Anna's Date: Part One

Stacy hadn't joined the others in the pub yesterday and had been in bed already when Anna had crashed for the night. Now in the morning her pink haired roommate was still in bed when Anna woke up curled into a ball. Anna had noticed her behavior was off the day before but hadn't a clue what was going on. She had bigger things to worry about this morning though, she'd look into it tomorrow.

Freshly showered and made up for her date as best she could, even using the vial of Laura's favorite perfume she'd kept for sentimental reasons and had found with her stuff on the sink, she left her troubled roomy and headed down to eat before Shar showed up.

Eating was another worry on her mind. She was easily eating twice as much food as she ever had needed before and still found herself getting hungry between meals. It was all you could eat here and technically free though they were really paying for it with their freedom. But how was she going to afford eating like this back home when she'd barely kept going not really eating enough before she'd gained a foot and a half and the appetite of a fucking horse?

Of course they may not even be going home. Shar said so, and she did seem to be nice if a bit odd, but lying about getting to go home could be just another part of this sick game they were stuck in. So that was another thing to worry about.

She was the first one out of her room, hard habits of waking early to open the shop that didn't let up during this "vacation" so far. She didn't have long to wait though before the crowd, minus the twins, was ready to head down. It was hardly dangerous going to the dinning hall but somehow herding up like this for meal times had felt a natural thing to do, probably the result of spending too much time alone not by choice at least on her part she mused.

Filling her first plate up Anna noticed another big shake up in the scores on the screen.

Tracy Black 27 VP 1000 BP

Misty Dawn 22 VP 3500 BP

Susan Wagner 18 VP 800 BP

Candy Henderson 13 VP 3900 BP

Carla Wright/Kim Baker 13 VP 1500 BP

Anna Rodriguez 9 VP 2500 BP

Gabriella Escarra 8 VP 2000 BP

Stacy Black 7 VP 5500 BP

The milkings had obviously been good for Susan's score, good for her she thought, and Tracy had skyrocketed up to first place over her date but now Anna was near the bottom still in the single digits. She was going to have to get more proactive it seemed. The women were already pairing up it looked like, with Gabriella and Misty sitting together sharing smiles while they ate, and Susan was with the Brits again talking animatedly about music it seemed. It almost felt like old times back in high school again when she'd been the outsider there as well. One of the very few Hispanic kids in a predominately white neighborhood and already decked out in her trademark black leather looking dangerous and unapproachable.

"Helloooooo!" Then Candy sat next to Anna and dispelled the impending gloom. Also just like high school when she'd practically dragged her redheaded best friend over to unite the loners wearing all black.

"Good morning Candy. Plans for the day?" She was ready for a second plate of food already. Damn.

"I thought I'd try to take the twins swimming today since you'll be busy."

"Good idea but good luck getting those two to go together let alone getting along, and swimming with your wings?"

"They haven't been a problem in the shower, I don't see why they would swimming?"

Anna stood to get more food "Lots of drag I'd imagine, just don't expect to keep up with them in the water."

Anna really hoped Laura had lots of food in her suite.

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Laura woke up to an empty bed so sat up to look for her doubtless still naked sister before she could get into any trouble unsupervised up here. Taking the stairs down into the living area she found her to her horror sitting in front of the scattered remains of the TV's remote. And yes she was still nude, of course.

"Tracy! What the ever living fuck are you doing!"

"Hey there, woke up early and got bored. This thing is super complex, you know? I think it must operate more than just the TV."

"And now it doesn't operate anything."

"Relax. I've got everything spread out just right to put it back together. Probably." Tracy leered at her also still naked sister "So were you wanting some more fun before Shar showed up? Cause I may be busy here for a while..."

"I am asking you to put some clothes on and put that thing back together while I get us breakfast. Please do not make me order you."

"Okay, okay. You're getting better at not Commanding, probably best before Anna gets here." Tracy started reassembling the complex device.

"I intend to be very careful not to do that."

"Oh I almost forget, before she gets here you should know she got transformed by a treasure card."

"They can do that?!"

"Yep, supposedly a boon though and it pretty much was. She's like seven foot tall now."

"What?!"

"Yeah she freaked out like that at first too. I think she's in to it now though, except for eating a lot more. Getting taller meant stronger I guess or the transformation did both? Anyways I knew if you had a cow, heh, when she got here it would hurt her."

"Can you please not make jokes about Susan? I feel bad enough about what happened to her."

"Eh, Susan's cool. She even let me milk her, that was a blast. Tastes great too."

"Are you seriously taking advantage of her?"

"It's not like that, she gets bigger if not milked remember? And she's super sensitive so really needs the help. Speaking of she's gonna need you to milk her on her night with you so you should probably wrap your head around that too." Reassembly was going pretty quick, it was a simple enough algorithm to keep track of where things belonged. Much slower to take apart when you were trying to figure out how things worked.

Laura set a plate of avocado toast and a refilled cup of coffee next to the busy engineer marveling at how quick and sure her sisters hands were "Where did you get those tools?"

"I always have my kit on me, never know when you might need to pick a lock or hack an ATM."

"How in the hell were you hiding the pouch with what little you're wearing?"

"Small of the back, look close and you'll notice the whale netting doesn't have any holes there but it gets overlooked when you're looking at my ass instead."

"Tracy..."

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Anna had finished a third plate of food waiting for Shar to show up, nerves and not wanting to eat like a horse in front of Laura. Now she was just fiddling with her cutlery, still nervous, not noticing how she'd mangled the poor fork in her hands. The others had all gone ahead to the music room, the musicians had promised a show, so she sat waiting alone.

Finally the doors spread open and Tracy dashed in around Shar as she strode forward. "I'm baaaaaaack! Hey, where is everyone?"

Anna stood leaving the fork on the table behind "They're at the music room getting a show."

"Oh that sounds fun." Tracy said as Shar asked Anna "Are you ready?"

Anna nodded to both and followed them back out of the room. Standing on the Moongate Tracy vanished while she found herself with Shar in a large circular room.

"Doesn't look like much." She noted to Shar who smiled.

"Laura said the exact same thing." Anna winced, of course she did.

"Just up the stairs, I'll leave you two alone to get reacquainted. And Anna."

"Yes?" Anna looked over at the other woman, only taller by six inches or so now.

"Try not to be too hard on her, she really did think what she did was for the best. People make mistakes, they don't always have the chance to make right by them."

Shar set a gentle hand on Anna's back and with a wistful smile was gone.

"I hate when she does that."