* Krista ran outside the classroom, hopefully into the not-being-soaked-by- sprinklers hall! [Krista runs out into the hallway! She can see people start to leave their classrooms in a fairly orderly fashion. Sprinklers in the hallway? Not on.] * Krista takes a breath and, now that she's not being soaked, slows, starting to go along with the ingrained fire drill now that the 'Fire! Wet! Run!' part of her game is over. A quick recovery! [Krista goes with the crowd towards the closest exit. She discovers as she approaches it, however, that it's a bit blocked, as students... aren't exiting as fast as they should.] [Krista has no idea why!] * Krista looks at the door with slight confusion as she tries to brush off/squeeze out what bit of water she got on her. * Krista asks a nearby student, "What's holding things up...?" ["I dunno. I think someone's hurt," he says back.] [Krista notices that the lights ahead are out. Furthermore, they look *blown* out. It's not your everyday power failure.] * Krista's eyes widen and Geek Curiosity wins as she tries to edge her way through to see what's actually going on. "Excuse me..." [Krista edges through. It takes some maneuvering, but she eventually finds herself in the blackout... and two teachers looking over Jeremy, who's lying there in shock. His right hand up that arm and his shoulder are burned, and some of the clothes on his chest are also burned clear through.] * Krista's eyes widen. "Oh, God..." [The paramedics come running in and push their way through the crowd. There's two of them - they find Jeremy. One starts to prepare a stretcher and waves people away. "Get out of the building!" he yells while another speaks to Jeremy in hushed tones.] [That gets some reaction, and the teachers start directing students out through that exit again. Well, more teachers are directing, anyway.] * Krista speaks up to the paramedics, saying because they Need To Hear It, "There's another girl burnt down the hall! In room 164." [The paramedics exchange glances, and the minute the first finishes with the stretcher and they get Jeremy on, he stands. "Can you show me?" The other paramedic starts to enlist a teacher.] [Charlotte heads for the bathroom. She sees a block of students near the exit. A large block. And perception check.] [They're leaving slowly.] * Krista nods dutifully at the paramedic and turns, trying to cut her way back through the crowd. Without any short of pointies, this might be hard... [Charlotte notices that the lights up ahead are out.] [The paramedic goes with Krista, and people make way for them. And Charlotte sees them coming out, going the direction she came from.] * Charlotte blinks. She forgets the bathroom and asks one of the passing students. "What's going on?" [He shrugs, at a loss, then looks to the people fighting their way out of the crowd. "Maybe they know," he says.] * Charlotte thanks him and asks one of them, then! * Krista blinks at Charlotte and says, quickly, since she's passing, "Ivy's friend--Jeremy--got burned on the arm and all the lights are out." She then points for the paramedic. "In there." Jeremy did? ... Where are they? * Krista points back to the mass. "Ah... Jeremy's down there..." * Charlotte nods. "Thanks Krista." OMG she knows her name! She heads towards the mass. * Krista blinks. She knows her name! Yay. She doesn't follow the paramedic into the room, though. Just with the pointing him right at it... [He goes in! HE GOES.] (And runs into Veronica!) * Krista starts turning and walking back towards the crowd. She says quietly to herself, "Did--did Ivy get so spooked by what happened to Jeremy...?" [Veronica leaves the English room! She sees Krista and Charlotte both walking towards a mess of students by the exit. They're slowly leaving.] * Charlotte makes her way through the mass, trying to spot Ivy and/or Jeremy. [Veronica notices the lights that way are out.] * Veronica stares and walks fast to catch up with the other two. [She does! For the GM's sanity, she does!] (Ha.) [Charlotte isn't seeing Jeremy or Ivy. Just a lot of students leaving.] * Krista is now in the crowd mass too, apparently... [You guys see another paramedic running in, shoving his way through the crowd. Krista'd recognize him as the same one as earlier.] * Krista acks and gets out of his way! * Charlotte stops one. "Hey, have you seen Ivy Thorne or Jeremy Prescott?" * Veronica frowns and looks at the two of them. "What was that?" * Krista isn't stopped! She looks to Veronica and says, "I- I don't know." Beat, then quietly, "All the lights blown out..." [She stops and looks at Charlotte. "Yeah. He was taken out on a stretcher. There were burns all over him."] * Charlotte nods. "Thanks." She looks for an ambulance. * Veronica looks at Charlotte. "Wait... Jeremy too?" * Charlotte nods without stopping. "Sounds like." * Veronica keeps going. "This is bad. These aren't your garden-variety burns we're talking about. Those things were down to the skin." And apparently she's not the only one. * Charlotte goes to the ambulance. Which is outside! She has a sort of dazed look on her face. But nobody can see her face since she's in front, so it doesn't matter much. [You eventually push your way outside! It's BRIGHT, and students and their teachers are grouping outside. The ambulance, if you're wondering, is parked to the left and away, closer to the front entrance. With the fire truck, actually.] * Charlotte shields her eyes and stays on her path. * Veronica follows behind Charlotte quietly. [Charlotte and Veronica eventually reach the ambulance. The doors in back are open.] * Charlotte shudders a bit, then looks inside. "J- Jeremy?" * Veronica checks for someone who can tell her what happened. [She sees him! He looks... okay, actually. He's lying on a stretcher, an IV in his left arm, and he's covered by a blanket. His face looks fine, and his eyes are open. He blinks at them.] * Veronica then looks in the ambulance. "What happened? Where's Ivy?" They're two separate questions, really, but... * Charlotte gets up into the ambulance. She glances at his burns and shudders again, rubbing her own left arm. But quickly she smiles. "Hey." (She actually can't see them. They're covered, if he has them.) ["Don't know," he says, a little slowly, and then he smiles a touch at Charlotte. "Hey."] * Krista looks at the light bulbs quietly then looks away and murmurs, "God help us. More and more strangeness..." How are you feeling? ["Like shit," he says in that same, slow way. "You?"] * Veronica sighs and leans against the door. "At least you're doing better than Camila.... must hurt like hell though." She opens her eyes and looks at him. "I'm sorry." * Charlotte rubs her arms again. "Same." [He shrugs a little and winces.] "Look. Can your pride." She sighs and looks Jeremy in the eyes. "I'm actually worried about you." (Jeremy is now the pimp.) ["Lucky me."] * Krista walks her way outside, her hand at her chest again as she toys with some necklace beneath her shirt... I wish there was something I could do. I'm sorry Jeremy. * Veronica rolls her eyes. "I'm gonna go see if I can find Ivy." [There are groups of students with their teachers! Lots of students. Almost like the building's been mostly evacuated, even. To her left and away, she sees the ambulance and fire truck.] ["It's cool," Jeremy says to Charlotte. "Not your fault." And then he eyes Veronica.] * Veronica doesn't care! She just turns and goes. To see if anyone's spotted her. [Paramedics approach the ambulance from the back, which means they took the main entrance. They're carrying Camila on a stretcher. "Excuse us," one tells the girls.] * Charlotte... does not take a seat. She gets out of the ambulance. * Krista just sorta stands around, looking a little thoughtful and worried on her own. * Veronica looks at the Paramedics. That's a good start. "Have you seen a girl about yay tall? Blond hair? Pretty girl? Same grade as me?" [They climb in. After making Camila as comfortable as they can, one preps her for an IV while the other gets out. "Thanks," Jeremy says to Charlotte as she leaves.] * Charlotte sighs helplessly. But before the ambulance leaves she asks quickly, "Jeremy, do you want me to try talk to Ivy?" ["If you can find her," Jeremy says.] [The paramedic on the outside looks at Veronica. "Yeah. About two dozen." He closes the doors and goes to the front of the ambulance, climbing onto the driver's seat.] * Charlotte nods to Jeremy as the doors close. * Veronica rolls her eyes again and makes a face at the paramedic. Some help. [He must care a lot, because the next thing he does is drive away, the sirens turning on.] * Veronica rubs her head as the ambulance leaves. "Great. Another wild goose chase." * Charlotte watches the ambulance as it goes. She rubs her arm and shudders again. * Veronica then eyes Charlotte. "What the hell was that with you and those spasms too? You have epilepsy?" * Charlotte looks at Veronica for the first time. "I was imagining... what it would have been like to be Camila." That doesn't cause people to go into convulsions like that.. * Charlotte heads towards the school. * Veronica gives Charlotte a strange look. Then follows. "Hey! Wait up!" * Krista is still just standing around. There's not even a teacher to group with! * Charlotte heads towards the front of the school. * Veronica follows. Because losing both of them would suck. [The alarm shuts off, and the fifth period bell rings.] [Session End!]