House Of School. (Don't own anything other than OCs and plot.)

Patricia was bored of school. Just empty-minded, bored. All the teachers were playing Team Evil, the newbie was still a suspect in Joy's disappearance and she kept denying it.

The stupid new girl had spent a whole night in a creepy haunted attic because she was trying to deny that she was the one who had kidnapped Joy.

The red head flipped her hair and stormed off to the house.

She walked in on her housemother, cleaning up with some serious elbow grease.

"Patricia, darling, what are you doing here? You know you aren't allowed home at this time." The housemother said, then she noticed the depressed look on Patricia's face. "What's the matter?"

"Trudy, have you ever felt... lonely? Like there's nobody left in the world who understands and everyone thinks you're crazy?" Patricia asked tonelessly, sitting down heavily.

"Oh, darling. Is this about Joy?" Trudy asked, sitting down next to her, putting her arm around the girl's shoulders.

"Yeah. I don't want you to get all wound up with me on this one, but I still think it was Nina who kidnapped her." Patricia said and waited to be told off.

Trudy felt the redhead tense, ready to argue. "Well, love, your accusation might be unfounded. Nina hadn't even arrived when all Joy's things were taken. And she was here in the house since one in the afternoon. What time did Joy vanish, darling?"

"I think it was a quarter to one." Patricia said, feeling rage at the newbie.

"I'll talk to Mr Sweet for you, my darling. I'm sure that if anyone could help you, it'll be him." Trudy said, kissing Patricia's cheek. "Come on, love, I'll walk you over to the school."

The two walked to the main building and Patricia was sent back to class. Trudy went to see Mr Sweet.

She nervously knocked on his door.

"Enter." He told her. Trudy tried to be confident as she walked into Mr Sweet's office. "Ah, Trudy. What can I do for you?" He asked.

"Mr Sweet, it's about Patricia. She came to me just a few minutes ago and she said that Joy disappeared at a quarter to one in the afternoon. And Nina had been in the house since one in the afternoon, fifteen minutes after Joy vanished. Now, I like Nina, but this is worrying Patricia. I need answers."

Mr Sweet sighed when he saw that she wasn't backing down.

"Trudy, you have to talk to Victor." He told her. She tensed.

"No. I want you to tell me, please. What happened to Joy?" Her voice was firm.

"Trudy, you have to talk to Victor about this, please!" Mr Sweet said.

"I'm in charge of making sure my students are happy, and so help me, that's what I'll do! If you won't tell me, I'm going to go and chew Victor out over this and I won't stop until I can reassure Patricia! Now, will you give me some cursed answers or am I going to have to chew Victor out?!" Trudy screamed.

Mr Sweet stared at the usually quiet and calm Anubis housemother, still recovering from her angry rant, during which, she hadn't paused for breath.

"Well?!" She questioned furiously.

"Victor will tell you everything." Mr Sweet said, breathless. He'd never seen her rage like that.

"Fine, then, don't tell me yourself! I'll find out one way or the other and I will help my student!" She shouted at him, the stood up and stormed out.

Patricia had heard the yelling. Everyone through the school had heard it. Who needs intercoms when you have loud voices?

Trudy stormed angrily into Victor's office.

"Right, out with it!" She snapped, to Victor's surprise.

"With what, Trudy?" Victor asked, looking at her.

"What have you and Mr Sweet done with Joy Mercer?! And don't lie to me, I've been informed by Mr Sweet that you're somehow involved in all of this! Patricia came and told me that Joy's disappearance happened at fifteen minutes to one and Nina Martin arrived here at one! Now, don't get me wrong here, I love Nina as much as I do the others, but as it's my job to make sure those lovely children are happy, give me some stinking answers!"

Victor gave Trudy a slap across the face.

"Shut up, you stupid girl! Joy Mercer was taken out of school and has moved abroad with her family!" Victor shouted back.

"Don't give me that! Joy would have given everyone some advanced warning, or wouldn't even have come back here! I'm not going to accuse a student of anything, especially with no evidence, but I told Patricia that I'd get her some real answers and I don't care even if I have to throw Corbiere out of a window into a lake, I'll get them! Now tell me everything!" She raged.

Victor stood up and towered over Trudy. She stood her ground, even though she was tiny in comparison to him.

"That girl is delusional, Trudy. I won't have you accusing me of kidnapping an obnoxious miscreant. You had better go back to your jobs before I take matters into my own hands to punish you."

"Well, you punish me then, because I am not giving up on Patricia so easily! Tell me, you lying, obnoxious, pathetic slug, or I'll hand you over to the authorities on the grounds of kidnap and threat!" Trudy growled furiously.

"I've already told you that the Mercer girl is with her family and that is all! There is no lying here, Trudy. Now go about your work." He told her.

Trudy still stood her ground. "No. I want you to stop lying to me, or this means that I will hand you over to the authorities and the school to the board. You give me some true answers now or I'll get matters in my own hands. And don't you dare to think that I won't!"

Victor grabbed her by her hair and dragged her into a room with a bed in it.

"You stupid girl! You'll stay right there! I'll deal with you later today!" He yelled, locking her in.

Instead of staying, Trudy kicked her way out, via the window, catching herself on a branch of a tree and jumping from that. Victor didn't get to punish her for what she'd done.

She was proud of it, and would stand up to him again, if needs be.

Patricia asked her eagerly what she'd got, but so far, Trudy told her that all she had from her interrogations was just a sore throat.

"Oh." Patricia was very disappointed.

"Don't worry, love, I'll have the truth out for you very, very soon, OK?" Trudy reassured her with a hug. "You just trust me, OK?"

"Always, Trudes." Patricia said, grateful that Trudy had stood her ground against Victor and not become part of Team Evil yet.

The house was oddly quiet from that day on.

Until Trudy came in and took Patricia out of the house.

"OK, love. I've spoken to Joy and I had to make her think I was on Victor's side. It turns out that she's being kept safe and away from some man called Rufus Zeno, who goes by the alias Renee Zeldman. She's the Chosen One, direct descendant of the great priestess Amneris. That means that on the Friday of the end of term dance at midnight, she is required to build the Cup of Ankh and they drink some life elixir and tip the Scales of Life to become immortal. Does this make sense to you?"

Patricia shook her head. "But it definitely sounds more believable than 'She went home.' Idiots, thinking we could be fooled like that."

"Don't be- Actually on second thoughts, as long as we don't say it in front of them, be as disrespectful as you like. Treat us like dummies, they can think again. But I have evidence from Joy that Nina wasn't involved, her father was. And so are the police, the hospital staff, Victor, Mr Sweet, Mrs Andrews, and Mr Winkler."

Trudy was proving a more useful source than Patricia could ever have believed possible.

"You never fail to amaze me, Trudy. You can stand up to anyone, trick anyone and you're a lot smarter than you make out. Well done, you!" Patricia said, then gave her housemother a massive hug.

The two hugged for a moment, then went back to the house to perform a perfect charade.

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I don't know where all of this came from. Thank you to all my perfect, sweet reviewers. Now, the power belongs to you. Couple requests, things you want to see, people who go missing? All your decisions. :) Until next update, Random Dizzy. :)