Lost and Found
Summary: What if Vaughn and Chelsea's mothers where best friends. What if Vaughn and Chelsea grew up together? What if Vaughn and Chelsea were best friends? What if they were separated by a horrible tragedy? What if they found each other years later on Sunny Islands?
Chapter One - Memories and Great News!
Dream Sequence
(Jill and Skye Vaults Farm)
(Spring 3)
A now sixteen year old Vaughn and fifteen Chelsea were outside by the pond. Vaughn was playfully teasing Chelsea so she splashed water at him. This resulted in an all out splashing war, soaking the two completely. The two giggled and laughed happily and lay in the grass. They talked about nothing and everything while the sun dried their clothes and hair. Vaughn sat up and watched Chelsea suddenly sprang up and raced over to the honeybee tree where her backpack was. She dug around in it and pulled something out, then raced back to Vaughn who was now standing and looking at her curiously. She beamed and held out a white bandana with the initials VC-which stood for Vaughn and Chelsea.
"Happy sixteenth birthday, Vaughn!" She exclaimed.
He took the gift and looked at it with a smile on his face and then hugged her.
"Thank you Chelsea." He said and then pulled away.
Chelsea grinned and took the bandana from him and tied it around his neck, fixing it so he looked somewhat like a cowboy.
He smiled at her, as she grinned at him.
They were soon called in by the arrival of Mirabelle and Julia and that it was time to blow out candles and eat cake and ice cream.
(Claire and Cliff Daniels's Farm)
(Spring 20)
Chelsea sat on the fence by the farm's entrance waiting impatiently for Vaughn and his parents to arrive. She giggled and remembered Vaughn's birthday a few weeks ago. Chelsea then let out another impatient sigh and looked up at the sky, watching the clouds form different shapes and was soon lost in thought.
She was jolted out of her thoughts when someone snuck up on her and began tickling her. She let out a startled shriek and began laughing and giggling uncontrollably. The tickling didn't stop until she cried mercy. She wiped the tears out of her eyes and focused on her tickle assaulter. Her eyes grew wide and she smiled hugely. Unexpectedly she launched herself at them and tackled the person to the ground in an excited hug, landing on them. They both laughed.
"Vaughn, you're finally here!"
"Hey Chels!"
Chelsea got off of Vaughn and stuck her hand out to help him up. Vaughn took her hand and stood up, but didn't let go of her hand and instead placed a red bandana, stitched with the initials CV-which stood for Chelsea and Vaughn-on it, like the one Chelsea gave Vaughn only the letters were reversed.
"Happy sixteenth birthday, Chelsea!"
"Thank you Vaughn!" Chelsea exclaimed and then giggled. "Now we each have a bandana with both of our first initials!"
Vaughn smiled and took the bandana and tied in around her head. Chelsea beamed up at him.
"Oh yeah, mom and dad said we're spending the night here before we go home tomorrow."
Chelsea cheered and then the two raced off to the house giggling and laughing,
That night Chelsea and Vaughn fell asleep wearing their treasured and respective bandanas. Neither knew of the tragedy that was to happen later that same night.
(Spring 21-1:00am)
Chelsea woke to yelling and screaming. She sat up in her bed with wide, confused and frightened eyes just as her door crashed open. Vaughn bolted to her side.
"One of the oil lamps in the barn got knocked over. It caused a fire and both our parents are trying to put it out." He said panicky, his eyes wild with fear.
"We need to help them!" Chelsea yelled and shot out of her bed and out of her room.
She ignored his frantic calls for her to stop and wait, but she knew he was right there behind her. She came to a dead stop in front of the blazing barn. She moved to run in but Vaughn grabbed her hand and pulled her back to him. He wrapped his arms around her as she fought and struggled against him. But he was stronger and didn't let her go.
"Chelsea, no! We can't go in there! It's too dangerous!" Vaughn yelled over the roaring fire as Chelsea protested more and continued to struggle against Vaughn, but now more weakly. She eventually stopped and fell completely against Vaughn's chest as he supported her and held her up.
The two held onto each other desperately as they watched horrified and in tears as the barn burned down with the animals and both of their parents still inside.
(Spring 21-8:00am)
Mirabelle had rushed over to the Daniel's farm to take the two in and under her wing. But as she got there she found Chelsea yelling out terrified and sobbing to Vaughn and being lead away against her will by a social worker and Vaughn struggling against Gray and Rick and calling out desperately to Chelsea.
"Vaughn! Vaughn, I love you!"
"I love you too Chelsea! I'll find you again! I promise!"
That was five years ago and the last time Vaughn and Chelsea ever saw each other.
End Dream Sequence
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(Spring 12-6:00am)
Chelsea woke up breathing heavily. 'It never stops haunting me…that horrible last memory of us together.' Chelsea looked out the window and sighed longingly. 'I wonder where you are and what you're doing. Do you miss me…? I sure miss you… I want to see you again so badly…Vaughn…"
Chelsea got up, dressed and fixed her hair with her red bandana. She then made breakfast. As she was cleaning up she heard someone knocking on the front door.
Knock! Knock!
"I'm coming!" Chelsea said.
Chelsea opened the door and froze at the sight of the two women outside her door. The two people outside seemed shocked too.
"Julia? Mirabelle? Is it really you both?" Chelsea asked shocked.
Julia was the first to snap out of it. "Chelsea! Oh my gosh! It is you! You're Sunny Islands's farmer!" Julia cried and flung her arms around Chelsea.
Julia let go to let her mom hug Chelsea. "Taro and Felicity said the farmer's name was Chelsea Daniels. But we didn't want to think that it was really you because we didn't want to get our hopes up!"
"What are you both doing here?" Chelsea asked as Mirabelle let go.
"We're running the local animal shop here on the island. You'll be able to buy animals from us that our animal dealer will bring to the island." Julia said.
"Wow, that's great! I'm so glad to see you both!" Chelsea said smiling widely, but then a hesitant looked crossed her face. "How's Vaughn? Is he with you? Has he…forgotten me…?"
Chelsea saw the mother/daughter pair grin and glace at each other.
"Vaughn's doing well dear. He's not with us right now, but he'll be arriving on the island later this week, on the 16th. He's the exact animal dealer Julia mentioned a minute ago." Mirabelle said.
"Vaughn never forgot about you Chelsea! He kept his promise and never stopped searching for you. That's one of the reasons why he got a job as an animal dealer. As an animal dealer, he travels to all sorts of places. He'd always wonder everyday about you. Like how you're doing, if you're okay, where you are…even if you'd forgotten him. I can't wait to tell him you're here living on the island as the local farmer. He's going to be so happy! Maybe he'll stop being so grumpy now!" Julia giggled.
"After you and Vaughn were forcibly separated, it traumatized Vaughn and he…changed." Mirabelle said frowning. "He became anti-social and was verbally mean to anyone who tried to talk to him. Hopefully now that we know where you are, he'll change back into the sweet boy we all know and love."
I agreed and gave a relieved smiled and talked a bit more with Julia and Mirabelle, giving them another hug before they had to head back to their animal shop and I had to tend to my crops.
Yeah, yeah, I know it was bad, blah, blah, blah. I really haven't written much a long time nor have I played Harvest Moon: IoH/SI for a while. Chapter two is already almost finished so it should be up soon. Just a lil heads up for y'all: Vaughn will be really OOC though. Y'all please leave a review (BUT NO FLAMES) and tell me what y'all think! Thanks and I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I don't own Harvest Moon, I only own this story, its ideas and its plot!