It was summer time and Patch was starting to feel a little homesick. No need to get him wrong, he loved his life here with Atticus and the others, but sometimes, he wished he would be home with his natural family. One night after the last day of school, he made a Twilight Bark call to his biological father Pongo.
"Oh, it's Patch, everyone!" Pongo told his 97 puppies and mate.
"What is it?" Perdita asked in excitement.
"He says he wants to come visit for the summer with his new friends." Pongo informed.
"Yay! Patch is coming to visit!" All 97 puppies cheered.
"Wait, I thought Patch was already here?" the chicken who hung out with the Dalmatians looked puzzled.
"Oh, Spot, Spot, Spot..." the tiny female puppy known as Cadpig shook her head at her fine-feathered friend. "When are you ever going to remember? Patch is our brother who goes on adventures after he got separated from us in London! He's also one of Amber's closest friends."
"Oh, Dad, that reminds me, is he bringing Amber with him?" Lucky asked.
"Amber won't be able to visit for a long while, but she will be visiting sometime in the future, maybe you'll get to see her best friend again." Pongo encouraged.
"Wahoo!" Lucky cheered.
"Amber is Roger's niece..." Spot tried to think. "Right?"
'Technically yes, but she's Anita's sister's daughter," Cadpig corrected. "She looks so much like Anita..."
"Yeah, I just love it when Amber visits..." Lucky commented, sounding in love slightly. "I wish Anita had a dozen more nieces just like her."
"Come on, let's answer Patch." Cadpig smiled.
Patch put his ear up as he waited to hear from the farm where his family lived now, he smiled that he talked with them.
"Oh, someone tell him about the dance!" Two-Tone jumped up and down. "It's just so glamorous... Maybe he could take that girlfriend of his... What's her name? Lolly... Collie... Dolly?"
"Colette," Cadpig stated with a smile. "She sounds so lovely..."
"Yeah, tell him to bring her with him, oh, and also for him to bring Lucky with him." Rolly said.
"I'm right here..." Lucky looked at his fat brother.
"Not you, that other Lucky!" Rolly replied.
"This is gonna be confusing..." Lucky muttered.
Pongo responded to Patch's calls before they decided to get some sleep, it was very late where they were.
"Oh, I can't wait to tell them!" Patch was very eager with his tail waving in the air.
"Can't wait to tell who?" Atticus asked with a smile.
"Hi, Atticus..." Patch smiled to his boy. "Well... You know, I'm going to visit my family this summer."
"Yes, while we go to Atlantica, it was a compromise." Atticus was familiar with their ordeal over summer vacation plans.
"Well, I just told everyone that Lucky and Colette are coming too," Patch smiled proudly. "If they want to, I mean..."
"I'm sure that they will want to come too." Atticus smiled.
"I gotta tell them!" Patch dashed off.
Atticus was about to stop Patch because of how late it was, but he knew it would be kind of pointless, so he just let his puppy go with a sigh.
"Hopefully they're still up." Atticus said to himself.
Patch went through the Brown family fence and started to yip up to the top floor window.
Mo looked very exhausted, she came to the window, opened it up and looked down to the Dalmatian puppy. "Patch, could you keep it down a little?" she asked apologetically. "Junior has a fever and he needs to get some sleep..."
"I'm sorry, Mo, could you send Colette down?" Patch requested.
As soon as Colette heard Patch's voice, she was outside in an instant.
"Oh, never mind." Patch told Mo.
Mo nodded with a yawn, shut the window and went back to sleep.
Colette yawned herself, but smiled that he was there. "What is it, Patch?"
"Colette, I know you're a bit of lady material like your mother, but... How would you like to visit a farm this summer?" Patch invited.
"Well, I guess an experience at a farm would be great, so okay. For any reason; would your family be living on a farm?" Colette smiled.
"Well, yeah..." Patch chuckled. "I guess Roger and Anita thought living in a simple house with so many dogs would be a handful... I was supposed to go with them, but I got left behind the next morning... They didn't even notice I was gone..."
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, Patch, but there's so many of you..." Colette soothed.
"I know..." Patch understood now. "Besides, if I hadn't, I wouldn't have this new life I have and I'd probably never meet you."
Colette looked flattered at that last statement.
"Well, I better go ask Lucky if he wants to come too." Patch smiled.
"Okay..." Colette yawned again. "Good night..."
Patch smiled to her. "Good night..." he then dashed off to meet his father figure away from home.
'I sure hope that Lucky is still awake.' Patch thought to himself while running.
Dot was of course fast asleep.
Lucky was lying down on her floor while she was lost in her dreams for the night. He put an ear up though which made him smile, and he went down the stairs and went out the backyard doggy door. "I've been expecting you, my boy."
Patch chuckled a little. "Um, would you like to come with me to Dearly farm?" he asked the adult male collie.
"A farm, huh?" Lucky chuckled. "My old pals Rover and Daisy live on a farm..."
"My family lives there, I'd like them to meet you." Patch told him with a proud smile.
"And I would love to meet them too." Lucky smiled.
Patch smiled. "Great, this is going to be so much fun!"
Lucky smiled and hugged him. "Thank you kindly for inviting me... You didn't have to do that."
"I wanted to." Patch insisted.
This caused for Lucky to chuckle and to ruffle the top of the Dalmatian puppy's head.
"Hey, quit it!" Patch giggled.
"So, when do we leave?" Lucky asked.
"There's a truck coming in tomorrow afternoon that's making a stop to the farm," Patch informed. "Colette's coming with us... You remember her, right?"
"Of course I remember your girlfriend, Patch." Lucky smiled innocently.
"Great, now remember, we have to be on the truck on time." Patch smiled.
"I'll make sure of it," Lucky saluted him, looking playfully serious, then smiled again after lowering his frontal paw. "I bet they're so proud of you."
"Yeah," Patch smiled. "Well, I better get back home."
"All right, get some sleep, it's quite late over here." Lucky patted him on the head.
"Good night!" Patch called, helping himself back home.
"Night!" Lucky called back.
As soon as Patch got home, he went upstairs and went to sleep instantly.
Atticus smiled. "Good night, Patch."
Patch smiled in his sleep, going into a deep one until tomorrow morning.
"I just know that they'll have fun at farm." Atticus smiled.
Emily sighed as she was holding onto the necklace given to her by Athena, thinking about her own vacation with the family and hoped for the best.
"You're thinking about her, aren't you?" Patrick asked.
Emily sighed. "When am I not?" she asked with a sad smile to her husband.
"Good point, well, you know that she'll always be in our hearts and she can meet us any time she wants from Heaven." Patrick said.
"I suppose..." Emily said softly. "I just wish I could've been there more after we both left Never Land... I traded my mermaid life for a human form and she had met Triton, but I guess you can never change the past." she then sighed.
Patrick gave her a hug to soothe her. "It's okay..." he cooed to her. "Things will get better in the future... The past is in the past and the future's now."
Emily smiled to him and hugged him, still thinking of her late sister, but was glad she still had her family.
"Now, how's about we get some sleep?" Patrick suggested.
Emily nodded, she then suddenly let out a yawn, instantly feeling sleepy. Patrick helped her up to bed and everybody got a good night's sleep that night. And where the next day would be the start of both vacations.