T W I N S

[Magdalena]

"I heard there was a wolf in these parts!"

"A wolf in Central Park? How did a wolf get into New York City in the first place?"

"Maybe one escaped from a zoo or something."

It was rude to eavesdrop on people's conversations, but Magdalena couldn't help herself. It wasn't her fault that her sharp ears were able to pick up things that normal humans couldn't. It also wasn't her fault that she was able to pick up conversations that were about her, even though the people discussing the "wolf" were out of the normal hearing range of any human.

"What do you think they'll do if they find the wolf?"

"Probably shoot it."

"I hope so! I would hate to run into a wolf out here! They should shut the whole park down until they find it!"

Mal was sitting on a bench, reading a magazine and pretending to be minding her own business. In the back of her mind she was debating whether she should sneak behind a few bushes, changed into a wolf and give these people a good scare. That would show them. It was rude to talk about shooting people, wasn't it? Especially when the person they were talking about was just right there.

Nah.... I guess I can let it slide. It's not like they know I'm the wolf. she scratched the back of her head and sighed. "Maybe I should find a new place to live..."

Sneaking from one country to another via boat or airplane was turning out to be easier. She usually would free a caged animal that was getting ready for transport, and put herself in there. When people would come to check up on the beast and find an unconscious woman laying in the cage in the animal's stead, with "no memory of how she got there," they were often a lot more sympathetic. After that, escaping before authorities could be contacted and she could get deported back to Italy was still tricky, but getting easier by the day.

"Yeah.... I need to make a new home. This place is nice but damn... some people...."

[Ayla]

"I heard there was a wolf in these parts!"

"A wolf in Central Park? How did a wolf get into New York City in the first place?"

"Maybe one escaped from a zoo or something."

Ayla gained the words while was passing, both spoke so loud that whoever would have been able to hear.. Despite this continued her jogging as if she hasn't listened anything. She didn't wished wasting time in chatters on the gossips of day with unknown.

She overcame an avenue. Her sporting overall left the abdomen undressed and started to feel the cold and the damp on the skin but wasn't important. There were few places whether to be able think about , there or to the old dock but Central Park it was the perfect place to be able to quietly think. In that days in the Bureau it was impossible to be quiet , even the bookstore wasn't a calm place. This because.... Liz and Red wanted discussions and not normal discussions...

Before going out she was sure to have seen the armored door of the find section to fly as if it was a frisbee. It was decidedly better then to be in Central Park if she wanted think about...

In that last days she seen things that she didn't think would ever be been able to happen. After having studied for months information about the 'the lost world' and the legend of a parallel world between fantastic creatures and the world of the human ones with the addition of the derision of a whole agents sector, had seen few days ago... a fairy.

Her red lips smiled. A fairy. A creature that you can see in the fairytales books for children or... if you are crazy. She however had well seen and wasn't madness. She had gotten information on how to reach Bethmoora in exchange of few...
She however hadn't thought yet on the idea , could be a trap. She had studied that the magic creatures like the fairies knew how to be very untrustworthy...

Perhaps, that had been the first and the last time that she would have seen an unusual creature....

BUMP.

Ayla lose the thread of her thoughts. It was late for do anything if not to fall on which was stumbles and to accept in public the painful thought of a probable laughter of someone and the shame of a fall. That that however did she succeed in realizing it was that she was sure that the road was completely free and anyway ... on what she had stumbles on? She was normally awkward but seriously this time stumbling on something of... mobile.

[Magdalena]

Mal grunted when she felt someone bump into her. She had only stood up from the bench before she felt some girl knock her over. Because Mal was clumsy anyways, the leggy, tall woman collapsed and fell on her butt. She groaned and rubbed her hips and lower back.

"Okay wiseguy, is there any reason why you don't look where you're goin'!?" she snapped, then blinked when she saw that the lady had also fallen over. "Oh gosh, are you okay?" she asked, crawling over to her. "You didn't break anything, did you?"

[Ayla]

The pain on the back was not more embarrassing than the awareness to have as usual gave her image of awkward. " I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I haven't seen you... I was... " Ayla was touching her back with a sulky expression on the face. Her long blonde hair tied up in a pigtail were partly on her face giving her really an awkward aspect, then she lifted the hands as if she didn't know whether to add if not
"I am awkward... sorry" Said with simplicity and her green eyes lifted foor look at the face of who she was fallen on.

"I am well, but you rather?.. I have arrived like a bullet. Are you hurt? " Ayla looked at the young woman, she have a very youth face and perhaps worried... from something.
"I was running and I have been distracted for listen to... " Ayla talked in clips and turned mentioning some meter behind of her and turned then to look at the woman crawling over her. Her eyes saw a strange sign appear under the neckline of the dress. A...bite?.

"You didn't break anything, did you?" She asked.

Ayla dissuaded the look with quickness and shrugged lifting of few the arms as shaking "I am fine... " Answered smiling
"Sometimes I forget how works to run and the to look while you are doing it... but.." she jokingly lifted the finger
"I always remember how to raise me again " With a curl up of the mouth for a brief pain in the back she get up again cleaning the dust and the grass on the knees.

Ayla smiled and lengthened a hand " Hi, Ayla. The avalanche that is fallen on you... " said with happy embarrassment, hated that type show of awkwardness.

"I was sure however that there wasn't anything on my way" it said shaking the head and pointing out with the look as if was trying to remember how was happened. She was appeared as off-hand...

"But it is known... I am distracted.... " said later.

[Hellboy]

"Clumsy, much? Don't think I've seen that before in my life. I gotta hand it to you, kid, it made me laugh."

Standing near the two ladies was none other than Hellboy himself. He was standing for all the world to see, but wore his jacket with the collar up and a hat over his head. That didn't mean that his large arm, tail, and red face weren't hard to see. He felt like giving Manning something of a heartattack when those new pictures came in of him feeding the ducks in central park with a class of First Graders. At least then he could protest with "I was wearing a disguise, wasn't I?"

He placed a hand on Ayla's shoulder before offering his other hand to the girl. "Need help getting up?" then he blinked, inhaling something. "Huh..... what smells like a wolf around here?"

[Magdalena]

Mal just blinked. And rather hugely at that. She didn't mind the lady. Sure, she ran into her, but she didn't seem like a mean person at all, so all was forgiven. But when she was looking up at what looked like Satan, well, she wasn't all that comfortable about that.

"Ahhhh......" she gaped for a moment, then chuckled when he mentioned the wolf, causing her to scratch the back of her head. "Heh heh...... funny you mention that, actually..." she chuckled, then moved her hand from her head to his hand.

Rather then having him pull her up, she used his arm as a leverage to pick herself up. Unfortunately when she was standing up at her fully height, she was a good seven feet tall in her heels and towered over both of them. And her skirt rode up in the back, so everybody who bothered to look got a good view of her panties.

"Aw crud..." she muttered, moving her hands to her bottom and smoothing the dress out back there. "Well I hope whoever was standing behind me is happy, I know he got a good show...." then she grinned at the two. "Haha... so.... what were your names again? I'm Magdalena!" she said, smiling at the both of them.

[Ayla]

"I was wearing a disguise, wasn't I?"

She recognized the thundering voice and laughed without looking who spoken, she would have recognized that voice among million and lifted the look when she felt a hand rest on her shoulder. She was always happy to see big Red and at that time more of the others.

"HEY big guy! " she looked at the tall and muscular figure in comparison to the slender of her. She made a wide and happy smile.

After shaken the grass from the suits she gave a small pat on the breast of the friend. Whoever passed stared for more of a handful of seconds before getting further. Some pointed out Red, calling him Hellboy and then they got further, who smiling.. who not. Ayla liked to call him Red as everybody and didn't give attention to the fact that decidedly had a demoniac aspect. For her, Red was Red .
"What are you doing around here? I remember that this morning I had left the Boreau with a flying door behind me ...so...I suppose that someone have loose the match this time" she laughed amused reporting to Liz and their early-morning quarrels.

"Huh..... what smells like a wolf around here?"
Ayla looked at Red knitting the forehead and began to sniff the air shortly after. there was smell of wet dog.

Then she turned when heard a nervous voice chuckle and saw the woman that had bumped on to suddenly become nervous. However when Red helped the girl to got up Ayla perplexed expression was inevitable when saw the woman skirt get up above the bust and obviously.... the attention of the passer-bys stopped from Red to her. Ayla hid for an instant the mouth behind a hand with an imperceptible gesture holding back a smile and thinking how much inadequate was.

"Well I hope whoever was standing behind me is happy, I know he got a good show...."

Decidedly this time was hard to hold back a small giggle then she hastened to shake the head denying with a smile " I do it all the days...more or less... you have seen it before. Don't worry yourself... we are accustomed in to unintentionally recall the attention. " Said turning to Red an amused look .

Then smiled "Nice to meet you Magdalena, beh I have met you falling on you but...however " she happily lengthened a hand. When she approached noticed that the odor of wolf, as Red had said, was intense . Ayla looked around with the look, but of dogs or similar..

[Magdalena]

Mal shook the hand of the lady but then her attention turned right back to the large red man before her. Because of her Catholic upbringing from both her mother and the Vatican, she was a bit uneasy. He did look like a devil, after all, or at least what she would have assumed the Devil to look like. But maybe it would be unwise to judge him so harshly just yet. After all, it wasn't like she was particularly normal herself.

"Ah yeah, so...." she chuckled and rubbed her hand against the back of her neck. "So, you guys from around here? I just came in from Italy, you see. New girl in the big city. Strange though, I assumed that the place would be full of taller people, since the place is so big... but look... I'm even taller then you two."

She frowned a bit, then lifted one foot up, slid off her high heel, then did the same. She was shorter.... but not by much.

"Huh... didn't help at all, did it?"

[Hellboy]

Red grinned down at Ayla. "Hey, kid..." he greeted, nodding at the girl. "What am I doing here? Well I was feeding the ducks. Then I stopped to take a picture with a few kids. Gave 'em an autograph, too.... and then I just saw you bump into this girl. Got a few laughs out of it."

Then his attention turned back to the foreigner. "Italian?" Hellboy repeated, making an awkward face.

The only thing he could really remember about Italian was good food and Mussolini. Well the girl didn't look like a Nazi sympathizer, so he could only hope that she knew how to make good spaghetti. Then again, she was a tall girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. But Nazis were Caucasian...

"Magda...lena...." he repeated. "You got a nickname, babe? Hey.... what's that?" His eyes narrowed on her neck, then widened. "Hey lady, were you mauled by a tiger or something?"

[Magdalena]

At that comment, Mal's hand slipped over the bite mark and laughed a bit louder. "Hahaha, well actually, it was a really, really big dog." she chuckled. "Mean little bugger. I know it hurt like hell at the time! Maybe I ran into him when he was hungry.... I think there was a sheep farm not too far from where I was... why didn't he just go there?"

She blinked, then turned her head to the side, thinking to herself. Huh.... if a werewolf bites a sheep, what happens then? Do they become weresheep? Or does the sheep turn into a wolf? Or will the sheep start eating people? And what happens is a weresheep bites a person? Do they turn into sheep?

"Man, confusing...." she muttered to herself.

[Ayla]

"Mean little bugger. I know it hurt like hell at the time! Maybe I ran into him when he was hungry.... I think there was a sheep farm not too far from where I was... why didn't he just go there?"

Ayla knitted the forehead. That story left her perplexed. The bite of a dog left the sign but that sign it was decidedly too much big for a dog. The small face of Ayla started to have uncertainty on what was listening, additionally perceived a fear coming from the young woman. A nervousness due for the first time, not to have nearby one as Red. Ayla turned the look to him for an instant, exchanging a furtive glance but that allowed to realize her doubt.

"Are you new of here?" asked for then mentioned to a friendly expression "your accent it seems a few... Italiano, se non sbaglio" Ayla pronounced the last words in foreign language, her blue sapphire eyes fathomed those of her. There was something different that perceived in that woman. Very strange.

She looked at the men that before had spoken of a 'wolf' in the city, still busy to discuss and finally connected the events. She hadn't bumped not the girl for a distraction, was she that was practically camouflaged as a bloodhound.

[Hellboy]

Hellboy rose an eyebrow at the girl, finally putting it together. Rumors about a wolf, something that smelled like a dog, and a strange girl from out of town with a huge "dog bite" on the side of her neck. He took a step forward and looked her over.

"Magdal.... mind if I call you Mag?" he said. "Listen.... you don't seem too bad. We ain't gonna get any trouble out of you, right? The last thing we need right now is a dead body turning up in this park, or a second wolf sighting."

[Magdalena]

"Ew, no!" Magdalena snapped. "I hate that nickname! Mag, it sounds nasty! If anything call me Mal." she shuddered again, then straightened herself out. "And I never planned on eating anybody. If anything they were planning on shooting me because of a little wolf phobia! I didn't do anything!"

Mal then leaned to the side and glanced back at Ayla. "Ah yes, I'm Italian. Just one more wop in New York City, right? Heh heh..."

[Ayla]

Ayla looked at the woman get excited to the words of Red and her doubt started to be less "In fact we're not accusing you... " Said Ayla knitting the forehead to her irritation. Her blonde hair slightly stirred in the wind "Then, if you don't have done anything... Mal.... why you hide yourself? "

"Ah yes, I'm Italian. Just one more wop in New York City, right? Heh heh..."

Ayla smiled looking at her leaned on a side and to her words " Yes but there is never the too much of nothing, believe me" smiling on the lips with gentleness. Ayla had understood that she had just arrived in the city and perhaps one of the so many reasons for which she hid were that she hadn't arrived there ''legally'' and her nervousness to the word wolf gave to intend some things.. as her bite. For Alya, however, was hard to believe to have met another not belonging creature to the human side , even if however neither she was one of them .
"If you are afraid that someone attacks yourself or as you say , makes overpower by an attack of wolf phobia, it is not prudent that you stay here" Ayla looked at Red. She didn't know whether to ask more or more expressly to Mal, she had just met her but that so brief meeting had already let to understand a lot of things. Perhaps the only one that could give an immediate answer and without do too much questions, it was Abe.

"That you say big guy of it if we bring her to do a wal around the city? Even to the Boureau..... for do ... some chatters, no? " Said Ayla lifting an eyebrow to the thick face and from the red skin of Red.[

[Hellboy]

Red looked confused for a moment, trying to understand what was being said to him by his fellow BPRD agent. Then he looked back to Mal.

"Okay, Mal..." he said. "Good to know you don't want to eat or turn anybody. Guess we could just leave you alone, unless you're planning on leaving the park. Sounds like it'd be a good plan to me if someone's plannin' on shooting you..."

It was about that time that Red realized that they were starting to draw a crowd. People must have been observing the insanely tall woman in the skimpy clothes, only to look down and see a large red man in a poor disguise. Most probably even recognized him, because before he knew it, he saw flashes.

Camera flashes.

"Heheh, looks like we got company." he said, turning and grinning at the cameras. "Heeeey, what's happenin?" he said, then hooked his arms around the two lovely women. "Hellboy sighted at the park with his two model girlfriends. That's sure to make headlines, right?"

His reward was more pictures. And he laughed.

"This is just too cool."