Chapter 16: Hesitation

(A/N: I'm telling you now, since school started and my newspaper job, updating is going to be sorta hard so that means some of the chapters will be shorter than usual, unless I'm having some sort of writer spark, but I promise to do my best for all of you. Oh, weekly updates will still come as normal.)

"No, I'm not giving them up."

"It's only for a little while, nothing to serious."

"I don't care how long, you are not taking my powers."

Jo huffed and walked out of the classroom leave a startled Deirdre.

In the hallways, Jo looked into the classrooms with open doors. The second room she passed, 8th grade meditation, how she remembered that...

"Miss Josephine are you even trying to clear your mind?"

A fourteen year old Jo looked up at the teacher and shook her head.

"Would you care to volunteer to lead the class today?"

As Jo went to say no, the teacher interupted her, "Of course you would love to volunteer."

As Jo rushed back into reality, she noticed that the Meditations teacher had seen her.

"Ah, class, I would like for you to meet one of my 'favorite' students. Josephine, would you come in."

Jo hesitated and as calm as she could, she walked into the classroom.

They stared, oh how they stared. The class stared and watched as the multi-colour haired girl walked in. (A/N: Yeah, Light has the blond hair, Dark has the raven hair, normal Jo has the blond and black mix, with bits of silver, so yeah, remember that.)

"This was a student of mine just about four years ago, Josephine was a bit of a troublemaker."

The class laughed and Jo wanted to become invisible. Crowds, one of her major weaknesses.

"Um, yeah, I was a troublemaker, um, yeah, so does he have you people 'volunteering' to teach meditation for that day," Jo using her finger to quote "volunteering".

The class got silent and glared at the teacher.

"I thought so, he ALWAYS had me 'volunteering', so the one day, I ended up accidently levitating while meditating, which was kinda cool at the time."

The class nodded in unison as if they had heard about this before.

"Why are they nodding."

Jo's old teacher looked at her, "Ever since you did that, we have a class for meditation and levitation all in one."

Jo nodded, slowly catching on to her wonderful trend.

As she stood there, Jo felt a surge of energy and knew she was being "paged".

"Well, I hate to cut this meeting short, but I gotta go see a demon about...yeah, a demon...BYE," Jo said as she rushed out the door.

Demon? The class wondered why she of all people would associate with demons.

Jo ran down the main hall, constantly tripping over her clompy boots. When she finally made it, HER demon was waiting for her.

"Hey, I hope I didn't keep you waiting, old teachers and junk, oh yeah, Deirdre wants me to give my powers temporarily."

Kurama raised an eyebrow, "Why would she want to do that?"

Jo shrugged, "I think that she thinks that I'm not quite in control since the whole Light and Dark battling thing, so she might think that I think that I'm out of control so she thinks by getting rid of my powers that it's gonna be alright...I don't think so."

Kurama patted Jo on the head.

"You were rambling again, you do realize that."

Jo sighed, "Yeah, I'm just nervous about being back here since the whole thing with Ollie and cutting his heart out, that really creeped alot of people out. Now they all just stare at me and take the stuff I did when I went here and use it when they told me it was pointless."

"Jo..."

Jo looked over at Kurama and groaned, then she continued to stomp off as her kitsune followed her.

When they made it to the Enterance/Exit, Jo swung the door open and went to step out, only to fall, but she caught herself at the last moment.

Kurama looked out the door then down at Jo and smiled.

"What do you think is so funny. I'm hanging here and I'm slipping, I COULD DIE!"

Kurama shook his head and pulled Jo up.

Jo growled, "DEIRDRE!"

Just then Jo popped up and look down at Jo.

"Yes," Deirdre said a bit to perky.

"You moved the door, didn't you, just because I refuse to take that damned potion."

Deirdre nodded slowly as she smiled.

"You really want me to take that damn thing?"

Deirdre continued to nod.

Jo threw her hands up, "That's it, I give up, I'll take the damn potion."

Deirdre, finally satisfied, toss Jo the vile of red liquid. Jo looked at the red liquid and hesitantly brought it to her lips.

Getting the nod from Deirdre and Kurama both, she downed the liquid. Only then did she feel so light headed.

"What the hell did you do to me?"

Jo stumbled around trying to get around other people, but it was too late...she was out.

Kill me if you want, it's late and I have school, so yeah.

Most of you are probably asking youselves, WHY JO? Well, she's the odd character that doesn't quite fit in, so yeah, there ya go for that.

Well, I'm thinking about this, but I'm thinking of writing a Daughters of the Moon fic, which would be under the BOOK catagory. Good series of books, I highly recomend reading them if you haven't done so yet. Oh, and the spin of series Sons of the Dark.

Yep, so that's it for me this week, gotta go write my articles.

-Jen