By the time Julie returned with Marco who dragged a still-hysterical Angelica along, the two men were already awake. Nicole tied them up and sat at one side of the stage singing "Defying Gravity".
"Um…Nic, what or who are those?" Marco asked, pointing to the two.
"Some bloody fools that fell on me, had me on my face they did." She muttered, apparently forgetting to speak like a normal person.
"So you tied them up and kept them there? You know that's pretty much cruel." Marco said to her, Nicole shrugged.
"You try to fall flat on your face with brass knuckles digging into you and you'll know why I did what I did." She said, standing up and walking to the two men.
"And besides, just found out…" she began in a sing song voice using the tune to "Master of the House", "That these two ain't human like us."
"What you mean, dear Nicole?" Julie asked, giggling as she played along.
"These two are real mouse and rat." Nicole answered glaring at the two, Julie's smile dissipated from her face, she frowned at Nicole.
"It can't be, can't be true, mice and rat cannot be big like you." She answered
Nicole smirked and knelt down, she carefully unbuttoned the mouse's shirt to reveal fur, and she looked at Julie and the two others with an expression daring them to deny what they see.
"It's probably special effects." Marco said to Nicole, she quirked a brow and yanked at the fur, the mouse yelped in pain.
As Julie watched Nicole's torturing the mouse, she noticed the rat stirring; it was the rat's face that got her, she knew him…somewhere in her childhood.
"I know that man…" she muttered to herself, inching close to the rat. "Can't forget a face like his…." She kept on saying to herself; she paused then turned to Nicole.
"Nicole, I know these two!" she said out loud at Nicole, her friend looked up surprised.
"What? Are they pets of yours?" she asked, Julie shook her head.
"Childhood friends more like." She said smiling at the two, "I often imagined myself in worlds like theirs…being an outcast, I like imagining I belonged…you know…silly little fantasies." She said shrugging as she untied the two and pulled them both up with a slightly childish smile.
Nicole looked at her friend with a surprised expression, she never knew about her friend's past except her being an adopted child but that was it. She never knew of Julie's being an outcast, a happy child sure, an innocent person? No, she knew about the incident of her third year in high school, she was there when it happened.
"When…did you meet them?" Nicole asked, looking calmer and tamer than she normally looks. Julie shrugged and grinned.
"Ever heard of the Great Mouse Detective?" she asked, Nicole grimaced and shook her head.
"Never, remember my parents raised me to be a cultured young lady. Never saw movies, only saw plays, musicals and other junk like operas and orchestras." She said sighing, Angelica smiled for the first time.
"I remember that movie…" she paused and looked at the two rodents standing awkwardly, "Are you saying…that…these two are…?"
"Yes, they are the Detective Basil and the great Professor Padriac Ratigan." Julie said, smiling at them.
"Julie, this is impossible." Marco said, shaking his head. "This must be from too much stress from rehearsing everyday and barely having any sleep…" he said, trying to remember what little he could of his knowledge in psychology.
"Um…hallucinations all at the same time?" she asked, he shrugged.
"Possible." Was all he said, Julie grabbed his hand and made him touch one of them.
"Tell me that this isn't real and you must be blind or…or deaf or something." She said.
"Okay…this is not possible…" he said backing away slowly.
He ran out of the theatre, Angelica sighed and followed after him.
"Someone's got to keep Marius silent before someone hears." Was all she said rushing out of the room.
Julie looked at the two staying far apart from each other; Julie walked towards Ratigan and cocked her head to one side.
"How's it possible you got to our world? With a height like that?" she asked softly, Ratigan looked at her confusedly.
"I don't really know what happened…all I can remember was chasing the detective up the tower…and I managed to grab hold of him when we felt something underneath us give way…" he said, frowning slightly.
"That was what I felt too…" Basil said shooting a glance at his supposed enemy.
"So…wow, you guys are good actors." Nicole said in an impressed tone.
"Nicole, they're for real…" Julie said, just Nicole nodded.
"I know but it's hard to imagine talking rodents in the size of humans." Nicole said, circling about the two, Basil was glaring at her while Ratigan looked at her curiously.
"So, what do we do now?" Julie asked, Nicole turned to look at her.
"We let them lodge with us, I mean, if they are who they are then most probably they won't do anything stupid." Nicole said as she picked up her bags and took Marco's and Angelica's also, stuffing their scripts in her binder.
Julie looked at the two and gestured to the door.
"You're stating with us, crazy as it sounds, we trust you enough to stay…follow me." She said leading them outside, the two looked at each other before warily following the girl.