One Night in Vegas.

Carol stared at the two in silence for a few more seconds before closing her eyes, taking a deep breath as she did so. Opening her eyes, she said, "Girls, I can't pretend that what you said and planned to do didn't hurt me. And it might be a very long time before I decide to forgive you. If I decide to forgive you."

Karen and Cindy stared down at the ground in guilt.

"However..." Carol continued, getting the girl's attention, "Despite what you two and Margot think of my intelligence, I am smart enough to see that you two do feel remorse and guilt for your actions. Not to mention, I could only imagine what kind of hell you two went through to find my sister and save me from making a perverted idiot out of myself. I mean, nudity is legal in the future; public lewdness is not."

"So, do you forgive us?" Karen asked.

"Let's just say that I'm still thinking about it..."

"Well, I think we've had enough an adventure for one night." Sophie said as she wrapped an arm around her big sister. "How about I buy us a hotel room for the night and then we can head back and collect the apartments so we can go back home?"

"Wait, I thought you didn't have modern money? Only monetary crystals?" Cindy asked in confusion.

"Oh, that?" Sophie asked. "To get to Vegas, I hitched a ride with this woman who collected rare and unusual stones. I showed her all the monetary stones I had on me at the time, and the next thing I know, she drops me off here with over eight hundred thousand... 'Dollars', are they called?"

"Eight hundred thousand?!"

"Yeah, and I was only carrying the modern equivalent of about fifty bucks." Sophie replied with a shrug as they made their way away from the parking lot. "I only spent about a hundred worth in clothes and food, so I should have enough for a room for the night. And enough to buy every last jug of grape juice from any grocery store we pass on the way."

"It's tomato juice, actually." Karen corrected. "A bath in tomato juice."

"This century has some weird remedies." Carol commented, "Unlike in 2301 when they discovered that sticking banana peels up your nose and ice cubes in your ears cured the common cold, cancer, and gum disease."

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"..."

"What?" Carol asked in confusion at the stunned Cindy and Karen, Sophie letting out a sigh as she smiled at her sister in amusement.

In the kitchen of the strip club, Margot had stripped off all her clothing and was now sitting in the large commercial sink completely naked as she filled it up with every bottle of **** from the bar before roughly scrubbing her skin with a mesh sponge.

"Ugh! I don't know what I was more stupid for thinking was a good idea: Hiring that crazy idiot or taking Bloody Mary's off the menu!" Margot growled to herself, momentarily taking a sniff of herself and recoiling in disgust. "Lord Almighty! I smell like a skunk that's had one too many to drink!"

"Eh, no arguments here."

With a yelp, Margot slapped her arms over her chest and turned to the doorway to see Jonathon standing there.

"Oh, get out of here, you perverted old goat!" Margot snapped, her face becoming redder by the second. "The club's closed until I can get a new act!"

"Actually, it might be closed a lot longer than that, Ms. Margot Golds. See, I've been waiting for months for you to slip up just enough to finally catch you." Jonathon stated as he reached into his coat pocket and pulled out his wallet, opening it up... And flashing his badge to Margot. "Special Agent Jonathon Floyd Matthews. FBI. You're under arrest."

At that moment, three squads of five man SWAT teams entered the kitchen through the back door, the side door, and the doorway that Jonathon had been standing in, all members raising their weapons up at the naked woman sitting in a booze filled sink.

Margot stuck up her hands and chuckled nervously. "Anyone want a drink?"

"This is a mistake! I was framed, I tell you! Framed!" Margot shouted as she was dragged naked from the club towards the paddy wagon, her hands cuffed behind their back. "There was this crazy lunatic who claimed to be some nudist from the future! And these two naked woman who smelled almost as bad as I do! And a barbarian stripper!"

"Do you even hear yourself, Lady?" A SWAT Agent said as she opened the back of the wagon. "Now get in there and be quiet! It's a long way to Langley."

Before Margot could say another word, the Agent and her partner shoved the woman into the back, slamming the doors as Margot sat down.

"Well, at least things can't get much worse, right?" Margot asked herself with a chuckle... Before turning to her left to see the skunk at her feet, it's back to her with it's tail raised. "Oh no..."

The sirens of the car roared as the wagon drove out of the lot, drowning out a series of loud hissing noises and Margot's cries for help.

"You know, if I had told myself that I'd be in a luxury Las Vegas hotel suite, bathing with my girlfriend in a luxury bathtub, this would probably be the last thing on my mind." Karen commented as she and Cindy sat shoulder deep in a tub of tomato juice, soaking and scrubbing each other. "But at least we're finally getting this crap off of us."

"And we're back on speaking terms with Carol again." Cindy added, opening another jug of tomato juice and holding it over Karen's head. "Close your eyes."

Karen did just that as Cindy poured the liquid over her girlfriend's head, Karen wiping the juice out of her face as she fluttered her eyes open. "You know something, Cindy? I'm actually gonna miss her when she goes home. Sophie, too."

"Yeah, me too." Cindy said sadly, "It's been a rollercoaster ride with those women, but it was a fun rollercoaster ride. Maybe we could visit them sometime?"

"Or maybe we can tell our descendants to be friends whoever their ancestors were until they finally meet up."

"Wouldn't that mean we'd have to hunt down their ancestors for that to happen?"

"Be easier than jumping forward in time, right?"

"Fair point, I guess."

Outside the bathroom door, Carol had been listening to the two with a smile on her face. She would forgive them tomorrow on the way back. However, she eyed Sophie and frowned, something bugging her as Sophie laid on the bed and flipped through the channels while dressed in a bathrobe.

"Hey, Sophie?" Carol asked as she sat down on the bed next to her younger sister. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"A-about what?" Sophie asked, having a pretty good idea that she knew.

"About Declan and your classmates making fun of you. Why didn't you tell me?"