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Section 2
Episode 1: The Plan Begins
Life just wasn't the same anymore for Fillmore, and everyone had noticed the change in him. He had become short, and sometimes nasty, leading people to think he was returning to his old ways. People still liked him, but he had lost his best friend, Ingrid, and replaced him with Edward, who a lot of people deemed a "bad influence". Ma and Pa Fillmore were upset for him.
"Hey Cornelius," Pa Fillmore said. "Are you friends with Ingrid yet?" Fillmore was sitting in his bed on a Sunday afternoon. It had been almost a month since Fillmore was detained for Anza's attack, and the safety patrol were busily following leads about the criminal gang that Edward had predicted.
"No pa," Fillmore replied. Pa Fillmore shook his head sadly. "She doesn't trust me anymore." Fillmore was heartbroken, truthfully. HE had trusted Ingrid his entire life, and told her everything, except that he loved her, he would risk the friendship. He did like Karen for a while, and told Ingrid that. Why didn't Ingrid tell him about Joseph? He still spoke to Ingrid, and they were still partners, but they never met up outside of school.
"It's up to you what you do Cornelius," Pa Fillmore explained. "But I think you are making a mistake."
"Dad," Fillmore said. "I have trusted her ever since I met her. I rescued her from expulsion and risked my own neck. If she didn't tell me this, why would she tell me other things? What else is she hiding for me?"
"She saved your neck as well," Pa Fillmore replied and left the room, leaving Fillmore alone with his depressing thoughts. Fillmore had sat in his room a lot, but spent a lot of time working out, which had left him a lot bigger than before. He had also taken up the Ps3 handset and spent a lot of time playing Call of Duty.
[X]
Vallejo sat on the couch with Joseph, "What are going to do, Anza?" Vallejo asked. They were talking about Fillmore and Ingrid. They all felt bad about it, and Joseph was feeling especially guilty and sought help in Vallejo.
Joseph shook his head. "I have no idea," he sighed. "Ingrid and myself have been getting along greatly. To be honest, Vallejo, this has been the best month of my life, bar this fiasco with Ingrid and Fillmore."
Vallejo nodded. "I know Fillmore," he said. "He has been behaving differently because he wishes things could have gone differently. He has been spending a lot of time on his own, in case you didn't know. When he is not alone he is with Edward, who enjoys making things worse for his own interest."
Joseph rubbed his face with his hand. "I could try and talk to Ingrid, see if I could get her to talk to him Monday morning."
"That could go either way," Vallejo explained. "Fillmore retreats into himself when he is upset, avoids people. If Ingrid, say, knocked on his door, he might not go to school at all." Vallejo shook his head. "This is annoying."
Vallejo had to get the two friends again. They were the best team in the school, Edward making them the best team in the country. Since they had fallen out, however, the amount of busts done by the safety patrol had dropped dramatically. They probably would be further along with the current criminal case.
There was a knock on Joseph's door. Joseph got up and answered. It was Karen; she too was involved with re creating the friendship between Ingrid and Fillmore. "Hello Karen, come in."
Karen walked into the living room and saw Vallejo sitting on the couch. "Hi Vallejo," she said.
"Hello Tehama," Vallejo replied, who insisted on calling people by their surnames, like when they were in middle school.
"What's going on then," Karen asked, sitting down next to Vallejo with Joseph standing up in front of them, as if briefing them.
"I think I am going to ring Ingrid," Joseph explained and Karen nodded. "Get her to talk to Fillmore."
Karen raised an eyebrow, "I think that you should meet up with her," she said. "Ringing her gives her much more chance to ignore you." She giggled to herself. She still liked Joseph, a lot, though she would never sabotage Ingrid and Joseph's relationship, she just wasn't like that.
Joseph got his phone out of his pocket and left the room.
[X]
Ingrid was tinkering with her old robot that she built with the aid for Fillmore. Not for nostalgic reasons, but because she liked her robot. She missed Fillmore, massively, though she reasoned that, that section of her life was over. She had to move on and live with it, however much it still hurt her every time she brought the memories to her mind. She often retreated into her memories, as they were so perfect; it was like she was there.
She was happy with Joseph, really happy. They saw each other all of time, inside or outside of school. She spent a lot of time on the internet talking to him and Karen. Life was good, she just wished she could share it with Fillmore.
Her phone vibrated in her pocket, half expecting Fillmore she answered it. "Hello?" she said down the phone. It was Joseph and he was asking if she wanted to meet up at the park down the road. "Sure," Ingrid replied, smiling to herself. Joseph now ended phone calls with "Bye baby." It might be a bit cringe worthy, but she liked it.
It was two o'clock and Ingrid still had her pyjamas on, that was just the kind of girl she was. She didn't care was people thought of her and she sure as hell was not going to look nice in the comfort of her own bedroom. She went into the bathroom to get ready to meet Joseph, though all she did was wash her face, she never put makeup on.
[X]
"Ok, bye baby," Joseph said down the phone.
"Aww," Karen said. "Bye baby, that's so cute."
Vallejo laughed at Joseph's face, which was blushing moderately. "So," Vallejo said. "What is going on then Anza?"
Joseph locked his phone and put it in his pocket. "I'm meeting up with her at that park down the road in half an hour," he explained. "Do you two wanna play X-box until then?"
Karen nodded. "Sorry Anza," Vallejo said. "I am going fishing, I haven't been in ages and have already arranged it with my father, some other time though."
"Sure," Joseph replied. "See you later Vallejo, lets hope this goes well."
"Bye Vallejo," Karen said as Vallejo left.
"Bye, and good luck Anza, we are all with you," Vallejo stated as she left.
Joseph turned his X box on and Karen and him played on some games for twenty minutes, until Karen said, "Time to go then, Joseph." And they left at his house, Karen going home and Joseph heading for the park near Ingrid's house.
[X]
Edward was lying on his bed, running mathematical equations through his head to sooth him. He was drunk, and tired, it took away the pain. His mom was out at a pub somewhere but he didn't care; why should he?
He didn't like himself, not only that, he pitied his miserable existence. He was in a mood of self pity which was, in his own words, branching out for self loathing and self anguish. He had a bit of fun with Ingrid and Fillmore, showing their emotions to one another. He had never felt guilty in his life, and this wasn't the time he would start.
He got up and went to his piano and started playing a Queen song, can anybody find me somebody to love? That was something he wanted, someone real that he could love, but he couldn't. He couldn't trust people, they would just betray him like people had in the past.
Before the thought could develop, he passed, falling off his piano stool onto the floor.
[X]
Ingrid sat on the swing in the park her and Joseph often met in. It was getting colder as it got closer to the winter months. Ingrid liked that, she enjoyed winter more than summer as she liked not to have to wear less amounts of clothing. "Hey Ingrid," Joseph said, who had arrived through the door behind her.
Ingrid got off her swing, "Hello Joseph," she said, who came up, hugged her and kissed her. They sat down on the swing and talked for a while, holding hands from one swing to the other.
"Ingrid listen," Joseph said seriously, "we need to talk about Fillmore."
Ingrid sighed. "What about him?" she asked in a fake, I don't care, sort of way.
"How do you feel about him?" he asked, not in a judgmental way, but he had rehearsed what he was going to say for a while and wanted it to sound right.
"I miss him, Joseph," Ingrid explained, starting to get emotional, her photographic memory popping up images in her mind of them sitting together, laughing in the snow. "We were best friends, and now he won't even talk to me unless it is a case."
Joseph nodded. "Why don't you talk to him?" he asked.
Ingrid looked at him. "I don't think I can," she explained, now quite upset. "Whenever I try he walks off, and when he walks off he walks off for hours, then I lose face."
"You could knock on his door on Monday," Joseph suggested.
Ingrid looked across, "You have been put up to this," Ingrid said. "You have, haven't you?"
Joseph nodded. "I wanted to do it Ingrid," he said. "You and Fillmore were so close, like you said, and it's affecting everyone. The case, the fact that you are both upset a lot."
Ingrid smiled and kissed him. "I'll try," she said. "I really want it to work out, I just want things to go back to the way they used to be."
Joseph smiled, this may work, he thought to himself. "So, you're going to call on him before school on Monday?" he asked. "Have a long conversation, get everything back to normal."
Ingrid nodded.
[X]
Edward woke up from his faint, dazed and confused. From the time, he had been asleep for a while now. He shook his head and rubbed his face. In his sleep, he had had another epiphany regarding the case. He had an idea about the structure of the criminal gang and some ideas on what they were doing.
Richard Manner, the hacker. He was collecting information for the higher ups so they could blackmail people. The fights were on people that the group was blackmailing for power. The fights were when people refused to co operated. The gang had recruited Jake Parry with promises of power; he could get the thugs art materials and masks to disguise themselves.
Since Jake had been caught, he confessed to attacking Joseph, though he claimed it was on jealousy, giving him six months of detention off sight for a first offence. He had done this to take suspicion of him, and so the gang wouldn't get him, you could not drop out of this gang; you were in it for life.
Edward thought about the next targets. Since there was an attack on Joseph and Fillmore, this meant that they were attacking the safety patrol. They had already hacked Danny for information, and Vallejo. He was sure of himself now, the next target would be the safety patrol, they would terrify members of the safety patrol, to cause some to leave. His life at X high school was very interesting.
In a small burst of happiness, Edward started playing on his piano, and remained on it for well over three hours. He was still a little drunk, but was cooling off, and would have a massive hangover in the morning.
Edward starting thinking about Fillmore and Ingrid, since it was starting to affect him and that bothered him. Due to the fact that their performance had gone down at safety patrol no doubt their were plans by Vallejo and Joseph trying to get them back together as friends were going on at the moment, probably as he thought.
[X]
Fillmore was watching a film, thinking about life at the moment. It wasn't great, though he was feeling better since the morning. It was late now, about ten, and no one had called him for a while, as he stopped replying to texts a few weeks ago. He needed a girlfriend, someone to take his mind off of Ingrid, someone that he could give his thoughts to rather than have them taken away by Edward.
He lay back in his bed, resting his head on his hands with his elbows out. He was tired now, his eyelids threatening to close. Something had to happen soon, something had to take him away from his life, or he was going to go insane. He decided he was going to pile all of his thoughts into the case at the moment. This was the last thought he had before he fell asleep, waiting for Monday morning to come, a whole new week or misery.
End of Chapter 1
Review please, thanks. There are going to be new characters in this section as well as old ones coming back, not going to give any big clues away but the new characters name begins with A and the old character coming back has the initials F.B. Review this chapter numerically please. Thanks.
