nick_garou | I need to get out of this place. Soon.

Well, yesterday was.... interesting. I went downstairs to do a load of laundry, Nadia was there, and she just hauled off and punched me in the face and started screaming and... Gah. It turns out that Nadia talked with Val and instead of Val telling her she was an ally and that they could work together, Val toyed with her a bit. (Although, according to a belated voice mail I got from Val, the conversation happened in a public area where Val couldn't talk freely, so.... Yay, timing.) This pissed Nadia off and, because I'd told her earlier that I was good friends with Val and dodged the questions Nadia kept asking about her, she (correctly) assumed I'd talked to Val about Nadia paying particular attention to her.

So. Punched in the face. No serious damage done and I'm sure it'll be fine in a few days or maybe a week.

So while Nadia is all in a tizzy, that's when Flint, this other garou I'd never met called Morgan, and then Nieve all show up. Nadia's flipping out, I'm not saying what Val is because I'm unsure of all the garou know about her or if she's selective about who knows what about her. And Nadia starts going off about how it's a veil breach, as if Val were a human, and then Flint goes and spills the beans about Val--so I didn't have to be the one to out Val to Nadia.

I could have kissed the boy. Except that'd be gay. And gross.

So then I explained how I'd told Val so that Val would talk to Nadia and then they could work together with SCPD stuff, disposing of evidence, etc.--and that it was most definitely not a veil breach. That seemed to get Nadia to calm down a little. She left and came back with a bag of ice for my lip. Everyone seemed to chill out afterwards, though Nadia was still keyed up--and I felt like an utter ass who'd had a near-death experience.

I could have kicked myself. In trying to alert Val to a potential problem, I'd outed a kinfolk to her. But if I'd told Nadia about Val when Nadia started poking earlier, then I'd have been outing Val to a kinfolk I had literally just met less than half an hour ago while there were Black Spiral Dancers and a shape-shifting fomor roaming around the city. I erred on the side of Val, who I've known and been friends with for about 7-8 years now, instead of adhering to a "kin before anything else except garou" mentality that Nadia subscribes to. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. I still feel like shit for shafting Nadia like I unwittingly did.

After I got out of there, I fired off a heated e-mail at Val telling her the trouble she caused by toying with Nadia earlier that morning. Then I let Salem know what transpired so he didn't get blindsided by it.

Got a voicemail back from Val early this morning. She apologized for toying with Nadia and said they were in a public area when Nadia initiated contacted. Val'd pointed her at Quin hoping that he'd clue Nadia in while Val tried to catch up on her backlog of paperwork--resulting from her doing all these scouting missions.

I also learned that Salem actually followed the advice I'd given him earlier: show Val some appreciation and thanks for her work. The old and cranky bastard actually baked her a cake. Val asked if I had a hand in that and.... I should probably fess up that I suggested it if she asks in person--even though I was hoping to let it look like Salem took the initiative on that. It turns out that Val later found a package placed up in the trees in Harbor Park--where a bird would see it but not someone on the ground. Val said Kaz had left it for her.

Val's bringing me a bottle of Krakken rum to make up for things. (This just seems more like a comedy of errors than any one individual's fault--maybe reality smacking me on the back of the head for using magic to 'degenerate' the gunpowder in the BSD's silver bullets back towards the dirt it came from.) She also let me know that it was okay to reveal what she was to garou and kin.

Val and I need to get together and craft a backstory as to how we met and worked together and I came to know what she was before I knew what the Garou were. Someone might ask eventually. I already shared a rough story with her about working together on the force, me having found a bloodless corpse, telling her about it and then showing her the crime scene, getting attacked by a vampire, and Val killing it--but not before I'd seen what it was, and I helped dispose of the evidence to protect Val and the veil in exchange for a promise as to WTF was up.

I need to move out of the tenement. It's just too crazy here. I wish those BSDs that know about my houseboat would hurry up and DIE ALREADY.