Now all Catherine needed to do was to track Buffy down. It shouldn't be too hard she reasoned – It was a school day & Buffy didn't seem to be the kind of girl who skipped school on a regular basis, every once in a while but not all the time (but then who did? – Rule number 2 of skipping class is "skip rarely to preserve the 'specialness'", was it not?) Catherine strained at the remainders of Victoria, 'Vicki', Bernice Gilmore's residual memories trying to see if she had any clue of where Buffy would be. 'The trace' of her memories was weak, of course it would, it was such a 'forceful' take over it was remarkable that there was barely anything left to go through, but, from what she could see Vicki had several classes a week with her, so, she supposed, a fabrication was in order to gain Buffy's attention. Yes, that was what she was going to do, she chuckled – Lure her into an isolated spot & then dispose of her once & for all. She smiled, assured of her plan, heading to second period math with Mr. Lake where she knew Buffy would be.

Fifty minutes later the bell rang once more & the class plowed out of the room, eager for just a few moments worth of rest & relaxation before one last lesson before lunch. Catherine catches Buffy up whom, along with Xander & Willow were heading to the library to visit Giles once more.

"Uh, Buffy…" She says, gently tapping her on the shoulder, "can I ask you something?" Buffy stops, quickly looks behind her to see "Vicki" standing behind her. She then looks forwards, back at Xander & Willow who have continued a few feet on before turning to look back at her "I'll catch you to up in a minute", they nod & walk on. 'So', Buffy asks, looking back round to "Vicki", 'What is it you want?' 'Um', Catherine stutters, suddenly realizing she couldn't think of what to say next, "Miss Gellar says that I seem to be behind the rest of the class in _ & suggested that I should seek you out as you are one of the top people in the class, so, uh, I was wondering, if it wasn't too inconvenient for you, that you could, maybe, help me out for an hour or two after school today?" Buffy gives her an 'ok?' look, almost as if she was unsure of what "Vicki" was saying. 'Uuuuh, I have a "thingy" later on this evening, but um' she pauses, thinks for a moment before slowly, subtlety, looks "Vicki", trying to sense if she has been taken control of by some demonic force. Determining that, based on appearance at least, she wasn't Buffy gives in, 'sure, fine, whatever. I suppose an hour or so couldn't hurt – At least it'll give me an excuse to go through everything again before the big test we have next week…' "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Catherine proclaims, like the over eager "book worm" of a way that Vicki would do. Luring her into a false sense of security, Catherine then overenthusiastically smiles & leaps onto Buffy, hugging her – "You won't regret it, I swear it!" 'Ooookay…' Buffy replies, as if both shocked & stunned by what just happened. 'So, when & where do you want to meet?' "Um, how about the graveyard at St. Andrews about an hour or so after school, I live right nearby there" Catherine replies tilting her head, continuing on in an almost Willow type of voice "my house can be hard to find if you don't know where to look…" Buffy looks deep into Catherine's eyes, trying to see if she can trust her, as well as to see if she can recognize any force that may, or may not as the case may be, controlling her. 'Well, anyway - I need to catch up with Willow & Xander, but 'til then I suppose'. "Bye, I guess…" Buffy smiles, waves goodbye, and turns to face the direction Willow & Xander went, & rushes off down the corridor. Catherine smiles & cackles evilly to herself, "Well 'Slayer' it looks like you're all mine now". She takes some what appears to be dust from out of her pocket, sprinkles some upon the ground &, in a flash of light, she disappears from out of existence.