It had been a couple of hours since the incident in the diner and Waverley had had enough of sitting at home wondering and worrying about Nicole. Her imagination was running riot in the silence of the homestead, wondering what had happened, whether she had actually seen what she had seen or if there was a simple explanation, but the more she thought about it the more she thought there couldn't be a simple explanation could there? Either way she couldn't take it any more, she had to see Nicole.

As she ascended the stairs to Nicole's flat she had no idea what she was actually going to say or do, but she had to see her and get the truth. She stood in front of Nicole's front door for a little longer than she meant to, but she needed to psych herself up and work up the courage to knock.

When Nicole answered she was wearing a loose t-shirt and a pair of baggy shorts. Her hair was wet and she had a towel around her neck where she'd been drying it.

"Oh, You're not the pizza…" Nicole started with surprise and a smile "..boy" she finished as Waverly rushed in past her.

Nicole didn't notice Waverly's hands nervously flapping by her sides as she shut the door and followed her into the living area.

"Oh hey, give me a minute, i'll just brush my hair" Nicole said as she rushed away from Waverly and into what she assumed was the bedroom.

Waverley still had no idea what she was going to say, but as she paced slightly she looked around Nicole's flat, which she hadn't actually been in before. It was a smallish place and only had one door which led into the bedroom, she assumed the bathroom was in there somewhere too. She was standing by the entrance to the open planned kitchen, to her left was a living area with a small dinning table and a sofa against the wall opposite a TV. She looked into the kitchen to see the counters were covered in empty milk cartons, crisp packets, a box of breakfast cereal and other empty wrappers she couldn't identify with such a quick glance. She wondered if Nicole was normally so messy, she didn't take her for a messy person. As she focussed on Nicole's flat and potential messiness, rather than her surviving being shot, she began to calm down a little.

But unfortunately the calmness vanished when she saw out of the corner of her eye what looked like a shirt sleeve sticking out of the rubbish bin in Nicole's kitchen. She looked towards the bedroom to see if Nicole was coming, when she wasn't Waverly grabbed the sleeve and pulled it out of the bin. It was one of Nicole's uniform shirts. Why was it in the bin? Was it the one Nicole was wearing earlier? She quickly held it up and tried to find the front, when she did she noticed that the bottom of the shirt was a darker colour. Was that blood, dried blood? With a closer look she found what she was really looking for, two holes. More specifically two bullet holes.

"Hey, so, this is the first time you've been here, huh?" Nicole shouted from her bedroom. "I should welcome you to my humble ab- whoa" She stopped as she walked out and saw Waverly. "Wave?"

Waverly was holding the screwed up shirt in one hand and a knife in the other pointed at Nicole.

"What the hell is this, huh?" she said throwing the shirt at Nicole.

"W-waverly.." Nicole started as she caught the shirt after it hit her in the chest. This was not meant to have happened, Waverley was never meant to find that shirt "I can…I can explain.." she smiled hesitantly as she desperately tried to think, could she explain?

"Yeah? Is that right? You can explain how you survived getting shot twice this morning, huh? You can explain what the hell you are, huh?" Waverly said with the knife still held out towards Nicole. She had always been quite impressed with how scary Waverly could get, but she had never been on the receiving end of that ferocity and it was not nice.

"WHAT ARE YOU? Are you a revenant? huh? Are you here for Wynonna?"

"Wynonna?" Nicole questioned, confused

"Is that what I am to you, a way to get to her? To get close to the heir? or-or do you want to hurt her by hurting me?" She was starting to get overwhelmed and her eyes were filling with tears "I will never let you hurt her, demon…" she thrust the knife in Nicole's direction

"Waverly, please," Nicole said putting her hands in front of her defensively "I don't know what you're talking about…. I …" she stepped closer to Waverly.

Waverly held the knife out towards her again and Nicole stopped. "YOU WERE SHOT! You were shot at the diner and I knew you were, I knew it, but then you weren't hurt … but I knew it, and that proves it" she pointed to the shirt "So explain, Nicole, explain what you are? because I know you aren't human" she shook her head. "Please explain… I don't want to have to tell Wynonna that you're …. a demon or…" she had desperately hoped that she was wrong, that she had been mistaken at the diner, but the bullet holes in the shirt and the dried blood and the fact that Nicole, her Nicole, the hot cop that she had made out with the other day in her bosses office, was standing there in front of her with no sign of any kind of injury, confirmed that she was right. Nicole wasn't a normal human.

"TELL ME" Waverly shouted in frustration

Nicole didn't answer and they both stood in silence for what seemed like forever. Nicole was trying to figure out what to do. Should she tell the truth or should she try to wriggle her way out of this the best she could? While Waverly was hoping she didn't actually have to use the knife on the woman she had been slowly falling for to get out of her flat.

As the silence got louder they were both ripped out of their thoughts and scared half to death, when there was a loud knocking on Nicole's front door.

With a look of confusion Nicole quickly moved to her front door and opened it.

"Hi, Officer Haught" said a rather squeaky voice

"Oh, Hi Ben" Nicole answered politely. It was the pizza boy Nicole was expecting, but had forgotten about.

"I got here as quickly as I could without breaking any laws" Ben squeaked pointedly, smiling cheekily.

Nicole smiled and feigned a laugh, "Good" She said honestly. In any other circumstance she might have actually found it funny, but this was not the time to recall when she had pulled the kid over on his pizza delivery bike because he jumped a light. Instead she quickly gave him his money and said goodbye.

Waverly's eyes widened in surprise and confusion when she saw Nicole put two large pizza's on the kitchen counter.

"Two pizza's, really, Nicole?" she questioned

Nicole shrugged and smiled a smile that yelled 'I can explain', but she said nothing, instead she stepped back in front of Waverly. She looked at her examining her face still trying to decide if she should tell her. She liked Waverly more than she had liked anyone in a very long time. She made her happy, just being around her made her smile. If she lied Waverly would know and she could loose her. Tell her the truth and there was every possibility she could still loose her.

"Waverly, I don't know what a revenant is, but I know i'm not one" She smiled trying to reassure Waverly "and I would never hurt you or Wynonna, in fact… the complete opposite…" She stepped even closer

Waverley looked her in the eye and saw nothing but truth and kindness. But she still needed to know.

When she saw Nicole look down towards the knife that she was still holding up, her eyes followed, but she hadn't expected Nicole to place her hand over the sharp tip of the knife, press down and scrape her palm across it.

Waverly panicked and quickly pulled the knife away "What the hell are you…?" she said stepping away.

Nicole face looked slightly pained as she turned her hand over and they both looked at the gash on her palm, it had already started bleeding profusely. Waverly looked at Nicole as if she was crazy and Nicole just looked back at her calmly. She motioned with her head for Waverly to look back at her hand.

"My mother always told me" Nicole said softly "That there are two sides to everything, light and dark, right and wrong, truth and lie, love and hate…." she looked at Waverly "Good and evil" as she said that a bright white light started to shine out of the cut on her hand. It was the same light that Waverly had seen in the diner. As they both watched, the cut started to close and after a couple more seconds it was gone entirely and so was the light.

Waverly's mouth fell open, she didn't know what to think, when she'd come here to confront Nicole she hadn't known what to expect, but it certainly wasn't this. She looked from Nicole's hand to her face and back again a few times. Her face relaxed as if a great weight had been lifted, at least Nicole wasn't a revenant.

She shook her head and softly said "What are you?"

It took a second or two for Nicole to answer, she hadn't said it out loud in such a long time "An angel" Nicole replied

Waverly mouthed "What?"

"Well, half…. half angel" Nicole clarified

"Oh, … half …. angel…." Waverly said nodding in slight disbelief, she wondering away from Nicole "Half. angel" she said again quietly thinking.

"I know it sounds … ridiculous and I know it's a lot to take in…." Nicole worried and followed Waverly

"Well, not really…." Waverley said standing in the middle of Nicole's living room with her hands on her hips

"It's… It's not?" Nicole was confused. She thought Waverly's reaction was going to be quite different

"No. It makes perfect sense, really" Waverly said turning around smiling "There is always a balance in all things, a yin and yang" she said excitedly "If we have demons then of course there must be angels" she practically laughed and bounced slightly.

She rushed towards Nicole reached up with both hands, grabbed her face and kissed her.

When they parted Nicole was confused again "You're not….bothered?"

"Oh God no" she waved away the suggestion "I'm relieved, I thought you were going to be a demon, I'm just glad I don't have to tell Wynonna and she doesn't have to send you back to hell!"

Now Nicole was really confused "Send me back to hell…?" she shook her head

"Yeah, well, maybe that's a discussion for another time, huh?" Waverley smiled sweetly

Nicole disagreed "Well…. I mean…I'd like to…"

"I think a more important question…" Waverly interrupted quickly to get away from the subject "..Is why you ordered two pizza's?" She smiled walking past Nicole to the kitchen "And why is your kitchen such a mess?" Waverly's face showed slight disgust, but mainly amusement.