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I do not own Higher Ground except for the people such as Annie that I have made up. I don't make any money for this, all though I wish I did. Just to let you know I've never seen a single episode of Higher Ground in my life, I go by the scripts and fanfiction I have read or I just make it up. Hope you enjoy my Higher Ground fanfiction and have a good day.
A New Twist

Peter was going though Annie's file that Dr. Grodim had left on his desk:

Lisa M. Miller

Weight: 90 pounds
Height: 5 foot 2 inches
Comments: Multiple scars over body, few are still fresh. Wears contacts and struggles to see without them. Heard something in her lungs, but checks out fine. Drugs were found in her system.

Dr. Grodim

There was more to the file, but Peter picked out the interesting and most important things. He sighed, knowing he shouldn't have given her back her razor so soon, but too late now.

Sophie entered with some coffee. She noticed the file on the desk.

"Annie's?" Sophie asked, pouring coffee into a cup for him. She read it over his shoulder.

"Yeah."

"Have you gotten any medical files or anything before she came here?"

"Medical files, but they lost them besides the recent ones in two years. I haven't received any others. I might call her schools to see. I do know she was expelled from Jr. High, but that's it."

"Why?"

"I was never told.' Peter took a sip of his coffee.

'Where are the Cliffhangers right now?" Asked Peter.

"In one of their classes, silly."

"Oh, right." Peter and Sophie embrace each other, sharing a romantic kiss.


Annie sat in math class with her head down, staring at the teacher, Mrs. Coolly, explain how to work a problem. She hadn't been able to keep up on her, so had completely stopped listening. Annie was daydreaming, and her eyes showed it.

She had been put into every class with the Cliffhangers since they didn't have any records on what she had learned and hadn't learned. She hadn't had a placement test either. Annie didn't really care.

"Annie," Mrs. Coolly snapped her out of daydreaming, and she looked up innocently, "The answer to the problem please."

Annie hesitated, "I . . ." She realized everyone was staring at her, and it made her nervous.

"Were you paying attention?"

"Yes, I just don't understand it."

"Were you paying attention?" Mrs. Coolly asked again.

Annie looked down, "Sort of," She answered. The teacher went to write something down.Oh, good Annie get yourself in even more trouble.

"Scott?" Mrs. Coolly called upon.

"You lost me."

"Ezra?"

"92.7 percent," He answered.

"Good. Does everyone else understand it?"

Ezra and Shelby were the only ones who did.

"Okay, I'll do another one. This time, Annie and Scott, pay attention with the rest of you."


Peter was calling Annie's Junior High School. He had finished a conversation with her elementary school and had only found one thing fairly interesting. He was having them ship a copy of them to the school so he could confirm them. Her High School files were already on his desk, but he hadn't had the chance to go over them.

"I need a copy of her files. I want to know if they were ever shipped to a school called Mount Horizon or if I need to get them." He paused for an answer.

"A week ago? I never got them." He paused again.

"Okay, okay, I just need to know a few things for now; I know she was expelled and I wanted to know what led to that." He quickly got a pen and paper and jotted down some things the person told him.

"What? Repeat that please," Peter listened, "A gun?'

'Okay that's all I need to know for now. Thank you. Bye." He set the phone down, running his hand though his hair.


"Turn your books to page 391. You and along with a partner, which I will chose, are to do that Lab. On your tables are your materials you need. It should take you about forty minutes to do and then we will go over what you discovered," Mr. Starks, their science teacher, explained to them.

"I want Shelby and Juliette together, Auggie and Daisy, Ezra and Scott." He noticed it was uneven, Annie was alone.

"Annie you will work with Ezra and Scott.'

'Go on, what are you waiting for? Get started." Everyone partnered up. Annie strolled over to the table where Scott and Ezra were. She sat on a stool behind them, watching Ezra read the directions, as if he were in a play.

"First you take half a cup of unsalted water and-"

"Ezra, be serious," Scott interrupted him.

"I am being serious," Said Ezra in a weird voice.

"Shut up or Annie will read it while you have a time out." Annie couldn't help but smile at the two arguing.

"What are you smiling at?" Ezra turned to her, playing with her, but she didn't know that. It wiped the smile off her face and she looked down.

"Give me the book." Scott tied to take it from him.

"No, I'm reading it."

"Then stop it." Scott looked at Annie, who looked like she thought he was going to yell at her. He motioned her to stand beside him. Uncertainly, she went over to him.

"Do you want to read it?" He asked her. She shrugged.

"Read the directions Ezra, in your normal voice." Ezra read as Scott and Annie took turns doing whatever the book told them to. Ezra helped them answer some of the questions. Annie was getting comfortable around them.

At another table, Shelby glared at them.

"Shelby, what does the book say now?" Juliette asked. She got no answer.

"Shelby?" Jules saw her staring at Scott and the other two.

"He looks too happy with her," Shelby said.

"He always looks happy when he talking to someone, well sometimes. It's nothing to get hyped up about."

"She looks too happy then."

"Lay off it Shelby. She just got here. She's just making friends," Juliette explained to her.

"Yeah, with my boyfriend," Shelby reasoned.

"I'm Scott's friend, short of, but you don't get mad at me when we talk."

"You already dated him and blew it. He's mine now."

"So he can't have any girls that are just his friends?"

"No, he can't. That's right." Shelby turned to her.

"I heard, if you don't put trust into a relationship, as of not trusting your boyfriend around other girls-"

"What is this? Therapist stuff?" Shelby nagged, "Scott's mine, end of discussion."

"Okay." Jules went back to their assignment.


"You're not leaving this table until you eat all of it," Sophie told Annie strictly. They were sitting at a table by themselves.

"Doesn't matter to me."

"Eat."

"No, you can't make me," Annie protested.

"Hello ladies. Annie I heard you weren't paying attention in math today. Is it too hard for you?" Peter asked, sitting at the table with them. Annie gave him the evil glare.

"Hmm, What did I do to you lately?"

"You took my knife," Annie answered nastily.

"Your not supposed to have it.'

'You eating anything?" He changed the subject.

"What does it look like to you?"

Peter thought a moment; "You're not leaving this table."

"I've already been informed of that." Annie watched as the two got up and talked, probably talking about me.

"I read over her records. She was expelled for taking a gun to school. She had also had fights and ditched a few times," Peter said.

"Anything else?"

"Her grades started dropping in 3rd grade and went up and then down in junior high and strayed down in high school.'

'Why did her grades drop in elementary?" Peter asked.

"Her parents got divorced some years ago. Maybe she was struggling with that," Sophie guessed. She glanced at Annie to make sure she was still there, which she was. Peter looked at her, too. She was staring down at her plate. She didn't look mad anymore. In fact she looked sad. Annie then saw them looking at her. She quickly looked down and then set her head on the table.

"She looks almost lost," Sophie said, quietly, "She acts tough to hold in what she really feels." She sighed.

"Another Shelby?" Peter asked.

"Somebody say my name?" Shelby walked into the cafeteria.

"Where have you been?" Peter asked instead of answering her question.

Shelby answered, "Doing an assignment."

"Funny, I spoke with all the teachers and none of them gave out assignments today."

"It was from another night." Shelby almost blew her and Scott's cover.

"What subject was it?"

"Math," She answered.

"I hope Mrs. Coolly gets it by tomorrow."

"She will." Shelby went to get lunch.

"Look who just walked in," Peter said as Scott did.

"What I do?"

"Guilty conscience?" Sophie asked.

"No . . ." Scott answered.

"What took you so long to get here?"

"Assignment."

"Let me guess math?" Peter said.

"Yeah, how'd you-"

"Just go eat.' Peter rolled his eyes as Scott left.

'What are we going to do with those two?" He asked Sophie.

"Make sure they don't get in trouble?" Sophie sarcastically said, walking away to Annie.

Peter shook his head at her, smiling.


Annie followed Scott to the basketball court. She had eaten some of her meal, so they had let her go for free time.

"Play basketball a lot?"

"Sometimes," She answered.

There were other kids playing basketball and some were sitting on the benches, watching. Including Shelby, Daisy, and Juliette.

"She's with Scott again. Trailing him like a dog," Shelby said.

"Leave it," Juliette told her.

"No, she's stealing him from me."

"She is?" Asked Daisy.

"Can't you tell by the way she's been following him?"

"Yeah, I guess so," Daisy answered.

They watched as Scott and Annie went over to an open hoop and started shooting. Annie missed a few times.

"Pathetic," Said Shelby.

"Very."

"Maybe she doesn't play much," Juliette suggested. Scott was now giving Annie some tips on how to shoot well. She did a bit better.

"Scott!" Shelby called. He looked around for her, then rested his eyes on his girlfriend. He smiled and waved to her. Then he blew her a kiss.

"Oh, how sweet," Daisy mocked.

"See, Shel. He loves you, not Annie," Jules reasoned.

"She'll try to take him. I just know it," Shelby told them.


It might be a while before I update again. June is going to be a very busy month over on my side of the world. Plus I want to change my website, I haven't done anything to it since I put it up. When it is up and running the way I wish it, my fanfiction may be updated quicker there. I'll update when I can, bye.