The hallways to the front gates of the school, Saturday late afternoon/evening

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia had her gun and her mallet and a stern expression on her face as she started through the school, looking to recruit people to go and confront whatever had possessed Jamie.

It had been a long week, and it was time for all of this to stop.

[ooc: locked to those who know who they are, for the establishing of the group for evil!Jamie confrontation]

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[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin, exhausted from the dance marathon, walked past Nadia. "Hey," he said with a small smile.

[nadiathesaint]

"Hey," Nadia paused. "Can you do more than just fling croissants with your mind?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin nodded. "What did you have in mind?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Something's up with Jamie. He's possessed or something. He's the one who's been pulling all the tricks. I'm trying to find people to go after him."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin's eyes flashed. "I'm in," he said. "Give me a second to get my lightsaber."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia nodded. "Hurry up."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Do we have any idea where he is?" Anakin asked, spinning around in mid-step.

[nadiathesaint]

"One of the abandoned houses in town."

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin nodded. "I'll meet you by the gates, then," he said, then raced down the hallway.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter was grim-faced and ready. Jamie was not getting away with torturing Nadia the way he had.

Yes, Jamie had tortured more people than just Nadia, but he tended to be rather single-minded about people who hurt those closest to him.

[nadiathesaint]

"We should talk to him first. I think I was too quick to hit him, last night."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter shook his head. "He was very convincing in this past week. He passed himself off as someone who cared. How will you be able to trust anything he says?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I know what to watch for, now."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter had some serious doubts about that, which he tactfully kept to himself.

"Right. Just remember that if he's possessed, listening to reason isn't likely to happen." So spoke the voice of experience.

[nadiathesaint]

"If he's possessed, then we need more information on what's possessing him. And talking to him is a way to get that information."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It's worth trying," Walter said without conviction. "I'll give you a chance to talk to him first."

[nadiathesaint]

"Good. And if it doesn't work . . . your wires might be the only thing that does."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Uh oh."

[nadiathesaint]

"What?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"That look on your face." Pippi said. "Somebody's in for a hiney whuppin."

[nadiathesaint]

"Jamie. He's been behind everything this week. We're going to go get him."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well alright then." Pippi said falling in step with Nadia.

Knocked himself out to draw attention elsewhere... Very clever.

"Do we know why?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I think he's possessed."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"... How do you think it happened?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shook her head. "I don't know. He hasn't gotten any new statues or anything in the room . . . maybe one of his duplicates came back with something in it?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Ew."

[nadiathesaint]

"That's the only explanation I've got."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"And that's why you should be careful about drinking the water when you go abroad."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Molly walked down the hall toward Nadia. She grinned at her until she noticed the other girl's expression and weapons. "What's going on, Nadia? Are we being attacked?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Not this time. You heard about the stuff that's been going on this week? Jamie's behind it. We're going to go find him."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"The pranks? That was Jamie?" Molly was dumbfounded. She'd told Dawn that Jamie wasn't cruel, but the prank on Alec could have killed him. "Can I come?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Or whatever is pretending to be Jamie. And yeah. We may need all the help we can get."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"Good," Molly said with a nod and turned to follow along with Nadia and the others. She was slightly relieved to hear Nadia say it might not be Jamie. She just couldn't wrap her brain around the thought that the real Jamie could be that mean.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia didn't exactly find it the easiest thing to think about, either.

Since she lived with him, and all.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"I've seen that look on a person's face before," Pip said, leaning against a wall.

[nadiathesaint]

"Were they after their randomly evil roommate, too?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"...Wait, Jamie?"

[nadiathesaint]

"He's been doing all of this all week. So we're going to go get him."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"...That actually makes a scary sort of sense," Pip said. "And does we include me? Because if it doesn't, tough."

[nadiathesaint]

"Good. We could use whatever back up we can get."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Excellent. Meeting outside? I need to grab something."

[nadiathesaint]

"Grab whatever you need. We'll meet up with you."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"What's going on?"

[nadiathesaint]

"We're tracking down a prankster. Jamie's behind everything that's been happening all week."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky stared at her for a moment. Jamie. Snakes. "You kidding me? I know the kid's got a pranking streak, but some of the stuff going down is out of his league."

[nadiathesaint]

"I think he's possessed."

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"I'll get my gun."