A/n: Okay I know that I said that it was the end of the chapter here and I hope that no one gets mad at me for this but there are actually two endings to this story. I couldn't decide on which one to use so I thought that it would be nice to use both of them. {FYI} Everything is completely the same in the story, the only thing that's changed here is the very end. Thanks....I'lll explain the rest of it after I'm finished here.... {Thanks for understanding everyone}
Chapter 10
"Finally Exposed "
"Fillmore, we will finally get rid of that old bat Principal Folsom and RayCliff. At the same time we will also have everyone on the Safety Patrol out of our hair," The boss said. He stared at and realized that he wasn't paying attention.
The boss wondered if he'd been talking to himself for the past few minutes. I mean, Fillmore had wanted to know their plan and be a part of it, didn't he?Wasn't this important to him?
"Fillmore are you listening to me?" He asked waving his hand in front of Fillmore's face.
Fillmore grabbed his boss's hand making His boss looked extremely surprised. "Thanks for all the information! I knew you would eventually trust me enough to tell me your entire plan" Fillmore told his boss.
His boss looked really confused at that moment. "What are you talking about?" The boss asked.
"I'm taking you in baby! You've been busted by the Safety Patrol," Fillmore said laughing.
The boss was looking entirely surprised.
"No, you'll never take me in," He screams as he dashes back down the hall they'd just walked through. Fillmore chases after his boss. His boss could feel Fillmore breathing down his neck. The boss wasn't about to be caught, not this far into his plan.
He couldn't believe this was happening. The boss needed to get away from Fillmore in a place that Fillmore would never, ever go! But where was that?
They dashed into the main halls of X Middle school where Fillmore chased him past the Safety Patrol HQ. At that moment, Wayne and Ingrid happen to be walking out the door when they saw Fillmore racing by.
"Fillmore?!" Wayne and Ingrid asked in disbelief. The two of them couldn't believe that Fillmore was out in the open where he could be caught.
"What in the world!?" Ingrid asked. She couldn't believe her eyes! It was really Fillmore!
"Quick Ingrid, before we loose him," Wayne said.
Ingrid and Wayne took chase. This could be their only chance to recapture Fillmore while he was out in the open. The question on their mind at the moment was how come he was out where he could be found in the first place?
"Tehama! We need backup! We have Fillmore in our sight," Ingrid yelled into her talky. She and Wayne surely needed help apprehending Fillmore this time. The last time they caught Fillmore, he'd put up quite a fight.
"On the way," Tehama said on the other side of the talky. Ingrid and Wayne heard static after Tehama was finished talking, as usual.
"Wayne, Fillmore could be leading us into some kind of trap," Ingrid said, when the thought hit her abruptly.
Wayne hadn't even thought of that option until now, but realized that Ingrid was right. There was a good possibility that this was payback for capturing him. They were going to need to be extra careful this time.
"We shouldn't get too close, but we need to capture him once again," Wayne said. It was a dilemma! They needed to do something though!
They continued to keep Fillmore in their sight while trying not to get too close to him. Ingrid and Wayne followed Fillmore out the school doors, into the schoolyard.
Fillmore dashed across the schoolyard and into the playground across the street. Ingrid and Wayne chased after him. The two of them had noticed that Fillmore was chasing a cloaked figure. They didn't know what he was doing.
"I think this is some kind of trap," Ingrid answered as they continued running.
Wayne agreed with Ingrid. This absolutely had to be some sort of trap these two had set up for the Safety Patrol. This whole scene didn't seem real at all to the two of them!
It didn't seem very clever to come out of hiding and racing past Safety Patrol HQ like Fillmore was doing. What kind of villian would come out of hiding like this?
"Should we head them off," Ingrid asked. It would be the easiest way to capture Fillmore once again.
Ingrid was surprised to find that Wayne shook his head. "No, first we need to know what exactly is going on before we do anything," Wayne replied. "Secondly when we do find out, we need to come up with another plan in order to capture him," Wayne replied.
Ingrid through their usual plan of heading off the criminal did a good job. What was wrong with doing the same thing over and over again when they were attempting to capture someone?
". . if we keep doing the same thing over and over again, we'll be way too predictable. Then the criminal will know what we're about to do and probably get away," Wayne replied as if reading her thoughts.
The last thing they wanted to do is make themselves predictable for the criminals. They needed to try a new approach to capturing criminals. Wayne knew an old plan that he hadn't used for at least a year.
"Ingrid do you remember the new plan?" Wayne asked. He and Ingrid had been discussing something new and it seemed like she understood the new plan pretty well. However did she understand well enough for them to try it out?
The only problem was, Fillmore might catch on and ruin it. He'd nearly forgot that Fillmore knew most of his moves because they use to be partners.On the other hand, what did they have to loose trying the new plan out on Fillmore?
It seemed as if Wayne and Ingrid chased Fillmore for hours. The two of them were really getting tired and almost out of breath by this time.
They should have apprehended Fillmore by this time and could have had him back to Principal Folsom by now. They would probably be in Folsom's office listening to her chew Fillmore out. That was only half of what she had in store for Fillmore.
Fillmore was unquestionably going to get some sort of unusual punishment. Wayne and Ingrid wondered what Principal Folsom had cooked up for Fillmore when they got him back to her office.
They knew whatever the punishment; Folsom wasn't going to go easy on him! Not after all the chaos he'd triggered all around school.
"Well, should we try our plan yet," Ingrid asked. She and Wayne couldn't keep this up forever. They needed to do something.
Wayne didn't have a problem with trying the plan out now. He had just through that something would have happened between Fillmore and the person he was with by now.
"Yes, lets go ahead with the new plan already," Wayne replied. He was sick of this and was more than ready to bring Fillmore in once again.
Ingrid smiled. She was really glad to hear those words out of Wayne's mouth. "Ready," She asked. Wayne nodded.
However before they could do anything they watched as Fillmore stopped running. What the heck was he doing? Why had he stopped running?
"This could be the part where the trap comes in," Wayne called to Ingrid. He and Ingrid stopped dead in their tracks, seeing what was going to happen before they attempted anything else.
Fillmore grabbed a tetherball and swung it around the poll. This tied the hooded figure down to the metal pole and made him stop running. Fillmore caught his breath and then started to snicker. Before the ball actually stopped, it hit the figure in the head making them call out.
"That's right baby, you've been busted by the Safety Patrol," Fillmore said still out of breath.
The hooded figure struggled vigorously to try to get free but the tetherball had rapped him around the metal pole so tight, he could hardly move.
The figure growled at Fillmore. He couldn't believe that he'd been caught and tricked by Fillmore all of this time.
Fillmore pulled the hood off the boss and was surprised to find that it was Parnassis.
" You don't want to mess with a Safety Patroller!" Fillmore continued
Wayne, Ingrid, Tehama, O'Farrel, and the rest of the Safety Patrol ran up just in time to hear his little lecture he was giving. None of them could believe their ears! He was on their side the whole time? That meant that Fillmore had been acting
"PARNASSIS?" Everyone on the Safety Patrol yelled in disbelief. No one could believe that Parnassis was the boss of this entire operation.
"I can't believe you tricked us! How could you do that to us? I mean we really thought you would be perfect as the boss after I was gone," Parnassis yelled angrily.
"Sorry baby, that's the way it goes," Fillmore replied.
Fillmore found the rest of the Safety Patrol standing behind him just gazing at the scene in disbelief. He could tell by the expression on everyone's faces, that he'd done a good job acting this entire time. Fillmore had had everyone believing that he'd become a criminal again.
"Hold up, you aren't our enemy Fillmore," Ingrid asked just staring at him.
"Of course not Ingrid. I couldn't ever turn my back on the Safety Patrol, especially the one guy that helped me in turning my life around," He replied smiling at her.
Wayne lets out a sigh of relief. "It's good to know you didn't turn against us Fillmore. Please do us all a favor and never pull a stunt like that again," Wayne said as she and Fillmore did their little handshake.
"Yeah Fillmore, you had us all worried about you," Tehama added as she sighed relieved.
"You put on a good show Fillmore! It was so good, you had all of us believing you had really turned against us," Anza said laughing and slapping Fillmore on the back.
"Yeah! You did so good that you even had Principal Folsom and Vice Principal RayCliff going," Tehama said folding her arms.
Everyone was glad they finally learned the truth and they had Fillmore back on the team. Everyone was also delighted that this case was closed for real this time. The end of this case really mean things could go back to normal. Well, at least for the most part.
You see, Ingrid still had to leave with Wayne and she was still being transferred schools. Now she really regretted that she had to leave, especially since Fillmore was back.
There was also the litter matter of telling Fillmore about the situation. She and Fillmore were really close so, she felt that it was her duty to tell him.
The only dilemma in her mind was, how on earth was she going to tell him? Should she just tell him straight up, or break the news to him slowly? The next problem was Fillmore reaction. She had a feeling he'd be blown away and probably would take it hard.
"Ingrid? Are you there?" Fillmore asked trying to gain her attention. He'd noticed she'd been staring off into space for the past few minutes.
"What? Ingrid asked breaking from her thoughts.
"Ingrid are you okay? You're looking really concerned about something. What's on your mind?" Fillmore asked.
Ingrid wondered if she was that obvious that Fillmore could tell something was wrong. Normally people didn't read her like a book.
Ingrid wished Fillmore hadn't asked her that question because she really didn't have an answer thought up yet.
"Um. Fillmore it's great your back, but some stuff went down while you left. I think it's only fair of me to fill you in on everything," Ingrid replied.
Now it was Fillmore that looked confused and was left wondering what Ingrid was talking about.
"What's all this about. Would you stop beating around the bush and tell me what's going on," Fillmore asked.
Ingrid wasn't even sure if she could bring herself to tell him.
"I. . . I. . ." She stammered. She'd opened her mouth but she couldn't tell him. It was difficult to tell him everything.
Wayne stepped up, seeing Ingrid was going to need some help.
"Ingrid is going to be leaving tomorrow with me." Wayne started. He stared at Fillmore knowing by the time he finished, Fillmore wasn't going to be pleased with this.
"When are you coming back," Fillmore asked as he and Tehama got Parnassis out.
Fillmore could go a few days without her, if he absolutely had to, but he hoped that Ingrid wouldn't be gone very long.
"I'm not coming back. I'm being transferred to Wayne's school," Ingrid replied.
Fillmore's expression went from calm to blown away. Wait a minute, that meant that he was going to loose his partner! He was going to have to start all over again with a bran-new partner.
What kind of partner was he going to get this time? He knew one thing, he'd never find another partner like Ingrid. The new partner would never take her place and he bet that he wouldn't find anyone that was as smart and talented as Ingrid either.
"Great I'm loosing another partner? What's this world coming to," Fillmore asks sighing. He wished this were some sort of bad dream that he would wake up from any moment.
He never knew so much could happen while he had been away on this mission. In the beginning he hadn't thought much would change with the Safety Patrol, boy had he been wrong!
This was the moment that Ingrid regretted. She hated that this was the last day, she had to spend with everyone. It was going to be a long time before she saw all of the Safety Patrollers again. She'd better enjoy the time she had left with everyone here, while she still had the chance.
She was really going to miss everyone here badly. She would never forget the Safety Patrol here.
Tehama and Anza held tightly to Parnassis's arms.
Everyone at the Safety Patrol felt the same way about Ingrid leaving. They hated to see her leaving the force! Tomorrow was going to be a very sad day for all of them.
"This doesn't sound good at all," Fillmore replied continuing to stare at Ingrid. That moment he had so many questions racing through his mind about this entire situation.
"It's not," O'Farrel replied sounding very upset. He was trying to hide how upset he really was. He didn't want to put on a show in front of Ingrid. If he did, he probably would make Ingrid feel worse about leaving than she already did. He wasn't going to make the situation any worse than it already was.
That was absolutely the very last thing any of them wanted to do to Ingrid, especially on the very last day before she had to leave. They all hoped she wasn't the type that cried when she left. The reason was because everyone else would start tearing up if they saw Ingrid crying. The sight of her crying would make it even more difficult to say goodbye.
"We'd better get back to HQ and start all the questioning. I know I have a lot of questions for Parnassis here," Tehama said changing the subject suddenly.
The attitudes of everyone had suddenly become so sad when the subject of Ingrid leaving came up once again.
Everyone nodded. They did need to get back to HQ and quickly.
Abruptly the talky in Parnassis's pocket had static and a voice came over it "Come in boss. We're in position and we are awaiting your orders," some one said.
Anza grabbed the talky from his pocket and found that this belonged to the Safety Patrol. "I thought a few of our talkies were missin'," Anza replied.
"How did you get a hold of one of our talkies anyway," Anza asked. He sounded enraged at the moment.
"You're right, this is one of our talkies," Vallejo said getting a good look at it.
"Parnassis not only are you going to be punished for all the chaos that you and your gang caused around school, but you're also going to get punished for stealing from the Safety Patrol. Do you know how much these talkies cost? They aren't cheap I'll tell you that," Vallejo said in Parnassis's face.
"Boss are you there? Boss come in," A second voice came over the talky. The voice sounded excited and a little frightened at the same time.
"I suggest all of you involved with Parnassis immediately turn yourselves in. Don't make me have to send my officers to hunt you down," Vallejo called in the talky.
There was more static for a moment. "It doesn't matter if you caught Parnassis, you belties will never locate us because you're not intelligent enough," the voice replies to Vallejo.
Fillmore chuckles to himself and motions for Vallejo to give him the talky. Vallejo gives the talky to him and Fillmore puts it up to his lips as he says into it, "They might not know where all of you are, but I do."
"Fillmore?!" The second voice asks on the other side of the talky and sounding very stunned at his answer. "You wouldn't dare," the first voice replied a second later.
Fillmore chuckles again. "Want a bet baby? I know where all of you are and where you live. I'm not intimidated to come hunt you all down like dogs and bust you," Fillmore replied. He waited impatiently for the people on the other side of the talky to reply to him.
"We refuse to turn ourselves in like that! You'll never catch and bust us Fillmore! Never! Hasta-la-vista belties!" The second voice laughed as they signed off the other side. The only thing they could hear now is static.
"At least you busted the boss of the operation. That's what really matters right now, Fillmore," Vallejo replied.
Fillmore wished that he could have gotten the rest of the gang too. Even if the boss was caught, the attacks and the chaos might still continue on without Parnassis there. They really needed to go locate the rest of the gang and put an end to all of this once and for all!
The next day everyone at Safety Patrol HQ were talkative, more so than everyone usually was!. However, No one knew exactly what to say now that the day had finally come for Ingrid and Wayne to leave. Everyone was really going to miss Ingrid!
"Ingrid we got you something as a going-away-gift," Tehama said holding a rapped box up to her.
Ingrid took the box from Tehama and started to open it, but Karen stopped her. Ingrid wondered why she'd been stopped!
"We ask that you don't open it until you leave," Tehama replied.
Ingrid nodded. "Thanks everyone. I'm sure I'll enjoy it, whatever it is," Ingrid replied as she looked around the room. All of them had formed a big circle around her. The room was noisy with chatter and goodbyes from everyone. One by one Ingrid went around the circle saying goodbye to everyone.
Ingrid noticed that as she went around, that some people were trying not to sound too upset when they said their goodbye's to her. She knew that everyone was already upset she was leaving!
"Ingrid we have a gift for you too," Principal Folsom and RayCliff said as they entered the room. When Folsom and RayCliff entered the room, it became quiet. They all seemed surprised that the principal and vice principal would have a gift for Ingrid. They also wondered what on earth they got Ingrid as a gift.
This box was much smaller than the box that Tehama had given her. Ingrid was really curious to find out what was inside both boxes. "Thanks Principal Folsom and Vice Principal RayCliff," Ingrid said taking her backpack off and setting the gifts inside of it.
The two boxes were just small enough that they would fit into her backpack. When the two presents had been put inside, she zipped it shut and threw it over her right shoulder. She would check these presents out later tonight when she was settled down in her new room and the new house.
Wayne watched as everyone continued to say goodbye's to Ingrid and as they had one last conversation with her. He suddenly noticed that Fillmore wasn't there! Wayne spotted Fillmore behind his desk typing something up while this party was going on.
Wayne walked to Fillmore's desk and watched him typing. Fillmore didn't even look up when Wayne stood over him at least five minutes. Was Fillmore ignoring him or something? Wayne put his hand on Fillmore's shoulder. "Fillmore are you okay man," Wayne asked. How come Fillmore wasn't joining the goodbye party?
Fillmore abruptly stopped typing and looked up into Wayne's eyes. First he lost Wayne as a partner and now he was going to loose Ingrid too. What in the world was this world coming to anyway? The whole thing really didn't seem fair. Did Ingrid really want to leave X Middle School?
"Fillmore," Wayne asked again. He could see a very sad expression in Fillmore's eyes.
Fillmore stood and stared at Wayne knowing he was about to say something. However what could Wayne possibly have to say in a moment like this?
"Look, you already met everyone on the Safety Patrol where I'm at, so you know that Ingrid will be well taken care of Fillmore. The people at my school are just as neighborly as they are here at X. There's no reason to worry. Plus there will be visits from time to time," Wayne replied trying to cheer Fillmore up.
Wayne knew that Fillmore already wasn't delighted with the situation and he wanted to do something to prevent Ingrid from leaving. However there wasn't anything Fillmore could do because Ingrid had already made up her mind about leaving. Wayne knew this for a fact because he'd already tried talking Ingrid out of leaving. Wayne through that Ingrid was needed here at X more than she was at his school.
"Although I met everyone there, that doesn't put my mind at ease," Fillmore replied. He didn't think that Wayne understood what he was feeling right now At that moment, there was absolutely nothing that was going to cheer him up.
In a situation like this, Wayne normally came up with something to make Fillmore feel better. However today it didn't seem Wayne could think of anything, and this was unusual for Wayne.
Fillmore was surprised Wayne had come up with anything that was comforting to say today.
Before anything else could be said between then, Ingrid walks up to Fillmore's desk and holds out her hand, as if wanting to shake his hand.
He hesitates a moment, then shakes her hand while smiling. They just stare at each other frozen in the handshake. They both realize that neither one wants to let go of the other's hand.
Fillmore was only starting to realize how much of a unique person Ingrid really was. He knew since the first time they met, she was different from everyone he'd ever met.
Well I guess this is goodbye, Fillmore," Ingrid said pulling her hand away after a few minutes of silence.
They had been partners for a long time. While they were partners, they had become great friends and seemed to learn new things about one another every day.
They visited each other's houses and got to know the other's family while visiting. In fact they visited one another's houses and hung out so often, it was like they'd become a big family!
"Don't forget to drop a line to us frequently," Fillmore said continuing to just stare at her.
Ingrid nods "I won't forget!" Ingrid replies. She had already planned to write back here often anyway.
Wayne looked at his watch, and tapped Ingrid on the shoulder. "I hate to break the two of you up, but we really need to get going. My parents are waiting for us outside," Wayne told her.
Wayne and Ingrid head for the door. Wayne opened the door and waited for Ingrid to walk out. Ingrid took one last look around the Safety Patrol office. Her glance seemed to fall upon Fillmore, who had joined them at the door.
"Good bye Fillmore," Ingrid said once again. Before she walked out the door, Fillmore and Ingrid did their little handshake.
"Come on Ingrid, I'll show you how the Safety Patrol does things Southern Style," Wayne said, disappearing out the door. The door closed.
Fillmore just stood there staring at the door for a few minutes. He just couldn't believe that she was really gone! This was like a horrible dream he couldn't wake up from.
"Fillmore?" Principal Folsom asked making him turn around. He found Principal Folsom and Vice Principal RayCliff standing behind him.
"Yes, Principal Folsom," Fillmore asked. gone! This was like a horrible dream he couldn't wake up from.
"Fillmore?" Vallejo called making him turn around. He found Vallejo, Tehama, Anza and O'Farrell standing behind him.
"Yes Vallejo," Fillmore asked.
"Principal Folsom wants to see you in her office immediately," Vallejo replied.
Fillmore nods and heads towards Folsom's office. He was a loner once again on the missions. It was going to be difficult to do the missions alone!
He walked into Principal Folsom's office to find them waiting for him. Folsom was enjoying some kind of drink. She set it down on her desk as her eyes set on Fillmore.
"Have a seat and make yourself comfortable," Principal Folsom said.
Fillmore walked over and sat down in his usual chair, right in front of Principal Folsom. Even she looked worried about the situation.
Behind him, Vallejo joined him in Folsom's office. Vallejo sat down in the chair beside Fillmore.
"Fillmore acting like you had turned against the Safety Patrol wasn't funny. I'm not pleased to find that it was a prank," Folsom started.
Oh no, now she's going to lecture me about how wrong it was to act like that. Terrific, " Fillmore thought.
"Fillmore all those felonies that you committed and were apprehended for need to be discussed," Principal Folsom said. She turns to RayCliff. "RayCliff," she called.
RayCliff put brought out about 10 papers and started reading them off, "The enormous stink-bomb, stealing, breaking out of detention, selling illegal substances and attempted murder of two Safety Patrol Officers," RayCliff read.
Folsom leaned across her desk. "Now, if I didn't know you, there would be absolutely no way that I could find a loophole for you," Folsom says taking another sip of her drink.
Fillmore found Vallejo staring at him. "We really thought you were against us," He replied. "You have talent, maybe you should join the drama club ," Vallejo said jokingly.
Fillmore had to smile about that comment. He guessed that he was just talented that way. {l.o.l}.
"So, what are you trying to say Principal Folsom? " Fillmore asked as he leaned towards her and stared into her eyes.
Folsom took off her small glasses and set her cup back down on her desk, then answered "We're trying to say that it's a good thing that we all know you better or else you would have been expelled or worse."
Vallejo nods. "We're just glad your back on our side Fillmore," He said patting Fillmore on the back. Vallejo was so relieved that one of his best Patrol Officers hadn't been turned against them after all.
"So, will all those charges against me be dropped, or do I have to be punished for everything," Fillmore asked. He had been acting and that really wasn't the real him.
He had thought about this happening when he was with Parnassis and the rest of the gang. The whole time he'd been worried if he had to still be punished even though he was just acting.
When Fillmore was with the gang he had to make everything look good by committing those acts. He also had to gain their trust or else he never would find out all the information he needed to.
"RayCliff and I have been discussing the matter and we are going to drop the charges against you. You were only doing your job and you were undercover. We can't punish you just because you were doing your job," Folsom replied.
Principal Folsom's answer relived Fillmore. He had a feeling that he was pretty lucky the charges had been dropped. It wasn't often that the principal went easy on people.
Vallejo smiled. "That's a relief," he commented. He would have hated to see Fillmore get punished for this.
"Now that that's over, we have another crisis to deal with, Fillmore, Folsom said standing.
Fillmore's eyes watched her as she walked over to a table in the back of the room, picked up a pitcher of something . poured herself more to drink and then took a very long sip.
"There is another case that I want you on. Are you up to it?" Folsom asked taking another sip of her drink.
Fillmore lifted one of his eyebrows. "What do you mean am I up to it? Of course I'm always ready for another case! Bring it on baby," he replied.
Vallejo put his hand on Fillmore's shoulder. "I think they mean, are you up to the case since you lost your partner, Fillmore."
Fillmore was feeling a little alone and already missing Ingrid, but maybe a good case would cheer him up. "I'm fine, bring it on," Fillmore said once again.
Folsom smiles. "Are you sure that you can handle this case alone, Fillmore?" Vice Principal RayCliff asks. They think it would be a better idea if he had a partner to help him out.
Fillmore stood up. "I can handle it alone. It's okay. I did it once after Wayne moved, and I can do it again if I have to," Fillmore replies.
"Good. I knew we could count on you Fillmore," Folsom responds.
That night, Fillmore stared out his bedroom window and up at the night sky. "Ingrid." He muttered. He couldn't stop thinking about her. It was horrible that she was gone. Now he'd lost two partners to the same place.
"I hope that one day we will meet again." Fillmore muttered continuing to stare up at the night sky.
To Be Continued
Ps: Okay everyone let me explain something to you: I got so into this story that I decided that I can't just end it here. This is going to be a continuing series. Do you guys remember that story I was telling you about? The story about Fillmore and Ingrid being in High School? Well that story is going to be the continuation of this story. {Yes there is more to this story}!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really think that all of you guys will enjoy this!!!!!!!!!!!!