Catherine Madison was dead, everyone knew it – Amy, her daughter, knew that, Buffy & Willow knew that… Even Cordelia Chase, Sunnydale High School's "prom queen bitch" knew that & delighted in making the occasional 'snide' remark about it. But still, there Catherine stood minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, still quite alive but trapped within her cheerleading trophy from her tenure at Sunnydale High School in the 60's, plotting her revenge on Buffy Summers, this generation's fabled "Slayer"…
Catherine began muttering a spell to free herself from her prison. Yes she had been away from her cauldron, her ingredients, her books, her 'life force' for a long time now, but there was still a small amount of magical energy flowing inside of her, perhaps enough, she hoped, to free her.
She strains, still muttering as she goes, trying to break free. Admittedly she was trapped in several pounds worth of approximately 10 carat gold, but slowly but surely it began to crack around her, loosening around her like a chick breaking free from an egg.
Moments later, Catherine's spirit was free once more. She would have, of course, preferred to have kept her body, but, as she was now free from her golden prison she deemed it to be a worthy sacrifice – All she needed to do was find herself another body (preferably a relative to be as close to her 'original' as possible, but as Amy believed her to be dead she supposed that she was out of the question) &, once she did, she would be free to exact her revenge on the Slayer…
