Written for ChitChat Dog days of Summer! Hoped you enjoy this!

My chosen character is Emily Prentiss, Pet name is Dumblydore.

Prompt animal is Goldfish.

Disclaimer: I don't own CM or its Characters…just that fish.

And Thank You to HGRHfan35 for her beta skills! *muah*.

Enjoy!

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Dear Gladys

Gladys Goldfish

Big Goldfish Aquarium Tank,

Star Pet Store,

Fredericksburg, VA

Dear Gladys,

It has been 3…no, 5 days since I last saw my original owner. In fact, I don't remember much about what she looked like. I do remember she had dark hair.

For the fifth time this month, she had passed me to another human; her excuse was her job. She is always gone, hardly home to talk to me!

Doesn't she know that I require a lot of care, love and coddling? No. She doesn't. Oh granted, she feeds me with nice yummy flakies we all love, she changes the water regularly, making sure it is not too cold or too hot when she put me back in my home but that should not be all!

I remember on the first day she brought me home. She was so attentive to me and talked to me a lot. I liked that. I enjoyed that. And that lasted for one week. One week! Then she was always jostling my home, the water threatened to spill over! When the water had settled, there were always new faces glaring at me. I hated being stared at! It seemed they always expected me to do something surprising like jumping out of the water, or blow bubbles. I am not a circus pet!

I tell you, Gladys, please send out some rescue party! I can't stand being here anymore! I don't think she loves me anymore. I'm so depressed.

Oh no! Look, one of my beautiful scales just sloughed off my body! I'm losing scales!

Know any goldfish psychiatrists?

I missed my family! I remember those days when we'd swim in a circle and had fun swimming in between everyone else. The biggest game there was to try not to bump into anyone else.

Those were the days.

Now, I'm a lone fish in a teeny bowl.

And the name! The name she gave me! What the heck is a Dumblydore? It sounds dumb! Why can't I be a Goldie, Sunny, Summer or even Captain Nemo…well I guess that's a stretch but that's beside the point! The point is something Goldfishy names! Dumblydore? Come on!

Whoa! There we go again; she's hauling me off with her. She has to go to those 'many days away from home' trips. I so hate it! I wonder who she's going to get to baby sit me? Please not that kid! Kids know nothing about caring for a goldfish, they'd try to grab you and squish you hard! It's bad enough they take you out of the water so we're drowning, noooo; they have to hold you so tight our big eyes become even bigger and it scares them so badly that they will drop us outside our home!

The trauma! We should not have to deal with that! We are genteel creatures.

We have read countless obituaries about our kind! 50 goldfish die per day! Scandalous, absolutely scandalous.

We should form a group called the United Goldfish Anti-Abuse Society. Turn in all abusive owners! Even the ones that left you home all alone, all day!

Okay, I'm with this funny looking tall person. He looks like a pike fish; all long and skinny! But at least, he won't put his hand in here and squeeze me.

Well Gladys, I guess I better fire this letter off to you. If you don't hear from me in a while, you know what had happened to me!

Lots of love,

Dumblydore (sigh…what a deplorable name!)

P.S. Please say hey to mom and dad, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles and cousins (IF they're still living at the aquarium).

…The End…

Please let me know what you think! Some reviews is surely appreciated!

Thank you

Lizzie