Marley

## Marley Johnson

“It’s surprisingly easy to hurt the people you love. Obviously you don’t sacrifice them, though.”

### Powers

The common powers of the Slayer, further enhanced through training and experience.

## Biography

Marley lives in South Howell in a small apartment with her Uncle Craig. Craig is an ex-cop, alcoholic with a pot-belly. He doesn't pay much attention to Marley and was unable to give her a ride when asked in Ep 11 "*Uncanny Valley",* due to being drunk. Not much is known about her parents but she referred to them as deceased junkies in *"Delta Phi"* Episode 1, and also stated that she is a bastard.

* In Ep 2 "Boy's Suck" while looking for Stella and Lois, Marley begins to feel sick as she naturally hones in on her slayer powers. She goes to splash water on her face when Garrett approaches her with a drink, drugging her. She ends up in the basement with Lois, Stella and Rachel, and is able to save them, she kills her first demon, Machida.
* In Ep 3 "Pandora's Box" Marley meets several members of the council who have come down to administer a test.
*“You have to admit we gave you an excellent cover.”*

*“Yes, the library is beautiful,” Anita agreed, guiding the gentlemen toward the table.
    “Hi, who are these guys?” Marley got up from her position sitting on the table, coming to a stand.
    “Lionel Hackett,” the fat one extended his hand fully. Marley reluctantly shook it. “Pleased to finally meet you. How old are you, Ms. Johnson?”
    “I’m sixteen,” she frowns.
    “Older than the last one,” another man says. “Should last longer.”
    “Exactly how long did she last?” Marley’s heart rate picks up at the mention of another slayer. They must’ve known her.
    The second man flips his hand uncertainty. “Maybe eight months.”
    “Oh,” Marley falls in to a chair, suddenly feeling very light.
    “Actually, I believe it was six,” Lionel corrected.
    “Things will be different this time,” Anita said firmly. “Ogden was in no place to train a baby goose let alone a slayer. Moving on.”*
*The skinnier man spoke up, he was comically thin and a little too tall. “That training will take place here? In a library?”
    “It has great floor space,” Anita said. “This is Alfred Avery,” she introduced for him.
    “We have brought everything in from overseas,” Alfred turned his attention to Marley. “They will be ready for you by the end of the week. We’ll get them going for you.”
    “That’s a long time to be in a cage,” Anita said. “It seems wrong to keep them locked up that long.”
    “They’re demons, Anita,” Alfred said. Lionel chuckled, which Anita didn’t appreciate. “Gets them nice and hungry. I’m sure you’ll make us all proud,” he said to Marley.
    “I’m sorry, what? Is this related to the big test I keep hearing about?”
    Lionel adjusted his glasses, stifling a short chuckle. “You haven’t told her yet?”
    “We were going to discuss it when you called me in for the shipment,” Anita folds her hands together across her midsection.
    “Ms. Johnson,” Lionel began, almost excited to be the one to tell her. “We have very tactically planned out and arranged for you to test your engagement in conflict. It’s going to be a spectacular event. It involves several trials in a labyrinth with different demons.” He almost looks ready to burst from excitement.
    Marley scoffs. “Are you serious? This is how watcher’s council money gets spent?”
    “Now,” Lionel relaxes in to a chair, his big belly like a desk in front of him. “Let’s see some of what you’ve been teaching her.”
    “What I’ve been teaching her?” Anita and Marley exchange a look.
    “Yes, the combat.”
    Marley swallows.
    “I thought it best to let Marley flesh it all out first,” Anita said gingerly. “Then be given correction. This was one of the most effective methods detailed in a History of Watching.”
    “Hogwash, Pezetucky’s outdated.”
    Anita’s lips drew into a line but neither of the men noticed. “Show us what you’ve fleshed out then,” Alfred said, taking a seat on the edge of the table. “Go on.”The skinnier man spoke up, he was comically thin and a little too tall. “That training will take place here? In a library?”
    “It has great floor space,” Anita said. “This is Alfred Avery,” she introduced for him.
    “We have brought everything in from overseas,” Alfred turned his attention to Marley. “They will be ready for you by the end of the week. We’ll get them going for you.”
    “That’s a long time to be in a cage,” Anita said. “It seems wrong to keep them locked up that long.”
    “They’re demons, Anita,” Alfred said. Lionel chuckled, which Anita didn’t appreciate. “Gets them nice and hungry. I’m sure you’ll make us all proud,” he said to Marley.
    “I’m sorry, what? Is this related to the big test I keep hearing about?”
    Lionel adjusted his glasses, stifling a short chuckle. “You haven’t told her yet?”
    “We were going to discuss it when you called me in for the shipment,” Anita folds her hands together across her midsection.
    “Ms. Johnson,” Lionel began, almost excited to be the one to tell her. “We have very tactically planned out and arranged for you to test your engagement in conflict. It’s going to be a spectacular event. It involves several trials in a labyrinth with different demons.” He almost looks ready to burst from excitement.
    Marley scoffs. “Are you serious? This is how watcher’s council money gets spent?”
    “Now,” Lionel relaxes in to a chair, his big belly like a desk in front of him. “Let’s see some of what you’ve been teaching her.”
    “What I’ve been teaching her?” Anita and Marley exchange a look.
    “Yes, the combat.”
    Marley swallows.
    “I thought it best to let Marley flesh it all out first,” Anita said gingerly. “Then be given correction. This was one of the most effective methods detailed in a History of Watching.”
    “Hogwash, Pezetucky’s outdated.”
    Anita’s lips drew into a line but neither of the men noticed. “Show us what you’ve fleshed out then,” Alfred said, taking a seat on the edge of the table. “Go on.”*

* In "*Pandora's Box*" (Ep 3) Marley finds out what Raven is up to through Stella. *"Marley bumps into Stella at the emergency room when she's getting patched up with Mia from their fight. She sees Stella who tells her what happened to her father. "The sliding of the emergency room doors distracts Marley from her cigarette, and she watches a crying blonde girl come running out. She stands at the edge of the curb with her fingers on her eyes.
    Marley leans forward, finding her familiar. That was that one girl, the one at Anita’s meeting. One of the few that knew her secret.
    “Hey,” she calls, moving from the pillar.
    Stella briefly glances back, recognizing Marley’s presence. She turns her body toward her but then shields her eyes again, the sobs returning.
    “What’s wrong?” Marley asks awkwardly.
    “We were attacked by vampires in my house.”
    Marley’s ears perk up. She takes a few steps closer to the other girl. “What?”
    “They cut in to him, I don’t know why.” She frantically rubs her eyes, wiping the tears away.
    Marley shakes her head in disbelief, unsure of what to say. “We need to talk to Anita about this,” she insists. “First thing in the morning, okay?”
    Stella nods, still quietly crying and wiping her eyes with a sleeve."*

* During "*Presence of Mind*" (Ep 4) Marley's Uncle shows up for Parent Teacher Conferences a little drunk. *"Marley walks toward her Math class with her Uncle Craig. She hadn’t thought he was going to make it tonight, but he was able to put down the beer for a few hours. That didn’t mean he wasn’t a little drunk, of course.*

 *“You didn’t drive like this, did you?” She asks quietly. “You drank when you got here, right?”*

 *He shrugs half-heartedly. “It was just a little buzz when I got here.”*

 *She sighs. “Uncle Craig, you can’t drive drunk. You could die. Someone else could die.”*

 *He puts up a hand and pleads with very little energy. “Marley, don’t, okay? Tonight we’re here for you.” They reach the classroom, the teacher rising from his desk to greet him. “Why don’t you ah, go get some punch? I’m gonna talk to your teacher.”*

 *“Yeah, okay,” the door shuts on her face as the two men discuss Marley’s shoddy attendance and attitude problem."*

* During "Presence of Mind" when Raven, Solea and Pixie attempt to open the seal it begins an earthquake during Parent Teacher Conferences.
* After the conferences end the group sneaks back to the library to perform the counter-spell with Anita. Anita, Stella and Mia perform the spell and break the curse. They agree they have to figure out what Raven and the others were up to in the basement.
* Marley is a smoker, and smokes weed/cigarettes often with her best friend Lois, and her newer friend Rachel.

* Marley sometimes uses Tinder to hunt vampires. She trains weekends in the library with her watcher Anita.
* In Ep 5 kills a troll
* Given a rapier sword with wire wrapped handle bent in half-circle, a gift from Ira and Matt, a demons face showed up in the reflection at end of *"Bitterroot Valley"* Ep 8, but no one saw. In *"Genesis"* Ep 11 Marley gets the opportunity to use it in the school, but due to a spell going wrong they end up locked in the school with a demon, who emerges from the sword.
* In "Party Crashers" (Ep 5) all are present when Lois' house starts falling apart. Anita shows up and gives Marley a weapon to kill the troll. Mia confesses that the spell is her fault. *"Her silver Coupe sped through the comfortable suburbs of the neighborhood, when she stopped in front of the house she saw that Lois had neglected to mention it was falling apart. She could hear screaming as she slammed her car door, snagging her weapons bag by the leather-y black strap and running for the house. A roar around the backyard won her attention, the tall picket fence concealing one of the people engaged in combat, but not the other which towered above- a troll. Why in the world was there a troll there?*

 *Anita ran for the gate, unlatching it in record time. When she threw it open she saw Marley, her suspicions confirmed that it was indeed a troll. She was baffled for half a second, but there was no time for hesitation, or confusion. She threw down her weapons bag, hurrying to unzip it as the sound of fists hitting flesh and battle cries sounded behind her. She lifted a long sabre from the bag, unsheathing it with a hiss. The sharp silver blade was perfect for penetrating thick flesh, and she turned to holler to Marley. Marley stood on the edge of a massive below ground pool, the troll clumsily throwing its fists at her as she led it around the corner. Anita ran over, calling out the girls name then throwing the sword. Marley struck out her hand, catching it around the grip.*

 *Marley engages in a one-sided dance with the beast, moving in a synchronized fashion of striking and pulling back. She slices him across the belly, further angering him. Matt, Topher and Stella were outside, watching on with Ira, Lois, Mia and Anita.*

 *Lois goes to stand by Topher’s side, stunned to see him out here, but also happy he isn’t dead.*

 *“Hey,” he greets, eyes trained on the battle like a ping pong match. “Great party.” He wipes the back of his hand on his shirt, green blood staining it.*

 *The troll clips Marley, knocking her with his fist and picking her up by her shirt to throw her. She turns the toss in to a cartwheel, hanging on to his bulky fist to support her weight. She swings the sword up high and brings it down in to the center of his belly, still holding his arm as she pulls it back out with all her clenching strength and sends it back in, forcing the troll to stab itself.*

 *It collapses on to its back, shaking the ground but not quite dead. It gasps, eyes glazed.*

 *Marley almost feels bad as she bring the sword down into the center of its face. Almost.*

 *Stella shields her eyes to avoid watching the bloody final blow. It isn’t something she thinks she’ll ever be ready for.*

 *Matt, on the other hand, is cheering for Marley, whooping and clapping his hands. He’d never known a slayer, but so far he was very impressed. As quickly as she’d been chosen she’d surpassed his own father.*

 *The backyard is suddenly filled with exciting chatter.*

 *“What is going on?” Topher asks Lois, a big smile on his face. “I’ve never done anything like that,” he looks down at his gooey shirt then at the dead troll. “I’ve never seen anything like that!” He points.*

 *“Wait,” Matt scratched his head, one mystery still bugging him. “What happened tonight? Was it Raven, again? Did she mess with our personalities, again?”*

 *“And make demons attack?” Marley chimes in. “What was that?” Her eyes flash to Anita. She wasn’t exactly sure why her watcher was here, but she knew if anyone had answers it would be her.*

 *Mia slowly steps forward, clearing her throat. She looks like she wants to disappear.*

 *“I have something to say,” she announced, as if they hadn’t all looked at her when she stepped up. “This is all my fault. I-I did a spell.”*

 *“What sort of spell?” Anita asked sternly.*

 *“I found it at a book from the dollar store! I didn’t think it would actually work. Ever since last week, I’ve been feeling depressed. The feeling went away, but not completely,” Mia said, which was a half-truth, if not somewhat watered down. “So I did a spell, for bending will. Because I wanted to will myself all better. Get it?”*

 *“Get it?” Lois asked. “Get it? Look at my house!”*

 *Anita frowned. “I’ll need to see that book, Mia.”*

 *Matt can’t believe what he’s hearing. He expected much more from Mia, especially since he’d gotten to know her a little better and they’d actually become friends. People should know better than to mess with magic, that stuff isn’t a game. Realization dawns on him. “You’re the reason I was…” his eyes flicker toward Stella, who is still looking way too hot for his liking. His face flushes.*

 *“Is that why Ira and I were acting so…” she shrugs. “Teenaged?” she shakes her head, stunned. “And also the demons. Holy shit, Mia. Why would you do something like this? The demons were an accident, right?”*

 *“Of course,” Mia said. “I would never hurt anyone on purpose.”*

 *“That girl is in the hospital, because of you!” Lois said. “Whether it was on purpose or not, that’s on you!”*

 *“Lois,” Ira said firmly.*

 *“No,” Lois said, shaking her head. She wouldn’t be told off when Mia was clearly in the wrong. “It is her fault. That’s the truth.”*

 *Anita was on the phone behind them, talking in a hushed tone. She nodded to herself and hung up. Lois turned to look at her. “So? Can they like, fix my house?” Lois didn’t actually believe it, but she had to ask. “There’s got to be a spell for this or something.”*

 *“They’re bringing a truck,” Anita said.*

 *“A truck?” Lois asked, baffled. “A truck for what?”*

* In "Moloch's Grimoire" (Ep 6) Marley encounters Raven, Solea and Pixie making their second attempt to raise Adonis in the school basement. They get away but accidentally leave behind the book 'Bloodrites and Sacrifices'.
* In "Bloodrites and Sacrifices" (Ep 7) Clifton fills everyone in on what he knows. They all piece together that Stella has been abducted for a virgin sacrifice to raise Adonis. *"“What do you know about Raven?” he directs his attention to the watcher.*

 *“We… don’t know much.” She hates to admit it.*

 *“Let me enlighten you,” Clifton clears his throat, walking toward the table. “Raven is a 400 year old vampire responsible for hundreds if not thousands of deaths in both Europe and the United States. She and her former romantic companion and sire, Adonis, travelled, leaving bodies behind them everywhere they went. They hit every state and left them in a trail. Many hunters have tried to take them on, many have failed.”*

 *Matt hangs on his father’s every word, information he neglected to tell even him.*

 *“She even sired a ten year old girl she took in as her own and taught to torment and kill in the same twisted manner. These vampires are old. They’re wise.”*

 *“What about the blonde?” Matt asks.*

 *“That’s Solea,” he answers. It bothers him that his son even had an encounter with the vampires. “They turned her in the 1960’s.”*

 *“What happened to Adonis?” Ira inquires, arms crossed.*

 *“He was trapped in a hell dimension in the 1980’s by a group known as ‘Apostle’. They were an alliance of hunters and witches who formed for the purpose of trapping him, along with Raven, Solea and the little girl, Pixie. They only successfully captured Adonis before they were slaughtered by Raven. He’s been trapped since while they walk free. Their trail of blood isn’t as thick as it once was, but they’ve only slowed down out of necessity. For survival.”*

 *“Wait a minute,” Mia steals the spotlight, flipping through the pages of the book of blood rites. “I passed this one ritual without really considering it. It involves the ‘raising of an undead’, a - a transfer through dimensions, of sorts. It’s really black magic, dark stuff. As much as any of this is, I guess.”*

 *Anita takes the book, reading through it with scanning eyes. “It says that less powerful alternatives to this ritual involve the bone marrow of an enemy’s descendant.” She quirks a brow, the truth settling in.*

 *“There’s something else, too…” Anita frowns, placing the book on the table.*

 *“What is it?” Matt swallows.*

 *“Virgin sacrifice,” Mia finishes for the watcher."*

* After meeting with Rory Flick about the prophecy, Marley & Anita delegate the team to different sections of South Howell. When it becomes apparent they aren't at the mall, Marley and Anita go to the arcade and find the results of the massacre. They tell the others Raven was successful and Adonis is back.
* Known to have killed 2 demons, Machida is one - who she beheads with chains, and 1 vampire as of Ep 3, her at the time date. Kills a troll in *"Party Crashers"* Ep 5, Kills wendigoes in *"Bitterroot Valley"* Ep 9.

## South Howell High School

Marley is sixteen and a Junior at South Howell. She told Anita in Ep 1 that she is on the verge of dropping out.

## Personality

Marley is dryly sarcastic teenager who is not afraid to stand up for herself, she's naturally brave and falls easily into a leadership role.

## Appearance

Marley has dark hair and dark eyes.

She has a belly button ring.

**Marley’s House**

Grungy bedroom, guitar on wall.

## Relationships

#### Romantic

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Ira Dunst

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* In "Delta Phi" after seeing Marley's abilities when she kills Machida, Ira says *"“At least we’re all alive,” Ira said, clearing his throat when his voice remained caught. “Really, that thing could have killed all of us. You did awesome, Marley. Even if you don’t know what you did.”*
* In "Pandora's Box" (Ep 3) Knows Matt and Ira were in the hospital after fighting a demon, was with Stella at the time.
* He helps her train when everyone else is on the trip in *"Presence of Mind"* (Ep 4) He holds the punching bag for her. They also learn that Raven was at the Cuffix Massacre. Marley says her Uncle doesn't really feed her and Ira invites her to come over and eat some time, she asks why he remains involved and he says he felt he had a responsibility. *"I really like [Anita],” Ira said. “She’s way better than the last school librarian. He actually kicked me out of the library for chewing gum.” He pulled one of the sandwiches towards him, the smell of turkey making him ravenous.'“Oh yeah,” she agrees with her mouth full, chewing loudly as she speaks. “I could’ve used an Anita like four years ago. She’s already fed me more in the past few days than my uncle has in years.” Although it’s somewhat depressing, she says it casually.*

 *“That sucks,” Ira said, realizing that was kind of rude. “I mean it more than sucks. My mom loves to cook, like a lot. If you’re ever hungry.” It was probably weird to say, Ira realized. He had a tendency to say weird things like that, which was why he didn’t talk to a lot of people outside Matt and Piper. The sudden introduction of all these people in his life, he couldn’t say he didn’t like it but it did have him second guessing himself a bit. With everything going on, he imagined they felt exactly as bad as him, especially Marley. The girl was owed a hot meal.*

 *Taken aback, Marley sort of smiles. “Wow, that’s cool of you.” She takes another bite of her soft sandwich. “I will definitely take you up on that. She’s not crazy religious or anything right? ‘Cuz I got a belly ring.” She flashes her pierced belly button to him playfully, laughing shortly.*

 *Ira was surprised a moment, but did his best not to show it. A flash of a girls skin, a non-relative preferably teenage bit of skin, it did things to him that he didn’t much want to experience at school. He slid back in his chair. “No, not religious, just really happy. Ridiculously happy. I don’t know how she’s like that,” Ira admitted. “But she’s always been the most positive person ever. Kind of rubs off on my Dad, he’s not exactly as sunshine-y as her but you know, you can tell she makes him happy.” Ira was gushing about his parents, definitely weird. “Anyway, I’m lucky,” he digressed. He busied himself with chewing his sandwich.*

 *“Yeah, you are. Bunch of family, friends. I try not to take shit like that for granted. Now more than before.” Marley fluffs the hair on her head, scooting her chair back to put her legs up on the table comfortably. “So tell me, Ira. Why do you stick around? If I were human and, not me, I would’ve stayed far away from this slayer situation.”*

 *“Because it isn’t your job. It might be in the job title, but protecting the world is in everyone’s best interest. It would be selfish, to walk away from that, unless you had a really good reason. I’m able, and young, and willing to learn. I need to help, we all do. We’re a unit now, that’s how it has to be.”*

 *“I guess a couple broken ribs can’t stop you,” she noted, finding Ira much more appealing than she had before. She never even would’ve spoken to him if not for the whole slayer thing. All it took was a class trip amongst all their friends to actually get to know him. “You wanna do some research with me? I’m tracking down information on that vampire that attacked Stella’s father, Raven. I found one reference to her in an anecdote for this one entry but there’s just this weird sketch and a description.”*

*She slides the open book she’d earlier been looking at to him across the table. There’s a scribble of Raven’s face, her hair thrown up in a 17th century style.*

*Ira runs his finger along the page, reading the tiny font. “1896, Ireland. Cuffix Massacre.”*

*“I think Cuffix is the name of the place, but I don’t know of a town like that. So the investigation continues. I know it’s not the funnest way to spend your free period..”*

*Ira picks up a book and toasts hers with it.*

*“Cheers,” she jokes, grateful for the company.*

* In Ep 4 when the group meets up after the trip they conclude that Stella, Matt, Mia and Lois clearly under the influence of a curse. *"[Matt, Stella and Mia] entered the room, finding not just Anita but Marley and Ira sitting at the main library table, all pouring over a small hill of texts. “How was the field trip?” Anita turned, looking up from the book she had been holding while she paced.*

 *“Bad,” Mia said. “Very bad. Something’s going on. We thought it would get better on the bus, but it’s not getting any better.”*

 *“What’s not getting any better?” Marley asked.*

 *“The voices,” Stella said.*

 *“And I want to crawl up in a ball and die,” Mia volunteered. “So much.”*

 *The library doors swung inwards, Lois striding in looking pretty peeved. “Something freaky is going on.”*

 *Anita stared, for a moment dumbstruck, it was a lot of information to take in.*

*“There’s some kind of magic going on, maybe a spell or a curse. It could even be on the museum,” Matt sits on the stairs, so grateful to have physical distance between himself and everyone else.*

*“It’s been making us act crazy,” Stella agrees. “But, in different ways. Matt’s being awkward.”*

*Matt frowns at the comment and adds his own. “And Stella’s been hallucinating and running around.” He motions running by walking his fingers across the air.*

 *“And you’re what, again?” Ira asked.*

 *“Sad. Very sad. I know I’m not the glowiest person but I kind of want to sink through the earth.”*

 *“I want to jump off balconies,” Lois said. “And in front of school buses, apparently. I guess I’m emo now.”*

 *“That isn’t nice,” Mia said.*

 *“What isn’t nice?” Lois asked.*

 *“To say emo kids do that. Some of them are just expressing themselves.”*

 *“What, girl?” Lois asked. “Are you kidding, right now?”*

*Ira interrupted quickly. “Is it getting worse or has there been no change?”*

 *It was a good question, one Anita should have asked. She shook her head, snapping out of her stupor.*

 *“I’d say it’s getting worse,” Mia said. “How do we even fight something like this? It’s magic, we don’t know magic! We’re totally doomed.”*

 *“I’ll sort everything,” Anita attempts to comfort the group of panicking teenagers. “I’m certain someone has either done this purposefully to you or you’ve come in contact with a curse of some kind. We can search the texts for some sort of reversal spell, or the exact spell that’s done this in the first place.”*

* During Ep 4 parent teacher conferences, Ira and Marley talk. Marley wonders if Ira and Piper had a thing. Ira sees Marley's Uncle conferencing with her teacher. *"Ira stopped before Marley, a few feet away his parents were sitting with a gushing English teacher. “Is it good news or bad news?” he asked, glancing at the panel in the classroom door where who he assumed was Marley’s father sat across from an Math teacher.' **“**Yet to be determined, but I’m guessing it can’t be good. Any idea how our crazy friends are holding up?”*

 *“Well, I don’t even want to go near Matt because I know it just sends him off the deep end. And well, Mia and Stella are kind of uncharted territory, I figured you were keeping an eye on them.”*

 *“It feels wrong waiting around for our parents to have conferences when we should be trying to stop them from completely losing their minds. I know Anita must be in there losing hers, right now.” She shakes her head at the thought. “What about you?”*

 *“What about me?” he repeated.*

 *“How are you doing?” Marley asked.*

 *“I feel the same. Pretty useless. But my parents should be out of here soon, they have an auction to go to, then we can hit the books and maybe slip them some valium.”*

 *“An auction?” Clarification was needed.*

 *“A horse auction,” he says with a smile.*

 *“Oh,” her nose wrinkles. “Right. I forgot, you and that girl with the orange hair ride horses.”*

 *“Piper,” he corrects.*

 *“Right. Piper.” Marley briefly wondered if the two of them had a thing."*

* They watched the first attempt to raise Adonis in *"Presence of Mind"* (Ep 4) the school basement, running and hiding together when the school began to quake.
* Patrols with her at the beginning of *"Party Crashers"*(Ep 5), along with Anita. *"“How much longer?” Marley’s head drops backwards. She was sick of patrolling almost every night when so many involved hours of sitting and no results. If she got paid hourly it’d be a different story.' **Anita checks her watch. “Maybe an hour.”***

 *Marley grunts exaggeratedly. “Y’know, the others are at Vortex. Ira and I were hoping to catch up with them at some point?” She shrugs with the hand holding the stake, hand flying upwards. It was just a suggestion to her watcher.*

 *Ira’s eyes flicker up to see Anita’s face. She’s displeased, which he thought she might be.*

 *“Marley, this is a very serious responsibility. It’s not a joke.”*

 *“Neither is Friday night,” the slayer frowns. “Do you know how often Fridays come? Do you? Once every seven days. The rest is BS student stuff.”*

 *“It’s important for developing minds,” Ira said. “Too much training and you get overworked, stop taking any of it, a much more effective teaching method.”*

 *“Are you advising me on my training?” Anita laughed. “Just twenty more minutes or so, then you can run off and be teenagers.”*

 *“Think you can handle it?” Ira asked.*

 *“I can handle it,” Marley promised.*

* Ira showed up early to Lois' house party. *"“Am I early?” he asked. “You said nine.”*

*“You’re not supposed to come at the start time, there’s a grace period,” Lois said, stepping out of the way to let him. “It’s cooler if you show up like twenty minutes late.”*

*“That’s alright,” Ira said. “I know I’m not cool. I can live with it.”*

 *Marley lights up when she sees Ira, making her way over. “Hey,” she greets. “Do you want a beer?”*

 *“Sure,” he said.*

* Ira took his first shot with her at Lois’ party in (Ep 5) they also dance together. *"“Do you even dance?” Marley laughs, playfully pulling Ira’s arms. The buzz was probably getting to both of their heads.*

 *“Yeah. Alone, in my room, where it’s socially acceptable,” Ira said, very aware of her hand against his arm. His stomach did this strange flipping thing. He wasn’t sure how he felt about that. Marley was funny, they’d been talking. He’d read a lot about flirting. This was probably it. He told himself to remain calm, smiling a little.*

 *“I think it’d be fun to dance with you.” This new development of hanging out with Ira was a welcome change in her life from the constant horror. She needed something normal to keep her coasting, and he was as normal as they came. Also, actually nice. “I could lead you through it.”*

 *He almost whines as she moves closer to the other dancing bodies with him, turning her own so her back is against his chest, pulling her arms around her body so they can sway together. She feels how tense he is behind her, so she moves to face him.*

 *“Just relax,” she says quietly to him. “It’s just dancing.”*

 *“R-right,” Ira said, trying to play it cool. He didn’t think he was doing a great job of it, but forced himself through the feeling to set his hands lightly against Marley’s waist. He couldn’t believe she was a slayer, she didn’t feel like a bodybuilder or a tank, her skin was soft like any other girls. Like, really soft."*

* After Ira and Marley are berated by Mia at the party she tells them they should make out and get it out of their systems. They start kissing on the porch outside of Lois' house. *"Ira stepped onto the porch, feeling a little relieved - but still hot, very hot. He set his hands on the porch rail, falling alongside Marley. He couldn’t hesitate, he’d been told that before, but the urge to kiss Marley was so strong, so out of nowhere - well not, nowhere. The opportunity hadn’t really been there in the busy living room, but he’d been thinking about it, he’d been thinking about it since he first showed up at the party. Girls weren’t usually interested in him, and he had a lot to do so it hadn’t been that hard to put away thinking about them. He had good focus. But not with Marley. He felt a little off balance with her, and it was a surprisingly nice feeling. “I didn’t mean to steal you away from your friends,” he said. “Actually, I did, but I was hoping they wouldn’t notice.” It’s all the invitation that Marley needs to wind her arms around his neck and pull him towards her to press her lips on his. At first he’s hesitant, but opens up to the wet kiss and doesn’t fight the warmth spreading across his body. They get so caught up in the moment, it’s almost as if time doesn’t exist. All Marley knows is Ira’s lips."* Things carry on to the two of them upstairs making out in the stairwell. *"It’s all the invitation that Marley needs to wind her arms around his neck and pull him towards her to press her lips on his. At first he’s hesitant, but opens up to the wet kiss and doesn’t fight the warmth spreading across his body. They get so caught up in the moment, it’s almost as if time doesn’t exist. All Marley knows is Ira’s lips*." They move on to making out in the upstairs stairwell."*Ira didn’t remember when or how Marley and him  had gone upstairs. His mouth hurt, which felt strangely good. Her hair smelled like vanilla, he was glad he’d worn cologne because he was sweating profusely. Ira had always been so good at controlling himself, and tonight he was not, with his arms wrapped around Marley at the top of the stairs, all he wanted was to keep kissing her."*
* At the end of Ep 5 Ira and Marley talk and admit neither is ready for a relationship with everything going on. They say they both like each other, but the spell freaked them out, and they should just be close friends."*After the truck had run through Lois’ home and they were cleared by the watchers council, Ira gave Marley a lift home. They were both exhausted and most of the ride was relatively silent. At one point Ira even thought Marley might have fallen asleep against the passenger window, but her voice interrupted that theory.*

 *“I don’t want to lead you on,” she starts by saying. She wishes the windows were open, a break from this utter lack of noise. “I actually like you. I didn’t expect that.” She taps her fingers against the dashboard, taking small glances at his deadpan expression. “But everything that happened with us tonight makes me feel like we should take a giant leap backwards.”*

 *Ira felt a little relieved at Marley’s words, which didn’t really surprise him. The entire thing had freaked him out, left him wondering what Marley really wanted - what he really wanted. She was intense, very intense, and he wasn’t sure he could handle that on top of everything else. He wanted to handle her. He really did. But, Marley was right, the spell had screwed it up. “Good to exceed expectations,” Ira joked, hoping to nip into the tension. “No, I hear you. I really do. This is pretty unlike me too. I like you though, but with everything going on, it’s hard to fit it all together.”*

 *It feels good to hear him agree with her, not that she’d expected him to declare his love or anything. “Exactly,” she says pointedly. “I just found out what I was.. I can’t even begin to understand what having a boyfriend would mean.” As he pulls up to her residence, she smiles at him. “Friends, then?”*

 *“Good friends.” He smiled. “I’ll see you at school.”*

 *Ira drove away after Marley was safely in the house, no demons came crashing after her. It had been one of the most wonderful, horrible and confusing evenings of his life, but that didn’t make it bad."*

* In Ep 8 "Rotten Eggs" Marley was extremely hurt by Ira after him and Matt said she made the wrong decision in letting Dr. Simon go, saying her decision led to him being kidnapped. Ira feels guilty about what he said later and suggests Matt and him get her a gift. They give her a sword with a demon hidden inside that gets out in *"Genesis"*(Ep 11).
	+ In Ep 9 "Bitterroot" the group is in a car accident. Piper breaks her arm and Mia gets a mild concussion. The van is totaled and the group is stranded. A storm begins to brew and Ira goes missing after searching for a stick for Piper's cast. Marley and Mia go looking for Ira, while Topher decides that he wants to retrace their steps back along the road and see if he can get back to the gas station. Lois goes with him but they ultimately turn back. Mia and Marley find a cabin in the woods with ritualistic writing and a hay man inside. Matt, Piper and Stella lay low at camp. Marley and Mia find Ira and drag him back to the camp, where Stella tends to his wounds. Topher and Lois return, unsuccessful in getting help. Over the night Lois sees a wendigo attack a wild animal, Lois wakes Marley who says they'll deal with it in the morning. Stella makes everyone pancakes and they realize Ira has a fever. Some of the group doubt Lois saw what she said she did.
* In Ep 10 "Uncanny Valley", Marley, Ira, Matt, Mia and Lois go exploring. Matt/Ira and Lois explore the caves. Matt asks Ira how he is feeling after the wolf bite.
* In "*Uncanny Valley"* (Ep 10) she and Mia find and rescue an injured Ira after he is attacked by a wolf. She is upset she can't stay in the tent with him when he's badly wounded. Later they play in the lake together. After being separated and reunited when their rescue arrives, Marley hugs Ira and Ira realizes he still really likes her.
* In "Uncanny Valley" (Ep 10) Lois and Ira are saved by Marley when she kills the wendigo and gets them out of the alcove where they were trapped by the cave in.
* After everyone is separated in Ep 10, Marley and Mia find Ira and Piper. Marley throws her arms around him relieved, and he hugs her back, very reluctant to let go.
* Ira suggests Marley's instincts cannot be trusted after she lets Dr. Simon be abducted once more and he later regrets it, telling Matt they should get her a gift. They give her a sword with a demon hidden inside that gets out in *"Genesis"* (Ep 11).

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Other

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* During'"Boy's Suck"' (Ep 2) Lois accidentally sets them up on a double date with a couple of vampires she met off Tinder. The four of them go to a mental institution where the boys try to turn them. When Marley's date, Owen, attempts to bite her, she almost lets him stating she wanted to see what it felt like. She ultimately stakes him at the end of the date, making him the first vampire she has killed. Marley states to her vampire date, Owen, that she hasn't had sex in six months, and is reluctant to date due to her ex being a wildcard, states he scared her off men for a while. During the beginning of the date the four of them have drinks at Marley's apartment and briefly meet her Uncle. Owen and Beau then take them to their drug dealers house who they 'rob' and the four of them go to a smoke shop to get blunt wraps, Marley and Lois wait in the car while Beau and Owen kill the shop owner and decide they want to make Marley and Lois their vampire girlfriends . The four go to the mental institution from there. Beau and Lois make out in the backseat while Owen tries to convince her to come inside and make out with him in solitary confinement. The four of them smoke by the stairs and Owen snapchats a picture of Marley modeling on the stairs. Beau and Lois go to check out the morgue, leaving Marley and Owen at the stairs. Owen uses this opportunity to make his move. “*Marley, you are totally stunning.” He glances down at her lips, his eyes glistening.*

*“I can appreciate a guy with good vision.” She moves a hand from his to her hip*.
*They talk about being alone, then Marley kisses him and he vamps out.*
Matt and Mia finally arrive and find Lois on the ground just after Beau has bitten her and taken off. *“He’s a fucking vampire! One minute he has his hand up my shirt and the second he bites me!”*
“A-are you okay?” Mia asked, stupidly.
“Do I look fucking okay?”
Matt pulled at her hand so he could inspect the wound. “I don’t think it needs stitches.”
“Where is Marley?” Mia demanded to know.
“In here somewhere,” Lois said, clamping her hand back around her neck. What the hell did Matt know, anyway? “With the other one. Beau took off.”
“The other one?” Mia asked, her voice rising. “Another vampire?”
“I’m sure he ain’t a fucking senior.”
Marley and Owen scuffle by the stairs. He slams his full body against the door, attempting to break free while she presses her own strength against it. The struggle doesn’t last long and she’s thrown backwards onto the tile. The door slams open and she turns her body and Owen is right there. He moves over on top of her, their faces close.
Marley stares hard into his eyes, betrayed. “I thought you might be different from other guys. Turns out you’re not even a guy at all!”
“That doesn’t mean I don’t like you,” Owen says in a whisper. “I do.”
Marley sucks in her bottom lip, feeling somewhat sorry for him. This was her first vampire encounter, and maybe Anita was wrong about their soullessness. Maybe Owen could be different.
“Relax,” he says. “It’ll just hurt...for a moment..” He leans in toward her neck and Marley braces herself.
“HEY!” Matt’s aggressive shout comes from behind them, startling the pair. He rips the undead teen off the slayer, causing him to stumble a few feet back. Marley quickly jumps up to a standing position, coming to stand beside Mia.
“Were you gonna let him bite you?” The blonde asks, incredulous.
“Just for a second,” Marley promised with a half-smile. “I just wanted to see what it would be like.”
Owen smiles, impressed with himself.
“There’s nothing to be smiling about, dead boy,” Matt comments sarcastically.
“Oh, I think there is.”
Their company is joined by Beau, on the other side of them in the thin hallway.
“Four puny humans, two wise old vampires,” Owen clucks his tongue. “I’m not liking your odds. So just let us leave with our girls and be on our merry way to turning them in to one of us.” He exposes his sharp teeth. “It ain’t so bad.”
“When you say old…” Marley starts. “How old are we talking? ‘Cuz I kissed you.”
“I let a dead guy feel me up,” Lois said, disgusted. “Ew! You need to disclose that kind of thing first!” She shuddered.
“What’s it matter how old we are when we look like this?” Owen asked.
“Oh, please,” Matt snorts. “The way your hair is gelled you’d think you don’t own a mirror.” Realization strikes all at once. “Which I guess you don’t…”
“That’s it,” Beau snarls, eyes yellow and demonic. “We’re killing him first.”
The date concludes with Marley professing her identity as 'The Slayer' and staking Owen, her first vampire kill. Matt stakes Beau.

#### Friendships

Marley's best friends are Mia Evans and Lois Spires, classmates at South Howell.

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Mia Evans

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Mia and Marley met when Mia was walking her dog and Marley was shooting bottles in a field. She came narrowly close to shooting Mia.

*"She almost shot me, actually.” -* Mia

*"You know her Uncle’s a cop, right? Well, I guess you wouldn’t know that. So he’s a cop-*,” she continued. “*And Marley decided it would be a fantastic idea to borrow one of his guns, and with all the experience of a freshman girl set out to shoot bottles off the lake. I was walking there with my dog and I feel something go whizzing by my face, it was so loud. Then I turned and saw Marley with the gun.”*

* In "Pandora's Box" (Ep 3) Mia and Marley have a conversation about Marley's identity impacting her relationships. "*Marley was beginning to need a break from her best friend. The one night out that was supposed to be chill was turning out to be another night of interrogations and ‘Marley, you okay?’ She understood people were worried, she was worried, but she hated the worrying and she just wanted to have a smoke and hangout for a while.*

* *“I’m good, Mi. Just tryna… smoke. I do appreciate the concern.”*

*“Oh,” Mia said. She could understand why her friend was frustrated but it was just as frustrating being in the dark. “I just don’t know what else to say I guess. Failing an english test just so doesn’t compare to what you’ve got going on.”*

*“Please, Mia, that’s exactly what I wanna hear about. Anything other than demons and vampires and tests in labyrinths.”'*

* Mia's first encounter with a demon is in "Pandora's Box" (Ep 3) [In Ep 1 she witnessed the dead demon but did not see it when it was alive] *"With one spiked bulky shoulder weighing down half his body, he limps in her direction, ominous roars stretching his razored mouth wide.*

*Marley took several steps backwards, taking Mia with her.*

*Its arms were long and thick, extending out like tree branches ready to whack people with. This time it stops moving to roar, so demonic and loud it vibrates through the room. And then it one quick audible flash he’s gone, stunning the two girls.*

*He reappears behind them in a blue light and lifts an arm, bringing it back down to smack down on Mia.*

*Marley recovers quickly from the shock, gripping Mia by the collar of her coat and ripping her backwards to push to the cement, taking her place to attempt to grab it’s arm mid-swing. She fails, miscalculating the heftiness of such an arm, and is very quickly knocked to the ground, her world going shaky for a few moments.*

*She has just enough time to come back from it to roll to her left, narrowly avoiding a smash through her body. The demon’s arm gets stuck in the gravel and as it pulls Marley takes this opportunity to go back to Mia, moving them further back away from it........“Oh fuck,” Mia said, as it let out a cry of distress.*

*“Find me a weapon!” Marley demanded as she slugged the demon across its bald elastic head, mouth still open like its ready to chomp on an arm.*

*Mia looked around wildly, she glanced at the car that was still going off as the creature barrelled blindly after Marley, it had knocked out one of the windows with its blow and through the passenger window she could see a baseball bat laying across the seats. She pushed aside the broken glass, reaching in to pull out the bat. “Marley!” she cried out, jogging over. She threw it to her friend who was still play keep-away with the beast.*

*Marley playfully swings the bat around in her hand, getting a hang of the feel of its weight and how much damage it could do.*

*She licks her lips at the demon, gesturing for it to come closer.*

*“I really wanna say batter up,” Marley comments. “But I’ll just settle for beating your demonic ass.”*

*She shuffles backwards as he prepares to swing, not moving forward until that arm comes down and bombarding the creature with blows to its skull - chest, anywhere she can reach.*

*It puts up its arms to block and as Marley pulls the baseball bat back and swings down again it teleports away before the blow can connect. She spins around anxiously, waiting for it to reappear. It spawns directly in front of her and clobbers her several times over the head, knocking her down. She covers her head with her arms, dropping the bat."*

* Fight in "*Party Crashers"* (Ep 5) at Lois’ party. Marley believed a rumor she heard about Mia and Matt. Mia approaches her and Ira while with Piper and becomes extremely offended and tells Marley she's gay and acting like a freak by being with Ira. *"“Mia!” Marley’s decently intoxicated at this point, but maintains control of her body and mind for the time being. “I was hoping I’d find you,” she says, despite how obvious it was she hadn’t been looking. “I’ve been hearing this crazy rumor about you.”*

*“What?” Mia said sharply. “What rumor?”*
    *Ira wasn’t drunk, maybe a little tipsy. He knew telling Mia was a bad idea as soon as Marley said it, but he didn’t think he had the right to police what she said to her friend. He winced instead as he watched how quickly Mia had worked herself up. He had a feeling she knew exactly what Marley was talking about, and probably very much did not want to hear it.*
    Marley grins, playfully and somewhat painfully poking Mia in the ribs. “Come on, you know. It’s kind of an odd coupling but hey, at least he’s a nice guy. I can’t believe you didn’t tell me about Matt.”

    “Why would you think that!” Mia yelled. Piper was completely lost. “How could you ever think that about me? Don’t you know me at all?”

    Marley gaped, stunned at her best friend’s sudden temper. It wasn’t her fault that people were talking about her, and if she didn’t want them to she shouldn’t be hiding out in a men’s restroom with Matt Valentine. “Mia, what the hell?” She looks to Ira for evidence she isn’t insane.

    “I did hear about that,” Ira said. “But, uh, it isn’t true. I mean, Matt would have told me.”

    “And I am right now telling you that it’s not true,” Mia said. Her heart was racing, like she was being chased- which she wasn’t. “I don’t like boys. And you would know if I had! Why are you being like this?” she said to Marley. She didn’t give her the chance to answer, shaking her head. “Why am I even asking? I know exactly why you’re being like this.”

    Piper flickered between the three of them, thinking coming over here had been a pretty bad plan.

    “What?” Marley can’t totally decipher what Mia is getting at, and she’d much prefer it if she’d just spit it out instead of beating around the bush. “If you’ve got something to say, say it!” She snaps, moving closer to Mia’s face and challenging her to step up.

    She glared at Ira, making it clear he was, of course, at fault. Ira didn’t know exactly what he had done.

    “This just. It isn't you Marley. And I think you're going to regret it when you sober up, frankly it's embarrassing. I mean no one else is groping all over each other-.”

    “They were only dancing,” Piper said.

    “I thought you were on my side.”

    “Why are there sides?” Ira asked.

    “You and her don't make any sense. Not any. I'm sorry, but you're, you're different from her.”

    “How?” Ira asked. He knew they were different, but he wasn't a convict, he hadn't done anything wrong.

    “You should just makeout and get it out of your systems, maybe then you'll start acting normal again,” she said to Marley, stalking away from the others. She had hoped to embarrass them but Ira was more hurt than embarrassed.

    “I don't think Mia likes you very much,” Piper said to Ira.

    “Yeah, I think I got that.” Ira seemed a little bummed. Piper understood, the way other people felt rubbed off on her so easily. Ira liked to pretend he was immune to that, but he wasn't. Piper wanted to scoop him up and take him home, but she knew that wasn't her role as his friend. He liked this girl, clearly, she liked him, clearly, and she wasn't going to upset him by getting in the way of things. She thought maybe she should explain that to Mia.

    “She's pretty drunk,” Piper said, though she wasn't sure. “I'm sure she didn't mean anything by it.”

    “I am not,” Marley boomed, thinking Piper was talking about her and growing increasingly annoyed with the present company. She hadn’t consented to an ambush in the middle of her best friend’s house party. Generally, when someone pissed her off the way Mia just did, she’d spend the rest of her night fuming and maybe confront her about it later on. Tonight though, Marley was very distracted by the shape of Ira’s mouth. It almost immediately sucked the anger out of her.

    She sighs, taking in Ira’s appearance. His eyes are flickering. “Is something wrong?”

    “It’s just kind of mind-bogglingly hot in here,” Ira said. He hadn’t felt all that hot before, maybe it was the adrenaline or he’d suddenly become aware other people were at this party, turning the room suffocating. “I could use some air.”

    “Oh,” Piper said, thinking she should get out of their way. “I think I see Stella over there, I’ll go say hello.”

* During Ep 5 Mia accidentally sets a spell on Marley, turning her into a demon magnet and luring demons to Lois' house, which they proceed to destroy.'
* Mia and Marley make up at the end of the party once the house has been knocked down. *"Marley comes over tentatively, not sure exactly where Mia’s head is at right now. “So…” she starts, coming to stand next to her. “Party’s over. Any regrets?”*

 *“Just one,” Mia said. “No wait. Five,” she said, thinking it over. “It didn’t even start with the spell. I know I’ve been a complete bitch.”*

 *Marley’s lips twist. “Glad I didn’t have to say it,” she breathes out. “Hey, I’m sorry I kinda left you hanging during the party. I shouldn’t have done that. You know how it is though…”*

 *“Yeah,” Mia says flatly. “When a girl has a new boyfriend… There’s less room for her friends.”*

 *Marley winces at the notion that Ira could be her boyfriend. She sneaks a peek at him immersed in conversation with Matt. “I wouldn’t call him my boyfriend, Mi’s. We were only all over each other like that because of the spell. Why did you do it, anyway? I still don’t get it.”*

 *Mia bit her bottom lip, it was hard to explain how she was feeling to anyone, but especially Marley. “You remember the field trip,” Mia said.*

 *“Yeah,” Marley said. “It was only a few days ago.”*

 *“Okay, well,” Mia said, straightening her shoulders. “I got pretty down and the feeling just hasn’t gone away. One of the reasons is just all of this. I can’t imagine how overwhelming it is for you, and I want so badly to help, but I don’t know how. I just feel like I’m in the way, all the time.”*

 *“To be fair, Mia,” Marley sort of laughs. “You’re all in the way. But I don’t mind it! It’s really nice having the company. From what I can tell so far, this slayer stuff is lonely as shit. The last thing I want is to be alone. I like having you in my way.”*

 *Mia smiled. Maybe she shouldn’t have, considering the destruction she had caused, but she felt better anyway. She knew Marley and her could get past this, and that mattered more to her than pissing off Lois."*

* In "Bitterroot" (Ep 9) Mia and Marley go searching for Ira and find a cabin where they decide to wait out the rain. Inside there are lots of witch-y symbols and they find a straw man propped up in the attic, clearly part of a dark ritual. Later they find these symbols in the caves where the wendigos live, surrounding the hellmouth.

* In "*Uncanny Valley"* (Ep 10) Mia falls and breaks her leg, Marley takes care of her until they can get help.

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Lois Spires

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* Met in detention
* Partner up to be moms of baby Lionel the egg in *"Rotten Eggs" (*Ep 8). They are the only ones unaffected by the demon eggs in Ep 8, work together to stop mama Bazoar.
* Marley asks Lois what's going on with her and Topher. Lois says Topher is in love with her, he just doesn't know it yet. The three of them smoke weed together and Topher gets confirmation that Raven, Solea and Pixie were responsible for the massacre.
* Marley and Lois are the only ones not affected by the mind control in "Rotten Eggs". They work together to free the others and Marley kills the monster.

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Matt Valentine

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* First meet on the phone in "Delta Phi" (Ep 1) *"Matt grabbed the cell phone from Piper’s grip, pressing it to his ear. “I know where they are,” Matt seethed quietly. “That isn’t the issue. We need to go there.” He switches the phone to his other ear, running a hand over his jaw. “Look, I don’t have time for this. Are you gonna meet me there or what?”*
*Marley, completely uncertain of who she’s even speaking to, remains stunned on the other end. “Where exactly do you want us to meet you?”*
* Meet in person at end of *"Delta Phi"* (Ep 1) after she kills Machida.*“'Marley,” Matt descends the stairs, his mouth gaping. “It’s Marley, right?” He looked for confirmation that this was the girl on the phone. All she can do is nod, staring down at her hands. “Marley,” Matt tries to find the words. “How did you do that?”'*
* In "Pandora's Box" (Ep 3) Knows Matt and Ira were in the hospital after fighting a demon, was with Stella at the time.
* Sneak in to the museum together in *"Moloch's Grimoire"* (Ep 6).
* Matt asks Marley what her first time was like and she completely ignores him, they notice something was taken from the mummy’s fingers.
* Matt told his dad about Marley and goes to him for advice but they don't actually meet until episode Ep 6.
* Is angry with Marley for hesitating to let the vamps go in exchange for Stella and the other two sacrifices lives (Ep 7).
* Fights with Marley about her decision to let the vamps take Dr. Simon from the vigil so she can fight Solea (who got away anyway) later realizes he was too hard on her and he and Ira agree to get a slayer present for her, which is a sword.
* Feels Marley’s fault as a slayer is that she thought with instinct, not her brain. It was the cause of many group fights and he’d already vocalized her issue with choosing the fight over logic. Blames her for Dr Simon being taken and upset almost let Stella die in order to get Raven, or when she took Solea on instead of freeing her hostage.
* Matt and Ira apologize to Marley and give her a sword in Ep 8 "Rotten Eggs"
* Matt & Marley take the lead in "Bitterroot" in organizing everyone at camp. Matt tells Marley all about wendigoes and how to fight them.
* In Ep 11 "Genesis" Matt and Marley argue because she's not 'on time' to train in the library. Marley tells him not to tell her what to do and he's not a convincing tough guy. Matt says she always tries to make it about something it's not. Lois says Matt's curse is that he doesn't know when to stop talking.
* In Ep 11 "Genesis" when Matt says he can't get out of the school Marley offers to push him out.

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Stella Pendleton

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* Were both kidnapped during *"Delta Phi"* (Ep 1). Marley discovered her slayer strength when rescuing her and Lois.
* Marley bumps into Stella at the emergency room when she's getting patched up with Mia from their fight. She sees Stella who tells her what happened to her father. *"The sliding of the emergency room doors distracts Marley from her cigarette, and she watches a crying blonde girl come running out. She stands at the edge of the curb with her fingers on her eyes.
    Marley leans forward, finding her familiar. That was that one girl, the one at Anita’s meeting. One of the few that knew her secret.
    “Hey,” she calls, moving from the pillar.
    Stella briefly glances back, recognizing Marley’s presence. She turns her body toward her but then shields her eyes again, the sobs returning.
    “What’s wrong?” Marley asks awkwardly.
    “We were attacked by vampires in my house.”
    Marley’s ears perk up. She takes a few steps closer to the other girl. “What?”
    “They cut in to him, I don’t know why.” She frantically rubs her eyes, wiping the tears away.
    Marley shakes her head in disbelief, unsure of what to say. “We need to talk to Anita about this,” she insists. “First thing in the morning, okay?”
    Stella nods, still quietly crying and wiping her eyes with a sleeve."*
* Knows Marley hesitated to save her during Raven’s virgin sacrifice, understood her reasoning.
* Stella knocks Marley out while possessed during "Rotten Eggs" (Ep 8)

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Anita Yang

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* Upon meeting her watcher in "Delta Phi" (Ep 1) Marley and her discuss the history of South Howel. *“Yep, I know all about my history,” Marley emphasizes with a motion of her hand. “My uncle’s a cop with a minor drinking problem and my parents are dead. Like you said, essential information. If I didn’t know I was a bastard with no family where would I be?” She rubs a hand over her chin, thoughtfully. “Probably not on the verge of dropping out.”*
* Marley doesn't react well when Anita tells her she's the slayer. Anita tells her to take her time as Marley storms out.
* Marley discusses how she feels she is to blame for the attack on Stella's father. Anita tells her she isn't responsible, and that Bennie was targeted specifically. *"“What is it?” Anita coaxes her to speak about what’s on her mind.*

 *“It’s my fault,” Marley confesses plainly. “A vampire stole fucking bone marrow from Stella’s dad. That never would’ve happened if I wasn’t the slayer.”*

 *“I highly doubt that’s true,” she makes a steeple of her fingers as she leans back in her seat. “This was a very specific target and none of my sources can tell me anything helpful. We need to know more, and when things are a little bit more settled I’m going to ask Stella to speak to her father.”*

* During "Presence of Mind" (Ep 4) Anita trains Marley in the library while Ira spectates/helps out a little. *"The room had taken only a bit to come together, Anita was satisfied with the amount of space they had. “Alright,” she said, twisting away from the floor to disappear to the side of the room and into a little storage closet. From the depths she rolled back a punching bag, pushing it to the center of the room. “We’ll start with the bag, then we’ll move hand to hand. After that, we will add a variety of weapons, then go from the beginning again. I’m hoping to set up a course for you in the near future, but with everything that’s been going on, well, I haven’t had the opportunity to make the time for it. Still, this is a good starting point, don’t you think?”*

 *Marley wonders how Anita managed to conceal the punching bag so well, as she hadn’t even noticed it before this point. “It’ll do.” She agrees, stretching the muscles of her arms and legs to prepare her body.*

 *Almost on cue the library doors pushed inwards, Anita’s smile tripped at the interruption but when she saw it was Ira she relaxed. “Hey guys,” he said. “No one’s here so I thought I’d stop in, if that’s okay.”*

 *“I don’t have a problem with it,” Anita said. “Marley?”*

 *Marley gives him a once over and smiles. Despite the danger these people were putting themselves in she admired their enthusiasm and eagerness to learn. She’d probably be the same so she couldn’t fault them too much for it. But Ira had just gotten out of the hospital a couple days ago, so it was surprising to see him back so soon.*

 *“Only if you hold the punching bag,” she tells him. She’ll have to go easy on it so he doesn’t go flying, but it’d still be funny to see him try to hold it steady while she delivers some semi powerful hits.*

 *He looks it over, his face contorting curiously. Without saying anything he goes over to it and holds it steady, applying firm pressure.*

 *Anita watches as Marley approaches the punching bag. As a little test, the slayer starts by delivering one quick blow.*

 *“Oof,” Ira grunts as the punching bag knocks in to his stomach.*

 *“Marley,” the beginnings of a scolding leave Anita’s lips.*

 *“Okay. maybe don’t hold it.” Marley recommends, allowing him to release the offending object.*

 *“Maybe tomorrow,” Ira said. “Or in a month. Unfortunately, we don’t all have super healing powers like you, Which I’m totally not jealous of,” Ira said, releasing the punching bag to step back and watch. He was curious to see what she could really do. He’d gotten a preview, but it had been pretty dark.*

 *“Alright Marley, let's begin again from the top.” Anita said."*

* After meeting with Rory Flick about the prophecy, Marley & Anita delegate the team to different sections of South Howell. When it becomes apparent they aren't at the mall, Marley and Anita go to the arcade and find the results of the massacre.
* Anita tries to tell Marley that she is powerful as a slayer when Marley doubts her abilities against Adonis. "

*☀“Marley, it isn’t about the training you’ve had - it’s about you. You were here first, the slayer was here before the council, before training regiments and multi-level departments. The ability to kill these vampires isn’t something that is taught, it’s in you, it’s what makes a slayer a slayer.”*
*Marley grunts exaggeratedly. “That doesn’t make me feel better! He’s hundreds of years old. I can barely wrap my head around men my uncle’s age!”*

 *“He isn’t a man, Marley,” Anita reminded her sharply. “He is a demon. There’s no man left in him. He’s a blood sucking creature, running on impulse. They will mess up, there we will find our opportunity. Make no mistake, these are powerful vampires, but we are just as powerful.”*

* Lionel seems to hold Marley and Anita responsible for the events of Ep 5.. Marley blames herself. Anita says it isn't her fault, “They’re being ridiculous,” Anita said, dismissively. “All that prophecy said was it would happen somewhere busy. They couldn’t have done any better.” She shook her head.
* After Marley kills the monster in (Ep 8) "Rotten Eggs" she tells Marley she should be proud of herself.

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Piper

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* Piper is kind of intimidated by Marley, in Ep 2 Marley states *“'She avoids me at all costs and then acts like she doesn’t. It’s whatever though, I’d avoid anyone called ‘the slayer’.”*

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Topher

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* Ira and Marley first meet Topher when he is with Lois at her house party in "Party Crashers" (Ep 5), he is with Marley at the time. "Ira and Marley enter the room laughing, still entirely too sober for Lois’ preference.

*“That’s funny,” Marley comments, taking a swig of her beer. “Hey, we should take a shot!” She touches Ira’s arm. “Do you wanna take a shot?”*
    *“Really?” Ira said. “I never have. I don’t know. Should I?”*
    “Uh, yeah,” Marley said. “It’s a right of passage.”

    “Passage for what?” She didn’t know, shrugging. They moved closer to the table towards Lois and a guy rolling a joint.

    “Hey guys,” Lois said, kicking her legs a bit. “This is Topher. Topher this is Marley, and Ira.”

    Both Ira and Marley take pause as they come to terms with Topher’s appearance.

    “Hello older man,” Marley remarks with a tilt of her head.

    Ira looked him over curiously."

* Marley asks Lois what's going on with her and Topher. Lois says Topher is in love with her, he just doesn't know it yet. The three of them smoke weed together and Topher gets confirmation that Raven, Solea and Pixie were responsible for the massacre.

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Rachel

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* Rachel was a fellow abductee in "Delta Phi" (Ep 1), Lois & Stella ended up down there with her, they were later all saved by Marley.
* Rachel offers Lois and Marley a cigarette during "Genesis" (Ep 11), the three of them go down to the basement to smoke. She confides in them that she was dating one of the frat boys for about a year before he attempted to sacrifice her. Rachel says she doesn't want to talk about it.

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Dr. Simon

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* Marley, Anita, Ira and Matt find Dr. Simon in the basement of the school during Ep 6 "Moloch's Grimoire", he tries to warn them not to come in before they're ambushed. After, Ira unchains him and they are able to save him but he is soon after abducted again.

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Adonis

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* Finally sees Raven, Pixie and Solea while she is with Ira during Parent Teacher Conferences. They witness them attempting to use blood to open the Seal of Danzelthar, the ritual beginning an earthquake.
* Solea, Raven and Pixie encounter Marley, Ira, Matt and Anita for the first time in Ep 6 "Moloch's Grimoire" while they are in the basement of the school attempting to raise Adonis for the second time. Solea does a spell and they escape without the doctor, who the group frees. He is later abducted again. *"“So, you’re that slayer I keep hearing so much about.” Raven gives her a once-over, continuing to walk in a defensive circle.' **“You’re that vampire I’ve been hearing…” Marley shakes her palm. “A little bit about.”***

 *A grin stretches Raven’s lips, she even feels the excitement squeeze her dead heart. She loves a sassy girl.*

 *“Is it hard?” Raven inquires, “balancing demon slaying with your studies?”*

 *Marley refuses to let her taunting mess with her. This isn’t a game and she won’t stand here and entertain it. “Why did you attack Stella’s father?”*

 *“Who?” Raven cocks her head, trying to understand this information. “Oh, the Lumb descendant.” The vampire laughs. “Waste of a bone marrow - didn’t even work.” She considers this. “Maybe I didn’t take enough.”*

 *Marley observes the vampires, not entirely understanding this information. But she decides to let her ramble, hoping Anita is getting any of this.*

 *“No matter,” Raven stops walking, and so does Marley. “This way’s going to be much funner.”*

 *Solea lifts the mummy finger from her pocket.*

 *“Looking for this?” Her eyes twinkle and she tosses the finger into the air toward the group of humans. “Crepitus!” Solea screams. Raven jumps out of the way as the Latin incantation is spoken. The mummy finger explodes, fire erupting forwards and a shaking resonating through the room with a boom.*

 *The humans duck, covering their heads from the flames.*

*It’s gone in a moment, and Marley whips her head up to locate the vampires before they get the drop on her. She spins in circles, desperate.*

*“They’re gone,” Matt breathes heavily, clutching at his beating heart."*

* Marley witnesses the aftermath of Raven, Solea and Pixie's massacre at the arcade, an attempt to raise Adonis. She had known they would be somewhere busy but was too late to stop them.
* Solea encounters Marley at the vigil in "Rotton Eggs" (Ep 8) when she is going to kidnap Dr. Simon back for Pixie. Solea acts as if she is going to bite Marley, but leaves her alive, saying she still needs her for something. *"☀“Every slayer ends this way. Some vampire’s breath tickling the artery of their jugular. Then there’s a painful suction, like a shark has latched its jaw on to your throat.” she breathes cold air against Marley’s neck. “You wouldn’t expect it to be cold, would you? You just don’t think about that.”*

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