Imagine that life was perfect. It was normal. You were popular and happy. Everything was going your way until a new girl showed up.
That's how life was for Laney. She was a popular girl who's best friend was Cordelia Chase. Everything at Sunnydale...
⚠️ WARNING: Mention if assault, mention of violence + explanation of detailed violence, death. If any of this is sensitive you then you are welcome to skip. ⚠️
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3rd Person's POV
Jenny sits working at her computer diligently. She taps a few keys, then looks up at the screen. A percent complete window appears over the Rumanian text, and the bar zips across it.
"Come on, come on..." she mutters impatiently tapping her finger on the mouse lightly.
The bar disappears, and a translation scrolls up next to the original text.
"That's it!"
She exhales and smiles.
"It's gonna work! This... will work."
She saves the result and pops out an unlabeled yellow floppy disk. She sets it aside by some books near the edge of her desk. In the mean time a hardcopy has started to print out. She wheels her chair over to the printer and looks it over. She looks up and sees Angelus sitting in a desk at the back of the class. She gasps and jumps out of her seat.
"Angel..." She slowly moves toward the door, "How did you get in here?"
Angelus shrugs leaning back against a desk looking around bored, "I was invited. The sign in front of the school... 'Formatia trans sicere educatorum.'"
Jenny mumbles to herself, "'Enter all ye who seek knowledge.'"
Angelus chuckles and gets up, "What can I say? I'm a knowledge seeker."
He comes toward her slowly as she watches him frightened. She glances at the door and hopes to God and her ancestors that a certain someone wouldn't be on their way back.
"Angel, I-I-I've got good news."
"I heard. You went shopping at the local boogedy-boogedy store. You and the little slayerette." He sees the Orb on her desk and picks it up, "The Orb of Thesulah. If memory serves, this is supposed to summon a person's soul... from the ether... store it until it can be transferred."
The Orb begins to glow as he looks into it. He glances up at Jenny for an instant. She edges away from him.
"You know what I hate most about these things?"
Jenny screams as he heaves it across the room and into the chalkboard behind her. It shatters into hundreds of pieces and a lot of dust.
Angelus smiles, "They're so damn fragile."
In an instant he loses the smile and tilts his head to the side in an intimidating way, "Must be that shoddy gypsy craftsmanship, huh?"
Jenny has backed into the wall and trembles with fear. She starts to inch her way toward the door. Angelus reaches over to the PC and turns the monitor so he can see it.
