#anywhere

Along the top of lockers, Lovecraft lurks, waiting for her prey.

Agent Hugs lead his squad through the trenches of the air vents, "Target Alpha suspected down the hallway! Hard Veer."

"Roger that," Agent Snuggles and Agent Smooch chime following

"We're starting our attack run"

Lovecraft hisses, they're so small, she'll have to destroy them, Chimera to Chimera

And lunges

"Enemy Chimera coming your way" Snugs warn.

"It's on my tail!" Smooch calls out "I can't see her!"

Oh the violence

As they see Nadeen, "Acquiring target"

"I can't get clear!"

'ROWR'

"Stay on target!"

"FIRE!"

"Negative, negative, the shot missed..."

"I'm under claw"

"I've got you"

A THUNK

MRORWWRRR

"You're all clear, kid!"

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In another hold, a fotress in fact, Colton nearly falls out of his chair

"Really need you to do this for me I gotta go ... " He races out

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Hugs takes an inhale on the cigarette as he and the chimera lounge in the comfort of a lost and found box at the school, "My squad, they can never know."

Lovecraft purrs, Symon neither.

(TRAITOR!!)

The Cupid sighs "Damn, this holiday is fucked up."

So very f-ed up The nightmare cat agrees.

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In the woods behind the school, surrounded by snow and silent trees... there is canoodling.

Indeed, strokes and nuzzles

Riding high on arrow energy is part of it - but this is not all artificial attraction.

No, not at all. if it were, somethings might even now starting to fade... instead, they lay bare and open and free like a body enjoying the cool of a breeze and heat of the sun together

"I should have asked you sooner. I've barely given either of us prep time" Nadeen says

The cold doesn't bother her - Nadeen can sit in her lap, protected.

"I wanted to ask you, but I was afraid..."

"I was scared I'd scare you off" She says

"I'm not... I mean, I'm not gay. I don't think."

"But you're beautiful. And kind. And so smart..."

"Well, I hope you at least like other girls a little or this is ..not fair to you" She says "I like boys and girls. I think maybe you do too."

"Well... Lupe..."

"There was this magazine..." She blushes.

"Magazine?"

"Ah... I found it?"

"It asked for glamour, and then it filled with pictures..."

"Like, of people I know..."

"Yeah? Just anyone?"

"Um. The pretty ones:

"All Sidhe?" Innocent in her arrogance perhaps