"Oh, well, I wasn't actually expecting anyone to come by…." Nicole said quickly walking past Waverly into her kitchen and gathering up all the empty wrappers from the counter and putting them in the bin. She let herself get distracted from the conversation about hell and demons because in any other situation, she'd have been annoyed that this would be Waverly's first impression of her home, but at the minute she had other things to think about. "It's not normally like this….I was in a rush" She said smiling apologetically at Waverly, who had moved to the counter where the pizza's were.

"Why were you in a rush?" she asked curiously as she idly lifted the lid of the pizza box slightly and looked inside.

"I…erm…." she should just tell her, she's already told her the major secret "Well, I needed to eat…"

"You were hungry?" Waverly questioned smiling "Really? I'm not sure that's the best reason for your kitchen looking like a bomb went off or for ordering two whopping pizza's just for yourself! You must have been super hungry" Waverly said skeptically as she lifted the lid of the bottom pizza.

Nicole walked over and grabbed the boxes out of Waverly's hands and gave her a disapproving look, in turn Waverly gave her a 'what?' look back.

Nicole walked over to the dining table and put the pizza boxes side by side and opened the lids. Pointing at them individually she said "Meat feast and ham and pineapple"

"Hawaiian?" Waverly said with surprise

"Sorry, I like it" Nicole shrugged "Now, do you want some or not, because I WILL eat them both" she said picking up a slice of the Hawaiian pizza

Before Waverly could make it to the table and sit down, Nicole's slice had already gone

"Whao, you really are hungry" She said grabbing a slice of the meat feast while she could

"Well, I…erm…" Nicole wavered her hands around slightly trying to find the right words "I have to eat after I…"

"… Use your super power?" Waverly finished excitedly with a huge grin

"…Heal myself" Nicole corrected picking up another slice of pizza "It uses quite a bit of my energy normally and two bullet wounds is more than i've had to do in a very long time, I needed to refuel"

Waverley bit into her slice "So you've had to do this before?" She asked while chewing

"A couple of times, but nothing as bad, I was attacked with a knife in an alley way while I was on duty a few years back, It was quite deep and no one was around so ….." Nicole grabbed another slice of pizza.

There was silence for a moment while they both eat and Nicole could practically hear the cogs in Waverly's brain whirl as she thought all of this through

"So, how come you didn't heal yourself when you nearly got kidnapped?" Waverly finally asked

"I was knocked out" She shrugged "I have to consciously make myself heal, I'm not Wolverine" Nicole laughed "I can't just automatically heal and by the time I was conscious people had seen the wounds, so it would have been suspicious… and dangerous"

"Dangerous?" Waverly asked looking concerned

Nicole started to shake her head, she wished she hadn't said that. "Oh, I just … I mean …" But before Nicole could answer fully, Waverly was surprised by a cat suddenly jumping up onto the furthest end of the table.

"Geez!" she said putting her hand to her chest.

"Oh, hey, you haven't met yet, this is Thunderbolt, my cat" Nicole smiled and gestured to the cat that had now started walking across the table towards them. Waverly smiled at the cat as it got closer to her, it didn't take it's eyes off of her.

The white cat stopped on Waverly's side of the table and looked at her with it's bright blue eyes as though it was inspecting her. Waverly put her hand out to stroke it, but the cat stopped just out of reach.

"Hey, now, be nice, this is Waverly, Say hello T2" Nicole said

The cat looked at her and them back at Waverly, it then meowed at her, stepped forward so she could be stroked and then sat down neatly wrapping her tail around her feet. Waverly smiled a little uneasily, this cat seemed a bit weird.

"Hey don't you sit down, Miss, you know you're not allowed on the table, down please" Nicole said to the cat.

"Er, T2?" Waverly asked watching the cat walk away

"I call her that because, well it's shorter than Thunderbolt for one and because her mum was called Thunderbolt as well" Nicole replied as she watched her cat walk to the edge of the table and jump down onto the chair next to her. It then sat there and looked at Nicole.

"Wasn't that confusing having two cats called the same thing?" Waverly asked going in for more pizza.

"It would have been, but her mum disappeared a little after she was born" Nicole answered as she stroked the cat who closed her eyes and purred at the touch. Nicole then gave her a small piece of pizza crust to eat. "She was the only kitten.."

Nicole was cut off when Waverly's phone started ringing, she looked at the screen to see Wynonna's name "It's Wynonna" she said to Nicole as she answered it

"Hey Sis, Why aren't you at the homestead like I told you to be?" Wynonna said with slight annoyance

"I was, but I wanted to …. check on Nicole" Waverly said looking sheepishly at Nicole across the table

"Check on her?" Wynonna questioned, why would she need to check on her? but she didn't have the time to question her more "Okay, fine, at least she has a gun…" She said slightly absent-mindedly

"What?"

"Well, that dead revenant from the diner this morning has gone AWOL from the morgue already and if he's got a mad-on for killing an Earp i'm just glad you're with someone armed. Anyway we need you to come and help us track him down and I want you where I can see you"

"Okay, i'll be there as quickly as I can" Waverly said hanging up and standing

"Is everything alright?" Nicole asked looking worried

"Oh yeah, You know Wynonna…" Waverly tried to make light of the call

"Apparently not" Nicole said with a slight smile

Waverly looked confused

"Well, you mentioned she could send me to hell and something about demons…." Nicole reminded

"Oh" Waverly laughed nervously as she walked towards the door "Yeah, that….. we'll have to talk about that…. AND the whole dangerous healing angel thing" She said pointedly "Don't think I didn't notice you try to avoid that" Waverly smiled and pointed at Nicole

"Yeah, I think we have a lot to talk about" Nicole smiled "Hey, do you need a lift to Wynonna?" Nicole asked as Waverly opened the front door

"Nah, I've got my Jeep" Waverly said turning around in the doorway.

"Okay, then…" Nicole said looked down at Waverly smiling, that must have been the weirdest hour of the year, but she was still so smitten with this woman and Waverly hadn't freak out or ran away, which was good.

Waverly smiled back, raised up onto her tiptoes and kissed Nicole softly. They pulled apart for an instant before Waverly kissed her again. Waverly finally pulled away and started to leave.

"I'll call you later" she said with a little wave

"Okay" Nicole said softly. She really had to stop getting so distracted and fuzzy headed when Waverly kissed her, she thought as she closed her front door.

She turned to see Thunderbolt sitting on the floor looking at her "Isn't she great?" she asked the cat as she made her way back to the table for more pizza. "And she didn't freak out about you know what" She smiled "Hopefully she'll be coming round here more often too" Nicole smiled even wider at the thought.

Thunderbolt meowed at Nicole and walked away to the window. Jumping up on the window sill she looked out into the street and watched as Waverly jumped into her Jeep, reversed out of the parking spot next to Nicole's police cruiser and drove away.

Thunderbolt turned to see Nicole eating more pizza and humming happily to herself, then turned back to watching the street outside and making herself comfortable on the window sill.