What I've Been Looking For
A/N Another Five Children and IT fic. I love the book/movie a lot. It's about a month since Izz came to Earth and has a family but feels a little bit lonely because he has nobody like him, a Psammead friend who he can relate to and share feelings with but unknown to him, there's another Psammead on Earth and maybe this is what he's been looking for
It was raining in Calvert County as Izz's snail like eyes opened early that morning. He was in bed beside Carley and had been dreaming sweetly when rain drops had awoken him. To the soft grey furred Psammead, they looked like tears which made him sad. He'd been here a month and felt a little lonely even though Leah and the others were friends to him, he still felt alone.
He then climbed out of the warm bed and dressed warmly and wore a hooded coat.
He felt the rain touch his bat like ears which poked out from under the hood of the jacket.
"You're going to catch something." he heard somebody say as he was in the woods near the Robert's house. The Psammead wondered who'd said that but couldn't see who it was.
He saw a pair of snail like eyes like his in a bush but they'd gone.
"Maybe I... imagined it." he thought as the rain soaked through his jacket.
He then realised it was eight in the morning.
"I'd better go back before Carley wakes up.
She gets worried about me if I'm not there when she wakes up." he told himself softly walking back.
Carley had been his first human friend in this world and loved being with him before they'd came to Calvert County and met Leah and David.
He shivered as he came through the front door of the Robert's house quietly and went upstairs after removing the jacket and shaking himself and his soft grey fur stood on end like a fuzzy pillow.
He came upstairs and opened the door to his and Carley's room and walked in.
The twenty year old was still asleep as he changed into warm pyjamas and climbed back in beside her.
He shivered from the cold and dampness in his fur.
Elisa cursed angrily in Psammeadse as she'd remembered the other Psammead in the woods an hour ago. She wondered where he'd headed but wasn't sure. She had soft brownish fur with green eyes but had the look of being lonely in them along with being slender.
"He must have a family in this world.
He's lucky.
I.... wish I had a friend or somebody like he must have." she thought as a tear fell from her eye.
She had been exiled from the world she came to Earth from because she had problems controlling her magic and had trouble making friends.
She'd been living by herself in the woods, fending for herself, finding whatever food she could.
Izz sneezed loudly as he walked into the kitchen. Leah was already up making pancakes.
"You were outside, weren't you?
Maybe you should have some coffee.
It'll warm you up." she said gently with a warm look in her hazel eyes as she gazed into his.
She saw the look of somebody who had been alone for most of his life.
She'd heard from Carley how she'd found Izz that day injured and had nursed him to full health and through it became friends but she sensed he still.... felt a little lonely.
She understood how that felt as he drank the cup of coffee fast.
That always amazed her that he could do that.
He belched loudly.
Carley laughed softly as she entered in warm pyjamas.
"Morning.
I see somebody's in a good mood." she said to the Psammead as he smiled warmly.
He related to her because before she'd met him, Leah and David, she'd been alone.
He then saw her hug Leah as they blushed.
Later he saw her and Leah leave for school and decided to go to the woods. He was feeling a little under the weather but ignored it. He felt well enough to go out.
He wanted to explore.
But he heard slight coughing come from a grove of oak trees.
He gasped in awe at the figure lying on the ground.
"She looks very under the weather.
The rain must've soaked her to the bone too.
I'd better get her to Leah's house." he thought lifting the female Psammead gently.
He then entered the Robert's house and went upstairs to his and Carley's room.
David wondered what the Psammead was doing but wasn't in the mood.
Izz wondered what the female Psammead had been doing out there alone in the woods but decided to wait until she woke up but he felt energy flagging.
"....Damn it!
The cold is starting to affect me too." he said bitterly sneezing loudly but covered his mouth so nobody would hear.
David saw Leah and Carley return after lunch and wondered what was going on.
"School got cancelled due to a flu bug affecting students.
How's things here?" Leah said to him.
"Izz is doing something upstairs and I don't know what it is." David answered her as Carley was upstairs.
She was surprised to see another Psammead beside Izz's sleeping body.
She felt his fore head which was very warm.
"He must've gotten that bug too.
I feel sorry for him.
But who's his friend?" she thought going downstairs.
Leah saw her making hot chocolate and made a plate of cookies.
She smiled seeing her go back upstairs.
"They must be for Izz.
He was looking pretty miserable this morning at breakfast but he was in the woods before that." she told herself......