Sorry to keep y'all waiting! I was in a conference in Nagasaki for a couple days and I gotta tell y'all, I feel rejuvenated! Y'all know, like I was juvenated once, lost it, and got juvenated again...REJUVENATED! Anyway, keep those reviews comin' and I'll keep the chapters comin'!

I also hear that "Charmed" is finally starting to come out on DVD starting in February 2005. All I have to say about that is this: it's about time...now on with the next part!

It was nighttime. Oxford College, being in the country, was extremely dark at night. There were very few streetlights on the campus. The deans insisted that it discouraged students from being out late at night. Wesley had been walking around the campus all day and all night, looking for Stephanie. No matter where he went, though, he couldn't find her. The spells James had cast on him only made him that much more determined to find her and declare his love.

In his mind, he wondered why he had never done this before. He was in college now; it was time for him to start acting like an adult, despite being sixteen. But even that couldn't deter him; his birthday was mere hours away and he would be seventeen years old. Not that it mattered, but to him, seventeen just sounded a lot better than sixteen.

He couldn't figure out for the life of him what it was that was preventing him from finding Stephanie. There were only a handful of students at that college, he thought. Surely he should have been able to find one person. But it seemed hopeless. Nevertheless he kept looking. His search brought him to the quadrangle, simply known as the Quad. Oxford's campus was built around the Quad so that the shape of the campus resembled an oval from a bird's eye view (actually a 'Q' if you counted Haygood Hall, which kind of stuck out from the other buildings).

He sat on a bench, trying to think of a logical explanation for why he couldn't find Stephanie. His one-track mind kept him from noticing anything else. So he was naturally oblivious to Krasney's presence on the campus. Krasney, in his human form, approached Wesley.

"Hi," Wesley said blankly. "How are you?"

"I'm fine," Krasney said as he morphed into his demonic self. "I'm just fine...now!"

A lightning bolt appeared from the demon's finger and arced through the air towards Wesley, who was barely able to leap off the bench and onto the ground. The bolt struck the bench with such force that it was obliterated instantly, sending shards of wood flying in every direction. Krasney aimed again and Wesley quickly rolled away before the second attack hit him.

Wesley brought his leg forward and kicked the demon in the knee, tripping him. He sprang back to his feet and quickly scanned the area for any other people. Thankfully, no one else was around to see what was happening. He turned back to Krasney to freeze him, but he was nowhere in sight. He looked up, down, left, and right, trying to find him, but it was as if he had just vanished into thin air. The darkness of Oxford's campus didn't help Wesley's situation, either.

Suddenly, Krasney appeared behind Wesley, catching him by surprise. By the time Wesley saw him, it was too late; Krasney had extended his hand and Wesley collapsed to the ground, sound asleep. Krasney had used the latest power he had acquired from a witch, the power to induce sleep. Kneeling down, he grabbed Wesley's hand and the both of them disappeared from the Quad in a cloud of smoke.

"Well," James concluded after much thinking, "we can't let you die."

"Fabulous conclusion," Matthew said.

"And you're absolutely certain that you had a premonition?" James asked. "I mean, are your powers growing or something?"

"Who knows?" Matthew said. "Maybe your spell worked on me, too."

"How do you mean?" James asked.

"I don't know," Matthew said. "Maybe it made me focus in on whatever's happening with Wesley, but I don't understand what the premonition has to do with him."

"First things first," James said. "We need to figure out what's after you. If we stop that, maybe we'll prevent anything in your premonition from happening."

Suddenly, Krasney appeared in James' dorm room, standing between James and Matthew. He fingered a bolt of lightning at James, who quickly reacted by flinging his hand out. His telekinetic power rebounded the attack away from him, but towards Matthew, who frantically dove out of the way. The lighting hit a lamp on top of James' dresser, destroying it upon impact.

"Watch out, jackass!" Matthew shouted as he ducked under a table.

"Sorry," James said.

Krasney took the opportunity and grabbed James' arm, disengaging him from using telekinesis. He threw James into a wall, knocking the wind from him. Then he turned his attention to Matthew. He hurled another bolt of lightning at his target, but Matthew concentrated and the attack flew straight through him. Matthew charged Krasney, preparing to kick him, but before he knew it, he was on the ground, sleeping.

Krasney picked up Matthew's unconscious body and disappeared from James' room in a cloud of smoke. James rubbed his throbbing head as he looked around his room. It wasn't as bad as it could have been. Only the lamp was destroyed and there was a small dent in the wall, but other than that everything looked fine. He snapped out of his dazed state and back to reality, realizing that Matthew was missing, as was the guy who took him. He stood up and went to get the Book of Light, hoping that it had some sort of answer to this problem.

Wesley awoke in a dimly lit room. Wherever he was, it stank. The smell was almost unbearable. Perhaps that was what caused him to awaken at all. He could feel the cold of the hard ground under him, but he couldn't move. His hands were tied behind his back, around a pole, to prevent him from using his power, as if it could save him anyway. He struggled to break free of the ropes, but it was no use; they were too strong. All of his shaking caused a voice behind him to stir awake.

I don't know why I stopped here; it wasn't in my plans. But I'm sure we all know who the voice stirring awake is...so coming up: Wesley and "the voice" have a long talk about life and stuff. Meanwhile, Jimmy meets an unexpected guest who just kinda shows up out of the blue, if you get my drift...