Molly and Nico (Backdated)

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Nico runs into Molly playing in the snow. An agreement is reached.




So there she was, outside, again. Being a person. Sort of a person, at least. Perhaps. If you squinted. Nico didn't, though, so she felt pretty damn out of place, standing a few steps outside the mansion, freezing to certain death. The chill was actually nice, but yeah, freezing to death was a constant she was trying to consider as a valid excuse to retreat towards warmer places. Like under her bed. Now, that reasoning won't work, said a voice in her head, and it sounded so much like certain blonde witch she almost expected to get a pat on the head and be asked to take a ride in a broomstick to places unknown to men.

When that didn't happen, Nico sighed, and kicked some snow. "Have that, snow", muttered as she considered herself to be completely mental now. No wonder why under her bed sounded like such a good place to be in her head.

Since her arrival at the school, Molly spent a LOT of time outside in the snow. Being from California, this cold white stuff was something she mostly saw in syrup flavored cones and on TV. She played in it a little when she talked to the not-really-a-fairy PixieMegan, but she couldn't get enough of it.

Case in point when a short, tiny figure in a red fox hat came screaming with excitement out of the mansion doors, shooting past Nico.

"GERMAN-AND-MOE!" she said, doing a series of cartwheels before coming to landing in a giant snow hill that left a girl shaped impression in the snow.

A loud giggle erupted from the spot.

Nico was just going to stare at the spot where a unidentified girl shaped object had embedded itself against the snow, wondering if Dori had finally managed to revert from her mutation. Then she realized there was no way that could make sense -in her already weird and irrational idea of what was logical, anyway- and thus decided there was someone new on the mansion. Nico had really been disconnected lately.

"Hey there", called as she leaned a little over the place where Molly had vanished. "Are you alright? Do I need to call a doctor? Did you drink coffee? Was that a hat or you are a fox-feral mutant?" Because some things you just needed to know.

A pair of orange-red ears peeked out from the hole in the snow before the rest of Molly followed, trying to figure out all the questions the other girl had asked.

"It's a hat!" Molly said, nodding as she practically jumped out of the snow, somewhat reluctant to leave it because it was a really awesome hole.

"I'm okay!" she also decided was the most important thing to answer next, holding out her arms for proof. She was surprised they didn't do that more, snow diving. Cause...awesome!

She was quite small, and even the poofy pink jacket (that clashed horribly with her orange-red hat) didn't help give her much extra size.

"I'm not supposed to have coffee. But I DID have hot chocolate. Three cups full. Don't tell anybody please?"

"Oh! I'm Molly by the way!" she said, holding out a bright yellow-mitten-ed hand.

The girl was like a living clown's carp, but smaller and gigglier. And Nico, forever in love with black, had to squint a little when she looked at Molly.

"Not telling anybody about the chocolate if you come here right now." She was smiling as she spoke, though, so her tone was pretty light. "And I'm Nico. Nico Minoru, for what is worth." She was a bit reluctant to shake Molly's hand, but ultimately decided she would need to start doing so sooner or later. So they shook hands alright. "Are you new? I haven't really checked the journal system a lot lately."

The girl seemed really quiet. And kind of down....And also Nico.

"Hey! I know you," she said, nodding as she got a little closer. She had cool clothes.

"Julian mentioned you. He said you're from Beverly Hills? Me too!"

"Nice to meet you!" she said, trying to be a little bit quieter as she shook her hand very carefully.

"Dr. Beast and Kurt and Monet and Jan and Angel brought me a few weeks ago. They saved me from an evil nanny and a robot."

Falling silent for a few moments, she looked her over.

"Are you okay?"

Nico felt like Molly stopped every five seconds to formulate the phrase she was about to shoot, as if she could only use a limited number of words at a time. It was...cute, to say the least, and it was making her grin a little. Her grin went into a small smile when she named Julian. "Oh, so we have another Californian among our ranks." She wouldn't have really known her from before, since really, the age gap alone would have kept them apart. But here? They were all family, in a way.

"Evil nannies and robots, sounds like a cool way to end up here", commented as she leaned a bit at Molly, a few bangs of coal black hair falling over her face; her smile grew a little, and she would be very surprised if someone told her she looked a lot like Amanda. Was she okay? Tricky question, there. "I've been through some bad times, but I'm getting better now. I just recently became a mutant myself."

Molly nodded eagerly. "Yep! But I like it here. There's snow!" she said, punctuating this statement by flinging some up in the air. She wound up miscalculating things a little, however, and it wound up going directly on Nico's head. Molly's smile quickly evaporated and her eyes got big.

"Uh oh."

She ducked her head, biting her lip with a sheepish laugh. "Sorry!"

"But...being a mutant is cool, right? So...what can you do? I lift heavy things," she said, trying to maybe possibly change the subject so Nico wouldn't focus on the fact that there was a bunch of snow on her head.

Nico had every right to get pissed at Molly, but she was seventeen...so she would let it slip. Just this once. Brushing off the snow, she wondered how to answer Molly without freaking her out. She had the suspicion the girl wasn't the sort that freaked out easily anyway. "Don't sweat it", said as she shoot her head a little. "Just...work on your aim."

"It is", added as she shrugged a little. "I..." And hey, she realized this was the first time she had to explain what she did to someone younger than her. Fun. "I am complicated. I'm a witch, actually, by my mutation gives me energy to do my magic. Before that I would run out of energy with a little spell, and now..." Now she was still scared to try something big. "So you, eh, are really, really strong?"

Molly got really quiet, taking a few moments to think about this: superpowers AND magic. Yep, she was pretty pleased.

"That is SO cool. Now you don't get tired anymore?" she offered hopefully. "Do you have a wand?"

She then nodded. "I think so! I threw a truck. It was a big truck."

Nico shrugged a little. "I haven't really tried to tire myself to see what happens." What would happen, she was sure, was that she would start sucking the life out of whatever close to her, and that was a Very Bad Idea.

"Not a wand, but a staff, actually." Staffs were way cooler.

"A big...truck." Suddenly she saw Molly with other eyes, but supposed the girl had it under control. Hopefully. "Wait, where did you throw that truck?"

Molly tilted her head thoughtfully.

The Miami song came in her head by that guy from the movie about aliens and wearing sunglasses and she was going to sing it but there was Spanish in it and she didn't know Spanish and she shook it away. "The highway on the ocean near Miami and the Key West," she said, then nodded eagerly in a quick segue.

"So...you have a staff like Gandalf?" she said, more preoccupied with the neat magic stuff.

"AND you can HIT people with it when they're being a jerkface." It did kinda sound like having a staff was cooler now that she thought about it.

"Can you turn people into frogs?"

Facepalming felt right about then, but Nico was still being polite, so she just grinned and tried to think about happy things. Happy things! This little piece of girl had thrown a truck at someone on a bridge -Nico had no doubt it was the truth- but all in all she was still a little girl.

"Not precisely like him...but I reckon it probably works pretty damn well as a club." It kind of looked like it anyway. The frog thing made her smile. "I think I can." And with her own magic, too, although the resulting frog might be poisonous. And giant, and made of spikes. "Maybe in other chance I'll show you some magic." Once Amanda told her she was good to go, at least.

Molly nodded again. "Yes please!" she said. Magic was real! She knew it!

But the other girl seemed like she was a little unhappy about it for now so she wasn't going to ask her to do it now. She did say she would show her sometime though!

"Do you have a broom? That flies?"

And she would, but not just yet. Good thing Molly didn't press.

"I...don't?", said, because she was sure there weren't flying brooms in her room. "My roommate flies, if anything. And, well..." Nico's eyes went black, and she spoke the easiest command she knew as she snapped her fingers. "ekaM thgil." Mina the Werelight appeared from thin air, looking more menacing and angry than Nico had ever seen; it was a tennis ball sized ball of dark electricity that started to spin around her head. "Molly, this is Mina. Mina, this is Molly." Nico looked at the werelight for a moment before looking back at the girl. "She sort of bites."

Molly's eyes widened as she peered at the creature thingy. Grumpy and made of light but no tail or teeth, so she was cool with it.

"Hi Mina! Like from Dracula, right?" she said, getting dizzy as she tried to follow the light around her. She was a littttle worried but not too much. Nico wouldn't let it hurt her, right? As long as she didn't try to pet it.

"Hey, you totally got the reference." Molly had just made some serious points with Nico, who waved a hand, making Mina fly away and settle behind the witch's left shoulder, apparently staring at Molly with the eyes it didn't have. The fact she didn't try to touch it helped a lot. "Werelights are useful to send messages, lighten up a room, or entertain people. Too bad this one has an attitude." Mina made a weird, crackling noise, and Nico frowned at it, making it dissolve on the air.

"If you meet Amanda, ask her for her own werelight, George I think. Much easier to deal with."

Molly grinned. "My Daddy and I watch the black and white Dracula at Halloween every year. And he dresses up like him. I get to be Buffy."

Which would be double true this year! Buffy was all strong and stuff.

"So they're alive?" Molly asked. Lights weren't alive, were they? Could they be? Maybe like fireflies.

"I think I met Amanda on the journals...but I can't remember cause there were a lotta people."

Woah now, Nico was so unprepared to answer that. The werelights were made of energy, and energy was what made living things stay alive, but the energy itself was...life? So it was alive? What had Amanda said? That werelights reacted to the thoughts of their owners? Was she making this up? "...Amanda knows, I just make it pop and procure it doesn't bite anyone."

"My birthday is in Halloween", said Nico as she waved a hand, trying not to roll her eyes too much. "I guess you had more fun than me." Nico shrugged a little. "Lots and lots of people. Amanda is blonde, curses a lot and does magic. You'll meet her eventually, I'm sure."

Molly didn't quite know what that meant but Nico looked a little confused herself so she just nodded. "Ohhh," she said, playing along.

"Really! On Halloween would be awesome!" Mainly because she liked dressing up. "Mine's in July. We have pool parties a lot but we do that a lot anyway so it gets kinda boring."

She peered down at the snow, watching it glitter, kind of like the Werelight.

"Everybody's really neat. I think the green haired lady...not the one who bakes the other one, is kinda grumpy. But that's okay," she said.

She shrugged. "Sorry, can't really explain it myself." Which was slightly frustrating, but hey, at least the werelights didn't seem to mind. "And well, I usually don't mind people having fun on my birthday so..." She gave an honest smile to Molly; it was a little hard not to feel chipper around the girl.

"That would be Cammie. She is like that to everything and everyone that's remotely nice, so if she acts like a...mean person to you, it means you are doing something right." The last person Molly needed to try to please was Cammie, she thought.

Molly grinned, the excitement practically radiating off of her. "See...that's cool! It's the best part. It's like a big mystery. Which means it is something to be solved. And then once you solve it you can be like...'ah HA! look at my mad solving skills!' And people can be like 'dude.' Cause that means you learn new stuff about cool things and you get to tell other people, like me! If people just told ya, it's not as fun," she said, nodding quickly. It made sense to her.

"I guess having black and orange stuff everywhere would kinda suck, though. And bats and stuff if you got tired of it...."

Resting her chin in her hand for a moment or two, Molly's eyes suddenly widened.

"Hey! You wanna switch birthdays for this year? You can have your birthday party on my birthday and I can have my party on your birthday! Then you can have a pool party and I can have a costume party!" she said.

She wasn't sure if she could wait four more months until cake and presents but she'd be willing to try if it made Nico happy. She looked kinda down earlier. She'd still be 13 in July but she could celebrate it later.

Molly tilted her head at her. "Really? Huh. That's weird. She's like...opposite lady, huh?" Good was bad, up was down and etc.

"Dude, I would so love to be told Dude for my mad solving skills." She would need to have some solving skills to speak of first, of course, but hey, a girl could dream, right? "So you like not knowing stuff? I mean, you could save a lot of time if people simply told you what you wanted to know." She could see why Molly liked her theory though.

Nico sighed; it had been a bit of a pain in the neck after the birthday number ten when she realized her party was sort of everybody's party; she could share, but hey, manners. It was unfair, she thought. "You sure? What if we just celebrate both birthdays on yours, and then we have a huge awesome pool party on mine? And gifts for the both of us again."

She laughed at Cammie's new name. "More like Toxic Lady, but I think Opposite Lady also works. Don't mind her much when she's being mean."

"Yeah, she glares a lot. And I think the Kevin guy is kinda grumpy with me too cause I called him Rot, " Molly said making a face. That wasn't a good idea, though so she kinda knew why he got mad.

Molly tilted her head. "But...wait...do you mean like...like...two times the presents?" she asked, trying to make sure she understood what she suggested. Because that would be awesome, and she didn't know if she was imagining too much awesomeness or if that was what Nico was truly suggesting.

She then beamed. "And I would totally say dude. Cause...it's like a balance...y'know? People tell you AND you learn stuff so you know what people are telling you..." she said. Pausing, she quirked a brow. "Er...yeah."

Nico rolled her eyes, although it was in a good natured fashion; she would certainly get mad at Molly if she came with something like what she called Kevin, but he probably did something to deserve it in the first place, or so she guessed. "Well, calling people names is a bit of an impolite thing to do, Molly, unless you agree with them to call them like that before hand. So people get all grumpy when called something they don't like. And Kevin's mutation is troublesome enough so poking fun out of it might not be wise..." But against her better judgement, she knew she would end up giggling the next time she crossed paths with him. Rot? So very mean.

"And we can probably convince the others about this arrangement of ours." She supposed people would oblige if it meant keeping Molly quiet -or at least without destroying the facilities- so it was worth a try.

Messing with her Molly's hair over her hat, Nico grinned. "Balance is good. So why don't we go inside and balance all this snow with some hot chocolate, pop corn and a movie? There are a bunch of titles I haven't seen as of late."

Molly frowned. "Everybody has nicknames, like Dr. Beast and Wasp and stuff so I thought it was like, normal. I thought that was a good one cause it was what he does but he got mad...I really didn't want to hurt his feelings.I should tell him sorry, huh?" she said. Hopefully he wouldn't be still mad.

She was also really excited about double birthdays and presents too.

"Everybody likes a lot of hot chocolate here. We didn't drink it a lot in LA," she said with a grin. Maybe cause it was colder there?

"Oooh, have you seen the Incredibles?" she said as she started to head back inside.