The road to Quinn's was a road so commonly traveled. A road that both Sam and Chris had traveled many a time before and one they were so familiar with it almost haunted them in their happiest dreams - that were, about Quinn. As they had gotten older, both boys began to resemble a nuisance Quinn was beyond familiar with. However these two boys were better than Joey, Jeffy, and Jamie combined - for they were the brothers of Sandi, and that was something she was able to use to her advantage, ever since the big teacher's strike.

"I'll throw the rock this time!" Chris shouted as he picked up a few pebbles off the ground. "I wanna wake her up!" He tossed a few at the window, looking at it with pleasure.

Sam wasn't fond of this and pushed his younger brother to the ground, "You're too young for her, stupid." He threw some rocks at the window too, trying to wake her up. "She needs an older man."

Not liking being told he was a kid, [even though he was like, 13 now] Chris stood up and kicked his brother in the leg. "Girls like younger guys!" He responded back, flashing the camera in Sam's face to blind him.

Wearily and not very pleased, Quinn Morgendorffer came to the window and opened it up, glancing downwards at the two Griffin boys who were so rudely awakening her from her beauty sleep. She yawned, rubbing her eyes, "Sam?" She blinked, trying to make sure who they were, "Chris?" She didn't really want to speak to them but she knew how persistent and totally obnoxious they were, "What do you guys want?"

Sandi finally began her walk down the stairs and out the house. She was glad to see that her brothers had left but felt somewhat uneased when she saw her mother's car in the driveway.

Reminding herself that she was completely groomed now, to the best of her ability, Sandi continued out the door and towards the direction of the hospital, hoping not to be seen by anyone either way. The air blew chill as she felt an ominous figure seem to stare down at her. Shivering, she turned around to see nothing. "Gee, I need to bring out the winter outfits this early?" She turned around, a familiar figure glancing back at her.

"Sandi... I think we're all in serious trouble." Mrs. Bennett grabbed her student by the shoulders and looked both ways, "That doctor..." She leaned in closer, "He knows... everything."

Confused, Sandi tried to grasp what her Economics teacher meant by 'everything,' "You mean like, about Ms. Barch and stuff?"

"You too." She sighed, "Me, Herbie, Tommy... That werewolf that attacked you might have only been the beginning in a very long plan to lure out Janet."

"Herbert." Herbert Bennett replied, sharing his name to the female doctor, "Listen, I'm..." He stopped, looking at the woman he was talking to. [i]A vampire[/i]. He immediately began to walk past her, ignoring her presence even more. If she was there, then maybe the whole hospital was littered with them.

He continued down the hallway, walking as fast as he could. He had to find Dr Marz. That was the goal he came there for and that's what he'd find. "Herbert!" Janet Barch yelled down the hallway, her shirt stained with her own blood, "Get the Hell out of here!" She ran to him and grabbed his wrists, "Forget about Sherman - Marz is here." Tears began to fill her eyes again, "He's..." She didn't want to think of it anymore. How Michael Marz was actually her brother - it drove her mind to pieces, "Come on!" She continued running out the door.

The lights in the hospital surged as Tommy and Kristen made out [and then some] in the middle of the cooridor floor, "You really have proven yourself, Tommy Boy." She giggled as she continued to participate in ghostly goodness with Tommy Sherman, "I mean, really... good."

"Tommy Sherman's a pro in the bed and off the bed."

Throughout these events they began to realize that they might actually be compatible for eachother as lovers. It was weird but, Kristen felt it, at least. Tommy was a boy who was near her age, dead, good looking... Pretty much everything she was looking for in a guy. For Tommy, Kristen was hot, good looking, and died in some pretty decent clothes... not to mention she was pretty. Tommy Sherman loved pretty girls.

Yeah, they'd be compatible... in their own shallow kind of way.

Inside, the Morgendorffer's house was as quiet and solitary as it could be, with the only sane member of the family gone, the house had nearly fallen to disorder with a mentally distressed Jake barely holding it together. Helen was constantly at work, having made partners with Eric and Quinn was Quinn, hardly being home with her fashion club meetings, mall outings, constant dates, and the like. Yep, with Daria gone to college the family had nearly gone to pieces.

Quinn sat idly on the couch, fixing up her nails after having gotten ready [leaving Chris and Sam to sit outside while she readied herself] and began to think about the news they delivered. "So... you're kidding, right?" Quinn laughed a bit, not looking up, "You think Sandi is a werewolf?" Part of her wanted to throw the two boys out, part of her wanted to change her outfit, but she knew all together that this was just a bit... farfetched. "What makes you think... that?" In an attempt not to upset her only two informants on the only girl it was fun to torment, Quinn played along.

Sam tried to make a proposal regarding the situation, something that would make him put down Sandi and make him look good. "Well, first we wanna know if you or Stacy or Tiffany have noticed anything weird about her lately..." He nodded, "Aside from the usual narcisism and stupidity!"

"Yeah!" Chris followed up, trying to sound as intellectual as his brother, "We think she killed her boyfriend and there was a werewolf fight in our backyard last night! I took a picture!" He showed the picture to the redhead.

Taking a quick glance at the picture, not really knowing what to look at except for seeing a little bit of fur and maybe a glowing eye and some house plants, she handed the photograph back to the younger boy, "Okay... Don't you think you guys have been watching too much TV...?" Thinking for a moment she tried to remember Sandi's weird behaviour as of late, "She was using a really weird nail file the other day... and then she broke mine, which she replaced, but still... and I think she's allergic to silver, which is sad, because silver jewelry goes with everything and nickel looks so fake!" Quinn paused, "Sometimes she's been extra bitchy too, but that's nothing out of the ordinary... well, not for /her/ at least."

Both boys glanced at eachother, smirking cruely, an idea popping into their head.

"What are we supposed to do?" Herbert said as he watched his wife aide their injured teammate remove bullets from her skin, "I don't know where Sherman is and Marz clearly is not alone." He turned away as he spoke, "Did he say anything important, Janet?"

Wincing in pain as she dug her nails into another healed bullet wound she laughed quietly to herself, trying to throw back on the mask of man-hating power she wore all too well, "He wants me dead, that's why he's here..." She ripped the bullet from her flesh and tossed it in a small container, Mrs. Bennett immediately treating it like it was just a small scrape, cleaning it and putting alcohol and gauze on it. Thinking about the situation that just transpired she sighed, looking over at Sandi, "I'm sorry to have put you through this Sandi. It was my coming to Lawndale in the first place and not devouring that idiot MALE of a brother of mine when I had the chance that made you... like this."

Sandi was really confused. She had obviously missed... everything, "Uhm, what?" She asked in confusion, trying to comprehend the situation better, "Who or what is Marz and why are they not alone?" The only Marz she knew was he cute doctor and he clearly couldn't be a problem, he was cute AND a doctor, and doctors weren't evil, so far she knew.

Sighing, Herbert began to explain, "Twenty-Five years ago, Janet came to us out of the blue after experiencing her first... change. Due to the way things worked out, however... she ended up-"

"I killed my parents, Sandi." Barch interuppted, looking away, "Yet my brother got away and somehow came to the conclusion that I was the one who killed our parents and... began to track me down." She had no idea how he came to this idea but it didn't matter to her now, "I couldn't control myself." She sighed, "It just happened, it just..."

[i]Ohh, that's what she meant at the restraunt...[/i] Sandi thought to herself as she listened, "So he wants revenge?" She didn't really care but... she kinda did owe Ms. Barch SOMETHING, "So uhm... what should we do? I mean-"

"I don't want anyone else here to get involved." Janet Barch shook her head, "I-"

Herbert laughed, "Sorry Jannie, we're a team." Giving her a thumbs up he nodded, "We'll take him down together."

Sandi looked at Herbert and her teachers in confusion, she didn't agree to this, "Wait, what?"

Melissa Jel walked through the cooridors of the hospital at an impatient pace, trying hard to find her childhood friend and flatmate, Kristen. Sure living with a ghost was weird, but Kristen needed a place to watch her television shows and keep herself entertained while waiting for something to happen in her stagnant afterlife. "This can't be happening." She looked around as she hoped to find her ghostly friend, "Michael didn't tell me they'd be in this town."

"Melissa." The words filled her ears like a rotten note, his smell, the smell of the infected, filling her nose with disgust, their putrid blood extending her fangs. "Mike's downstairs." Nodding the newcomer glanced at his other co-worker, "I have a feeling you're not fee-"

Shaking out of it the female doctor looked away, going back to her pseudo humanesque behaviour, "I'm looking for Kristen." Dr. Jel immediately replied, "I'm... You've been here a while undetected, right?" She looked at the other doctor in the eyes, "Do you know of any vampires in this town? Th- The Bennett family?" She didn't like to be around werewolves, ever. Their blood was tainted, it smelled, somehow, so disgusting to her, "Dr. Phillips, please. If you've heard of them... ever..."

"Nope..." He raised an eyebrow, "I didn't think anyone would be in a small town like this... but..." Looking at his watch he sighed, "Jel, I've got some rounds to make but, I think I saw Kristen go towards the Nurse's station an hour ago..." Pausing he thought for a minute, "If you see Mikey, tell him we have to talk. My sister in the next town over called me and said she saw werewolves on the news over here. I know he's after his sister but..." Whispering to her, he wasn't sure what to say, "I wasn't in that fight."

She stepped back when he came close but heard him, "That guy we hired to lure out Janet ended up biting some high schooler on accident." Rolling her eyes, she walked away, "Just what we need, too. Another filthy mutt in this neighbourhood." [i]It's bad enough I work with you...[/i]

"I really think I like, Tommy." Kristen looked over at the buff, ex-football player with a shimmer in her eyes, "I mean, you're really... something..." She fixed her hair some, "I mean, you died a really lame death and all but..." Smiling she kissed his cheek, "Wanna come over to my house tonight or tomorrow and hang out?"

Tommy Sherman never heard of a ghost with a house, well, he did but, they were usually unwanted, "You have a place to stay?" He asked, "Tommy Sherman haunts his old High School. Has a first class look at all the thing Lawndale High has to offer." He winked, wondering where Kristen did stay.

"No silly." She stood up and fixed her hair, "I live with a friend in her house... well, apartment. It's not really big but, she knows about me and she leaves the TV on and I've gotten really good at being a poltergeist..." She grinned, "I know how to work her Xbox..." She smiled... her expression immediately changing as she saw her roommate walking down the cooridor towards her, "Tommy. Go away. I'll find you."

"Why?" He had no idea what was going on as he stood up to look in the direction Kristen was looking at.

"I can't be seen with you, please, get away from here..." She started to cry, "That's my roommate and we have a no date policy going on right now. I'll explain later just..."

Tommy Sherman didn't like this but he did as he was told, dispersing away, hoping he'd meet up with this cute girl again soon.

"Together?" Were the first words out of Sandi Griffin's mouth as she tried to fathom what was going on, "Uhm, like, don't you all have jobs and stuff? I mean, I have school and uhm..." Not that she cared about school, per se... this just all seemed a bit uncharacteristically... abnormal, "Homework..."

"You're excused." Ms. Barch and Mrs. Bennett said together, followed by Mrs. Bennett giggling lightly while the not as laughie/joyful teacher glanced at Sandi, "I'm sure I can get you out of English, too. You're on your own with the others. Timothy's a smart male. He'll understand."

A somewhat shocked look came from both Bennetts as they smiled, "Oh, so you've finally told Timothy O'Neill about..."

"Of course not!" Janet Barch growled back, adjusting her clothes, "He still thinks I'm going to those monthly feminist rallys. It's a good thing he supports them too, it's cute how he thinks talking to a bunch of woman about male overrule is nurishing for the mind AND soul." She grinned, "If he only knew..."

[i]Ewwww... Teacher, Teacher Relationships...[/i] Sandi Shuddered at the thought of O'Neill and Barch doing anything together, "Uhm... so like... what should I do?"

Just then, Tommy appeared in the room, somewhat fatigued and well contented, "I met someone..." He sat next to Sandi, "Bit of an air head... sorta flirty..." He laid back on the couch Sandi was on, completely interuppting the conversations, "Tommy Sherman met a girl."

"It's just a whole great day for love, isn't it?" Diane Bennett smiled at Tommy, "What's her name, is she... well...?"

Diane meant a ghost. Tommy heard big-breasted. "Good enough for Tommy Sherman on the other side, if you know what he means. Invited him out to her roomates house." Winking he looked over at his ex-science teacher, "Glad to see you made it out alive."

Rolling her eyes, Barch mumbled something under her breath about him still being a testosterone ridden pig. "Well, if a war is what that man wants, than war is what that man gets!" She clenched her fists, "Mikey's just-" Pausing she stopped, "Roommate?" She looked at Tommy, "What is her roommate, Tommy?"

He shrugged, "Some doctor at the hospital. Didn't get a good look at her but she must be able to see ghosts because Kristen wanted Tommy to disperse."

The three oldest members in the room glanced at eachother, Mr. Bennett being the first to speak, "Tommy, find out everything you can about that ghost girl and her room mate..." He sighed, "Something has to be u-"

"WAIT." Sandi realized something, she had been to see this Michael Marz doctor guy, "The doctor you're talking about isn't THE Michael Marz, is he?" She was slow to catch on, "Because uhm, he's the guy who treated me after the animal... err... werewolf attack." She paused, "I think he knows that I'm a werewolf, too... because the needle got stuck in my arm and he and this Doctor Jel lady were trying to take my blood." She remembered the pain from when the needle was pulled out and felt a sickness in her stomache, "Gee, that was soooo gross I almost wanted to scream."

"Jel?" Mrs. Bennett looked at Sandi, "You're sure that's the doctor's name you saw with Dr Marz?"

"Yeah, because her name reminded me of hair gel and how gross that stuff is..." She nodded.
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Kristen looked over at her roommate, Melissa Jel with a bit of anxiety in her eyes. She had been making out moments before with someone she knew was practically her arch nemesis, even though she had just met Tommy Sherman and he was such a hunk of adorable. "Hey there Jelly Bean..." She commented to the doctor, "What's up?" She said nervously, trying to act as if she wasn't just being bad, "You know..."

Dr. Jel glared at the ghost, then motioned for Kristen to follow her, "From what it looks like..." She mumbled under her breath so it didn't look like she was a crazy person, talking to no one, "Janet Barch has been hiding in this town since 1978 and..." She walked into an empty room, "Those damned Bennetts live here."

Kristen listened, although she was confused.

"The family who made me this... this monster in the first place..." She sighed, "He thought he was saving me... but what's being saved if I have to feed off the blood of the living?" Tears coming to her eyes she looked down, "It defeats my purpose of being a doctor, really... If I'm supposed to help the ill, why do I have to feed off the well?"

"You don't look well." Dr. Phillips looked at his other co-worker in slight disarray, "I mean, you look worse than I did this morning and last night was a Full Moon."

Dr. Michael Marz punched the wall in the hospital cooridoor, trying to think about the situation he had just dealt with. "Janet." He whispered to himself, ignoring the other doctor who had looked somewhat concerned at him, "Phillips, what would you do if your sister was a werewolf?" He said under his breath, seemingly to have forgotten a major fact about Dr. Phillips.

"My sister /is/ a werewolf." He mentioned bluntly, "You mean... what would I do in your situation?" Dr. Phillips asked, "Really Mike, revenge isn't the best answer... Did you ever think that Janet regrets what happened or has remourse... Maybe she left town because she couldn't bare to come to terms with what happened."

Turning around he looked at the other doctor in anger, "She's a monster." Once again completely forgetting he was talking to another werewolf, though he didn't ever seem to think of Dr. Phillips as a 'monster' probably because he was always a voice of reason, "She mutilated my mom and dad infront of my eyes! That's something I could never, ever forgive."

"Yes but..."

Marz glared at Phillips in the eyes, "Shut up." He said as he turned and began to walk away, "You're probably siding with her anyways. Don't you have a car to chase?"

Confused at that statement, Dr. Phillips wasn't quite sure what to make of it. "Hmm." He turned around himself and continued his rounds, adding that to a list of new ones he hadn't heard before.

Dr. Phillips was used to being picked on by everyone who knew his 'secret'. Even his family had treated him like a runt. He wasn't sure why, nor did he care exactly, but some of the statements he had gotten were quite funny over the years.

"It's like, really nice to finally have a boyfriend..." The Matrix blared in the background as Kristen and Tommy Sherman sat near carelessly on the living room couch of Dr. Jel's apartment. The apartment that Kristen also lived in. "Keanu is such a cool guy in this movie!" She laughed, kissing Tommy's cheek.

Though Tommy was unaware of Kristen's real reasons for having him avoid her roommate, he was slightly aware of the dangers of hanging out in the apartment of a woman who could see ghosts though he was still unaware of the fact that Kristen still had a sort of obligation to Melissa Jel and Michael Marz. So while the football player had been so absentmindedly enamoured by the TV and Kristen, the female ghost had used her skills to trap her new boyfriend in a ring of salt, mostly preset up before he had arrived. [a.n. sorry for the wording here, i hope it makes sense]. Preventing him from really getting out of the seat. Luckily for her, he hadn't noticed yet.

"Kristen?" Melissa Jel came into the door carrying a few bags of clothes and other assorted things, "Are you watching that movie AGAIN?" She scoffed, knowing how Kristen had the biggest crush on Keanu Reeves since... well, anything, "Those Benn-" She looked at Kristen who stood somewhat joyfully by the couch pointing to Tommy Sherman.

"I caught a ghost..." She smiled, though her heart was filling with guilt, "He works with the Bennetts too, I'm almost certain."

Tommy wasn't the smartest tack, "You know the Bennetts?" He asked before realizing what had happend... he had been thinking about more manly needs than how he had been captured in a ring of salt, "Ya know, since I'm here, do you know a Dr. Marz?" Gosh, what an idiot.

Jel looked at Tommy and then back at Kristen, "I'll phone Michael about this, I suggest you go find those damn Bennetts and tell them we've got their ghost. Be careful..."

Tommy was still unsure of what was going on fully but looked at Kristen in confusion, "Wait, aren't you going to introduce Tomm-" Standing up he hit an invisible wall created by the salt. "..." Pausing he looked at Dr. Jel, "Oh..."

Sandi sat in her room looking over a few fashion magazines as Tiffany, Stacy, and Quinn sat idly infront of her. Eying the models on the pages carefully, she came to a very important conclusion, "Quinn?" She raised her eyebrow and pointed to a picture with curiosity, "What makes you think that this fashion would even be considered acceptable for any sort of winter day?"

Put on the spot, Quinn Morgendorffer had all eyes on her. Both Tiffany and Stacy looked cautionsly at her before listening with intent. "Because, Sandi." She said with certainty, "The faux fur on the boots make for a very serene look, especially for you... I think faux fur is really in these days... or real fur..." She mumbled a bit under her breath, remembering a bit of what Sandi's brothers had said, slightly believing them and this trying to get the information our of Sandi while trying to make her feel not as bad about the 'problem', while trying to drive her slightly mad with the possibility that she knows... not that all those things were connected or anything.

Sandi scoffed, ignoring Quinn, hardly understanding what she was saying but replying with an answer she would've replied with anyways, "Quinn, faux fur and fur is so out. Aren't you afraid we'd look like ritzy OLD ladies?" She growled under her breath, looking at Tiffany and Stacy for their agreeance.

Stacy and Tiffany looked at eachother and then at their leader, nodding in slight fear. Stacy, while having really agreed with Quinn, went along with Sandi. "Yeah... Quinn." She said insecrurely, "Fur is so... passe... I think my grandmother wore a fur coat last time I saw her..."

"Yeahh." Tiffany agreed, "We're too young to be olddd."

Sandi gave a cocky grin to Quinn before continuing, "So I rule that fur is a big no for the winter season. However-"

Just then, like magic, Kristen appeared on Sandi's bed, impatiently, evilly, glancing at the fashion club president with dismay, "Are you Sandi Griffin, I've got a message that you need to give to Janet Barch..." She grinned evilly.

The instant appearance of the ghost behind her shocked her more than she could handle and for a minute she jumped like a complete moron, which gave her a weird look from the other three girls of the Fashion Club. "Sandiii..." Tiffany murmured, "Are you okayy?"

Nervously the fashion club president tried to ignore the ghost behind her. After all, what was she supposed to do, start talking to a GHOST in front of her friends? She's look crazy. "However." Taking a deep breath, "I think hand-knitted wool caps and scarfs would be very fitting for the winter season."

Stacy nodded, "Oh! Yeah! I have a purple one at home! It's really cute, it has star shaped beads on it."

"Stacy, beads are so out." Sandi replied, "I think simple will be in this yea-"

Kristen looked at Sandi, not liking to be ignored, especially because she had other things to do, like play Xbox and stare at Tommy while he was trapped on her couch, "I know you can see me. I don't have the wrong house." She started to get irritated, "I mean-"

Quinn noticed Sandi's frequent interuptions and sighed, "Sandi, you've been acting really weird since you were attacked by that-"

"What, Quinn?" Sandi looked over and continued to ignore Kristen, "It-"

Kristen figured now would be a good time to just infuriate Sandi to get her way and see where things would go. She did love to mess around with people now that she was... dead, "Come on your stupid dog." She said cruely to Sandi, laughing about it, trying to get her to lose every ounce of cool in front of her friends. "Doggy's gotta obey the master, right?"

Sandi didn't even know who Kristen was. She didn't even know her name and wasn't even all that sure she was a ghost, but assumed as much since Quinn and the others didn't react when they saw her. However, just because Sandi didn't know her, didn't stop Sandi from going off at the new comer, because Sandi was Sandi and no one referred to her as a 'dog.' "What did you call me?" She mumbled under her breath, trying to remain as cool as she could, yet she still got stares from the other girls.

"I don't like to be ignored." Kristen folded her arms, "So be a good little doggy and I wont have to get the newspaper." She taunted, looking back at Sandi, who became more and more enraged, "I know you're Janet Barch's new pet."

Quinn blinked, looking at the other girls, "Uhm, we're going to go Sandi..."

"Yeah... call us when you're feeling better... or we'll see you at school or something." Stacy and Tiffany headed out the door, Quinn following.

She didn't want them to leave but they did and she sighed for a moment, looking at the ghost, "I am NOT a dog." She yelled, "I don't even know who you are!"