This choice: "I want them to know what it's like. I want revenge" • Go Back...Chapter #28A conspiracy is hatched by: imaj   “I want them to know what it’s like,” grimaces Keith.
“You want revenge,” you ask carefully, your eyes narrowing.
“I want justice,” replies Keith. “I’ll settle for revenge.”
“I think we can manage both,” you smile tightly.
“We can?”
“Look at what I did with one book,” you say, gesturing to the room around you. “Now I’ve got a whole library.”
“But how,” asks Keith
“I have a few ideas,” you reply, and with Kim’s ferocious intelligence you already have the beginnings of a plan. “Can you come back in an hour or two?”
“Um, if you’re sure,” says Keith, sounding unconvinced.
*****
“Ta-dah,” you say brandishing the results of the latest spell with a flourish.
“It’s a bit of metal,” says Keith flatly. “That’s your big idea, huh?”
“It’s an anima band,” you begin.
“Like the cartoons,” asks Keith impishly.
“No, not like the cartoons,” you reply irritably. “And they’re not really cartoons either. Now do you want my help or not?”
Keith nods guiltily.
“Thought so. It’s an anima band, as in ‘soul’. It copies a little bit of your anima…”
“Or soul,” interrupts Keith again.
“Or soul,” you continue through gritted teeth. “Then when he put the band on someone else, it’s the little bit of soul in the band that gets to run the show.”
“So we could put one of these on Chelsea and Gordon and all of their flunkies, then they’d be all sympathetic for a change?”
“We could, but that would hardly be justice. And besides, I doubt your soul would stretch that far anyway,” you snark. “No, we can use this to lure someone out here so we can make a mask for you. Once we’ve made a switch you can start bringing down Chelsea’s clique from the inside.”
“I get to be Chelsea then,” asks Keith hopefully.
“We want Chelsea to suffer too Keith, so no. The same applies to her inner circle. Gloria, Kendra and Maria are out too. For what I have in mind, it has to be someone else on the cheerleading team, but I’ll let you decide who.”
You turn the anima strip over in your hands and smile brightly.
“First we have to copy your anima. This won’t hurt a bit. At least I think it won’t hurt. Much anyway…”
*****
It’s a simple plan really. So simple even Keith couldn’t mess it up. Not unless he tried really hard to screw up. You gave him the filled anima band last night with instructions to slip it onto his cheerleader of choice. It could be done in a second, just by stumbling into one of them at the right moment.
None of this makes you fell any less nervous about the whole thing.
You’re taking a study period in the school’s small library, working on Kim’s history homework. Not a subject you were ever good at as Will, but it’s much easier with access to Kim’s memories. Engrossed in your work, you are dimly aware of someone sitting opposite you in the otherwise empty library.
“I don’t know how you get through the day without playing with these puppies,” they whisper at you, rather loudly. “I guess whoever called them fun bags had it right on the money.”
“That’s hardly a normal conversation opener,” you sigh without looking up. “I’d expect that kind of thing from a pervert like Keith Tilley…”
“What can I say,” says your companion breezily. “A little Keith goes a long way. Just letting you know everything went off without a hitch.”
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