“Thanks for picking us up, Susan.”

Susan nodded to Diane and Lucy.  “No worries, you’re near my next stop anyway.  I can’t believe you’ve volunteered to help with this insanity.”

“I figured it’d be almost like a date,” replied Diane, smiling up at Lucy.  “And I want to show Lucy a few of Tedd’s toys.  He promised he’d charge up a wand, if I brought one.”

“Miss ‘Magic shouldn’t be shared’ wants a wand?”

“We both know about magic, thanks to Lucy nibbling on my newly sensitized eartips.  Tried to pass it off as Vulcan cosplay, but...”

Susan actually chuckled at that.  “Yeah, I wouldn’t have bought it either.”

A short drive later, Catalina bounced eagerly into the passenger seat beside Susan.  “Hey guinea pigs!  Are you as excited as I am?”

“Nobody is as excited as you are, Cat.  No Rhoda?”

“Nah, she’s off visiting family for the long weekend.  It’s so weird that you all know about her now.  I love being able to talk about her at last.”  Cat turned in her seat to wave at the others.  “Hey you two, long time no see.”

Lucy rolled her eyes and Diane chuckled.  “We literally just went on a double date last night.  I’d have thought you’d be sick of us by now.”

Catalina shook her head.  “Nah.  Rhoda idolizes you guys, I’d like to get to know you better.”

“Hopefully Tedd has resolved the clothing malfunction issues,” added Susan, dryly.  “Or you might get to know each other more than you expected.”

Catalina laughed uproariously.  “Sounds like a party.  C’mon, let’s go!”

Tedd met the four of them at the door in his second-best labcoat.  Her purple, triangular ears caught Catalina’s eye immediately, and the moment the door closed behind them Cat had matching ears.  “Yes!” she cheered.  “Catgirl time!”

Tedd smiled.  “Not too much, then?”

“I’d catgirl everyone here if I could.  Can you seriously give me a wand that’ll let me do that?”

“Tedd!” exclaimed Susan.  “You didn’t.”

“Drumstick wand,” said Tedd defensively.  “She can’t go on a mall rampage with it.”

Catalina pouted, but her expression cracked into a grin a moment later.  “You’ll really do it?  Catgirl and mousegirl on a wand?”

Tedd tossed her a drumstick.  “Ready and waiting for you.  I punted on the fancy latin, it’s just ‘Cat’, ‘Mouse’ or ‘Restore’.  The restore should work on just about any enchantment, definitely including your own.”

A moment later, Catalina had big round ears and a slim hairless tail poking out above her skirt.  “Yes!  So, what’s the plan?”

“Ah, well...  You all have the weekend free, yes?”

All four of the girls nodded.

“I’d like to test some long-duration enchantments, to see how quickly each of you can shake them off.”

“Point of order,” noted Susan, raising her hand.  “Wouldn’t that mean we’d have to have changes we don’t like?”

“Ideally, yes,” admitted Tedd.  “And it has to hide under clothes, since I was going to go for week-duration changes.  The odds are, none of you will be normal by Monday unless you use your wand to dispel the change.”

Diane looked over at Susan with one brow arched.  “You’re getting a wand too?”

Susan inclined her head slightly in acknowledgement.  “Indeed.”

“What’s your wand going to do?” asked Cat, eagerly.

“Replace the watch that’ll stop working soon, mostly.  Tedd promised me a few extra presets, including the Hot Mom form from the party.  And the generic ‘whatever feminine body you imagine’ spell Justin used to make it.”

“Ooooh.  Does my wand work like that?” asked Catalina.  “So I can give Rhoda different fur patterns?”

Tedd nodded.  “It does.”

“Sweet!  For that, I can put up with a little something weird.  So... what were you going to turn us into?  Little lab rats?”

Susan rolled her eyes.  “We might be missed if we spent the weekend in a cage.”

Catalina shrugged.  “I wasn’t... oh wait, I wasn’t supposed to tell you guys about that.”  She slapped her hand over her mouth.  “Pretend you didn’t hear that.”

“Tedd?”

“Ah... right.  I have a wand that smooths out and erases small body features.  Bellybuttons, moles that kind of thing.  Easy to hide, and it’s not like you’d want that, right?”

“Even nipples?” asked Catalina brazenly.  “Or mouths?”

“Uh...”  Tedd blushed.  “Well... yes.  It’s a generic smoothing of the area around where the wand touches.”

Tedd looked around at all the grinning faces.  “Oh bother.  Yes, I can add it to your wands.  So what change wouldn’t you like?”

Catalina’s gaze grew distant.  “That’s a tough one.  Oooh, I know!  Can you erase my breasts entirely?  I can stuff my bra to hide it.”

“Easily.”  Tedd fished out a wand from an inside pocket in the lab coat, and focussed on it for a few seconds.  Her hair flared briefly in a nonexistent wind, then she declared it was ready.  “The big spell is called ‘Remove’, the little one ‘Erase’.  Duration is still seven days.”  She held it out.  “Who wants to go first?”

Susan reached for the wand at the same time as Catalina.  She let the mouse-eared woman have it.  “Should we be disenchanted first?” asked Susan.

“Preferably, yeah.  Otherwise the enchantments stack, and that’ll affect the duration.”

Catalina pouted, and a moment later her ears and tail were gone.  “You didn’t say that.  I have to spend the whole weekend not playing with magic?”

“Please?”

Catalina narrowed her eyes, and handed her wand to Tedd.  “I want the big erase spell on there too.  Big enough to do arms or legs.”

Tedd nodded reluctantly.  “Be careful with it.  You could make someone pretty helpless with this.”

Catalina flashed him a fangy grin as she tapped her chest with the test wand.  “That’s the idea.”  She pouted down at her empty shirt.  “Oogh.  Yep, don’t like this at all.”

Lucy and Diane followed suit shortly thereafter, then handed the wand to Susan.  Susan contemplated it for some time, then followed suit.  She handed it back to Tedd in exchange for her new wand.  “I’ll be in touch.”

“Hm?” asked Tedd, who was busy setting up Lucy and Diane’s wand with the new spell.  “Okay.”

About an hour later, Tedd’s phone rang.

“How much will it skew the test if I decide I like this change?” asked Susan.

“I’ll still have three data points.  Do you like it enough to keep it a whole month?  I’d like to see how that works, and you’re probably my best candidate.  Everyone else wants to change so often nothing can stick.”

“You said that a month would mean it would be permanent...  Oh.  Hm.  Okay.”