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The Park, Wednesday Night

There were creepy things that needed killing on the island. Of course Allie was out and about.

She was a little bloody and scratched up because the damn flying fish were fast, but other then that she was fine and focused on getting the mummy at her feet to JUST. STAY. DEAD.

"Seriously," she muttered as its barely wrapped arms pulled its upper body across the ground. "Do I need to set you on fire or something?"

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"Stubborn, aren't they?" Yeah, Nikoleta still had no idea that she wasn't usually female, here. So the casual how-do-you-do that she was throwing Allie's way as she wandered into the park might have been slightly confusing.

At least she was wearing her duster and goggles combination. Some things were constant no matter what gender Nick was.

"The fact that I'm pretty sure I brought a T-Rex to its knees out by the causeway almost makes up for how both those assholes and the fish are immune to my eyes entirely." She walked up to the mummy and crouched down in front of it, and then pulled out a handful of zip-ties from a pouch on her belt. "I've just been leaving them tied to lamp-posts. They do burn pretty well, though, when it comes to that."

Even though Allie knew people on the island were changing and had even seen it herself when she met the vampire versions of Jack, she still was surprised to see a feminine version of Nick.

"So that's a new look for you."

"Is it?" Nick glanced over her shoulder at Allie, just briefly, before zip-tying the mummy's wrists together and then standing up and rolling the thing onto its back. "Funny, Gunther said the same thing during my shift last weekend, and I wasn't even in costume. I don't remember making any big changes lately."

She put her hands on her hips, striking a pose.

"Have I lost weight or something?"

"Or something," Allie laughed, because seriously what other option did she have? "The Nick I know? Is a guy."

Well, that was news to Nick, yes.

"Well, damn." She squinted a little at Allie, trying to figure out if she was just pulling her leg or something. "... Just wait until I break it to my mother."

The mummy writhed about, trying to reach for Nick's ankle with its bound hands. She stomped down on its throat, neatly snapping its head free in a cloud of old dust.

"And here I was hoping I had managed to miss out on the island's latest bout of crazy. Am I at least an attractive guy?"

She was still as vain as Nikolai, at least.

Allie was more focused on casually flicking the guts of something off her blade then pulling any sort of prank.

Since it seemed to be quiet for the moment, she sheathed her sword and grinned at Nick. "I'm not answering that question on the grounds that once this insanity is over and he's back, I'm going to have to look him in the eye. Besides, I doubt either of your egos need that much stroking."

So yes, very attractive.

"On the contrary," she laughed. "My ego can always use the stroking. In fact, I wholeheartedly encourage you to feed my ego at any given opportunity."

Yeah, no, there probably wasn't a Nikolai-equivalent in the multiverse who really needed it. Yet. She kept her hands on her hips and just grinned at Allie.

"How about the bike? At least tell me that some male me still had the good sense to get the bike."

"You still have the bike," Allie assured her.

And the same sense of humor.

And the same grin.

It was strangely comforting.

"We just went for a ride to Baltimore a week or so ago."

"I remember going for a ride with you," Nick replied, shrugging her shoulders lightly. "Shared the shit out of a few muggers while we were at it, and then came back and I want to say I threw you into the snow, but mostly you just kept putting me into arm-locks and then teaching me how to shake you off."

Ah, her pride.

"I stand by my vow to grab you first, one of these days. It'll happen." A beat. "Unless you don't remember any of that. In which case... forget everything I just said. I totally kicked your ass."

"You just took down a T-Rex. You're probably amped enough to try." Of course now that Allie was waiting for it, she'd put Nick's odds at 50/50 for success. "And weirdly enough, I remember every bit of that night you just described."

"You seriously don't know completely amped until you've literally stared down a fricking dinosaur," Nick shared, shaking her head. "I punched a bear today. I punched a goddamn bear."

In fairness, the bear had it coming.

"Bet I could catch you this time."

Probably not. But there was definitely a lot of adrenaline on the go right now, even if she wasn't riding tier four.

"You know there's only one way to find that out," Allie pointed out.

"True," Nick replied, nodding almost solemnly. "True."

And then she was taking off toward Allie in a blur of a run.

Because when Vikings and dinosaurs and flying zombie piranhas attacked the island, clearly the thing to do was play vampire tag.

It was totally a life handing you lemons type of moment. Enjoy the lemonade.

Was that the edge of Allie's coat, billowing just out of Nick's reach? So close....

Laughing, Allie raced towards the pond.

And Nikoleta, who really was all amped up on dinosaur, was laughing as well as she dug her heel in and spun on a dime to give chase, as fast as she could go.

She was totally going to end up in that pond, wasn't she?

That might have been a very vague part of Allie's plan.

Which mostly involved stopping at the edge of the pond and waiting to dodge out of the way at the last second as Nick approached.

"Oh, sh--" Aaand now Nick's boots were wet. And the bottom of her duster. Pretty much everything to the knee, really, which left her cursing up a blue streak as she slogged out of the pond again. "Right. Turning. Turning is something I'm going to have to work on."

Allie didn't laugh all the much.

She mostly snickered.

"Sorry about that." No, not really.

"Yeah, your face looks like something right out of a sympathy card," Nick snorted, crouching over on the shore and peeling off her boots one at a time in order to dump them out. "Cold."

Cold. Cold. Cold. Wasn't spring supposed to be warm?

Nikoleta was way too LA for Maryland in March, sometimes.

"Okay, so I won't be catching you this time."

"If you don't go get dry the only thing you're going to be catching is a cold." She was feeling a little guilty now that she considered the weather.

Oh, Nick wouldn't hold it against her. She was going to heave a put-upon sigh as she picked her boots up again.

"Guess that'll serve me right, hm? At least it'll be fairly quick and painless. I can change, and then get right back at it." She grinned again. "Maybe I'll find another t-rex."

It was possible she was still a little high on life. Literally.

"I'm not sure the island is ready for that. But go get changed and come back," Allie suggested. "It's going to be a long, interesting night."

"It's been a long, interesting two days," Nick agreed, laughing. "Is it wrong of me to hope that this keeps up?"

Because this was the most fun she had in a while.

"Yes and no. It's been fun in a weird way," she agreed. "But I keep worrying that one morning I'm going to wake up and not be me. Or that my friends are going to change more then just their gender, if that makes sense?"

"Makes perfect sense to me," Nick replied with a little nod as she peeled her socks off and stuffed those into her boots, too. Barefoot beat wet socks, right? "That's been my concern, too. And then you tell me that you remember me as a man..."

She shook her head a little.

"I can't picture that. Being one for my whole life. But at least the rest of what we remember seems to match up. I'd be more concerned, otherwise."

She fortunately didn't remember last week, when she was not only a man, but a man with no powers because he'd never actually made it to Greece. Fun times.

[Bedtime for me! SP?]

Anything beat wet socks.

"I think we're the lucky ones. From listening to radio it seems like others have had some more extreme changes." Allie laughed lightly. "Considering my werewolf friend is now a vampire, I'm afraid of waking up as a werewolf. Although I suppose that means you could make me spaghetti again."

[Yay SP! Sleep is good! Night!]

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"And that was practically gourmet dining, so far as my cooking skills go," Nick laughed, shaking her head. "I suppose, so long as the changes are... relatively minor. Though I guess neither of us would really be aware that we've changed at all, would we?"

She certainly hadn't been until Allie had pointed it out.

"Exactly. I feel like I need to keep calling people to check in," she said. "But then again, I could have just sent you a text and never realized the difference."

"If my personality and memories are the same, my reply probably wouldn't have changed a lot," Nick agreed. "Unless you actually said something that indicated that you were expecting me to be a man, and how would you have known to?"

"Exactly. If I think about it too much my head hurts," Allie admitted. "So I'm just going with it and hitting things when I can."

"See? There's a coping mechanism I can get behind," Nick replied, pointing at Allie and then tucking her boots up under her arm. "So, are you interested in a run to the hotel with a slightly soggy Gorgon, or did you have your heart set on playing with our dusty friend some more?"

She nodded down to the mummy, which was still twitching a little, even if it wasn't actually going anywhere without its head.

"A walk's fine. Given everything that's going on, I bet we'll meet some of Dusty's friends along the way," she pointed out.

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