[Aficionado Arms Hotel, Jonathan's Room - NFB]

[demonbelthazor]

[Locked to Belthazor, Beka, Faith, Draco, Jonathan Crane, Lindsey McDonald]

Belthazor shimmered with Beka into the hotel room and waited for the others to arrive for the meeting. He almost unconsciously put a plate of brownies in the middle of the bed.

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[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

Draco apparated into the room with a popping noise a little after nine. He nods over at Belthazor.

"Hey." he says solemnly

[demonbelthazor]

"Just the person I wanted to see," Belthazor said. "Do you need to wait for the others to arrive, or can you start that privacy spell now?"

[pure-blooddraco.livejournal.com]

"I can do it now. It'll only affect the people outside these walls." he says.

He takes out his wand and points it at the wall. "Muffliato" he says firmly.
He repeats the spell with each side of the room, just for good measure.

[demonbelthazor]

"Excellent. Now let's get down to business."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

Faith knocks on the door shortly after nine. She's sure no one saw her walk through town, and was relatively stealthy once she entered the hotel. Beyond that, she was crossing her fingers.

[demonbelthazor]

Belthazor checked the peephole, then opened up the door to let Faith in, closing it quickly behind her. "Glad you could make it," he said.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

"Yeah, me too," Faith said, coming into the room. "We have a plan yet, or is tonight all about the brainstorming?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Working on that."

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka sat on the bed and waited for the others to arrive. She was here because Bel either wanted her here or was letting her be here. Either way, it was his show and she'd support him.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

Jonathan walks into his room and sees everyone, and Beka? already there.

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka nodded to Jonathon when she saw his questioning look, but said nothing.

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

Jonathan decides now probably isn't the time to mention that Beka isn't a JA officer, or at least wasn't the last time he'd heard. With Angelus gone, it was Bel's show after all. God he hoped some one knew something.

He doesn't even touch the brownies.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

((OMG, you don't want the brownies either? *cries* Our group is falling apart!))

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

((who can eat when Daddy's gone?))

[demonbelthazor]

"All right," Belthazor said. "Lindsey's not here, but I don't know if he will be, so we might as well start now. The privacy spell is up so no one can eavesdrop."

He paused to check the curtains, making sure they were drawn to prevent anyone from peeking in.

"First things first," Bel continued. "If it matters to you whether or not Angelus actually killed Kitty? Leave now. This isn't about whether he's innocent or not. This is about protecting our own."

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

Jonathan stays in his seat.

"Can you tell us if he's okay?" he asks, "I mean, he made it out of town or whatever right? He isn't laying around somewhere as a giant pile of dust?"

[demonbelthazor]

"He's safe," Belthazor said. "He got warning and got out of town."

[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"He can't come back!" Jonathan states emphatically, "They aren't interested in whether he's innocent or guilty. if he comes back he'd never make it to a trial, they'd stake him on sight."

[demonbelthazor]

"Any lynch mob that exists right now thinks they have the police and the school admin to back them," Belthazor said. "Take that away and most of them will back down. We need to figure out how to prove Angelus innocent, get someone else to take the fall, and/or take out any power players on the opposite team."

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka arched an eyebrow as though surprised. "That's good to know."

To Do List

[demonbelthazor]

"Okay, this is what we need to take care of:

1) Finding out what the evidence against Angelus, if it even exists, and destroy it or discredit it.
2) Find out more information to discredit Veronica Mars and the sheriff.
3) Keep everyone off Angelus' trail by laying down false clues.
4) Find someone else to take the fall.

Anyone want to jump in on these or suggest others?"

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[master-of-fear.livejournal.com]

"Also, not to jump the gun or be fatalistic in any way, but if they do catch him and don't kill him outright we're likely talking him being re-souled right?" Jonathan asks, "Should we try and look into keeping that promise we all made about getting rid of it?"

Re: To Do List

[demonbelthazor]

Belthazor nodded. "Yeah. If they're stupid enough to try to stuff a soul back in him, we'll do whatever we have to to undo it."

Re: To Do List

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

She gave Bel an 'I have many, many questions' look, but held her peace.

Re: To Do List

[demonbelthazor]

Belthazor gave Beka a small nod. Later.