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The immediate aftermath to Bart's abrupt moving wasn't much of a surprise.

Homer wasn't concerned, 'oh relax. He'll return soon. Where's he gonna live in anyway? Streets?'
Marge was a bit worried and sad for her wayward son, but Lisa took it the hardest.

She had tried to convince herself that Bart's letter, even if a bit mean worded, meant nothing. Bart had no skill to find money, and he was too irresponsible to take care of himself.

The song, something they'd worked on a few months ago (some blues album they'd decided to record, strangely Mr. Burns had requested to have his song, a rock song about his incompetent workers, added too) had broken her confidence.

In the end, she was more to blame for this than her brother, she'd gone overboard with this, too carried away, and had caused his abrupt departure.

The tone of his letter meant he really was cutting all ties with his family, even if not legally.


Bart woke up in his apartment house, still furnished from his time there, after a really refreshing night of sleep.

He was alone again, and this time nothing tied him to the Simpsons. Nobody but cute little Maggie. No one was waiting for him, the entire evergreen terrace had probably had the biggest party of their lives the moment they'd heard he was gone.

That would teach them, chasing him away from his own home. And besides, wasn't this what they wanted? Him out of Lisa's life? Now they had it.

It was better for them all.


Monday morning, Lisa woke up early, ate breakfast quickly, and took her seat in the front of the bus, 8-am Sharp, her eyes lingering on the population of the bus a moment too long. Bart was in her regular orange and blue, sitting next to Milhouse and talking to his normal group of friends animatedly. Nelson was laughing at something he'd said and Martin was nagging at him for it, Milhouse rolling his eyes at their shenanigans, waved a hand towards her. But that was it.

"hey, Lisa!" said Janey, her supposed best friend, as she sat next to her, "why didn't Bart come with you today?"

Lisa sighed dejectedly, and said "he was emancipated again. he doesn't live with us anymore" Janey pouted, "aw…I really wanted to watch him run after the bus again!"

Yeah, because that wasn't the sort of thing that chased him away in the first place, she thought, but just said "yeah. Pity we can't do that anymore!" to her friend's dismay.

The moment she sat on her chair, Principal Skinner called for her by the intercom system. "Lisa Simpsons, please report to the Principal's office as soon as possible"

She looked at Ms. Hoover, waiting for her permission. "alright, Lisa. Go see what he wants. You've already solved all your math problems for this month"

Five minutes later, she knocked on the principal's office, "Come in!", and entered, where an empty chair waited for her, of course the chair in front of it was occupied by Bart.

Wait. She thought, is something wrong?

"principal skinner, why did you ask for me?" "you might want to sit for this one, Lisa"

Blinking in confusion, she did so, and he said "I'm afraid we might have to rethink the school policy on your Restraining order, Lisa"


Flashback Sequence

"So you see, Seymour dear, unless you don't think of something right now, I'll have to retaliate" said Bart sweetly to Mr. Skinner, who scoffed, "and what will you do? TP the school? Cause property damage? Take over the school? Face it, Simpson, there's no sort of criminal activity possible that hasn't been written on your record at least once. You step a foot out of line and I'll ship you straight to the military school"

Bart shook his head, "pranks? I'm not talking about physical retribution, sir. Let me give you an example, the court still has no idea about what really happened when I was sent on that 'student exchange system' trip to France. They all presume I had a six month of relaxing and fresh holidays there. " he shook his head, "this school's got enough problems to fill a book, and I know more about them than any other student than Milhouse. Awful teachers, awful staff, awful education courses. Terrible embezzlement on the school funding front." He smirked, "I imagine the district attorney would be quite pleased to hear our groundskeeper is wanted for murder in five states, including ours.

"it would be quite unfortunate if any of this were to leak to any federal official. Why, the entire school district could be facing expulsion for this"

Skinner paled a little, "you wouldn't dare-" "here's the beautiful part. Unless I call my lawyer off before twelve o'clock, this will be the first case for tomorrow." "er. Maybe we could talk this over? Mr. Simpson is there anything I can do for you to dissuade you from this course of action?" said the third part in their room, Superintendent Gary Chalmers.

He smiled sadly, "all I want is for my school system to return to a normal routine. Be it exchanging me to West Springfield or changing my program, I don't care. I'm not losing another week of education because my sister can't take a joke"

As Seymour snorted indiscreetly, Chalmers said "well, call for the younger Simpson then."

Which was what led them to this.

Flashback Over


Lisa blinked, "what?" Skinner repeated, "we will have to think of an alternative to the current plan on Bart's education. Even for one of Bart's…particular reputation, Education is necessary."

She rolled her eyes, "that's what you've made me lose a class for? I don't care about his education. As long as I don't see Bart during the day, I don't care what happens to him here"

Then Bart said "so, Seymour, you have two choices. One is to let me leave this school for West Springfield elementary, the other is claiming this school a No-man's-land."

All three of them answered at the same time "west Springfield elementary" he smiled, "one of the two options would not be favorable by me. Care to guess which one it is?"

Skinner sighed, "alright, kid. You have us at a stand-still. What do you want?" "like I said, I want to go back to my class, to my teacher, and my regular classmates!" "the law forbids you, Simpson. why don't you understand that?" "not quite. Springfield state constitution states 'all places of Learning, all places of worship, all inns and taverns may be deemed Sanctuary for a desperate man fleeing law', and for some reason no one had the idea to change this piece of paper since the 1800s. I cry for sanctuary, can you accept it?"

The old man behind the desk sighed, "alright Simpson. you win. I heed your cry, so long as you obey my laws while on my ground, you're safe of harm"

Bart smiled, "thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Skinner. May I be excused to my class?"

And as the principal rose to lead him to the class, explaining the reason of his return to Ms. K, Lisa looked at them with a wide-open mouth.

Since when did Bart know of the state constitution?


yeah, i know Bart's a bit of a brat when talking to skinner, but frankly the guy is the worst principal i've ever seen (well, after whoever the hell Meg's principal (in Family guy) is), and he deserves it.

until next time (whenever that may be),

davoid, signing off