Livin' in a Hell world.

Air Date: 24/4/2002

"Mary?! Isnt Faith ment to be there?" -- Ken checking just which Evil(tm) Slayer is on Jayde's sholder.

"She's going to bone up! She's going to know the answers or something!" -- Jayde just knows that Mary is going to cheat on her Aura reading!

18 Sep 2000, Monday 10:22pm, Conrad's house

Jayde visits Conrad at his house. He isnt sticky gooey drippy man any more. Odd. They talk about whats been happening with the knife and Mary. Conrad says that the rituals so far have been divinational in nature and would not have activated any power in the knife.

Jayde complains about Mary being the slayer and Conrad isnt convinved that it makes any difference. It's more efficient if Mary is the slayer anyway, so where is the problem.

Jayde harumphs and leaves.

18 Sep 2000, Monday 12:30pm, Eatery @ Berkeley somewhere

Jayde visits Faith, but she's call in sick. Bugger.

18 Sep 2000, Monday 12:02pm, Twins house

Jayde comes home to sleep.

18 Sep 2000, Monday 12:12pm, Geek house

Mary wakes and goes and visits Conrad.

18 Sep 2000, Monday 2:28pm, Twins house

Jayde wakes up and everything is still screwie. Bugger.

Walking down for breakfast, Jayde notices that Michael seems to live in the guest room. "Err, yeah, havnt I always? I mean I was hired to look after you? You know, against the war council and everything."

"What ever."

Michael is carrying a gun. Hmm.

18 Sep 2000, Monday 3:01pm, Hospital

Visit Gemma. There is a circle of Doctors looking over her. Apparently her eyes opened for a little bit, but she slipped back into a coma. They are doing more tests now, but it looks like she's recovering.

18 Sep 2000, Monday 4:33pm, UCB office

Christian is talking to Toby, a fellow watcher on an irc channel. Toby fills Christian in on the latest happenings. Nothing much really, except a courier in Mexico was iced and the messages stolen.

Toby tries to get Christian fired up about the council running an online occult mud, but Christian is to chicken to chat to Henry about it.

Jayde chats to Alex about the war council stuff. That seems to be a lot more serious in this world.

Christian and Alex talk about whats 'wrong' with Jayde. Jayde is tempted by the 'Hello? Still in the room' line, but decides to just fume.

Alex is pleased by the news that Gemma is getting better though.

Having lulled Alex into a happy place, Jayde leaps forward and suggests her theory of the change. "I think Mary did all this. I mean she was just a geeky nobody who couldnt even get the guy, but now she's got Faith's powers and the guy an the glory. Yeah, it was Mary and Conrad."

"Err, but being the slayer isnt all wine and roses."

"Yeah, but she didnt know that. Look, can you check it out or something?"

"Ill talk to Henry about it, ok? And not mention it to Christian."

18 Sep 2000, Monday 5:22pm, Hospital

Visit Arden. He's pretty drugged up, but he remembers Mary as the Slayer. Damn.

He suggests trying the underground areas as they are protected from outside interfearance.

18 Sep 2000, Monday 6:22pm, UCB office

Try underground area, but nothing is detectable again. *great!*

Everyone piles into the office again for the regular (now) evening meeting. Nothing much to report. Jayde and Mary are sniping at each other and its obvious that they wont be patroling together. Henry is conserned and is consdering splitting the two of them, once they know whats going on.

Each slayer patrols and gets one each for those keeping score.

19 Sep 2000, Tuesday 8:55am, UCB office

Who's dumb idea were morning meetings? Oh yeah, so Maaaaaaaary can get off to class.

As both Slayers leave, they get out onto the stairs outside the building and Mary feels a hand on her shoulder. She sees a magical aura and pulls out the knife to defend herself.

"The knife!" snaps the demon.

Mary slices up and cuts the demon open. The demon looks shocked and starts to unwrap. Little clear ribbons with flesh messages peel off it and it dusts and drops a heart to the ground (with an icky splat).

Mary and Jayde bicker about picking up the heart and they take it back to Alex.

Jayde comments that the demon was sent by the Mayor for Faith in her dimension. Henry, Alex and Christian are all disturbed by this and call a lunch time meeting. If Faith has been talking to demons, "that's bad, mmmmmmmok?"

Jayde looks up the demon type and its a messanger demon, made by magi circles to educate initiates. Hmm.

Coda

The bushes part and she carefully walks out into the clear.

Cant be to careful, she thinks to herself. She had sensed something earlier and it seemed wisest to give it a wide birth. After all there was a Slayer in town.

She walks over to the grave and puts a hand on the disturbed earth, closes her eyes and feels, but she feels nothing.

The Slayer has beaten me to it. Damn.

She stands and scans the graveyard. Empty. The sense of the other thing is gone. Hopefully the Slayer with it.

She digs out a piece of paper from her pocket and opens it up. Block A, row 154, plot 23.

Stepping back into the shadows, deciding to take the long way around, just to be sure. Afterall no need to rush, she has all the time in the world.

Block A. 80, 100, 120, 140, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154. She stops, scanning the night once more just to be sure.

She stops at the plot and reaches down. She can feel the twitch of activity under the ground and smiles. One out of two isnt bad.

She looks around for a good hiding place and retreats into the shadow to wait.

Soon the faint sound of wood splitting brings her to attention once more and she creeps out.

Suddenly, a hand breaks through the ground and in one fluid movement she reaches down and yanks him out of the ground.

"Welcome to..." she starts.

"Aurrrg! Hunger!" he struggles against her grip so she just relents and offers her slit wrist, which he grabs and starts drinking from.

"Meat. Why do I always end up with the dumb ones? Huh?"

"*Slurp*" is her only answer, followed quickly by "*slurpshlurp*"

"Still, I guess big and dumb isn't all that bad now, is it? With a Slayer around, a big scary vampire might just come in handy." She yanks her hand away. "Enough for now."

The newbie vamp looks confused "Huh? Hungry! I feed! I hunt. I.." he grabs her wrist again, but she just slaps him on the top of the head.

"Stop it."

He pouts and rubs the forhead ridges on his game face. "Ow... hurts."

She shakes her head, "Ohhh, you poor dear." She walks off and he silently falls in place behind her. She looks up to the sky and asks a God she now dispises and silently asks 'Why me, huh?'

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