Many amazing Fairly Odd Parents writers on here have written their take on the constant downward spiral of Cosmo and Wanda relationship on the show and i felt that it was my turn to do it. I've been working on this for a while and i only intended it to be 2 chapters and i wasn't even going ot publish it. but then i kept adding more and more and i said "why not?"
Episode wise, i don't know when this is because i don't know exactly when Cosmo and Wanda started to hate each other but it's before Poof was born. I feel like i need to go to the Nickelodeon studios and have a serious talk with Butch Hartman because every time i hear Cosmo insult Wanda i'm cringing and trying not to cause too much of a scene.
Anyway, enjoy this story. I don't own Fairly Odd Parents but if i did, i would totally make this an episode (with a bit of editing for a kids network) and make Cosmo and Wanda love each other again.
Why Don't You Love Me?
It was the question Wanda had for so long now. Why didn't Cosmo love her anymore? She didn't ask it out loud, she didn't dare ask it. She thought things would get better and she wouldn't have to but their relationship was going in a downward spiral.
She couldn't pin point exactly when it started, but it was after they became Timmy's god parents. She would have to hear the cruel words from his mouth every day. Calling her fat, and ugly, and a nag, and claiming that she trapped him in this marriage that he didn't want to be in. At first she didn't believe it was true, that it was just Cosmo joking around, but then the words became crueler and harsher, he sounded like he meant it. He'd constantly look at other women, curvier, younger, pretty women and he'd compare them to her saying she was the lesser of the two. His belittling and laughter would beat her down day after day. At first she took them as jokes but these jokes weren't funny anymore. They were beginning to hurt, tearing at her very soul that she'd given to him so long ago.
Divorce had been thrown around between them for the past few days. First he brought it up in that cruel joking way of his. When he said it she went into the fishbowl crying and stayed there for the rest of the afternoon. When she finally came out he acted as if nothing had happened but that one word made the deepest cut yet. The next time she was the one who had said it. They were in the fishbowl as fish arguing and she said out of anger "maybe we really should get a divorce!"
"Fine, if you want a divorce, I'll go get the papers myself and I'll be the first one to sign them!" he shouted back at her.
That was when the door opened and Timmy came in. She knew he heard all of that, the worried look on his face said it all. She wanted to go hug her god child, she wanted to smack her husband, and she wanted to cry from what had passed between them. It only proved her point that her husband didn't love her anymore.
The rest of the evening his mean "jokes" ensued. The next morning she found him in the kitchen eating a bowl of his favorite cereal. He didn't even look at her when she came in. "Did you get those divorce papers?" she asked wondering if he had truly been serious yesterday.
He shook his head still not meeting her eyes. "No…I must have forgot."
"Figures, since you forget everything else," she said still angry at him from last night.
He glared at her. "I don't forget everything."
She crossed her arms. "You forgot my birthday. And how about our anniversary? You forgot that once. Proves how much you care."
He glared at her about to say something then decided against it. He poofed his cereal bowl into the dishwasher then left the room.
The night after Timmy had wished they were at a carnival. Cosmo had been saying these things to her all day. It was getting late and Timmy had school tomorrow. "Hey you guys, don't you think we should start heading home?" she asked.
"Wanda quit nagging all the time. You're so annoying," Cosmo said.
She glared at him. "But Timmy you know you have school tomorrow…"
Timmy grabbed Cosmo's arm. "I call hanging out with fun guy!" They ran off to go play some games and Wanda lagged behind them. Not long after, he and Timmy were leaning against a fence staring at the girls who walked past. "She's the prettiest," Timmy said pointing to the red haired girl.
Cosmo shook his head. "Nah she's way hotter," he said gesturing to the blonde girl. He looked at Wanda who was behind them. "Why can't you be that hot? That girl's got a gift."
Wanda glared at him. She couldn't take this anymore. "Come get me when you two are ready to leave." She flew off wiping the tears from her eyes. Cosmo used to tell her she was the most beautiful woman in the universe and that no one could ever compare to her. Now she wasn't attractive to him anymore. Recently she had started to feel like maybe she really wasn't attractive enough. He'd been telling her she was fat so she worked out to try to make herself appear more beautiful to him. Apparently he hadn't noticed. She took all of his little insults and verbal abuse because she loved him and she didn't want to lose him. But it had been starting to eat away at her self confidence and she felt like the love they used to have just wasn't there anymore.
Cosmo flew over to her an hour later with Timmy in tow. "We're leaving. You coming?"
She nodded without a word and they poofed back to Timmy's room. He changed into his pajamas and went right to sleep then she and Cosmo went into their little castle.
"See Wanda, no harm done. I don't know why you have to go being such a nag all the time."
Here he was at it again! Why did he do this to her? Did he like seeing her cry and get upset? She had taken too much that day, too much in general. She felt her already breaking heart crumble into little pieces. She fell to her knees right there and broke down crying.
Cosmo stared at her surprised. He flew over to her. "Wanda, why are you crying?"
She looked up at him with tears streaming down her face. "Why don't you love me anymore Cosmo?"
He went over that in his head trying to see if he had heard correctly. "What?"
"Why don't you love me anymore?" she exclaimed.
He rubbed her back comfortingly. "Wanda, I do love you…"
She slapped his arm away. "If you love me then why have you been being so mean to me? If you loved me you wouldn't call me all these names or say that I'm fat and unattractive. I can't believe you don't think I'm beautiful anymore. If you loved me, you wouldn't always be all over these other women like you were tonight! And if you loved me, you wouldn't have gone to get those divorce papers for a divorce!"
"Wanda, I didn't…" he said trying to calm her down.
"What have I done to deserve this? I've been good to you all these years haven't I? I've treated you right, I waited for you when you were gone, and I've always been there for you through everything!" She could barely see because the tears were spilling over so fast. She put her face back in her hands and sobbed "What have I done to deserve this from you?" She looked up at him again. "I gave my heart to you and this is how you treat me?"
Cosmo was completely surprised by all of this. Of course he still loved Wanda! He didn't understand why she wouldn't think that he didn't. He had actually thought she didn't love him anymore. "Wanda, I'm sorry."
She glared at him. "You think sorry is going to make up for all the pain you've put me through the past few months? It's not good enough! You're not my husband anymore. I feel like I don't even know you anymore." It was true. Whenever she looked at him now, she no longer saw the kind caring eyes of her crazy goofball husband. She now felt like she was looking into the eyes of a stranger. She got up and flew upstairs to their room and locked the door.
Cosmo followed her but the door closed before he could get in. Of course he could poof inside but he decided against it. He pressed his ear and against the door and heard her heartbroken sobs. His heart wrenched with guilt at hearing it. "Wanda, can I come in?"
"No!"
"Please?"
"No!"
He slumped against the door. He really hadn't meant to make Wanda feel this way. He truly did love her. When he said all of those things before he meant them to be jokes, he hadn't realized how much he had hurt her by saying them. He had noticed she had become kind of distant lately but he didn't know why and he thought things would get better. But she had been distant because of him. He wanted her to come out so he could hold her and kiss her and tell her he still loved her and that he was sorry. Ten minutes later the door opened. Tears still leaked down her face and her eyes were red and swollen. But now she carried bags with her. "What are you doing?" he asked worriedly.
"I'm leaving," she said not meeting his eyes.
Cosmo felt like she had punched him in the stomach. "Where are you going?"
"Back to Fairy World. I can't stay here anymore."
"When are you coming back?"
She sniffed still not looking at him. "I don't know…"
Tears leaked out of his own eyes. He took her hand. "Wanda, don't go! Please…!"
She snatched her hand back. "I can't stay here anymore and take all of this abuse from you." She turned away. "Don't follow me." She disappeared.
"Wanda!" He tried to grab her but he was too late. He dropped to his knees and sobbed. He'd always known that he wasn't very bright; it was just something that couldn't be helped. But now he knew what a true idiot he was. He'd hurt Wanda so badly she didn't want him anymore. He'd broken her heart and forced the greatest thing that had ever happened to him to leave and possibly never come back.
He sat there and cried for a long time and thought about how he could have let things go this far. All the things he said, calling her a nag and unattractive, those were meant to be jokes. But now when he thought about it, it was really mean. And Timmy had thought it was funny so he'd started saying it too and it was like they were ganging up on her. That wasn't right. Wanda was an amazing woman and she deserved respect from both of them. All she was doing when she said those things was looking out for them. Was that really so wrong and deserving of his harsh words?
And the way he'd always look at other women so openly when he was around her. He didn't realize how much that hurt her feelings. And when he compared her to them, it was also meant to be a joke. Now he realized how out of line he had been. A good husband would never do that to his wife. Wanda was more beautiful than any of those women combined. He imagined the situation flipped around. All the times Juandissimo had tried to take her away and how angry he had gotten just from Juandissimo mentioning her in a sentence. Why couldn't he see that Wanda might have felt the same way?
When he said he wanted a divorce, he said so out of anger. He loved her more than anything; being separated from Wanda was unimaginable. He knew, it had happened before, and he didn't want it to ever happen again. He wasn't really going to get divorce papers, and he sure as hell wouldn't be the first to sign it. She would have to tie him down and force him to eat dirt if she ever wanted him to sign them. Saying that he wanted a divorce was a mistake too. But he had thought she didn't love him. He'd noticed her distance and the way she wouldn't look him in the eye anymore and the way she'd snap at him constantly. He thought she was falling out of love with him and he didn't know what he had done wrong. Now he knew, everything he'd been saying to her and doing to her had been wrong. He would do anything to fix this mess.
It was useless now. Wanda was gone. It was probably too late to fix everything. She probably didn't want to come back. And he didn't blame her. If he were her, he wouldn't come back to him either.
The next morning, Cosmo woke up to the sound of the castle shaking slightly. He was in his pajamas with a glass of beer in his hand and he'd fallen asleep with his head on the kitchen table. He felt totally hammered and he had thought a few drinks would make him feel a bit better but it did the exact opposite.
His first thought was that it was an earthquake but then he realized it was just Timmy tapping on the fish bowl trying to get his attention. He came out. "What's the matter Timmy?"
Timmy looked at him with wide eyes. "What happened to you? What are you drinking?" He took the bottle from him but he snatched it back.
"Don't drink that," he said poofing it away.
"Where's Wanda?"
"She-She's gone." Cosmo collapsed onto Timmy's bed and started crying again.
Timmy sat next to him. "What do you mean she's gone?"
"I've done something horrible to her and she left."
"Well are you gonna go find her?"
"She didn't want me to follow her…"
"So? She's your wife isn't she? Go find her and apologize," Timmy said.
Cosmo realized he was right. He'd been with Wanda too long to let her go that easily. "You're right Timmy." He poofed himself into his regular clothes. "I've got to go find her."
"Can I come?" Timmy asked eagerly.
"No, go to school. I need to talk to her alone." He poofed himself to Fairy World.
Wanda was in their house in Fairy World sitting on the living room couch looking through a photo album. It was pictures of their wedding and their honeymoon at Fairy Falls and at the beaches. They looked so happy together. What had gone wrong? It made her broken heart ache even more to be away from Cosmo like this but she just needed to be alone. She had been faced with the question of whether she should leave Cosmo forever. She loved him; she still loved him more than anything in the entire universe. But could she handle the way he'd been treating her any longer? What if after apologizing he went back to his old ways and she remained this way? She didn't know if she could do it. What if he really did want to leave? Judging from how things had been, he obviously wasn't happy with her anymore. Maybe divorce really was the better option. All she wanted was for him to be happy. Maybe she had to move on and accept that their forever was over.
Suddenly she heard the door open. "Wanda?" he called. He went into the room. "There you are!" he exclaimed flying over to her. He sat down next to her and noticed she was looking away from him. He held her hand. "I'm so sorry Wanda."
"Cosmo…"
"I know, you said sorry wasn't enough but…"
She took a deep breath. This would be the hardest thing she'd ever have to do in her life. "Cosmo, I've been thinking and I think maybe…it would be better if…we separated."
Cosmo stared at her. In that moment, his whole world came crashing down around him. She wanted to leave him. He was afraid things had gotten that far and they had. She didn't want to be his wife anymore. "Wanda…you really want to…?"
She nodded trying desperately to hold back her tears. She didn't want to. All she wanted was to hug him and kiss him and forgive him for everything. "Yes, I think we should. You know how things have been going lately. I-I just want you to be happy Cosmo."
He couldn't believe this was happening. Wanda wanted a divorce. He was still stuck on that. He didn't want her to leave though. But if she wanted to, he didn't want her to be unhappy with him. He thought about agreeing with her. The thought of not being with Wanda anymore hurt more than anything, but he always told her he would give her whatever she wanted. And if she wanted this, as much as it hurt him, he would let her leave. "Are you sure?"
She nodded slowly. "Yes, I am."
He sighed sadly. "Well, if you really want to…okay. We can."
She stared at him for a moment. She should have been expecting this reaction. He didn't love her anymore so why should she have expected him to try to convince her otherwise? "Well…I guess that's it then."
"Yeah," he said slowly not able to meet her eyes.
She looked away from him. The tears were going to fall any second and she'd start sobbing. She didn't want him to see her cry. "You can go now. We'll…have it settled in the court and have the papers signed."
"Okay," he said trying not to cry. He got up and started to fly towards the door. He looked back at her. She wasn't looking at him so he couldn't see her face. All he wanted to do was fly over to her and kiss her and tell her he still loved her. But she wanted this and he would give it to her if she wanted it. "Good bye Wanda."
Oh my god, i cried when i wrote that last part. i cried when i wrote most of this story. i'm so mean to them...
By the way, for those following my story "Cosmo and Wanda's Story" i'm still working on it. i just don't want to publish anything until i get the gist of it finished because i keep thinking of more and more things to add. And i know i mentioned somewhere in here that Cosmo was "gone". that will be explained when i update my other story.
