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The mutate breathed a sigh of relief to hear Adrian pick up, though he could tell just by his voice that he was worried. "Adrian, it's Marco. I just saw something on the news about Amaya getting attacked. Is she alright? Do you need me to watch Calista or something?". He asked turning back to the tv to look at the story again, though he wasn't getting much from it at this point, more focused on what Adrian had to say.

"Oh man...don't worry, they'll figure out who did it.". Marco muttered, also running a hand through his hair before turning off the tv. "Yeah of course. I'll go get her right now. You want me to just keep her over here until you find out what's going on? Or do you want me to bring her to you? I can do either.". He said pulling on his jacket and heading out the door.

((stupid iPad making my typing weird...))

"Yeah, if you can. I'll be over with Calista in a few. Just try to relax, the doctors are working on her and she and Calista are both safe now." Marco told him, though his words were probably doing nothing to help. "I'll see you in a few." He muttered before hanging up, flying off to the apartment to go pick up Calista.

When he reached the apartment, Marco headed up, knocking at the door as he stood in the hallway. "Calista. It's Marco, Adrian asked me to come get you and bring you over to the hospital so you can be with him and your mom." Marco called softly, knowing she was probably terrified.

The little girl jumped at the sudden knock, huddling down further in her corner. "Daddy told me not to let anyone in until he got back! Go away!" She cried from inside the apartment.

"Calista...it's just me. You know me. I would never try to hurt you. I just want to bring you to your mom and dad." Marco said, a little hurt that the girl seemed so afraid, though he could understand. He heard the door unlock a few seconds later and it swung open, Hazama's fist shooting out and catching Marco in the eye. He reeled back, but caught the second punch, holding the thing there now, looking to Calista, who was standing behind Hazama with tears streaming down her face. Getting down on one knee as Hazama disappeared, Marco held a hand out to Calista. "I'm just going to take you to your mom and Adrian, okay? I promise. No one is going to hurt you..." He said softly, smiling as the little girl slowly approached him. Once he had Calista, Marco headed back outside and flew off, landing at the hospital a few minutes later and opening his wings until he got up to the waiting room for surgery to keep the paparazzi off him and away from the terrified little girl he held in his arms.

Once he spotted Adrian, Marco walked over and handed Calista off to him, the little girl clinging to Adrian immediately. "Just let me know if you need anything else." He told Adrian with a soft smile as he squeezed one of his shoulders, trying to let him know it'd be okay, a light bruise already forming around his eye where Hazama had punched him.

"It's just a black eye, no harm no foul. And I can't blame you for the lack of detail, it was a stressful moment." Marco said with a light smile. "Just let me know how she's doing. I better go head out before sea of paparazzi make it impossible for me to leave." He muttered, giving Adrian a nod before he left.

"Daddy, where's mommy?" Calista sniffed, her arms wrapped tight around his neck like she was afraid of getting taken away from him.

It was three hours into the surgery before anyone came to update Adrian. During that time the police had come to question Adrian and Calista about what happened. All Calista could really give them at that point was that a scary man approached them when they were walking home from school, her mom called him Sloan, and then told her to run, which she did and went home and told Adrian. By now though, Calista was curled up over two chairs, sleeping off the stressful afternoon while the doctor that talked to Adrian when he first got to the hospital, came over to him once again.

"Mr. Dupree, Amaya's still in surgery but the surgeon felt comfortable enough for me to come out and update you. As it stands we're still attempting to fix the all the internal damage that's been done. Her ribs tore her liver open and collapsed a lung, but we've manage to repair both organs so far and pin the severely damaged ribs in place. She's suffered a lot of head trauma, and we are trying to relieve the pressure before we do anything extreme. It helps that she's already under anesthesia to lessen brain activity and give it a chance to heal, but the doctors think once we're done with surgery, it would probably be in Amaya's best interest to keep her in a medically induced coma until the swelling in her brain subsides. Right now they're working on the fracture in her left arm and then will suture the gashes, so the most risky parts of the surgery have been finished, though with her medical history we are trying to go from keeping her under too long." The doctor told him.

"It could be another three hours or so. It really depends if we run into any more problems or not." The doctor said, pursing his lips a bit as he shoved his hands into his lab coat. Hearing Adrian's question, he took a hand out, resting a hand on his cheek to then rub the back of his neck as he nodded. "As far as we know, it's fine, but the neonatal specialist can't be entirely sure. In all honesty we lost her for about 90 seconds before we were able to revive her. Given the stress put on her body from the initial attack and her being dead for 90 seconds, our specialist said that she most likely would have lost the baby. But our mutate specialist, Dr Wilder suspects in the case of her right arm missing that she's reabsorbed it and is unconsciously using her powers to sustain the fetus and keep her body from rejecting it. It's putting more stress on her to do so, which is why Dr Wilder wants her surgery to finish as quickly as possible. Apparently it's easier for mutates with the ability to control shadows to heal when they are in complete darkness, so he wants to move her to a dark room as soon as possible to aid the healing process and ease the stress her powers are creating." He told him.

The doctor nodded before heading back to the operating room.

Calista only stirred for a moment when Adrian moved her head, though she soon settled back down.

It was another four hours before another came out. It was an older man this time his beard peppered with gray and his brown hair showing white on the sides of it. "Mr Dupree. I'm Dr Wilder. If you follow me I can take you back to see Amaya and explain what we've done." He said as he walked up to him.