"Oh, for the love of sanity." Parker makes a disgusted sound. "I told her if she wanted to do that, she was on her own. The plan was complicated enough without the two of you looking like each other on top of it. I assumed you both cooked it up, although I couldn't figure out why. The hypnotism was only on Cam, and it's not like you couldn't hold him off with your pinkie finger, even if he'd been the type to get pushy. More of Valentine's histrionics, I suppose."

She palms her face. "I apologized to Crichton and Mitchell for that stupid thing a long time ago, but now I'm apologizing to you. I got whammied by Drusilla later over Homecoming, so now I have some idea how they felt. I took revenge for a prank too far, and I should've left you and Valentine out of it."