They had just made it inside the doors when a very annoyed sounding Snape, with McGonagall beside him, call out Jack's name.

"FROST!" he yelled "How dare you try to freeze one of my students!"

"Huh, would have thought he'd go to his father first," Jack said not caring that Snape was looking ready to kill him. "Oh well. And I 'Dared' to do it because he called my friends 'Mudbloods' Sir. Besides, I didn't 'freeze him' I only partly froze him and then took it away as I left."

"Be that as it may," McGonagall said taking charge and stepping in between the two of them "Professor Snape and I have agreed that you should be given a detention, on the basis of attacking a fellow student."

"Is Malfoy getting one?" Jack asked "After all he 'Attacked' my friends and I with his words. Words hurt and leave invisible scars for way longer than anything I could have done to him."

Behind him everyone was in a mix of confusion, 'That's true', and 'Jack please stop before Snape kills you'.

"Yes he is," McGonagall said "Mr Malfoy will be helping me collect beetles for my next lesson. While you will help Mr Filch clean up in the trophy room, at 8 o'clock tonight. And no magic Frost. Elbow grease."

"Yes Professor." Jack said agreeing that that was a reasonable punishment.

With that the teachers and students went their separate ways.

Harry, Ron and Hermione went to the library to do some homework and Jack, and Elisa went to show Annie the Room of Requirement.

That night as 8 o clock got nearer, Jack said goodbye to everyone in the most dramatic way possible.

"Farewell my friends and fellow Gryffindor's, for this might be the last I see of you." he began getting many eye-rolls and chuckles.

"Fred, George, if I do not come back, you can have all of my pranking supplies and journal."

There were a lot of worried looks at this. The Twins were already top pranksters, but to get everything from a Master Prankster as well...

"Harry, I will trust you to take care of Baby Tooth." Jack continued handing Baby over to Harry who gently took her.

"And Annie," he started to wrap up "Please will you give this to your sister." he said giving her a letter.

Having enough Hermione spoke up.

"Jack, it's only a detention with Mr Filch." she said from the fire place.

All those whoever had a run-in with the caretaker or a detention with him gasped very dramatically.

"Oh come on... you can't all be like that!" she said looking around.

"Hermione, Filch likes making students suffer," someone from 4th Year said "I heard if he doesn't like you, or satisfied with the work you did, he drags you to one of the lower dungeons and hangs you upside down by your ankles."

"Yeah and I heard there were these students once who sent off a whole box of dug-bomb in his office once." a 6th year said in agreement.

At this everyone turned to Fred and George.

"Oh no it wasn't them." he continued "It happened when our parents were here. The story goes that he caught them as they were making their get away, and they were never seen again... But if you go down into the Forbidden Forest on a full moon you will see them but not as themselves, but as animals always plotting on a way to get their revenge on the caretaker and the school." he finished up scaring some of the first years.

"Which is why," Jack said having a good idea who these students were but keeping it to himself "I bid you all farewell. If I survive, I will let you all know in the morning."

With that he bowed and saluted the room, getting salutes from those who gasped, and a mournful tune being played on a kazoo operated someone in the back who Jack paid in sweets to do so as he walked out.

Down in the trophy room, Filch was already there and pulled out a key unlocking the cabinets, turning around when his cat Mrs Norris mewed towards the door.

"There you are boy!" Filch said as Jack came in.

"Nice to see you again too Mr Filch." Jack said smiling what he hopped was a kind, not mischievous, smile "And you Mrs Norris" he said to the cat who hissed a little and returned to her master.

"Don't you think on buttering up to me boy! This is your punishment." Filch said handing him a pot of polish and a rag. "Now you get busy with the shields and the cups and I'll do the medals and the plates."

After checking Jack was doing it right, the two of them didn't speak much, other than caretaker mumbling about how this wasn't an actual detention.

Jack muted the man's voice out of his head and was wondering if he could make a game out of this to make time go faster, but with a look at the bright red eyes coming from Mrs Norris, he decided against it.

After finishing the 7th big shield and putting it back into place, Jack looked around wondering what the time was.

That was when he heard it...

'Come... Come to me... let me rip you... let me tear you... let me kill you...'

"What?" Jack asked not sure he heard that right.

"I said boy! That that one doesn't go there!" Filch yelled into his ear, reminding Jack of where he was.

"Oh sorry," Jack said putting it in the right place "It's just I thought I heard voices. Voices that didn't belong to you."

"What are you talking about?" Filch said grumpily "It's just you, me, and Mrs Norris. Unless... PEEVES!" he screamed and started looking around the room, but no one, human, ghost, or Poltergeist answered.

Not sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing, Jack finished up the rest of the trophies he was tasked to do and after getting an approval from Filch, left.

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As Jack made it into his dormitory he was welcomed back by a happy Baby Tooth and a still awake Harry and Ron.

"I see you survived 'Detention with Filch' then" Harry said quietly so not to wake up the others.

"Yeah he wasn't all that bad really, but that's not the strange part" Jack said telling them about the voice he heard.

"I heard something too," Harry said unsure about this "I was coming back from the baths when I heard it, but there wasn't anyone there."

"And you sure it wasn't Peeves?" Ron asked Jack.

"I'm sure." Jack said as he finished getting changed into his pajamas and got into bed.

"And Filch couldn't hear it?" Harry asked.

Jack shook his head.

"I don't get it." Ron concluded "Even if someone was invisible and if they were whispering, Filch and Mrs Norris would have heard something."

"I know," Jack said slightly uneasy at this "I don't get it either."

AN: Sorry it took a little longer to put up then I expect some of you readers would like

If you couldn't work out who the students in the 6th year's story were... Read it again and use your Harry Potter Knowledge to work it out

And... If you're wondering why Jack can hear the Basilisk, wait until the Dueling Club - That's where he will explain it himself.