Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the Power Rangers TV show; the concept and everything belongs to Saban.
Writer's note: I took some liberties with the story line of Power Rangers, although I did try to stick with it as much as possible. I also don't know much about magic or Wicca, so I'm pretty much treading in dark waters there. If something's wrong, I apologize for that, and please realize that I'm trying to do the best I can with the little that I know. Margery and Tabitha are the brain child of myself and a friend in Texas (I have moved WAY too much for one person!). Please don't take them.
Queensrÿche, Speak
The next day, Adam picked up Maggie and Tabitha for the wedding, and they slipped in and sat in back of the church. Rocky sat next to them. "I thought you were one of the groomsmen," Maggie whispered.
"Nope. Just standing in for Tommy. And Adam was standing in for Jason." He pointed up at the two muscular men who stood next to Billy, neither of whom she had seen in a long time. "He was at a tournament for some of his students yesterday. His do-jo won first in overall."
"How did your's do?"
"Didn't go. I knew Aisha would kill me if I tried." Adam joined them, then, slipping an arm around Maggie's shoulders and squeezing her.
"How are you doing?"
"Much better." A good night's sleep and restful dreams had done wonders for her. She leaned comfortably against Adam, then heard snickering beside her. Turning, she found Tabitha and Rocky trying very hard not to burst into laughter, and looking at her and Adam. Her face flushed.
"See! I told you!" Tabitha whispered.
"Told him what?" Maggie asked.
"That it wouldn't take long before you two were a couple. It's hovered in the back of every reading you did for us."
"I already knew that," Rocky said.
"Sh," Adam hissed as the organ started again, and they settled down to watch the wedding. The reception followed the wedding immediately, over at the youth center, and that was where Maggie met Justin. The blue in his aura came as no surprise at all.
"So you're Maggie," was all he said, with a huge smile.
"And you're Justin. I guess Adam did a lot of talking about both of us," she grinned, a little surprised at how young he was. He laughed, then was swept off into the dancing by a girl about his age. She turned to find Adam regarding her with a smile.
"You're dying to ask me," he said.
"How old was Justin when you guys went to Muranthias?"
"Twelve."
"Twelve?" She stared at him. "I guess it worked out, but man, that's young. How old were you when you became a Ranger?"
"Sixteen. A very young sixteen," he added, grinning. "It was an interesting experience."
"I believe that. So, can you answer me a question?"
"Sure. At least, I hope so. What is it?"
"Jason's got the weirdest... feel I've tasted yet. Where did he come from?"
"Angel Grove," the man said behind her, and she and Adam turned to face him.
"Let's go sit down," Adam said, and let them over to a secluded table.
"Used to this, are you?" Jason asked, chuckling.
"Oh, yeah," he grinned. "Her questions are never ending."
"Jason, how are you feeling? I mean, the Gold powers really took something out of you." She paused. "They weren't from here, were they?"
Jason slowly shook his head. "That never ceases to amaze me," he said, looking at Adam and sounding out of breath. "Does she always surprise you like that? Does she surprise everyone like that?"
"Yes. I think she almost gave Tommy a heart attack when she told us the first time, from his reaction in the command center that night. He was pretty sure someone had told her, and for some reason he thought it was me."
As if you could talk to me about anything at that time, she thought with a grin, never mind about the biggest secret of your life. "He knows differently now, doesn't he?" Maggie asked.
"Yeah, I think so. Especially when you Looked at us and knew we'd changed, and that Billy had lost his powers. No one had talked to you. We hadn't had a chance." He chuckled. "I wish I'd had a camera for Tanya's face, and for yours. It was the funniest thing I'd seen. Kim's face yesterday was priceless."
Jason nodded. "Yeah, I believe that."
"So, tell me about the Gold powers!" Maggie demanded.
He chuckled. "They were from Triforia, where the people are... triplets, sort of, but they inhabit the same body, or they can take a triple form, or something like that." He shook his head. "Billy could explain it better."
"Yeah, but he's busy, and I'd never understand," Maggie grinned.
Jason laughed. "Our DNA is just too different. But you knew that." He shrugged. "I'm fine, actually."
"Good. I tried to tell you something was wrong, but I never seemed to be able to. I could see you were going to be ill. I'm glad you came through it okay." She reached out to touch his hand, and snatched her own back at the contact. "Whoa. What happened to you?"
He shifted, uncomfortable, and glanced at Adam. "How much does she know about Muranthias?"
Maggie's eyebrows went up. "That was you? Lady Light, no wonder you feel so..." She shook her head. "Never mind. No explanations necessary. Are you recovered from that?"
He took a deep breath. "Yes. Thanks. Just the occasional nightmare."
She nodded. "I can understand that. I'm glad you didn't stay on the wrong side."
"Thanks." He paused suddenly. "You were the reason Adam rushed out so fast when we got back. He called home, then almost literally vanished out Tommy's front door. Then the others got a phone call, and Kim and I were just left at Tommy's with nothing to do for about half an hour, and everyone was a little sad when they came back."
"That Kim?" She pointed to the woman she'd met yesterday, who danced by with her fiancé. Jason nodded, and Maggie scowled at him. "You have some serious stuff to get through before those nightmares go away. I could tell you were in Muranthias. I couldn't tell that she was." He looked at her, startled. "I mean it, Jason. There is something unresolved, the.... it's still in you. Faded, but her's is gone." She took a deep breath. "Once you let it go, Maligore will be completely gone. And She will thank you for it."
"She who?"
"The Lady. He defiled her long enough...." She shook her head. "That was for you guys to deal with, and you did. Now, you have to let it go, Jason."
He looked utterly confused. "What?"
"What happened?"
His face went blank. "Nothing."
She laughed gently. "Jason, your aura doesn't lie. He took the good from you, didn't he."
Jason nodded slowly. "How do you know?"
"Hey, guys, what's up?" Tommy asked, standing next to the table. Maggie jumped to her feet and went to hug him. To her surprise, she could feel red, green, and white in him, but the white was stronger than the other two. But that could wait. "Did you know Jason still has nightmares from Muranthias?" she asked.
"Yeah." He shrugged as they both sat down.
"I bet they're night terrors and he wakes up screaming, or almost, and I bet you anything that Kim rarely, if ever, dreams about it, and only as a regular nightmare." She looked pointedly at Jason. "Am I right?"
He nodded, looking for all the world like a deer caught in headlights. Maggie stifled a giggle; this was serious. "I can't speak for Kim, though."
Adam got up with a smile. "I'll go ask her." He returned shortly and sat down by Maggie again. "It's true. She says she hasn't had a nightmare about it in years, and even then they are just the normal nightmares, no waking up screaming or anything."
"She didn't try to kill her best friend," Jason said softly.
Maggie raised an eyebrow. "Jase, man, it wasn't really you," Tommy broke in before she could say anything. "And that evil... I could feel it, both from you and from the pit when you had me pinned. I didn't have any protection from it then, remember?" He took a deep breath. "If I hadn't thought you were worth it, I wouldn't have pulled you out of that pit. There was good in you, or I would have dropped you. I could feel that, too."
Maggie stared at him. "You would have?" Adam choked out.
Tommy colored slightly, but nodded. "Jase, there was no way I was going to let that thing loose on the earth, never mind as Devatox's husband. And much as I had depended on you in the past, I knew you'd rather die than be turned loose as you were. Besides, right after that, you had ample time to get me again, but you wandered off, remember? As if you didn't know what to do, who you were... I don't know. We never had a chance to sit and talk about it."
Jason took a deep, trembling breath. "Well." He seemed unable to think of anything else to say. Maggie looked at Adam and smiled: he was focused on Jason so hard she didn't think anything would distract him. After a few minutes, Jason smiled, tremulously. "Well, okay. That gives me something to think about."
"Talk to Kim," Tommy said. "Heck, talk to me. I've been there, too, and Kat as well. It's not easy to deal with, but it is possible."
"You?" Maggie asked, turning to look at him. "You've been three different colors, and evil? Good grief, what do you do for an encore, gargle peanut butter?"
Jason laughed. "Good question." He looked at Tommy expectantly.
Tommy's eyes flashed, and he grinned. "That is for me and Kat to know, and you not to find out," he said. Maggie grinned back and Looked at him, and the grin faded from her face. He raised an eyebrow at her. "And speaking of Kat, she'll think I abandoned her. I'll talk to you later, right, Jase?" Was that haste in his voice? He stood up fast enough, and she smiled. I've done it again. Poor Tommy.
"Yes," Jason said.
"Tell Kat to call me," Maggie said, and he nodded as he faded back into the crowd. He'd better. She has some explaining to do. "What did he mean, he didn't have any protection from the evil?" she asked, turning back to the other two.
"He took his helmet off to try to break the spell," Adam said.
"Oh," she said, still confused. He smiled at her.
"So," Jason said, turning Maggie's attention to him, "did Adam fill you in on everything?"
"No, not quite. There was no way to do that. I couldn't even tell him what all I did." She grinned. "Secrets." Oh, boy, and we haven't stopped keeping them, have we?
"I guess you traveled a lot?" he asked. She nodded. "Where did you go?"
She laughed. "Everywhere. I ended up in Kentucky, New York, Chicago, and a little place called Eden, Wyoming, which was anything but an Eden. I'm hoping it's better there, now."
"What was in Eden Wyoming?" Jason asked.
"A werewolf. There were ghosts in Chicago, that I wouldn't care to meet again." She shuddered. "And other things that nightmares are made of." Not to mention some of the wildest dreams, she thought to herself.
"That explains a few things," Adam said softly.
"Oh? Like what?" Maggie asked.
"Like... Did you meet a vampire? I didn't understand the reference to the Count."
"Yes. In Toronto. But he was good."
"A good vampire. Very interesting," Jason said. "I think I'll stick with my own nightmares, thank you. They don't include unnatural things." Maggie stared at him, then started laughing. "What?" he asked.
"Those are natural things. What you guys fought, those were unnatural, created by someone or something other than the Goddess." She smiled. "But I'm really glad I didn't have to face them. I don't think it would have worked out well."
Metallica, Devil's Dance
Maggie woke groggily to the ringing phone and snatched it up, mindful of the cat curled at her back. "Yes?" she mumbled.
"Hi," Kat's cheery voice greeted her on the other end. "Have a late night?"
"Not really, I just can't take catnaps like you can. Hang on." She set the phone down, indulged in a yawn and a stretch, and picked it up again. "Oops, sorry," she said to Tabby, who she'd accidentally knocked down. "Okay, I'm a little awake, now," she informed Kat. "Now, you have some explaining to do. What happened to Tommy?"
Kat's delighted laugh made her smile. "He said you might have figured it out. Can we come over, or meet, or something? I don't think we want to talk on the phone about this."
"Um, yeah, that's a good idea. Come on over here. Give me half an hour to get feeling alive again, okay?"
"Okay. It'll take that long to get Tommy to wake up." She chuckled. "He can't take catnaps either."
"Does he know?" Maggie asked.
"Yes. But I'll explain that when we get there."
"Okay. See you then." She hung up and looked blankly at the phone, then climbed off her bed. "I guess I'd better shower," she mumbled.
About a half an hour later, there was a knock on the door, and Maggie opened it up to see Tommy and Kat. She smiled. "Good, you're on time. I seem to remember you having a problem with punctuality."
"It wasn't me," Kat grinned. Tommy just laughed.
"What is it you wanted to talk to us about?"
"Come on in." She closed the door behind them, and led them to the living room. From one of the back rooms came Tabby, Tabitha in her cat form. She padded right over to Tommy, sniffed at him, and hissed, furiously. She backed up, her hair still standing on end, and warped into a tiger. Maggie's eyebrows went up, and she looked at Tommy. She was not prepared for his response; he shifted into a large white tiger and swiped at the gold one facing him. "Whoa." She grabbed the ruff of both cats. They both looked at her with green-gold eyes. "Go ahead and fight all you want, but not a peep out of you, either of you. If someone hears a tiger in here, Tabitha, you are going to come up with the explanation. And try to keep the destruction down, okay?" She stepped away; the gold tiger turned and bounded out of the room, and the white tiger followed her. "That is what I wanted to talk to you about," she said.
Kat grinned. "Tommy said he thought he confused you at the reception."
"Yeah, that's one way to put it." Maggie grinned. "Although I figure you guys ought to stop confusing me. I mean, I ought to get used to the fact that you guys are just not going to be normal. For Pete's sake, you're a were-cat." She almost added about Adam reading her mind, but decided not to. "So, what is up?"
Kat took a deep breath. "When Tommy's Green Ranger powers were lost, Zordon created the White Ranger, and gave those powers to Tommy. He called upon the White Tiger - you'll have to ask Adam about what the others called on - until they went to Phaedos to get the Ninjetti powers. Then I came in... and then you came in. Somehow, I don't understand, he's able to change to a white tiger." She was interrupted by a crash.
"Hey! I said no destruction!" Maggie yelled, and turned back to Kat. "I guess asking you to change to a crane would not be a good idea?"
She chuckled. "I inherited that power from Kim. The crane is her spirit animal, not mine. I don't think it would work. And I'm not sure it would have worked anyway." Then she grinned. "You ought to ask Adam. Aisha said his reaction to his spirit animal was quite... interesting."
"What was it?"
"According to Aisha, his reaction was... "I'm a frog". He was really shy at the time, and when Dulcea kissed his forehead, he blushed bright red."
"She kissed him?"
"And then said, 'like the one you kiss to get a handsome prince.' So, was she right?"
"What, that he makes a handsome prince? Certainly." Maggie grinned, and covered her bright red cheeks. "Ooh, I think I might have admitted too much."
"Yes, I think you did." Kat grinned, then they heard another crash. "I'm working on teaching him how to go smaller, but he's not really getting the hang of it."
"Next time, we'll let them go nuts at your house. Let's go see what they've destroyed, shall we?" They got up and went in back to the bedroom, where they found both tigers laying stunned in the middle of the floor of Tabitha's bedroom. "All right, that's it. Change back to human, and explain this to me."
With a swift warping of reality, she was faced with two slightly embarrassed humans, and Tabitha laughed. "Sorry, Maggie, but seeing you angry at two tigers was worth everything."
Maggie scowled. "Yeah, I don't doubt it. So this is your encore?" she asked, turning to Tommy.
"Yes." He stood, brushing himself off, and helped Tabitha off the floor. "Quite interesting, don't you think?"
"Yes." She had a zillion other questions, all of them having to do with the secret she held for him and the other Rangers. "That's one way to put it."
She called him a couple of days later. "Tom, what do you say about taking the kittens for a walk in the park?"
"Still confused?" he asked, a touch of humor in his voice.
"Yes."
"Okay, sounds good."
They met on the north side of the park, and immediately, the two cats took off. Maggie scowled at Tommy. "You couldn't do the tiger thing in high school," she told him.
He shook his head. "No. I couldn't do a 'Falcon thing' then, either."
"Great. You're a shape shifter." A vision struck her, of his tiger spirit going after the falcon spirit, and she burst into laughter. He glanced at her.
"What?"
"Don't you ever... come in conflict with yourself?" she finally sputtered out, and he chuckled.
"No. With Kat? Sometimes."
"And she is only a cat, right?"
He nodded. "I don't think she can change size. I'm not sure I can, either."
Maggie nodded; this is not what she wanted to talk about. "So, how did you become a shape shifter?" she asked. "More particularly, a Tiger? I'm fairly certain the other, Falcon power things are something you can all become, although why Adam would want to be a Frog, I have no idea."
He laughed. "The White Tiger...." His voice drifted a little, then he shook his head. "That came at a... precarious time, I guess is the best way to put it. I had lost my powers, had them drained to the point of near non-existence, and gave up the last to Jason, just so Rita couldn't have them back. A sort of.... last ditch effort for rebellion. Zordon created the White Ranger powers, I don't know how, and linked them to the White Tiger - the only non-mythical beast of the bunch." He made a face. "I was used to... abnormal Zords. And even with the Falcon, sometimes I felt like I was... an extra, sort of 'buy five, get one free', but I got over it." He shrugged. "I felt like I fit a little more, then. With both the Dragonzord and the White Tiger, I was a... second...." He paused. "Not secondary, by any means, but the team was originally built around five people, and it took a while for the sixth to catch up."
This was very interesting, but he still hadn't answered her question. "Okay," she said. "But how did that turn you into a shape shifter?"
"You don't let up, do you?" he asked.
"Nope." She gave him her best innocent smile, and he smiled back.
"I... don't actually know. I mean...." He paused, uncertain. "I think the Falcon and the White Tiger are linked, somehow, if through nothing more than the color. No," he revised abruptly, "because that would mean Aisha could become a griffin, and Rocky a red dragon - which I would like to see, actually." He grinned at her. "But I don't think they can. I'm fairly certain Kim can't become a firebird. Maybe it's because the powers are... were made for me. Sort of specifically. Maybe that's it. I.... didn't even know I could until Kat showed me that the spell that was on her wasn't totally a spell, when she was a cat."
"Yeah, she told me about that."
"You knew?"
Maggie laughed at his incredulous expression. "From the minute I saw her. And I didn't think it was much of a coincidence that my locker was right next to her's; that's how I met Tabitha, too."
They'd wandered into Maggie's clearing, and a small white form burst out of cover, changing into Kat as she crashed, laughing, into Tommy. "I hope you're done," she smiled, grinning down at him.
"I think so." He glanced up at Maggie, who nodded, grinning.
"Yeah. If I have any more questions, believe me, I'll call you."
"Great," Tommy said in mock sarcasm, and Maggie shook her head.
"Do you always have this many questions?" Tabitha asked, stepping out from the same trees Kat had just come from.
"Yes, actually," Maggie grinned. "And thank you so much for not giving me that... greeting."
"Oh, certainly." Tabitha glanced at the two on the ground and giggled. "Don't worry, it'll never happen."
Maggie looked to see the two lost in a kiss, and stifled one of her own giggles. "Let's leave them alone," she whispered, and the two fled the clearing, laughing the whole way.
Metallica, The Memory Remains
The days settled into a nice pattern, especially once Maggie found a job. She and Adam spent a lot of early evenings together in the park, just walking and enjoying the company. It was on one of those walks that she pulled him to a stop and turned to face him. "What happened... about a year after you told me you'd retired?" she asked. "There was this burst of power that knocked me - and a few others that I know of - completely out for about a day. I know it wasn't you guys, but it was your power. I could feel that."
He laughed. "What brought that up?"
"I was reading in my journal. I'd almost forgotten it. It was a long time ago," she added defensively.
He took her arm, and started walking again. "I felt it, too. I don't know the details, really - the only connection I had to that team hasn't talked to me in a while...." He drifted off as they broke through the trees. "But we can ask him now; we're about to crash their picnic," he added, gesturing to the blankets spread out under one of the trees, people sprawled and sitting on them.
"Hey, Adam!" The voice was accented Hispanic, and the man who ran over certainly matched the voice.
"Hey, Carlos. How are you?"
"Great. Want to join us?" He extended his hand to Maggie, who took it. "Carlos," he said.
"Maggie," she smiled, barely able to hide her surprise at the surge of black power she felt in him. She glanced at Adam, then strengthened her shields. There was no way he would have known.
"Sure, for a while," Adam answered, and they walked over to the rest of the group.
"Whoa. Can I scare him, please?" she whispered. "Please?" Adam laughed, shaking his head. The group was fairly large, with a blonde woman who was obviously with the young man with striped hair, an oriental woman, and a black man. Before anyone could say anything, two more joined them; a tall blonde man, with a petit woman on his arm. Maggie started at one point in the circle, and introduced herself.
"I'm Ashley," the blonde woman smiled, and shook her hand. Maggie grinned at the feel of yellow power; this was going to be fun.
"Andros." It was almost like the first time she'd shaken hands with Billy; luckily her contact with Carlos had prepared her a little bit. She didn't faint, but just barely, and pulled her hand from his grip hastily. He felt a little odd to her shields, which she strengthened a little more, but she figured it was more to do with his red power tasting just a little off. The taste reminded her vaguely of Jason, and his short tenure as the gold Ranger.
"Cassie," said the Asian woman with a shock of pink.
"TJ." The black man gave her a wide grin that looked a little stressed; he was blue.
"Zhane," the blonde man said as he and the woman sat down. She couldn't quite tell his color, but the power was there, for sure. White, or maybe silver? Just as strong as Andros, and the aberration in the power was there, as well. She pulled her hand from his grip as fast as she had from Andros'.
"Karone," the woman with him said, and Maggie snatched her hand away even faster. She felt so weird, and there was no power in her at all. At least, not of the same flavor as the others. On the other hand, her shields were so strong right now she probably wouldn't even feel the power residue in Adam.
"Sorry," she said, and Looked at her. Her eyes widened in disbelief, and she turned to Look at everyone else. "Adam," she said faintly.
"I know," he responded, and had her sit down. He sat next to her and she huddled close, frightened. His touch comforted her, especially the tinge of power she'd been half sure she wouldn't feel.
"What is it?" Cassie asked.
"Go ahead," Adam smiled at her. "It'll make you feel better."
"Where are you three from?" she demanded, pointing at Zhane, Andros and Karone. "And you," she continued, still pointing at the woman, "have got all sorts of weird things...." She knew she was coming on a little strong, but what she had Seen really disturbed her.
"What?" Andros asked, looking confused and a little worried.
Maggie took a deep breath, closing her eyes to center herself. "Let me see if I got the time line right." She glanced at Adam and he nodded. "Ashley took Tanya's power, Cassie took Kat's. TJ took Justin's? And Carlos, of course, inherited from Adam, although why black and not green, I don't understand." All four of them looked stunned. "But Andros did not get his from Tommy, and I don't know where Zhane got his... Silver or white?" He nodded, just as stunned. "Although," she added musingly, "technically it could have come from Tommy. But no, it didn't. Both of you have held your power longer than he did, longer even than Billy. And Karone, you are REALLY confusing. I mean, you're not from Earth, and you have held power...." She paused, then looked at Adam in alarm. "She reminds me a little of Zedd's magic," she told him, then sucked in her breath in fear. "And even more of Jason, after Muranthias."
"Did we look like that?" he asked her after a short pause, surveying the shocked and slightly scared faces of the people in front of him.
"Not really. You knew me, at least a little bit. These poor people have no idea who I am." But it was close, she thought. There had been only a little less fear in their faces than in the ones she looked at now.
"But how did you know?" Carlos demanded, looking as if he'd burst. "I didn't tell anyone about Karone," he growled to Andros, who'd turned to scowl at him. His features fell far too easily into that expression, but came back out of it as just as easily. "Adam? Did you tell her?"
"He didn't have to." She did feel better, oddly enough, and finally chuckled. He knew her WAY too well. "I read Auras. I'm Wiccan. You all are screaming with power."
"Actually," Adam interrupted, looking around at the faces around him, "TJ received the power from Tommy. And Carlos inherited the green from me."
Maggie stared at him. "I never would have guessed that TJ had started with red or that Carlos had started with green. I can tell the color - although I am out of practice - but when Adam changed from black to green, I couldn't feel any of the black in him. It's there now, though. And that bit of information, Adam, helped clear up one mystery, at least. Everyone else just has the faintest tinge of it in their auras." She looked to Andros. "But you, and Zhane, and Karone... That's really confusing."
Andros sighed and looked at TJ. The handsome black man started an amazing tale about receiving the Turbo powers from the team she'd known, and then Andros quickly filled her in on the story of how he'd met the other Rangers, and the story of Zhane. She nodded, little pieces falling into place. "So you left Justin behind?" Turbo powers? The power had a name? Did all of them have names? Wait, hadn't Kat said something about the frog powers, or whatever, that Adam had held when she first met him?
"Too young," TJ said, jolting her out of her thoughts.
"And his father had just returned. He didn't want to go," Cassie said.
"Well, at least not very much," Ashley added.
"Okay. Now, the reason we are here." Maggie repeated the question she'd asked Adam, and everyone turned to look at Andros, who actually blushed a little.
"It was my fault. A whole day?" he asked. She nodded, then listened, captivated, as he told the story of the end of the Power Rangers.
"You destroyed your ... old friend?" She looked at Adam.
"It was a weird feeling. As soon as I heard the Rangers had returned, I hunted Carlos down and asked him what had happened. He couldn't really say, things were really hectic for him then with the press, and then other things just came up..." Carlos nodded. Maggie got the idea that it had been Tanya, or something to do with her.
"But Astronema didn't... fade into dust like everyone else?" she asked.
"No," Karone said faintly. "She didn't. She reverted back to her true form, like Zedd, and Rita, and Divatox. It just... took her a little longer."
"She was my sister," Andros said.
"I still am, thank you very much," Karone shot back, grinning at him. He smiled.
"Oh," Maggie said. "That makes a lot of sense, then." She nodded slowly. "A lot more sense." She leaned back, taking them all in. "Heck of a picture. I've met you all, except for two of the original Rangers...." She shook her head. "We could probably go head to head on story telling."
"She's met a vampire, Carlos," Adam told him, and the Hispanic man frowned.
"Don't remind me about that, please. It was hard enough then. I still have nightmares about it."
Maggie laughed. "Yeah, I could probably match you nightmare for nightmare, too. Try having a werewolf wanting to bite your face off."
"A werewolf?" Andros asked. Ashley paled.
"Ooh, no thanks," she said.
"What's a werewolf?" Zhane asked.
"A werewolf is a supposedly mythological creature that is half man, half wolf, and changes only at the full moon. But my poor kitten would tell you, if she weren't buried in Eden, that the full moon thing is bull; that's only when they can't control it."
"What do you mean, supposedly mythological?" TJ asked, skeptical.
"Well...." She pulled her sleeve up to bare her arm, and showed off a set of teeth marks. "He bit me here instead of my face, thanks in part to my cat, and a lot to the Goddess." She rubbed tenderly at the scars, then pulled her sleeve down. "But I'm done with that." She leaned against Adam and sighed. "I'm done with that."