Okay thanks for the feedback and considering I am still under blackmail, I will be getting the next chapter out soon...WITHOUT my beta's help.

Title: Fangs: A Rat's Tale

Author: Elizabeth

Category: GL

Summary: Grace's rat enjoys sending his owner and Luke on a wild rat chase.

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: I do not own Joan of Arcadia or any of its characters. This is all in good fun.

Because Grace couldn't keep bringing Fangs with her to classes, her teachers kept threatening to get her suspended if she brought him in one more time, she would put him in the biology closet with plenty of food and she would check on him at lunch. Luke would check on him after school and wait for Grace to show up.

One day, Grace was sitting in her English class when everyone heard people shrieking in the hallway. The teacher went to see what was going on while students waited to see what was going on. Luke suddenly showed up at the door.

"Fangs got loose!" he said looking toward her. Joan looked freaked out. "How did you let your rat escape? He's going to be hissing at people!" she looked around, hoping that the rat wasn't under her feet.

Grace looked at her. "Not if he isn't caught first."

They ran into the hallway and looked around.

"Okay, tell me what happened."

"I was just sitting in class and someone ran in yelling that a rat was loose. I knew it had to be Fangs." Luke said.

Grace groaned and they looked around.

"What? How?" Grace jumped up and grabbed her bag.

"No idea!"

They heard another shriek and ran in that direction.

"Where did he go?" Grace asked the freaked out teenager.

"That way!" she pointed up the hallway stairs.

Grace shook her head and headed for the stairs. "Dude, get his cage!"

Luke nodded and raced back to the biology closet.

Grace spotted Fangs at the end of the hallway and growled. "Fangs! Get your little pink tail over here right now!"

Fangs jumped up on his hind legs before running off.

"Oh you are not leaving your cage for a week buster!" Grace ran after him.

Kids all around were shrieking as the rat ran past and they backed away so as not to get hit by Grace.

Fangs ran into the art room and jumped on Helen's lap. Helen looked down in shock and couldn't move. She was frozen in her spot. Grace showed up at the doorway.

"Mrs. Girardi?" she asked.

Helen looked at her, her eyes wide. "Get. Him. Off. Me."

Grace went towards her but Fangs ran down Helen's leg and out the door. Grace grabbed her hair in her hands and pulled hard.

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Girardi!" Grace ran out of the room. Luke stood there with his cage.

"I tried to get him but he just looked at me before running off again!"

"Oh…you take one part of the school and I'll take the other. Don't let him get outside." Grace ran off.

Grace ran past Adam, who had a look of shock on his face.

"I think you're rat winked at me when I tried to grab him!" Adam said shakily.

Grace glared at him. "Rats don't wink, Rove! This one will be a blind mouse when I'm through with him!"

She ran off ignoring his look of shock. She followed Fangs into the office and went to the doorway of Price's office. Grace smirked. Price was on top of his desk and Fangs was sitting on the chair, his hind legs up and his eyes glaring up at Price. Grace folded her arms and leaned against the doorway.

Price spotted her. "Ms. Polk, get your rat out of my office!"

Grace chuckled. "He's doing just fine, Price."

Price glared at her. "I will give you three seconds."

Grace pulled out her camera phone and got ready to take a picture. "More than I'll need."

"Ms. Polk, that…thing is a menace to society! Get him out of here!"

"Aw…is big bad Price scared of the itty bitty rat?" Grace said in a high voice.

Price glowered at her. Grace rolled her eyes.

"Come on Fangs you've had enough for one day." Grace went toward him but Fangs ran off before she could get him.

Grace groaned and ran after him. She ran down the hallway and saw Fangs come to a stop. She stopped where she was and Luke showed up at the other end.

"Got no where to go, Fangs. Luke is down there and I'm over here." Grace said folding her arms.

Fangs looked at the two of them before running. Luke put the cage on the ground and Fangs ran right into the cage. Luke lifted the cage and closed the door before Fangs could try to escape again.

"I think you've had enough excitement for one day." Luke smirked.

Grace walked over and laughed. "You are the school's hero. As for you little guy you are so in trouble. How did you get out of your cage?"

"Some idiot let him out." Luke said. "They went in the closet for something and he opened the door to feed him."

Grace shook her head. "No one but me or you feeds this rat!"

They heard someone clear their throat and turned around to look at Price.

"Ms. Polk and Mr. Girardi, detention for the both of you."

Luke looked puzzled. "For?"

"For reckless endangerment to this school."

Luke held out the cage. "It's just a little white rat."

Price glared at Fangs. Fangs in turn bared his teeth.


In detention that afternoon, Grace was drawing in her notebook and Luke was reading a science book. The teacher up front was grading papers. Grace looked down at the cage where Fangs was sitting. She smiled down at him and opened the cage to reach in and pet him.

"Polk! Hand off the rat." The teacher said. "I'm only letting you keep him here so he doesn't escape again."

Grace grumbled and went to close the cage. But before she could, Fangs raced out, ran across the desk, into her lap, down her leg, and over to where the teacher sat. Fangs ran around his legs causing the teacher to jump around. Grace got up and grabbed the cage.

"Come on, geek!"

Luke looked up startled and closed his magazine. "What?"

"Let's go!" They ran to the door. "Fangs, come on!"

Fangs gave one last run before rushing out. The teacher just sat there gasping for breath.

Luke and Grace got outside the school and couldn't hold in their laughter.

"Do you realize how much trouble I'm going to be in?" Luke asked.

"Oh come on, geek live a little!" Grace chuckled and looked at Fangs who was peering up at them as if expecting a treat. Luke and Grace just grinned.

"You are one grounded rat." Luke said.