Sue Ellen was sleeping soundly, considered lucky to be alive by many to be alive, as was George. She had woke up as Arthur had bought her some flowers from the gift shop.

He was disturbed by what happened, Binky, Francine and Buster were dead, Rattles was dead as well as were a few other students, and he was pacing from one side of the room to the other.

George was sullen, "It is my fault…".

Arthur responded quickly, "No! Buster took things way too seriously, he snapped when Mr. Haney decided to let him go."

"But he shot me because of what I was planning to do, I have regrets now, I wanted an easy way out, but now Buster had done it and seeing what happened I know the error of my ways."

Sue Ellen was lost, "Now what is going to happen?"

"Well, it is kind of complicated," Arthur replied then explained some more of what was going on, "Since George's parents owned the guns they are going to get in trouble for not keeping them under lock and key, Mrs. Baxter is going to get in trouble because of what Buster did, and I already assume she is going to go after the police for shooting and killing Buster."

"Buster did take things seriously…"

Muffy had walked in, "Buster almost shot me yesterday! I saw the bullet fly past me and hit the tree."

"I…" George replied helplessly.

"I know your involvement," Muffy replied, "And now you must die," Muffy lunged for Sue Ellen's pillow and she had took it to smother George, but Arthur stopped her.

"Muffy, doing that won't bring back those who died."

Arthur took the pillow away and gave it back to Sue Ellen, "I know he killed Francine, but he also killed other people as well…"

"But he took things out of hand; remember the time when he thought a comet was going to hit the Earth?"

Mr. and Mrs. Crosswire signaled Muffy to leave the room, Arthur had followed suit as well; Muffy was filled with one question "Mom, are they going to survive?"

"Yes, the bullets didn't hit their vital organs."

Sue Ellen's parents walked into the room the cat girl was in, her mother had a slight smile on her face, "I am so glad you are ok."

Sue Ellen was scared; she had good excuse to be, "Mom am I going to die?"

Mrs. Armstrong sighed, "Sue Ellen, you and George are going to survive."

"You are telling me what I want to hear…"

"You are not going to die; you already went in for emergency surgery to patch your leg up."

Fern was sitting at a table at the Brain's ice cream shop alone; she had never been this alone before, she was beside herself She would normally go with friends, but the talk of people dying just turned her off.

The Brain had sat down, "I need to know why you haven't been talkative."

Fern just looked at him, "People always think of me being quiet; I-"

The Brain had cut her off, "Know why you are not talking that much…"

"Look, I have my reasons and…"

"…They are because of what happened…"

Fern was annoyed, "Alan, just leave me alone, I don't want to talk about it," she had finished her ice cream and left the ice cream shop.

She was now literally beside herself, her friends were gone, she had a strong sense of insecurity, it was nerve-wracking right now, she had decided to visit Muffy.

After a few minutes of walking Muffy was in her yard.

"Why?" The monkey girl asked.

"I know you lost your best friend, we all lost someone we known or cared about."

"I know that, but why did Buster snap? Why did he have to shoot up the school? Why?"

"Because he was annoyed about how in his point of view that we were all screwing up the job; besides I think the reason why he shot Sue Ellen in the leg was because he wanted to her to die a slow and painful death, instead of a quick painless death."

Muffy was shocked, "No…"

"Buster knew very well why he wanted to have Sue Ellen die slowly and painfully, it was because Mr. Haney let her become the one in charge for training the classmates to do the mail delivery."

"You don't know that!"

"I know, as harsh as it may be, Buster freaked out when Mr. Haney relieved him of his duties. That is why Buster had shot him."

Muffy was shocked, Fern never gave this type of attitude before, this was her true colors, Fern was in denial she was traumatized by this whole experience, she didn't want to say it but Fern was showing off a lot of negative energy, "Leave."

"But…"

"Just go, talk to someone who actually wants to care what you say!" Fern left as Muffy sighed angrily.

Fern had decided to go and see Arthur, in hopes that there would be someone worthwhile to talk to, in Sue Ellen's eyes Fern had helped her but the poodle girl knew that people were not giving her the time of day, to her what her views on this topic were a bit extreme… a bit unsympathetic. But to her the truth was the truth.

When she had arrived at Arthur's; he was sitting outside, "Hi Fern."

"Arthur, I need to talk to you."

Arthur was a bit nervous, "Ok…"

"Promise me that you won't yell at me…"

"I am willing to listen, and won't yell."

"Ok, remember the other day when Buster yelled at me because I messed up in the mail room?"

(Flashback scene)

Buster was angry that he started swearing, "(Bleep) you did it wrong again! (Bleep) you Fern! You are (bleep)'n fired! So get the (bleep) out of here before I (bleep)'n force you out!"

"That's enough Buster," Mr. Haney said as Fern ran off crying, "I think I should have Sue Ellen trainyourclassmates, you have been taking this mail room position way too seriously, so as of this moment you are relieved of this position."

(End Flashback)

"I know Buster was angry, but get to the point…"

As Arthur said that Mr. Read had come out, "Arthur we are going to the Crosswires for dinner, get dressed."

Fern sighed she wasn't about to get her point across as she left.

TBC