Jed was their latest revenant hunt. A hypnotist that used his craft to get plenty of free things. Drinks, money, women. It was easy to see why Wyatt had put him down. He was known to be quite persuasive and once again it appears he was taking advantage of good people in Purgatory.
After days of following his patterns, Dolls had convinced Doc to run a poker tournament at Shorty's. This was easy bait for a card shark who loved to mess with the minds of others. It was a high buy-in but they had plenty of interest. With not a lot going on in a small town, it didn't take much to draw in a crowd. The day of the tournament Jed walked right in with a grin that Wynonna was eager to send back down to hell.
Everybody was present. Dolls and Nicole were posing as security. Wynonna was just floating around, hanging out at the bar as usual. Doc was playing host, working the room periodically. Waverly was serving drinks with a few other waitresses. Though they tried to appear casual, they were all on high alert. The plan was to keep Jed until closing and then attack.
A few rounds in, Doc started inviting those who were consistently winning to a VIP table with the highest buy-in of them all. Jed happily stepped up, piling up his chips in an intimidatingly high mountain. Once he cleaned up the rest of the players, the drinks started flowing. He was fairly drunk as last call was announced. Doc managed to convince him that they needed to square away his winnings in the basement.
Once Doc had him in the middle of the room, Jed was surrounded. All hands were on deck. Guns were drawn and one was glowing yet Jed wasn't even sweating.
Waverly was the first to wake up with a pounding in her head. The last thing she remembered was Jed doing some freaky hand waving before a flash and he was gone. Poof. All their tricks and treats were really starting to get on her nerves. She never thought she would actually miss the early days when it was straight forward. Sure, she nearly got hanged at the homestead but honestly those were the easiest hunts. In fact, those demons had the courtesy to come for them. Now it's all chasing and riddles and some kind of demon magic that she's not fond of. Sure, if anybody loves a good riddle it's her but it has been way too long since they've caught a break.
She scans the room, finding everybody else just as knocked out as she was. Jed was no longer in sight. She rubbed her head as she saw Dolls start to stir. The blast must have been good because she remembered being right on Dolls' left, not on the other side of the room. They had him circled so the blast would have thrown everybody then. Curiously, she tried to remember their order as she saw that in fact, she had remembered right.
There she was, laying on the floor to the left of Dolls.
Her eyes widened. Was she dead? She doesn't remember being shot. Were they all dead? No, Dolls was waking up and his body was starting to move. She reached up and felt her face. It was there. Could you feel your own face if you're dead? If you're a…ghost? Spirit? She looked down and saw way too much leather.
Dolls slowly sat up, clearly having some head pain as well. He took a second to look around the room before focusing on her. "Wynonna?" As Waverly shook her head and Dolls' hand jumped to his throat, then in front of his face, things started to fall into place. "Okay this may sound weird, but I'm Nicole." Dolls pointed at the redhead's body slowly starting to stir. "That is my body. This is not my body." Dolls, er…Nicole says indicating Dolls' body.
"I'm Waverly…" Waverly says, waving her hand up, not realizing Peacemaker still in it. "And I appear to be in Wynonna's body."
The others started sitting up, joining the two very freaked out girlfriends. It was written across everybody's face as they slowly felt their heads and noticed various things weren't right. Some stared at their hands, some grabbed clothing. Whoever was in Nicole's body even ventured to full on stare at her boobs, looking very happy about it and slowly reaching a hand up much to Waverly's annoyance.
"HEY!" Nicole yelled, startling everybody as it came out Dolls' voice, cracking slightly. "Can we please keep our hands and eyes to ourselves and figure this all out for a second? I'm Nicole. Those are my boobs. Now, who are you?"
"I would say I'm everybody's favorite bar owner but it appears I may be mistaken right now." Nicole's voice had an interesting drawl that usually came from one Doc Holliday.
There was a mixture of relief and confusion as everybody realized they were not the only ones experiencing…whatever this was.
"Alright, so we've got me, Nicole, in Dolls. Waverly in Wynonna. Doc in me. Well there's something I never wanted to say…" Whoever was in Doc let out a giggle that made everybody smile if only for a second.
Waverly piped up "Who's next?"
