hey guys it'll be a bit till i post for this one again so i figured i would send this chapter out i'll try not to take forever when writing the next
"Hello students" Ishiyama said as the team walked into the classroom.
"What's up?" Tucker asked.
"Since we aren't going to the museum we're going to do something different" she replied "you all are going to be split up for this one"
"What why?" Tucker blurted
"All of you engaged in destructive or dangerous behavior to get this detention do you think I shouldn't council you a bit to make sure this doesn't happen again?" Ishiyama asked.
Tucker shook his head "no sorry"
"Sam you will stay in here while Tucker, Jazz and Danny will go into the three rooms to the left and we will have our chats" Ishiyama said smiling towards them.
The teens shifted nervously
"Don't worry if it's something you don't want to say you won't be forced"
Danny, Tucker, and Jazz left for their rooms leaving Sam and Ishiyama alone.
"So, Sam you said you destroyed the equipment because you were tired of the popular student's being treated better than everyone else right?" Ishiyama started once the door closed
"The prefer to call themselves the A-listers but yes" Sam replied nodding
"Why take action now I'm assuming this wasn't a new thing so why bother retaliating now?"
Sam shrugged "it just became too much I was tired of seeing Danny take so much crap from them"
"Specifically, Danny?" Ishiyama asked raising a brow.
Sam blushed but kept her face as neutral as possible "yes specifically Danny, when it comes to people, I don't have his giving heart or heroic nature... don't get me wrong, I feel bad for the other kids but Danny, Danny goes out of his way to get the bullies attention to save them"
Ishiyama was slightly stunned "that's rather noble of him"
Sam nodded frowning slightly "yeah but he doesn't care about the consequences of what'll happen to him even if he gets hurt he shrugs it off and says better him than someone else, we call it his hero complex"
Ishiyama kept quiet seeing Sam still had more to say.
"It's why the D-listers and neutrals started covering for him with the teacher's stuff like acting like a teachers coming or blurting the answer to a question the teacher asked when Danny fell asleep in class… they'd try to more but Danny won't let them" Sam laughed slightly "Mikey tried handing in a piece of homework that Danny didn't turn in and Danny later went up to Mr. Fuyuka and told him the truth, all because he didn't want Mikey's grade to suffer because of him"
"Why doesn't Danny speak up about it" Ishiyama asked softly.
Sam shifted "there's a multitude of reasons most of which I can't tell you"
"Would Danny have wanted you to destroy the equipment" Ishiyama asked.
Sam shook her head "no he was rather mad that Tucker and I did what we did"
"I can't imagine Danny angry"
"It happens only rarely but he gets over it fast"
Ishiyama sighed "so Sam are you going to do what you did again?"
Sam shook her head again "no"
"Okay I believe you, go study in the library till it's time to go" Ishiyama smiled Sam nodded and walked to the door.
In the next room sat Jazz "so what are we going to talk about?" the redhead asked as the door closed.
"A few things" Ishiyama replied sitting down in front of her "first let's start with why you brought those ecto weapons to the school?"
"I felt that school needed more protection I mean the shield can't help when we're trapped with ghost…"
Ishiyama nodded "yes I can see that, and I did think of that, so your parents provided some weapons for just that occasion"
"They… they did?" Jazz said stunned.
"Yes, but even with your excuse of self-defense I don't think we would have needed…" Ishiyama pulled out a piece of paper "6 ecto pistols, 6 wrist blasters, 3 jack o nine tails, a Fenton bazooka… and one Fenton anti creep stick doesn't all this seem a little much?"
"you can never be too prepared?" Jazz meekly replied looking down at her hands.
"while preparing is good I think it should be left to the professionals"
Jazz bit her lip like she wanted to retort but simply nodded.
"if I'm being honest yours is the easiest to deal with." Ishiyama said a soft smile on her face.
"really?" Jazz asked sitting slightly straighter
Ishiyama nodded leaning back on her chair "is everything okay at home jasmine?"
"ev… everything is just fine why do you ask?" Jazz stammered crossing her arms
"jasmine it's 12 degrees outside and your brother has come to school without a jacket for the last two years"
Jazz's eyes darted around the room "he's just being a teenage boy and claiming he's fine without one"
"Jasmine if there is something wrong you can tell me, there are people who can help just give the word and I can get you and Danny out of that house" Ishiyama calmly said putting a comforting hand on Jazz's shoulder.
Jazz closed her eyes took a few breaths before looking Ishiyama in the eyes "our parents love us and don't hurt Danny or I"
Ishiyama held Jazz's gaze for a few moments longer before sitting back "okay I'll believe you for now, but I want Danny to start coming with a real winter jacket"
Jazz nodded not trusting herself to speak.
"good I'm sure that there some piece I'm missing but none of you will tell me for now am I right?"
Jazz nodded again "yes ma'am"
"before we move forward I have a question about something Sam mentioned"
"what?"
"What is with these titles A-listers, D-listers neutrals?"
Jazz tensed again her mouth set in a hard line her eyes flashing disgust "it's the social hierarchy here in the school A-listers are at the top and everyone else is below them."
"and where do you fall on that scale?"
"either b or c, depends on if me being around the secret trio more has lowered my social standing"
"the what?" Ishiyama asked confused.
Jazz slapped a hand over her mouth realizing what she had just said "I didn't mean to say that" she whispered her brows furrowing in anger.
"what is it Jazz?"
"what's, what?" Jazz replied lamely trying to cover what she just said
"Jasmine what is the secret trio?" Ishiyama asked her tone serious.
Jazz gulped slightly Ishiyama could find out from anyone she might as well finish talking "it's what Sam Tucker and Danny are called here at the school"
"why?"
"Because no one knows anything about them"
"What do you mean?"
Jazz lowered her head "I'd rather not say"
Ishiyama looked at Jazz for a moment "okay I did say if it was something you didn't want to answer I wouldn't force you"
Jazz's shoulders relaxed as she looked up
"Can you answer why would your 'status' lower due to that?" Ishiyama asked putting air quotes around status while ignoring the bad feeling in her gut.
"They're lower on the scale" Jazz curtly replied her tone filled with disgust. "Are we done?"
Ishiyama nodded feeling like that wasn't the full story "yes go to the library and work on any class work until time is over"
After watching Jazz walk down the hall a few moments Ishiyama turned and started towards the next door opening it to show Tucker sitting in a reclined position fiddling with his pda "Tucker Foley you are a headache for most every person on the staff" she sighed setting the rather decently sized folder on the table.
Tucker smirked "I take pride in what I do"
"Chronic tardiness, repeated loitering by the girl's locker room, 13 missed classes, and 16 counts of unauthorized computer usage to name a few" Ishiyama sat rubbing her eyes "if it wasn't for the fact you're better at fixing computers then our entire I.T. Department I would have taken away your computer rights"
Tucker shrugged "what can I say I needed to look some stuff up"
"Yes, but it's things that you shouldn't need to look up blueprints, schematics, designs if it wasn't for the fact most of this stuff is available to public anyways I would be worried you're planning on being a terrorist"
Tucker shook his head "nope nothing of that nature just needed to use it as reference"
Ishiyama leaned her head on her hand "for what?"
"The blueprints are all for house and building designs when we get enough money we plan on building a house I just wanted to get an idea for what would be good" Tucker answered easily.
"What about the schematics and designs?"
"Projects and knowledge for the future I plan on going into tech design and repair, so I figured I would get a look at others designs"
Ishiyama nodded "just try not to do it at school anymore"
"Sure"
"Now onto the reason for your detention"
Tucker grinned awkwardly "I was hoping to skip this, but I guess I'm not that lucky?"
Ishiyama returned the smile "I'm afraid not"
"Damn" Tucker clicked his tongue
"So why did Sam take your pda?"
Tucker scratched his head "I had photos of her and Danny being lovebirds and she wanted to delete them"
"Oh? And why's that?" Ishiyama leaned forward.
Tucker smirked "they're not dating because she and clueless won't admit their feelings"
"Clueless?" Ishiyama raised her eyebrow a small smile worked its way on to her mouth.
"It's our nickname for Danny since he can't seem to get that Sam likes him too" Tucker laughed
"ahh" almost the whole school had money on when the two would get together. "but I'm afraid that I already figured out that you and Sam both wanted to get detention, so you can drop the act"
"Wha… no… why would we do that?" Tucker stammered trying to recover from being thrown off guard by the fact their plan had been figured out so easily.
Ishiyama smiled leaning in closer "I didn't figure it out until I finished talking to Jazz earlier"
Tucker calmed quickly something that surprised Ishiyama slightly.
"I knew from notes that teachers, notably Mr. Lancer that you three tend to act as a unit you'll be hard pressed to find one of you three off on your own"
Tucker shrugged "so we like hanging out with each other"
"the next clue was in the gym during the ghost attack you two were worried that much anyone could tell but it felt like it was Danny you were worried for not the fact a ghost was attacking"
"still nothing to go off of"
"you're right. my fourth clue"
"uhh you skipped three" Tucker remarked raising a brow in confusion.
"I'll get back to it, was when I was talking to Sam she said that she did it because Danny was being picked on, specifically Danny."
Tucker opened his mouth to respond but Ishiyama held her hand up to stop him.
"I know still doesn't seem like much, but my third clue was that you three didn't seem to want to separate from Danny for a 45-minute car ride let alone the two hours for detention you seem afraid and Danny down right paranoid something will happen."
Tucker went to give an excuse but Ishiyama raised her hand stopping him again "I'm almost done, combining all these with the fact Sam admitting that she did what she did for Danny and the fact you three have had detention together for the last year and a half means it's highly likely that it's on purpose."
Tuckers head fell forward looking towards the desk.
The room was silent the only sound was Tuckers deep breathing "are you done Ma'am?" he started his voice startling her with how cold and empty it was, "if so, stop prying so deep, it's better for everyone if you do, we know what we're doing" Tucker looked up and the argument died on Ishiyama's lips.
"you… can go Mr. Foley just try not to do this anymore" Ishiyama stammered her eyes not leaving his face until he left, taking a moment to compose herself she got up and walked to the next room.
Danny gave her a slightly startled look as she entered "you okay ma'am?"
Ishiyama shook her head "yes Danny it has just been a long day and I have quite a bit of paperwork to do after this" she lied sitting across from him paying attention to Danny's eyes "so can you give me a reason why you were late this last time?"
Danny shook his head "I overslept" he offered.
"And what kept you up that you had to oversleep?"
"Homework?" he tried.
"Nice try but if that was the case your teachers would have added it to your grades already they haven't"
"Maybe they just haven't gotten to my late work" Danny weakly countered
Ishiyama shook her head "no because the teachers have an agreement that any work you turn in is handled first"
Danny was stunned "that's weird"
"Work from you is rather rare as it is at this point Daniel and despite what you think we do want you to pass and we do care, when you turn in complete work it's always top notch but otherwise its nonexistent"
Danny slumped "well it's nice to find that out"
She leaned forward "so can you tell me what you were really doing"
Danny shook his head "no"
"So, it wasn't playing doomed like Mr. Lancer has complained about you doing" Ishiyama questioned.
"No because I'm certain that you have a counter for that as well" Danny sighed.
She nodded "Mr. Lancer checks your last login log and it's always inactive during the week"
"I never knew that lancer played doom" Danny offered.
"Nice try but we're not moving away from this topic… but on a side note he has stated that he would like to fight you three in it again, I believe his words exactly were 'you were a bomin challenge'"
"Yeah sure just have him tell us his character name"
"Okay now please tell me what you were doing"
"I can't" Danny looked down
"is it related to why you left the gym during out workshop to raise your grade? Is it something dangerous?" Ishiyama asked pushing the boundary she had set for the teens at the beginning
Danny looked up "I can't tell you ma'am and I will try to not be late to class anymore, so are we done now?"
"How can I believe you Daniel the problem only seems to be getting worse" Ishiyama asked holding up a folder "these are reports from last week, you've only been in class 15 without leaving or just not showing up, so tell me what is there to prove that you will?"
Danny kept silent his face genuinely upset.
Sighing deeply, she nodded "tell the other three that you all can leave early and give this note to the librarian, so she will know you are excused" Ishiyama quickly jot down a note and handed it to him. Danny took the note and left as the door shut behind him after a few moments when she was sure Danny wouldn't turn around Ishiyama put her head on her hands as her body shuddered slightly while she took deep breaths to try and calm herself
Ishiyama's point of view from here
I pride myself on being able to read people rather well from their eyes to their body language, but when I saw Tuckers eyes it occurred to me that I hadn't paid much attention when talking to the teens but when I looked in his eyes they were very deep and cold I couldn't read anything from them not like when I had talked to teens before they all had this kind of spark to them it felt like my grandfather who a ww2 veteran, I could've misjudged and it could be something else so I paid close attention to Danny's during our talk but his were harder to read than Tuckers from beginning to end they were cold and always watching for something as if he was expecting something to attack the two's body language talked slightly though, Tucker's was more open in the beginning he wanted to talk about the blueprints and plans he was proud of that where in the end he was closed off and defensive so that means he wanted to steer away from the topic, Danny's was similar to his eyes he was always ready to move his body shifting as his eyes had scanned the room the only time there was any change was at the end it felt like he wanted to tell me but there was something holding him back… I'm certain that had I paid attention when talking to Sam and Jazz the results would have been similar, a shudder racked my body again as I held back a sob. What were these teens getting into that are making them act this way?
"So, anyone hungry for nasty burger?" Tucker asked leaning against Jazz's back seat.
The others shook their heads.
"I need to get ready for an event grandma is hosting" Sam replied from the front seat
"And Danny and I need to get home and prep for the annual argument" Jazz added.
"Don't remind me" Danny scowled
Tucker pat Danny's shoulder "I wish…"
"Don't finish that sentence!" the team shouted cutting him off
"I hoped after the ghost writer incident that you would have stopped hating Christmas" Tucker corrected.
Danny sighed leaning against the window watching a few flakes fall "i don't hate it so much as I did it's just one or two decent Christmas isn't going to change anything, mom and dad still fight about whether Santa is real, meanwhile Jazz and I have to deal with the fall out of the argument"
"It doesn't help that the ghosts have ramped their attacks since the truce is getting closer" Sam added
Danny grinned slightly "the only good thing that happened was I managed to convince them to extend the truce up to the twelve days before Christmas which means only one more day of this then we can relax"
this one took quiet sometime writing i had debated spliting them into their own chapters but went against that, also here's why danny was so Paranoid about leaving i took the one day truce and extended it to twelve days so the ghosts wanted cause as much trouble as possible before they had to stop... i guess that's it for now have a good day night morning afternoon whatever it is where you are talk to you all next time.