Could Simon and Skip do the friends with benefits thing? The last couple of months have been very traumatic and he needs some sexual healing. Or, you know, just talking and stuff.
Very much for the "friends with benefits" thing if he starts trying to actually talk. ...Because she's a selfish creature who really doesn't like dealing with other people being emotional.
but maybe like... initial hostility, then something happens that lets Skip figure out Alex's curse is active and Alex can figure out that Skip's isn't?