Jed flew against the clouds as the gang watched the different houses roll by. Ginger watched Ratigan stay silent and she touched his hand "If it means anything, I know she is scared too." Ratigan looked away from her and took a breath, trying to remain composure.
They finally landed on Big Daddy's property, Everyone marched through the ivory door into the parlor. Samantha was being comforted by Big Daddy, the bridesmaids and Rodger standing by her side. They all noticed her dress ripped to shreds and her hair tangled around her shoulders. She was sobbing into a napkin and suddenly looked up at the rest of the group, practically fainting in her seat. "It was all HIS fault!" she pointed to Ratigan, who quirked an eyebrow.
"Tell us what happened Miss Brewster." Basil asked.
She sniffled "Well me and Rosalie were walking to the opera house, then suddenly he popped out of nowhere!"
"Who?" Ginger asked.
She pointed at the professor, and everyone gasped. Ratigan suddenly went blank, and Samantha continued "He jumped out of nowhere! He started raving on and then he attacked! Brave Rosalie tried fighting him off for me and told me to run! Well I was running and I made the daring decision to suddenly go back.. all that was left was this" she unfolded her hands and displayed Rosalie's gold necklace. Big Daddy's eyes widend and he spoke up "I knew that rage was too good to be true! How could you do this!?"
Ginger tried to reason "Hey Big Daddy! He was with me the whole time!"
Samantha yelled "And those were his accomplices!" she pointed to Ginger and the boys "I knew from the very beginning Ginger was jealous of Rosalie and her success! Professor Ratigan and her knew that if she was gone, her fortune was all theirs!" she whimpered and cried into Rodger's chest.
Suddenly, the police burst through the door "Professor P. James Ratigan, you are under arrest for the murder of Rosalie Ann Hampstead." The police began to arrest the others and Basil stepped up "Please! Everyone! Have a bit of decorum! We still need evidence and deep investigations! We must find-"
Big Daddy grabbed the necklace from Samantha's hands "This is enough! I don't care how you do things back in London, this matter is none of your concern anymore! If you care about your career, step down."
Basil quirked an eyebrow and saw Ratigan with a blank stare leave with the police without any struggling. The children watched as he was pushed into the carriage, along with the rest of the boys and Ginger. She yelled out the barred windows "You're wrong! Let us out!" the carriage started to pull through the property. Ratigan was lost in a trance when Ginger tried to snap him out of it "Professor?" she waved her hands in front of his face "Hello? Ratigan?" she gave up and plopped on her seat, waiting to find out all of their fate's. Mavis watched the carriage leave and saw Samantha slowly slip out the door "I need some air."
Mavis decided to follow her. Samantha walked through the woods and past the lake for about an hour. The blonde beauty walked into an old shack, lit with lanterns on the outside. Mavis hid behind an old tree trunk and was focused on what was inside "What's wrong?" she gasped and turned around, focused on the shack. "Alex! What are you doing here!"
"I wouldn't keep you alone would I?" he playfully nudged her and both of their attention was focusesed on the shack "Something isn't right here.." they both crawled to the top of the building and found a opening to the attic "through here.." Mavis whispered, they entered the small window and crawled around the floor. The wood floor creaked and Alex hushed her movement, he picked her up and gently set her back down on the next part of the wood floor. She was about to fall through a hole in the floor when Alex caught her, he pushed her body close to him. So close their noses began to touch. Mavis awkwardly smiled then they suddenly heard a voice from beneath their feet.
"Oh sweetheart! I'm home!" Samantha's voice filled the room. Mavis looked down and slowly whispered "Sweethart?" they continued to look down "Who is that?" looking at the tan mouse in the room, Alex's eyes narrowed "Elijah Lockson.."
"So how did it go?" Elijah sat at his desk. Samantha sat on top of the wood and smiled "Consider him out of our way!" Elijah picked her up out of her seat "Oh you beautiful devil! And what is his sentence?"
"Hanging!" she laughed as Alex and Mavis looked at eachother, holding their necks. Elijah took out blue prints for the wedding reception "Now don't forget, We need Rodger standing exactly here, after the 'I do's' once he's here, I'll set off the mouse trap and…" he placed the knife on the blueprints "SPLAT!" Mavis gasped and Alex held her close trying to comfort her, what they didn't know was that the string of her dress was caught on a board, holding a jar of marbles that was slowly toppling down.
"By tomorrow afternoon, I will be the richest widow in America!" she spun around and Mavis whispered "We have to warn my father!" as soon as she moved, the marbles fell over, and rolled across the floor.
"Get them!" Elijah shouted. They both ran up and ran across the attic, Alex jumped through the window and wrapped his arm around the tree "Mavis grab on!" Mavis was about to grab hold when she was pulled back by Elijah "Alex run! Warn my father!" Alex followed her directions, and ran down the dock. He was grabbed by the collar by Vlad and dragged inside the house.
"My dear sweet Mavis.." Samantha grabbed her face, who was tied up next to Alex. She flipped her head "You wont get away with this Samantha! I knew you only wanted his money!" Samantha pouted "Oh boo-who.. that isn't any way to speak to your knew Stepmom!"
"If you were half the mouse my mother was-" Mavis bit back and Samantha wrapped a cloth around her mouth "I am ten times the mouse your precious mother was." She smiled and Vlad grabbed them, throwing them into another small room. Mavis groaned and looked up, her brown eyes growing wide as she practically fell down again.
Alex nearly fainted as he faced a shadowed figure, the person's face moved into the sunlight as her dark auburn hair was pushed out of her face. "R-Rosalie?"
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