yeah that happens if you turn into a vampire

[cross_and_bow]

(prologue)

Bella slips into the school by a side door; she just saw a thing and she thinks she's seen it in a book before and thinks it's supposed to be mostly harmless but before she wakes Giles up over probably nothing or kills a likely neutral demon she wants to check.

And she pushes into the library.

Comments

[thisvorlunatic]

"Call it louder next time," Miles tells Mark; and he makes a sort of half-shrugging motion with the phone at Bella, a what should I do with this, then? gesture.

[cross_and_bow]

"Does the phone recognize the number?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah. Matches."

[cross_and_bow]

"Okay, tell her I'm almost there and then I'm asking Giles what the excessive hells."

[thisvorlunatic]

"She says she's almost there," Miles reports into the phone.

[keyed_up]

"'kay, thanks, whichever one you are, sorry I forgot your names!"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Don't worry about it," he says cheerfully into the phone. "Bye." And he successfully disconnects the call.

[cross_and_bow]

"The fuck."

[unmarred]

"I knew Miles hadn't just invented you a sister out of whole cloth and I apologize for not voicing my suspicions sooner," says Mark. "I have no idea what the fuck, however."

[cross_and_bow]

"I don't have a sister! I've never had a sister!"

[unmarred]

"I'm perfectly willing to believe that you didn't have a sister before, but one appears to have been inflicted on you sometime in the last few hours."

[cross_and_bow]

"Or something. In context she's way more likely to be some kind of weirdass demon. With... sloppy memory alteration habits?"

[unmarred]

"The memory alteration caught Miles with a subtle enough touch that he'd only heard her mentioned once offhand and not by name. I'm not inclined to call that sloppy. Something else seems likelier, though I don't know what."

[cross_and_bow]

"I suppose it's possible I had her and then forgot her, but - but I remember a really coherent entire life without a sister. Renée went househunting in Jacksonville and picked a two-bedroom, so I could visit, she kept a lot of my kindergarten drawings and I took all kinds of creative license with how to represent the concept of divorce but I never had a sister -"

[unmarred]

"Verify whether your parents remember coherent entire lives with the sister included?" he suggests.

[cross_and_bow]

"I'm really not sure how to call my parents and discreetly confirm that they only had one kid! I guess I could mention 'Soph' vaguely like she was a school friend, see if they grab it..."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah, that'll work if you can swing it," says Miles.

[cross_and_bow]

"But first I want to talk to Giles in case he goes 'oh, that's the Thusandsuch demon, it works like so, kill it on a waxing crescent moon by making an accurate representation of your family as it was when you were in kindergarten in crayon and burning it' or something."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Reasonable."

[cross_and_bow]

So she pulls over and calls Giles.

[jellyinthemix]

"Yes?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Do you by any chance have an off-the-top-of-your-head diagnosis for my having a retroactively inserted sister, programmed into my phone, expecting me to pick her up from a friend's house, and turning up in other people's memories of my offhand remarks, who I can't remember having in the first place?"

[jellyinthemix]

"My first instinct is 'I have no idea what could possibly have made you forget your own sister', but perhaps that's not what you want to hear right now."

[cross_and_bow]

"It's entirely possible that's what I need to hear right now but I swear to the Powers that Be In My Bedroom Sometimes that I don't remember her! Where would she go? Is she expecting to go to sleep in a mysteriously appearing second bed in my room or did Charlie's house morph to accommodate her or did my address change?"

[jellyinthemix]

"I believe you've mentioned said Powers waking her up..."