Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters that people recognize from other places. Added to the list, I don't own Harry Dresden or Molly Carpenter nor Bob the skull, it makes me really sad about the last two… but probably for the best.

Rose tried to relax as Ivy pulled the brush through her hair, "What the hell am I supposed to do?" She glanced up from where she was sprawled out over Ivy's legs.

The bell's on Ivy's hat tingled as she stretched her shoulders further into the white leather couch, "You could actually wear some clothes… it might make things easier."

Rose grumbled, "It's the middle of summer and it's ninety out. So no, I'm not going to wear clothes just because Lily's grandmother is offended by nudity. Why the hell did she have to come anyways?"

Ivy rolled her eyes, "How do you think Lily feels?"

"Hah she caved even before she got back, perfect little angel. I should have just stayed away after learning that she was coming back."

"You don't mean that…"

"No but she's gah, why can't I just hex her until she stops bitching."

"She doesn't bitch, she just starts into a speech about decorum every time she seems you… not the same as bitching."

Rose sighed loudly, "Not what I want to deal with right now. That and people are still asking how the therapy is going."

Ivy set the brush on the table, "Would it kill you to talk about it?"

Rose rolled over on her back and looked up at Ivy's face, "If I talk about it, then I'll have to deal with it, if I have to deal with it, then I might as well tell Gaby to deal with them."

Ivy tried to keep her eyes off her friend's chest, "I'm not sure that's such a bad idea."

Rose blinked, "What? Aren't you supposed to be the voice of reason?"

Ivy shook her head, "I'm just a kid, what do I know." She leaned in and sniffed at Rose, "Other than that you need a shower."

"Fine." She chuckled as she rolled off the couch and headed for the bathroom.

Ivy smiled as she watched her friend's naked behind leave the room.

Rose sighed as she slipped into the shower stall and turned on the water. "Maybe if I ask the moms they'll have something I can do rather than hang around base, hell I'd even willingly track down Andrew and bug him on his latest assignment, anything to keep Mrs. Weasley from complaining." She grabbed the soap and started running the slightly abrasive soap over her arm pits. "Should have asked Ivy if she wanted to scrub me. Bet that would scandalize Mrs. Weasley more, old hag." She sighed as she started soaping up her hands before gliding them down to her crotch. "Okay, that's unfair Rose, but damn it, I just wish I wasn't here." She winced as she noticed the lights flicker and darken, "ah fuck."

The soap clattered to the ground forgotten.

Molly Carpenter glanced at where Harry was standing, at better than six and a half feet he was a very tall wizard, which helped to lend a cramped feeling to the basement. Not that it wasn't already cramped but as everything had been cleared to the edges of the already small room so Molly could use the basement's summoning circle, it made it a bit claustrophobic for her. Not that she normally had issues with that, but when added to the Bob the Skull's constant jabbering about his latest romance novel, it might be a little understandable that her nerves were on edge. That was also probably why instead of Rosi'alian which was the name of the minor information spirit she was supposed to be summoning she said Rose instead. Which she totally blamed on Bob for talking about the two dozen roses his current romance novel's character had given the stupid girl he liked.

Harry winced slightly as his apprentice said the wrong world, he was about to suggest she work on her concentration when suddenly all of the hair on his arms tried to crawl off his arms. It was a very disconcerting, albeit only slightly painful feeling. He had opened his mouth to warn his apprentice when the candles around the summoning circle flickered and died.

Bob whistled as he noticed the soap covered naked girl shaped creature that appeared in the summoning circle, "You're my new best friend."

Harry coughed, "Somehow I don't think that was exactly the information spirit you were hoping to summon."

"Summon?" Rose glanced at the metal wrought summoning circle then at the various people in the small room. "Ah hell." Her eyes shot toward the girl that was built like a schoolboy's fantasy of a Scandinavian exchange student. Hair the color of spun white gold reached just past her shoulders, the tips having been died a variety of different colors the most notable being purple. The piercings on her face while not normally her cup of tea were giving her interesting ideas for what to do with her tongue. "Can I have her?"

Harry shook his head, "No."

Molly blinked, "Ah what type of spirit are you?"

Rose raised a hand and pressed it against the invisible barrier made by the metal circle on the ground. "You know, I hate these things. So ah why did you summon me?"

"Ah, sort of Bob's fault. He distracted me."

"Erm sorry but Bob is?"

"The skull."

The motes in the skull's eyes flashed almost angrily, "I'm an information spirit, not a skull."

Harry frowned, "So what's your name?"

"Rose S… hey aren't you supposed to already know that?"

"It was worth a try." He wasn't sure but the girl was either an extremely good actress or wasn't exactly sure what was going on, which was more than a bit strange as he was fairly sure that he had seen a slight amount of resistance when she had touched the edge of the circle. He glanced away as the girl folded her hands across her stomach as it did interesting things to the girl's perky breasts.

Rose frowned, "So what do I call you?"

Molly glanced at Harry, she knew she wasn't supposed to give her full name but well Molly wasn't really part of her name so it didn't exactly matter. "I'm Molly and this is Harry."

Rose glanced at the dripping water pulling on the ground under her, "Alright so I don't suppose you have a towel I can use?"

Harry frowned, "So you can what use it to pull one of us over the circle?"

Rose sighed, "Fine, never mind." She gestured to herself and used a touch of magic to cause the water to fall off her body and splash on the ground. "So what do you want to know?"

Harry's eyes narrowed, "What no threatening, no whining about releasing you?"

Rose shrugged, she didn't exactly want to go home right now and wasn't exactly sure she could, even had she wanted to. The warding circle looked extremely well made. "I've got time, so ask your question and I'll set the price and perhaps we can make a deal."

Molly glanced at Harry, "So…"

He glanced at the girl in the summoning circle then back toward his apprentice, "Up to you."

Molly nodded then reached over, grabbed a piece of paper off the desk with a pair of tongs and passed the piece of paper through the circle.

Rose frowned at the paper before deciding that the humans were just jumpy. She looked it over and blinked as she realized it was in an obscure demon language, fortunately for her one she recognized. "So you want me to translate it?"

Molly nodded, "If you can."

Rose grinned, "I can translate it. I'm not exactly sure how this works, but I suspect you're supposed to offer me something in exchange."

Molly glanced at Rose, "What do you want?"

Rose chuckled, "Let's see, how about Tuesdays?"

Molly choked, "What?"

Harry watched the girl in the circle grin, he was fairly sure the girl was joking but only sort of, it probably wasn't a good idea to make such an open ended deal, "Ah, that's not exactly a fair deal. Surely another spirit could translate the document."

Rose shrugged, "Perhaps, but if your information spirit couldn't what makes you think any common spirit would? So not Tuesday? What about your true love? First born?"

Harry shook his head, "No, and no."

Rose shrugged, "This is sort of fun. Let's see…"

Molly glanced at Harry, she was sort of curious if pizza would work for her as well as it seemed to for Harry, probably not but it might be worth trying. "How about pizza?"

"What type?"

"Pineapple?"

Rose shrugged as she shook the page, "Sure, I'll translate this for you for a pineapple pizza."

Molly nodded, "Alright fine."

Rose grinned, "Great, I missed dinner. Let's see, do you have a piece of paper I can write the translation on?"

Molly grinned as she used the tongs to hand the girl a blank piece of paper followed by a pen.

Rose glanced at Bob the Skull, "Your information spirit is a pervert isn't he?"

Harry sighed, "More or less yes."

Rose giggled as she worked on the translation, "Could be worse he could be a straight laced British butler type."

Molly headed for the stairs, "I'll go get the pizza."

Rose watched her climb up the stairs then whispered, "She single?"

Harry blinked looked at Bob and sighed, "He's never going to let me hear the end of this?"

"Of course not, can I watch?"

Rose shook her head, "No."

"So what are you?"

Rose shrugged, "Does it matter? Your apprentice summoned me, I'm not exactly able to break your summoning circle, and a cute girl is offering pizza to translate a page of demonic text. Does it really matter?"

Harry sighed, "Are you a demon? Or Faerie?"

Rose grinned, "I'm guessing I'm supposed to trade for those answers. What are you offering?"

Harry sighed, this was one of the down sides about not having the girl's full name, there was only so much he could do. "Perhaps a trade of information?"

"Do you have any memories of your apprentice naked you want to share?"

He blinked, "Ah…"

"Oh… I'll take that for a yes."

"Harry, I'm not sure you should trust her."

He shook his head, "Not mine to trade."

Molly climbed back down the ladder, "Shouldn't be too much longer." She smiled as she glanced at the new girl's face.

Rose smiled as she looked at Molly's pretty eyes, "Fine, tell me a bit about the set up on this dimension then."

If Bob could have frowned he would have, this creature was acting strange if he didn't know better, "Oh fuck," he opened himself up to his magical senses. Everything in his vision took on a green cast, "Oh fuck me. Boss get rid of her, de-summon her before the council finds her and kills you and your apprentice both."

She felt a lurch as everything fell away. She found herself walking in a room filled with windows, each window looking out on a version of Molly. Some were bright, powerful champions of good, some weren't. Before she could figure out how she got there the day dream abruptly ended.

Molly collapsed to the ground, stunned as the soul gaze broke. "What the hell?"

Rose looked around furiously, she raised a shield around herself, "What the hell was that?"

Bob's spirit particles twitched, "She's from outside," He looked at where Molly was recovering from a soul gaze, "that… that shouldn't be possible."

Rose frowned, "Outside?"

"Outside, as in outside the world, from the far realms."

Rose shrugged, "What the hell was with the mirror world and the creepy house of Molly world?"

Harry was reaching for his blasting rod, "Soul gaze, but that shouldn't be possible, you need a soul. What type of creature are you?"

Rose looked nervously around, "Isn't every thing you summon from outside?"

Harry felt the fear crawling up his spine, last time something from outside had come up against him he'd almost died but she wasn't acting like he expected. "Fine, one memory for one answer."

Bob's eyes flashed, "Harry, don't be an idiot."

Molly glanced between Rose and Harry, fear grips everyone a certain way, some run, some fight and some sit there with a glazed expression as they try to sort out what they've seen. Though to be fair she hadn't exactly been expecting to see a burning star of green fire for the girl's aura and soul. Nor all of the images of naked girls that she had witnessed. She was a bit startled to realize that in the confusion she had dropped the summoning spell and that the girl was still standing there. She glanced up at the girl with fearful eyes, "Why are you still here? The spell is done, over, out of juice, you should be able to leave."

Rose rolled her eyes, "With the summoning circle charged?" She shook her head, "I'm afraid not."

Harry pulled his amulet off his neck and presented it toward the outsider, "Be gone."

"If you finish that with foul creature I'm going to be annoyed. Plus I translated, where is my pizza."

Harry glanced at his pentacle in confusion, "Shouldn't that do something to you?"

Rose rolled her eyes, "Why the hell would it? I'm getting really annoyed. And if you don't have that skull stop leering at me I'm going to shatter it."

Bob shut his mouth, after all maybe the circle could hold the outsider and maybe it was all just an act, but honestly he was fairly sure he didn't want to find out.

Harry glanced at the girl, she still looked human to him, if a rather angry decently pretty brown haired female type of human with goose bumps over her pale naked flesh. Not that he was paying much attention to the naked part, as the girl looked like she should still have been in high school. Not that he was exactly sure how old she was, but he figured he would error on the side of caution. He sighed when he heard a pounding coming from the door upstairs, "Don't kill anyone." He started up the ladder.

Rose sighed, "I don't suppose you have a towel or a robe it's rather cold down here."

Molly walked over toward her extra clothes bag, "Let me see what I have."

Rose frowned when Molly tossed her a shirt with writing on it and she read it, "Buffy the vampyre slayer? You've got to be fucking joking… Okay funny haha, where the hell are you guys." She turned back to Molly, "Who put you up to this… which one?"

Molly looked at the insane girl nervously, "What do you mean? You never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer? It was a great show. Even if the creator Mr. Wells is a total nerd."

Rose blinked, "Andrew Wells?"

"You've heard of him?" She really couldn't figure out how the outsider if that is what she was knew of a writer.

Rose rubbed the bridge of her nose, sighed and slipped the large shirt over her head. It wasn't perfect but it did help a bit with the cold. Or rather the whispered warming charm she cast on the shirt did. She sighed as her whispered fire charm fizzed as it touched the shield. She couldn't help thinking that she should bring a bottle of acid everywhere with her just to deal with this type of crap. "So I don't suppose you can let me out?"

Molly shrugged, "Do you promise not to hurt anyone in this house?

"If you let me go, I promise to not harm anyone in this house for a minimum of twenty four hours."

Molly nodded, "I'll talk to Harry about it."

Rose sighed as Molly left, she was really starting to hate summoning circles and crap like that.

Molly frowned as she dug out enough change out of her pockets to pay the pizza delivery man. "Thanks."

The guy frowned when the girl shut the door in his face without giving him a tip, he muttered "Bitch." as he headed back to his car.

Molly glanced at Harry, "So you think it's safe to let her out?"

Harry sighed, "Probably not but you're the one that soul gazed her."

"I wouldn't trust her in the girls locker room but other than a very intense green star for a soul she seemed nice enough."

He sighed as the doorbell rang, "This can't be good. Get the girl her pizza." He waited until Molly had vanished down the ladder to the subbasement before walking over and opening the door, "Yes?"

Carlos Ramirez frowned, "Yes? That's all I get? I travel half way across the world and that's what I get? Not even a hey do you want a beer? Or what brings you here?"

Harry shook his head, "Oh please, one little trip through the Nevernever and you don't have to deal with airport security. Don't give me that. As for receiving an invite you know be better than that."

Carlos Ramirez shrugged as he stepped across the threshold and into the apartment. "How about that beer?"

Harry chuckled as he walked over to the old fashioned ice box and pulled a beer from the depths. It wasn't that he really wanted a warden in his home right now but Carlos was a friend of sorts and it would look fairly strange to ask him to leave. "So what brings you by?" He passed the beer over.

"Had business in town, thought I would stop by, you seem a bit jumpy though. Had any more red vampire attacks?"

"Little things, nothing to horrible."

Carlos nodded his face grave, "So you wouldn't know what just blew out half of the council's wards in this city, say within the last hour?"

Harry was trying to keep from sweating as he watched his friend's face, "Could be the reds but I haven't heard anything. I'll keep my eyes out."

Carlos nodded, "Some of the council are mighty curious… Luccio gave me the heads up. I should be going though."

Harry nodded, "Thanks."

Carlos shrugged then downed the last of his beer in a gulp, "Anything you need help with just tell us."

"If I find out something…"

"I'll be the first to know, right." He glanced past Harry into the rest of the apartment. "If you do have anything you don't want the council to know about, you might consider moving it, sooner rather than later. Take care Harry."

Molly glanced at Harry when he finally made it down the steps. She gestured to the half empty box of pizza, "She cheated, said that I had promised the box for one page."

Rose smiled, "Hey what do you expect? I mean it's my job to get the best type of deal I can right?"

Bob's voice floated out of his skull, "I like her."

Harry sighed, "We've got bigger issues. Something went wrong with some of the council's wards in the city. Probably in relation to your friend here. Any luck banishing her?"

Molly sighed, "Nope."

Rose glanced up from her continued translation work, "You know, I am right here. Anyways, you're going to want to know what this document says. It's a ritual, a ritual that could black out a city in preparation for final night."

Harry blinked, "How do I know you're telling the truth? What does the ritual involve?"

Rose smiled, "Well as I'm fairly full on pizza, let's see how about the girl's clothes."

Molly blushed slightly, "Hey now."

"Fine, just spring me from the circle and I promise I'll be on my best behavior."

Harry raised his blasting rod up, he wasn't entirely sure it would do anything but he wasn't completely sure it wouldn't either. "Go ahead and take down the ward Molly."

Molly carefully took down the ward circle's magic before stepping back.

Rose relaxed as she stepped over the metal ward. "Much better, I would say boo, but I'm sure you would blast me out of pure spite. Can we go someplace warmer?"

"Sure, up the ladder with you both." Harry reached over and snagged Bob as Molly hurried up the ladder.

"You just want to see up my shirt. Naughty, naughty." Rose scurried up after Molly. She glanced around the living room and noticed all of the candles scattered around the room, "No lights? You're taking this whole wizard thing a bit too seriously aren't you?"

Molly shrugged, "Tech tends fry around us."

Rose blinked as a very large dog walked in from what she could only assume was the bedroom. "Huh, next you're going to tell me that's his familiar."

Mouse grinned at the young witch in front of him before he shook his head in a manor that might have said, "Nah, he's my familiar."

Rose chuckled, "Okay, okay I see." She held her hand out to Mouse, "If you want to sniff." She paused for a second, "Well you are a dog." She chuckled, "Not my fault. So are we good?"

Mouse tromped over to lick her hand before padding over to the couch and sitting down.

Rose rolled her eyes, "Fine, I'll pet you."

Harry frowned, "You always that good with animals?"

She shrugged, "Nah, just the smart ones." She glanced over at where the overly large cat called Mister was laying down in the corner. "My sister is the cat lover."

Harry glanced between Mouse and the girl on the couch, he hadn't found anything that could fool Mouse yet, so perhaps the girl was safe, though in his life safe was a relative term. "So what can you tell me about the 'demon' text?"

"Where did you get it?"

"Off a red court vampire."

"Courts?"

"Yeah, three types, white are like spirit vampires, black are like Dracula, and well the reds are demon's that can take a human form. Anyways one of them had that when I killed him."

Rose frowned, "Some rather dark magic, perfect for vampires, not too many other groups would want three days of darkness. Anyways second page is the list of ingredients. If you keep a look out for the supplies then you might be able to catch the one responsible."

Harry nodded, "So now that you're free are you going to head home?"

Rose shrugged, "Not really in a hurry to. My half sister Lily's grandmother is on the warpath about proper etiquette, not to mention bitching at me to find a proper boyfriend."

Molly frowned, "What's wrong with your current date?"

"She's a girl."

"Well that does tend to make things harder."

Rose chuckled, "Yeah, I mean it's not that I don't like guys, it's just that I like my girl and don't want to give her up. Why do people have to be so funny about relationships?"

Molly glanced at Harry, "No clue."

Harry sighed as he thought back on several of the past relationships he had had, "No clue."

Rose laid the translated pages on the coffee table, she turned and smiled at Molly as the phone rang, "Hopefully I didn't do too bad as a summon, next time perhaps you can be the one that just came from the shower." She turned to wink at Mouse, "I'll bring you a chew toy next time."

Molly smiled as the other girl vanished in a flash of green, "No one is going to believe us are they?"

Harry chuckled, "Not likely, I've seen a lot of strange things in my time and I'm not even sure I do."

Molly glanced toward the phone, "You going to get that?"

Harry sighed, "Probably should." He picked up the phone only to hear Susan Rodriquez voice on the other end, "They've taken our daughter."

Rose sighed as she reappeared in the shower only to find it still running and the water still nice and hot.

Ivy glanced up as a dripping Rose walked back into the room wearing a strange t-shirt that was also dripping wet. "Aren't you supposed to wait until you're dry to put on your clothes?"

Rose glanced at the snickering Harlequin wannabe Trixie, "Laugh it up girl, you're next."

Ivy barely had time to try to dodge off the couch before she felt herself being lifted by a gentle yet unbreakable force that proceeded to drag her toward the exit and eventually the pool.

Gabrielle snickered as a naked Ivy flew through the air and landed in the pool. She turned and glanced at Lenora and Lillian, "Eight?"

Lenora snickered, "The throw or the splash?"

"The splash of course."

"Maybe an eight point five."

Ivy sputtered as she adjusted her jester's hat, "Hey that was at least a nine." She started swimming toward the group.

Gabrielle chuckled, "Fine, I can see an eight point nine."

Ivy glared, "Everyone's a critic."

"So what are you in for?"

"That's almost a Xander worthy line." She shrugged, "Rose apparently wanted to toss someone in the water."

Lenora frowned at Lillian, "Because of course that makes perfect sense."

"She was being lectured by Mrs. Weasley again."

"Okay never mind, it does make perfect sense."

Rose scowled as she walked up to the spot on the back lawn where her sister's were sun bathing sans clothes, "So how come she isn't bothering the hell out of you?"

Gabrielle shrugged, "We have a glamour over the area."

Rose blinked, "Why didn't I think of that?"

"Because you keep thinking that the problem should be solved not just avoided. I figure if we avoid her long enough she'll get bored and go bother Ron and William."

Lillian twitched, "It's almost enough to convince a girl not to shag the Weasley twins as that could lead to having her for a mother in law."

Lenora chuckled, "Still someone should tell her to chill out."

Ivy pulled herself up on the edge of the pool, she looked over the girls lounging, "So if you're done using me as a cannonball, I'm going to go find some girls for the water balloon party."

Rose waved her away, "Nah, go for it."

Lenora glanced at Lillian, "So, water balloons?"

Her twin giggled at her, "Sure why not."

Rose glanced at Gabrielle, "So you think if we had a nice large naked orgy of fun with all of the girls that she would finally get the message that we didn't need nor want her opinions?"

"More like heart failure."

"Damn, I think we would get in trouble for that."

"Alas." Gabrielle had a wistful look on her face as she gazed out over the pool.