xp_logs | Meggan & Catseye: Apologies

Meggan goes to explain her behavior to Catseye. Hugs and chocolate Easter eggs are received.

Backdated to Saturday Afternoon

It was after an extremely long amount of time in bed--12 hours in total, blissfully without a single nightmare--that Meggan decided it was time to talk to Catseye. Catseye deserved both an apology and an explanation for how she’d acted when she was Selene’s puppet. Even if the explanation did sound completely insane, she could still try.

Once she was dressed, she went directly to Catseye’s door, mustered her courage for how she could explain it all, and knocked. Uncertainly, she called, “Catseye? It’s Meggan...I think we need to talk.”

"We do?" Catseye asked curiously as she opened the door. "What about? About the badwitch taking you?"

Meggan nodded slightly. “Kind of. I just...I wanted to explain. Why I was so weird and off and...just...not right, basically. And I’m so sorry for how I acted and anything I might have said. I think I might have been avoiding you at one point. It’s complicated, but it’s all connected with her.” At least this time wasn’t really babbling everything, like she had with Kurt at first. Although, that was just a reaction to everything.

Catseye stared at Meggan for a moment, then swept her into a tight hug. "Do not be sorry, Meggan! It was not your fault."

Meggan closed her eyes for a moment and returned the hug, just glad to feel that Catseye wasn’t angry. And she would not be crying this time she promised herself, or at least she hoped she wouldn’t be. “I know that, but I still wanted to say it.” She reluctantly pulled back after a few more moments before she finally decided to explain it all as best she could.

“Selene was pulling my strings. That’s where the nightmares were coming from. And there I was, thinking it was just from eating cheese before bed.” She really didn’t want to bother Catseye with any descriptions of those dreams. “Okay, the short version? They got worse, I got stranger and couldn't tell anyone, I started hearing weird things, wasn’t acting like me anymore...” She took a quick breath before finishing, trying not to shiver again, although her voice just barely shook.

“And then Selene took over my body, and used me to hurt Miss Frost on the staircase. And a lot of other things.” Some of which she still couldn’t remember clearly, which might be a good thing.

"How come you couldn't tell anyone when your dreams got worse and stranger and you started hearing weird things?" Catseye asked curiously, pulling Meggan into her room and sitting her friend on her bed. She produced a handful of foil-wrapped eggs from a drawer of her dresser and held them out in offering to Meggan. Chocolate made everything better.

“I think she was already firmly in my head by that point and influencing me, so I kept thinking it wasn’t important when they were steadily getting worse. It was weird. It was like...like I wanted to tell someone, and I knew it was wrong, but just couldn’t. No matter how much I wanted to. And then it was too late.” Chocolate was indeed a good remedy for many things, and just plain delicious--she nodded her thanks. She’d be eating one for now, and saving the rest for later.

“And once I was possessed? She had me in this bizarre outfit. Klar--the scary guy that worshipped her—had it already made by the time possessed me got to him. Teeny tiny corset, long boots, cape, and opera gloves. That was pretty much it, nothing else to it. Oh, and fishnets. And then there’s the hair.” She took another bite of the chocolate egg.

Catseye wasn't sure why Meggan was focusing so much on the outfit, but she guessed maybe it had something to do with the fact it was easier to complain about someone bad changing your clothes and hair without you saying it was okay than it was to complain about someone changing your brain without you saying it was okay. "I like the clothes you have now and the hair you have now," she told Meggan with a smile, hoping she was being helpful. "I think they are much nicer than evil witch clothes and evil witch hair."

And Catseye was being helpful. Meggan gave her a small smile and nodded. She was really trying not to fixate on the outfit, but the whole situation was almost unreal. “I’m stuck with it a little darker for a while...can’t shapeshift the color back to how it normally is because of a spell Selene did. I’m just letting Amanda rest before I ask if she can fix it.”

She tilted her head and thought for a moment, before adding with a shake of her head, “And I can remember a little more of what she did in my body now that I’ve slept, but it’s like seeing stuff from a distance, and all foggy?” She shrugged, before she continued quietly, “Maybe it’s because she didn’t have a use for me if there was nothing to torment me with, so I was shoved away. Like when Kurt was trying to get through to me. I could hear him say that Miss Frost wasn’t dead, and felt how angry Selene was about that. And I heard a little of him reading Treasure Island later, but...not a whole lot more than that.”

"I do not know about seeing foggy things but I know about hair being different colours," the catgirl announced cheerfully; "I know what to buy to make hair change colours for humans and for cats! We could make your hair be like it used to if we dye it with special hair paint called dye if you wanted to!" She nearly suggested asking Nico to try to do a spell like Amanda could, but decided that Meggan might not like the idea of using Nico's evil magic. And hair dye seemed a lot safer than magic, anyway.

Meggan chuckled a little, before nodding with certainty. “I’ll try Amanda first. And if she can’t get her magic to make it normal, then we’ll round up all the hair dye we can find and see what works. I promise you that.” Would Selene’s spell make it where dye couldn’t work? Or would it work for a few minutes, and revert right back to black? If Amanda couldn’t fix it, they would be finding out.