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Staff Meeting, Friday Afternoon (after classes)

The lounge was set up for another faculty meeting, with snacks and pastries and cold drinks and hot drinks and everything ~~moddable~~ between. It was important to cover all the culinary basics when you were dealing with so many different kinds of people.

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Drake...probably would have agreed. Both about the jackasses and the dubious fashion of the breathing suit, but he would've given a thumbs up to the creepy and ominous factor.

"No cloning, just magic," Drake said. "The Source, party pooper that he is, is an eternal mantle of power that hops from body to body if he gets his ass vanquished. There needs to be a magical or blood connection, so I think right now he's floating around and sulking, which is good at least."

"The Emperor back home tried that for a while," Anakin said, "but he used clones of himself." He smiled. "At least until I got rid of all of them. Shame. Really."

"Good on you!" Drake said. "I did a little damage here and there to Sinister and Evil Plans during my dubious demonic career, but for the most part I had to settle for pranks. The Source wanted my head on a platter a couple times -- okay, more like dozens -- but my buddy Cole saved my hide."

Blink.

Blink blink blink.

"He wouldn't also happen to go by Belthazor, would he?"

"He used to," Drake said, "back when he was all woe is me, I am an evil demon cursed with a soul, won't someone pull this icky thing out of me so I can go be evil like the other kids? If I had a nickle for every time I threw something at his head when he acted like that, I'd be a very rich demon." He eyed Anakin. "Why, you know him?"

Anakin snickered. "I went to high school with him. Well, some version of him, anyway."

"More than one Cole...I'm not sure if that's cause to fear, have really dirty thoughts, or to laugh my ass off," Drake mused. "Couldn't have been my Cole, I'm pretty sure he never went to high school. My Cole's also kind of dead. Kind of. Not quite. He gets around for a dead guy. He's the one who helped hook me up with the deal to become human."

Anakin shook his head, laughing. "Of course he is," he said. "He has a bit of a habit of that, I guess. He was kind of dead here for a while, or so I heard. I wasn't here then."

"My Cole got himself possessed by the Source, like I said," Drake said. "He got vanquished, came back just sliiiiiightly insane, which is wife didn't take well, messy divorce, got his ass vanquished again, and now he's chilling in limbo and trying to help the ex-wife and her sisters. He's turned into quite the forgiving type, big change from his 'look at me, I'm a big tough demon' days. I never bought that act anyway; he was always a pussycat."

Anakin's lips quirked up. Imagining Bel as a pussycat would definitely happen the next time he saw him.

"Ex-wife, huh?" he said. "Last I heard, he was doing a threesome thing while living in a hotel run by a vampire with a soul."

"Vampire, not a surprise," Drake said. "But threesome? Far as I know, the Colethazor doesn't like to share. Awww, maybe high school made him a better demon."

"We should add that to the brochure," Anakin said dryly.

Drake grinned. "Am I detecting a wee note of hostility? Somehow, I'm not surprised."

"We weren't wildly fond of each other, no," Anakin replied. Shocking, huh?

Drake clutched at his heart. "Color me shocked," he snickered. "Even in the Underworld he Did Not Play Well With Others. If you were weaker, he wouldn't notice you unless he had a use for you. If you were as strong or stronger, he'd either want your approval or hate you. I'll take a wild stab in the dark and say door number three?"

Anakin inclined his head. "He devoted most of my senior year to flinging himself at the vampire."

"He always had a bit of a fang fetish," Drake mused. "Vampires are exiled from the Underworld where we're from. Big mess with not recognizing the Source's authority. Cole'd work with them anyway as his own little rebellion."

"As payback for being the Source's puppet, or just to be annoying?" Anakin asked.

"Depended on what channel he was on that day," Drake said. "There's grr argh, I'm an evil demon and I'll do whatever it takes to get the job done; or I hate everyone so I'll break the rules; or even I'm tormented by my sooooooul so I don't know what I'm doing." Drake put his hands on his hips and rolled his eyes. "Honestly, it was impossible living with him sometimes."

"Only sometimes?" Anakin replied.

"Most of the time," Drake said. "I had to smack him all the time. Always bitching about having a soul and not wanting it, when there I was, oh so very envious of him."

"I only tried to smack a few times," Anakin said, sounding regretful. "So he got you the gig here, then?"

"Nah, he just hooked me up with the Sorcerer to get myself turned human," Drake said. "He was pretty surprised I wanted to spend my last year teaching kids, but what better way to leave my mark on the world than enriching young minds about books and the power of love? I need to help him out before my time's up next year, but until then my time is my own."

"The power of love?" Anakin repeated. "Really? Do they need that encouragement?"

Drake gave Anakin a Look. "You think these youngsters know about love? Real love? Hormones, sex, yeah. But real love? Epic love?"

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