Chapter 6 – ABROAD AND RESEARCH
New York - Upper East Side - Apartment Waldorf - 9 pm
For once, mother and daughter dined together. They discussed different things on many projects for the summer. Blair was required most of her summer holidays with her father in France.
After this meal, Eleanor Waldorf settled into the large living room to talk to various friends by phone while looking with one eye, Fashion TV. Meanwhile, Blair goes to her room. She wanted to watch on their computer, the report on CNN about the fall of Sunnydale. Dorota had her indicated this emission because Blair asked him to monitor the news of Sunnydale.
The documentary shows the new face of Sunnydale: a crater that gradually fills with sea water because Sunnydale was also a port. The California coast would have a new bay shortly. The causes of the collapse are unknown. Seismographs show no sign of an earthquake. Geologists assume a collapse of underground caverns unknown before. The other big surprise was the weak number of deaths found in the ruins of the city. The flight of residents in the days or the weeks is confirmed.
What made scandal was the departure of the policemen, firefighters, hospital personnel and other emergency services. Everyone said it was time to leave, but they didn't know why except that he had to. Some people also said that there were mostly young girls who had strongly advised them to leave the city very quickly because it was becoming very dangerous.
Other journalists had investigated. They find a large number of cemeteries in the city with the highest rate of cemeteries places relative to population. Moreover, it seemed that the city was suffering from a rate of murders or disappearances well above the US rate. It made of the town of Sunnydale, the murder capital of the USA with a rate worthy of the worst cities in the Third World.
The documentary continues with the picture of school bus fleeing the collapse of the city. He belonged to Sunnydale High. CNN reporters had found near the Hyperion Hotel in Los Angeles. The survivors were installed there except those who are to the hospital close to this one.
The documentary ends with addresses, phone numbers, and email to have for news of those who were in Sunnydale. This was followed accounts to send donations for refugee Sunnydale followed organizations who cared to receive in-kind donations for them.
Los Angeles - Central Hospital – Morning,
The journalists had succeeded in interviewing Robin Wood, the principal of the secondary school of Sunnydale. It was in this hospital of seriously hurt Los Angeles.
Journalist: Good morning, How do you go Mr. Wood?
Robin Wood: Hi, I'm fine, but the doctors told me that I will stay several days in the hospital before going out. My wounds were quite spectacular. But it was more fear than harm.
Journalist: How did you get hurt?
Robin Wood: When the high school began to collapse, I ran in all rooms to bring people out. I was not fast enough and I got a ceiling on me. To help, students rescued me and brought to school bus where everyone gathered and began to start.
Journalist - How did you manage to escape?
Robin Wood - I'll give you information that you should not have still. The collapse began in the new high school. For several days, we heard a worrying crack and strange jolts at the level of the basement. We had informed the city hall. A company executive who had rebuilt the school came to examine the building to see where from it could come. They ran away only just. Unfortunately, his fiancée died under the eyes killed by the fall of a ceiling. Happily, the collapse of the secondary school was rather slow to allow the lasts pupils and members of the still present personnel to run away by a school bus of Sunnydale High.
Journalist - In your opinion, what is the cause of the Fall of Sunnydale?
Robin Wood - I don't know. But 4 years ago, the old high school had been destroyed by a violent explosion, the day of Graduation. My predecessor, Mr. Snyder was killed with the Mayor. There had, fortunately, few others dead. At the time, we had found a gas leak. But a question that could be asked.
Journalist: How much were you on the bus?
Robin Wood: There was me, the building company executive, the advisor of education who was with some ancient of the high school to prepare a ceremony in memory of the victims of Day of the Graduation Ceremony and some students, the lasts to come. As we didn't have professors, they were in the documentation center. I planned that if no professor had come once again the following day, to close the high school and to return the students at home.
Journalist: We all saw a young woman who ran behind the bus and catching it only just. Who was it?
Robin Wood: You want to speak Elizabeth Anne Summers called Buffy. She is our advisor of education and an ancient of the high school that took his degree there four years, the famous day. Her sister Dawn was with us on the bus and it was a high school student.
Journalist: How is it that you're not gone before as a large part of the population and especially of the authorities?
Robin Wood: I was very worried and my suitcases were ready. Incidentally, I didn't have time to take them. But I have a very high opinion of my mission. As long as there are students and professors, I'm there. I'll be gone if there had been an official evacuation order or if I was the last one to come after all stored and locked.
Journalist: Why did you go to the Hyperion Hotel Los Angeles?
Robin Wood: Most members of our families and our friends were either in Sunnydale, well away from California. Our counselor, Ms. Summers had several friends who work at the Hyperion Hotel and especially Angel Investigations, a detective agency. Besides, they please us and they had room. So leaving Sunnydale, we had to find a hospital for the wounded and find a place to rest and to know what to do after.
Journalist: Exactly what will you do then?
Robin Wood: Accompany all those who were with us on the bus and especially young people to find their family, contact the insurance to pay back what we lost, and with the authorities for administrative procedures. I think especially the Secretariat for Education for a new job in the next school year.
Journalist: Thank you Mr. Wood for answering our questions.
Robin Wood: Thank you for being interested in us.
Seeing a young blonde woman in the back, the reporter spoke to her.
Journalist: Hello Madam. I assume that you are the Counselor of education Mrs. Anne Elizabeth Summers.
Buffy Summers: Hello Sir, I'm Anne Elizabeth Summers.. But call me Buffy as everyone.
Journalist: We have admired your magnificent jump to reach the safety of school bus. How did you manage?
Buffy Summers: Normally, I've been unable to pass. But I knew I could not run much longer and that the only way to survive was to reach the bus very quickly and so I had to make the jump because the bus drove slowly to take me. I also knew that if he was not traveling fast enough, the bus could fall into the crater being formed, resulting in the death of all passengers whose my sister. You know that a few humans, often women capable of something impossible to a human in normal times. I read in the Guinness World Records, a woman who had detained a truck over a ton to protect her baby.
Journalist: Are you athletic?
Buffy Summers: I maintain my current form and doing some martial art, but nothing more.
Journalist: So we don't see you at the next Olympic Games for the long jump?
Buffy Summers, laughing: No, not at all.
Journalist: Mr. Wood said that you went to the hotel to take refuge Hyperion.
Buffy Summers: An old Sunnydale High School and a very good friend Cordelia Chase is the executive secretary. Also, my ex with whom I still have a good relationship is the boss of Angel Investigations. When I asked him, he proposed the Hyperion hotel he deals with the renovation, to welcome us, until we handed us the disaster.
Journalist: And now, what will you do?
Buffy Summers: Treat friends, fill out all the papers for insurance, look for a new job, a new home, a new high school for my sister Dawn. Everything so that the year Sunnydale High School is validated for all its students and so they avoid it recommences while their school disappeared 15 days before the summer holidays. As you can see, lots to do
Journalist: Will you continue your career as education counselor?
Buffy Summers: Very good question, this post was offered while I didn't ask. Being in search of a job, I accepted. This m 'liked. But after? I don't know.
Reporter: Thank you for answering my questions. Goodbye Miss Summers.
Buffy Summers: Goodbye everyone.
New York - Upper East Side - Apartment Waldorf - Night Begins
Blair seeing Buffy on the screen recognized her. She was the girl of her dreams where she transformed into a dust of humans to the evil mask and yellow eyes. But how could he? She was sure that she had never seen her before yesterday trying to flee Sunnydale and still at that time, she had her from a distance and wouldn't be recognized her in the street.
As she appears in her dreams, she needs to know more about her. The Internet is a wonderful tool for these things. On Google, she types 'Buffy Summers' Sunnydale. She prefers to use her nickname because Miss Summers should be likely better known by her nickname. She gets quite a lot of results (unless she when she was doing a Google search on her name, but she is a member of Jet-set in New York and much of her results was her in Gossip Girl). Well, it seemed that Gossip Girl or its equivalent doesn't exist in Sunnydale.
The result is that Buffy Summers was involved in several criminal cases or strange accident as a witness. It began in Los Angeles with the fire of her high school gym. She claimed that there were vampires.
She moved to Sunnydale where she finished high school and went to University before becoming the high school education counselor. She was the witness of gang assault under CFP as well as the explosion of high school, the day of the Graduation ceremony, the only day where no student would blow up their high school. Besides surprising, Blair finds few articles on it while it should have been on the cover of all US newspapers when there was no other burning issue. But she had never been tried or convicted according to the Internet. On the other hand, an article writes that she named Miss Protector of her promotion to the end of year prom for having saved many students on multiple occasions. This is the first time Blair had heard of this distinction. This meant that Buffy had to help a lot of students but nothing had been written in the press and on the Internet.
The results on social networks are the strict social minimum. Nothing on Tweeter and Facebook and a professional page on LinkedIn connected to Sunnydale high school network. It means a professional medium for high school and serves almost no privacy. But he points out Dawn Summers as the sister.
Blair relaunchs her research on that name and discovers a Facebook and Tweeter normal high school page. But like for any teenager who respects her friend's list is impressive and includes many of the students in his high school. Blair goes through and finds the unexpected friend, The Magic Box. Intrigued, she clicked and discovers that Sunnydale was a shop for all magic. She wondered whether the smiling shop sells magic wands like in Harry Potter.
From the Facebook page, it leads to the website of Magic shop that sells many things by Internet and correspondence. She quickly runs through an impressive catalog. But the site indicates that it doesn't sell wands for Harry Potter and his friends to their regret. Blair said that this type of shop should exist in multiple copies in New York and knows several people who would be interested in this if they don't already know this type of store. It indicated that the store was in Sunnydale repairs following a gas explosion (yet) but it continued Internet sales. His manager is Anya Jenkins. She looks at the page on which Anya Jenkins Friends list is smaller and falls several common names among friends of Dawn Summers. There include Willow Rosenberg and Alexander (Xander) Harris.
(1) The store, Magic Shop explodes at the end of season 6 when the Scoobies tries to stop Willow after the murder of Tara. Normally, Anya lost all his income. But here I guess she gets to keep the mail that pays him less, but nowadays, it changes quickly because, for some stores, internet sales are more important than sales in stores.
The researches about Xander Harris show that it is often quoted in the same business as Buffy Summers. But on social networks, it is also a minimum presence except on the professional network LinkedIn which he described as a building professional and primarily as a carpenter.
For Willow Rosenberg, this is the same as for Alexander, this is the same business. She also found that she had been the professor of computer science in his last year of high school. Blair opened wide her eyes to this school and especially this promo where a student was also a professor.
She didn't know if that was possible in the state of New York. However, her Facebook page was well supplied and indicated she was a lesbian couple. But the name of her companion wasn't mentioned. Blair was surprised to see that she was a graduate of the University of Sunnydale, a small university when all seemed to destine to major American universities as Yale she wants above all.
She had many questions and few answers.
Then she remembers that Buffy is currently housed at the Hyperion Hotel in Los Angeles where she has friends at Angel Investigations.
She researched Angel Investigations. She discovered a small website on the agency and little information elsewhere. But it is specialized in the strange cases and even specifies the site link if you think the supernatural. Blair thinks itself:
- And why not vampires?
But in the information, every time the agency is cited, it is linked to the mysterious case of the superstitious people might say:
- It's Supernatural !
In addition, she discovers that the Executive Secretary is a certain Cordelia Chase, who is a former of the promotion of Buffy at Sunnydale High school. She had been the Queen of the promotion. In Los Angeles, she is an actress apprentice like thousands of others. She had one or 2 advertisements and a beginning of reality show in a house full of ghosts, but it had never been broadcast on TV.
The Hyperion Hotel was built in 1928 and classified as Historical Monument. Several murders took place there and a strange ghost story has resulted in the abandon of the hotel until the opening of Angel Investigations, which was also involved in the renovation of the hotel.
Blair is saying that if she dreams again of Buffy, it would do well to call him to see if it is a coincidence or if she knew the origin of what was happening to her. She carefully noted the hotel's phone number and the agency.
Blair finishes her research on vampires. She finds many contradictory legends. As a rule, the vampires burn in the sun, with holy water or sacred objects. They cannot enter a home without being invited. They are dead human beings who return to life to drink the blood of the living who keep them alive. To kill them is the sun, the stake in the heart, decapitation or fire. When they die, they turn into dust. She translates: nothing new, all films of vampires already show it. But in one site she falls on the description of the Vampire Slayer: a girl or a young woman with great strength, high speed and several other abilities to fight and kill vampires and other threats of the night. But the vampires don't exist and she is not a Slayer, even if the description corresponds to her new state.
Worried about her performance in the afternoon, she consults Gossip Girl to find out if we were talking about it. Well, as usual, Blair had been the star of the site. We talked about his wonderful performance in physical education and dodgeball. Several said she had won on her own. The only way to win the opposing team was to turn her into an assistant referee. They said she was not tired. Some even claimed that she would have won with all the rest of the class.
His visit to the clinic was also reported. Serena's message about a violent muscle break after the sport made many comments. We wondered if it was not more serious. Others talked about doping. Some said Blair had spoken about doping without his knowledge; Some even spoke of poison.
Blair writes a message to Gossip girl thanking everyone for taking care of his health, which was very good despite a violent muscle pain. She was banned from the sport for the next 2 weeks. Analyzes were still going on and she would keep the readers of Gossip Girl as soon as she knew something new.
All her research and her day had tired her. She goes to bed and made the same dreams as the day before with these teenagers or young women of all races and conditions throughout the story including this Buffy among others who made vampires of dust during epic battles.