And the cop who could've easily killed someone - that's got to be another instance of hallucinations -

I'll kick it upstairs.

Thanks.

When it's time for Karen's act he slips out to the men's bathroom. Everyone applauds for the other juggler. Maybe Karen could've juggled too if they hadn't put them back-to-back for some reason -

He opens the bathroom door and Cory Daniels is dangling from the ceiling with a jumprope for a noose - that's right, he'd asked for it after school, he'd said it was part of his talent show act - and he goes to cut him down but Elf senses are enough to make it obvious it's too late for that already - 

- he'd asked Cory about the music at one point but he hadn't wanted to be pushy -

She's on stage now. And. Uh.

....Alex? Now would be awesome.

- one sec, sorry, uh, it starts 'friends, Romans, countrymen -

"Friends, Romans, countrymen...."

- are you OK?

He sends her the script. His vision is weirdly blurry, which has never happened before - usually you can tell over osanwë that his vision is vastly better than hers, crisp even at distances where she couldn't make out anything at all.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–

For Brutus is an honourable man;

So are they all, all honourable men–

Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

He blinks a couple times and then it's much less blurry. 

She reads. 

Did something happen - 

And then there's a gunshot - it's definitely a gunshot - there's a shooting pain through her head, and she falls down -

He leaves Cory and Shakespeare on the floor and sprints back out to the amphitheater - first priority is the gunman, not Karen, not much he can do for her in the next minute with a gunshot wound to the head - the people near the shooter should be clutching at their ears -

Nobody is clutching their ears. They're.... clapping.

There doesn't actually seem to be a gunman in the room.

Her head hurts because she hit it on the floor, but other than that it seems to be fine? But she was sure - maybe she imagined the pain because she was scared - there was definitely a gunshot - if she looks up she can see a neat little hole in the curtain behind her -

Cáno!

Hallucinations that leave bullet holes in the walls. 

I'm not even sure at this point whether Daniels killed himself or something else did. Or - goaded him into it, or - made something look like something else - I'm gonna go find Karen -

He makes his way backstage.

Karen has run offstage and is kind of sort of not really entirely holding it together in the hallway.

"...what's happening?"

"I don't know. I don't know. Hallucinations that - that do real damage - Cory Daniels is dead, he hung himself in the men's bathroom. No one fired that gun but I think it was a real bullet."

"...OK. OK. We - we get everyone out of the school somehow - maybe at this point we just pull the fire alarm or something, assuming the school is actually more dangerous than the outside area, and we - I don't know at this point, go home and regroup, read things, figure out this time what could cause something like this?"

Nod. "This has to be originating at the Hellmouth, so they've gotta be safer at home."

"Yeah. OK. I - I can pull the fire alarm and I'll meet you at the front of the school to go to Michael's and - hopefully no one will shoot me on the way?"

"Yeah. Just - let's get clear of the Hellmouth as quickly as possible."

"Yeah."

So she swings by the fire alarm and pulls it. People evacuate the school. She heads for the front entrance as quickly as she can.

He stays around to make sure they get out safe, not that he can watch them all at once. He looks for Cory in the crowd. Maybe it was just a hallucination - maybe it would have been just a hallucination if he hadn't interacted with it -

He meets Karen at the front and gets in the car. 

She runs into Wishbone on the way and scoops him up. They both slide into the car.

She doesn't really think she'll be able to dodge bullets - the next thing probably won't be a bullet anyway - but she scans the streets the whole time she's in the car anyway.

He doesn't feel like he's a very safe driver right now, but he's not nearly as dangerous as a human, so. In the distance there are sirens - no, that'll be because they pulled the fire alarm, it doesn't mean anything. Nothing new. Only one incident outside the school so far, and the cop might've been idling in the Sunnydale High parking lot earlier in the day. 

They make it safely to Michael's. 

Hey. Condolences. I pulled all the hallucination and dimensional interference books I could find.