Mother, Son and holy ghost: Life and Death in Sunnydale High
by Timan
Prologue

Daniel Foster leaned against the wall of Sunnydale Cemetery. It was a cold night and he had to keep rubbing his arms to keep warm. In the back of Daniels mind he knew that if his mother knew that her fifteen-year-old son was traipsing around the cemetery at this hour she would kill him but from what he heard about this town there are a dozen other things that are willing to do it for her. To keep himself occupied he tried to think of a cool theme tune for himself as he waited but so far all of the music that was coming to mind sounded too much like an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with an inappropriately fast drum beat which didn’t suited him or the situation he was in. off in the distance he heard the sound of footsteps approaching. He straitened himself up, brushed back his messy brown hair, and tried to sweep off the dirt of his jacket.

From around the corner a woman, about in her mid twenties with shoulder length blond hair and brown eyes, walked slowly into Daniel view. She gave him a warm inviting smile as she looked up and down.

“Are you lost little boy?” she asked in an inviting tone.

“I’m just waiting for a friend.” Daniel replied.

He shrugged of the ‘little boy’ comment with as much patience as he could muster. In his opinion five-foot-five is not short it’s perfectly proportioned. The woman walked towards Daniel with purpose. He couldn’t help notice that she seemed to be coming on to him which was creepy but cool in a Stifler’s mom sort of way.

“You don’t mind if I wait with you do you?” she asked, “These streets are dangerous at night.”

Daniel shrugged. The woman stood next to him and looked away as if she heard a sound.

“My friend should be here soon. I think she’s running a little late.”

The woman smiled as her face transformed to reveal her true nature as one of the creatures of the night.

“That’s a shame,” she said as she readied her fangs, “I’m just going to have one me…”

Her voice trailed off as she turned to discover that she was staring down the barrel of a crossbow held confidently by Daniel.

He smirked and replied confidently “there you are.”


Chapter one

The morning sun shone brightly off the brand new buildings of Sunnydale high school. Although only most of it was completed the school was up and running with students bustling to and fro. Everybody in the school heard about what happened to the old school and there were a lot of stories going around ranging from construction work on a near by building caused a gas pipe to rupture under the campus to a meteorite destroyed it. On of the most heard of stories is about girl in the graduating class had had a mental breakdown and blew it up thinking that a giant snake was chasing her. At any rate the schools destruction gave the town of Sunnydale an opportunity to replace the tired old building with a new state of the art one.

In the lunchroom Daniel sat at one of the tables with his head in his hands. His unusual nocturnal behavior leaves him not much time to sleep so he tries to catch up where ever he can. He was joined, moments later, by two other students who wake him up in their usual friendly manner by slapping him in the back of the head.

“Hey wake up man!” Adrian said as he pulled Daniel up off the table.
Daniel rubbed his tired, brown, eyes and looked at the other three students who sat with him. The tallest was Adrian who had the look and demeanor of someone you would find robbing a liquor store. The girl sitting in front of Daniel is Candy. Being one of the very few Goths to go to the school she lives up to her name by having a tough exterior with a sweet center. Daniel wouldn’t necessarily call these people his friends. It was more like the lets-hang-out-so-we-all-don’t-look-like-sad-lonely-losers group.

“Did you do last nights history paper?” asked Adrian with a nervous excitement “I totally wigged out and forgot.”
Daniel opened his bag and searched around. He pulled out his notebook and handed him a slip of paper from inside. Adrian looked over it and patted Daniel on the back.
Daniel looked at his seriously and stated, “You owe me.”
“You got it. Next shop class I am totally going to make that pencil case for you.”
Daniel laughed sarcastically. He rubbed his eyes again to get rid of any remaining sleep. Candy started to brush his hair away from his eyes.

“You look totally wiped Danny,” she commented, “what did you do last night?”
“I don’t know I just can’t sleep well lately. It’s like there is some conspiracy going on in my brain to stop me getting some shut-eye.” He replied

“You should see someone about it. You don’t want to mess up your midterms because of sleep”

“Yeah. Hey I know this guy who is really great.” Said Adrian excitedly “He works out of a back alley but he supposed to have the best stuff in town. Knock you right out”
Candy glared at Adrian and hit him across the arm. Adrian recoiled

“What? I’m just trying to help the d-mister.”

Daniel laughed. He looked at the clock to see how much time is left. It was at that moment when she walked in. she was about the same height as him with long brown hair and blue eyes. Every time he saw her it was as if the world goes in to a shampoo commercial slow motion. He watched her move over to her usual table and sit with her friends. Both Adrian and Candy looked where Daniel was looking. Candy rolled her eyes and Adrian smiled.

“Still have a thing for Dawn Summers huh?” he said flippantly

Daniel didn’t reply. He was still in his shampoo commercial fantasy. Adrian leans over to Candy and whispers “watch this.”

He moves closer to Daniel and says “so Danny. You have that twenty bucks you still owe me for that thing?”

With out saying a word Daniel reaches into his pocket and pulls out a twenty. He hands it over to Adrian without a moments pause.

“Thanks bud.” He replies and quickly puts it away. He gives Candy his ‘what do you think’ look. After a brief pause Candy replied, “You’re an idiot.”

“Yeah.” Adrian “but an idiot who is twenty bucks richer.”


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