A dead body had fallen out of the industrial refrigerator when Cordelia had gone to retrieve the pack's lunches. It had fallen out and landed on her. Oh and it was headless.

Alex held Cordelia as the police talked to her, fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your point of view, they'd already been at the school picking something up from the Principal. Once the police had what they could get from the witnesses and there wasn't a lot, just dead, headless body falling out of the 'fridge, the pack and the Slayer's group had met Giles in the classroom where his books had been moved to in order to discuss it.

"I didn't smell anything." Cordelia told them. "It takes strong oders to escape a refrigerator, especially an industrial one. I just opened the door and it fell on top of me. Normally dead don't bother me, hello! I'm a wolf! But they also don't normally fall out of a refrigerator and land on top of me!"

"Someone or something else leaving their leftovers in the school." Alex was ticked. "We are not a dumping ground! Not to mention we had to involve the police, something we'd prefer not to do, simply because it was so publicity done. Now we have to deal with it."

"Leaving it in the refrigerator may have been convenient." Giles suggested. "Or if it was a demon, they may have been saving it for consumption later, although I'm not familiar with any demon that does that, normally they prefer to let it rot before consuming, rather than preserving."

"Something I didn't need to know." Willow muttered. "Although, the headless part is really the part that bugs me the most. What eats heads?"

"Nothing I know of." Giles answered. "Brains, bones, skin, eyeballs, but not the entire head. And I overheard the police talking, they're leaning toward cut off, rather than torn off. Although that just might be because they couldn't mention demonic possibilities around civilians. Does their not being affected by the the willful avoidance spell mean they're aware of the supernatural?" He asked Alex curiously.

"Yes and they have protections on them as well. They know when a victim has been attacked by a vampire for instance. But we have an agreement with them, usually they let us deal with the supernatural and they deal with the regular human crime. So much of the supernatural can't be investigated in normal human ways and we have to keep the supernatural quiet. The public at large just isn't in a position to handle it, individuals can sometimes, but it's not easy. And while we're not supernatural ourselves, we do exist in an in-between sort of place. which makes it easier for us to handle it, both knowing it exists and dealing with it."

"In the past," Cordelia told them, "before my father became Mayor, the police in Sunnydale helped cover up the problem, instead of trying to help in some way. Fudge crime statistics and just let the killings happen with nothing being done to stop it. Since my father took over, we try to investigate and when we're able to, stop it from happening again. The High School is our territory, as in our pack's territory, so investigating as much as we're able to, falls to us. The extended pack will help us if needed and so will the wild, but only if Alex asks them to."

"Why?" Buffy asked. "Why wouldn't they just help?"

"Sunnydale is the tame pack's territory." Jesse answered. "The National Forest is the wild pack's territory. Going uninvited into another pack's territory is a challenge and that could cause a lot of problems. Alex was born to the wild and joined the tame freely, it makes him a sort of ambassador, since he wasn't exiled from the wild."

"Fascinating," Giles said. "you have a distinct culture that draws on both human and wolf norms. And it works?"

"It's served us for centuries." Alex confirmed. "And both humans and wolves are adaptable and we've had to adapt any number of times. We even have our own language. It was developed during the Dark Ages in Ireland by a group of Wolfbloods that live there and is still used today."

"Ireland in the Dark Ages is a good place for something like that to be developed." Giles nodded. "It was one of the few places in the western world where knowledge was preserved, rather then destroyed, during that time."

"Back to the headless body in the cafeteria refrigerator." Johnathan said. "If it was cut off that would indicate a human did this and not something supernatural, in which case, we have to leave it to the police to deal with."

"He's right." Aura agreed. "Until we know more or something else happens, this isn't something we can do anything about. I just hope whoever is responsible is found quickly, leftovers draw attention and attention is something we don't need."

"Any of us." Buffy agreed. "By the way, did anyone hear exactly who the dead body belongs to?"

"I did actually." Giles answered. "He was wearing a lab coat and only one teacher wears a lab coat, Stephan Gregory, the Science teacher."

"Oh no!" Buffy exclaimed. "He was one of the few teachers that didn't judge me, he just tried to help me! Gods, that stinks. I liked him."

"Most of us did." Alex agreed. "He taught because he wanted to inspire students to learn and he enjoyed learning himself. He'll be missed. I hope whoever killed him is found soon and pays for what they've done."

Something they could all agree on, the rest of the day was gotten though buoyed on that hope.

A/N Reference to Wolfblood language is from the Wolfblood wiki.