Those first weeks in this new city he had moved to were nothing but one big blur. Passionless. Autopilot. Billy was there, but not. Getting things set up in his apartment, getting ready for school to start, trying to act the role he had set up for himself his first few days in Fateville.

He was going by his much loathed middle name, pretending to be the aloof, careless, bad boy. At orientation this act alone had gotten him an 'in' to the crowd he was looking to infiltrate. It was all key to his master plan.

However, it was all too easy, and he found himself, when he was alone, slipping into a state of nothingness. Laying down and zoning out, on the verge of sleep, but not quite meeting half way. It was relative bliss though, when his thoughts would finally garble them selves up into that nothingness. He didn't want to think of what he'd left behind, what he was running away from, or even what he had to do now.

The alarm rang out into the silent apartment, and pink eyes glanced to the roaring beast emptily. Billy mustered the energy to shut it off, gently, but laid there a moment more. Tonight he had a match. He wasn't sure what he was thinking, getting in to this sort of crowd. Then again, who better to steal from than a group of drunken, rich, rabblerousers.
Indeed, he'd be put in a cage and expected to beat the bloody s**t out of another man to secure his position in the group of college underground fighters.

He'd be fortunate that none of them, he'd assume, were senshi, and he'd be able to fight as Bismuthite. Overcoming the glamour was going to take some smooth talking, but it was nothing that he wasn't capable of. Nothing that 'Cameron' couldn't do. Besides, there were so many of these guys that he hardly doubted they'd remember his face after that first meeting at college orientation.


He finally got up and started to prepare. Tonight would begin everything he hoped to accomplish here. How did that old song go? Saturday night's alright for fighting? He hoped so. But then again, what did he have to lose?

Nothing.

Not anymore.