Nathaniel couldn't help but glare at the goth chick with her response to a simple request.  She lost any chance of ever getting any respect from that man at all with such a bitchy response for simple courtesy.  Her response wasn't just a little bitchy, it was terribly bitchy.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“No, we can't, that is clear.  Fine, you won't listen to a request from me, but maybe you can think of trying not to smoke in common areas for some people who have already quit that habit.  They may not need the constant reminder and urge to smoke again from you flaunting it in front of everyone.  And that isn't taking the chance that someone in here doesn't have highly sensitive senses as well.”</span>with that he nodded to the punk rock girl.<br/><br/>His guess came from him watching how much she seemed to avoid trying to look at the  and that cigarette between her lips.  Maybe this bitch actually had some redeeming aspects about her that could be respected.  If not, if she was just a complete and utter bitch who respected no one, he would not work with her well at all.  He just shook his head and looked away from her, showing what he thought of her after talking with her just that little bit.<br/><br/>Of course the freakout from the punk rock girl drew Nathaniel's attention away from everything else and towards where the pink-and purple thing had woken up, and was the freakiest looking thing in the room, even over miss hunchback.  It was a tiger sized cat with pink and purple fur, cats do not have that color naturally, it actually made the man stand strait up and unfold his arms, as if ready to attack.  He had actually began to focus some energy into the crystals on his right hand, and a blue glow seemed to appear in his palm for a moment as he prepared for the chance that the large cat thing would attack the punk rock chick.  He may not know them, but he had the idea that even if he was trying to keep his distance a bit, he would need to protect them as they would likely end up being teammates.<br/><br/>But instead the thing didn't attack, it rubbed itself against the punk rock chick, and put it's head into her hand.  With a relieved sigh, Nathaniel closed his right hand and absorbed the energy he had gathered back into the crystal, causing some sparks to reach out from the crystals, and singe the cloth a bit, but not burn tit, but he did reach over and grip the arm hoping no one had seen the sparks, and getting ready for the wave of pain that marked reabsorbing some un-expelled energy.  He had to grit from the pain as it flared up a little more than normal before dieing down again.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Fuck, the thing is just a tiger sized house cat...”</span>he said, before leaning against the wall again.  It didn't look like it was going to hurt the skinny girl.<br/><br/>It took him a moment to realize he hadn't heard most of what punk-rock had been saying, causing him to glance at the man who said he could cancel sound.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Nice.”</span>was all he said before looking back to the at girl and the big alien cat.  He was watching when he saw the transformation to a human looking girl.  His eyes actually got a bit wide while watching the fur disappear, and be replaced with soft, smooth almost perfect skin.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“Woah, that was not expected...”</span>was all he stated, running his eyes over the shapeshifter's form, taking in her features.  They had obviously now met the most attractive person of this group.<br/><br/>At her statement Nathaniel looked up at the punk-rock girl's fiercely blushing face, and forced himself not to smile.<span style="color: SeaGreen">“well, it would be a good prank, but that is something I am not good at.”</span>he couldn't keep his eyes on her though before they again ran down to the alien girl in her lap again.  He had to force himself to look away and look strait across the room... of course that was toward the ordinary looking woman.  He was glad for the facial hair, no one could see his own blush.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>