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so here's chapter 20 things have gotten pretty bad and they've dealt with the crash but things are gonna come crashing down pretty fast so just hold fast and hope they with stand the blast.
DON'T forget to leave a review or something guys I need the criticism or praise either way I need to know i'm not alone in the sea of fandoms...
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Perry sighed as she set down her laptop it was late or was it early? She couldn't remember, things had been crazy since Evelyn woke up. The poor blonde had been clinging to Danny since she had rejoined them in the world of consciousness the day before and was probably still with her fellow ginger. The morning after Lafontaine's return Perry had forced the scientist to go to the nurse's office with her for a check-up because there was no telling what those monsters had done to them and she wanted to know if anything serious had happened. Luckily, there was only a few bumps and bruises otherwise there would have been hell to pay.
Crush or not Perry would defend Lafontaine even against monsters that she didn't quite want to admit existed but she was slowly coming around to the idea... sort of.
Pinching the bridge of her nose as yet another head ache started to form behind her eyes she decided to pry her eyes away from her lap top to check on the others. Lafontaine and J.P were at the computer researching anything and everything to do with the rituals mentioned in the book of ancient Samarian. Laura was in her own dorm with Carmilla looking over the book and trying to catch up on all the lit papers she "forgot" to do because saving the student body will do that. Danny was going back and forth between their dorms as their new protection detail because they were really vulnerable right now. All in all both dorms were a mess but Perry was too tired to clean them and she didn't want to leave Lafontaine alone. Evelyn might have saved them the first time but who was to say it wouldn't happen again? There was no grantee that it wouldn't now that they were down to one vampire.
It was sad but Evelyn had walled herself up in her dorm across campus. She was an emotional wreak and no one knew why, not Carmilla or Danny who had both been to see the blonde but she refused to leave the safety of her little cave. She would let anyone in if they came but she refused to leave even talking around the idea of going out made her panic. It was tragic because she had been coming out of her shell and was becoming their friend, honestly letting her walls down and letting them in but after whatever happened with Lafontaine she reverted to the skittish girl they had met when she first came to Silas.
Perry had thought it was her fault because she had yelled at her and knew every word was like a knife in the girls dead heart and even went to apologize but Evelyn promised it had very little to do with that but happily, well not exactly happily more like brokenly, forgave her and gave her one of the saddest smiles she'd ever seen. She was glad it wasn't entirely her fault but that still left the question of what happened. When she had brought Lafontaine back from the nurses office with an A ok report on their perfect health Carmilla had cornered them and began a fruitless interrogation. The problem was that, although Lafontaine remembered being kidnapped or dragged into the Dean's secret creeper dungeon by Will and being found my an unstable Evelyn, they had no idea what happened after they passed out leaving a lot of holes that Evelyn refused to fill.
The whole situation was spinning out of control but they would have to do their best because Mother dearest was coming back sometime this week and they had no sword of whatever, whatever to stop her. They had gotten themselves into this mess and now they needed to find a way out of it.
Shaking her head Perry rubbed her tired eyes thinking a cup of coffee would be awesome about now, she slid out of bed stopping to stretch her locked up calf muscles sighing in relief as she felt her back pop in the best way. Too much research and not enough sleep was not a good combination.
Walking over to their little kitchenette she checked their coffee maker wrinkling her nose at the who-knows-how-old coffee. Taking it to the bathroom she dumped it down the sink and washed it out before putting a new filter in and another scoop of coffee. It was a bit old fashioned but Lafontaine loved the thing claiming it made the best cups of coffee in existence so Perry kept it in the best condition because Lafontaine tended to forget when on a research high.
Thinking of her favorite scientist she turned her attention to her fellow Ginger only to smile when she saw them resting their head on the keyboard dead asleep. J.P's furious typing caught her attention leaving the coffee machine she came closer so she could read his message.
~Could you please put my partner to bed? Having their head on the key board just sent the google in search of anccccccccccccskjfkeehfif and that is not a word in any language even gibberish~
"Hold on" Perry was careful in moving all the papers and notes away from Lafontaine and prying the pen from their hand before wrapping around their waits and shifting an arm around her shoulder. It took some effort but she managed to get Lafontaine into bed the work out only reminded how out of shape she was. Looking back to J.P she saw him saving and book marking all the sights Lafontaine had found knowing they would want to go back to them later when all of them were well rested.
~Everyone's running themselves rugged aren't they Lola?~
"Yes we are J.P but if we want to make it to reading week alive we need to find some way to protect ourselves or defeat Mother Dearest" Muttered Perry.
It felt strange having a conversation with a man who had been sucked into a computer but she didn't mind J.P calling her Lola, very few people called her by her name anymore, now that she thought about it only her mother called her Lola. Yet she didn't find it strange that J.P called her Lola, he was their friend now and had been helping Lafontaine intellectually while Perry helped physically like making sure they ate, slept, and bathed because once the research started hygiene was thrown out the window.
~I know your all worried but this group always seems to find a way to snatch Victory from the jaws of defeat and I admire you ladies for it, honestly I wish there were more of you around when I was a young man you would have made life far more interesting~
"Why thank you J.P, has anyone told you you're a bit of a charmer?" Perry smiled pushing the strangeness of the situation aside and simply enjoying the conversation for what it was.
~Yes, in fact Evelyn used to laugh at me from behind her sketch book when I tried starting up a conversation about sexuality with my peers or tried to charm a woman and the occasional man but just for fun~
"You two were quite adventurous for the time" Perry frowned at that thought she wondered what Evelyn was like back then she wasn't a terrified new born vampire but she wasn't as closed off as she was now, she must have been somewhere in between.
~yes she was~
Perry blinked not realizing she had said it out loud. Clearing her throat she sat in the wheely chair and scooted closer to the computer hoping to create some form of privacy.
"She was in between or she was really different back then?"
~She was in between as far as I could tell, she was used to the domineering presence of her Mother yet she still had that childlike wonder and this innocents that has since been destroyed by the world and the people around her~
Perry shook her head all the vampires they had met, given that they'd only met four, were emotionally damaged or crazy it seemed nearly impossible that they'd survived this long. Carmilla had been heartbroken and imprisoned by her mother, Will was a blood thirsty weirdo, The Dean was the biggest bitch in the universe, and Evelyn was terrified of her own shadow until Carmilla showed up.
"They're all screwed up but were helping them as best we can with what little we have" she whispered knowing that no one could really hear her it was just so hard to say it out loud when she felt so-so... useless.
~And you are in more ways than you know~
"It doesn't feel like it J.P"
~My dearest Lola you are doing something that no one has done since I became a computer and that is caring, no child of the Dean has ever really been cared for and they know she will never love them but you and the others, you have given them your time and worry over them when you didn't have to but you do because they are your friends~
"Thanks J.P" Perry wiped away a stray tear.
~its nothing Lola honestly if I still had a body I would be right there with you hugging them and helping them back up every time they fell but with this new technology I'm able to send them text messages and E-mail's full of encouraging words or even a little joke from way back when to brighten their day~
"I sort of wish you had a body now"
~why is that? ~
"So I could give you a kiss for being such a sweet guy, you know just what to say"
~Well I've had years of practice in the library~
"But how? You were stuck in the main frame?"
~well I would find a way to get people certain books, if they had anxiety or depression I would get them funny one or one how to best handle it, when someone needed something for a paper I would hack into their account and would give them a notice from the library filled with titles that would help them~
Perry smiled at the webcam knowing that J.P was watching.
"I like you J.P"
~I admire you as well Lola~
Perry leaned back in her chair she was more than ready to go to bed.
~Lola? ~
"Hmm?" turning back to the screen Perry squinted as the exhaustion finally caught up with her.
~ Get some sleep, I'll text Carmilla or Danny if anything happens but neither of you have slept very much since the kidnapping and Lafontaine needs to step back and take a moment so make sure they do that? ~
"Oh don't worry J.P I'll make sure everyone's in perfect health by Friday if I have to lock them all in this room" Perry smiled turning off the lamp she went to slip into her own bed when she looked towards Lafontaine's shaking her head she squeezed in with the ginger and pulled the covers over them. She didn't care anymore if there was one thing she'd learned at this weird school it was that everyone had a chance but if you didn't take it you could lose it all and she wasn't going to miss out just because she was nervous. Nope she was gonna take a note from Evelyn surprisingly enough and do what she wanted and at the moment she was going to cuddle with the person she loved the most.
J.P watched Perry wishing he could smile but the best he could do was watch. It might seem strange for him to stick around but he didn't have anywhere else to be, he could be in two places at once with the simplest thought or command sort of splitting his consciousness in two it was hard to explain but almost all of Silas's systems were connected to him now. When Lafontaine plugged him into their computer he was given a whole new connection to the world and he used it to the best of his ability but for now he would step back and watch over them because he knew they would need all the sleep they could get. He had watched them from afar because as new as the schools tech was they still didn't have security cameras in a lot of places mostly because the Dean didn't want a lot of the supernatural happenings to be caught on camera. Still he had seen a lot of Carmilla's successes in courting Laura, Perry's enduring nature as she watched over Lafontaine as the scientist experimented into the early hours of the morning, and Evelyn as she fell in love with the red headed huntress that J.P found himself liking more and more.
He knew some of the things that happened but not all because the moment they left his sight he was stuck with his own imagination or asking them what happened and he wasn't that nosey. J.P had been a scientist yes, a visionary on multiple subjects including ancient societies, sexuality, the arts, languages, and science of course but he had learned during his friendship with Evelyn as well as the years trapped in the library mainframe that not everyone was willing to put up with his questions and so he learned to take a step back and observe. Through observation and learning social cues he realized when it was a good time to make his presence known or ask questions otherwise he would stand back and stay silent till he had something to say.
It was a hard and sometimes confusing existence as a computer or living in a computer but he did his best and would continue to "sit" back in wonder at the human race and its advances as well as its failures. But here in these dorm rooms was the rawest forms of human nature and vampire nature if you thought about it. Still when he "looked" at these girls- no these women, he saw a great deal of emotions varying from joy, annoyance, fear, determination, defiance, and the one he liked most of all: Love. He had never really had the chance to experience it in his human life he had been sent a way to school at the tender age of nine till he graduated from the academy and came to Silas. Sure he saw his mother and father during holidays or at parties when he was older but he never really knew them or his younger siblings because of the distance and the overall lack of connection. He did have the love of friendship though, before he came to Silas he grew up with the same fifty boys till he graduated and he had stayed in touch till he chose Silas as the place to continue his education.
Silas was the place that fed his unending curiosity, it was where he made a friend that would open his eyes to not only the scientific wonders of the world but the human ones as well and make a friendship that would last centuries unbeknownst to the both of them, it was where he would get a new form and it was th place he would eventually watch these six girls fight a great evil with nothing but two vampires, a huntress, a journalist in training, a scientist and the most caring woman he had ever met and he couldn't be prouder than to witness it.
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So that was ch20 I kind of imagined that as i was watching the series that it could have been J.P watching most of it not just Laura's webcam so yeah I wanted to take a break from all the intensity and have a J.P moment because even if he isn't mentioned he is still omnipresent through technology like computers, webcams, and sometimes through phones via texts. Also J.P has been with Perry and Lafontaine for a while now and has watched their relationship blossom as well as everyone else's. I wanted to give a little more back story for him too because he is an important character and yet he gets maybe a few seconds of screen time one part included his "death" so I wanted him to have a bit more than that.
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