The plane seemed to take a while, but it was finally going down the runway to take them to the New York airport. Atticus was going to make sure that Darla remained happy during this trip. Cherry decided to wait with the Fudo siblings until her sister or their aunt and uncle would arrive to take them to their designated locations. Darla seemed happy to see Cherry again and happily told her she was attending school now and she had a best friend named Amber, who was actually found out to be the niece of Roger and Anita with the Dalmatians. They were all now waiting for Cherry's sister and Atticus, Jessica, and Darla's aunt and uncle.

Cherry's sister came first. "TERI!" she happily ran to the adult woman.

"Cherry!" Teresa smiled back, hugging her younger sister.

Darla couldn't help but notice that Cherry and Teresa didn't really look alike that much. Atticus and Jessica noticed this too.

Teresa smiled from the hug and looked over, catching their weird stares. "What?"

"You guys don't look like each other..." Jessica said. "Is one of you adopted?"

"Actually, Cherry and I are half-sisters." Teresa replied.

"What does that mean?" Darla asked.

"We have the same dad, but different mothers, but we're still sisters, even if we don't have the same Mom." Cherry concluded.

"Cool." Atticus said.

"Well, we need to get going, we'll all get to know each other better a little later." Teresa waved.

"Bye, guys." Cherry said, then left with her sister.

"Bye, Cherry!" Darla waved, she was in a better mood now.

"Bye, Cherry." Atticus echoed.


The three then kept waiting. There came a woman with her short-ish light brown hair and aqua green coat and a man beside her with black hair and a curved mustache, wearing a dark brown suit with a matching hat.

"Aunt Stacy, Uncle Jeffry!" Jessica recognized them instantly and happily ran to them.

Atticus and Darla joined in.

Stacy hugged Jessica real tight, then she hugged Atticus and looked down. "Oh... And who is this?"

"This is Darla," Jessica introduced them. "Our family adopted her back in April."

Jeffry looked down to Darla, she looked familiar. "I feel like I've seen this child from somewhere..."

Darla looked like she was going to be sick to her stomach. Was he going to hate her too?

"Well, welcome to the family, Darla." Jeffry gently ruffled up the girl's hair.

This calmed Darla right down. Jeffry and Stacy took their nieces and nephew to their car.

"I hope you all like turkey, because I have one waiting for us at home for our supper." Stacy told them as she sat while her husband took the wheel and drove them to their house after packing the trunk with personal belongings.

"I love turkey." Atticus said.

Darla licked her lips. "I love turkey... Though it makes me sleepy."

Jessica giggled a little. "Yeah, that'll do it."

Stacy smiled as they went along, she then found herself thinking about the kids, and about her own and sighed.

"Stacy, it'll be alright... It's all over now..." Jeffry calmly told his wife.

"I know... But... We were so excited..." Stacy couldn't stop thinking about her little dilemma, but she tried to cheer herself up since she had company now.

'I wish there was someway to help them get a child.' Atticus thought.

Atticus's new phone started to vibrate and he got a new text message, due to being in the same place and being away from home, it was from his friend: 'Text me or call me at this number if you want, my sister got me a volunteer job in Morningside Orphanage while she'll be meeting with other members of the UN. - Cherry'

"Cool." Atticus said.

Darla looked over at him. "What's up?" she asked, not knowing he had gotten a text from Cherry.

He then showed her his text he got from Cherry.

"Oh, okay." Darla smiled, she then kept looking forward.


Stacy and Jeffry pulled up to an apartment building.

"Well, so far here we are," Stacy looked back at her nieces and nephew with a smile. "I really hope you kids enjoy your stay."

Jessica, Atticus, and Darla smiled.

"I'm sure we will." Atticus said.

Stacy and Jeffry helped the kids with their things and gave them a guest room which they had been saving for their child who would have been born, but there were guest beds out for them all to sleep in. There was also a private bathroom in the room. Darla still felt the room was small comapred to her old bedroom in Hollywood, but she knew not to complain. After unpacking, Stacy went to start getting dinner ready for all of them.

'This trip, why do I still feel like there's going to be excitement?' Atticus thought.

"What's with Atticus?" Darla asked.

"He's probably thinking to himself, he does that a lot when no one talks to him." Jessica replied as she sat on the couch, finding something to watch on the television.

Atticus was exercising while thinking his own version of him as Sherlock Holmes.

"Dinner's ready!" Stacy called.


The kids then went to join Jeffry and Stacy for dinner as she was carving the turkey. There was also helpings of baked potatoes, steamed broccoli casserole with cheese and crackers, hot buttered rolls, and Stacy told them not to fill up if they wanted dessert since she had a strawberry cheesecake in the fridge for them if they wanted any.

A mouse seemed to be climbing up onto the table as the family sat down to eat. Atticus noticed the mouse and decided to help it out by hiding it and giving it enough food for it and who ever he or she was going to be eating with. The mouse blinked, he smiled at Atticus and quietly thanked him and went off with the scraps.

Stacy looked to see the mouse, but unlike most women who hate mice, she actually smiled. "I swear... That mouse is a regular customer of mine..." she chuckled.

"You mean you don't hate mice?" Darla asked.

"I could never," Stacy shook her head with a smile. "I've always loved them. The mice here never hurt me, though rats are a different story..." she visibly shuddered about the bigger rodent cousin of innocent and playful mice.

"I gave him enough food for him and his friend or friends." Atticus said.

"That was very nice of you." Stacy smiled.

Jeffry kept eating, he was a little calmer than most nights.

"You okay, Uncle Jeff?" Jessica looked to him.

"Just tense, I have this strange feeling something bad will happen..." Jeffry sighed.

Stacy looked visibly worried, then looked to their guests. "Kids, I don't know if your mother has told you, but your uncle is a detective... He usually picks up on things no one would really think about."

"You know, I didn't want to say anything, but I had two feelings, one that something bad was about to happen during this trip and two, during this trip will possibly be an adventure." Atticus said.

"You could be onto something, boy," Jeffry said to him as he curled his mustache between his fingers. "You sound like an expert with this detective stuff."

"He got to work with Eddie Valiant to find out who framed Roger Rabbit." Jessica informed.

"Yep." Atticus said.

"My lead inspector will let me know if anything's happened," Jeffry tried to calm his wife. "Don't worry, dear... We're all going to be okay, I'm sure of it."

Stacy smiled to him, resting her face against his shoulder. "You're probably right..."

The kids nodded as well. After dinner, the kids were exhausted, not just from their dinner, but also the traveling. Jeffry eventually got a call from work to tell him to report to the local orphanage.

"What is it, dear?" Stacy asked.

"Kidnapping, I believe..." Jeffry sighed a bit. "A poor innocent child too with no one to worry about her... Well, I better get going."

"Can I come?" Atticus asked even after the traveling and the dinner he wasn't tired.

"It might be dangerous, but if you think you can handle it." Jeffry gently looked down to the boy.

"I've faced danger many times, I think I can handle whatever we face in this case." Atticus said.

"Alright, be stay close to me in case this is very serious." Jeffry gave a nod, putting his hat on.

"Oh, be careful you two." Stacy felt worried for the orphan who was kidnapped and about her husband and nephew's safety.

"We will." Jeffry and Atticus said as they began to leave for the case.