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#1: Advent Drabbles: December 16th (part 3 23:14) Author: Advent Drabblers,

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:07 am
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The phone rang at the Round House and Madge Russell lifted the receiver to hear her sister’s agitated voice.
“Madge! thank goodness I caught you. I think something’s happened up at the school.”
“Calm down Jo! What makes you think that?”
“I’ve been trying to ring and getting no reply. It’s not the line, for the phone rings all right. But no one answers it.”
“There must be an explanation, Joey. Maybe they’re all busy.”
“Rosalie is always within reach of the phone, you know that. Something’s happened. Will you come with me to find out?”
“As it happens I’m free. I’ll be with you in a few minutes.”
Jo was waiting impatiently when Madge drew up in her little run-around, and scrambled into the passenger seat looking a bit white. Madge drove through the village and up the hill to Plas Howells, where the school had been situated since before the start of the War.
The playing fields were deserted as they went up the drive, as were the form gardens. Madge parked the car outside the main entrance and the two women walked into the school. There was not a sound to be heard. Usually there was the low hum of a school at work, but today silence reigned. Madge headed for the Library, where she expected to find Miss Annersley if she wasn’t teaching. She knocked on the door, and when no reply came she went in. The room was empty, with correspondence on the desk as if the occupant had just got up in the middle of a task and let it. The office that Rosalie Dene used was equally silent, a half-typed letter sitting in the typewriter.
Jo ran to the form rooms, and found a similar situation. No one wad there, but books were open on desks, with pens dropped on top of them. Chalk lay on the floor by the blackboard, as if dropped by the mistress halfway through writing something. She ran out of the room, and bumped into Madge.
“There’s no one here at all,” she gasped.
“No one in the Library or Office either. I’ve checked the Staff room too. That’s empty as well.”
They went the rounds of the whole building, checking all the rooms, upstairs and down, the labs and artrooms, the gym, the Splasheries. All were empty, as if abandoned at a minutes notice. Jo turned to her sister.
“Where are they all, Madge? What’s happened to them?”

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#2: Author: Rachel, Location: West Coast of Scotland

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:08 am
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Alien Abductions at the Chalet School! Can't think how Elinor came to miss writing this one...

#3: Author: Sugar, Location: second star to the right!

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:26 pm
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Goodness! This could be worse than Holocaust! Or could it?

Unless the School has just evacuated somewhere else to avoid the Joey factor...

#4: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 1:41 pm
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Perhaps they're all in the air raid shelters.

#5: Author: Advent Drabblers,

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:58 pm
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OK, well if all the school have disappeared I can't do a 'meanwhile on another storyline about any of them, because that wouldn't make sense.

Does this mean I will have to get inventive?

Oh dear, are you ready for that?

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...oh, you really want inventive?

Hmm is that the pink and fluffy inventive or the carving knife dripping blood inventive?

What do you mean it is advent?

Advent, hmmmmmm, ok...

Once upon a time, a long time ago lived a fluffy bunny who was very poor. He so wanted to give all his friends lovely christmas presents, but had nothing to buy any with...

No?

OK, how about this.

Jem crept along the lane, the revolver in his pocket making a suspicious bulge. He hoped he didn't come across any of the women or he would have to make them think he was pleased to see them. This was a serious business, and there was no time for that kind of marlarky really, and besides it would leave some rather odd marks in the snow. Ever since receiving the message earlier that day he had been on the lookout, and now he knew he would have to be very careful indeed.

The lane was beginning to grow dark, but Jem kept up his vigil. Someone was out there, he was certain of it, and he had to protect...well let's just say he had something or someone to protect. He walked carefully down to the end of the lane once more and took a quick peek down the main road.
Nothing.
He had a quick nip of whiskey from his flask, and then slowly set off back up the lane, looking into the trees on either side as he went. A movement caught his eye and he stopped, starred, and then slowly climbed over the wall, keeping his eyes fixed on one spot as he did.

It did not take him long to reach the cover of the trees, and then stepping carefully around a rope on the floor, grabbed the shadowy figure from behind, holding both arms and pulling the head close to his own.
“What's going on?” Jem growled.
“Jem, I so hope that is a gun.”
“Jack?” Jem released his grip a little, but still kept his captive securely held.

#6: Author: PaulineS, Location: West Midlands

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 5:28 pm
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Kidnapping, alien abduction, murder most foul??

Or just a sudden decision to have a picnic?

#7: Author: Advent Drabblers,

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:14 pm
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"Look, Jem, do you think you could let me go?" Jack asked reasonably, "there's enough talk about the pair of us as it is without you pressing yourself up against me with that really suspiscious bulge in your trousers that I really hope is a gun and not..."

"It's a gun, it's a gun," Jem said quickly, releasing Jack and taking the revolver out to brandish in front of his brother-in-law, "Satisfied?"

"Not really," Jack replied, "but I'll be back with Joey soon and...oh you mean about the gun, yes of course - I couldn't posibly fancy you, I'm an ideal British man, all stiff upper lip, no emotions and dominant."

"Yes I'd heard that," Jem said drily, "anyway, what are you doing here?"

"I was about to ask you the same question," Jack replied.

"But I'm the one holding the revolver," Jem said smugly.

Jack sighed, "The same as you, I suppose," he said somewhat sulkily, "trying to find out why the Chalet School suddenly resembles the Marie Celeste of Hereford/ Armiford, wherever we're supposed to be at the moment. Any ideas?"

"I received this message," Jem said after some thought, "from Madge. She told me about the situation at the Chalet School and that she and Joey were investigating. That was about six hours ago, since then, nothing."

"Hmmm, well I had a similar message from Joey and hurried across to the School - it was just as she said, everything seems to have stopped partway through - as though all the pupils and Staff had suddenly just vanished."

"And they're not out for a walk or having an Air Raid test," Jem replied, "they've just vanished. Almost as though they've been abducted by aliens."

"What, you mean they've had a 'Close Encounter'?"

"Perhaps, but rather more than of the Third Kind," Jem said quickly.

"Agreed," Jack said, "Probably of the twenty-third kind."

"Twenty-third?"

"Yes, when an alien spaceship disappears up your..."

"No, I can't see that," Jem said firmly, his eyes watering somewhat, "and anyway, have you noticed? Not only have all the pupils and Staff gone, now Madge and Joey have disappeared too. What on Earth can be happening?"

The two men looked at each other for a while with some worry, eventually Jem said, "You don't suppose it's another Interval, do you?"

"An Interval?" Jack's eyes widened, "hey that's a thought, it would all fit wouldn't it? Place left in limbo, no warning just dropped off the edge of the map. But she'd been getting on so well with the War Years, some of her best work, I thought."

"Maybe she just wants a break, wants to move on - I mean she has covered all you could ask for the war ones, hasn't she? Perhaps we need to move on a few years so she can get back to normal school stories then."

"In that case we might as well stop searching," Jack said decisively, "we'll probably fade into nothingness with no advance warning any second now."

"True," Jem said with a sigh, "I just hope she has some more dominant and positive characters lined up for our next outing. I mean her last tale had that drip Rosalie Way as the main character - no personality or anything."

"Sure too," Jack replied, "just so long as she doesn't go ove..."

Suddenly neither man was there, as though they had just dropped out of existence.

#8: Author: Tara, Location: Malvern, Worcestershire

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:20 pm
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Yay!!! I just love the thought of the school being suspended in time during those 'intervals'. Very clever.

#9: Author: Cath V-P, Location: Newcastle NSW

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:45 am
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Oh very neat! Very Happy

#10: Author: Fiona Mc, Location: Bendigo, Australia

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:07 am
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Well done Lesley. That was very clever

#11: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:55 am
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Neat one Lesley. Very Happy

#12: Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:44 am
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Excellent!

Well done Lesley, Carolyn & Pat

#13: Author: JackieP, Location: Kingston upon Hull

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:48 pm
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Very well done, ladies. Thank you.

JackieP

#14: Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:32 pm
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Thank you, that was great.

#15: Author: Smile :), Location: Location? What's a location?

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:29 pm
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I like it Smile

#16: Author: Katherine, Location: London, UK

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:33 pm
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Very nicely done.

#17: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:02 pm
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*splutter!*

Brilliant!!!!

*giggles like a loon*

#18: Author: Rosalin, Location: Swansea

Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:28 pm
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Quote:

"True," Jem said with a sigh, "I just hope she has some more dominant and positive characters lined up for our next outing. I mean her last tale had that drip Rosalie Way as the main character - no personality or anything."

Hmm, wasn't the next book Three Go?

Thanks ADs.

#19: Author: Sal, Location: Walsall / Aberystwyth

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:20 am
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rofl