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Act 2: The first attacks
She walked into the office with the feeling of dread, looking up she noticed that Leggett wasn't there. She placed her backpack beside her desk and sat down; she pulled out some unfinished math work and began writing.
The door opened and in walked Wayne, he walked right up to her waving at some of the other safety patrollers in the process. "Hello Ingrid" he said cheerfully, she smiled as best she could and watched him sit down in the desk beside her. "Your Fillmore's new partner, right? He mentioned you when he came for a visit" he said. Ingrid nodded "He is happy that your back" she said looking slightly downcast, Wayne smiled and said in a warm voice "I could never take your place." Ingrid was about to question what he meant when Fillmore walked in, "Hey Leggett, Ingrid; how are your mornings?" He said while sitting in the desk on the other side of Ingrid. She smiled and was about to reply when a scream came from Vallejo's office, they got up and ran in to find Vallejo covered in whipped cream. Ingrid and Fillmore stifled a laughter that was building inside them when Vallejo scowled, "Who ever did this is going to be a world of pain when I get through with them!" he threatened. "Wasn't us Vallejo" said Fillmore smiling, Leggett walked up to Vallejo's desk and saw that the trap had been set in his desk drawer, by opening it the can would spray whipped cream at who ever was looking inside it. Ingrid looked over his shoulder "Simple but effective" she said.
After helping him get cleaned up Fillmore, Wayne and Ingrid left for their lockers. She was feeling a little better, opening her locker she gasped in shock at what she saw. Fillmore came quickly beside her and looked in; in her locker was a vase with some dead flowers of sort and a sign that said "You're in for a scare :)." Fillmore frowned and Wayne looked see what was going on, "Who could have done this?" he asked. Ingrid looked at the sign more closely and noticed some sort of black smudge "We should take it to Tehama to get this mark checked out, it may give us some leads" said Ingrid pulling on a glove and picking it up. Fillmore looked at her "How could someone get into your locker?" he asked vaguely while looking at her lock, "Who went into Vallejo's office and planted the whipped cream?" asked Wayne. "Ingrid looked at him and opened her mouth but Fillmore asked the question, "You think the incidences are related?" Wayne shook his "It's hard to tell. The cream seemed more like a joke, this stunt seems to have the impression of fear, but it's weird that both things happened on the same morning" he replied.
Ingrid turned and began to walk away when Fillmore said to her "Don't worry Third, Wayne and I will figure this out" she nodded slightly and walked to H.Q looking down. What about her? She could figure it out too, why was it that Fillmore suddenly believed her to be incapable of solving a case? Hadn't they solved so many before? She shook her head willing the thoughts away, he was just trying to help her out, but a small voice said so why do I feel like he is pushing me away?
The lunch bell rang, Ingrid walked quickly to the tree where Fillmore and she would enjoy lunch when they weren't too busy, but he wasn't there. She sat down and began to eat anyways thinking he was probably just running late, if anything was happening he would radio her on the talkie. Time passed and she finished her lunch, looking around to see if she could spot him, but he was nowhere to be found. She leaned against the tree and closed her eyes. She opened them awhile later and Fillmore still wasn't there, she looked at her watch and noticed that the bell was going to ring in a few minuets. She got up and began to walk around looking for him. She went to H.Q but he wasn't there, then to the cafeteria and saw that he was laughing and eating with Wayne. She looked down; he hadn't even told her were he was going to be. She walked up to them and said hello, Fillmore looked at her "Hey where have you been?" Ingrid looked at him with a cool gaze "I could ask the same thing" she replied sitting down beside Leggett. Fillmore smiled and looked at Wayne "Leggett and I began to question some people about the locker incident, and then we came here for lunch when nothing came up." Ingrid looked down and felt the sting in her eyes of tears about to fall but she wouldn't let them, I'm stronger than that she thought. Wayne looked at her sadly "I'm sorry we should have told you" she looked at him in surprise, Fillmore nodded "It was stupid of me not to call you, I'm sorry." She shook her head "Don't worry about it… I-I have to go" she got up and left walking quickly away hearing their goodbyes faintly.
She walked up to her locker and noticed a piece of paper sticking out; she pulled it out and opened it reading "Watch your back Third cause I'm out to get you." She shivered and read it again. Then she opened her locker and a powder flew into her face, she coughed and noticed that it was chalk dust, she began to wipe it off when Tehama walked by. "Ingrid?!" she said stopping beside her "What happened?" Ingrid coughed again and replied "Chalk dust… And another letter" she passed it Tehama who placed it in an evidence bag. "Who could be doing this" she said looking at the letter through the bag, Ingrid shrugged her shoulders "Someone who wants revenge it would seem" she said dusting off some more chalk. Whoever it was had access to here locker, she didn't know who that could be, a teacher? No that wouldn't make sense, Fillmore knew her combination but wouldn't do this to her. She looked down for a moment thinking of Fillmore, compared to her losing of a partner and best friend, this guy didn't seem important.
Fillmore rushed into H.Q and looked at Ingrid "Why didn't you tell me what happened?" he asked looking at some of the chalk dust that still remained on her dress. She coldly stared at him for a moment and said "Because you weren't there" he blinked for a moment at her reply, what had made her so grumpy and then he remembered the chalk dust. Whoever was doing this to Ingrid was going to pay he thought clenching his fist. "Do you know anyone who would want to do this to you?" he asked she looked down and said "About everyone we ever caught, but then wouldn't they want to attack you too?" He thought about it for a moment "Maybe someone you upset…" Wayne said walking up behind him, it was good to have Wayne back, and with him here they would figure out who was doing this. He turned to Wayne "Do you think maybe someone she caught?" Wayne placed his finger under his chin and looked as though he was thinking "Let's pull out your old cases and see what evidence there is" he said, Fillmore nodded and they walked off.
Ingrid watched them go, she hated this they had treated her like she didn't exist, or that she couldn't handle herself. She looked at the clock and got her things together, walking by Vallejo's office she peered in. Vallejo was looking over the files with Fillmore and Wayne he looked at them for a moment "I'm putting you two on this case; let's find out who is doing this to Third." He looked up for a moment and noticed her standing there, "Oh Third just talking about you, Fillmore and Leggett are going to try and figure this out, for now I want you to help Anza with the case about the computer virus affecting the computer clubs animation contest." He then turned back to Fillmore.
She walked out of the room and into the hallway, suddenly something warm ran down her cheek, she touched the spot and discovered it was a tear. She quickly rubbed her eyes and looked around to see if anyone had noticed, that was when she noticed a hooded figure at her locker. "Hey! Safety patrol stop!" The figure froze and looked at her then began to sprint away. She ran after her hoping that she could end this, the figure ducked into one of the empty classrooms, Ingrid followed but found the room empty. She looked around when suddenly a bucket of soapy water poured onto her head she turned around to see the perp had already begun running down the hall. With a new fire ignited in her she bolted after the figure. She was about to catch up when the perp threw some marbles onto the floor causing Ingrid to slip, looking up she watched the figure run out the school entrance.
Ingrid got up and rubbed her shoulder which ached with the pain of the fall. She gathered the marbles in a bag and turned to go back to H.Q but then stopped, she didn't want to face Fillmore and Wayne's happy teamwork again, so she turned and walked out the door.
There we go Ch. 2 hoped you like it. Please review!! :)