fandomhigh | Hunting 101 - Class 9 (Wednesday period 7)

John was leaning against his desk as the class filed in, listening with a faintly amused expression to Blair who was going on at length about something that seemed to require a lot of gesturing and a fair amount of bouncing. The sign up sheet was in its usual place and beside it were several handouts.

The more observant of the students may notice that there was also someone who looked remarkably like Seely Booth only wearing more black lurking in the shadows at the front of the room. Those that are observant and also know him would recognise this person as Angel.

"Good afternoon," John said when everyone was settled. "I trust you all enjoyed your week off. Today we're going to be discussing the undead. The simplest definition of undead is something that is dead, but still act in some ways as if they're alive. You've been given a handout that lists a number of the more common undead entities you may happen to encounter. The biggest group, ghosts and spirits, we've already covered earlier so today we're going to focus more on things with an actual physical body still." He smiled slightly. "The walking corpses.

"The one thing in common that undead entities seem to have is that they're all missing something that living beings have. Ghosts are missing bodies, the corporeal undead tend to be missing heartbeats and breath at the least. And a great many of them are missing consciences and souls. Or whatever you want to call the essence that makes us human.

"That doesn't mean all of them are going to be amoral or evil, but it does certainly raise the odds considerably that they will be. Add in the fact that probably the majority of the undead can or do feed off of living humans and the chances are that any you run into are going to attempting to hurt you or innocents around you. And those are the ones we're discussing here today.

"With ghosts I was able to give you a list of things that are going to work, if not all the time, damn near it. That unfortunately isn't something I can do with the undead. There are so many variations and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. Even the same type of creature can vary depending on origin and home dimension -- the vampires that exist where I come from -- which are described in the other handout I gave you -- vary significantly from the vampires in, for example, Miss Summers dimension." He nodded in Dawn's directioin.

"As for zombies, I have a list as long as my arm of various methods of dealing with them, none of which is guaranteed to work on every zombie. There are some basic things though that you can try that are more likely to work than not: holy water, silver, iron, wood inserted in various interesting and specific ways, and," he smiled, eyes seeking out various students who had shown pyromanic tendencies, "always a favourite, fire. Generally one or more of those will work in some way, though there are no guarantees. You'll have to experiment and do your research to determine what will work against any specific threat you face.

"Basically, the thing you most need to remember when dealing with the undead is to not take anything for granted. An example of that would be our guest speaker today," John turned to the figure lurking in the shadows, "Angel. He's a vampire so he can give you a sort of insider's view into what being undead is like. Feel free to ask him any questions you have." John's smile may have turned just a little wolfish.

When Angel had finished his part of the class, John said, "We're going to try something a little new -- a homework assignment. I want each of you to pick something that would be categorised as undead and then find out all you can about it -- how they're created, what they're said to do, what is said is to be effective defenses against them and why. Next week is of course the practical class so you've two weeks to get it done. If you have any questions about this, you can see me after class or during my office hours."

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Seely blinked. "The slit's in the upper back you pervert."

"Puppets don't have bones, moron!"

"Some kinds do, freak."

"Why would anyone build a puppet with bones??"

"To provide support for the body structure, jeez, man, your intelligence go away with your pulse or something?"

"'scuse me all to Hell if I'm spending more time saving the world than building muppets."

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"World saving? That what they're calling it nowadays?"

"When you save the world, yeah," Angel said. "Multiple times!"

"Multiple times? Maybe I shouldn't have been so quick to leave then."

"I could save the world all night long and not break a sweat," Angel said.

"Where? Alaska in the middle of summer?" Seely asked. "Buddy, if you're not sweaty, you're not doing it right."

"Maybe I'm just that good."

"So good that in the space of a month a girl from being overjoyed because she thinks I'm you to wanting to sleep with me because I'm not?" Seely held up a fist and wiggled his pinky finger. "I think someone's got an overinflated opinion of himself."

"My world-saving had nothing to do with that!" Angel said.

"You so sure about that? Because before she figured out I had a heartbeat, first thing she wanted me to do was save her world."

"Please," Angel said, rolling his eyes. "Cal doesn't need anyone to help her with that."

"Could have fooled me there. Man, I still got memories of that storage closet." Mostly because of the whole being left beaten and naked thing, but he wasn't going to mention that.

"I don't want to know what you do with your time in closets," Angel said.

"Wish I could say the same, but I already know what you get up to."

"Not in closets!" Angel said. Then, after a pause. "Not lately!"

"Pity, because girl sure has a mouth on her, but I'm sure you already knew that," Seely drawled, fully aware of the risk to his life if the subject of the conversation were ever to find out about it.

Angel started to make a threat to Seely's life, then remembered he was supposed to look like a good guy.

He settled for glaring.

Seely smirked, and started mentally making up his will. "What's the matter? She cut you off?"

"No! It's perfectly fine! Unlike yours!"

"Defensive, ain't we? No need to get touchy. Again."

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