xp_logs | Nico and Catseye (Backdated)

Nico and Catseye catch up on what they've been up to shortly after Catseye returns to New York.

Catseye wasn't sure whether NickJohn ever came out to the woods, but she couldn't resist a prowl of her old hunting grounds in BigCat form, and she couldn't pick up his scent anywhere so she figured it wouldn't hurt anyone if she were out here. She followed an old deer trail out towards the quarry before picking up the scent of SmellyMagic. Grinning to herself, she followed the scent until she came upon Nico, and let out a happy yowl.

While Nico had seen the post, she hadn't expected to run into Catseye anytime soon. What with moving and all that stuff. At any rate, it was good to see the purple huge cat around again. The fact she wasn't perturbed on the least managed to make her frown a little for a moment, but she dismissed it. It was all fair in the land of the weird.

"Hey Cats, long time no see."

Catseye shifted into girlform and pounced on Nico with a hug. "Hi Nico! It has been muchmuchmuch too long, yesyesyes! How are you?! What are you doing out here?!" she inquired with a great degree of enthusiasm.

Nico hugged back, laughing at the other girl's enthusiasm. "I'm just walking around, thinking." Brooding a little, but that one was a Goth thing Cats didn't need to know about. "What have you been doing? I must admit I was a bit worried about you at times." She wasn't letting go of that hug just yet though.

"Awww. You should not have worried," Catseye answered, feeling tears springing to her eyes as Nico held on to her, "I was okay. Nothing to worry about. After I lost Nick's trail, I got my high school diploma and then I went to Tel Aviv to work for Elpis. But then I wanted to go to college and be an X-Man so I came back to New York! What have you been doing? What are you thinking about out here in the cold?"

So she lost the trail and...got her degree? Figures that was the way it worked. "Tel Aviv? Somebody has been going places." Nico shrugged at the question, but she was going to answer anyway. "Oh, you know; dealing with powers, getting kidnapped, raising to new levels of creepiness. The usual stuff." Her upbeat tone slowly decreased as she spoke though. "And...my parents died. Not that it could have gone in any other way."

Catseye's eyes went wide at the mention of Nico's parents dying. "Your parents... I... I know they killed people and you thought they would kill you if you did not kill them, but I am still sorry for you that they died. Was it... did you have to face them? Like you thought you would have to a long time ago? I'm sorry I couldn't be there to stand with you if you had to face them."

"Nah, that was my crazy magical ancestor that somehow has been possessing my family from times immemorial's doing." She blinked and then patted Catseyes' head absently. "It's complicated, but I'm glad you are here if I need to hug someone until I fall asleep. That's what matters."

"You're right," Catseye nodded. "Being with people who care about you is what matters. And hey! It's a good thing we're both living in the city now! I'm always available for hugs," she chuckled, and gave Nico another one. "So how are you liking your new place and your new job?"

There was no way she would get tired of Catseye's hugs. "Hah, why don't we go in and talk it over something to drink? It's sort of a long story."