"You're so lucky we're the ones that overheard you talking." Xander told them. "Besides the fact that you were really loud, anyone else who heard you talking would think you're either seriously deluded or if they believed you, really would think you're a monster and respond accordingly."
"We're uh, we're uh, just role playing!" Harmony tried to assure them. "A sex game!" Johnathan went bright red even as he tried to offer his own explanation. "I've been teaching Harmony D & D. You know, creating characters for games. That's all, we're certainly not deluded or uh, um a monster!"
"Vampires?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows and eyed her friend. "Harmony, you've never had any interest in fantasy and I know something's been going on with you for a couple months now, you've never been good at keeping secrets and I'm thinking the only reason you've managed to keep this one, is that Johnathan matters to you. We can help, if you let us." She offered.
"How exactly can you help?!" Johnathan asked bitterly. "You don't even know what the problem is!"
"No, but we know how to try to figure it out." Xander answered. "On account of we're your friendly neighborhood monster investigators. Whatever is going on, Johnathan, now that we're aware if it, we'd be investigating it anyway. We could go around you to investigate or be straightforward, you guys are our friends, we didn't even have to think about it, we're not going around you, we're talking to you. You mentioned things we're already familiar with, vampires and other creatures living in Sunnydale. Things that look like monsters out of fairy tales, but are very real. Well, vampires were real, as in, suck your blood, but they're gone. At least we thought they were gone. But you're not behaving like the vampires we're familiar with, they enjoyed being monsters. They didn't fight even the possibility. So, you can trust us, Johnathan, we'll listen and try to help you." Xander promised.
"Xander, we've been friends since we were kids." Johnathan growled. "Which is how I know you can't help me! I'm not having a problem with a bully or need something fixed, if I did, I'd come to you. This is something completely out there and -." Johnathan stopped as Cordelia reached out, grasped his shirt and lifted him up over her head. Xander raised his own eyebrows at her.
"What? Talking wasn't getting us anywhere." She shrugged and gently set the wide eyed Johnathan back on his feet.
"Cordelia?" Harmony questioned. "How did you just do that?"
"Superpowers." She answered. "Xander and I have superpowers, which is why we're your friendly neighborhood monster investigators. Well, we got superpowers after we started monster investigating, but we managed without them for quite awhile."
"Oh, God!" Johnathan's new condition had eliminated his asthma, but he could still hyperventilate and right now he was on the verge of it. "You think I'm a monster and you're going to kill me!"
"Johnathan, pull it together, man!" Xander ordered. "We just told you're not acting like any monster we know of and we're willing to try to help you, so calm down, okay! We're not jumping straight to the conclusion that you're a monster. So just breath, okay, you don't want to set off your asthma."
"Whatever's happened to me cured the asthma." Johnathan struggled to calm down. "Wait, you've got superpowers too?" Now Johnathan was starting to get excited, real life superheros and he might not be a monster after all? Maybe things would be okay.
"I do Magic and I don't mean sleight of hand." Xander answered as Cordelia tipped her head. "Let's take this somewhere else, Xander, someone's coming." She said.
"You can tell that?" Harmony asked, curious.
"Enhanced hearing, did either of you drive?" Cordelia answered.
"I did." Harmony raised her hand. "Where should we follow you to?"
"Just a minute," Xander responded. "let me check." He called Ms. Calendar and explained they'd run across some friends who were having a supernatural problem.
"Bring them here, Xander, we'll see what we can do to help them."
"Ms. Calendar knows?" Johnathan asked. "Any other teachers?"
"Not as far as we know, although Giles, the last Librarian, does." Xander gave them Ms. Calendar's address. "Meet us there, okay and we'll figure this out. You're not alone, Johnathan." He assured his friend.
"You either, Harm." Cordelia assured hers. "You've been trying to help him, but you don't have to do it by yourself."
Harmony looked relieved. "I'm glad, he can't tell his parents, they'd freak and lock him in a hospital, either the place for crazy people or the place where they experiment on people, to try to figure out what happened to him. He just knew he couldn't eat regular food anymore and he was starving, he tried telling his parents he was having trouble with food and they thought he was just bring picky, they didn't understand what he was trying to tell them. Than I kissed him and he accidentally started pulling something from me that knocked me unconscious. We were both freaked, but he refused to kiss me again, in case it happened again so I knew he didn't do it on purpose. And we started researching and trying to figure things out ourselves." Harmony poured out the anxiety of the last couple of months, of trying to help Johnathan and worrying about him and everything. She ran out of breath and inhaled deeply. "I don't think there's anyway to fix it, we just have to figure out how to live with it." She finished.