"Hand me another

"Hand me another." I said. Merton gave me another pebble. I through it up at Cass's window. There was still no answer. Merton threw one.

"Oops." Merton said as the window shattered. Well it got her attention at least.

"What the…"Cass came to her window and looked around.

"Down here." I called.

"Tommy!" She wore another devil smile. Before we knew it she was jumping from her third floor bedroom to the grass where we stood. Some how she landed on her feet.

"Merton, I'm so glad you're ok." She grinned at seeing him. "Ok boys, where're we going? I've been waiting for an excuse to escape."

"Do you jump from windows all the time?" I asked.

"Of course." She said kissing me on my rather furry cheek.

"For some one who's on house arrest you're in a really good mood." Observed Merton.

"You boys've just saved me from watching Spice World with my sister for the 14th time." Cass ran into her backyard forest ahead of us. "She just doesn't get it yet that they've broken up, and that Scary Spice isn't exactly the best black role model to have."

"You didn't hear did you?" I glanced at her.

"What." She stopped running ahead.

Merton and I explained to her about all the damage reports, and causalities we'd heard. She calmed down after hearing this. The smile left her face.

"They think that was us?" she asked, completely sobered. "But…?"

"But nothing, our reps are so busted." Merton said firmly.

"Why were you in the chem. lab anyway?" I asked.

"These." Cass sat down on a log and pulled something out of her pocket. "I finished the antidote, not that it's that important now that everyone knows. But if TnT weren't so smart then it might slow the town down. Y'know maybe get that 'All werewolves are evil' thing out of their heads." She toyed with the small capsules in her hand. "I guess what happened was last night was sorta my fault, I shouldn't have pressed for it like I did."

"It wasn't your fault." I said. "we agreed to it."

"I can't believe twenty people were killed." She went on. "Are they sure that was right?"

"uh, huh." Said Merton sullenly. "I wonder what they're gonna think when they realized we've gotten away."

"Probably that we're all deranged and highly armed." I said grinning.

"Bitter and violent." Volunteered Cass.

"All out awful." Merton grinned.

~

I tried, unsuccessfully, to sneak through a window to get back in. But Dean our 24/7-security alarm caught me.

"Trying to sneak in little bro?" he asked with out turning.

"Uh, yeah, guess so." I said sheepishly.

"Eddie just did the same thing." Dean went on. "Laura and Steve were covering for him, but Carl still found out."

"Oh." I pretended to be interested as Dean explained the rest of what had happened. "Is that guard still in the kitchen?"

"Yup, he's a mean one too," he said. "asked him to bring me a sandwich and he just ignored me."

I rolled my eyes and got up. Got up just as the door bell rang.

"Tommy, can you get that?" Dean grunted. I'd expected the guard to come running, but he must not have heard it, so I went over to the window and looked out. about ten people dressed in what seemed to be white lab coats. They all held metal cases in one hand and pens in the other.

"Who is it?" asked Dean as the bell rang again.

I was not letting those people in. I knew that for sure. It was more than enough to be Merton's werewolf guinea pig. Being theirs was not an option. The question was, how to get them to leave. The bell rang again.

"I'm missing the opening of Fresh Prince, let them in so they stop ringing the bell." Said Dean impatiently.

"I'll be upstairs." I bid Dean good bye and hurried up to my room.

~

My dad came home soon after I'd ran upstairs away from the door. He let in the scientists (turns out that they actually were scientists/doctors). They were now sitting down in the dining room waiting for me to come down stairs.

"Tommy, come down stairs." My dad was calling from the bottom of the stairs.

I stayed on my bed playing my game boy ignoring him.

"Tommy I'm not gonna ask you again! They might have a way to cure you." My dad tried to sound encouraging. It wasn't working. The last encounter I'd had with someone who claimed that they could cure me had not gone so well. I'd almost ended up dying, so you can understand why I wasn't so prone to trust the people down in my dining room. Then there was the fact that they were assuming that I wanted to be helped, maybe I wanted to stay a werewolf. They didn't know what I wanted. And besides it seemed like betraying Merton; anyone with a brain knew that he wanted to be the ones to finally find a way to cure Cass and I.

"Thomas Dawkins, get down here right now" Full name. This usually meant I was about to get into big trouble. In order to avoid this I clicked off my Gameboy and headed down to the dining room. There sat my dad and all of the scientists.

"This is Tommy." He introduced me to the people at the table. The scientists all nodded.

"I really appreciate this." I said trying to be polite. "But I'm not really sure I want to be helped."

"Nonsense." Dad said quickly.

"No, seriously." I said. "Last time someone tried to help me I almost died. And hey Merton's doing pretty well so far, so thanks and all but…"

"Sit down, don't be nervous." One of the scientists pushed me down into a chair.

"Ok, obviously you're not hearing me." I stood back up. "Thanks but no thanks. I've already got someone working on my case. Merton might not have a PhD but he knows what he's doing. I don't think you do." I said the last part while looking at a stun gun that was edging out of one of their pockets.

"He's probably overly stressed." One of the doctors diagnosed. "Get some bed rest son, we'll be back around tomorrow."

"I won't." I muttered escaping out of the room.

The doctor turned to the rest of the team. "Ok, Cassandra Black next."

I laughed and turned back towards them. "Cass has been through only about half as much as me, but she's gonna give you about a tenth of the courtesy I gave you."

One of then raised their eyebrows. "Excuse me?"

I sighed. "In other words, prepare to have your asses kicked out of her house."

~

The next day I kept watch out of my bedroom window. When I saw the team of doctors coming I pulled a Cass and leaped from my window to the side yard. Then I took the route through the forest to Merton's place.

"Hey." I said walking in. Merton wasn't there, but Lori was. she was sitting by the TV.

"I haven't seen you since the dance!" she exclaimed.

"Where's Merton?" I asked.

"He's in the bathroom. Be nice to him, he's really depressed right now." She warned. "Look at the lair."

I looked around. Almost every thing was gone. The room looked almost normal.

"Hey Tommy." I looked up. Merton entered the room slowly.

"Your Lair…" I looked around again. "What happened?"

"They came back this morning." Merton said lowly. "With a warrant."

"Why?"

"They've decided that we told the syndicate to attack like that. They've also decided that every weird thing that's happened in this town was because of us." Merton sat down in front of his computer. "This is one whack little town." He grumbled. "Do you know how much some of that stuff was worth, and some of those books meant a lot to me."

I scanned his bookshelves; they'd been almost stripped clean. "They took all your werewolf stuff?" I asked in disbelief. "All your super-natural stuff?"

"They said I can get it back when this thing blows over." Merton gave a small, sad laugh. "Right! I bet they're having a bond fire right now. I mean I sorta understand them taking my weapons, but the books?"

"Isn't a warrant only for searching?" asked Lori. "Not confiscating."

"If they've got good reason to believe that you're doing something illegal then they can confiscate all they want." Merton scowled. "It's a stupid town law. I told you this town was whack."

There've been a bunch of scientists at my house trying to study me lately." I changed the subject, trying to get Merton to stop frowning.

"I hope you're not letting them." Said Lori. "They've got no business doing that."

"No shit Sherlock." I said sarcastically. "They weren't to happy about it either. That's why I'm here. I had to get away. They should be at Cass's now."

As if on cue we heard a clunk on the door. It flew open almost going of the hinges. There stood Cass, wolfed out and extremely angry. She was fuming, and we could practically see smoke come out of her ears.

"Those bastards!" she practically screamed. "Stun guns! They had stun guns! They tried to immobilize me with stun guns! Just cause I didn't want to be their precious little lab rat."

"Remember your blood pressure dear." Lori said laughing.

"You think this is funny?" Cass turned on Lori. "They just wouldn't leave. I told them nicely the first few times, then finally I had to practically throw them out door."

We just stared at her. She glared back, only calming down a little.

"Why don't you sit down." Merton finally suggested. She stormed past him, and sat next to Lori on the couch.

"She's really pissed." Merton whispered to me.

"I heard that!" She stood up again and headed for the cabinet that usually held the swords and wooden stakes. She pulled it open, and reached in. she looked very surprised when she came out with nothing.

"What happened?" she calmed down only the slightest bit.

Merton explained every thing about the police and the warrant. When he was done Cass looked even more angry (if that was possible).

"They took all your stuff?" She bared her fangs, and ran her tongue across them. I could tell she was thinking about using them.

"How about you lie down this time." Merton led her over to his bed. "Try wolfing down while you're at it. It might help."

~

"Thomas Dawkins," My mom glared at me. "Where were you this afternoon?"

"Merton's Lair." I figured lying probably wouldn't help.

"You're supposed to stay inside the house." She sighed. "You're old enough to know what house-arrest means. Just because we don't approve of it doesn't mean you don't have to follow it."

"I'm not going to be studied by some people I don't know." I protested.

"They want to help you."

"Supposedly so did Professor Fleugulhof (a/n- I have absolutely no idea how so spell that damn man's name), and look what happened there." I said.

"Who…?" My mom started.

"Never mind. The point is I don't want to be helped."

"But the town…" I stopped her again.

"I don't give a flying f*** about what the town thinks." I shook my head. "I really don't."

"So you want to carry this curse for ever?" My mom looked astonished.

"Yes, I mean no… I don't know. the point is I don't want that team studying me. One person is allowed to study me, and that's Merton."

The next day I learned that I won that battle. The doctors didn't come back to my house, nor to Cass's. But more battles were to come.

~

School. Monday. Yuck. My parents were making me go. So were Merton's, Lori's and Cass's. I repeat, yuck. Usually I'm not the type of guy to be afraid of facing school, but today was defiantly a different story.

Merton and I got there pretty early. Made minimal contact with anybody. So far so good. It was around homeroom that things started to get bad. One, upon walking in I could three of the doctors that had been at my house sitting in the back of the room. When Merton and I sat down one of the doctors came over to talk to us.

"You must be Merton Dingle." The doctor held out his hand to shake. Merton took it nervously, also noticing the stun gun in his pocket.

"I'm Doctor Smith. I was wondering if we could maybe have access to your werewolf research." The doctor continued.

Merton's features immediately clouded over in anger. "The town took it all. You'll have to talk to them."

Doctor Smith looked upset. "They took it all? Well do you remember anything?"

"Plenty." Merton smiled. "But I'm not telling you any of it. Bye now."

The doctor looked miffed, but headed toward the back of the room.

"Thanks man." I said looking at Merton.

"No prob." Merton got an insane look on his face. "I'm not letting anyone else study you and Cass. I'm going to win the Nobel Peace Prize with you! Me! you hear? Me!"

The few students that were streaming into homeroom gave Merton weird looks (well actually weirder looks than he was already getting). Soon the bell rang and the teacher cam in from her hall monitoring. Lori slipped in just as she started taking attendance.

"Lori Baxter." The teacher called.

"Here." She said. Murmurs swept through the class.

"Tommy Dawkins." I noticed that the teacher sorta choked my name out.

"Here."

"Merton Dingle." She now looked like she wanted to spaz out.

"Here." Merton said aloud. "Unfortunately." He added this last part a bit quieter.

Net morning announcements came on.

"There will be a team of doctor joining us for the remainder of the week. Please let them work as needed." The principal blared. I groaned. Lori passed me a sympathetic look, and Merton got that crazed look in his eye.

(A/n- I'm really pumping these out quickly! The next part will be out by about Friday. Oh, yeah, I'm not sick Yea!!!)

-Loonybin