Author's Note: I was inspired by reading the first chapter of Nairobi-harper's latest story, Sweet Dreams, to write this, I hope you like it!

Tommy's Nightscare

Summary: Upon returning home from Boston to pay Rosie a visit and attend her birthday party, Tommy starts to have terrible nightmares (nightscares), featuring Rosie's evil bully, Reggie. Can Tommy overcome these terrible reoccuring nightmares before it's too late? Or is he doomed to become sleepless in California forever? Read this to find out! Story is told from Tommy's POV.

Disclaimer: I do not own the original Rugrats characters, they're the property of their original creaters. I own any OC's you don't recognize, as well as Zack, his aunty Celeste, Reggie and his mom Rhonda, while Peter is owned by TCKing12, Rosie and her family are owned by Nairobi-harper, and Jesse is owned by Jesse Barrow Stories.

Chapter 1, The Nightscares

Tommy POV

It all started after I gotted home from Boston to visit Rosie. Of course, that trip was probably my worstest vacation ever at this time in my short little two years of life, but you all already know about what happened on that trip, so don't need to tell you all that story again, but if getting sick while being away is no fun, it's made even worser when you're up against the biggerest bully around, a kid who's about twice me and Rosie's size named Reggie. To put it simply, he's meaner than the meany of Chanukah and that kid Josh, all together. And in case you guys don't knows, Josh is this big kid me and my friends all went off to play with, when we were tired of Angelica, only to learn he was worser than him. Well Reggie is worser than him and the meany of Chanukah put together, and so far, I haven't founded a mirable to make him nice. All that's resulted, is these terrible nightscares that I keep having every single night.

I won't tell you about every nightscare, but I'll tell you this much. In the firstest bad dream, after I gotted home from Rosie's, Reggie had grown to the size of Reptar, and I awoke to my house shaking. Worried my house was about to getted broked, I awoke Dilly and we ran outside to find the giant Reggie shaking our house.

"You stop that!" I called.

"No!" Reggie replied.

"Stop it or I'll be getting my mommy and daddy." I said.

"What's the woosy baby gonna do about it? Throw up all over my shoes? I don't think we have a chance." Said Reggie, as he proceeded to pick up Dil and eat him.

"Mmmm, delicious!" Said the giant Reggie, as he licked his lips and let out a large burp.

"Hey! You give my brother back!" I cried.

"Make me kid, oh that's right, you're only two-months-old, like you can get him back." Scoffed Reggie.

Now this made me really mad. The giant Reggie ated my brother and it was up to me to get him back. This obviously meant, he'd have to eat me too, but if I could rescue Dil, then I'd do it. Then, I struck up an idea, little did I know just how wrong I was.

"Ok, if I give you every Reptar bar and lolliepop in the world, will you throw up my brother and leave us alone?" I asked.

The giant Reggie licked his lips and smiled.

"Ok pickled shrimp, you got yourself a deal." Said Reggie.

So I went back inside, and grabbed everything I could reach, since I was alone, and didn't have any of my friends to climb on to reach the top shelf of the pantry, brought the snacks back outside, where Reggie ate them, but then, instead of throwing up Dil, he ated me instead.

"Hey! Put me down! You promised!" I said.

"What are you talking about, I didn't promise nothing. Now hold still, while I enjoy the main course, pickled shrimp casarole!" Said Reggie, as he swallowed me, and I was down in his tummy, with Dil.

"Tommy! I'm, ascared." Cried Dil.

""It's gonna be ok Dil, even if we must live inside this giant, we're gonna be ok." I said.

But it wasn't ok. The nextest thing I knew, giant Reggie had to go potty, at which time me and Dilly were flushed down the potty, and I awoke. The firstest nightscare happened on the firstest night Zack was sleeping over, so I quickly ran out of my room down to mommy and daddy's room, and started pulling on my mommy's robe sleeve. She sat up in bed, put on her glasses and looked at me.

"What are you doing here? Did you have a nightmare sweetie?" My mommy asked me, as she picked me up in her arms and hugged me.

I wimpered slightly, but didn't wanna wake anybody up, so tried to calm down, as she carried me back to my room, put me down on my side of my bed next to Zack, and I went back to sleep.

The rest of the nightscares continued like this, and most nights while Zack was there, I ran to my parents room in silence, and gotted carried back, except on the night of the day Zack broked his promise in that restaurant and we weren't speaking to one another, I just went downstairs and hid in the hall closet, till the nextest morning, when I snuck into the kitchen, unnoticed by anybody, and played quietly with some magnetic letters and numbers on the frigirator till mommy, daddy and Dilly were all awake, at which time, I couldn't stand Super Why on the TV, so went and turndid it off, and well, you know how the rest of that story went, thanks to Zack. Despite these nightscares though, I was able to cover it up at this point, so far, nobody knew I was having them, and even if they did, they'd never believe me. I mean, I'm the braveliest toddler in the whole wild world. Sure, I'll have a bad dream sometimes, but it's never been like this before. I've never had it happen to me every night like this before, and I didn't like it.

The nightscares continued, even after Zack lefted for home, but by this time, I had come down with a terrible cold and sinus inflection, and if that wasn't enough to make me feels miserable, the nightscares gotted worser. They continued to feature Reggie doing something harmful to me, while in the middle of having a fun time with Rosie, my brother or my other friends, or he'd hurted one of my friends, and proceed to hurt me when I attempted to save them. But as the nightscares continued, it got to where I would wake up, not being able to go back to sleep. I'd lie awake the rest of the night, rolling around, hearing Dil sleep peacefully across the room, not wanting to wake him up. This of course resulted in my being extra tired and cranky the nextest day, causing me to take more nappies, or fall asleep in places I didn't usually fall asleep in, like on short car trips, and it would only be a matter of time, before my friends and brother started to notice, and ask questions. They'd ask me if I was ok, and usually, I'd say I was fine, especially if we were in the car, and I awoke from a snooze, to find we had arrived at our final destination. It would usually be some place I wanted to be, like the park, a friends house, or one time, I went with Dil and Zack to see Sherry Berry in concert, so of course I was ok, cuz I was looking forward to what we were doing.

Sherry Berry was not only the bestest singer nextest to Taffy, but she was beautiful! I could listen to her forever, and it was like, I was in love! While at one of her concerts, we talked with one of our biggest fans, and Dil and Zack wished they could go meet Rosie's friends in Boston. Sadly though, I couldn't really grant the wish, but I did later that day in a dream, by turning into a butterfly and flying them there, only to have Reggie as a giant bumble bee appear in the sky. He proceeded to clip off my wings with some safety scissors, causing me to fall to the ground, though luckily, I saved my brother and Zack, but I suffered. After that, the nightscares haunted me during nappy time, and while I recovered over the sinus inflection, as by this time, I was on medicine, the only thing that cheered me up was the Sherry Berry videos or listening to one of their CD's, which my mommy put on for me each night after I'd wake up from the nightscare, and usually, her music would lull me back to sleep, until I'd have another nightscare. This one would usually consist of Sherry Berry, singing with me, she'd sing some song about not worrying, everything would be ok. Of course, Reggie would insist on coming up to sing with her on stage, but he'd be mean about it, so Sherry would tell him no, but being the big bully he was, he wouldn't buy it, harming me in the process. In those dreams, I went through everything, from getting cutted, to getting my legs and arms broked, and any number of horrible things, they'd cause me to wake up, shaking.

If the nightscares wasn't bad enough, it wasn't everyday, but sometimes, when Rosie would call to talk to me on Peter's iPhone, Reggie would be there. Don't ask me to try to explain it, but whenever Reggie was around, and especially if he was being mean to Rosie and her sister, or anybody else they had over at the time, as one weekend, Zack got to go visit her cuz his aunty had a business trip, I would get this terrible headache, and my tummy would feel funny, like I was gonna throw up. It then hit me, I not only didn't like this Reggie, I was ascared of him, and I only hoped I could keep this from my friends and brother, especially Chuckie, I didn't need him to get nightscares about Reggie too, and he didn't even know Reggie like I did, so who knows what would happen in his nightscares. It was getting worser, and there was only one solution. I needed to find a way to stop these nightscares, before it gotted too late.

Most days, I managed to keep a straight face, and play with my friends as usual, but deep down, I was exhausted, and all I wanted to do was sleep, as a result of not getting enough sleep because of the nightscares. But as each day carried on, it was getting harder and harder to keep up appearances. I was getting to where I could hardly stay awake, kind of like that day a while back when Angelica made us all skip our nappies to get a toy. Well ok, that's what she wanted us to do, only she tricked all of us to fall asleep, except for me, I won in the end, but at this moment, if she had been doing that again, I seriously don't think I would have won this time around, and it was then that I realized, I'd needed to do something.

On the firstest day I started to notice how sleepy I was, Taffy was babysitting us, and tooked us to the park to play. We were all pretty fed up with Angelica, as she hadn't changed, always calling us dumb and taking our toys, so Jesse and Zack got a great idea.

"Let's play in the sandbox and ignore her." Said Jesse.

"How's that gonna help?" I asked in between yawns, as Taffy was pulling us in the Reptar wagon down the street to the park.

"If we ignore her, she'll leave us alone and not bother us no more." Said Jesse.

"And we'll never have to hear her call us dumb ever again." Added Zack.

"Yeah, ok." I said, sounding really tired at this point.

"You sure you're ok Tommy?" Chuckie asked me as we were nearing the park.

I nodded, as I pointed to a sandbox in the distance, trying to change the subject fast. I didn't want anyone to know about these nightscares, and I intended to keep it that way. Once at the park, I led us over to the sandbox, and we got to work making a sandcastle. While we were there, we overheard Angelica singing in the distance and calling for us. I was about to give in when Kimi, who was sitting next to me, poked me in the ribs. Then remembering Jesse's idea, I went on digging, while also trying to stay awake, which was getting harder and harder to do.

"Hey! You dumb babies! Come on, it's time to get me some cookies and build me a moat!" Screamed Angelica.

The nextest thing I remember, was when we didn't respond, she proceeded to kick a ball, which landed in the sandbox, sending sand in every direction, some of which, landed in my eye, and boy did it really hurt!

I started crying in pain, at which time, Taffy came and gotted me, got the sand out of my eyes with some water, and we all headed back to my house, where she put on a Sherry Berry DVD for us. On this DVD though, Sherry sang an interesting song that got me thinking. It was a song about how to handle nightscares.

If you're having a bad dream and can't sleep,

And nothing helps, not snuggling with mom or dad, not counting sheep,

Find a special friend, a toy or a hero,

Snuggle up with them, your blanket and your pillow,

Soon you'll have sweet dreams, all night long,

And you'll wake up the next day, smiling and singing a song.

Hearing this song, gave me my brilliant idea to try. I'd take something to bed with me that night, and see if that didn't stop the nightscares. Of course, I took my favoritest hero to bed with me, my Reptar doll. We snuggled together, and soon, I was sound asleep. Unfortunately, Sherry Berry's idea failed, as I had another nightscare.

In this nightscare, I had just helped Reptar free some giant frogs who were trapped under a giant log.

"Good going Reptar!" I said excitedly, as we freed the frogs.

"So, we meet again." Said Reggie, this time, he was the size of Reptar again, just like in that firstest nightscare.

"Yeah well you can't hurt me no mores, cuz Reptar's here." I said.

"Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, will you ever get it through that purple haired head of yours, that I'm not giving up? Reptar's just a dumb old lizard, he can't save you this time. Just watch." Said Reggie, as he let out an evil laugh, and proceeded to start ripping me apart. Stuffing started coming out, and he threw it at Reptar's mouth, where he choked on it and fell backwards into the giant pond, drowning.

This was one of those dreams where I was able to watch everything that happened to me, and it wasn't a prettyful sight. I awoke from this nightscare, clutching tight to the Reptar doll, screaming. I waked up everybody, but at that moment, I didn't care. This was the worstest nightscare ever, and at this point, I had had enough. If everyone founded out I wasn't the braveliest baby no mores cuz of this evil bully I metted while visiting Rosie in Boston, and getting sick, then so be it.

"Oh goodness Tommy, are you all right?" My mommy asked, as she ran into the room and picked me up.

She noticed the Reptar doll, and immediately thought that Reptar was the reason for my nightscares.

"I told Stu to not let the babies watch a Reptar video before bedtime, but he didn't listen to me. Here Tommy, this ought to help." Said my mommy, as she took the Reptar doll from me, I tried to reach for it back but she put it out of my reach, and handed me a Goober doll.

"You make me smile, can I have a hug?" Said the Goober toy, as I took it and snuggled with it for a minute, before throwing it across the room. I despised Goober, and surely, if Reptar didn't take my nightscare away, Goober wouldn't neither.

"Tommy! We do not throw things!" Scolded my mommy.

I didn't care. I was going to do anything at this point to get rid of those nightscares, though no sooner had I thrown Goober, when Dil started crying across the room.

"It's ok Dilly, mommy's here." Said my mommy, as she picked up the Goober doll off of the floor, and handed it to him in his crib, at which time, he smiled and snuggled up with Goober, falling back to sleep.

I decided at that point, to just, try to go back to sleep, so I rolled over and made it look like I was asleep, so mommy would leave. Once she had turndid out the lights and lefted the room, I rolled over and spotted my Reptar doll on a high shelf. Not wanting to wake up Dil though, I lay there, unable to sleep once again, planning to get it down the nextest morning. The nextest day though, I completely forgotted about it when I saw who came over for breakfast. My grandpa Lou and grandma Lulu. We had pancakes and I started to forget all about the nightscares, until I was looking down at my plate of pancakes, only to see Reggie's face in the plate. It then hit me, this was getting worser, and I wouldn't be able to hide it no mores. I needed to get some help fast, but who to turn to firstest?

End of Tommy POV

So, what will happen next? Will Tommy seek some help from his friends? And will his nightscares go away? You'll have to wait and find out, in the next chapter!