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Nicky let his expressions cool for a moment as he stepped back to watch the goings-on...they almost all seemed...well...normal...aside from the obvious, of course. Nicky shook his head, not quite knowing what to make of it all. Though...he did have a strong urge to just pick up his things and hide in his duplex for a while.

He quickly shook off these thoughts...he knew he had to make aquantances quickly with the islanders if he would want any chance of getting off of this rock. But, at the moment, he just sat back and watched.

Nicky was glancing over toward Lucas who had come back from the cafeteria with some delicious looking water when something large and wet hit him in the shoulder, causing him to stumble foreward in surprise. "The hell!?" he called out, quickly turning around to try to see who threw what at him and stained his, until then, prestine white shirt. He gave a quick scan of the area, glaring at the bushes from whence the ball of mud, rock, and leaves came. Then...he saw it...that ******** lizard thing again.

The anger melted away from Nicky's face as he forced a calm over himself. Watch yourself, Nicky...don't want those bastards to get the wrong idea about you...watch it. With a not-so-jovial grin, the ex-wiseguy walked casually over toward Victor's hiding spot. Once within about five feet of Victor, he just fixed the lizard with his deathly-calm stare. In all honesty, Nicky would like nothing better than to put the thing out of everyone's misery with a heavy, blunt object...but this was not the time.

"Did you throw that at me?" he asked softly, but with every bit of threat he could manage to cram into the sentence.

Nicky stared down the freak of nature in front of him for a moment, a held-back shudder of disgust wanting to climb its way up his spine. As well as he hid his emotions from the outside world, Victor's jabs did cut deep...disturbing Nicky greatly. All this time, he had kept his own injection in the back of his mind...keeping that creeping sense of unease on the backburner for as long as possible. But here was this lizard freak, drudging up those horrid thoughts again. Just what am I to turn into? When will I sprout claws, or fur, or scales? Christ, just what the ******** is going to happen to me!?

He gave a glance back to where the pegasus and penguin were, all that showed was a slight smirk that broke the dangerous calm around him. "Goddamn, you are a vindictive b*****d, aren't you? But yes, yes I was. I was going to apologize. I felt terrible for how I treated you...once I figured out just what was going on here. But...wouldn'tcha knowit? Some git had to go and soil my favorite shirt. Guess I'm going to have'ta go wash it now." Nicky turned to start walking away...pausing a moment to look back to Victor, "Catch me later'n I'll buy you a beer. S'long as you promise not to throw mud at me."

As he walked back to where he kept his jacket and tie, he silently thanked anything that was watching that Victor was not part monkey...flinging poo is just wrong.

"I'm only Vindicctive whhen I've been thhrreatened, but maybe we ccan forrgget thhat....inccident in thhe worrkkout rroom, we'rre all ggonna be herre a longg time, plenty of time forr you to prrove yourrsssself to be a betterr perrssssson" Victor told the Wiseguy, watching him walk away then turn back towards him. "I don't carre for Beerr, I drrink hhard liquor, longg Issssland Icce Tea, and if you be nicce, I won't thrrow mud"

Victor looked toward Gaius and the others as he then moved himself backwards into the brush, vanishing from view, eventually left, heading back to his duplex. He didn't feel like he had any need to stay any longer... and didn't need to any people to stare or scream at him.