First a thank you to my reviewer:

TaintedDarkInuShemeeko - Yeah, I started working on this episode way back whenever I did and I freaked out. Kali needed help and they couldn't orb. So I had to find a college that wasn't in San Francisco, but was close and had some sort of medical course. I did more research then when I was planning to go off to college myself . . . and the I was in California last summer (yes, this was in the works that long ago) and learned that the college changed names. I decided to keep it. After all, in nineteen years, almost anything could happen. They could change the name back or even build a new college there with the old name.

I hope I didn't over do this chapter. It's kind of tough to know how much of what to do.

Chapter Three – The Demon's Apprentice?

Back on campus, Gary was sitting outside on a bench, starring at his hands. He had been there ever since he had run out of the library more than half an hour earlier. He was miserable and utterly relieved that Kali had shown up when she did. How could he have even thought that would work, that he could do that, even for Arie?

Behind him, Galskaper, a humanoid demon, shimmered in and walked around the bench. "You failed."

Gary didn't bother even looking up. He knew who it was and he knew he didn't want to see him. "I never should have been there in the first place." Reluctantly he looked up and added, "I almost killed a man."

Funny, how people pick up on different things in the same situation. To Galskaper it wasn't the fact that a death had only just barely been prevented, it was the fact that the death had been prevented that he saw. "That's right, almost. You failed. Why did you stop?"

"I can't kill someone," Gary moaned his head between his hands. "I can't do that. Whatever you did to me, take it back."

"We made a deal," Galskaper informed him, uncaring. "You will keep it."

Gary stood and turned to look at Galskaper. "No, I won't." How he could have thought it for even one moment was beyond him, but now that he allowed himself to think about it, he knew better.

Galskaper stared him down. "You will whether you want to or not. You don't back out of a deal with me."

Gary felt goosebumps run along his body. He tried to act like he didn't care, but he was scared. "So kick me out of school. Make me pay back my scholarships. I don't care."

"You don't get it," the demon informed him, looking a little amused. "If you try to back out, I will kill your family, and then I will kill you."

Much as he didn't want to die, he'd rather that then have someone's life on his conscious. "If you can kill me," he informed Galskaper, logically, "you can go after him yourself."

"You kill him tonight," the demon informed him with hard eyes, "or Arie will be dead at sunup."

Gary's eyes widened as a fireball formed in his hand. Shouting, he said, "Leave Arie alone!" Gary threw the fireball at Galskaper.

The demon shimmered out and then back in. "Remember, it's his life or Arie's." Galskaper shimmered out leaving Gary alone, trembling.

You may or may not have noticed that something odd is up with this site. Maybe it doesn't effect you, but I just got email notices this evening . . . from yesterday morning. The point is, I have this story mostly ready and can get the next chapter ready if I don't already within an hour, so if you review and don't get a notice for a new chapter within a day, check back, because I probably have added one. As soon as I see new reviews I will post the next chapter. It's already uploaded and ready to post. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. PM me if you got what I was trying to convey, but think I needed to change something to make it more clear.