Chapter 4

Oh, its been a while. This chapter is dedicated solely to Yayfulness, for making a sequel to Wanted Tourniquet. Wait . . . wait. This chapter is to Yayfulness, Crystalgurl101, and sparkleshine101 for being my favorite authors on fanfiction . net. Trust me, there's many more, but those were the ones who were here through this summer, and who I really kind of got to know through their stories.

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Boss opened the door. "Uhhh . . . hello?" Sandy stood in the center of the room, appearing to be alone. She had a weird smile on. "Where's Stan?"

"Oh, Stan?" she said nervously. "Oh he's . . . uh . . . doing . . . something." The twins had not had enough time to come up with a decent excuse. Boss raised one eyebrow, looking at her like she was high on crack.

"Whatever you say . . ." he turned to leave, but suddenly he saw a dark shape in the corner of his eye. He turned toward the figure, and his eyes increased to the size of saucers at what he saw. "S-sa-sa-s-s-sand-d-d-y . . ." He pointed a shaky finger at the creature behind her.

She could get no words out of her mouth. Then, without warning, Boss grabbed a baseball bat that was lying in the corner and charged the monster.

"Boss! Wait! I can expl-"

He jumped on it started to whack with all his might at the beast. Sandy was shouting at him to stop, but Boss was in his own little world at he continued to pummel the creature. It wasn't until a few seconds later that he realized that the "monster" was yelling out bursts of "Ow ow ow ow ow!" as he continued to swing the bat. Boss jumped to the ground.

The werewolf was lying in a heap on the floor. Boss stood over him, stunned that he had just heard Stan's voice come from its mouth.

"I tried to tell you, Boss."

He put his hand behind his head. "Ah he he he . . ." he uneasily chuckled.

Stan lifted his head. "Don't worry about it, Boss-man."

"So it really is you, is it?"

"Yup."

"What in the living hell happened to you?"

Sandy interrupted the two boys. "Uh, Boss, before you go nuts here, you can't tell anyone about this. Okay?"

He nodded his head. "Yeah, sure, but what happened to Stan? I'd like to know that first."

"It's a long story," Stan started. "I just tell it to you in a nutshell, 'kay?"

"Go on . . ."

"It all happened, like, all of a sudden. Here I am now. There you have it, my story in a nutshell."

Boss rolled his eyes. "You haven't changed a bit."

"Now here is the real question, you two," Sandy said to them. "How are we going to get Stan out of here without the ham-hams seeing him?" The two ham-hams looked up at Stan, who was about twice his normal height.

"Good question. What options do we have?" Boss asked.

"Not much. We always have the option of leaving him in here, but that would be for all night and Noel would notice you're gone in the morning." Sandy added.

Boss nodded. "Or we could go out that little window over there, but the ham-hams would get suspicious of you and all, like you're a werewolf, ya know?"

"Oh sure, Boss. 'Oh, Stan climbed out the window, did he? Oh he is definitely a werewolf!'" Stan said sarcastically, imitating one of the ham-hams. "Me climbing out a window will not make anyone think I am a werewolf."

"Yeah, but it might get them suspicious," Sandy pointed out. "Wouldn't they ask why you were leaving through the window?"

"Probably yes."

"Then we can't do that."

Stan sighed. "Ugh . . . what can we do?" He stared at the wall for a few seconds, when suddenly an idea popped into his head. An idea so grand it just had to work.

He smirked. "Hey, Sandy, I might just have an idea." She approached him, and he whispered his plan into her ear.

"What? No way! I'm not doing that!" she said, a mixture of being stunned and angry written all over her face.

"Yes! You have to! It's the only way! Plus, hasn't Hillary been out of town since like two days ago?"

She thought to herself. She had to hand it to him, he was right about Hillary being out of town. It might just work out. "Alright. I'll pose as you in your cage. But I really don't want any more of Noel's books falling on me, okay? Those are really heavy."

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Sandy looked around the corner of Noel's door to his room. He was sound asleep, as she had seen him last. She quickly ran up to the table on which his cage was and to the cage door. This time she was careful to open it and close it slowly, for she didn't want Stan's owner waking up like before. Once inside, she took off the ribbon on her tail and hid it under some woodchips.

She closed her eyes and fell asleep . . .

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"Good morning, Stan!"

Sandy was startled awake by Noel the next morning. She was used to hearing Hillary's voice.

Noel held out his hand for her, and she climbed on. "Say, Stan, I'm going to be out a little later tonight, because I'm going out with my friends. I'll see you then." Sandy closed her eyes in comfort as he gently petted her fur. He set her back down in the cage and left.

"See ya!" he yelled back. She heard his car drive off about a minute or so later.

"That wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be," Sandy thought to herself. "Noel's actually pretty nice." She put her tail ribbon back on, then left for the clubhouse to check on Stan.

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