Annie Arrives: Eliot Ness, as Portrayed by Robert Stack
Annie didn't remember picking up the flyer for the party, but there it had been in her jacket pocket, folded neatly as though she had snapped it up somewhere and tucked it away for safekeeping. More likely, she thought, it had been thrust into her hands from some street barker or other when she was in the city and she pocketed it to throw away once she found a trash can. Either way, it had been a long few weeks of paperwork and cutting through red tape to clear up the mess in the desert, but it was finally over.
And she needed a drink.
Lux wasn't her typical kind of scene. Even back when she was in Miami and had actual friends, clubs were never her forte, but Halloween was an anything-goes kinda holiday, in Annie's opinion, so she thought she might step outside of her shell. If anyone called her out for not wearing a costume -- still in her work clothes, blouse, linen jacket, dress pants -- she would just flash her badge and tell them she was Agent Scully.
She felt strange as she walked in and stopped short, unsure if it was a vision coming to bear that would knock her on her ass. When no blinding pain came, she was going to move on, until she caught sight of her hands. They were white. Not just white, either, but literally white: chalky pale with a hint of grey. She stared down in surprise at the sudden change in her body mass, taller and fuller and just different, her navy linen ladies' suit replaced with heavy men's suit in a vintage style, complete with a waistcoat and silk tie, everything in shades of grey. A glance up at the mirrored wall had Annie reaching a hand -- not her hand, but this larger calloused hand in black and white -- up to touch a clearly masculine and easily recognizable face: Eliot Ness, the character, as he appeared on the reruns of The Untouchables she had practically eaten up as a child.