I ran into the library and stared at the seen in front of me. There were Agents and Bureau employees were crammed in the library and the ones who saw me avoided my eyes. I couldn't see any of them. Not really. I was staring at the man who I'd been calling my friend for decades being held by my son. I moved to stand next to Red and placed my hand on his arm and ran my hands threw Trever's thick curls. I noticed Liz out of the corner of my eye and I tried offering her a smile, but could barely manage a grimace. Red held onto Trever as tightly yet gently as he could.

"Father... I'm back. I'm back," Red mumbled. "I'm back."

"Rose..." Manning started saying but I turned to him with a glare. My emotions weren't under control which was dangerous around humans.

"Get out," I ordered slowly. He opened his mouth to say something but I deepened my glare and allowed my true eyes to bleed through. "Leave!" Everyone rushed out of the room and I turned back to my, once again, broken family.

"I wasn't here. You were alone..."

"We weren't here," I reminded him, holding my tears back. "He was alone because we weren't here."


"Where were you?!" I shouted at one of the guards. He was avoiding my gaze and staring at his feet. "My son, my only son, was supposed to be with you! Where were you?!"

"Rose." Arms wrapped around my shoulders and pulled me away from the poor guard I was shouting at. He wasn't the only one who was there, I knew that, but he was the only one in the area right now. My husband pulled me to our rooms and I dropped on the bed. I'd done my crying for the last few weeks. I was angry now. At the humans, my son's guards, everyone. The bed dipped beside me and I leaned on my husband's shoulder.

"He wanted to be a warrior," I mumbled as an arm wrapped around my waist pulling me closer to his warmth.

"They will pay for this." I looked up into his golden eyes. When we were betrothed to each other, we were the symbols of a peace treaty. It had been nearly a thousand years since we'd been married and much had changed since then. And our son was dead. "We will kill the humans who did this to him."

"Not just them," I corrected him. "Humans are greedy and will take everything from us. We must take everything from them first." He got down on his knees in front of me, his hands holding mine.

"As my queen wishes, it will be done." He kissed my hands and I gave him a small look.

"I'm not your queen, Nuada."


I followed Trever as he left the BPRD for the last time. I was able to control my eyes and my tears, but not the weather. My sorrow was causing the downpour, at least that's what Manning was accusing me of. I was powerful, yes, but no one could control the weather. Liz stood next to me and kept her arm linked with mine as Red watched over us from the roof. I'd given him Trever's rosary after I'd cleaned it off. It was covered with Trever's blood. Kroenan was missing again just like when the BPRD was formed. Rasputin was behind this, I knew he was. I once swore revenge for the death of my son against humans. I'd break my promise to Trever, just his once. But how human could Rasputin, Kroenan, and the woman from the 40's be?


"Volokolamsk Fields, 50 miles from Moscow," Manning told us in a meeting. "That's where we're going. Sebastian Plackba, number 16. that's the only clue we have. We've collected and destroyed thousands of eggs, but we have no trace of this Sammael or this Rasputin character."

"He's immortal, somehow," I warned them. "This is the same Rasputin you learn about in history books who was supposedly killed in 1916. And World War 2. He was one of the reasons the President created the BPRD."

"We leave as soon as we get clearance and equipment. Hellboy's coming. I'm not pleased about that, but I will be in charge this time," Manning ordered looking directly at me.

"Cause you've done a bang up job all this time." The men in the room looked between the two of us and we stared each other down. "You may be in charge and our human face to the outside world, but in here this is my world. And Red's, and every other creature or person who lives in these four walls." I leaned on the table in front of me and stared into his eyes, allowing my true ones to appear. "This isn't about that though. We will protect the humans, but this is also about revenge and family. We will get this done and we will kill them all."

"We either wrap this up of I'm closing this freak show for good," Manning warned.

"Then you will leave the world open to hell as the creatures in it destroy it."