Dorian Lost

FUCK I DID IT AGAIN.

Never mind. This once was a Dorian post that contained a brief conversation between him and Anastasia. He basically warned her against chowing down on any students, told her that all blood has to be obtained from faculty, and assigned Olivia to her as a guardian-type person.

Nina had to practically bite her lower lip so as not to make a snappy comment at any of the agents before each of them disappeared one by one. It was only after they were gone that she spoke up, anger barely concealed.

"No one tells me how to run my school," she muttered bitterly, one of her hands clenching into tight fists. She then turned her gaze towards Deia, finally allowing herself to look at the girl. It was as she did, she felt a small intrusion within in her mind, an emotional pulse that caused her whole body to freeze for a moment. But it left as soon as it had come.

Nina stared at Deia, for a moment frightened, before the fear was replaced by pity and a need to do all she could to make sure that this girl's stay at Herculean was as pleasant and comfortable as possible. Without breaking the rules set before her by the agents, of course.

"Hrmph~ What a rude suit! Treating this delicious looking little girl like a monster!" Meredith's voice brought Nina back to her senses. "So what are we gonna do with her?"

Nina turned her head slightly towards the alien teacher. "The same as we plan to do with all the other students," she said before making her way behind the wheelchair and gently taking handles on the back. "Take her in and get her settled down. Then we'll get her some supper along with the rest." She smiled at the back of Deia's head. "I imagine you're quite hungry, Deia?" she said lightly, though she didn't expect much of a response.

She then glanced at the other students. "I expect you all to treat Deia very kindly, as you would treat each other," she said, smiling gently at them. "Now come along everyone." Without another word, she started carefully pushing Deia's wheelchair towards the building they had been heading for, hoping everyone else would follow.

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Cheol listened to Kitty's feelings towards the teachers, nodding as he did. He especially smiled when Kitty whispered to him that Dr Dorian reminded her of Alexis, right before Alexis herself made her appearance.

It seemed that he was the only one particularly concerned about the school staff, and the school itself, but perhaps he was just being worrywart and nothing was wrong at all.

Yeah, right.

He glanced back towards wheelchair girl, Deia as the Vice Principle had called her, as she pushed towards the school by Nina. Given the way he had overheard the adults talking about her, he had a feeling that Deia was somehow dangerous. Well, technically, all the students here were dangerous to some degree. Take Kitty for example: her power was teleportation. Not too dangerous, unless she planned to teleport behind you and slit your throat. Of course, Kitty didn't seem like that kind of person - thank goodness - but the school didn't know that yet. They didn't know if any of the kids here would use their powers for dark purposes, or if they could even control their powers well enough to stop them accidentally hurting others or themselves. For a moment, Cheol felt lucky that his powers came from the mask, and that he could switch them off whenever they got too much for him.

“Hola, peeps,” Graham greeted them as he fell into step beside them.

"Konnichiwa," Cheol greeted, giving the other boy a little wave. He noted that Graham seemed a bit strained but didn't comment on it. "How goes it?"

Kitty Lee

"Probably not, Kitty. Hey, I hope they brought mine too! Oh, and my computer. If they didn't bring my computer, I'ma be upset! I built that thing myself."

Kitty sighed. Yeah, she hadn’t really thought so. But… Ugh. Might as well keep her hopes up, right?

They’d caught up to the rest of the students! Well, that was nice. Why’d they stop? Kitty hummed, standing on her tiptoes to try and see over everyone’s heads. It… wasn’t working. Wait, could she just teleport over?

“Hola, peeps,” said Graham, and Kitty jumped about ten feet in the air. Woah. He’d appeared out of nowhere! Did he have invisibility powers or something?

"Konnichiwa," said Cheol. Woah, was that Japanese?

"Yo, Graham,” Alexis greeted him. "Go run off after shouting like an idiot?"

Oh, yeah. Kitty remembered hearing him start shouting. He’d been talking to that, uh… Scottish guy? Or was it Irish? She had no clue, but he’d sounded foreign.

“Heya, Graham!” she said. “Where’ve you been? We’ve been waiting for you! Man, I’m hungry. I could totally go for some food right now… but I bet their cooking won’t be as great as my mom’s. Which kind of sucks, actually! If I’d known I’d be whisked off to some top-secret superhero school, I’d have eaten more at dinner last night! Wait, was it last night?”

Oooh. That was a lot of words, all at once. When were they getting fooooood? She was really, really hungry. And she wanted to text her parents. They were sure to be worrying, after all! Her dad in particular… he’d always been kind of overprotective.

Surreptitiously, she checked her phone. Still no signal? Would there ever be signal?

Well, she’d think about it later.

Olivia had a problem here, a very serious problem. A problem much like the problems Nazi Germany faced as the Red Army tanked through Eastern Europe towards them and the allies galavanted up through Western Europe. Basically, her plans were quickly falling away around her. For the record, Olivia was meant to be the only one with the cheeky British girl charm but now this... thing had to come and render that irrelevant! The tenacity!

The next problem was definitely the shaky bow. What a phony. Anyone who had even watched a sliver of anime knew that the small, adorable girls were the shy and nervous ones who guys couldn't help but be attracted to. Anastasia was the exact opposite of small and adorable - she was tall and smoking hot. Nuh uh, gurl, you ain't fooling me. Anastasia was supposed to be the hot combat-ready chick who the guys drooled over before ultimately discovering that she's a prude and only has a desire to kill due to some predisposed dark backstory.

"Hello, my name is Anastasia Tepes, pleased to meet you."

Olivia put on her brave face - this was going to be a tough opponent but she'd be damned if she didn't try. "Hi Anastasia! Are you from the UK? That's brilliant! I thought I was the only God-fearing, Queen-loving Englishwoman around!

And then, it happened. If we were to use some metaphors, it would probably be about equivalent to the prompt and utter destruction so diligently promised by Truman that was later supplied in the form of two atomic bombs. Anastasia opened her lips to smile and exposed two fangs. She's a vampire? She's a fucking vampire? Well bend me over and fu-

Merde.

MERDE.

MERDE!

MERDE MERDE MERDE!

Inside Olivia's weakened mind, chaos ran amuck as pillars of emotions and morality collapsed down around each other. The Red Army were already in Berlin, scratch what she thought earlier and Olivia was definitely a certain someone hiding out in some discrete bunker about to fill his brains with a bullet.

How was she supposed to beat a vampire? She'd seen all the movies - the female vampires were seductresses who could get any man they desired before sucking the life essence out of the poor sod. She might as well go and kill Tony right now because that was the unfortunate fate that awaited him! He'd probably think that he's gonna get down and dirty with some hot vampire chick then BAM! He got no blood. Life was pointless! Why exist anymore when all your efforts are in vain? I should just go become a lesbian.

Wait a minute. Give the toaster a minute or two... Genius! Confetti exploded in her mind as order took hold again. Her plan was so damn simple it hurt - aside from Anastasia, the next best seductress on campus was Olivia. All Olivia had to do was make Anastasia into a raging lesbian and then Olivia could return to having a wide variety of hunks to choose from. Hazaar! Not once did she even think about the difficulties of turning a girl into a lesbian, however - those thoughts were taken with the breeze.

“Olivia, you’ll have a chance to talk to Anastasia later, got it? Anastasia, come with me. You’re not in trouble, so stop making my life harder. Now, follow me. Christ. Is that honestly that hard to understand?”

Shut your pie hole, Dorian! Can't you see some of us are plotting the downfall of some innocent girl's heterosexuality! "Monsieur Lost, I didn't mean any harm, I simply didn't notice you! Apologies." She cracked a happy smile that forced her eyes closed for a second.

"It's been a pleasure meeting you, please excuse me but it seems mr. Lost has something to discuss with me."

Olivia gave her a kind nod, still wearing that deceptively happy smile. Soon, you will know to never outdo Olivia Octavia Delacroix, silly little vampire girl! How are they even that big anyways!? You're like eighteen! Her smile hid her irritated groan as Anastasia turned away from her. She was friendly - this was good, her plan had already reached its first stage. All good plans need a dramatic name though...

Operation Pantyfall

Well, it didnt seem Dorian was really comfortable being here and it took a while before Anastasia realised why. He probably didnt like her, or better said, a vampire, this close to him. Only when that thought crossed her mind she realised she was probably looking terrifying with her grin and all so she quickly tried looking away as he was talking about how she was not allowed to drink the blood of other students and bla bla bla, we provide you with blood, bla bla bla, Olivia's going to babysit you, bla bl- Wait, what? So they didnt trust her enough and now had to have someone babysit her?

Dorian walked away and merged into the group of students before she could even respond. She didnt need a babysitter! She was able to restrain herself perfectly! Anastasia had always been kept under surveilance back home and now when she finally thought that she was free to do as she liked she got stuck with someone else babysitting her! She clenched her fists, thinking if there might be a way out of this. She eventually caught up with the group and was looking around for Olivia. Atleast it wasnt all bad, sure it's frustrating to not be trusted but hey, atleast her guardian is Olivia, she seemed like a nice person.

Anastasia looked up, her mind wandering off. Maybe they would become great friends. Olivia was the first student to talk to her and she seemed very friendly. A smile formed on her face. You know what? Maybe this was a good thing. Like this she would spend alot more time with Olivia and get to know her better. Maybe they would even become real friends, the chances of that seemed much higher now. Yes this wasnt a bad thing, it was gre-

As she was lost in her thoughts she didnt look where she was walking and she accidently bumped into someone, almost making him fall down. Ooh sorry, I didnt mean to hur- As she looked at the poor guy she recognized him. It was the guy who shouted earlier. He had just been talking to two other girls and a guy who seemed to be Asian looking. Ooh please dont let him be mad.

Anastasia cast her head down. I'm sorry, I wasnt looking where I was going. I didnt mean to bump into you. Please forgive me. Although she was sincere about her appology and one look at her face could clearly tell you that she was embarased, her accent made it sound like she was being sarcastic. She twiddled her thumbs as she was avoiding any eye contact with the others. What should she do now? She just nearly made the guy fall flat on his face, what could she do?

All she could think of was to either run away or introduce herself and since the former would be considered very rude she chose the latter. My name is Anastasia, Anastasia Tepes. She lifted her head slightly to smile at the boy, not a cruel one like she gave Dorian but an honest smile.

Well, atleast it couldnt get any worse now... Right?

Kitty Lee

So Graham was hungry too. Kitty was just about to hopefully suggest that maybe they had some kind of secret underground McDonald's burger chain, when--

BAM! Skyscraper ahoy! This girl was about as tall as the Empire State Building, and about ten times prettier. Kitty sighed, a little enviously. It must be nice, to be so tall... and gorgeous to boot!

Anyway, Graham had tripped but was miraculously still standing, there was a super duper mega tall older girl introducing herself to them –-in fact, why had she even deigned to grace mortals like them with her presence? Weren’t older people supposed to hate freshmen, or something? People in this school really were nice--, and...

Kitty's phone buzzed in her pocket. What? Could it be? Was there... the most magnificent and glorious of things on this planet…

Signal?

But she couldn’t check now, could she? Not with this new girl –Anastasia Tepes—introducing herself to them.

“Nice to meet you!” Kitty sang, sticking her hand out for Anastasia to shake. The whole gesture was rather awkward, really, considering that Anastasia’s body went on for [i]miles[i], and Kitty was more than a foot shorter than her. So she kind of had to reach upwards, which was a bit weird, but… whatever! Anything in the name of friendship!

“I’m Kitty Lee,” she continued. “Let’s be friends!”

Deia, despite being expressionless outwardly, was brimming with confusion on the inside. An unknown amount of time had passed since she was taken from her 'home' (cage) and brought here. The sudden change had actually rendered her unable to respond the way she wanted to for certain things. There were just so many sudden changes. Her old owners had disappeared, and she had been taken in by new owners, who were much nicer than her old ones - the electric shocks aside, they didn't punish her nearly as much as she had experienced before. Deia was just getting used to them when suddenly she was brought here, rendering her more confused than ever. She had no idea what was going on.

Another thing that made her uncomfortable though were her new clothes - they were tight and heavy and hard and it didn't let her walk at all. She hadn't been able to walk for months now, and she really missed it. Back with her old owners, at least the clothes she was wearing were comfortable. Another thing her new clothes were doing was stopping her from touching the shiny things in the air with her mind. Since wearing them, she could barely see the shiny things, although they did return from time-to-time, until she was electrocuted, then they were gone again. She also really missed touching the shiny things.

Still staring at Nina, Deia felt her emotions flare through the air, and frowned. Deia, while able to talk, was conditioned to avoid doing so by her old owners, so she developed a means of communicating with people. Deia could feel the emotions of a person through the pulses they emitted into the air. Right now, the person she assumed was her new owner was angry. Angry usually meant punishment. Was she going to get punished? She didn't like punishment.

Suddenly, the feeling of anger changed and became something different. It was an emotion she was not familiar with, even if she had encountered it before, when the people who brought her to her old new owners saw her and talked with her. It was a . . . weird feeling. It was soft but also felt so easy to break. Deia had no idea how to describe how it felt to her.

Of course, Deia had no idea she was feeling Nina's pity.

"Hrmph~ What a rude suit! Treating this delicious looking little girl like a monster!" Meredith's voice cut through Deia's thoughts, and the little girl didn't so much as react. Still, Deia could feel that, for whatever reason, this woman was threat. Had she been at full power, she could have easily figured out why Meredith felt so dangerous, and probably even discover her true nature. As it was though, she could only tell that she was definitely a threat to her.

Right now Deia really wanted to take off her clothes. The shiny things would be so useful right now. Back then, when ever dangerous things appeared, she'd use the shiny things to make them stop being dangerous. She couldn't do the same now, of course, and that made her worried; what if her new-new owner punished her?

At least the dangerous thing went away quickly, and her new-new owner didn't punish her, so maybe it was okay. Suddenly she was being pushed forward, and she again went to wondering what was going on. She turned her head and found her new owner smiling at her, which was again strange, since she couldn't think of anything she had done that would make her smile.

Deia stared at the Vice-Principal with wide, unblinking curious eyes.

Scorpio felt a little bit disconcerted as people stopped talking to him, his tail swishing back and forth, wondering if that was their subtle way of telling him to go away. Then he noticed the new girl. he went over to Deia and rubbed his great big head against her leg gently. he looked up at her, hoping he wasn't scaring her. besides other creatures like snakes, this was the only form he could shift into that was so big. he often switched between lion and snake most of the time, sometimes going after that deadly scorpion look that seemed so popular sometimes.

"Hello, lass." He purred. "i'm Scorpio, whats yer name?" He sniffed her, taking in her scent.

Ooh look, they werent mad at all. That's great! And they all seem so friendly. These are the same people she tried to get in contact with earlier before Dorian wanted to have a talk with her. Now she had their attention, great! Now what?

Euhm... In all honesty Anastasia hadnt thought this far ahead. She twiddled with her thumbs to think of something to say when one of them stuck her hand out. “I’m Kitty Lee, let’s be friends!” Anastasia was quite shocked at the suddenness of it all. This girl only knew her name and already wanted to be friends? Anastasia carefully shook Kitty's hand and smiled at her. "Nice to meet you Kitty, I'm honoured to meet you." She blushed for an instant. "And I'd love to be your friend!"

Anastasia bowed her head at Kitty before she looked over to a girl who had at been stuttering. At first it seemed like this person was going to scold Anastasia and she had already prepared to take the insults. But apparently the girl had changed her thoughts, or she was trying to but had a speech disorder. The girl was saying that she was an idiot and that she wanted Anastasia to ignore her. Anastasia wanted to go to this girl and ask if there was anyway for her to comfort this girl. But that would be rude to the guy infront of her who had just started to speak.

“Ahh, it’s no big deal. I thrive off being a doormat. I’ll live. Just, uh, keep an eye out for the vertically challenged from here on, yeah? Do that and we’re square.” The way this person was talking about himself made Anastasia smile and she nodded at him, confirming that she'd watch where she would be walking in the future. The boy was grinning for some reason, Anastasia didnt know why. Was he playing a trick on her or something? Then he continued with talking.

“Graham’s the name. I’m the uh, yeller from earlier. Sorry about that. As you can see,” he pointed to his reddening cheek before continuing, “I’ve been thoroughly disciplined. I shall not scream at ladies. You can thank the stutterer over there. Call her Alexis, she usually responds to that.” Anastasia nodded at Graham. So he did yell at her earlier. Well, atleast it seemed like he was sorry about that, no need to get angry over it. After all, she did just bump into him. If anyone has a right to be mad it's him.

She smilled at Graham. "Well it's a pleasure to meet you Graham," She turned to Alexis who had now put her headphones over her ears but Anastasia didnt notice. "It's also a pleasure meeting you Alexis." She saw that the girl was kind of uncomfortable. "You dont have to worry. It's not like I'd bite you or something." The irony completly went over her own head as she smilled at the group. "I'm honoured to meet all of you."

Aspen Archer

Aspen's eyes were still on Nina but when the government agents appeared she looked at them with fear in her eyes. With them was a girl whose current appearance and situation terrified Aspen yet she could not look away. The wheelchair and straight jacket was an all too familiar sight, it was not something she had to experience but something she had to witness for many years.

"I expect you all to treat Deia very kindly, as you would treat each other. Now come along everyone."

Aspen decided at that moment she would not treat the girl...Deia with kindess nor with hate but with indifference, she would ignore and avoid her at all costs, for three years she was free...mostly but seeing the girl took her back to a bad place.

When Nina pushed Deia towards the building, Aspen finally looked away. It was like she had snapped out of a daze, she hand't even realised all the commomotion that had been happeneing with her new friends and the...very...tall...girl...

"You dont have to worry. It's not like I'd bite you or something. I'm honoured to meet all of you." Aspen heard joining the conversation at the very end.

Dr. Isaac Archer

“Absolutely. Why, nothing would grant me more pleasure than looking out at a sea of bright faces, each one more likely to snooze during one of my lectures than the last. Of course, my friend. Let us be off.” Reginald said and Isaac walked out of his office.

Isaac followed Reginald out of the building but stopped when a sudden voice appeared in his head which he quickly recognised as his son's. Isaac's son had not inherited his powers, that he got from his mother but he had gained some of Isaac's telepathy, the ability to force his voice into his father's head. Usually Isaac would have to choose a person and focus on them to read their minds but with his son it was different, and when he was a child it was a pain.

She's fine, son. I'm just going out to meet her now, they should be coming in soon...oh Reginald's gone ahead. We'll speak later Isaac transferred his thoughts into his son's mind. His son didn't reply so he ran after Reginald. When he reached outside he was Reginald up close and personal with Meredith

I'll leave you two lovebirds alone Isaac transferred his thoughts into Reginald's mind with a chuckle. Turning his attention back to the students he scanned the new faces for a familiar one.

WHOOPS I TOTALLY JUST ACCIDENTALLY DELETED MY POST.

What happened here before I deleted it was:
- Dorian went over to the other teachers, asked Reginald (in a whisper) about the girl in the wheelchair, made an announcement about the dorms, and then gave the floor over to Nina.
- Kitty introduced herself to Anastasia, received some concerned texts from her dad, and hid behind Graham in an attempt to not look at the giant snake. Yeah.

Kitty Lee

“I got somethin’ I gotta tellya. Later. Alone. You ain’t gonna believe this,” Graham whispered to her, all sneaky-like.

He did? Wait, what? Kitty blinked. What exactly could Graham possibly want to tell her that he couldn’t say in front of Alexis and Anastasia and Cheol and Aspen and pretty much the entire student body? Something private—

Wait. She knew this situation. The only time someone ever had to tell someone else something “in private” was… when they wanted to confess their love for the other person!

She froze. Could Graham want to confess his love to her? But— they’d only met each other that day! And yeah, she was pretty good with Pokemon puns, but… wasn’t that too soon?!

Or… could he be calling her out in order to betray her? She’d seen that before, too, in dramas! The traitorous villain met the hero, alone, behind the abandoned school building after class… and murdered him!

Did Graham want to murder her? Somehow, that seemed even worse than him trying to confess his love to her!

But surely he wouldn’t want to do that. After all… they were Pokepals! Fellow losers! Fire-forged (or rather, hell train-forged) friends!

“O-Okay,” she said uncertainly. If worst came to worst, she could run for the hills!

But, wait— where was he going? He’d pulled back and nodded at her, and now he was weaving his way through the crowd? Wait, wait, what? Why did he keep running off like that?

“Hey, wait!” Kitty said, and then remembered her manners. “I’m going to go after Graham,” she said to everyone else, and then promptly turned to try to follow the boy into the crowd.

Unfortunately… Kitty was not as talented in the art of crowd-weaving, and soon found herself unable to move forwards. Also, someone elbowed her in the face. Ouch. That would leave a nasty bruise. She could still see Graham, but—

Oh. She was an idiot. Why hadn’t she just teleported?

On that note, she promptly teleported right next to Graham, landing nearly on top of him.

Ooooh, she really did need to work on her accuracy. That had been a little to close for comfort.

“Whoops!” she said, teetering a little. “Sorry about that. Why’d you keep running off like that, anyway?”

Nina listened patiently as Dorian spoke to the rest of the students. They were now standing in the students' living quarters, Nina still gently clutching Deia's wheelchair as she pondered to herself. She had already vaguely formulated a list in her mind about who would be rooming with who based on what she knew about each student, though she had prepared to change it based on what would happen when she met the students in person. For one, after seeing how friendly Miss Sinclair and Miss Lee were with one another, she felt that it would be a good idea to room those two together. However, she got a strong feeling that the Principle himself would be hesitant, considering that Miss Sinclair and Miss Lee were, well, in the same boat as it were.

Nina especially knew that the Principle had been very hesitant to let Alexis into the school. Under normal circumstances, as Alexis had been one of the subjects of the Esper Program, they would have accepted her without question and done their best to make Alexis comfortable. Even despite the fact that her mother was... well, Herculean made a point of accepting every super-powered child, no matter what their powers were, who they were, or even who their parents were. Unfortunately, the Principle had reservations, based solely on one small fact.

Alexis' mother had wanted Alexis to come to Herculean. And that single fact had been the one reason the Principle had almost refused Alexis from coming to the school.

"I don't know what you're so worried about," Nina had said when the Principle had voiced his thoughts on the matter. "If you are afraid that this is some kind of trick, some kind of attempt to infiltrate this school, you must remember we've had spies before and dealt with them thoroughly."

She had been sitting in her office at the time, dressed in clothes more suited of a teacher rather than her normal superhero gear, which was probably why she had felt so uncomfortable, so vulnerable. If you looked at Nina's Mystic Magus costume, you would have thought, what with the armour, the cape and the tight-fitting clothes, it would have been uncomfortable, but to Nina it was like a second skin. It felt safe, and it wasn't just the fact that it covered her well from any physical attack. It made her feel like someone much stronger, must greater than herself, someone who achieve anything, get any job done.

When she wore her costume, she felt powerful.

She got the feeling that the Principle knew this, because he always asked that whenever she contact him veer the transmitter screen situated on the far wall of the office, that she always wear her office clothes. She'd never questioned why this was, but she got the feeling that it was so the Principle would identify as a teacher, a teacher at his school, someone who he paid, who he controlled, instead of a hero who had enough power to be in control of themselves.

As for the Principle himself, Nina wasn't entirely sure what he looked like. While the screen did transmit an image, the room he always spoke to her from was dark, so his face was veiled in shadows and very difficult to distinguish. The only thing Nina could make out for sure was that the Principle was bald, though she often got the impression when she saw the impression of his form, that his body was very frail. This was only further influenced that his voice was quiet, barely loud than a whisper, and was brittle. She'd often hear his voice crack slightly while he was talking, almost as if he were on the verge of tears, though as the screen could sometimes become alive with static, she was never entirely sure whether this was his actual voice or merely due to some interference in the transmitter's connection.

After Nina had spoken her opinion, there was a long pause, which was not unusual for their conversations. The Principle was a man of few words, only speaking when he felt had something worth saying. He'd told Nina so very little about himself. He told her his name once, but Nina knew it wasn't his real one. She didn't even know what his superhero alias was, or if he even was a superhero. He could have no powers at all, for all Nina knew. Yet despite the fact she had no proof, she felt deep down that he did have some kind of power, though what it was she didn't quite know. She'd often imagined, since he spoke so little yet seemed to think so much, that he was a telepathic, and that, every moment he was quiet during their talks, he was secretly conversing with someone else using his powers. Other times, she thought he had shadow-based powers, and that's why his room was always so dark.

Getting a little tired with his silence, Nina spoke again. "Besides," she said. "You're forgetting that Mrs Sinclair is no longer in the villain business. She's retired."

The Principle had then looked straight at the monitor, gazing right at Nina with such intensity that, for the first time, she could almost see his eyes. "Retired," he said. "But not reformed."

"There's still time for that to change," Nina had said, trying to her best to match his stare.

"For her?" the Principle spoke again, turning his head away slightly from the screen. "Not nearly enough."

It had been only after another half an hour of speaking that Nina had finally been able to convince the Principle to let Alexis been enrolled, though only under the condition that Nina keep a close eye on her at all times. Putting her in the same room as Kitty, who the Principle was also wary of though not to the same degree, as likely to bother him. So now, as Dorian allowed Nina to take the floor and the red-head stepped from behind Deia's chair to address the students, Nina turned her gaze towards Alexis for a moment before speaking.

"Thank you Dorian," Nina said, nodding towards the nurse. "Now." She smiled. "It's time to get down to business." Under normal circumstances, she would have used her powers again for dramatic flare, but considering she didn't want to startle or upset Deia - she had no idea how that girl would react to being temporarily blinded - she decided against it. "I will be picking your roommates for this school year. Some of you will be rooming with one other person, while others will be rooming in threes. Now, first the girls. So..." She turned her gaze over to Alexis. "Alexis Sinclair, you will be rooming with Kitty Lee, as I see you two have been getting on pretty well, as well as Aspen Archer."

Nina hoped Isaac wouldn't mind this and made a mental note to discuss anything he felt Aspen would need or require for her stay later on.

"Anastasia Tepes," Nina continued, looking over at the vampire girl. "You will be rooming with Olivia Delacroix. She's a second year so she will do her best to make you feel comfortable." Nina then continued to list off the other girls, until only Deia was left. She had to admit, Deia had thrown a bit of wrench to her plans as she knew she couldn't possibly room with any of the other girls. However, she believed she had a way to remedy to this, though so as not to embarrass Deia, she decided not to voice her plan to the rest of the school and simply said, "Deia, due to your situation, you'll have to be stationed in a different area. We'll discuss this later, okay?" She smiled at the girl in the wheelchair before turning back to the group.

"Now the boys," Nina said.

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Cheol had been quietly listening to chattering of his new peers. He was quiet when Anastic introduced herself to him, simply nodding and muttering his name to her as he suddenly became aware of how many people were gathering up around him, making him slightly nervous. He wasn't used to being in such large groups, and he was starting to feel a little overwhelmed.

It was then Nina spoke up, announcing who would be room with who. He particularly noted that his name was first.

"Cheol Akiyama," Nina spoke, turning her gaze towards him. "You'll be rooming with Paolo Ray." Cheol followed the Vice Principle's gaze to a nearby boy, one who had noted among their group but once Cheol had as of yet to introduce himself to. Cheol was wondering how he could politely excused himself from his group to go talk to Paolo, try and get on good terms with him, when Nina spoke again.

"Graham Turner will be rooming with Scorpios McRae," Nina announced. She continued. "Sam Damon will be rooming with..."

Cheol followed Nina's gaze to the kid who had been complaining about being hungry all the time. Wait... wasn't he the kid who had turned into a monster earlier? Cheol suddenly felt very sorry for whoever would be rooming with him. Having to room with someone who transformed into a giant, angry creature must be-

'Hey kid,' a familiar, somewhat raspy voice in his head spoke. 'Ever heard that one about about the pot and the kettle?'

Cheol suddenly felt a stinging sensation in his head and pressed his fingers to his temple. He shot a glare at his shoulder bag, the one which contained his mask.

"Quiet, you!" Cheol hissed under his breath at it. He felt faint and looked for a moment like he was going to topple over, so much so he almost missed Nina announcing that Sam would be rooming with a boy called 'Jack Kyle'.

"Now, as for who will be sleeping in what rooms," Nina continued, not seeming to notice that Cheol was now doubling over. "Now, since I trust you all, I'm going to let you choose your own rooms. I expect you all to act as adults and not fight over this." She narrowed her eyes. "I'm serious about this," she said. "If I hear that any of you have bee fighting like those back on the train, I will not be happy. However, as I-" But before she could finished, Cheol suddenly fell collapsed, falling face first onto the floor, causing Nina to abruptly become silent before turning her head back in the direction of Dorian. "Dorian!" she shouted for him, signalling for him to tend to Cheol.

Dorian Lost

Room pairings. Dorian hummed dispassionately as he listened to Nina sticking the kids in their rooms.

Did he really care about who roomed with whom? Certainly not. The Vice President wouldn’t stick people who were likely to kill each other together… right? She wasn’t Meredith, after all.

Girls first. Kitty Lee, Alexis Sinclair and Aspen Archer. The two injured ones had been put together, apparently, along with that one girl with the ex-supervillain mom. Well, he didn’t really know what had happened on the train, but maybe they’d all gotten along… or something? They’d certainly all been talking on their way to the dorms.

He supposed Nina knew best.

Then it was the vampire girl and Olivia. At that, Dorian couldn’t help but feel a little relieved. So the Vice President thought that Olivia would be a good guardian for Tepes, too! He’d been a little worried, but it looked like she approved.

Then the boys. Cheol Akiyama and Paulo Ray. Graham Turner and Scorpios McRae. Sam Damon and Jack Kyle.

Dorian knew Paulo: he’d probably look after the twitchy little Japanese boy who’d just become his roommate, right? Graham and Scorpios… well, they were both new. He didn’t know much about them. Still, they’d probably be fine.

As for Sam Damon and Jack Kyle… Sam was the one who turned into a monster as strange and disgusting as Meredith, wasn’t he? Maybe Jack would be able to keep him in line. Or maybe, the whole thing would end in disaster and the dorm would burn down.

Yeah, he could see that happening, actually. Goddamn.

And—

Wait, they were letting people choose their own rooms? What?!

But Dorian didn’t have time to contemplate the absolute stupidity of that notion, because just then, little Cheol Akiyama collapsed to the ground.

“Dorian!” Nina shouted.

“Already on it,” he grumbled, moving forwards to pick the boy up. “No need to yell, vice prez.”

So he’d have to take the kid to the infirmary, then. Well, good. At least this way, he wouldn’t get caught in the crossfire if a fight broke out.

“I’ll in the infirmary if you need me,” he called over his shoulder, and headed off in the direction of the infirmary.

Dorian looked down at the boy he was carrying, bridal-style (and if Cheol didn’t like that, then whatever, he’d just have to suck it up), and sighed. What was with this kid? He’d just randomly fainted…

Well, maybe he’d been so terrified of the concept of a free-for-all for rooms that he hadn’t been able to take it. Dorian didn’t blame him, to be honest.

The infirmary wasn’t too far away from the dorms, and Dorian laid Cheol out on one of the beds with a sigh. He felt kind of sorry for the boy. As an afterthought, he tucked the kid in. How long would it be until he woke up?

Not too long, probably. He wondered if he had time to make some hot chocolate before the kid woke up and had to be looked after. He’d always had a soft spot for hot chocolate, after all.

He ambled off to the kitchen to make himself his drink of choice… and a little extra. Not on purpose, obviously. It wasn’t like he wanted to give some to the kid, but if he had extra, then he had extra.

Certainly not.