Jordan was never really on time for anything, he was never really in a hurry, so it wasn't a surprise that he was only now heading to the party to catch the tail end of it. He hadn't bothered really to dress up, wearing a normal pair of faded and distressed blue jeans and a grey t-shirt. and a beanie over his dark brown messy hair. He was too busy looking down at the music he was selecting on his ipod to see the girl headed his way and practically ran right into her. With surprise he tugged an earbud out of his ear and blinked grey blue eyes at her, "Sorry about that..."

He looked back the way she'd come, apparently she'd just been leaving the party he was getting ready to head to, "You bailing already? Where are your friends?"

His voice was semi accented and the accent would be one she'd recognize easily as Russian though it was almost completely gone by now... after all, he'd been living in the states since he was ten. His mother had been a Szlesky from the Russian branch of the family but his father had been American originally, thus the last name. "I'm Jordan by the way.... Jordan North. You are?"

She was kind of pretty... okay she was very pretty but he was more interested in the fact that she looked so lonely and kinda lost. He knew what that felt like, he kinda ran in his own circle. He didn't have any steady friends just a long stream of people he talked to sometimes...

~*~

Anna stumbled as Serena caught onto her and told her to head back, she smiled... "Oh, hey Serena... where's Seb? He'd laugh cuz I'm drunk..." She blinked at Serena's sudden seriousness and looked out into the night. "Whatsa matter?"

Serena didn't even make it all the way to the Wards... Anya couldn't restrain herself enough to wait that long. She suddenly just wanted to see the girl scream... So with a frightening speed she suddenly revealed herself, stopping right in front of Serena only a foot away where the Wards separated them. She snarled, fangs flashing as she gave a sick grin. "You think you can replace me little girl... ask Anna... ask Anna if you can replace me. He'll always be MINE, they will always be MINE."

Anna felt a tidal wave of ice shoot through her, effectively sobering her enough to feel the cold shock of seeing Anya this way with crystal clarity. Her best friend's once angelic sky blue eyes were tinged with red and her once fair skin that had constantly been flushed with some kind of blush from something one of them had said was now as pale as marble and marred in a snarl that Anya would have never worn in life. "Anya... No... no.... what did they do to you?"

She stumbled forward, half between Serena and Anya and not sure who she was protecting from whom. "We looked for you for so long..."

Anya laughed softly, "They made me stronger... stronger than I ever was in life. I'm not scared anymore... not scared of anything. No one would dare to lay hands on me now... and sooner or later you will all come to me... willingly." She snarled at Serena again, "Enjoy them while it lasts, they'll be mine again soon."

With that she took off back into the woods leaving Anna stunned. "Don't... don't tell Sebastian you saw her... EVER." The vehemence in Anna's voice and the dead seriousness in her face told Serena just how serious this was. "I'll talk to Gunner, we'll figure this out... we know she's close now. Maybe... maybe we can end it before Seb ever finds out. He'd get himself killed... trying to bring her back... but coming back from that for Anya, it would leave her broken... She'd never be okay again, she'd hate us."

She took a breath, "Please, don't ever tell him."

~*~

Sebastian sighed and looked at Gunner, "You're drunk... and glowing like a super nova... What happened between you and Anna?"

He looked semi-disapproving, "Because if you wake up regretting it tomorrow...." He sighed, Gunner was way to drunk to think about what he would and wouldn't be regretting so instead he patted Gunner on the back. "She was happy tonight... a lot happier than I've seen her in a while. Remember that..."