It's been really mental around here, so I'd better catch you up where we last left off…let's see, well, Ella went completely mental and was 'sentenced' to 28 days in the nutty bin which she blames me for. It's not true of course, well sort of not true, but there are more important things now. As I write this, Azazeal and his band of fallen angels are getting stronger. A new nurse was assigned to Ella called Nurse Perie; she really gave me the creeps, and that's saying something since some might consider me creepy in my current state. She's been giving Ella daily injections of St. John's Wort which is deadly for someone like Ella - namely a 500 year old anointed one.

Back at school Jez was doing a great job of acting concerned about Ella's well-being; he just wanted to 'help' her. RIGHT! David was very suspicious and wasn't buying his Good Samaritan routine. Sir Ralph from the board came by to see David, who expressed his frustration about Ella being sent away, and by the end of their meeting, David resigned! Before he left, he told Leon that now more than ever, Ella needed a friend, and hoped he'd consider visiting her. I'm glad someone finally noticed – but it may be too late.

That cow Roxanne has really swallowed what Jez was dishing out... the gossip about Ella I mean. She talked loads of rubbish about her to everyone, saying how much trouble she caused at school and forbade anyone to visit her. Oh please! Poor little cow. Bit of good news is that after all my nocturnal dream visitations to Leon begging him to help Ella; he finally stood up to Roxanne and told her to basically sod off. He's not as useless as I thought he was. Let's face it, no matter what role she's playing deep down she's just a nasty priest-shagging slapper; a so–called priest who was recently appointed the school's new headmaster. That's got to get her a first row seat in Hell, doesn't it?

Through my little dream visits, Leon and I came up with a plan to get Ella out of the crazy hospital, which involved him going in drag as a nurse to break her out. He looked quite cute and if I didn't know what glands were hidden underneath that cozzie, I'd have given him a go myself! But seriously, he was her only hope. He talked his friend Max, former Medenham boy, and current drug dealer, into allowing both of them to stay till she got better. But will she get better? That's some serious shit they were giving her. Guess Max was a good choice; he's definitely seen his share of drug-sick people.

 

 

Ella has been rescued but she's getting worse, she was a sweaty puking mess.  Leon wants to go for help but Ella is too frightened that she’ll be found out by the beasts.  They've succeeded in taking away all of her powers.  Ella insisted she doesn't want Leon to know about her but come on, does she think that she could never tell him that she's really a 500 year old woman here to kill the anti-Christ?  That small detail escaped me, Leon, oops sorry!  Ella got really bitchy with me and said that the only reason I've been hanging about is that I'm lonely.  Believe me, if I had to pick one human to commune with it wouldn't be him, but he's the only one who can help her to stop this, and he's jeopardized everything for her.  

 

Back at school I found the files where they were keeping Ella's things and found that potion of hers.  We have to get Leon to drink it so that he can actually see me.   I'm working at a bit of a disadvantage now, and I have to tell him what's really going on here.  With all that he's done, he's currently skint and has been trying to borrow from friends.   He called Tom, and wouldn't you know it, Roxanne found out and manipulated him into telling her where they were hiding.  Guess who else found out?  Yeah, Jez paid Ella a visit while Tom and Leon were doing the money exchange at the pub.  She hasn't got much strength left, yet somehow she managed to get that bloody animal off of her for the time being by plunging a scissor into his neck…and taking off while he regained his bearings.  When Leon got back and she wasn't home he went looking for her, and thankfully found her crashed out in a pile of garbage in some horrible alleyway.  He took her to a seedy hotel, and while he was checking in she told me that she was dying from the inside out, after all – how many 500 year old mortals do you know?  Leon has got to drink that potion so I can explain what's happening.   She was able to convince him to make tea, drink it and yes, hallelujah, he was finally able to see me.  Naturally he freaked at first, which is understandable.  He locked himself in the bathroom and cried, the poor thing, but I had no other choice really.  He wouldn't come out of the loo, but little did he realize, I had all of eternity to wait him out, so I just starting talking and wasn't going to stop till that door opened. 

 

I explained it all from the beginning, all about Cassie, how I was killed and why, everything.  He had to know.  Then he opened the door - he was ready to hear me.  If we lose Ella, who would hold back the forces of chaos?  We heard groaning and had no idea how to process what we were about to see.  Ella was aging before our very eyes! The only way to 'fix' it was to kill her and through that she could be reborn.  Poor Leon, this was a lot to take in, even for me!   Max was not at all happy about the state of his flat.  He got really upset with Leon and after a lot yelling, he agreed to help us yet again.  He's not a bad bloke.  We needed medical equipment and as with all good dealers, he's got friends in druggy places – namely the local hospital.  We got Ella to an abandoned unit there, and tried to replicate a lightening bolt that would kill her and make her reborn.  Sadly, Azazeal and company captured Max and he suffered a far worse fate for being a friend to us.  We tried to electrocute Ella with a defribillator, but Nurse Perie had sabotaged it and by the time we made it work, it looked like it might be too late.  Nurse Perie showed up to gloat about Ella being dead.  But we started to hear the beeping of the monitor, and Ella was back, young and strong as ever and she reduced Nurse Perie to an explosion of snowy fairie dust.