smells the greenery of plants and the small scent of a human on her skin. He finds it interesting that she smells like that.

“She said that she has that due to being a mutant.” Harlequin tells him. He sits on one of Doctor's tables, having one leg up on the table and the other hanging. 

Doctor hums when hearing that. He wants to find out more about unique traits of mutants.

He gets an empty syringe and an alcohol wipe. He looks for a vein on the inner part of her elbow. Once he does, he cleans her skin and draws her blood.

Harlequin passes him a band-aid to put on where the needle was on her skin. Doctor thanks him and puts it on her once the syringe is filled.

He put a drop of blood on a microscope slide and examined it with the microscope. “Her blood is unique. It looks to be something extra to her blood. I need to run more tests.” He will look at her DNA to look at what truly set her apart from humans.

He will do a more simple test now. He removes his glove and puts a few drops of blood on his claws. Normally the sight and smell of human blood excites him. This blood smells more like plants. He slightly lifts his mask with his other hand to lick the blood off of his claws.

He stands there confused as he double checks what he tasted. To him, it has an earthy plant-like taste. He can taste iron, but a hint of it.

He moves his mask back in place. He grabs the syringe and goes over to Harlequin. “Taste the blood and tell me what you taste.”

“What? Lost your sense of taste, big bird.” Harlequin laughs. He takes the syringe and tastes the mutant's blood.

“The fuck!” He is as confused as Doctor. He hadn't trained himself to pick up certain tastes of human blood. He couldn't pick up the hint of iron in her blood.

He tasted the blood again to make sure that was right. He tasted the same thing again. “I know you're not the one for pranks. Her blood tastes like a plant of some kind.” He looks at the mutant. He wonders how that is possible.

“How much do you think the others want to taste her blood?” Harlequin smirks as he wants to prank them.

Doctor tilts his head to the side as he thinks. “It depends. Ticket Taker might be the only one.” He knows Pierrot likes sweets more. He isn't sure about Jester.

Doctor goes to her. He makes sure she is comfortable on the exam table. He puts a blanket on her. He will do a medical examination on her when she is awake. So she can tell him any medical history.

He had been told by Harlequin that she was given a drugged candy apple. She will be out for a while. He will use this time to study her blood more and learn more information from Harlequin about her.

Time passed by. Harlequin gotten bored and went off to do something. Doctor is keeping watch on the mutant. Once she is up, he will try to do a medical examination on her. If he can't, he will take her to one of the others.

Later he hears some noises from her. He can tell by returning to normal heart beat and the noises she is making are signs that she is awake.

He goes to her side, when making sure to stand far away enough for her comfort. “Sweetie, how are you feeling?”

She softly moans as she wakes up more. The last thing she remembers was eating that candy apple and seeing pink.

She looks towards Doctor. She stares and watches him. As he had tried to draw her blood before. She is glaring at him due to her tired state. 

“Are you angry or scared of me? I won't draw your blood.” As he already did.

On hearing that, she calms down. She feels cold laying on the exam table. She tries to cover her body more with the blanket.

“You will be somewhere warmer. I have some questions.” He goes to a cooler and takes out a sandwich and juice for her.

He gives her the sandwich and juice.“It will be medical ones if you can answer them. I will make sure you are healthy.” He won't do what Jester or Ticket Taker did to her before. They used food as a reward.

She takes a bite of the sandwich right away. She paused at what he said. “Will you take away the food if I don't answer?” She moves her body away so he has a hard time doing so.

“No sweetie. You need the food to be healthy.” He will give her food or a drink if she needs them.

He will start off with some really simple medical questions. Her age, any health problems or medications she might be taking. She tells him her age, she has no idea if she has any medical problems.

He goes to his next line of questions. “Do you have any sexual history?”

Her face heats up quickly at the question. She is lucky she wasn't swallowing or drinking, she could have choked.

“I would rather not answer.” She doesn't want to tell him she has never been with anyone.

“Many are shy about sharing that type of thing.” He notes. “Once you're more comfortable sharing it. You can tell me.”

She nods to show she understands. She will never share that with him.

He stops at asking her questions to let her eat and drink. Once she is done. He goes over to her. “I will take you out. Who do you want to go to?”

She looks at him and thinks. “Pierrot. The one in red.” She thinks that is his name.

He nods. He was about to help her down from the exam table but she got down just fine.

When morning comes, the woman in black wakes up in Hemlock's arms. Her back against his chest as his arms around her waist. It feels nice and warm that she wants to go back to sleep. She can't sleep the day away as she has things to do.

She has no idea how to wake up Hemlock without being rude about it. As she turns a little. Hemlock speaks to her. “Did you just wake up?” He will act like he's been sleeping the whole time.

She nods. “I need to get up. Get some meat for all of you.” She hadn't harvested meat for them yesterday.

“No worries. We had gotten some the day before. Nightshade and I had ground it up when Jessamine had shown us how to use the meat grinder.” He let go of her. He knows this moment will be ruined by the others wanting her attention.

“Where did you get the meat?” She has no fresh bodies downstairs.

“We got somewhere we had gone the night before.” He is being light on the details.

He gets out of bed. When she sits up. She is trying to wake up more.

He lifts her hand to his lips and kisses it. “I will take my leave before others will try to come in.”

Her cheeks heated up at the kiss. She nods and watches him leave.

Once he is gone from her room and the door is closed. She goes to change into her clothes for the day.

She goes to the kitchen to find Jessamine cooking omelets. He couldn't make them yesterday so he is making them today. He makes sure to make them extra fluffy for his love and his lady.

“Morning.” She yawns slightly. She hadn’t woken up fully today.

“Morning!” Jessamine has a big smile when hearing her voice. If he wasn't cooking. He would go and hug her.

Ivy comes to the kitchen. He looks miserable. He is chewing on a herb as a form of pain killer. It’s weaker than the medicine he had been given before.

“Are you fine?” The woman in black goes to him to check on him.

Ivy takes out the plant in his mouth. “They won't let me take the good stuff.” He returns to chewing on the plant. He had felt great on the pain killer. He doesn't remember much during the time he was on it. He did remember a few things about her though. Since he saw her and Castor the most.

“You're walking around and talking. That's a good sign that you're good.” She smiles.

“I did remember you being on top of me. You wanted me that much.” Ivy smirks.

Jessamine drops the wooden spatula he was using when he heard Ivy said that. He looks at her in shock. That she would do that to Ivy. Ivy was making passes at him when it was his turn to watch Ivy.

“You wouldn't eat. I had to do that to get you to eat.” She is missing the point that Ivy was making.

He frowns that he learned the truth why she did that. He goes to sit down as his side is hurting him.

Jessamine grabs the wooden spatula and cleans it off as he had dropped it on the floor. He returns back to cooking. 

The others came out as breakfast was almost done. Castor has a big smile on his face and laughs a little from time to time.

The others stared at him as he was acting odd. The woman in black checks on him. “Are you feeling alright?” She sees his pupils are big.

“I took the pain killers so see their effect.” He doesn't feel weak, but he feels happy for some odd reason.

“You took them from me!” Ivy yells out in anger. If he wasn't in pain. He would have tried looking for them.

“Your wound will be healed by tomorrow. You don't need them anymore.” Castor says. Due to the small dose he took, he is still in the right state of mind. There is the added weight he has compared to Ivy that makes it a little weaker.

“People had gotten addicted to those pain killers. It will be better. Plus I can understand you now.” She will make sure Castor is fine when on the pain killers.

Ivy gives her a confused look. He had no clue that he wasn't talking in a language she understands.

“Ivy, you were speaking in our native tongue the whole time when on the pain killers.” Nightshade told him. He knows what Hemlock had done with the woman in black. He can smell Hemlock's scent on her.

No one else hadn't noticed due to Ivy being up and Castor is acting off.

Breakfast is served, with no meat in omelets. All of them are human safe.

“It's so fluffy!” Oleander joyfully expression when eating.

Ivy is checking his omelet to make sure there are no vegetables sneaked in. He eats it after checking.

“It's very good.” The woman in black comments.

Hemlock is showing a newspaper article to Nightshade about an animal attack on a group that was running a freak show outside of the city. All the men had shown signs of being drunk but no bodies of animals were found.

“It looks like our old master freak show had been attacked by animals.” Nightshade has a knowing smile. He and Hemlock had stayed to clean up, to make it look like an animal attack. Leaving no signs of something intelligent had attacked them.

The woman in black knows they had attacked them. She guessed that Nightshade and Hemlock had stayed behind to clean up the mess and make it look like an animal attack. That also explains about the extra meat they got.

“Did you take money from them?” As she hadn't given them any money. As Hemlock had gotten a newspaper which had to be paid for. She will give them money so they can go out and buy things on their own.

“Only some to make it look like they drank a lot more.” Hemlock answers her. He knows if they took the amount that she used to buy them, the police would think it wasn't animals that attacked.

“Just as long it won't link back to all of us.” She nods.

Ivy finally caught the smells of Nightshade and Hemlock on her. “Did you two claim her?” He wanted to do that to make everyone jealous.

The woman in black face heats up at Ivy asking that. She had hidden the one on her neck and Hemlock's can't be seen with the long sleeves.

“Why do you two claim her first!” Oleander pouts. “Nightshade you didn't like her at all.” She wanted to claim her with her love at the same time.

“Ivy said I couldn't do it.” Nightshade says like it's a matter of fact.

The attention turns to Ivy. The woman in black can guess what he had been saying to her. Her face and ears heat up as she looks at her plate. She didn't know they could tell without seeing the marks.

The others will make sure he is last to do anything to her. It's easier now due to him being hurt and healing up.

Castor ends up eating more than he normally does. Jessamine ends up going back to the kitchen to  make more omelets for everyone as Castor had eaten most of them before the others could.

Castor tries to stand up, he ends up having to steady himself by using the chair. “The room looks like it's spinning.” He laughs.

The woman in black rushed to his side. She will help him to his room. “I think it's better for you to go to bed. I will help you.” She holds onto his arm to help steady him.

He puts his head on hers and nuzzles her hair as he makes soft bird-like noises.

All that are there, are very jealous or a little jealous that Castor is doing that to her.

She helps him to his room. He is making little jokes and laughing during the walk and climbing the stairs. 

They get to his room and he pulls her to his nest. He sits in his nest with her on his lap. He is playing with her hair and looks like he is examining it.

“What are you doing?” She feels a little frustrated about this.

“I'm preening you.” He nuzzles the back of her neck.

“Preening? Is that a monster thing?” She feels her cheeks heat up when he is doing that. She is waiting for him to mark her.

“No. A bird thing. My species have feathers.” He goes back to playing with her hair.

“You have feathers?” She is surprised to hear that.

“They are hidden under my clothes.” He will show them to her if she asks.

She won't ask. As it means he would have taken off his clothes. She doesn't want to do something when he is on pain killers.

He lays down now. He pulls her on top of him and holds her.

Her heart is racing at this. She is a little nervous.

“Is something wrong?” He tilts his head to the side. He can hear her heart beating fast. 

“Just nervous.” She tells him truthfully.

He nods. He holds her face in his claws, being mindful of not hurting her. “Your face feels soft and warm.” He runs his thumb over her lips. “Your lips feel soft.”

Her ears heats up at him doing this to her. She is thinking he will kiss her, taking her first kiss.

He leans close to her, and places his forehead against hers. “You're cute like this. Your heart beats like music to my ears.” He wants more of it. He kisses her on the lips.

His kiss is a little sloppy due to being on the pain killer. He pulls away a little. He wants to kiss her more.

The kiss is a little awkward to her, it's still something she wouldn't mind happening again.

“Can I mark you close to your heart?” He is asking as her clothes are in the way.

If she wasn't already blushing, she would have when asked his question. She thinks about that. She is wearing a button up dress top. “What about around my collar bone?” It's close to her heart, but she doesn't have to undress more of her clothes.

He nods. He will do that, as long as it's close to her heart and he could mark her.

She unbuttons her top to where he could mark her collar bone. She doesn't want much of her chest to be shown to him.

He kisses her neck. He is less sloppy as before with his kiss on the lips. He kisses down her neck to the center of her two collar bones. He bites into her with hunger for her. He licks up her delicious and pretty colored blood.

When he kisses her neck, she lets out soft moans. She was expecting him to lick the spot before he bit her like the other two, but he bites her right away where a gasp escapes her lips. She grips onto his clothes as the pain came from his rougher bite on her.

He keeps on licking the bite he gives to her until it stops bleeding. After that, he goes back to playing with her hair.

Harlequin is tempted just to take the mutant to his trailer as she is holding onto him. He knows Jester and the others would go after him as Jester wants her to his trailer now.

He opens the door to Jester's trailer as he is reading a book.

“Put her on a chair.” He instructed him. He puts down the book. “You may stay if you want Harlequin.” He doesn't mind if he does.

Harlequin takes a seat next to the mutant. He wants to know as well. As that Wade guy was unique to say.

He looks at the mutant as she is clean and in better clothes. He noted that she is all covered up like before.

“I want to know more about the mutant kind.” This way he can see how fully human they are or not. He grabs the bag of candy coated chocolates for her.

“How many mutants look human?” He holds up a piece of candy.

She thinks about that. “It depends. There are ones that look like a normal human, there are some that have some unique traits that set them apart. Some don’t look human when their abilities are used, they transform their bodies. Then there are some that don't look human at all.”

Jester hands her the piece of candy. “You're part of the transform part?” 

She frowns and shakes her head no. “No. I have some unique traits.” She rolls up her sleeves to show the vine like patterns on her skin. “I smell like plants. Mostly greenery.”

Jester and Harlequin look at her skin. Harlequin holds her arm as he feels her skin. He had felt tattooed skin before, some of them having some type of texture. Her skin feels smooth to him.

“The color green looks good on you. I wouldn’t mind seeing red on you as well.” Harlequin wants to see how much of the vine patterns are on her body.

She flinched away when he said seeing red on her. She thought he was talking about blood, not flirting.

“Harlequin, stop playing with her now.” He tells him.

He takes out another piece of candy. “What abilities do you know of mutants?”

“There are many types. I think it's best to go by category. There are the telepaths, ones that can transform, ones that can control certain objects, physical abilities like shooting beams out of eyes.” She knows there are many more.

She gets a piece of candy from him.

“That sounds like superhero comic book characters.” Harlequin thinks that is cool.

“It's not all good. I met a guy with see though skin. You can see all of his organs and stuff.” She thinks that is gross to see. She feels bad for the guy.

“They can look that inhuman.” Jester comments. He finds it tame compared to them.

He takes out another piece of candy. “What can you do with your powers fully?”

Her skin becomes pale as she feels her stomach lurch. She puts a hand over her mouth to keep it in.

Jester rather not have her puke in his trailer. He kicks a trash can over to her. Harlequin grabs it and hands it to her. As he doesn't want to clean it up. 

“Does using your powers make you sick?” Jester asks.

She shakes her head no. She tries to breath and calm her stomach when looking at the trash can in hand. After doing so, she talks. “No. That correction school had hurt me or doctors there used medication that makes me sick when I use my powers.”

That explains to them why the plant roots didn't attack them or didn't cover her fully.

“Dear. We won't do that.” Jester gets up and goes over to her. He leans down to her and lifts her chin so she looks at him. “We help those that are not human.” He will turn her into his royal pet. As looking human along the monsters is a benefit for them.

“Now, tell me what you can do.” His eyes glow a bright purple as she stares into his eyes. She feels calmer than she ever felt before when looking into his eyes.

“I can make plants move around a few feet from me. I can't make them grow. I can learn how healthy a plant is by touch and what is causing them harm. I'm not immune to plants that cause harm to normal humans.” She tells him calmly. She knows all of that due to tests they forced her though.

Jester lets go of her and returns to his seat. He knows Doctor will like that she is able to tell how healthy a plant is. Any drugs made by Doctor will affect her.

“Harlequin, get her a candy apple.” Jester orders him. He knows Doctor would need to do a blood test on her. Due to what she did before, and what he was told. Anything medical will scare her.

Harlequin grins, as he knows what that means. He goes to get a drugged candy apple for her. He returns with it and gives it to her.

Her eyes light up at the sight. She never thought she could have another one in her life. She takes a bite, she loves how sweet and juicy the candy apple is.

The monsters watch her consume the candy apple. Harlequin wants to see her in a cute and weakened state.

She feels her mind and body getting heavy, as vision is clouded by pink. She has a hard time staying upright in the chair.

“Harlequin, get Doctor. I know not to leave her alone with you.” Jester knows what Harlequin might do to her.

He frowns at being told to do that. He wanted some alone time with her. To see what sounds she makes and see how the vines on her body lead to.

He gets Doctor anyways. By the time the two came, the mutant had fallen asleep. Doctor carefully picks her up and holds her in his arms. He knows she is under the effects of the drug. He can use this time to take her blood and examine her.

“Doctor, don't strap her down. She had been forced to do medical treatments that made her sick.” Jester warns him. He knows any trust they gain from her, it would go back to zero if she wakes up being strapped down.

As time went on, dinner had been made. Jessamine gives Hemlock his dinner and soup for Ivy. Who had fallen asleep during his lecture to him. Jessamine finds Nightshade and the woman in black in the library. His smile falls when he spots the marks on her neck. He wanted to claim her first with his love. Only to find the one that likes her the least to claim her first.

“Dinner is done.” He stares at the marks on her neck.

Nightshade let her go so she could get up. He has a prideful look that he was the first to claim her. He will let the others place their claims on her.

The woman in black has no clue about the monsters’ bites on others' means. Even more the certain types of bites. “I will go to my room quickly.” Her face heats up under Jessamine's stare. She will cover up marks on her neck.

She rushes out of the library and to her room. Not wanting to be seen by more of them, not wanting them to see what Nightshade had done to her in their private moment.

She puts on a scarf and makes sure the marks are hidden by tying it a certain way. She goes to the dining room to eat with them. When she gets there, all eyes are on her. They can tell without seeing the marks, what Nightshade had done to her due to the smell of Nightshade on her.

She takes a seat where her meal had been placed. Jessamine had marked it to show which one is hers. He drew a heart on the plate with the sauce he had made. He had drawn the same heart on Oleander's plate.

She finds it to be cute that Jessamine had done that. She finds the meal to be as good as before.

“I had changed Ivy’s bandages and cleaned his wound. He might be safe by tomorrow morning.” She says to Castor.

Castor nods. “Due to the bullet just hitting his side, it wouldn't cause lasting issues for him.”

“Does that mean that he won't need the pain killers by that time?” Oleander hadn't told Jessamine what Ivy had been saying. No one had told them what Ivy had been saying to Jessamine or Castor. They will find out later.

Both Castor and the woman in black nod to that question. As those pain killers would be too much for some pain.

“Will you and Jessamine take the night watch again?” She is worried about them having a lack of sleep.

“Not the whole time. Ivy had no fever as of today. We can watch him take shifts during the night.” Castor tells her.

She nods. After that, they go to the finished dinner. Castor and her go to check on Ivy.

“Kitten!” Ivy yells out to her. “This old man has been boring. Entertain me.” That might be the tamest thing Ivy had said so far.

Hemlock can tell that Nightshade had marked her. He guessed that was the reason why Nightshade had wanted her to come with him before. Hemlock wanted to claim her first.

Castor goes over to Ivy to check on him.

“Not you! Bird dick!” Ivy wants the woman in black to come to him.

Castor chuckles a little at what Ivy said. He thinks it's kind of funny. He looks him over to make sure the wound is healing correctly and Ivy hasn't gotten a fever.

“Castor, may you watch Ivy?” Hemlock doesn't want to spend more time around Ivy. As he is saying lewd things, or insulting him.

Castor nods. He doesn't mind. He wants to study how Ivy is acting under the effects of the pain killer.

Hemlock leaves the room. He will take a breather to get away from the stress of Ivy getting on his nerves.

“Kitten, come and sit on my lap. I have something for you.” Ivy purrs towards her.

“What did he say?” She asks Castor.

“He called you a kitten and asked you to sit on his lap. He has something for you.” Castor tells her, not understanding what Ivy is getting at.

“Kitten?” She has no idea why Ivy would call her that. She has no idea what Ivy has for her, but she has a feeling it won't be good if he wants her to sit on his lap.

“I will leave and get ready for bed.” She says goodbye to Castor and heads to her room. She is feeling a lot more tired than normal. It makes sense as she couldn’t sleep soundly last night.

Once she is in her room, she changes into her night grown and gets ready for bed.

As she is about to get in bed, a few knocks on her door are heard. She goes to it to see who is there.

Hemlock knows she is getting ready for bed, due to seeing her in her nightgown through the mirrors. He wanted to spend time with her, maybe even go to bed with her.

“I see you're going to go to bed.” Hemlock is pretending he didn't already know that. “May I talk to you?”

She thinks about that. She isn't dead tired yet, but she is in her thin nightgown. If it's not a long time, then it's fine.

She let him in her room. He went in, he placed a hand on the small of her back to guide her in more. So they can be in her room more privately.

“Do you know what Nightshade has done to you? What does it mean when one of us places a bite like that?” He had learned that humans don't place claiming bites on each other a long time ago.

“The bite has a meaning behind it?” She had no clue. She had heard of lovers kissing necks and leaving marks on the skin, but not biting.

He nods. “To us monsters, it's a type of courtship. We leave different types of marks on those we want to court.” He has to directly tell her of this. “May I mark you? I will do it in a more easy to hide place.”

She listens to what Hemlock had explained to her. When he asked her that, her cheeks heated up at his question. Since Nightshade had marked her, Hemlock is asking. It means they are here to stay.

She nods. “You can mark me.”

Hemlock smiles at this. He guides her to her bed. He takes her hand in his and kisses her knuckles. He kisses up her arm as the short sleeves of her nightgown let him do so. He takes in her sweet smell and feels her soft skin under his lips. He stops at her upper arm. He gives the spot a few more kisses, before biting into her soft skin. He is being as gentle as he could with her and holding himself back. He wants to do more to her, to hear the sounds she makes and hear her heart race even more.

She can feel her face heat up more as he kisses her arm. She hears her heart beating loudly. She moans softly at being bitten by him. She can tell he is being more gentle than Nightshade was.

Once he bit her, and left his mark on her. He licks up the blood that is coming from his bite. He finds her blood to be delicious. He let go of her arm.

“May I ask to do this next? May I share a bed with you tonight? We will just sleep.” He makes sure to tell her they will be just sleeping. “I think both of us will benefit from sharing a bed to get better sleep.” If he didn't get to claim her first, at least he would be the first to sleep in bed with her first.

Her ears became as heated as her face at being asked that. When he said his reasoning for sharing a bed. She calms down a little. She thought he meant for something more. “If it's just sleep, and getting better sleep. I think that is fine.”

Hemlock stands up and smiles. “I will return, in my sleepwear.” He leaves her room. He knows he will have something over the others by sleeping in her bed.

He returns in simple sleep wear that covers almost all of his skin. He has a night cap on to protect his horn as he sleeps.

The woman in black is laying in bed by the time he comes back. She is fighting sleep and trying to stay awake before he could join her in bed.

He finds it to be cute that she is trying to stay awake for him. He joins her in bed and lays on his side to face her. He holds her by the waist and pulls her close to himself. He can hear her heart racing at this.

Pierrot brings the mutant into the trailer. He unties her hands and feet so she could wash herself.

Doctor gets soap and a clean towel for her to use. He grabs some shampoo as well for her. He hands it all to her. “Sweetie, do you need help in the shower?”

Her cheeks feel warm at the question. “No!” She shakes her head. Even during the rare times she could have washed herself with more than enough clean water. She didn't have anyone help her out. She would rather do things by herself.

The two will wait outside of the trailer for her to shower and clean up. It takes her a while as she has layers of dirt and grime on herself.

Ticket Taker and Harlequin find some clothes that could fit her. Harlequin wanted to drop off the clothes to her, but Ticket Taker won't let him be perverted on the poor girl. He sends him off to Jester.

He brings the clothes to the trailer where Pierrot had taken her to. He finds Pierrot and Doctor waiting outside of it.

“Is she still cleaning herself?” He wants to make sure she hasn't sneaked off.

Pierrot nods to his question. It would be hard for someone to sneak off from them. That trailer only has one way in and out of it. Making it impossible to sneak out without being seen or heard by the two.

Ticket Taker knocks on the door for the trailer. “My dear, I have some clean clothes for you.” He says loudly for her to hear.

He can hear the water still running. He opens the door a little and puts the clothes inside. He closes the door once he is done.

The mutant didn't even know he had done that. As she couldn’t hear him doing so.

After she is done. She wipes the towel around herself and goes to the door. She was about to ask for clean clothes, only to find a pile of clothes by the door.

She looks at the clothes that are there. She picks more simple and easy to move clothes that cover all of her skin. She didn't care about how they look. Just as long she can get out of danger and it covers her body.

She gathers the rest of the clothes and slowly opens the trailer door. She learned to open the door enough to peek through the crack. All three men looked towards the sound of the door opening.

“Are you done?” Ticket Taker approaches the door.

“Yes.” She nods. She opens the door more.

Ticket Taker sees the clothes she is wearing. It's better than the rags she was wearing before. They are the type of clothes that he wouldn't wear himself. He would rather for her to wear something more formal.

He takes the leftover clothes from her. He had let her pick what she wanted to wear from what they have.

Doctor goes to her. “Sweetie, I need a blood sample as your skin is clean now.” He takes out an empty syringe from his pocket.

A look of panic and fear spreads across her face at hearing him and seeing the syringe. “No!” She runs to hide in the trailer. She had enough lifetime of medical experiments done on her that she has a fear of anything medical related.

“Doctor, it would be better if you take her blood at a later time. It looks like she has medical trauma.” Ticket Taker looks at the much taller man.

Doctor had come across those that have medical trauma before. He read about why some have it. He wants to learn why she has it and study it. He will get a blood sample from her when she is sleeping. He puts the syringe back in his pocket. He returns to his tent.

“Pierrot, return her to your trailer.” Ticket Taker tells him.

Pierrot nods. He goes to get her from the trailer. He finds her hiding in a cabinet. She had squeezed herself in there. He softly lures her out and into his arms. He finds her to be cute. Looking like a scared and innocent animal that needs his help.

He picks her up and carries her. She clings onto him and buries her face in his clothes. She doesn't want to see Doctor again. Even more if he wants to take her blood.

A blush spreads across his masked face and his pupils turn into hearts at her doing that. He wants her all to himself. She looks so cute like this.

Pierrot takes her to his trailer and puts her on his bed. She doesn't want to let go of him. “Don't go.” She pleads with him.

“My lady. I will stay until I'm needed by the others.” He gets in bed with her. He holds her close to himself. He can smell her true self now. With all the dirt and grime off of her, she smells like field grass and other pleasant plant smells.

“My lady, you smell so good. You smell like a field of grass.” He didn't think he would get tired of her smell.

She pales and tensed up at being told that. She can't smell like that, it means others will find out quickly that she isn't human.

He can tell how stressed she is by his comment. “It's a good thing.” He thought she had taken it in a bad way.

“I can't be found out that I'm not human.” Her voice is filled with worries.

“Not being human isn't bad.” He tries to calm her.

“I was tortured for being a mutant.” She starts to cry.

His eyes went wide for making her cry. That's the last thing he wanted to do. He wants her to stop crying. “I won't let anyone torture you anymore.”

She wishes she could believe him, but she can't. As others had tried to promise her that, only to betray her or they won't be able to keep their promise. She ends up letting go of him and curled up into a ball.

He frowns that she didn't stop when he told her that. He didn't want to make her more upset.

He has to do something that is forbidden to do to cheer her up. He removes his hat, showing his horns to her. “I'm not human either.”

At the sound of bells moving around and him saying that. She looks at him. Her eyes went to his horns. She stopped crying as she found herself not alone of not being human.

“You have horns.” She finds them to be pretty. She wants to touch them.

He smiles that she has calmed down. He can't tell the others that he had shown her his horns or told her that he isn't human.

“I heard of other mutants having horns, but I hadn't met one with them.” She keeps on looking at his horns. She can't look away from them.

With her saying that. He wants to know more about mutants. “How many mutants?” He pauses to think how to phase it. “Have unique looks.”

She thinks about that. “That is hard to say. There are a lot. It can be something small or something that can be easily seen. Many can easily pass as human.”

“Like you?” He asks.

“No.” She frowns. “I smell like plants. Some parts of my skin looks like vines.” She rolls up her sleeve to show him her arm. On her skin are bright green lines, looking like deep skin tattoos on her skin that follows some of her blood veins. She has many scars on her body. From her “treatments” of doctors that thought they could cure her of being a mutant in one way or another.

He gently touches the green that goes across her skin. He finds it to be amazing how her skin can have that look to it. He thinks it's better than how his skin looks.

Harlequin opens the door without knocking like he owns the place. Pierrot tries to quickly cover his horns with the hat when the mutant hides her skin.

He smirks that he caught Pierrot doing something that isn't allowed. He caught the green on her skin. He couldn't get a good look at it. He will once he is left alone with her.

“Breaking the rules and showing her your horns already. Jester will be mad.” He laughs.

Pierrot takes a knife out, he will stab Harlequin.

“You're gonna get violent in front of her. How bold you are.” Harlequin knows that might prevent one stabbing.

Pierrot looks at her with wide eyes. He didn't think about how it looked to her, pulling out a knife to stab someone.

There is fear on her face. She is scared of getting hurt by him. She had been hurt by enough people.

Pierrot drops the knife and holds her. “My lady! I will never hurt you.”

“That is until Pierrot wants to use not so mini Pierrot on you.” Harlequin saw Pierrot's size. It's not hard not to see it when they all bathe together from time to time.

Pierrot's face goes red at Harlequin's remark. He wants to stab Harlequin for sure now.

Before he can, Harlequin grabs the knife before Pierrot can. “Jester wants the mutant in his trailer.” That is the main reason why he had come in. To tell him of that.

Pierrot frowns. He wanted to have her longer. He is about to get up, but Harlequin puts a hand on his shoulder. Pierrot glares at him for even touching him. He wants to remove that hand from Harlequin's body.

“Jester wanted me to bring her.” As everyone had noticed how clingy Pierrot had become so fast to her.

Harlequin grabs the mutant and holds her like Pierrot had done. He is doing it this way just to make Pierrot mad. Which is working as Pierrot wants to stab him many times.

The woman in black goes to check on Ivy. Nightshade had been taking care of him and had made him eat, but in a less gentle way than she had.

“Come here kitten.” Ivy purrs towards her.

Due to her not understanding him, she goes to Nightshade. “Is he doing fine?”

Nightshade looks up from his book and nods. “Yes, other than what he's been saying.”

“Come here to me. I will claim you as gutless won't.” Ivy reaches out his hand to her as he still can't move his tentacles.

Nightshade's eye twitch at being called that. He wanted to slowly court her. He has a feeling if he does that. He might be last to claim her. “Don't go to him.”

“I have to. To check his temperature and his wound.” She wants to change his bandages.

He doesn't want her to be near Ivy. Even an injured monster can be strong. “I want Hemlock to help us change his bandages.” That way if Ivy tries to do something to her. They can both stop him.

She agrees to that. As he was fighting them when they tried to treat his wounds before.

She goes to get Hemlock. Finding him in her office, doing the math for the paperwork for her. “You don't have to do this after eating.” She doesn't mind the help. She doesn't want him to do all of it for her.

“My dear. I'm doing this to help you as much as you have helped us. You have your hands busy taking care of Ivy for a while.” Hemlock wants to lighten her load of work.

She nods to show she understands. “I need help with changing Ivy’s bandages and checking on his wound. Nightshade had suggested getting your help. Since we had trouble trying to treat him.”

Hemlock goes with her to where Ivy is. He holds down one of Ivy’s arms, Nightshade holds Ivy’s other arm down. They don't have to worry about his tentacles as he hadn't moved them at all as Ivy is struggling against them.

The woman in black cuts the bandages off of him carefully. She slowly removes the bandages that covered his wound to look at it.

She is surprised how fast he had healed. “Do all of you heal fast?”

“When we are fed enough.” Nightshade can see Ivy’s wound where he stands. He wished it had never happened. It was his duty to protect them all.

“This will sting.” She tries to be as gentle as she can when cleaning his wound.

Ivy growls in pain. He is fighting against them like before. He doesn't have much fight in him due to the pain killers in his body.

Once she is done cleaning his wound, she dries it and wraps him back up. He stops struggling as much.

“Kitten, you are meant to undress me. Not dress me.” Ivy is still making lewd remarks towards her even when in pain.

The two that can understand him, want to sew his mouth closed. For saying things like that towards her.

“I will watch him.” Hemlock will give Ivy a very long lecture.

Nightshade escorts her out of the room with a hand on her shoulder. “My dear. I want you to come with me.”

“Where to?” She asks.

“To the library.” He had slowly claimed that room, as he does enjoy reading the books in it.

They go to the library room. He kept the hand on her shoulder the whole time.

 Nightshade had claimed an area of it by making one spot comfortable, when making sure no one could sneak up on him when he was reading. He has a single chair there with a side table for books or a drink.

He goes to his claimed spot and grabs a book from the pile he made. “Dear, come and sit.” He says more of an order, than a suggestion.

She is a little confused by what he means by her sitting there. As there is only a single chair. She goes to grab another chair.

He didn't mean for her to grab another chair. “Stop what you're doing. Come and sit on my lap.” He pats his leg.

Her face heats up at him saying that. She is nervous about doing so. She still goes to him. She is unsure in what way to sit on his lap. Due to her layers of clothes that cover her. She doesn't want what's under the skirt to be seen.

He is getting impatient by her slowness. He grabs her by the waist and pulls her to his lap. He will keep a hand around her waist as he reads a book.

A million thoughts went through her head as she sat on his lap. Many of them are not clean as her face heats up more.

He can hear her heart beating so fast and loud as he reads. He can feel the little movements she makes as she sits there.

He puts the book down as he can feel her moving around a little more. “My dear.” He puts the back of his finger on her cheek, feeling how warm it is. “What is going on in your head?” He wants to tease her so much. He can tell by the way she is acting, what she is thinking about.

She bites her lip when he asks that. She doesn't want to answer him.

“Have you been thinking about me?” He smirks as she stops breathing for a moment. “Naughty girl.” He says with a sultry voice.

“What are your thoughts about? I could grant some.” That is if he likes them.

She gathers her courage to speak her thoughts. “That you kiss me, not on the lips.”

He placed the back of his finger on her cheek. “There?”

She grabs onto the skirt of her dress. “No. My neck and collarbone.”

He finds that to be tame. His claws go to the neck, lightly touching the bare skin of her neck. He can tell that she is trying not to move much as his sharp claws can easily cut her skin.

“Just your neck and collar bone.” He moves his claws against her neck, like he is teasing or threatening her that he could cut her neck easily.

“No. My shoulders and arms too.” She knows in order for him to kiss other than her neck, he would have to remove or move her clothes.

He moves his claws to the one part of her neck and lightly cuts her skin on purpose. She inhaled quickly at the pain. “I guessed my claws are too sharp.”

He leans down to lick at the cut on her skin. Tasting her blood with it.

She holds her breath when she feels his tongue on the cut. She closes her eyes when she feels his sharp teeth next. “Be gentle.” She asks him quietly.

He isn't known for gentleness, he doesn't enjoy being gentle. For her, a fragile human. He will be until he can be rougher with her.

He lightly bites into her neck, to let some blood come out but not a lot like he likes to draw out. He licks up the blood he caused to come out. He can hear some soft moans coming from her.

Ticket Taker gets the rest of the circus members gathered around. He tells them what he had learned about her. Pierrot wants to protect her even more at this.

“She is a mutant?” Doctor wonders if she is similar to that strange human they had banned. As he said about mutants. He didn't look under fed or scared like she is. All he smelled from her was the smell of a human and what green plants normally smell like.

“Does she have a connection to that cancer filled human we had banned before? He said about mutants when I was doing a check up on him.”

“The guy that you said that healed a cut from you in front of your eyes?” Harlequin had tried looking for the guy the next day for Doctor. He couldn't find him.

“Did anyone here get his name?” Jester asks.

Each of them looks at each other until Ticket Taker speaks. “From one of my mirrors. Someone had said Wade. No last name given.”

“He had said odd names. He had said Black Panther.” Ticket Taker wants to see if he had said any other names.

“He asked if I'm Colossus.” Doctor says.

Jester will ask her more questions. He will turn her into a perfect pet. Since she had answered Ticket Taker's questions when given water and food. She is easy to train.

“Pierrot, get me those candy coated chocolates of yours.” He plans on training her with those first.

Pierrot doesn't want to give up his sweets to Jester. He goes to get them anyway.

He returns with them and gives them to Jester. “I will get you a new bag. I will train her with them.”

He goes into Pierrot's trailer.

The woman had calmed down a lot. She didn't think they would harm her. At least she thinks so. She looks at Jester, her eyes go to his purple hair and what looks to be two slender white horns. She had seen mutants with horns or born with unusual hair colors before.

Jester takes a seat. He takes out a piece of candy. “If you answer my questions correctly. You get a piece of candy.”

Her eyes go to the candy. She can't remember the last time she had candy. It might be years. She nods to show she understands.

“Good girl.” He knows it will be easy to make her his obedient pet. “Do you know of a man that has a healing factor named Wade?”

She shakes her head. “No. There were a few with healing factors but I only know their costume names.”

He likes that she gives him extra information. He gives her a piece of candy.

She carefully takes it from him. Afraid of it being a trap. Once she has it in her hand. She eats it quickly like someone will take it from her.

Jester normally enjoys fear of humans, but she has a different type of fear. One that comes from trauma. He wants her to fear for who he is and what he does to make her fear him.

“Do you know someone named Black Panther?” he holds out another piece of candy.

“I heard of him. He was king of Wakanda, before the world went badly.” She frowns. She remembered how peaceful everything was. 

He gives her the piece of candy for answering him. That brings up more questions. He never heard of a place called Wakanda. What did she mean by the world going badly?

“When you said about the world going bad. What do you mean by that?” This time, he didn't have any candy in hand.

“You know, when the Sentinels had gone around capturing or killing any mutants. Then they started killing humans.” She thought everyone knew that.

Ticket Taker had informed them what she said about Sentinels before.

“There are no Sentinels here. As far as I know. You might be the only mutant here.” He is sure of the second part.

She stares at him in shock. How is it possible? She had heard of a group of mutants trying to go in the past. She heard there are different universes where everything is peaceful. She hadn’t heard about there being no mutants at all.

“Could I look outside? I want to see if there are no Sentinels or signs of them.” She can tell if there isn't due to many ways. The main one is how clean the air is. The air has become highly polluted to the point where it's hard to breathe outside.

“Why do you want to look outside?” He won't without a good reason.

She bites the inside of her cheek. “I might be in a different universe. Where there are no mutants. I want to see if the sky is clear and the air is clean.”

Jester considers that. He can't have her running off.

“You may, but your feet and hands will be tied.” Her feet are still tied up. She didn't untie them in fear of getting hurt if she tries.

He uses the cloth that has been used to blindfold her to tie her hands. He wants to see if she would attempt to loosen or get out of the cloth loosely tying her hands together.

He gets up. “I will have someone else to carry you out.” He wouldn't touch her. As she looks so dirty. He doesn't want his clean clothes to get dirty.

He steps out of Pierrot's trailer. He takes his time going over to the others. Giving her time to make an escape if she tries to. “Pierrot, go and get her. Bring her out.”

Pierrot nods. He goes to get her from his trailer. He finds her where he put her. She had moved to hide in the corner of the bed. He lifts her up princess style carry. He doesn't mind getting his uniform dirty. He wants to make sure he won't harm her in any way. He wants her to be against him.

He comes out with her in his arms. She looks to the sky right away. She sees the blue sky and white fluffy clouds that she hadn't seen in years. She smells the circus food in the air. A smell she never thought she would smell again since childhood.

“Are you in a different universe?” Jester asks her. He can tell she hadn't tried to get the cloth binding off or loosen it.

She nods. “Yes. I hadn't seen the sky like this in years.” She marvels at it.

“Pierrot, take her to the shower. Ticket Taker, get her some clean clothes.” He won't call Ticket Taker Bil in front of her. They should have clothes that would fit her, from Fool's old clothes or what guests had left behind.

With Jester telling the two to do that. It would mean she will stay with them for a period of time.

Pierrot takes her to the trailer where they shower and do other types of business. Doctor follows Pierrot. He wants to know how much different she is compared to humans. He will see if he could get a blood sample from her.

Pierrot put the blindfolded women on his bed. She is still scared and crying. She just wants to be free.

He feels bad for her, based on how she looks and acts. It's clear she went through awful things. Given what she had done, she isn't human. He thinks that when she used her powers, it caused her to become weak or something.

He joins the others to talk about what to do about her.

“What do you think she is? She isn't one of us.” Ticket Taker says. They could tell right away if someone is a monster.

“I can draw some blood from her. Compare it to human blood and our blood.” Doctor wants to know how she could look human. She had fooled all of them.

“We keep her chained in one of our trailers. Each of us will keep watch over her.” Jester looks at Pierrot's trailer. The woman became quiet when Pierrot left. Even with what she did, showing she isn’t human. He distrust her, due to looking so human.

“I want to know how she did the plant thing. She would like-” Pierrot smacks Harlequin on the head before he could finish his perverted sentence.

“It would be better if all plants were to be removed around her.” Ticket Taker notes. They don't know how far away or what she can do with her powers.

“Another thing is what to feed her. Would she eat plants or not? The plants can't be alive enough for her to use them against us. It would need to be processed.” Doctor has to make sure none of his plants would be used to attack them. They have to move them farther away.

“I will make dishes that she could eat.” Pierrot finally talks. He can talk now since they are not in public.

Jester nods. “Bil will watch her for now. We need to make sure that she won't have access to plants.

They go off to get rid of or move any plants away. When Ticket Taker goes into Pierrot's trailer. He finds the women curled up in the corner of the bed. Her skin is covered in dirt and grime. Her clothes are ripped up in places. She looked similar to a scared and lost monster girl he had helped out a long time ago.

“Dear, if you answer my questions. Your bindings will be undone.” It won’t mean new ones won’t be placed on her.

The woman nods to show she understands. She learned if she didn't answer or answered what people wanted. She gets hurt.

“What are you?” That is his first question.

“A mutant.” She says softly. Knowing how mutants are treated.

Her answer confused him. She doesn't look like a mutant in any sense of the word. “What makes you a mutant?” 

“I have the X gene and my mutant ability that I can control plants.” She is waiting for him to yell at her or something. As many would do to mutants.

He can tell that she is waiting for the worst to happen. “I will remove your blindfold.”

She stays still after hearing that. She doesn't trust him. Due to total fear, she stayed still. As he removed her blindfold.

“Good girl. You have answered my questions.” He can tell she had been crying by the redness of her eyes. He will have one of the others get her water. It looks like she needs some.

She tries to look for windows but finds none. “Are there any sentinels?!” She worries about them finding her when she is tied up.

“Sentinels? What are they?” He figures they are a danger to her.

“Giant robots that hunt and kill mutants.” She tries to make herself small again.

That gives him pause. He can tell from her body language she isn't lying about what she told him. He will inform the others all about what he learned. “There are no Sentinels in this country.” Which is true in a way, there are no Sentinels in this universe.

She doesn't know what to say about that. It could be a bad or good thing. She never heard of a safe place on Earth with no Sentinels.

A few knocks on the door are heard. Pierrot is there with a few meals in hand and a bottle of water. He saw the state the woman was in and thought she would be hungry or thirsty.

“I was about to ask to get her some water. Does it have that extra ingredient?” Ticket Taker is asking if it has the drug they normally put in the vendor stall foods for the humans.

Pierrot shakes his head no. He won't do that to someone that is already so weak.

Ticket Taker takes the food and water from Pierrot and closes the door.

The woman looks at the bottle of water and food. Both look clean and good. She doesn't remember the last time she had a good meal.

Ticket Taker will use this to make her obey him. He asks her more personal questions. Her name, age and where she came from.

At her answer, he cuts the rope on her hands and gives her the water. She drinks it quickly like someone would take it away from her.

He asks her about her education. She tells him that she has something of a high school education. Due to being forced into a correction school for mutants at a young age, she was taught between being forced to act human.

He knows from history. Humans loved to put ones they dislike into ‘correction’ schools of some kind. He knows it's nothing but pain and getting rid of certain groups.

He gives her the food next. She eats it like a starved animal. She eats all the food until there isn’t a crumb left.

He didn't like what he had learned and what he saw. He has a hatred towards humans that starved others on purpose.

He gets up. “Stay here. Until I or someone else returns.” From what he can tell. She will obey him. No matter what.

When Ticket Taker takes inventory of what is in the pink tent. He finds an unconscious woman on the floor. He takes a look at her face, he didn't recognize her when punching holes in pink tickets. She isn't tied up like she is meant to be. There is no way she could have sneaked in here without being seen.

He tied her up. When he is doing so, he notices she smells heavily of plants. Like she was laying in grass or something else. It's not even a flowery kind of smell that women would wear. He will inform the others of the woman he had found in the pink tent.

The woman wakes up on the dirty floor of a dark tent. The last thing she remembers happening was going to sleep where she could sleep. She tries to sit up, only to find her arms tied up by rope. She starts to panic as she fears the worse that could happen to her.

She looks up as she sees five figures in the dim light. Each of them are taller than the average human.

“How did this one get here? No matter what. She will end up like the rest. As a fool, or a meal.”

She can't see them clearly, but something about their eyes are glowing. She saw some like herself having eyes like that, but the man's words. Sends chills down her spine. She had run to escape those that wanted her dead just because of how she was born. Now there are five that might make a meal out of her.

She knows she has to use her powers, she rarely uses them as she fears being found out and what it does to her mind when she does. Now she is in a life or death situation where she has to use her powers. 

Her eyes light up green as she looks for any plants she could protect herself with.

All five men saw her eyes glow green. “I'm sure that human eyes don't glow like that.” A voice filled with snarkiness says.

The ground starts to splint apart in some places as plant roots come out of the ground. They act as a wall to shield the woman from them. The five figures have different reactions to that. As they have never seen that happen before. Where plant roots had come out to protect a human from them. It stops moving only from a few inches out of the ground.

The woman feels like she is going to be sick. She had been tortured just for using her powers and now each time she does. All the memories of it come rushing back. Causing her phantom pain of the times where she was hit when she had used her powers or force given medicine that had made her sick when she was forced to use them.