Waah…hey, readers. Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I have been suffering from serious writer's block for the last week, and I'm even making this chapter up as I go along.

Disclaimer: I'll own Psychonauts eventually…just as soon as I mail these blackmailing photos of Tim Schafer….okay, I lied. I have no photos.

Chapter Seven: Friendship and Suspicion

Over the next week at Psychonauts headquarters, the atmosphere had changed considerably. Lili had cheered up quite a bit. She was back to her cynical old self…if you would consider that cheered up. She had even started training with Raz and Onyx.

Onyx had improved quite a bit in her acrobatics. She could run across a tightrope, catch a moving trapeze and even swing from bar to bar.

But the happiest of the three was Raz. Not only had he patched things up with Lili, he now almost mastered the Brain Illusion. Onyx and Lili were rarely able to throw it off.

He would have liked to continue his investigations on the kidnapping, but Ivy still hadn't given him the medallion back.

One afternoon Raz was heading down the hall to the Training Grounds. As he walked past the Head Office, he heard hushed voices coming from the slightly open door.

"I told you, I don't know how the boy found it." Raz recognized Adrian's voice.

"That's beside the point, Adrian!" snapped Ivy's voice, "I can't keep covering for you. Your big mouth is going to get us both found out!"

"I didn't want to do this in the first place." Adrian said, in a kind of quiet anger.

"It's too late for that. We're in too deep for you to just back out."

"I know, but…" Adrian trailed off, "Did you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"Something outside…" Raz heard footsteps heading toward the door. He turned invisible just a split second before the door swung open. Ivy stepped out, swiveling her head around. Her eyes seemed to rest on Raz for a moment. Then she shook her head.

"There's nothing out here." She said, before closing the door.

Raz immediately headed down to the Training Grounds and reported what he had heard to Lili and Onyx.

"And you think they had something to do with the kidnapping?" Lili said.

"It would make sense," Onyx said, "They're Truman's most trusted agents. No one would ever suspect them." Raz nodded.

"Plus, didn't you say you saw two people attacked your family?" he inquired, "What did they look like?" Onyx shrugged.

"I don't know. They were wearing hoods, plus it was dark. Still, one of them kind of sounded like a woman."

"Yeah. And when I used clairvoyance on the medallion, one of the people I saw had a really high-pitched voice. I couldn't see their face, but it might have been Ivy."

'But they said, 'The boss will be pleased.'." Lili said, "I wonder who they were talking about?"

"I don't know," Raz said, "But we have to tell the other agents." Onyx shook her head.

"It won't do any good," she said, "You know Milla. And Sasha, and Morry, and Ford. They won't believe us unless we give them cold, hard proof. Plus, we're not even sure Adrian and Ivy are guilty of anything."

"Well, I say it's time we found out," Lili said, "And I think we should start by getting that medallion back…"

Wow…sorry if that was too short, but I'm out of ideas at the moment. I'm open for suggestions, if you want to write something in your reviews. I command you, review!