The Park, late Thursday night

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A dark figure moved along the edge of the pond, occasionally stooping and standing quite still before moving on. Someone walking by might hear a quietly muttered, "Round? If he thinks he's getting away with that...."

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Agnes glanced down at her pocket and then back up at Chad. Nothing to see here. Really.

Crrrrooooak

"Do you usually lurk in the dark in parks?" she asked hastily to try to cover the fact that her pocket was both croaking and wiggling a little.

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"Do your pockets usually croak like that?" Or are you just happy to see me?

If Chad had been a more expressive guy, he would have facepalmed at the unwarrented addition in his head.

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"Not usually," Agnes said, pulling the frog out of her pocket. "I needed something for my roommate."

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Chad's head tilted as he look at the frog, quelling his urge to run his finger along its head. "Why does your roommate need a frog?"

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"Because he called me 'round' on the radio, and I told him I'd turn him into a frog." The frog wriggled in her grip and she shushed it. "But I don't really want to do that if I don't have to, so..."

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"Are you planning to tell him that the frog used to be a person?" If Chad were in that situation, that's what he would have none. But he couldn't say he'd ever been called round before. Or really ever been bugged enough by something that someone called him to want to turn them into a frog.

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Agnes smiled a certain, shall we say, witchy smile. "I'm going to put it in his bed for him to wake up with."

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Chad's head tilted again; he was thinking of how he would respond to waking up with a frog suddenly in his bed, and he would have responded pleasantly, which he didn't think was the reaction Agnes wanted to get.

"He doesn't like frogs, then?"

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"He's very jumpy and I may have convinced him I'd do it," Agnes said. "So I think opening his eyes to a frog staring him in the face is going to wake him right up."

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"I see," Chad nodded. "Good luck."

Although, now that he knew what she was doing stalking around late at night (or, at least, it seemed she had constructed a pretty good alibi), it seemed that he might have to tell her what he was doing. But the thing was, ne didn't even really know.

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"Thanks." You'd think she'd heard what he was thinking, even if she hadn't. Probably. "Now it's your turn."

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She couldn't possibly have....could she?

Chad feigned ignorance. "For what?"

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"To tell me why you're in the dark here in the park," Agnes said, wondering if she was going to get a crick in her neck from this conversation.

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"Oh." Chad shrugged his massive shoulders, scratched the back of his head. "Just....going for a walk..."

She was totally not going to buy that, he could tell. Which was unfortunate. But it didn't stop him from trying.

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Agnes gave him a Look swiped directly from Nanny Ogg's repertoire. It fairly shouted, "pull the other one, it's got bells on."

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"I was," Chad said, infusing something that almost sounded like a tone in his voice, one of sincerity to make his nod. "Getting to know the area."

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"Mmhm." Agnes looked sceptical, but didn't pursue it. "Have you learned anything interesting?"

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Quite a few possibilities ran through Chad's head on how to respond to that. His favourite was where he would claimed that he learned that pretty girls go hunting for frogs in the pond. He was Mexican; he had noooo problems with 'round.' But he did have problems with coming off as creepy. So he just shrugged and said, "Not really."

In retrospect, tomorrow, he would probably regret his choice.

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For some reason Agnes didn't get, Perdita snorted derisively in her head.

Agnes looked up at him, trying to read his face in the less-than-stellar light. "Mmhm. Well, now you know the pond has frogs."

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"And where to go if I ever need to put a frog in my roommate's bed."

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There was that, wasn't there? "Is your roommate a boy or a girl?"

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"Boy," Chad answered. To the best of his knowledge, this was true. But after meeting that boy who could turn into a girl with water, he was prepared to accept that his assumptions could turn out to be wrong. But his roommate seemed manly enough. "Jim Ellison." He shrugged a bit apatheticly. He hadn't gotten to interact with Jim too much, but couldn't imagine ever needed to infest his bed with amphibians.

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"Oh. I haven't met him yet." Not that she'd met a lot of people. "Well," she put the frog back in her pocket, "I have what I came for. The next time we find each other in the dark, no lurking."

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Now that Chad was certain that Agnes would be quick to assume he was a maurauding, hungry bear on the prowl or some other possible moster that was included in so many of the warnings he'd heard from oldbies, he nodded. "Agreed."

And tried to ignore the thought in his head that popped up when he considered what circumstances thing might have them finding each other in the dark.

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Can a split personality sneeze? Because that might have been the noise Perdita made.

"Good night, Chad." Agnes left the huge boy behind, and if she glanced back, there was no reason for it. Really.

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Chad lifted his hand in a wave-less wave. "Sleep well and frog-free, Agnes," he said, shoving his hands into his pockets and lumbering on to continue his nocturnal trekking.