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Skirts and Secrets:

Considering the strictly gender-separated nature of their school and Victorian England in general, Redmond was surprised when he found out there was a woman now working in the school administration.

He met her once, a very beautiful young woman with two-toned hair; the underside that hung around her shoulders was a dark, chocolate brown but the hair on the top of her head and the back was a bright blonde. Her eyes were also two-toned, a bright green with a vivid gold inner ring behind large black frames.

She was cheerful and funny and her name was Veronica Knox. And there was something about her, a glow to her skin or the way she moved that made her stick in Edgar's head longer than she should have. Like he'd thought before, she was very beautiful but that wasn't it, there was just something else about her…

He quite liked her cheery disposition and she seemed to like him too, she remembered his name at least, Violet teased Redmond for having a crush but he was happy just to have a friend. If that's what she was. But s much as he liked Veronica that feeling of otherness that hung around her never seemed to go away.

Eventually Edgar found out why, one of the older teachers had a heart attack and died during the night, when he didn't show up for class the next day Redmond went looking for him, as a prefect he was entrusted with things like keys.

He found the man on the ground, Veronica was kneeling beside him, she didn't seem to notice Edgar appear in the doorway or hear his horrified gasp, she was murmuring to herself as she wrote, "Alfred Michen, age 55, cause of death: heart attack, special notes: none.

She grabbed the long handle of the device next to her, the minute she wheeled it over Professor Michen's corpse what looked like white reels of film exploded from him, each showing moving snippets of the man's life. Only then, at Redmond's strangled sound of absolute amazement did Veronica turn to him.

"Hey Edgar," her voice was as cheery as if they had passed each other in the hall during lunch, until she looked down, "aww Hell, I knew I should have gone back to being invisible to humans."

That sentence finally prompted him to speak, "who are you? What are you?"

To his surprise, Veronica crossed the room and reached up to kiss his cheek. "Someone you'd be better off forgetting," she said sadly, "it's a shame, I really liked you."

Yeah, he'd really liked her too.

She moved to retrieve the strange machine that roared loudly when it was on and dug up the carpet. "Say you found him like this, forget I was ever here Edgar. Trust me; it's for the best."

To his surprise he found he still did, trust her that was. He never forgot the strange, beautiful woman with the two-toned hair, not ever and many years later, after Edgar Redmond took his last breath, he was strangely unsurprised to find her standing by his corpse.

Again, she did not look up from the notebook she was scribbling in, but this time she knew he was there, "are you ready to go?" She asked Redmond, she looked as beautiful and as young as she had on the day they met.

With a start Edgar realised that he too was about the same age as when they met, maybe a few years older, "go where Veronica?" He asked, instead of questioning her.

Now Ronnie Knox looked up with a start, "you remember me."

"You were unforgettable," Ronnie stared at him for a second and then a beaming smile broke across her face at his answer, then she sobered, remembering his question.

"Well, that's up to you really. You can take your time to adjust and when you're ready we'll reincarnate you back into the human world. You'll forget all about this life and be able to live another one. Or you can go live in the afterlife for as long as you like without being reincarnated or…" she trailed off for a second, "it's not exactly protocol and I don't even know why I'm offering but-"

"I want to stay with you," Edgar said, guessing how that sentence was going to finish and wanting it, badly.

Another smile crept onto Ronnie's face, "or you could stay with me," she finished, "are you sure?"

"Yes," said Edgar immediately, "whatever it is you are, whatever it is you do, I want to be there. I want to know all of it Veronica."

Ronnie smiled and held out her hand, "I want that too."

Done. This one was weird, wasn't it?