"William. Focus!" a dark haired girl growled smacking him outside the head.

"OW! What the hell Serena?!" he growled back.

"You need to focus. How can you expect to pass chemistry when you can't even pay attention!?"

"Sor-ry," he snipped back at her.

"Alright. What's on your mind?"

"Excuse me?"

"You're all emo and depress-y and shit again. You haven't been like this since you first moved back," she stated. He glared at her very similar to a well-known vigilante who spent his time dressed like a bat in Gotham. However, Serena just took a sip of her pop, "And don't look so offended. It's not a good look for you."

He eventually dropped the glare settling for a smaller glare which looked more like a pout.

"I've been missing some people in Kadic is all."

"Aw!" she squealed pulling William in a hug, "That's adorable!"

"Yeah yeah. You tell anyone and I'll burn your books."

"No you won't! You're as big of a teddy bear as your 'brother'!"

"Shut up," he growled. Outside the family, only Serena had figured out that Willis was not William's… brother. Though she didn't know the details, she found out that, in her own words, he was a fucked up happy go lucky clone naïve of the world and all that it does taken under the wing of his DNA donor. William wasn't going to correct her. The truth was worse.

"So who you missing? The Japanese girl… Yuri was it?"

"Yumi. And no."

"Oh! So your competition ulcer!"

"Ulrich. And again no," he said trying not to laugh.

"Then the smart two… pinkie and the brain."

"No. Not Jeremie and Aelita. Odd."

"OH! The guy who acts like he's from Alice in Wonderland!"

"Uh… that's one way to put it I guess," he said thinking back to the scrawny (my bad svelte) cat boy in purple. Wonderland wasn't that far off in comparison.

"Aw. It's okay to be sad sometimes William."

William's eye began to twitch before he smirked back.

"Whatever you say Mister Rodgers!"

"GAH! You know that man creeps me out!"

Willis smiled as he watched his 'brother' and friend arguing about whatever it was that teens would argue about. His hand was wrapped around his necklace. A familiar chill ran through his body. Being a polymorphic specter he knew what it meant. XANA was awake. And he was close. Close enough to make him watch William even closer. XANA was in Happy Harbor. But perhaps… it wasn't entirely a bad thing. Oh who was he kidding? Jeremie had all but pounded into his being that XANA was a bad thing. Being in Happy Harbor was proof wasn't it? Wasn't it tracking him and William?

-.-

"You know what this means right?"

"We have no secrets?" Jaime restated more than anything.

"N-well there is that. But now we can't play poker or Go Fish against each other!" he cried throwing his arms around Jaime pretending to actually cry before stopping and putting on a face with no emotion, "On the bright side we'd make one hell of a Euchre team."

Jaime blinked.

"What am I going to do with you?"

"Feed me?" he begged with wide eyes.

"Fine. Let's see what's in the kitchen."

"YAY!"

Humans…

I second that.

"Ugh… mind tech," Odd mocked back at the two. Jaime stifled a laugh resulting in Odd jabbing him in the ribs to let his laugh out. Jaime grabbed Odd's arm to get him to stop. Odd in turned squirmed, trying to grab Jaime's arm resulting in them wrestling down the hall with various snips from their invasive tech telling them to stop being foolish. Both just laughed (and squealed in Odd's case) down the hall until they rolled into someone's legs. By this point Odd was on the ground looking up while Jaime pinned him. Odd rolled his eyes up to the person they had run into.

"Tilly tilly! A bluebird!"

It was Jaime's turn to look up. His face paled when he saw Nightwing and Robin standing in the hall.

"Ah, Lo siento."

Nightwing gave a small smile.

"Having fun you two?" he asked.

"Loads! Buggy here is awesome!" Odd said before anyone could stop him.

"Buggy?" Robin asked. Odd nodded his head with a shit eating grin.

"Beetle's a bug. Therefore… BUGGY!"

Nightwing laughed at the dual hair colored boy.

"Makes sense."

Odd's smile grew even bigger.

"Now bluebird, me and buggy here need to gets some sustenance. So we gots to go!" he said slipping out of Jaime's relaxed grip from the distraction. Odd quickly stood up and grabbed Jaime by the collar before dragging him off toward the kitchen.

When they finally reached the kitchen Jaime was no longer being dragged, now watching Odd with amusement pull an assortment of food from the fridge. Including a gallon jug of… chocolate milk?

"When did we start stocking chocolate milk?"

"Oh. I like it. So I make it with the milk and syrup. So they now buy me my own."

Jaime didn't even comment.

High sugar and fat content. Not advisable.

"Well who asked you Mr. High-and-mighty-queen-bee?"

"Queen bee?"

"Well he's acting like one," Odd said trying to get a glass from the upper shelf.

"Maybe I should get that for you," Jaime said walking up towards Odd who just scoffed.

"I can do it," he said. Not a moment after gravity did it's work. He stepped on a banana he planned on eating and slipped backward. But in hero's work, when is anything even that simple? No he didn't fall on his back or butt. He landed on all fours. Ears twitching and tail swishing. Where the hell did they come from?!

"I don't know why… but I'm feeling kind of funny," Odd said in a calm voice. The ears on top his head where purple with small pink streaks. Almost like a cat with the way they were perched. And the tail was very similar. It had a base of a dark lilac color. The very tip was a darker purple almost violet. The same color streaked about here and there in his tail with similar and much less noticed pink streaks matching his ears. Odd turned his head to see Jaime's shock. Jaime was surprised to see his dark eyes about a shade or two lighter, his pupil, thinner, a slit if you will. Purple triangles were above his eyebrows and on his cheeks.

He looked like a freaking cat.

BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And now I'm done. Please review!