June 1964: Dallas, Texas

"It's my turn!"

"No, it's not! I have three minutes left!"

"Has he changed yet? I want to see him change?"

"No one's come to the door yet! It's not like he's going to sneeze it out!"

"If you two don't quiet down, we're going home!"

There was silence, but it was short lived.

"Your three minutes are up!"

"Fine!"

There was rustling and a bit of huffing from the backseat of the car, but all was quiet again.

"Look, look! There's a car!"

"Be quiet, Kelly! We all see the car!"

A sharp noise from the girls' father silenced them. "Keep your eyes on the door. That's where everything will happen."

A dark figure got out of the car and walked over to the metal door of the bar, greeting the bouncer with a nod. There was a large spotlight over the door so they could see clearly.

Kelly gasped as the man from the car turned into a monster. A great leathery lizard with eyes like a snake and too many teeth. The bouncer nodded and let the man in. In the light, the man from the car turned back to his human form, a mild-mannered looking man with silver hair and wire rimmed glasses.

"See, girls." The man turned around to face them. "You can never tell by appearences. When people want to keep things from you, they will."

"But... Mr. Hildebrandt can't be wessen!"

"You just saw him change!"

"But he's so... delicate!"

"As you can see, her certainly is not!"

Walter Kessler started the car he was sitting in with his girls and they pulled their car out of the rest stop and onto the highway.

"What do we do? We can't go back to school!" Kelly worried aloud.

"Why not?" he asked her. It was a test, she knew.

"Because we know what he is!"

"We don't know anything. We know who he is during the day. We know what species he is. We know he goes to the Hog Pit Bar in a station wagon."

The girls giggled.

"Marie. Tell your sister what to do."

"We watch him. Get close to him. One of us should join the chess club. They tend to slip up after hours. By being here he's up to something, we just don't know what."

"But we should be cause it might lead to more intel." Kelly finished. "I understand." She thought for a moment. "But neither of us know how to play chess."

"I bet you should get Bobby Miller to teach you." Marie teased. "He's in the chess club."

"But he's wesen, too!" Kelly protested.

"What is he?" Walter frowned as he drove away. "Why haven't I heard about this before?"

"He's a foster kid, so his family is normal. He's a Seelengut. His ears are awfully cute." Marie elbowed her sister.

"Does he know what you are?"

"No! He got scared at the beach last year and it happened, but only for a moment. No one else noticed, but he looked around to see if anyone had. At least he knew what it was."

"Why didn't he see you?"

"By the time he turned around he looked normal again, and we were wearing sunglasses."

"Good," Walter said proudly. "Have you been cataloguing wessen as you discover them?"

"We started our own book!" Kelly said proudly as she pulled a notebook out of her bag. It was pink, with sparkle butterflies on it.

Walter bit his lips to keep from laughing. Journaling was serious business.

"Excellent! You keep that one for yourselves, but when we get home I want to take a look at it so we can transpose it into the Big Book."

The girls made excited noises in the back of the car and Walter grinned to himself.

A few more months of combat training and they might be good for more than surveillance. The girls were shaping up nicely. He could leave the world knowing it was in good hands.