Sunset: All in all, it seems like a good deal. He gets money, I get a willing participant. A very good deal, considering I'll be doing good spells on him too, healing whatever ill effects the curses cause. He should feel lucky I'm even doing that.

Hopefully neither of us will kill each other.


(There's another scene with Sunset and Zach that's s'pose to go right here, but I'll post it later when it's finished and edited.)

Sunset: It's done. It's finally done. I'm me. Sunset Rains, age 28, former mother of two, former drug addict, former resident of the streets of San Francisco, and current real life person. With a boyfriend fiancee and sister and brother and life ahead of her.

And I'm gonna make it all worthwhile.

Angelika: It's so weird. It's like I'm empty... No, not empty, it's just... very quiet here now. I guess I just got used to them, talking or making some kind of comment, in the back of my head all the time. I know it's easier for them now, and it's not like they're gone forever, but I still miss them.

This is gonna take a while to get used to.

Sunset: Hee. Maybe it is bad to invite people to a wedding when you aren't even sure there's going to be a wedding, but I promised Ed that I'd marry him after I got my body. And since that's finally happening, well, why wouldn't he propose again?

I'm almost ready. I just need a few more things. I need to go to Rene's shop tomorrow, and get them. Blessed thistle, galangal root, ginseng powder... and burdock, just in case.

Goddess. Now that's it actually close... I haven't felt this nervous and jumpy and impatient since... well I'm not sure I ever have, when it wasn't a withdrawal thing. I need to find something to do to get rid of all this energy. DDR. Go for a run. Something. I'd go see Ed, but I wanna keep this whole thing a secret for now,m just in case I do fail. No way I'll be able to keep it if I see him.

Sunset: A part of me is screaming at me to not think that it's going to be just this easy. Steal a book, and I'll be me again. There has to be a bigger catch. And the other part is telling the first to shut up and telling me to go along with it. For once, I'm listening to the second.

I need to make a plan. What spells I'll need, what I'll need to bring with me... A notice me not spell is definitely in order. If I'm caught and have to hurt someone to get away, I need to not be remembered. And a disillusionment spell, but I'll have to do that while at the house... I'll need to bring those things. And afterwards, just in case the notice me not spell is undone by the disillusionment, ingredients for another notice me not.

This is too much to plan in one sitting, and only in thought. It will take a day or two. And after that, I'll have my own life ahead of me. My own life, and my own body.

Sunset: I was certainly right. He is a magical sort of boy, if not for his work with plants. Thornhounds, and rabbishes. The boy is quite the inventive one. And I'll admit, very creative in his inventions.

He asked for my help, which is something I can never really turn away. I agreed of course, to both quell my curiosity and help the blonde. We try tonight.

I can't wait.



Sunset: Quite an interesting experience, though I am somewhat embarressed by my actions towards the ends. I do need to learn to control myself better while in magical situations, but the feeling of it is perhaps a bit too much like a sugar high or something else from my past.

I made a deal with Rene. From now on, I'll try and be civil to Zachery. However, I can make no promises that I'll continue to be civil if the body snatcher says the wrong thing. And part of me does feel that will happen, sooner or later.



Sunset: I'm sorry, Rene. I did try. I really did, but...

I'm almost tired of all this. I want to just forget about him and Eugenie, and everything that happened, but I can't. The mother in me can't. Even though I am tired of fighting and arguing, when I know they'll never see it the way I do... I can't let it go. No matter how much I want to.

I'm so sorry. I don't know to whom I'm apologizing, or why, but for now, all I can feel is a deep sense of some odd sorrow.

Sunset: Hrm. It seems Napoleon lives a few doors down. I wonder what my mother would say now, considering she said I'd go nowhere and be no one. Certainly, being a friend to Monsieur Bonaparte must prove her wrong.

He is certainly an interesting person, from what I gather so far, and it seems we have some in common. Perhaps I can gather another friend from Rene, or if not that, perhaps, somehow, an ally. Something about him seems almost magical.

Sunset: Fuck. Fuck! That wasn't a ghost... Ghosts can't do magic. I don't know what he was, but... Fuck! I can't break this spell without knowing what he was, without knowing the type of magic....

I feel your pulse... I'm in your shadows... You are only where I want you to be... I see what you see...

How could I be so stupid? I should have known something was up with that guy, knowing about our situation... And now that he has a tracking spell on us...

For all I know, I've doomed us.

Angelika: EwewewewewewewewEWEWEWEWEWEWEWEWWWWW!!! Oh, god. I have to go brush my teeth. I have to gargle mouthwash. I have to throw up again. I have to scrub my skin off in scalding water. I need - Oh, God. I need to check on Josh again. Then I'll do all those things.

I feel violated.

Sunset: Well, it's nice to know Oz is starting to develop taste. I think Bridget is the first mature girl he's ever dated, even if she does enjoy annoying him. (Though considering how much she's done and the fact he still wants to date her says something. Especially after the camera thing. Oz has never taken lightly to being called pretty.)

Hm. As much as I view Oz as my son, I must not be as good a mother as I thought, considering I gave Bridget more than enough ammo for Oz annoying. Maybe I'm just interested in seeing how far Bridget can push Oz. (Or maybe I'm just curious as to how much Oz likes her. This is a good way to find out.)

( 'You mean, she did all that to Oz... and just dumped him to be with that... overgrown walking jell-o mold?' )

Sunset: It amuses me greatly that there is someone who can challenge Oz's charismatic ways. Either Bridget is simply unaffected by Oz's charms (doubtful, considering the game of I Never) or Oz isn't fully trying. The last can be easily understood, ever since what happened with the bitch.... Hopefully, though, eventually Oz will win her over though I doubt it will happen if he keeps acting the way he has been because I feel Bridget will be much better for him than Eugenie was. Much, much better.

She gave him the middle name Apollo. I told her how fitting it was, but I don't believe she understood just how so. Apollo... The God of the Sun, of Music, of Beauty... The middle name of Matthew. The middle name of my son... and now the middle name of Oz. Yes. Very fitting, indeed.

Strength... Music and Beauty... Dark Defiance. There is nothing but either fate or extremely good luck and fortune imbedded in Oz's name. Never have I found a title more fitting of it's owner.

Angelika: I can't believe she wants us to get him to do the Lucky Charms commercial. I don't think it's possible for him to do that three times... The last two within the span of a week, at least.

Then again, Sunset did say Oz liked Bridget more than most. Maybe that's why she was able to get him to do it last time. If so, then good Lord, she probably has the same amount of power of him that we do...

Which makes me wonder what she did to get it.

Sunset: It's amazing how foolish people become when they're given power they don't fully understand. They become cocky. They become arrogant. They take on titles they are not powerful or grand enough to fulfill. She called herself the Goddess. She has no idea how weak she is, in comparison to Her. Foolish.

I am so very tempted to curse her, in the same way I did my husband. It sometimes scares me, how vengeful I can be, but when I think of what she's done... It is so much worse than what my husband did. He never played games, like she does. He was not as sadistic as she is, no where near it. Yet, he deserved what happened to him. And if I curse her, in the same way I did him, she will get everything she deserves.

Karma is a funny thing. People really need to believe in it more. For what goes around does come around. And if sometimes, the process has to be sped along, then so be it. Oh, yes. She will get what's coming to her. And Goddess have mercy on her when it happens.

Angelika: Damn it. Sunset called Oz stupid for not wearing a mask on that damn bank robbery, and then she... God. We have the most amazing luck. If it weren't for my powers... It was amazing we got away from that with just sprained shoulders and bloody lips. Doesn't even warrant a hospital visit, just gotta take it easy for a while.

I'll tell him about the engagement, and how he got piss ass drunk and forgot... but I won't tell him about anything else. I won't tell him what he did. He doesn't need to know. It won't help it. It's not that important anyway.

How the hell am I gonna tell Oz about her engagement? The only good that will come of it is he won't see her anymore. She is so bad for him... 'Send Oz my love.' Bullshit. She can't love him. You don't do that to people you love, you just don't.

He'll be free of her. It's a good thing. It has to be a good thing. But he'll still be under Ock's command... Will he be able to protect us from him?

I know he'll try.

Sunset: What the hell did she do to you, Oz? What did she do to you to make you that desperate for proof that someone cared about you? God damn it. He would have never done that otherwise. Never. Angelika is like... There's just no way he would have done that while in sound mind. What the fuck did she do to you, Oz?

I've never seen him that drunk before, either. I was so worried he was going to die from alcohol poisoning... It seems like it took forever for me to know he was going to be okay. God damn it. God damn it. I can't wait for Oz to wake up and get better enough to tell me what happened, if he even would. There's only one other person who can tell me... and I'm going to do anything I can to make her.

Angelika: I'm still trying to figure out what the hell happened. It's hard to wrap my mind around it. I slept with... No, there wasn't any sleeping. That's not the right way to describe it. Sex isn't the right word either. We fucked, plain and simple. There wasn't anything romantic or sweet about it... But it was the only way he knew of that proved that someone still cared about him. There's no other reasoning for him to have done that.

There's no way I could have said no. Who knows what he would have done then... He left right afterwards. Came back a few hours later drunk out of his mind. I guess this was the only place he thought he could go.

Damn it, Oz. What happened?

( 'It's done.' )

Oz: Well, that wasn't as amazingly difficult as I thought it would be. I don't mind fighting anyone, and I won't say different. but I ain't gonna hurt any birds or kids, unless I've got no other choice. And even then, I'd have to be damn bloody desperate.

I ain't my da's son, DNA and all that rot be damned.

Just as long as Ock uses me for strength and the dirty work - just as long as I don't have to hurt any women or children - I can keep doing this. Permanent means to a bloody permanent end. And hopefully the things I gain afterwards will make the permanent means easier to deal with. Especially if I have to do things I'm gonna hate.

Not like I can say no to him.

Sunset: Damn it. I know Oz isn't the brightest, but he isn't stupid. He should know to cover our face for this shit. If it weren't for that spell... Even then, I'm not completely sure it will work. It should keep eye witnesses from remembering most of the details they would know for eye witness reports, but... If as a group they remember enough details...

Goddess, I pray that doesn't happen. At least he got the tapes. It wouldn't work on tape. Magic can only do so much. Damn it, Oz. Damn it.

And damn myself for being jealous of him. He's getting what we've both wanted for years... And I can't ask now. Even if I could force myself to work for Otto... Even if my body was worth it... It's probably too late now.

Damn it all to hell.

Angelika: Fucking Oz! If I get put in jail by the fucking cops...

How the hell would I explain that?

How the hell could I explain that to my parents?

I could easily say Doc Ock brainwashed me, and maybe maybe get out of it if I got a good attorney, but he'd probably come after us then, wouldn't he? And I really, really doubt they'd let me off on the account that my 'alternate personality' did it.

I beat a lot of people on trail have pulled that before. Or at least tried. I don't see it working after a while.

Oh, please, God, let Sunset's spell have worked. I don't want to go to jail.

OOC: The impossible has been done. Someone (aka Bridget) finally convinced me to start doing musings for Psyche logs. For all three personalities. Enjoy.

Oz: Well, that meeting was certainly unhelping. Informative, but it didn't really help me out in the long run, did it?

I am so bloody fucked. This body better be worth it. Genie better be worth it. (Haven't seen her in a while. What if I'm losing her?) I just bloody hope I don't have to hurt any kids, or birds. I ain't my da. I'm not gonna be like him by hurting girls and youngins.

I should have drank more.

Sunset: Not surprised that Bridget called him an idiot on his decision. She seems to have a knack for always being right, and I agree with her on that front. I just hope Oz somehow ends up happy with his pay off of working for Otto. Though I really don't think getting Eugenie (at this point, I'm really doubtful he's going to. Not after she decided to run off with the prostitute groinspawn...

What the hell she sees in him I'll never know. He's so.... unreliable. (That's so putting it lightly.)

Hopefully Oz will move off of her soon. Please, Goddess, let him get over her and move on. She's not good for him. She really isn't.

Angelika: I still don't know how the fuck I passed this year. Even though it was barely, by the skin of my teeth, I still passed. Barely.

Fucking Oz. I'm gonna have to work my ass off next year to make up for my GPA to be able to stay on top of all the good plays.

I'm am so gonna kick his ass when he gets his body. If I can. Maybe.

Maybe I'll just yell at him a lot, instead. Who knows what Doc Ock does to people who beats up his minions.

Gotta Wiki the Doctor. Maybe Bridget too. After all, she admitted she shares info with Doc Ock... But after all, it's published info. Not like no one else knows it too. I think. That's what it seemed like at least...

Note to self: Ask for as many hours at the shop as possible. Find a way to make Oz and Sunset clock in for me when they're out.

Good luck to me.

( 'I'm having a hard time imagining you quoting Shakespeare.' [Bridget] )