New Bad Girl in Town

Irma yawned as she joined her three friends ready, well maybe not ready as mornings were an evil torture created to make life hell, to face another fine day at the mental institution known as Sheffield Institute. Okay, maybe more of a high school than a mental institution but the two were basically the same, right?

"Hey Irma, bout time." Cornelia said with a bright smile proving once again that the girl would look her best even during the end of the world as well as Monday mornings. Sometimes the blonde could really piss Irma off but as energetic as the blonde was their Chinese friend Hay Lin could always outdo her.

"Did you hear?" Hay Lin squealed hyperly, "We have a new student starting today!"

"That's…That's great Hay Lin." Taranee said giving a bit of a yawn herself, proving that at least another girl out of their group had some sense as the four girls walked toward the entrance of the school, before noticing a red haired girl shoving past several other students hanging out at the door rudely and when they said something to her the redhead didn't even bother turning around, as she flipped them the bird over her shoulder.

"I wonder if Elyon is here yet." Cornelia said as she looked around for the other member of their group, but she didn't seem to be anywhere in sight causing Cornelia to sigh momentarily, before slipping back into her model like mask of uncaring and indifference. Irma swore if she hadn't known the blonde since they were kids that Cornelia was a major bitch, but the brunette knew better than that. Cornelia was actually only half a bitch, thought that made Irma smirk a little. She'd have to remember that for later to see if she could piss Corny off with it.

The group filed in through the doors noticing the redhead looking around in confusion as students milled about around her. Taranee seemed about to go ask if she needed help, when the half of Cornelia that was a prep decided to speak up by saying quietly, "Geeze, where does she shop? The Salvation Army?"

Apparently the girl heard them as she looked hurt for a moment before sending a glare at Cornelia. The look actually caused Irma to shiver a little as it caused a bit of fear to creep into Irma.

"Ah, Miss Vandom I presume." Mrs. Knickerbocker asked walking out of her office toward the redhead. "I've been expecting you."

"Whatever." The redhead grumbled, "Just call me Will."

"All right then, Will if you would come this way we can get your locker assignment and schedule." Mrs. Knickerbocker said, "As I told your mother on the phone I have your textbooks ready. They are old ones as they are only loaners."

"As if I'll be using them anyways." Will grumbled, but Irma caught the hurt look flash through those hazel eyes again momentarily.

"Sheesh, rude much?" Cornelia grumbled, sticking her nose up slightly and walked away from the redhead though it was obvious the redhead heard her.

"Gee, I don't know, why don't you tell us Princess?" Irma asked angrily as she hurried off after the blonde.

"I'll se you later." Hay Lin said, as she turned to follow Mrs. Knickerbocker into the office though Taranee stopped her with a hand on her shoulder.

"Hay Lin, you can't be seriously be planning on spying on them." Taranee gasped in surprise, looking at the other girl's eyes which looked guilty for a moment before brightening again.

"O-Of course not! Don't forget I'm helping out in the office this semester before classes." Hay Lin said happily, as she was actually excited about running errands for the teacher's staff. Hay Lin was sort of a teacher's pet as was Taranee to a certain extent. Cornelia and Irma were the opposite though, as they were the ones usually getting into trouble with said teachers, though it was usually over one of their petty arguments which earned them that trouble.

"Of course," Taranee said with a knowing smirk, "Just don't get caught."

"Don"t worry, I won't!" Hay Lin chirped before blushing and heading off to the office. As soon as Hay Lin entered, she noticed the front part of the office was empty as the two desks were vacant at the moment. The door to the inside of Knickerbocker's office was open enough to see Will leaning back in the chair, facing Knickerbocker across the desk, as the older woman was reading the thickest file the Chinese girl had ever seen.

"I believe every student deserves a chance Miss Vandom," Miss Knickerbocker was saying as she rubbed her temples with thumb and forefinger. "You though have already blown your second, third and FOURTH chances! One more and I'm afraid you're out. This is the last school in the state willing to take you with your reputation. I will be watching you Miss Vandom and if I catch you screwing up even one time I swear you will be expelled faster than your head can swing!?

"Well then, let's se if we can hurry this up then, shall we?" Will asked, crossing her arms and leaning back, "SCREW YOU!"

"MISS VANDOM!" Mrs. Knickerbocker actually came close to yelling as she slammed her hands done on the desk, "DON'T TRY GETTING EXPELLED ON YOUR FIRST DAY!"

"Don't even bother trying, Hay Lin." Missus Parker said smiling down at Hay Lin as she passed her. "That girl is a pure trouble maker, she's been convicted of not only drugs but drinking as well, while driving…Without a license. One more arrest and she goes away for a long time."

"M-Maybe she just needs a friend?" Hay Lin said, with a nervous smile as she went to the coffee pot and made sure it had a filter in it, before taking the can of coffee next to it and putting several scoops in it.

"Honey, the only thing she needs is a good stint in juvie hall or prison. She's a lost cause." Missus Parker said sadly, "I never seen someone as screwed up as she is."

"Maybe she's just lonely or something?" Hay Lin suggested, though it sounded empty even to her. Was the redhead really that bad? Heatherfield was a pretty nice place where there was hardly any trouble and definitely a place where drugs were virtually unheard of. It was a small town where most everyone seemed to know each other.

"I'll take care of this honey," Missus Parker said moving to take the glass pot to get some water for the coffee maker, "You better get your books and head to class."

"But the announcements." Hay Lin said hopefully.

"Will be made by either Mrs. Knickerbocker or myself, sorry sweetie but we've had some complaints about students missing the first few minutes of classes from parents, so this semester we aren't having student assistants." Missus Parker said causing Hay Lin's shoulders to slump, she was looking forward to this since she was chosen to be this semester's assistant.

The two jumped as Knickerbocker's door slammed open and the redhead stormed out of the room, carrying an armful of textbooks besides her bag which was stuffed with even more.

"Stupid school." Will snarled as she stomped past the two, ignoring Knickerbockers angry protest as Will walked angrily out of the office pushing past several students, "Stupid dorks!"

"See sweetie, nothing but trouble." Missus Parker sighed sadly as she scribbled something on a small notepad before tearing it off and handing it to Hay Lin, just as the first bell rang. "Here, you better get to class."

Hay Lin sighed as she hurried out of the office to her locker.

WITCH

Irma watched as Hay Lin walked into Mister Collins History class and handed the man a slip of paper, before taking her seat next to the brunette. She had thought it was a little weird when the announcements were made by Missus Parker as the morning announcements were always made by the student assistant, which must have explained the saddened look on her friend's face.

"What happened?" Irma whispered, as Hay Lin took her seat.

"There won't be any student assistants this semester thanks to grouchy rents." Hay Lin grumbled, as she pulled out her assignment and book as well as her notebook.

"That sucks, I was hoping for some good gossip." Irma said with a smirk as the redhead from earlier entered the room, giving Mister Collins a slip of paper similar to the one Hay Lin had as well as a larger one that Irma guessed, was the girl's schedule.

"Looks like we have a new student class." Mister Collins said, "This is Wilhelmina Vandom."

"Will." The redhead grumbled.

"Excuse me?" Mister Collins asked as he blinked in confusion.

"Are you deaf, I said Will. My name is Will." Will said causing Mister Collins to flush a little, though from embarrassment or anger was a toss up.

"Well Will, would you like to say a little about yourself?" Mister Collins asked as he regained his composure.

"Sure, I can't wait to get out of this dump you call a school so I can get away from you bunch of losers." Will said with a smirk, as she walked to the only empty seat in the class room, which was right in front of Irma. Mister Collins mouth open and closed several times like a fish before shaking his head a little angrily.

"I'll cut you some slack Miss Vandom, because you are new but keep up this attitude and you can spend the afternoon in detention." Mister Collins said staring at the redhead as Uriah seemed to be giving her a look of approval.

"As if I care," Will grumbled. Mister Collins looked like he was going to explode for several moments but turned away and went to his desk and sat down. He shuffled through some paperwork before looking up at the class.

"Okay, pass up last night's homework assignment." Mister Collins said as he found what he was apparently looking for as he got back up and went to each desk, trading each stack of homework for an equal amount of stapled packets of paper which sent a shudder through Irma. "I was going to save this pop quiz for a study aid, but I think it would help see where our new addition is at."

The class pretty much gave off a collective groan while many of the students glared at a sheepish looking redhead, who laughed nervously at the attention she was now receiving.

WITCH

Hay Lin jumped a little when Cornelia slammed her tray down in front of the Chinese girl spilling some of the slop the called food onto the table. Hay Lin knew that part of Cornelia's reason for being upset was that Elyon was off today. Apparently she was sick, though that shouldn't have angered the blonde this much but an idea quickly came to Hay Lin.

"Let me guess, a five foot redhead weighing ninety eight pounds?" Irma asked, causing the blonde to turn redder than she always was in anger. Apparently Irma had the same thought and surprisingly it was a right guess.

"I…I can't believe HER!" Cornelia spat, for once losing her composure completely in public as she sat down in a huff and started digging into her food.

"I'll be right back!" Hay Lin chirped, as she noticed a certain redhead getting into the lunch line and decided maybe it would be nice to try and reach out to the girl, as she seemed kind of lonely. It was something Hay Lin noticed all day during the couple classes she had with Will. The redhead may seem angry at everyone and downright rude but Hay Lin was sure that there was more to it. There seemed to be a sadness, a loneliness to the redhead that called out to Hay Lin.

"Where are you going?" Taranee asked, looking up to Hay Lin as the Chinese girl started to make her way away from the small table.

"To make a friend." Hay Lin said with a smile, as she hurried across the cafeteria to the redhead's side. "Hi Will."

"What do you want?" Will asked angrily, glaring at Hay Lin with a frightening intensity. Why was the redhead being so hostile towards Hay Lin anyways? It wasn't like Hay Lin had done anything or said anything bad to this girl.

"Well…I…Was wondering if you would like to come by my place tonight…The Silver Dragon…All my friends get together there a lot after school to study and hang out and even eat. My grandma makes the best almond cookies." Hay Lin said, gaining courage though she was pretty scared at first. The redhead actually smiled a little as hope briefly flashed through those hazel eyes before they hardened again.

"Screw you." Will snapped, hurting Hay Lin's feelings a little. "Do you think I actually believe that you want to be friends with me? Get real loser."

"I-I'm serious Will, after you grab your food come sit with me and I'll introduce you to my other friends." Hay Lin said, pointing to the table she just came from while Irma, Cornelia and Taranee where watching in what Hay Lin was sure was shock.

"Whatever." Will sighed, a bit of the smile returning, "I…I'll think about it."

"Great, I'll be waiting for you." Hay Lin said with a grin, before hurrying back to the table as Will was up next to grab her lunch. Sitting back down at the table and pulling her tray to her Cornelia glared angrily at her.

"What was that about?" Taranee asked, a little shocked at Hay Lin's behavior. They couldn't believe the usually meekest one out of their group had actually braved talking to the new girl. Sure Hay Lin was hyper and over active but she was really pretty shy and tended to shy away from confrontation.

"I offered to be her friend." Hay Lin said, grinning as she took a bite of her lunch while the three girls stared at her in complete shock. The Chinese girl looked up behind Cornelia to see a somewhat nervous redhead walking toward them, much to Hay Lin's excitement. "I asked her to come and hang out with us tonight."

"Y-You invited new girl?" Cornelia asked in plain disgust, as Will stopped just inches behind the blonde with a devastated look on her face, as she plainly heard Cornelia's comment.

"

H-Hey Will, have a seat." Hay Lin said giving the redhead a small smile.

"Why would I eat with a bunch of losers like you?" Will asked, her eyes growing hard as she looked around the cafeteria, before going to an empty table and sitting down to enjoy her meal leaving Hay Lin to glare at Cornelia.

"Great job there, Corny." Irma sighed, a little angry but really couldn't blame Cornelia either. She had a few classes with Will as well and knew the redhead was going to be a difficult one to deal with.

"How was I supposed to know the…The freak was behind us." Cornelia scoffed causing Hay Lin to jump to her feet. Hay Lin glared at Cornelia as she gathered her things and tray before huffing loudly and walked away from the table, much to the other three girls' surprise. Hay Lin walked over and sat her stuff on the other side of Will and sat down facing the redhead from across the table.

"What the hell do you want?" Will snarled, "Come to pick on the crack whore some more?"

"Will, you aren't a crack whore." Hay Lin said sadly, reaching across to take the redhead's hand only for Will to yank it back away from her.

"Don't feed me the bullshit, I saw you in the office this morning. I bet you saw my file and all your prissy little friends are over there making fun of me right now." Will snarled, "Well guess what princess, I don't need you and I sure the hell don't need them so fuck off."

"Wh-Wh-What?" Hay Lin stammered as Will stood up and grabbed her books, leaving the half eaten tray of food behind.

"I know your type, I've dealt with you more times than I care to count and frankly you disgust me," Will snarled. "So leave me the hell alone unless you want me to smack you down."

Hay Lin watched in utter shock as Will turned from the table and stormed out of the cafeteria. Though Hay Lin was sure she seen tears in those eyes before the red head turned away. Now more than ever Hay Lin was sure the redhead needed someone even if the girl wouldn't admit it. Like a saying Hay Lin once heard, 'No one could be an island to themselves' and she intended to try to help this girl.

WITCH

Will stormed out of the cafeteria, refusing to listen to anymore of that scrawny bitches lies. At first she actually wanted to believe the Chinese girl, but when Will had gotten her lunch and started heading to the table, she heard them talking about her and it had really pissed the redhead off. It was strange though, as she would normally have started a fight over something like that, but it had actually hurt to hear what the blonde said.

Stalking through the halls she tried shoving the thoughts from her mind as she burst out the backdoor and stopped when she noticed a familiar smell. Following her nose she made her way to the equipment shed where she found Uriah, Kurt and Clubber sitting inside smoking. They weren't smoking a normal cigarette though, they were smoking a joint…Marijuana.

"Hhheyyyy, Red." Uriah laughed, hiding a brown colored bottle behind him which also had a distinct smell to it. He was drinking beer and the smell actually made Will's mouth water a little at the thought of drowning her sorrows. "Love the tude girl, maybe if your lucky I'll let you be my girl."

"As if, you Sonic wannabe." Will snarled reaching out to take the joint from the orange haired boy. But he pulled it out of her reach as he took his other hand and pulled her close to the crate he was sitting on, while rubbing her back a little.

"Don't be mean, I know you want it…You need what we got, don't she boys?" Uriah said with a nasty sneer.

"Yeah, we gots anything you could want from joints to coke, even alcohol if you wants." Kurt said, grunting from his position on the floor swirling another bottle.

"We even have crack, we know that you like that and my cousin knew you from your old school." Clubber laughed, as Will felt her eyes start to sting, surely they didn't know the truth, they couldn't.

"Come on babe, Clubber's cousin told us all about you. You're more than willing to anything for this." Uriah laughed as he let go of Will and reached into his pocket and pulled out a small sandwich bag with what looked like a few off white chunks of rock or something. "We know you are more than willing to screw our brains out for this."

Will whimpered as her eyes locked on the baggie, her eyes beginning to water as she felt herself weakening. She wanted what was in the bag so much. She needed it after having gone without it for so long, that the withdraw pains had actually started to ease up a bit.

"Come on red, show us if that's your natural hair color." Uriah laughed getting off the crate and pushing Will against the wall and started kissing her, his hands running up her back under her shirt as she closed her eyes tightly, tears starting to fall. Is this all she was now? She had promised herself never again, but after the day she had she wanted anything to take the pain away but was it worth this?

"Stop it." Will whimpered, "I…I don't want it and don't want you."

"Oh, we'll see." Uriah laughed as he started yanking at her shirt trying to pull it up. She tried to push him away, but Kurt and Clubber grabbed one of her arms each pinning them to the wall as Uriah started tugging at her jeans.

"What the hell is going on in here?" Missus Rudolph demanded, walking into the shed causing all three boys to let go of Will and run around the woman as she was unable to stop them.

"I-I'm sorry." Will sobbed, as she saw the baggie next to her after collapsing to her knees and hugged herself tightly. Shakily she reached out to the bag and after several tries managed to pick it up and look at it in disgust. "Oh god, I actually was willing to for a minute…Oh god I can't believe it…"

"It's okay sweetie." Missus Rudolph said softly kneeling down stiffly next to the redhead. "If that stuff is that important to you I won't say anything but please, it isn't good for you…Give it to me."

"I…I need it…" Will sobbed holding the bag to her chest as she hugged herself with her other arm. She knew she should fight it but why should she? She knew she was trash, she had actually come to terms with that a long time ago.

"Do you really, Will?" Missus Rudolph asked, reaching out to take the redhead's hand with the bag and gently pulled the baggie from Will's clenching fist. "It's poison, sweetie, that's all it is."

"It…It's been my only friend…" Will choked, shaking as she fought the pain and temptation that the little off colored rocks was causing. It was true, the drugs and alcohol had been her only friends, but they had been her worse enemies at the same time. "What…What am I supposed to do…How…"

"How do you dull the pain?" Missus Rudolph asked sadly, as she put the bag in her pocket before pulling the redhead in her arms as the girl nodded tentatively. "By letting your friends help you, by letting those who love you be there for you darling."

"That's a joke!" Will cried, "My whole life is a joke that I'm not in on…No one cares about me…Not even…Not even myself."

"I do, sweetie." Missus Rudolph said softly, sadly as she stroked the redhead's hair and kissing the top of said girl's head. "I'll be there for you if you let me."

The lunch bell rang suddenly, startling the two as Will pulled away in surprise, staring at the older woman. Why did she help her, what did the older woman want? No one ever did anything for Will without wanting something in return. Truthfully she no longer wanted to give it after getting off the drugs. True she started before turning to the drugs, it gave her a sense of being loved even though she knew it was empty, but that was why she even started the drugs. She wanted to feel something besides the pain and loneliness and for awhile the alcohol and drugs did that.

"Come on, sweetie, let's get you to the nurses office." Missus Rudolph said softly standing up and offering her hand to the younger girl.

"No…It's bad enough those losers know I don't want the whole school knowing!" Will said after letting the woman help her up. "I won't say anything about them."

"Will, they need to be punished." Missus Rudolph said, shaking her head before understanding why the redhead was so scared. Missus Rudolph knew how cruel kids could be and if they found out about even a fraction of Will's past, then it could drive the teenager back to the drugs she was trying so hard to get over.

"I can't…" Will cried hugging herself, rubbing her arms.

"Okay…I won't mention your name but I have to turn them in. I'll just tell them about the drugs. It'll be enough to get them punished. The school has a zero tolerance policy on drugs." Missus Rudolph sighed afraid that this would backfire, but she wouldn't leave those boys alone after trying to hurt Will.

Missus Rudolph could sense a hurt but very special girl inside Will and as much as anything like what Uriah had tried would normally anger the older woman, what they did to Will extremely pissed her off to the extent of actually considering killing the little bastards. But that wasn't this world's way.

WITCH

After settling down and getting back into the school she was surprised to still see a lot of students still milling around about the halls, but she quickly realized it was from the second lunch. Hurrying to her locker she opened it up and cursed as her favorite pen with frogs on it fell out onto the floor. Kneeling down she grabbed it and went to get back up but hit her head on the corner of her locker door causing her to cry out in pain.

"PIECE OF SHIT!" Will snapped slamming the door shut as she heard several students around her snicker. Turning on them angrily she snapped out, "It's not funny!"

"It is when it happens to trash like you." A blonde girl in a cheerleader's outfit snickered. Will recognized her as the snobby girl that was in one of her earlier classes. She acted like she was better then everyone else and it royally pissed the redhead off just after knowing her for ten seconds. It's what Will hated about that Cornelia girl, these two blondes acted a lot a like.

"You want to repeat that?" Will asked getting in the blonde's face and slamming a fist into the locker next to the girl's frightened face.

"Miss Vandom, that is ENOUGH!" Missus Knickerbocker growled walking up to the two and pulling Will back by the elbow and glared at the blonde.

"Missus Knickerbocker." The blonde laughed nervously.

"Quite, Miss Rockwaller, I heard what you said." Miss Knickerbocker said, "Now I can write you both up which will get you kicked off the squad, since the coach had said this was your last chance. Or I can just give you both warnings this time and you two can go about your business but I don't want anymore trouble."

"Yeah…I'm sorry Will, I shouldn't have said what I did." Bonnie sighed.

"Yeah, whatever…I'm sorry to." Will grumbled out unable to believe she was apologizing this brain-dead ditz.

"Good, now get going." Missus Knickerbocker said but didn't let go of Will's elbow. "Will, the only reason I did that is because I am really trying to help you but if you keep this up I will expel you. This time I am letting you off but I will be calling your mother."

"Oh great." Will sighed as the second bell went off causing the redhead to grumble even more. Missus Knickerbocker let her go and pulled out a small pad of paper and a pen and wrote out something on it, before giving it to Will.

"That's an excuse to get you into class but not to mess around. Get your books and get going." Miss Knickerbocker demanded, actually causing Will to hurry up and gather her books from her locker grumbling at the stupid lock, as it was hard to get open. She should never have slammed the door shut like she did.

Literature class was just as boring as she thought, leaving her to think about what had happened to her earlier. She couldn't believe that a couple of punks knew what she had done at her old school. Worse yet, they had tried to get her to do them in exchange for crack, which she hated admitting a part of her wanted. It had actually taken a lot of will power to resist the call of those rocks.

What happened next shocked her, though it shouldn't have as it wouldn't have been the first time she was raped. As much as she hated it, she was also used to it because it was a fact of life, when you dealt with the people she used to.

Sometimes they'd give her some drugs, crack or pot or something and at the time it was worth it to her. It disgusted her so much now though, because it was hard to keep from crying from the taunts many people used. They were true at one time and truthfully, Will believed 'once a crackwhore always a crackwhore'. She was just thankful that she never caught any diseases, as she had been check several times when she was arrested the last time.

"Okay class, I want you to take the next fifteen minutes to write a short poem about how you are feeling." The teacher whose name eluded Will for the moment, but she didn't exactly want to write a poem. Heck, she couldn't even if she wanted to but a nasty idea quickly formed on how to piss him off and get hopefully get expelled at the same time.

True she did want to change but she also didn't want to go here, if she could get expelled she could get a GED and hopefully, get her own life away from everyone who enjoyed hurting her. The only one she'd miss would be her mom, but it wasn't like it would be a big difference from how their relationship was.

Just as she started to write out a dirty limerick she remembered hearing, there was a knock at the door. The teacher went out in the hall for a few minutes, causing a sinking feeling in the redhead's stomach. Finally the teacher came back with a grim expression on his face.

"Will Vandom, take your things and go to the office." The teacher said, shooting her a disgusted glare. Will gathered her books quickly, as she didn't want to be victim to that glare for longer then necessary. But as Will stepped out into the hall she would have preferred it, as she ran into Missus Knickerbocker and a police officer. In fact it just wasn't an officer but her parole officer as well.

"Will, we have some questions about you trying to sell some drugs and seduce a couple students." Tom said, giving Will a stern look.

This couldn't be happening! She was the victim here but then again it was always her fault no matter the circumstance. She was even blamed at her last school when a teacher had forced himself on her.

"What they are saying had better not be true." Missus Knickerbocker said angrily before the two led the redhead down the hallway.

NOTES

This story is loosely fused with Realbuzz Studio's Serenity. Will personality is pretty musch fused with Serenity's and most of her problems is the same Serenity faces as well as several scenes in this story will be from the Serenity series.

I want to thank XV-Dragon for your help on this story as well as betaing it. It you haven't yet I suggest checking out his stories as War for Meridian's Throne as well as WITCH: The Shunned one both kick major ass. So what are you still waiting here for, go to my favorite authors on my profile and check them out, you'll love them!