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[Hey Foreigners there is a cutie brunette on your screen right now. She’s tapping her chin a little thoughtfully, eyeing the camera] Okay, so I get the whole other realm, hi-you’re-on-a-turtle-and-also-there-are-computers thing. Which, weird – seriously, who expects the afterlife to be so high tech? Also, sorry about the possession thing, that must've sucked. But I have something a little more important to ask about right now.

[She leans back and gestures at herself. She’s wearing a green dress that, while it looks good on her, isn’t exactly appropriate for every day wear] Does anyone have clothes I could borrow? Pants, especially pants. You have no idea how long it’s been since I even saw a pair of jeans.

Other than that, does anyone know if there’s a dance club around here or something? I had a look around myself, but maybe someone who’s been here longer can help. There’s gotta be some place teenagers can go to let loose, right? [She winks, and reaches forward to turn off the camera when something else appears to occur to her]

Oh yeah! I’m A – Catty, I’m Catty. [She holds her hand up in a Vulcan salute] Greetings to my fellow inter-dimensional travellers. Especially those of you with pants.

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Why does my first time need to be some special event? I just wanted to... I wanted... [Oh, please don't make her say it. Her voice dips into a whisper.] I wanted to have sex, okay. I think Michael was thinking his girlfriend finally wanted to have sex with him. [She doesn't want to think that his actions were wrong, but maybe... The fact that he was so ready to do it in his dirty van is a sign.]

[Catty opens her mouth and then shuts it again. She loops her arm through Vanessa's and starts dragging her back the way they came] Okay, that's it. Shopping can wait, I'm not having this conversation with you surrounded by strangers.

Wait, what? [But she doesn't resist walking back with Catty, a look of confusion on her face.] First you decide you don't want to listen, and now you do. [Sigh.]

Well, I thought I was going to be able to pick your brain for the boring stuff. Which this isn't, by the way. Anyway, I'm capricious. I'm allowed to change my mind.

[She gives a sharp bark of laughter.] I haven't been able to talk to someone about anything in so long, I think I prefer it not being sniped out of my head, honestly.

[Catty holds up her free hand] Hands off. Brains off? The point is, no matter how cozy your head is, I'm out. [For now

They get back to the suite and Catty dumps them both on a couch, leaning into her friend once they're both seated.] Okay, so. Wanting to have sex is definitely not a bad thing. Believe me, I get that. But Michael look at the girl he's been with for like, two years, and thinking that his gross old van is good enough for her? [Catty shakes her head. It's clear she feels strongly about this] Uh uh. That's so not okay.

[Vanessa leans back against Catty, a vaguely uncomfortable look at her face. Not at their closeness. Honestly, she needs Catty to be as close as humanly - maybe even inhumanly - possible for the next several forever, really. To remind her that she's real and alive and not a figment of her imagination.]

I don't know how guys think. Maybe he just wanted me that badly. [A beat.] I am kind of irresistible. [There's no ego to the words, no boasting. It's straight up fact. She was so wanted by the Atrox, it literally had her fate changed nearly a millennia before she was born to make her its.]

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[Catty rolls her eyes, poking her friend in the chest] You are ten kinds of irresistible. That means that your first time should at least happen in a bedroom, for crying out loud. You're a classy chick, and you deserve better than the back of some van. I mean, there's not even a mattress there! [a beat] There wasn't right? Because that just makes everything like, way creepier.

[She nudges Catty back in response.] I'm not that classy, okay. I don't know what I am, but classy girls don't take their boyfriends by the hand, tell them they want to have sex, and consent to rolling around in the back of a hippie van. I did say yes, by the way. I can choose where I want to have my first time. [A long pause.] Sleeping bags.

[Staring] Ew.

He goes camping with his grandpa! [xc]

I'm so sure.

Stop that. [It makes her feel bad. Hoochie mama. That's what Stanton had called her. The lamest, most archaic insult by modern standard, but it still cut. And Catty isn't helping, like she's just another in a long line of girls rolling around in the back of her boyfriend's van. Ugh. Not an image that she needs.]

[Catty opens her mouth to keep going, but stops, catching wind of Vanessa's mood. Her expression falls]

...Sorry. I guess it's been a while since I really had the opportunity for any kind of girl talk. [She's quiet for a moment too long, before nudging Vanessa lightly] I don't think you're bad for wanting to have sex with him in a van. You can have sex wherever you want with whoever you want, especially if you think you might be about to die. But I just think it sucks when you said you were ready, the extent that Michael thought about your comfort was a sleeping bag in the back of his van. He's what makes me mad, not you.

[Vanessa tries to say something, but the words catch in her throat. She can't make her mouth work. Instead she takes a deep, watery breath, thinks she's okay for about two seconds, and then breaks down again, shoving her face into her hands.] The truth was going to be so much worse, Catty. I wasn't even going to die. I was the final eclipse. I wanted the Atrox so much, I'd have done anything for it. And I keep thinking, what would have happened if you and Stanton hadn't shown up. What if I had unleashed my darkness, and I ruined things? And then I think, my first time could have been with that monster. [She takes another shaky breath.] So I can't even be mad at Michael for not caring about my comfort, because even that is better than what could have happened.

Stop that. [Catty makes her voice as gentle as she knows how these days, shifting around so she can look Vanessa in the face] None of that was your fault. And we did show up, and the Atrox is gone now. You never have to worry about that again. [She cups Vanessa's cheek, trying to offer comfort.] It's over, and you can move on.

[And she forcibly injects some lightheartedness into her tone here] That's fine! You've always been too nice to be mad for long anyway. That's why you have me to be mad for you.

[Vanessa closes her eyes, shaking her head slowly. She's a wreck, and it' stupid, because Catty doesn't need this right now. Not anytime soon. But it's hard to carry on like you're okay when you've been essentially alone with this information for months. Which, she supposes, is how Catty feels, too.

Vanessa is the worst friend.] No. You can move on. Tianna and Jimena and Serena. Me, I either get to remember what I've lost or lose what I remember.

[A snort.] Well, it didn't happen, so there's really no point in being mad over it.

[Catty squints a little. She can't help it.] I don't know that dying really counts as moving on. [JS]

[And a haughty sniff] I can get mad about whatever I like. Especially when it involves my best friend.

You have time to put it behind you, you'll... You're a hero, Catty. I've been talking with Annabeth - she's one of those demigods - and she says people who do good things get into Elysium. [Vanessa takes Catty's hand, the one on her cheek, and squeezes it.] You can be there with Chris.

[And then a sigh.] Speaking of being mad on the behalf of your best friend, I totally kicked your father's ass.

[I didn't only do good things she thinks, but Vanessa doesn't need to hear that, and Catty doesn't want to think it anyway. She laughs a little bit, taking her hand from her friend's face and knotting their fingers together] So how much have you been telling all these people about me, anyway?

[For the first time actual genuine surprise comes over her face] What? You're kidding.

[With her free hand, Vanessa wipes at her cheeks.] Oh, we were talking about ourselves, then. I haven't said a lot about you. You're my best friend, you died to stop evil. You time travel.

[Aha, there we go. A slow grin creeps along her face.] I'm not kidding. I stopped his attacks on me, and I blew him through a wall. By the way, his mansion? Total Creepsville.

This from Miss Oh No We'll Be Dissected? If I end up on some operating table, I'm blaming you, okay. [She doesn't really sound too bothered, though. What with all the secrets she's been keeping, it's nice to have one she can tell.

She shudders delicately at the mention of the mansion] Tell me about it. But, I mean - Adamantis is basically the Follower. How did you - how?

Things are different here, Catty. So many people have abilities. Some are actual superheroes. Like, tights and all. [She gives a sheepish grin.] Nobody will put you on the operating table. I use my power in the open.

[Catty. :c] The Moirae fated me to a force of destruction. Hector wasn't lying when he said I was chaos and sorrow. The Atrox wanted me... To be its protector, its lover. You said so yourself, that your father was afraid of me, right? [A long pause as she licks her lips, both excited and freaked out by her own power.] I'm the most powerful, I would have been, if I fell. So, I just unleashed that power on him, used my darkness for good.

[As weird and unsettling as this whole situation is, Catty can't help but be impressed with the change that has come over Vanessa.

And jealous. Definitely jealous. She's been trying to convince Vanessa to have confidence for years now, and apparently all she needed to get it was to be totally separated from Catty for months.]

Goddess, that thing was so creepy. Why was it so obsessed with taking teenage girls for lovers?? [She makes a face and just tugs Vanessa closer] I guess that's the lesson we all learned in the end though, right? Using our darkness for good. [An exaggerated sigh] You're so cool...

[Vanessa just leans into Catty, feeling somewhat calmer than she has. It's nice to be able to talk about this finally, to tell her story to someone.] I think it just... It wanted someone to care about it, to love it so much that nobody would betray it. Think about it, how many of its Followers rebelled and tried to destroy it. Loyalty is hard to come by. [She grins at Catty.] Stanton said the same thing, too. I never thought of myself as cool. I was just so mad at Adamantis.

[She's quiet again, for different reasons. She bites her lip, staring at the ground.] He escaped. To Earth. It's not really over.

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