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Claire C Griffon: Yeah, I know I spelled some names wrong but at the moment I really don't want to bother with them. Oh and by the way are you going to write chapter/part 3 of Labrynia?

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Chapter Five

Inside the Mind

Lorn had his hands on either side of Cassandra's head, which had finally fell asleep almost twenty minutes ago. Fred had walked in to see if she was ok but found her asleep. She retrieved the others and they all went to the room. The only two people who weren't there were Kevin and Tonya.

Lorn had his eyes closed and was moving his fingers in a small, circular motion but was not touching Cassandra. His mind was now inside hers and he found her sitting on a bench in her dream. She looked up when she heard him coming up next to her. She scooted over and let him sit next to her.

"Hey, kiddo, are you ready to do this?" she nodded and the two stood up. "Alright I want you to close your eyes and try to focus where you can feel the evil presence."

"But I thought I had a disease not being possessed."

"The disease started with a body demon. It had entered your body and made sick, but I'll explain it more when you're done. Now close your eyes and bring the demon to us. If you show no fear it will die. Now if your fear takes over then you and I die, so you have to face it, to destroy it." She looked scared and about to cry. "You can't be scared now. You have friends and family who want you to come back. You can do this." She calmed down a bit. "I'll be right here. I won't leave you alone, I promise." She took a deep breathe and let it out. She sighed and closed her eyes.

As she concentrated, her aura began to glow and it made an outline around her body. Lorn watched as he tried to study her. (There better be no perverts reading this.) Her aura was green which wasn't good. It meant the demon was putting up a pretty good fight with her and it was stressing her out. Lorn knew it wasn't going to be easy.

In the waking room Connor, Angel, Fred and Cordelia sat quietly waiting for Lorn to come out of his trance-like state with Cassandra all healed. Connor was becoming antsy. He finally stood up and told everyone he was going to check on Tonya. They nodded and he left.

During the time of the waking world, Lorn was trying to work with Cassandra. She was struggling to draw out the demon. Lorn walked up to her and placed his hands on the sides of her head to calm her down. She relaxed and he could see it was becoming easier for her to draw the demon to her. Lorn could feel its demonic power being pulled close to them.

He heard a low growling behind him and so he turned around. There behind him was a short demon of green skin with spikes coming out of his shoulders. Lorn turned to face the demon fully.

"Well hun you brought it to us and now you have to get rid of it." said Lorn. Cassandra opened her eyes and flinched at the sight of the demon.

"And HOW am I supposed to do that?!" she asked.

"We talked about it. Show the demon you're not afraid of him...or her or death. You have to believe that you're not afraid of either of them and know it's true." Lorn scooted away from her so she could face the demon. She stood there nervous and somewhat scared. She took a deep breath and calmed herself.

'How was she going to do this? How can she show the demon she wasn't afraid of it or death?' she thought to herself. The demon jumped at her and she leaped out of the way. She screamed a little but that was it. Lorn figured it was a good start. She was acting braver that what he thought she would be doing.

"Good dodge, but show him you're not afraid." he said.

"Ok." she responded to him. She turned back to the demon. "I'm not afraid of you." she shouted to the demon. Her voice sounded as if she really wasn't afraid, but Lorn read her voice and could tell she didn't believe it.

"You have to believe in yourself." he hollered to her.

"Ok girl you can do this. You're brave and can do anything." She stood up from the ground and the demon jumped at her again. She kicked to the side making contact with its stomach. The demon flew back a little and dropped to the ground. 'Karate classes are paying off.' she thought. "I'm not afraid of you." she hollered to the demon. The demon's body had gone transparent and it had confused her. "Huh?"

"Great job Cassandra. You're doing it. Now don't be afraid of death."

'Oh yeah that'll be easy.' She thought to herself sarcastically.

Connor walked to Tonya's room and open the door. He looked at the bed and found that she was gone.