Detention

After stopping at her locker, Candace found her way to detention. Mr. Cunningham was in charge that day. He instructed her to sit down in the front row. Not too long after Derek walked in as well and took the seat next to her. "Are we the only one's in here?" Candace asked nervously.

Nodding, Mr. Cunningham said, "You are the only two brave enough to do something stupid on the first day of school. But, I can honestly say that I am not surprised that either of you is in here."

"As long as I'm out of here in time for dinner." Derek shrugged.

"What do you mean, you're not surprised?" Candace asked, ignoring Derek.

"Well, Ms. Farrell, you did get kicked out of your old school for hitting a teacher, didn't you?" Mr. Cunningham gave her a stern look. Derek stared at her. He was finding her more and more attractive with everything he found out about her.

"Yeah, but he was a vam…" She began but stopped herself. "He was not a very nice man." He was so not nice that I staked him.

"Anyway, I want the two of you to start your assignment for my class while you're in here." The teacher instructed. "You will be working together to interview each other and then I want you each to write a fictional story based on what you know of the other. I have a meeting to attend to so I hope I can trust you to remain here while I'm away." Handing them each a sheet with interview questions, he walked out of the room.

Derek moved his desk next to Candace's. "So, you hit a teacher? Why?"

"That's not on the sheet of questions." She glared at him as she took a pen out of her messenger bag. Watching her every move, Derek noticed that the bruises that were so prominent on her arm earlier were almost gone. Once again his curiosity got the best of him so he reached over and grabbed her arm. He was also looking for any excuse to touch her. "Hey! What are you doing?" She yanked her arm away.

"Just seeing how you concealed your bruises."

"I'm not." She retorted. "I just have a tendency to heal really fast."

"As a hockey player, I am no stranger to bruises." He pointed out. "And, they don't heal that fast."

"Let's just do this assignment so we can get out of here as soon as Mr. Cunningham comes back." She changed the subject. "Do you want me to ask you the questions first?" Please say yes that way I can avoid the questions until tomorrow and prepare my answers tonight.

"No, I'll go first." He grinned trying to move closer to her.

"Fine, then, ask away." She sighed. I'll just have to try to come up with something on the spot.

"Birthday?"

"October 7."

"Hometown?"

"Boston, Massachusetts." She thought for a moment. "But, I've spent the last few summers in England." Crap, he doesn't need to know that. She looked into his eyes. But, I guess it's alright if he knows some stuff about me. Not too much, though.

"Ah, so that's where the accent is from." He looked back into her eyes. "What did you do in England?"

"I was just there visiting some friends." She was telling the truth. So, that's what Buffy meant about being vague. Why are we just staring at each other?

Derek finally broke the "staring contest" with his next question. "Do you think I'm cute?"

"That's not on the paper!" Candace glared at him. "Let's just stick to the paper."

"You don't want to answer that? I guess that's because you think I'm cute and you don't want to admit it." Derek smirked and rested his head on her shoulder. "How could you not think this is a cute face?"

"Easy." She smirked back. "I'm looking at it." Laughing, she flicked him on the forehead. "Now, get back to the paper."

Rubbing his forehead he asked, "Favorite movie?"

"That's a tough one." She shifted in her seat. "I don't think there's just one. One of the all time best has to be The Notebook. But, on the lighter side of things, I love Talladega Nights. Oh, and the Saw movies are awesome! I definitely can't leave out Pirates of the Caribbean. The Kill Bill movies were definitely great because of the fighting scenes. Sin City was also awesome. Anything with Quentin Tarantino is the best. That is one subject I could just go on and on about for hours. I love movies!"

Derek nodded. "So, since you love movies, you should go see one with me sometime."

"Next question, please." Candace brushed his comment off.

"Favorite song?"

"That's easy. 'Don't Stop Believing' by Journey." She thought for a moment. "But, 'We Will Rock You' by Queen gets me pumped." Yeah, pumped for killing some demons.

"That's a great song." Derek nodded. "I listen to it before every hockey game." Pretending to stretch, he placed his arm around her shoulders.

"You are so obvious." Candace laughed and rolled her eyes. "For someone I just met this morning, you are very handsy with me."

"What?" He shrugged with an innocent look on his face. "So, about that Notebook movie, what was your favorite part?"

"Why do you care?"

"It's the only one I've seen out of the ones you named and I wanted to see if you liked the same part that I did."

"You've seen the Notebook?" She questioned. "But, you have not seen Talladega Nights, one of the quintessential make you laugh movies?"

"I used to date this girl that made me watch movies like the Notebook." He explained. Not that we paid attention, we mostly just made out during those movies.

"Well…" Candace thought for a moment. "Ok, the best part is when they come back from the lake and Noah's tying up the boat and it's pouring rain. They start talking and then Noah is like 'it's still not over' and they run to each other and kiss. I melted during that part. That movie made me realize what true love is and what passion is." She was now staring at him, dreamily.

Thinking for a moment, Derek actually did remember that part. "Yeah, that was pretty cool. But, don't tell anyone I said that." He moved closer to her.

Grinning, Candace said, "I don't really know anyone here to tell that to so you have nothing to worry about." She felt herself moving closer to him as well. He pushed a strand of her hair out of her face and let his hand fall to her waist. Moving closer and closer, lips almost touching when suddenly, the door flew open and Casey barged into the classroom. Both Derek and Candace jumped back and looked up at Casey. "There's something going on in the library. The entire faculty is in there and it's locked. All I could see was these unfamiliar people and they did not look very nice. They look like monsters and I think they want to hurt the faculty. I don't know what to do."

"Leave them in there." Derek shrugged. "Then we won't have school tomorrow."

Candace jumped out of her seat and grabbed a stake from her bag. "I'll go see what's going on. You two just stay here and lock the door." She ran out the door then two seconds later she ran back in. "Where's the library?"

Derek gave an I-don't-know look and Casey walked over to her. "I'll show you. Derek, call the police."

The two girls ran down the hall and turned right at the end. Looking into the library, Candace saw about four vampires, two were female and two were male. "Stay here." She kicked open the doors and ran inside. Casey just stood and watched with astonishment.

"It's kind of early for you guys to be out and about, isn't it?" Candace looked at the vampires. "I mean, the sun hasn't even set yet." Which is why this is so strange. Vampires don't usually come out until the sun goes down. She noticed that the faculty had managed to lock themselves in the librarian's office.

"Looks like we've got ourselves a slayer to play with." One of the female vampires said. She looked to be the leader and to be very crazy. She had brown hair and was wearing what looked like to be a 19th century style dress.

"So, you wanna play?" Candace grinned. "Ok, we'll play." She threw her stake towards one of the male vampires and it struck him in the chest. Quickly, he turned to dust. Running over, she picked the stake up and did a roundhouse kick to the stomach of the second female vampire, knocking her out the window and into the sunlight where she burst into flames. The other two vampires grabbed a book and disappeared into the back of the library. Candace ran after them but she noticed that they were soon gone. "This is not over." She sighed as she walked out of the library and over to Casey. "You can let the faculty out. I'm pretty sure if Mr. Cunningham sees me out of detention, he'll be pretty pissed."

"What just happened?" Casey looked stunned as she walked over to the librarian's office and let the faculty out.

"You don't want to know." Candace walked back to the classroom. Turning the doorknob, Derek jumped out at her and tried to hit her. "Don't hurt me!" He yelled.

Blocking his fist, she shook her head. "We need to get back to the assignment. Mr. Cunningham's on his way here. And, didn't I tell you to lock the door?" She put the stake back in her bag.

"I can't believe we have a gang problem." They heard Mr. Cunningham say as he walked down the hall. Both of them ran back to their seats and pretended to be working on the assignment when Mr. Cunningham walked in. "You kids are in luck today. Because of a supposed gang attack on the faculty in the library, we are cutting detention short. You may both leave."

Gathering their things, both Candace and Derek walked out of the classroom. "That was intense." Derek said.

"Yeah, you're telling me." Candace sighed. "A gang attack?" She pretended to be surprised.

"That's not what I was talking about." Derek took her hand and linked his fingers with hers. "I was talking about you and me almost kissing."

Pulling her hand away, she glared at him. "Get over yourself, buddy. Now, if you don't mind, I have to be getting home."

Leaning in next to her ear, Derek whispered something. "You know you wanted it to happen. And, now that it almost did, I'm going to be pushing for it to happen. I will get under your skin and in your mind and you won't be able to resist." He turned and walked away with a grin.

"This has to be the most complicated first day of school, ever." Candace said to herself.

"Yeah, I know what you mean." Casey's voice came from behind her. "So, you mind telling me what's going on with you?"