Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Taylor

And Princess Taylor and her Dear Victoria's eyes met and the leaned into each other, feeling each other's warm breath on their skin, and-

"What the hell!?" Vicky shouted. She must have gotten to the part where she and I did things that I'm pretty sure can only be posted on PHO Afterdark.

"I know, right?" I asked, rhetorically.

"Fanfiction is one thing," she said, standing up from her computer desk, "but this is just sick… This person knows things about me that have never been revealed to the public."

"That first story was published before I was outed," I pointed out, "but they got my name right."

"Someone's stalking us," she concluded. I had to nod in agreement. "God damn it… I'm straight. I have a boyfriend."

"Same," I said which was… Kind of the truth.

She sat back down and looked through the other stories. "There's one where you and I do unspeakable things to Rune of E88-"

"Gross," I said, shaking. "She's like, the closest thing I have to an arch enemy."

"Oh god," Vicky said, disgusted. "Whoever this guy is, they did one that's you, me, Ames, and some girl named Lisa."

My eye twitched. "That's it then," I said, "we're going to have to track this guy down and give them a piece of our mind."

"You sure about that?"

"Yeah," I said, "I mean, if he or she knows enough about us to get the name of one of my other friend's right, then they've gotta be here in the Bay, right?" Vicky looked back at me and nodded. "And this isn't exactly a big enough deal to get the authorities involved, so… Lisa, the real Lisa, is really good at figuring things out and maybe she can help..."

"Maybe."

Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Taylor

"So," Lisa said, stepping in… "This is the Dallon house." She seemed a bit nervous.

"Yeah," Vicky said, "I've had friends over once or twice and everyone's always surprised that it's just a normal house," she had, "I swear to God people seem to think we live in a cave with a giant computer on the wall or something."

Lisa laughed.

"You know," Vicky said, turning back to her, "there's something familiar about you."

Lisa dismissed that with a wave of her hand. "I get that a lot."

"No, seriously, have we met before?" Vicky asked. "Charity event? Meet and Greet?"

"No," Lisa answered. "I prefer to keep charitable acts anonymous and honestly, I can't stand how fake and shallow the kinds of people who do go to those things can get."

"Oh, don't I know it," Vicky said, "you hear about the Vice-Versa photoshoot? They got a bunch of kids without powers, athletes and honor students, from around here to dress up like capes and then they had the Wards and I in fancy outfits. I had a chat with some girl named Emma and a friend of hers that tagged along, though they mostly stuck with Shadow Stalker… And then they and some of the others spent a lot of time just making fun of a girl who needed help getting her costume adjusted over her back brace. Who the hell does that?"

I sighed. "If this Emma was a redhead who was small everywhere except her boobs, then it wouldn't surprise me in the least."

Vicky turned back. "Yeah… Someone, you know?"

"Someone I thought I knew. Don't want to talk about it." My stomach was clenching. Damn it all.

She seemed to get it. "If it makes you feel any better, I called her and her bitch friends a bunch of cunts."

I faked a laugh. "Okay, we've got a stalker to track down."

"Is Panacea going to be involved in this scheme?" Lisa asked as we went up to Vicky's room, where the computer was waiting to access Panpan69's fanfiction archive.

"No," Vicky said, "She's doing her rounds at the hospital right now. Actually, I'll have to go get her in about an hour so we'll have to have this wrapped up for the day by then."

"Yeah, that's fine," Lisa answered, " to be honest I've only got so much time I can do this anyway."

Once we were back in Vicky's room, with Lisa at the computer… Honestly, we had to wait for her to read enough of the stuff to get an idea.

Vicky floated off the floor and rested in the air. Well, when in Rome.

"Opal?"

"About time," she said. She extended her handle, which I grabbed. "Compact Full Open. Mirror World Circuits: Maximum Engage!" Fuck.

A minute later, after just going with the flow and getting through the full transformation sequence as fast as possible, Vicky was staring at me. "You know, you were naked for about half a minute, right?"

"Yes. I know." I said with a sigh. "Opal… Why?"

"I felt like it," she said with a laugh.

Lisa also laughed.

"You know," I said, "the first time Lisa saw my Caster Install, she was so dumbstruck that she just walked around me in a circle and then just yanked on my tail to see if it was real."

Vicky laughed at that. "To be fair, Caster Princess is adorable. I'm serious, I want to pet you when I see you like that."

"...You know Vicky, that's probably why our stalker is shipping us."

"No it's not," Lisa interrupted. "Whoever this person is seems to have a fixation with Victoria, but Taylor seems to be a convenient avatar."

I blinked. "An avatar?"

"They're using you as a substitute for themselves," Lisa explained. "You, or at least what they've seen of you, are superficially similar enough to them that they can picture themselves in your shoes… Basically, they've got fantasies involving themselves and Glory Girl and they're using stories about her and you to live them vicariously."

"And that means?" I asked, feeling a bit sick at the thought of being used in someone's fantasies.

"It means," Lisa said, "that Panpan69 is probably a teenage girl in the fourteen to sixteen range. Not the best socially. Probably with a physical resemblance to yourself on some level-thin, maybe not as attractive as they think Glory Girl is-Let's face it, Princess, you can be cute when you want to but you're not exactly a ten."

"Thank you, former best friend," I deadpanned.

"Just think of it as payback for mentioning the Caster incident, foxgirl," Lisa deadpanned back at me.

"Anyway, they slip up and say that your hair is brown a few times, so she's probably a brunette…" Lisa hummed. "Okay, that's disgusting. Anyway, They've got some stories about Glory Girl prior to when you and Taylor met, but nothing so … They describe your aura a few times… Think you could turn it up to full blast so I can get a gauge of how accurate they were?"

"Okay. Brace yourself." Vicky proceeded to turn the Awe Aura up to full blast. Personally, I'm not sure how to describe it but all I know is that I suddenly felt absolutely safe in her presence. As though nothing could possibly go wrong as long as she was here.

And then it passed. Lisa had fallen out of the chair.

"Yeah," she said, pulling herself back up. "Whoever wrote this has felt your aura at full blast."

Vicky looked confused."So… Probably a criminal? Or a classmate that asked for a pick me up?"

"How often do you do that?" I asked.

"Uh… More often than I probably should?" Vicky admitted sheepishly.

"The only person I can think of who fits all those criteria," Lisa said, "would be your sister and she's also the only person I'm willing to rule out right now."

Vicky looked like she was about to say something when Lisa mentioned Panacea, but then she changed tracks, "Why is she for sure off the list? I mean, don't get me wrong I don't think it's her, but..."

"Well, for one, Panpan69 is an obvious reference to Panacea," Lisa explained, "one that's too obvious. I think whoever she is was using Panacea as an insert point in her fantasies before finding out about Taylor. And honestly," Lisa carried on, "I think if your sister had a disturbing sexual fixation on you, you'd have noticed. Nobody's stupid enough to miss something like..." Lisa blinked. "Anyway, I think this is about as much as I can get with what we have now. Glory Girl-"

"Vicky," Vicky corrected.

"Vicky, if you can get me pictures and descriptions of people you know who fit the profile I set out," Lisa explained, 'then I should be able to figure out if they're Panpan69 or at least rule them out."

And so Lisa and I left the Dallon house.

"Lisa," I asked, "you kind of got a bit… Eh there at the end."

"Look, it's something personal," Lisa answered. "You have things you don't want to talk about and I have things that I don't like to talk about." She shrugged. "Maybe I'll tell you someday, but we at least have to deal with this stalker first."

I nodded, agreeing to let her keep her secrets and soon after we parted ways for the day.