Author's Note: Here's the second-half of the double update. Enjoy.

Disclaimers: Hellboy et al belong to Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Comics, while any movie details are property of Sony Pictures.

Abe looked around the foyer of the building, adjusting his hat so it cast a shadow over his face. He pulled a piece of paper from the pocket of his trenchcoat and looked at it before pressing a button on the wall.

He waited for a minute, and when there was no answer, turned to leave. He was almost out the door when he heard a mechanical voice.

"Hello," it rasped.

Abe dashed back to the intercom and spoke into it.

"Audrey," he said, "It's Abe."

"Uh, yeah, come on up."

Abe opened the door when he heard the tone, and entered the elevator. It had been almost two weeks since he'd woken up in a chair next to an empty bed. Abe figured that Audrey would contact him again when she was ready, but after so long, he wanted to check up on her. Audrey's door was open a crack when he reached it, and he removed his hat and sunglasses as he entered the apartment tenetively.

"Hello?" He called out, when he saw there was no one in sight.

"Just a sec, I'll be right there!"

Abe looked around the apartment. There was a small Christmas tree in the corner of the living room, and some fairy lights around the moldings, but little else in the way of decoration. Audrey came padding down the hall a moment later, obviously disheveled, although she was doing her best to disguise it.

"Hi," she said sluggishly, eyes crinkling in a smile. She was wearing a pair of tattered boxer shorts, a hoodie over a tank top and fuzzy slippers. She had put her hair in a hasty ponytail and was trying to suppress a yawn.

"Did I wake you?" Abe asked, his voice tinged with guilt.

"No, no," Audrey tried to reassure him, "I should be up. I just havn't been sleeping well, so I've taken to sleeping during the day. Please, come in."

She gestured towards the living room.

"I won't keep you," Abe insisted, "I just wanted to see how you were. How are you?"

Audrey shrugged, "I'm all right. I'd be a lot better if I could sleep though."

Abe gave her an empathetic look, "Well I won't keep you then."

He put his hat and sunglasses back on. "If I don't see you, Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas to you too," she said, and closed the door behind him.

December 25, 3:36am

Audrey sat on her couch, mindlessly flipping through TV channels. There was a distinct lack of quality programming at three in the morning. As usual, she was too tense to sleep, despite the fact that she'd only been getting an average of 2-3 hours of sleep a day. She sighed, and pulled the blanket closer around herself. In the back of her mind, Audrey was hoping that if she continued to stay awake, then she'd eventually exhaust herself into sleeping through the night.

Ever since she was young, she'd had issues sleeping. She had an overactive imagination, and could clearly picture someone breaking into her house while she lay in bed. That was one of the reason's that she'd bought her Great Danes when she started living by herself. She was able to sleep soundly knowing that they'd alert her if anything was wrong. Now they were gone, and she couldn't sleep.

After flipping through every channel and finding nothing of interest, Audrey was contemplating watching a DVD. She hadn't had her annual screening of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas yet, and technically it was Christmas Day, after all.

Audrey was rummaging through her movie collection when she heard a knock on her door. She froze, her hand clutching a DVD. Slowly, taking care to make the least noise possibly, she tip-toed towards the door. Trying to control her breathing, she looked out of the peep hole. There was no one in the hall, but that didn't make her feel any better. She sank against the wall, heart racing, contemplating what to do.

Making up her mind, Audrey grabbed an umbrella to use as a weapon if she needed it, and opened the door, keeping the chain on. She scanned the hall, still seeing no one.

'Maybe I'm hearing things,' she thought to herself, 'I really need to get some sleep or I'm going to start hallucinating.'

She was about to close the door when she looked down and saw a large, brightly wrapped present with a tag hanging from it reading To: Audrey. Steeling herself, Audrey opened the door all the way and looked both ways down the hall. Still no one. She bent down and dragged the box inside. It was about the size of a computer box, and it had a good weight to it.

Closing the door behind her, Audrey started cautiously unwrapping the box, still uneasy about the whole ordeal. She had just finished removing the wrapping paper when the box moved. She quickly opened the box and was shocked to be assailed by fur and a wet tongue. Attempting to escape the clutches of the box was a Great Dane puppy. Stunned, Audrey picked the puppy up and put him on the floor where he continued to jump all over her. He was probably about 6 weeks old, and was a beautiful fawn colour; tan with black points.

Audrey was able to keep him still long enough to grab the piece of paper tucked underneath his collar.

Something to help you sleep.

Merry Christmas.

-Abe

Audrey couldn't contain the smile that crept over her face. Laughing as the puppy tugged on her hair, she picked him up and cuddled him. And for the first time in two weeks, Audrey slept soundly.