Furry Support Group | Hailey

[Natasha Lannister]

This was the strangest thing Natasha had even done, and she was a wolf for five years. Chiron came to here saying that she had to start going twice a week to this group in order to help her 'mental state' all because she bit some kid. It wasn't her fault he invaded her territory. He also was a jerk but apparent that is beside the point. 

"Previously Magically induced Animal State" The Literally longest way to say they were once living furries. Lovely just what Natasha needed, was another reminder that 'hey by the way we may say you are one of us but there is no way in Hades you will ever fit in.' How lovely. She was not excited to meet whatever other person they were bringing in here. Maybe it was the kid of the god of Furries, or better yet just a animal trainer. She was so excited to have this happen. Not. She went into the room she was told to and saw no one else there. She sighed and rolled her eyes, pulling a chair over to the center of the poorly lit arts room and turned on the lights. Dust flew everywhere and sent her senses in override. "Fantastic." she mumbled sitting down and crossing her arms. She was going to have a great time.

[Hailey Nichols]

Hailey thought she was adjusting to human life quite fine, except for all the various rumors that circulated about her. And she was Theo on a pretty daily basis. Everything was going fine to her. Except, Chiron didn't think so. He wanted her to be apart of some support group that he decided to start up. Previously Magically Induced Animal State. Hailey had no clue why he had to pick a long name for a furry support group. A group that Hailey was pretty sure she'd be the only member of.

But she was good and headed towards the arts cabin. She was quite surprised that the cabin lights were alright on. Hailey knitted her eyebrows together before she headed into the cabin. And she wasn't the only one there. There was another girl. Hailey had seen her around camp. She was in Aphrodite or some similar cabin. Hailey smiled sheepishly as she waved at the other girl. "Did Chiron force you here too?" she asked before she sat down in a chair near the girl.

[Natasha Lannister]

Natasha watched as the other girl came in. No formal greetings, no explanation, just questions. Maybe she wasn't the only one in this boat. She nodded at the other girl, she had seen her around before. Wasn't there two of them or something like that? "Yeah." she said simply, uncrossing her arms as the girl entered. Only the two of them? Well this is one hell of a plan Chiron isn't in. "Do you know what we are doing here?Are you a part of this furry exchange program as well? Or are you the one that suppose to be normalizing me?" She said perhaps more sharply than she should have. "Cause I'll tell you one thing if you expect to break me down like some shrink doll you've got another thing coming." okay, perhaps too much snarl in the last one but the wolf inside her was angry.  

[Hailey Nichols]

"Normalizing you?" Hailey said with a laugh as she shook her head. "Nah, I don't think I'm even qualified to be even doing that. Apparently I'm adjusting to human life a little too well so Chiron thought I needed a support group, I guess. I swear I will never know what goes through that horse's brain." She shrugged her shoulders as she slumped in her chair a little bit. "And I'm taking a guess that you're not the shrink either." Hailey sighed as she reached up to run her fingers through her hair. "Are we supposed to wait for someone to come start this little party or not? Because I can easily start it off. My name's Hailey and I used to be jackalope up until a month or so ago."

[Natasha Lannister]

Natasha listened to the girl explain how she was another 'patient' in chirons furry study apparently. She huffed and leaned forward, resting her elbows on her knees. "Shrink? No, my idea of advice is to either fight it or eat it. But I guess we are broth enrolled in Furry Support Group now." she grumbled slightly before she introduced herself. Three. two. One.

Okay Natasha could have been more polite about the busting out laughing. After all she knew what it was like, to lose every part for your body and be replaced by, something so foreign, to lose you very since of being but, come on. "A Jackalope? Are you kidding me?" she said once she could breath. "Sorry, I know it was probably terrible for you but they are so small and cute." She actually shivered at the thought. "Though come to think of it you probably got harassed by a lot of kids didn't you then?" she said slightly more seriously before stopping and sitting up straight. Chiron that sneaky Bastard. Someone that would be able to understand why couldn't normalize. Someone that would get why she acted like a 'dog' as Dakota called it. She may not be big on the opening up thing, but at least this girl would have some idea of the hell she went through. 

"Im not going do the stupid AAA greeting, no offence, just not my style." she said before taking a breath. "My Names Natasha, and a few months ago my five year hell sentence from Artemis broke and transformed back from human from a wolf." Yikes. Why did she want to cry?

[Hailey Nichols]

Hailey's face heated up and her nose twitched again once the girl started laughing at her jackalope history. This was a grand start to everything. But once she could calm down her laughter, the girl explained why she found the situation so hilarious. Hailey's face heated up a little bit more as she chuckled a bit. "I guess I was cute or, at least, that's what my boyfriend tells me. But those horns were just a pain in the butt to deal with." But she did have her difficulties. Harassed by children? Hailey rolled her eyes. "There was this one boy who called me a deer bunny and tried to convince his cabin leader to keep me. Thankfully, she wasn't having any of it and she let me go."

But the girl, Natasha, was also a former animal. Hailey listened intently before she moved in her seat. She turned it so that the back was facing Natasha and Hailey straddled it as she leaned forward on it before she said, "Wait, Artemis also made you an animal as well?" She sighed as she rolled her eyes. "I swear she has issues."

[Natasha Lannister]

Okay. So the world could possibly end. It could, because Natasha genuinely smiled "Horns? Try to deal with wolf packs, they are all assholes all the time." she joked fondly and even laughed. A laugh she hadn't hear in a long time. A long long time. She stopped laughing at the mention of Artemis. Heavily sighing she ran a  hand through her hand. "Yeah. Shes something more along the line of a asshole than having issues. Apparently she determined some young demigod's punishment for abusing her powers should be to literally take her life away from five years." Her voice was harsh and cold, and for the first time, full of emotion. For most people who they hear about her, they either blamed her or said it wasn't that bad. They didn't understand how it felt to be punished for one mistake like that. She didn't say it was right but she was young and naive and felt like with her powers she was untouchable. How it felt to never see her family, how she had to explain five years later to her broken father that she wasn't in fact dead. All her friends that were gone, both moves out and some passed during a big fight at camp. Hailey was the only one with any possible idea how she felt.

[Hailey Nichols]

Hailey thought for a moment before she shrugged her shoulders. "I guess they can be assholes. I never saw them as gentle creatures. I'm sorry you had to run around with them. I'd probably rip their throats out or something." But at least it looked like they were finally past the awkward stage of this so-called meeting. And Natasha seemed like a pretty cool person and she wouldn't mind having more of these meeting with her.

"Really?" Hailey said as she moved forward in her seat a little bit more. "She did that to you over your powers? Dear gods, add petty along with her being an asshole." Hailey rolled her eyes as she sighed and looked over at Natasha. "That must really suck, especially for something so... silly. I mean, I broke my oath and she turned me into a jackalope, but a wolf for your powers." She rolled her eyes again before she said, "I'm so glad that I'm out of that bitch's control."

[Natasha Lannister]

Three. Two. One. She could do this. Natasha ran her hand through her hair awkwardly and sighed. Of course she was a hunter. Only made sense. The hunters had always bothered her when she was younger, that they were so willing to ignore love. Love was love, whether with a girls or boys or neither. The fact that someone would just be so willing to give up on even the slightest idea of love had set wrong with the young girl. Doesn't mean she should have done what she did.

"I deserved it." For the first time since she changed back she finally said it. She swore she would kill the goddess some how, or pay her back at least. But for the first time she felt, something other than angry or emptiness. She felt sad. "I did some...bad things." her voice was so soft it didn't sound like her own anymore.

She sighed again before finally straightening out and loosing the awkward posture. "Doesn't mean I don't hate her for it, She could have at least helped my dad. He had no idea, for five years." That still burned her. Her dad was her everything, the person that taught her was love actually was. To hurt him like that, was unforgivable, even for the goddess. She nodded at the girl "Yeah, being out of her domain probably helps a lot. Doesn't mean it doesn't feel like she is still winning." she said harshly, looking around them. Isn't this what she wanted, was for them to feel like they were alone. Like they would never be fully human again.

[Hailey Nichols]

Hailey froze for a moment. She really thought she deserved her punishment of being turned into a wolf? Whatever she did had to be bad. Hailey didn't want to pry. She thought falling in love and breaking her oath was bad, but this? This was worse. Hailey pressed her lips together before she reached out to put a hand on the girl's shoulder. "Natasha?" she said a bit hesitantly before she continued. "I don't know what you did and I don't want to know, but nobody deserves to be turned into an animal. That's just cruel and unusual punishment. And I can't imagine five years. I know mine was probably indefinitely if I didn't seek help, but that's not a punishment that's okay to have."

She nodded her head to herself as she pulled her hand away. "But things will get better, hopefully. I don't know." She shrugged a bit. "But things are at least looking better for me, so hopefully they will for you too."

[Natasha Lannister]

Now the thing with Natasha is she doesn't handle sympathy well. Everyone has always told her they are sorry for what happened, that they couldn't imagine how she had felt. Damn right they couldn't. To literally have every part of your body ripped apart and transformed into something she wasn't. Something they slowly overtook her, changed her and spit her right back out into the hell she was living in now. Hailey, her sympathy wasn't need either, she was tired of people feeling sorry for her. Yet she didn't feel like ripping out her throat because for once she believed that she knew how she had felt. Maybe not the same extent but felt it as well. She just shock her head, unable to think of a proper call back. "Yeah well that's what I got." she said simply, coldness flooding her voice.


Gods she need out of this sap-fest now. Hailey said something about her getting better and that was her ticket out. "At least things are getting better for you. How long have you been out of smoll and furry stage if you don't mind me asking. You talk like you've had a while to cope."Anything to get the topic off her.

[Hailey Nichols]

She pursed her lips together as Natasha seemed to fully believe that she deserved her fate being a wolf for so many years. And it was probably over something very minute and silly. She wanted to say more to comfort her, but she noticed how Natasha turned cold on her. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to push the issues, especially if this was the first time they had met.

Hailey thought about it for a moment. How long had she been human. Sometimes, it felt like her transformation was yesterday. She couldn't forget the pain she went through her body was ripped from one form to another, despite how many times she blocked it out. She winced a bit before she looked over at Natasha and said, "About eight months, I guess. But sometimes it feels like it was only yesterday. I know I still have nightmares about those times I was still so-called smol and furry." But the good thing was that she rarely had those nightmares anymore since she found a constant bed mate to keep her company and to wear her out when so she was too tired to have those nightmares.

[Natasha Lannister]

Natasha noticed the wince. No matter how she tried to hide it, that if at all. Digging into thing she shouldn't was all too common for her, both old and new. Others lives,her sisters failed then thriving relationship, now this girls life. She had no filter since no one had a filter with her. She didn't feel bad for it though, She knew that it wasn't something she could predict, and from the sounds of what Hailey said.

"Nightmares are the worst, though i was normally the one causing them in my case." she said truthfully before leaning over on her knees again. Natasha liked to be in a position she could ponce from, it made her feel safe. At ease, like she was in control. No matter the truth of the situation. "I guess I have it lucky, I don't get nightmares, I don't dream at all." Nor does she have nightmares, she just sees everything through wolf shaded eyes. The world, people. Her sense of smell had readjusted but her sight, still sharp and killer. "8 months is quite some time though. How did you break it?" She waited out her punishment, had she known there was a way to break it maybe things wouldn't have been so bad.

[Hailey Nichols]

"Not having dreams is a bit of a blessing within itself," Hailey said with a bit of a shrug. "I mean, the gods use it to connect with us and stuff, so if you're not dreaming, you don't have to worry about them barging in and forcing their worries onto you. You probably don't think so, but I think that's very nice to have." Not that Hephaestus had any reason to contact Hailey in her sleep, since she had several more competent siblings who could deal with those problems.

But Hailey was pulled out of those thoughts when Natasha asked how she broke her curse. "I got tired of running around camp scared and being targeted by seven year old boys as potential pets... I sought out the Hecate cabin. I figured since magic was the thing that got me in that mess that magic was the thing to get me out of it."

[Natasha Lannister]

Dreams where bullshit to demigods that much was true, but you never knew how much you missed them till you couldn't have them anymore. Natasha wished she could escape her reality some times. Aphrodite didn't bother with her anyways, she didn't want her help. Where was her mother when she needed her? When she was a wolf for YEARS. She huffed and shook her head, pushing herself back into her chair. "Yeah. They can stay out of my life." she mumbled before looking over as Hailey spoke. "Thats cool that you were able to get yourself out of that." she said, slightly jealous that she wasn't able to do the same. She had been so lost when she was turned into a wolf. She didn't even know who she was at the time. Yet the idea of the Hecate cabin. She growled slightly "They can keep all their magic shit to themselves. I never want to see magic again." she said angrly, glaring at the ground as she did. "Magic always has a price and I'm not willing to pay it."