Chapter 4: More details please.
Rebecca handed Molly her hot chocolate, her daughter had a few more questions of her own.
"If one of your old enemy just blew up the wrong building, why are we sitting here doing nothing?"
"We aren't doing anything yet, because there is no pressing need just yet. The police and fire departments are all still here doing investigation on the fire, and Wiledcat is doing an inspection on the Seaduck. When that is complete we will be headed to Louies for a while."
Molly had a look of disbelief on her face.
"You want to go into hiding? You have never been one to run and hide from anything in your life. You know something about this that I don't."
"There is a difference young lady, between hiding and a tactical retreat."
"You have a plan mom?"
"Not yet, but we'll worry about that later. Where was I?"
Molly was still sulking at her crushed romantic meeting her parents never had.
"You just hit dad with a frying pan and called the cops on him."
"Oh yeah! Once we were at the hospital we discovered the names of the two bears and the weirdest thing about them."
"You mean weirder than being found behind your diner with a sword and bleeding?"
"Yes. They had different colored fur. At first we thought it was fur dye of some kind. It turned out the female bear's name was Sunni. Poor thing had a touch of amnesia, didn't remeber much of anything. All she remebered was her brother Cubbi. She trusted him completely."
Molly became very excited by this last bit of news. She sat up straighter and was smiling like a cub.
"Her brother? Wait wait wait! I have an aunt? God mom! Why have you never told me this!"
Rebecca's tone was softer as she spoke gentler. She didn't know how to tell her daughter more bad news.
"Hunny...you had an aunt. She died with Cubbi."
Molly felt terrible, she had been given a relative, someone who would know all about her father, only to have that person snatched away in the next sentence.
"Oh. I see. Please continue mom."
Rebecca wanted to say something cheer her up or perk her up after that depressing news.
"Well, like I was saying, they had different color fur. Sunni was completely Yellow. Cubbi though, her younger brother, your father had pink fur. Completely pink everywhere from head to toe. Well, almost everywhere."
Molly's eyes lit up when she heard this. She lifted up her arm and pulled back her sleeve to reveal the pink fur in her armpit.
"Pink? You mean, I get this from dad? You said almost? Where didn't he have pink fur?"
Rebecca said nothing, Molly caught on.
"You don't mean his..."
Rebecca just closed her eyes, smiled and took a drink of her coco. Molly caught on.
"EWWW! Mom! That's gross!"
"I didn't say a word. Your the one who knew what I was talking about. Heh heh. Anyway, back to the story. When I found them, Sunni had a necklace on and what I thought was a back pack. Turns out, it was an old book and an ancient medallion."
"Old book? Ancient medallion? Sounds like something Baloo would be interested in."
Rebecca's eyes narrowed as she remembered the hospital.
"Yes, well he isn't the only one. There was an officer who use to be on the force, Dooble was his name. He would get kick backs from the local museum owner for any items of value. He was the one who responded to the call."
"Wait, kickbacks? That doesn't sound legal."
"It wasn't then and it isn't now. The museum owner was a Mr. Planter. He had been secretly collecting items for years. Just for his personal collection. Since both Cubbi and Sunni were unconscious it was a simple matter for Dooble to unload the items and tell them they had been misplaced."
"What? they believed that?"
"Yes. We did. Cubbi and Sunni...I didn't know exactly where they came from, but it wasn't Cape Suzette. Cubbi had never seen an airplane before and Sunni!"
Rebecca rolled her eyes thinking of all the fun times Sunni and she had.
"Sunni didn't have her complete memory, but the few things she did remember was how much she loved cooking and cloths! I'll never forget that first day out of the hospital when I took them into town to look for employment."