4th Floor Common Room, Monday Morning

[demonbelthazor]

Bel woke up before Phoebe and quietly slipped out of bed. Piper thought her spell had only affected him and her, but his conversation with Callisto had proven that wrong. And there was no way in hell he wanted to give Phoebe the opportunity to ask him any questions he'd be forced to answer completely honestly. He hated not being entirely truthful with her, but there were some things he needed to work out on his own.

He fled to the fourth floor common room, relaxing on the couch and flipping on the TV. A rerun of "Enchanted" was on -- the episode where the oldest sister was stalked in her sleep by a dream sorceror. Better than nothing, he supposed.

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn walked into the common room and sat herself in front of the television. "Morning, Bel." After being all blurtastic with Dean yesterday, she was trying to keep talking to a minimum.

[demonbelthazor]

"Morning," Bel said. "How are you?" He should've known better than to be talking, too.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Other than a huge attack of honesty, my almost-sister being in a coma, and possibly having a crush on my roommate while I'm dating his brother, I'm great," she said, then facepalmed. "How're you?" She asked, peeking out through her fingers.

[demonbelthazor]

"Stressing over admitting my deepest secrets to Piper and Callisto," Bel admitted. He sighed. "You, too, huh?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Yep," she nodded. "Sorry about the Piper and Callisto thing, though. Wow, this sucks worse than the mummies."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

Cedric's up early for some reason and he's bored of his room.

So, he makes his way into the common room and, seeing people awake, comes inside and waves.

"Good morning."

[demonbelthazor]

"Yeah," Bel grumbled. "If either of them open their mouths about it I'm so dead. Who'd you confess to?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Morning, Cedric," Dawn waved. There, that was safe.

[demonbelthazor]

"Morning," Bel said, resolving to say little more to prevent himself from spilling his guts again. Right.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I told Dean about not having been born. No one else really got anything important." Dawn groaned. "Um, yeah. I should stop talking now."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Dawn, how are you?" Cedric asks, taking a seat.

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Everyone in this school seems to be early rises," Cedric says to him. "Anything interesting happening this early?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I'm good," Dawn said, trying to stay to short sentences. "How're you?"

[demonbelthazor]

Bel blinked. "Were you hatched?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Created by monks, actually."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Despite being shoved aside by my family and former school, thinking many muggle customs are rather silly and wondering why the bloody hell everyone likes coffee so much, I'm doing well."

As soon as the words are out, he frowns.

[demonbelthazor]

"So was Buffy, too, or are you just special?" Bel asked, confused.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Join the club," Dawn said, seeing the expression, "and I don't like coffee much either unless it's got chocolate and sugar in it. What's a muggle?" She paused. "Also? Totally with you on the being shoved aside by family things. Buffy forgets about me whenever something more interesting happens."

Wow, she hadn't meant to say that.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Just me. Turns out I was some mystical energy thing used to open portals between all the dimensions at once and they made me human so Buffy could protect me and the world wouldn't end."

Which was exactly what she wanted to tell a demon who was in the evil recovery program.

[demonbelthazor]

"Just trying to avoid confessing my soul to my girlfriend," Bel said. Damn it.

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"A muggle is a non magic person," Cedric says. "Where I'm from, the magic and the non magic population is split off so as not to frighten each other. I think my family's forgotten about me, honestly. They haven't even bothered to send me anything while I've been here."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"And I'm guessing that's bad, yes?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"See, where I'm from, the non magic people generally ignore the magic people and pretend they don't exist." She patted his arm. "I'm sorry about your family, though. That's too bad."

[chasingsnitches.livejournal.com]

"Thank you," Cedric says, shrugging. "Where are you from?"

[demonbelthazor]

"That's pretty cool," Bel said. "They did a good job. You feel completely human to me. Are people still after you to end the world?"