Chapter 2: Welcome home.
Three days went by and Finitevus' wife and sons were, definitely, coming home today. Now, Finitevus knew he wasn't crazy but he had been hearing giggling in the house. He suspected it was Finite-Na up late since she would start school that next Monday. But it was unusual for her. He noticed that his daughter and Bean were getting close but Bean only played with her when Tails Doll was left in her room.
Finitevus sat in the living room reading a book while Finite-Na and Bean played in the back yard with the pool. He didn't understand why when it was getting pretty cold outside but children will be children.
"Come get me Bean!" Finite-Na ran up the stairs of her ship. It was a half ship but pretty big. It had a inside more like a little club house for her and her brothers, except it's on the ground.
Bean giggled after her. He was glad that he she left her creepy doll (as he called it) in the room. Before going into the ship fully. He happened to look back up to Finite-Na bedroom window. Tails Doll was sitting right there looking at him. He hurried inside nearly bumping into Finite-Na.
"Whoa, there Mean Bean." She giggled. Bean only giggled back. "Come on." She said dragging him in the main part of ship. It was filled with pillows of almost all colors, toys, both girl and boy kind, some blankets, a television, with movies, and games, like the Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii and a mini refrigerator for snacks and drinks.
"Wow." Bean said taking a seat as Finite-Na took some snacks out for them. "Your dad made this?" He asked taking the drink and snack she got him.
She giggled. "Yep." She opened her soda and drunk some while Bean did the same. "Where is your dad?"
"He died." He said. She heard the sadness in his voice. She couldn't help but feel bad for him.
"Sorry." He looked to her. She seemed a little sad, when he really didn't want her too.
"That's okay. So, your mom is coming home today." He smiled seeing she beamed right back up.
"Yep, I can't wait either. My brothers are going to love Tails Doll." Bean cringed at that.
"I'm sorry Finnie-Nini but that doll is creepy." He said shredding somewhat. Finite-Na looked a little sad.
"Bean that's not nice." He felt bad now seeing the tears was developing in her eyes.
"Oh, Finnie no, don't cry I'm sorry. I take it back. He's not creepy." Bean pulled her into a hug as she sniffled wiping the tears away. "I'm really sorry okay?"
"Okay." She said getting up. "I will be right back." She got up and walked into what seemed like another room or bathroom even? Bean breathed a sigh of relieve. Bean got up to look out of the window. He looked around outside looking at the pool and everything. He was a little glad it hadn't snowed yet.
"That water sure does look cold." He said. He happened to notice a red light shining behind him.
"Why don't you try it out?" Bean almost froze completely in place and slowly looked back.
Finitevus was so into reading his book the loud banging from the front door made him jump lightly. He hurried to the door seeing four figures standing outside. He smiled and opened the door.
"We're home!" Will-Na yelled squeezing her arms around Finitevus' neck and crushing her lips on his. He chuckled kissing her back.
"Ewwwww." Contol and Finitevus Jr. gaged. Brute and Wolf shook their heads smirking. Will-Na finally pulled away to look around the house.
"Wow," She said smirking and looking back at Finitevus. "Finnie did it all, didn't she?" The albino echidna only rolled his eyes.
"I helped you know." He said making her laugh.
"It's alright dad." Brute said patting his father on the back and walking by to get in the house.
"Yeah, yeah-"
"NO WAIT! AHHHHHHHHH!" Everyone heard the scream, the breaking glass and a loud splash.
Finite-Na ran from the room she had entered and saw that the window Bean was sitting near was broken and he was in the water.
"Oh no!" She immediately ran outside not grabbing her jacket or anything. She ran to the edge of the water seeing Bean struggling to get up from the bottom?
"Bean!" She reached her hands in the water to try to reach him but he was too deep. She noticed something was holding him. She began to cry. "BEAN!" She jumped back when Bean was able to come up to the surface.
"Finnie help me!" She immediately grabbed his arms but she was pulled back in the water with him. Brute was the first to see that and throw off his coat, gloves, scoff, throwing things out of his pockets and kicking off his shoes. He jumped right in.
Bean was slowly losing air along with Finnie. He never thought his throat could burn this much. His energy to fight whatever was holding him was fading. He could feel Finite-Na pulling him but she couldn't do anything. She began to panic when Bean completely gave up and fainted in her eyes. She felt someone grab hold her and saw a red arm grab Bean. She looked up to see it was her big brother, Brute.
Finitevus and Will-Na was waiting by with two blankets for both children. Brute resurfaced handing Finite-Na to Will-Na and Bean to Finitevus.
"Finnie, what happened!" Will-Na literally yelled. Finite-Na could only cry.
"Doesn't matter right now we have to get him to the hospital!" Finitevus yelled as everyone ran for the car.
Two hours later Bean was set up in the hospital. Night had come by this time and it was getting later. The doctor said if he would have stayed any longer under water he may have been in a coma. Finitevus was still trying to figure out what happened along with his wife and sons.
Will-Na cuddled Finite-Na to sleep since she hadn't stopped crying since Brute got her out the water. She looked up to see Finitevus walking up to her.
"Did you get in touch with her this time?"
Finitevus sighed taking a seat beside her. "No. I called her job but they said she went home." Contol, Wolf and Finitevus Jr. were asleep in front of them while Brute sat on the other side of Will-Na.
"I'm still confused." Will-Na said getting Finitevus to look at her. "How could he not come back up? And Finite-Na couldn't pull him up."
Finitevus thought the same thing. "I don't know." He said. He thought Bean pulled her down there at first but he paid more attention. Bean was able to pull himself up to the surface, Finite-Na tried to grab him but was pulled back down with him. Something was fishy about this and Finitevus didn't like it.
"I wonder where his mother is." Brute said. He was still trying to figure out what happened. The pool is a few feet away from the half-ship so how did Bean end up in it and the first place. Brute was sure it wasn't by choice.
Finitevus sighed. "Maybe she…I don't know." All three got quiet as Finite-Na started waking up.
"Hey, girly." Finite-Na looked up to her mother.
"Hey, mommy. Is Bean okay?" Finitevus and Brute chuckled. She must be really fond of the duck.
"Yeah, he is okay." Will-Na said playing in her daughter's hair.
"Can…I see him?" Will-Na smiled standing up and putting Finite-Na down on the floor.
"Sure." She took her hand walking off to Bean's room.
Will-Na and Finite-Na walked onto the elevator and that is when Will-Na noticed the doll in Finite-Na arms. "Finnie, where did you find the doll?"
Finite-Na looked down to Tails Doll. She didn't remember running to her room to get him. Her mother didn't either. "This is…Tails Doll."
"Oh, he is…cute." She said. They got off the elevator walking down the hall.
"Um..Finnie. What happened at the pool?"
"I was in the bathroom and I heard Bean scream. I ran out and saw the window he was sitting near was busted and he was dragged into the water."
Will-Na stopped in her tracks. "Wait, he was what?" The hospital alarm went off. Will-Na pulled Finite-Na to her. She looked down the hall to see a doctor and nurses running towards Bean's room.
"Oh…no." She immediately picked up Finite-Na following them. Finitevus, Brute, Contol, Wolf, and Finitevus Jr. got off the elevator seeing Will-Na round the corner.
Will-Na got to Bean's room seeing he was having some type of seizure. The I.V. and everything was snatched out of him. "What…." Will-Na slowly placed Finite-Na on the floor. Finite-Na could only stare. She looked down to Tails Doll seeing his jewel was glowing.
"Stop." She whispered. "Stop it!" Immediately Bean's body began to calm down after Tails Doll's jewel stopped glowing. She began to shake in fear.
Nurses were dumbfounded and looking around at each other. The doctor checked Beans vital signs. They were all normal.
"Patch him up and put the things back on him." The doctor ordered. He was also a duck. He looked back to see Will-Na, Finitevus and their all staring with worried looks.
He sighed walking over to them and pushing them out to close the door.
"Is…is he alright?" Will-Na asked.
"Yeah, just bruises from the I.V. being snatched out. Where is he's mother?" Will-Na and Finitevus looked at each other.
"We don't know. Her manager from work said she left but we still haven't gotten in touch with her." Finitevus said. The doctor nodded.
"Okay, well. I would like to keep him over night."
"That's fine with us." Will-Na said. She pulled out some paper and wrote their number down giving it to the yellow duck. "Here is our number."
The doctor nodded. "Okay, thank you. I will call you if anything happens."
"Thank you, Dr. Quack." Finitevus said.
No one said anything on the way back home. At dinner no one talked. Everyone washed up and went to bed. Everyone except Finite-Na that is.
"Tails Doll, why did you do that?" She whispered to him.
Brute couldn't sleep. Bean was still on his mind. Nothing that happened made sense to him. How could he be dragged into the pool? He finally got up to go to the kitchen to get some leftovers. He was a growing young man. He couldn't help it.
"He said I was creepy and he hurt your feelings." Finite-Na frowned.
"He said he was sorry. You didn't have to try to drown him."
Brute stopped at Finite-Na door putting his ear at the door listening in. For some reason he couldn't hear who she was speaking too but he heard her.
"Okay…I'm sorry Finnie." Her expression softened.
"Don't ever do it again please."
"I won't." She stuffed Tails Doll under her blanket when Brute stuck his head from behind the door.
"Hey, baby sis what you doin' up so late?" He asked walking inside and taking a seat on her bed.
"Nothing." She lied. Brute chuckled. He knew she was lying.
"Finite-Na I heard you talking in here. Who were you talking too?" Finite-Na pouted making Brute chuckled harder.
She pulled out Tails Doll for Brute to see. "This is my friend Tails Doll." Brute took the doll from her looking over it before giving it back.
"When did dad get that for you?" Finite-Na shook her head.
"He didn't, I found him in the attic." Brute nodded. "He said his other friend was taken from him."
"Oh. Is that so?" Finite-Na nodded.
"Alright. Well, good night baby sis." Brute kissed Finite-Na on the forehead before walking out.
A week went by and Bean's mother had been found. Her car crashed, some how right at the moment Bean's incident happened. Yet, she was sent to another hospital. When she found out about the incident at Finitevus' home. Bean rarely came over. Finite-Na was around that doll more and more. Needless to say it scared Will-Na and Finitevus greatly. She didn't play with any of her other dolls and most children wouldn't play with her when she had the doll. Brute made it his mission to find out what was up with the doll.
"Give it back, Contol!" Contol chuckled tossing the doll to Wolf.
"You gotta get it." Contol teased. Finite-Na frowned.
"Give it back!" She yelled.
"Give it back." Contol and Wolf mocked her. Bean watched from the side lines. He didn't want to jump in this, especially if it was dealing with Tails Doll.
"Make us!" Wolf yelled. They were in the living room. Finitevus was out helping Brute look for a job. Will-Na and Finitevus Jr. were grocery shopping.
Finite-Na started crying and ran off. Bean ran right after her not wanting to be anywhere near Tails Doll. Contol and Wolf were laughing looking at the Tails Doll.
"Man, this thing is so weird." Contol said tossing Tails Doll on the couch behind them. Tails Doll's jewel began to glow getting their attention. Contol and Wolf looked back but then jumped when all the lights came off.
"It's okay Finnie Nini." Bean said kneeling down beside her while she sat on the floor crying. She and Bean gasped when the lights went off. Bean pulled Finite-Na to him terrified.
"What's going on?" Finite-Na cried holding closely to Bean.
"I don't know!" Bean said getting Finite-Na to stay close to him. They weren't going to move till they heard Contol and Wolf scream. Finite-Na may have hated it when her brothers picked on her but she loved them.
She and Bean slowly got up from the floor and walked through the house. Finite-Na and Bean noticed that the blinds on the windows were completely closed making it harder for them to see.
"FINNIE! BEAN! Where are you guys?"
"We can't see a thing!"
Finite-Na and Bean carefully made their way into the living room, with the exception of Bean burping into the one of the couches.
"I'm in the living room I right in front of the TV." Wolf and Contol went where they knew the TV was.
"What's going on?"
"Yeah, why are the lights off?"
Finite-Na sucked her teeth saying, "I don't know."
A few second of them trying to put the pieces together the lights came back on. The four children looked up at the ceiling sighing in relieve. Finite-Na ran over to the couch and picked up Tails Doll before leaving to her room. Bean sighed and went to go sit on the couch. As Finite-Na made her way up stairs she noticed Tails Doll's glowing again. She gasped something bad was about to happen. She quickly ran back to the living room and saw the ceiling glass chandelier shaking. She looked at the floor watching Contol and Wolf play fighting right under it. At first she was going to say something but then something caused her to close her mouth. Bean finally noticed her and then saw that she was staring at Wolf and Contol he then looked at the ceiling and saw the chandelier shaking.
Bean gasped. "WOLF, CONTOL MOVE!"
Wolf and Contol looked at him and then looked up and saw the chandelier break and fall down towards them. They both screamed and rolled out the way but was hit by glass shards of the chandelier. Wolf had glass shards stuck in his arm and Contol had some stuck in his leg. Finite-Na break from the trance when she heard her brother's screaming in pain. Bean heard Will-Na and Finitevus pull back up to the house from grocery shopping with Finitevus Jr. And Brute. Bean ran out the front door and to the car making Will-Na look at him nervously.
"What is it Bean?" She asked getting out the car as he came up to it.
"The chandelier fell and Wolf and Contol got glass in their arm and leg!"
Will-Na and Finitevus ran inside to check on them hoping it wasn't too serious but their hopes were shot down when they got to their sons and blood was coming throught their shirts.
Will-Na could do nothing but get upset. "I'VE TOLD YOU ABOUT ROUGH HOUSING! NOW SEE WHAT HAPPENED!?" She carefully picked up Wolf as Finitevus only prayed they could be okay as he picked up Contol.
Brute and Finitevus Jr ran back inside Bean as their parents ran back them. Finitevus told them to stay while they ran to the hospital with their brothers. Brute found Finite-Na near where Wolf and Contol was laying, crying and hugging her doll tightly too her.
Brute kneeled down in front of her while Finitevus Jr and Bean went to get something to clean up. "Finnie...what happened?"
She shook her head saying, "Their were being mean to him...I told them to stop but they wouldn't..."
Brute sighed and took her in his arms picking her up. "It's okay. It's gonna be okay." He said patting her on the back to calm her down.
