Rosie in Make Believe Land
Summary: While undergoing an appendextomy, two-year-old Rosie Hall has a dream where she ends up in Make Believe Land, taking on a spoof of the classic Disney film, Alice in Wonderland, featuring the Rugrats and OC's as different Wonderland, I mean Make Believe Land characters. Rosie is owned by Nairobi-harper, and I was inspired to do this story after rewatching the Rugrats ep, No Place Like Home from season 6, where Susie is undergoing a tonselexomy, and has a dream that's a spoof on The Wizard of Oz, and after rewatching the Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland, and thought, let's do a combined story of this.
Disclaimer: I do not own the original characters from Rugrats and Alice in Wonderland, they're the property of their original creaters. I own Zack and any OC's you don't recognize, while Rosie and her family are owned by Nairobi-harper, Peter, in the case with this story, Dark Peter, is owned by TCKing12, Bassem is owned by TheUnkownAuthor, Jesse is owned by JJB-Jesse Barrow, Hazel and Hanna are owned by AsToldByHazelNut, Courtney, Brandon and Hunter are owned by Tropical and Sean, and Natalie is owned by Emma Pickles.
Chapter 1, Preparing for Surgery
Rosie Hall had recently recovered over a stomach bug, sadly passed on to her by her friend Tommy, who had come along with King Peter Albany of the Confederacy, to attend her birthday party. While Rosie was happy to finally be over the yucky tummy bug, she had another unpleasant surprise, knocking at her door. It all started the day after Tommy had left for home. She was more or less, over the tummy bug, and neither one of her parents could take anymore time off of work, so they left her for the day at Hazel's. While they were playing princess balarina in the living room, where they would dress up in sparkly costumes and try to make up their own ballet dances, Rosie got a sharp pain in the right side of her stomach.
"Ow!" Cried Rosie, as the two-year-old sat down on the floor, clutching the right side of her stomach.
"What's wrong?" Hazel asked, as she came over to examine Rosie.
"My tummy hurts, I need mommy!" Whailed Rosie, as she started to cry in pain uncontrollably.
Hazel joined into the crying, and a few minutes later, her mommy walked into the room to see what was going on.
"Oh dear, what happened?" Asked Hazel's mommy, as she examined the two little girls. No sooner had she spotted Rosie clutching her stomach, when she knew instantly what was wrong. Seeing her little sister, Hazel's aunt was a nurse, she had heard of Appendicitis before, and wasn't going to take any chances. She knew for sure it could happen to anybody at any age, and that it usually involved pain on the right-hand side of the lower abdomen.
Hazel's mommy gave Rosie's parents a call, got the two toddlers into the car, and rushed off to the hospital. While in the emergency waiting room, Rosie's parents and older sister Mary showed up. Mary saw an empty seat next to her little sister, and went and sat down.
"What happened Rosie?" Mary asked.
"My tummy hurts! I want Tommy!" Rosie cried at the top of her lungs.
"It's gonna be ok, you just need your appendix out." Explained Mary.
"My appendix? You mean my tummy? Oh no! What if I can never eat again? Quick! I need Tommy and Peter to come back and make everything ok again." Rosie cried, as she continued to clutch on to the right-hand side of her stomach.
"Relax Rosie, it's going to be ok, and I'm sure Tommy would tell you the same thing. In fact, mommy is outside, alerting Peter and Tommy of the situation, so they can be thinking of you. And it isn't your tummy that's being removed, it's something called your appendix. I don't know what it's for, but all of us in the family have suffered appendicitis, I had it at age three, and it wasn't so bad. The doctors and nurses told me that you don't need your appendix, and once it's gone, you feel all better." Said Mary, as she put an arm around her little sister's shoulder.
"But I'm ascared Mary, I'm really ascared. Why do things have to be this way? Why can't we live in a world where owies and booboos don't exist? Where eating candies like Reptar bars makes you big and strong, but eating yucky vegetables makes you little and helpless. Where aminals can talk, and, well, it would be a magical, fun, make believe land." Rosie cried through her tears.
"I don't know why, but that's a nice thought to have. You keep imagining you're in Make Believe Land, and I promise, the horrible pain will be gone before you know it." Said Mary.
A little while later, a nurse called the Halls back to an examining room, where Rosie would get ready to have her surgery. A nurse did the usual procedures, drawing blood, taking Rosie's blood pressure, and had her change into a hospital gown. A little while later, they had her lying in a bed, as her parents and sister gathered around her, by this point, Hazel and her mommy had joined them too.
"How are you feeling Rosie?" Hazel asked.
"I still hurted, and I'm ascared Hazel. I'm ascared of having an operation." Cried Rosie.
"You're gonna be fine, and we'll be here when it's all over." Said Hazel reassuringly, the two-year-old toddler taking Rosie's hand, and giving it a strong squeeze.
Rosie turned to look at her friend, and gave her a small smile.
"See? That's better, isn't it?" Hazel asked.
"I guess so." Rosie said with a sigh.
"Rosie! Rosie! My mommy just got off Facetime with Peter, and he wishes you well with your appendextomy. He's babysitting Tommy, his brother Dil and their good friend Zack tonight, and he said he'd give Tommy the news, and they'd be keeping you in their thoughts and prayers." Said Mary, as she came around to the opposite side of Rosie's hospital bed, across from where Hazel was standing, taking a hold of her sister's other hand.
Rosie turned her gaze towards her older sister, forcing a smile on her face, pleased to know that Tommy would be thinking of her. She knew that if Tommy was here, he, like her bestest friend and her big sister would be trying to cheer her up, helping her to feel better and know that everything was going to be ok.
"I wanna bottle." Rosie cried.
"I'm sorry Rosie, but the doctors and nurses told us you can't have anything to eat or drink before your surgery." Said Mary with a frown.
Just then, a nurse and a doctor came into the room.
"I'm afraid visiting time is over. Rosie needs to get ready for her surgery now." Said the nurse, as Rosie's bed was wheeled out of the recovery room, on to an elevator, and taken down to a different level of the hospital, where Rosie was hooked up to a series of machines, and an IV was placed into Rosie's arm.
"You'll be asleep before you know it." Said a nurse, as they prepared Rosie for her appendextomy.
"I wanna get out of here." Rosie thought to herself, as she started to have a fuzzy feeling overcome her, and her eyes slammed shut.
When Rosie opened her eyes, a bright beam of sunlight was in her face. She sat up to notice her stomach wasn't hurting anymore, and that she wasn't in the hospital. She looked around to see endless fields of wild flowers, and then, out of the corner of her eye, she spotted what looked like to be a clump of gray dust, only it was in the shape of a bunny, and it had Tommy's face.
"Wait! Where am I?" Rosie asked, as she scurried towards the bunny.
"Hi, I'm Tommy, the dust bunny, and you're in Make Believe Land." Said Tommy.
"But I thought, dust bunnies lived under the carpet, and their evil queen ate babies for lunch when growed ups moved the furniture around in the house." Said Rosie, remembering something the evil bully Reggie told her one time when he was stuck spending the day at Rosie's house, while her parents were doing some major spring cleaning. Of course, Rosie had no idea that Tommy went through a similar experience with dust bunnies, only Angelica told them it was a king that ate babies, not a queen, but still, the same concept.
"Not here, we're very friendly dust bunnies, and I'd love to talk more, but, I've gots to go. I'm running late." Said Tommy the dust bunny, as he jumped into a whole.
"Will I ever see you again Tommy?" Rosie asked, but she didn't receive a reply.
Suddenly, Rosie decided to follow Tommy the dust bunny into the whole.
And this, ends chapter 1. So, it's obvious that Rosie is now in Make Believe Land, so, what will happen next? You'll have to wait and find out, until chapter 2, and I think I'm going to put this story on hold until I get a few chapters completed in the other story I've recently started, A Long Weekend with Tommy and Zack, at least get up to the point in that story, when the events of this story, take place.