Serina looked around, "Nightmare!"
"You've had your hands full haven't you?" he chuckled behind her.
She turned around and grinned, "Enjoying the break from all the paperwork?" He nodded happily as she sighed, "You know what's happened." He nodded again while she walked up to him, "I'm going to have problems with Peter and need everything in my arsenal to fight him. Got anything that could help?"
He eyed her carefully, already hearing her thoughts, "Like what?"
She smirked, "Got anything to give me permanent cat instincts?" She smiled, "I don't care if it changes any physical appearances," then added as an afterthought, "Cat ears and a tail might be fun."
He chuckled, "Anything that happens will be permanent." She nodded as he gave her a pink bottle. "Have you checked you other vial lately?"
She blinked, "But I've only been here for a day Nightmare, how can it have anything in it," she trailed off as she looked at the almost full vial, then looked up at the smirking incubus, "How?"
"That potion you drank was different from normal. Instead of interacting with all the role holders for many time changes, you just have to meet with everyone at least one. I did this because I wasn't sure if your health could handle it here in Wonderland," he explained.
She rolled her eyes, "Says the constantly ill incubus that refuses to go to the doctor."
He ignored that comment and motioned to the pink bottle, "Put it in your pocket and it'll be there when you wake up. Drink it as soon as you wake up and have fun with the changes!"
Everything faded and Serina opened her eyes to see Boris watching her as she dug in her pocket and pulled out the pink bottle. She sat up and grinned, "I knew he would help."
"What is that suppose to do?" he asked cautiously.
She didn't give him time to respond as she popped to top, "Hello cat instincts, here I come!" and downed the sweet tasting liquid as he gapped at her like she was crazy. He was about to get onto her when movement on top of her head caught his attention. She quickly pulled her hair out of the ponytail and ran her hands through her brown hair gently until she felt something furry and ran to the bathroom to look in the mirror. She gasped at the pair of perfectly black cat ears sat perched on her head, twitching at everything that sounded new until she heard the ticking of a clock and look at the doorway to the bathroom and noticed Boris giving her a shielded look with his arms crossed.
Her ears instinctively went back as she looked worried, "Y-You're not mad," she took a small step away from him, "are you Boris?" When he kept quiet, she began to panic as her ears flattened to her head and tears pricked her eyes, "I thought this would help with everything." The longer he stayed quiet, the more she began to panic until her chest clenched painfully making her breath hitch and clutch her chest as she panted. "Say something Boris," she pleaded as her heart thrummed painfully against her chest and tears trail down her cheeks as he watched her.
Yeah, he was upset with her for doing something like this. Something could've went wrong. He was more made at Nightmare than her. And the other thing was that he was fighting back from kissing her senseless.
A noise caught his attention as he finally took in her pained appearance and panicked. She had tears trails down her cheeks, ears flat against her head, and clutching her chest tightly trying to breathe and clear her fading vision. He shot forward and caught her as she started to sway, "Rin!"
She looked up at him and whimpered, "Please tell me you're not mad at me."
He shook his head and held her close, "No, I was worried," then mumbled, "I'm mad at Nightmare." He picked her up making her whimper again and looked down, "You have a tail too?" She nodded painfully as he helped her out of her pants, only to be dazed at the underwear until she gave a strained chuckle, "Sorry." He seemed to be thinking about something then picked her up and carried her to her bed and laid her down. "Do you have any more of that medicine?" She nodded and pointed towards the pants she came to Wonderland in. He jumped over and searched all the pockets until he pulled out a small bag and carried it over to Serina as she pulled out a round white pill and a different yellow one, then tried to sit up until Boris helped her up and gave her a water bottle for her to take the medicine. "Give me a minute, you're gonna need different pants now."
Before she could say anything, he disappeared and left her on the bed to realize that she was only in her tank top and boy cut underwear and blushed until she noticed movement to the side and looked over intrigued. By the time Boris came back, he took one look at the girl on the bed and fell over laughing after he shut the door and dropped the bags. She was lying there, petting her long fluffy black tail with a silly grin on her face. She noticed he was back and smiled, "Look what I found, it's so soft!" She blinked then tried to clear her head, "I can never get use to that second pill. It's a nerve pill to relax me."
He laughed as he pulled out several pairs of pants for her to pick from, "I'd say it worked." She stuck her tongue out at him only to make a face and touch her rough tongue confused but interested. "Come on, you can't go around in just your underwear all day," he tried to get her to sit up but she hissed in pain.
She huffed slightly, "You'd like that, wouldn't you?" He sent her a look and decided to get back at her and reached up to rub her ears gently. "What are you…" She tailed off as a soft rumble answered his touches, making her blush and him laugh until she finally smacked his hand away and grabbed a pair of black pants and noticed they all had places for a tail to come through. After fighting with her tail to get through the hole, she was dressed, sitting on the bed, and drinking her water as her chest finally calmed down. She noticed Boris watching her chest and shrugged, "It happens. If I get too worked up about something, I have a panic attack that makes everything worse."
He looked down guiltily until she stood carefully and grinned at him, "Wanna go freak out the people?"
He stood up and hugged her tightly, "You sure you're okay now Rin?"
"So sure," she began as she nuzzled his neck and smiled, "that I'm taking you up on your offer to move in with you. If it's still up for grabs." He pulled back with wide eyes as she studied his face until he grinned and hugged her tightly.
They walked outside and began to carry her things towards Boris' room when several gasps caught their attention and turned to see Nightmare, Gray, Gowland, and all of the other role holders. Nightmare walked forward, "Well, I'm glad to see that the potion worked like it was suppose to." Boris growled at him, thinking of all the ways to kill the incubus until he looked at Serina, "Serina, this is the rest of the role holders. Everyone, this is the newest foreigner Serina."
"Why does she look like a cat now?" the twins asked everyone's question.
"She wanted the instincts and any other change was just a side effect," Nightmare stated as Boris pulled her closer, feeling protective, and chuckled, "Serina, remember me telling you about the special vial?" She nodded and quickly pulled it out, staring at it along with Boris and Gowland. She looked back at Nightmare, "Drink it and make your decision."
"How is it already full, she just got here yesterday?" Gowland looked confused.
Nightmare chuckled nervously as Gray gave him a look, "Serina has a heart condition that Boris and Julius found out about. Because of it, I didn't know if she would be able to handle the stress of Wonderland without it literally killing her."
Blood scowled, "She did well enough to disarm us."
Boris beamed and hugged Serina proudly as the incubus continued, "The potion she took would make her vial fill up after only meeting a role holder once."
She glanced around at everyone, then noticed the sad look on Boris' face and downed the nasty liquid again quickly, "It doesn't taste better the second time around either but why does it taste different." The cat began to sulk away when she caught his wrist, "I'm staying here." She winked at Gowland then locked eyes with the cat, "I chose you Boris, so you're not getting away from me that easily."
Nightmare grinned, "I tweaked it. Listen Serina." Her new ears perked up as she caught the sound of her heart that seemed to be slowing down to a normal speed and gapped at the incubus with wide eyes. "I got one of those pills of yours and managed to make it permanent."
Boris pushed his ear against her chest and listened as her heart lulled into a calm and steady rhythm, no skips, no speeding up. He looked up and grinned, "Its fixed Rin!" He hugged her tightly and she hugged him back crying.
She let go and hugged Nightmare, still crying, "Thank you." He returned the hug as Gray and Gowland smiled until she pushed the man away and flipped away in time to dodge a sword. She growled, "No Ace."
"Awe, you dodged again!" he whined as he pulled his sword out of the ground.
She dodged around until she smacked him in the back of the head and took his sword away as the others stared with their mouths open. "How many time changes has it been since we agreed on a date to fight?"
"Three," he grinned happily.
She smacked her forehead, "I said I would after 80."
"I thought it was thir-" Serina quickly elbowed Boris and grinned making him catch on to her plan. "She's right you crazy knight. It hasn't been 80 time changes yet."
Ace pouted as Serina tossed his sword back to him and watched him carefully as he put it away and sighed, "Well, ready to go get my things Boris?" He nodded with a grin as Gowland started laughing making the two cringe.
"It looks like I'll have to make sure to knock from now on!"
That's it!
*grins happily*
Let me know what you guys think!
P.S.
If any of you guys were wondering what was with her heart condition it's called Dysautonomia. Everything about it's symptoms are true. I have it and it sucks! *anime cries* I've been without caffiene for a year now and I want my Dr. Pepper dammit! *snickers* You guys should've seen my heart doctor's face when I told her that I would drink 2 or 3 Amps when I worked at one place. She stared at me like I had grown a second head and told me with a concerned face that I should have heart several heart attacks by now.
Eh..who knew that your heart going close to 200 bmp wasn't good for you? *taps chin* Though now that I think about it, that would explain all the times I passed out within a year..always seemed to happen in a bathroom. *blinks* made me think my bathroom was haunted.
Oh well, all's good now. Tired of water and I still want my Dr. Pepper!
