Sometimes, things happen

Back to the real world

Tobi's back aches laying sprawled upon the ground. She opens her eyes and stares at the blue sky above. She brings her hands to her face before placing them on the ground to prop herself up. Around her she sees her friends stirring and sitting up slowly. Daisy speaks first

"So, did it work" she looks around.

"Yes it did" Tris' voice makes them all jump, as just before she was no where to be seen. "Back home"
Tobi gets to her feet.

"I feel weird" she murmurs, a warm, sort of tingling feeling resonates in every part of her.

"Travel sickness" Tris shrugs. Then adds so only Tobi could hear her "I hope"
Tobi is puzzled for a moment before being snapped back to reality.

"Hey!" A low, gruff voice yells "What are you kids doing here, no one is permitted to be on school grounds after dark" a big burly man with a flashlight. But as he comes closer his face pales as if he had seen a ghost. He gasps and looked at each of the girls faces in time. He pulled out an ancient phone and dialed a number, still staring at them.

"Yes, yes It's me." He says hurriedly before pausing to hear what whoever was on the other side of the line says.

"No, no it's nothing bad it's just" he pauses again "It's them, the missing girls"
Tobi looked at the other girls and saw their faces were as stunned as hers. She looks at Amy who gave her a sort of an apologetic smile.

"Yes, yes" he says again "I'm calling the police now" he hangs up the phone.
He looks again to the group. That was the principal, come with me. He lead them across the field back towards the buildings. He turns his head back to the girls as if they were going to disappear any second. He stopped outside. The staff room, fumbling with his keys, he found the right one and ushered the group inside.
He does a quick head count but looks puzzled when he arrives at Tris.

"Who are you miss?" He asks

"Tris Summers, I found them" Tris lies, well the last part anyway.
He nods and walks out side to call the police.

"Just go along with whatever I say" Tris mutters just so they all can hear. Tobi and the others nod nervously. A while passes as they wait for the police arrive. Tris tells them the cover story.

"Okay" she begins in a hushed voice "You guys were snatched up by people, you don't remember everything, say its hazy or something" She pauses thinking about what happens next "And you one day notice an open door and just kind of walk out and I found you. Is that okay?" Tris finishes but before we have time to reply the man we suspect is the grounds keeper knocks on the door followed by two women in police uniforms. They approach the girls and introduce themselves as Officers Katie and Elizabeth.

Katie was the taller of the two with her caramel hair tightly pulled back into a bun and she had eyes the most peculiar shade of green. Elizabeth on the other hand had dark frizzy hair that she had obviously only half heartedly attempted to pull it back. Her eyes were a lighter blue with a kinder look to them.

"Good evening girls" Katie begins. "Can we go around the room so I can put faces to names"

"Tris Summers" Tris introduces herself first as she isn't really part of the group the police are interested in.

"Lexi Renler" Lexi spoke up as she was next to Tris.

"Daisy Astill" Daisy continues the chain

"Angelica Ritche" Angie uses her full name which she rarely does

"Lilly McPhail" Lilly goes on.

"Tobi Parkinson" Tobi finishes the round.

"Good" Elizabeth takes a note on a notepad she pulls from her pocket. "The five of you have been reported missing for two weeks, disappearing off the school grounds at one, twenty pm on the thirteenth of October." They nod to confirm what she is saying.

"I just want to ask, what happened?" She looks to all of the girls, bewildered.

"We aren't really sure" Lexi was the first to speak.

"Yeah, all I remember is, well, nothing really" Tobi shrugs.
The two officers exchange looks.

"We'll do a drug test with you girls, see what is making everything hazy" Katie scribbled something down on her own pad.
The girls exchange worried looks, except for Tris who was deep in thought.
Elizabeth dug through her bag to find a device that looked similar to a RBT machine
(A/N for those who don't know, RBT stands for Random Breath Testing, it's used to catch drunk drivers)
She went up to the Tobi, the closest to her.

"Now, I want you to count to three when I say, okay Tobi"

Tobi hoped that whatever was on Tris' mind was important as she counted to three slowly.

From behind her there is a silver light that seems dance through the air and twirl until it connects above Elizabeth's heart. Her eyes seem to glaze over and her body becomes ridged. But a second later she relaxes and scribbles on her pad.

"It's not too bad but there is a reading" Tobi is dumbfounded. She doesn't have a single drug in her system. The light. She looks around at Tris who was sitting behind her who simply pressed a finger to her lips and winked.

The rest of the police interrogation went extremely smoothly. Every so often the silver light would return to make sure it followed Tris' plan. Whatever that was.

Parent were called and there was a lot of hugging and crying. Tobi as is saying goodbye to the girls to go home with her Mum, she catches Tris in the act of muttering under her breath and sending a silver glow towards her.