"Can't catch me!" A 5 year old Claudia yelled, running through the soft grass of one of the squares of Savannah.
"OooOoOH! Wanna bet?" Jackson laughed, chasing after the little girl.
It was the next day and Jackson had gotten permission to take Claudia, Aster, Pip, and Baby Tooth outside to play in the nearest square. It had lots of running space. Baby Tooth watched Jackson chase after Claudia and Pip being bothered by Aster.
"Get out my hair, Aster!" Pip whined, pushing Aster away. At first they looked like they were serious, but really, Aster and Pip were play fighting.
"But it's soft! Like a bunny rabbit's fur!" Aster smiled, playing with Pip's hair.
Baby Tooth smiled and walked over. Aster and Pip turned to her with a smile.
"Hey! I have an idea!" Pip jumped up, accidentally knocking Aster over.
"Ow!" Aster cried, but got up on his feet in a matter of second.
"Let's hide and then when Jackson runs by, let's attack him!" Pip said.
"YEAH!" Aster smiled devilishly, running over behind a tree.
Pip ran over to the tree, Baby Tooth following them. What did they mean by attack Jackson? It couldn't be anything bad, for they were just children. Baby Tooth decided to hide behind the tree with them and watch silently. Pip and Aster hid themselves well, but their giggles were ruining it. Pip covered Aster's mouth, but they could still hear their giggles.
Claudia then ran past the tree, laughing till her sides hurt. Jackson was not far behind, but when he passed the tree, Aster and Pip jumped out, grabbing ahold of him. Jackson fell to the ground, but didn't seem to get hurt. The three of them were laughing and it seemed Claudia turned around to join in. Baby Tooth stood by the tree and watched, a smile on her face.
Jackson then pushed his way up off the ground and brushed the dirt off his pants. He turned to see Baby Tooth. He walked over, the three other children curiously following.
"Why don't you play with them, Baby Tooth?" Jackson asked.
Baby Tooth shrugged her shoulders, replying with only that.
"OH, she is! She's just being a Lag!" Aster jumped over.
"Aster! Don't call Baby Tooth names!" Pip ran over too, looking at Aster with disgust.
"It's okay. Aster didn't mean it." Baby Tooth smiled.
Aster and Pip looked at Baby Tooth in surprise. Aster knew he didn't mean it, but for Baby Tooth to step up for him, whether he did intend to hurt her or not, was something people didn't normally do for him. Aster then giggled and ran over to Baby Tooth, taking her hand and running off with her.
"Thanks, Baby Tooth!" He smiled, slowing down after a few feet to face Baby Tooth.
"You're welcome!"
"Hey! Let's place hide and seek!" Aster suggested, letting go of Baby Tooth's hand. "You hide first!"
Without getting to say yes or no, Aster began counting. Baby Tooth decided to join in either way, so turned to look for a place to hide. On the other side of the square was a stone bench. She could hide on the other side of it and never be seen! She ran over there, making sure Aster wasn't looking before doing so.
"One…Two…Three…Four…Five….Six….Seven….Eight….Nine…TEN!" Aster yelled, jumping up from the crouching position he was in before. Baby Tooth had just gotten over to her target hiding place when he jumped up.
"BABY TOOTH! READY OR NOT, HERE I COME!" Aster shouted and sprinted off running towards the tree that they had hid in to attack Jackson beforehand.
Apon finding Baby Tooth wasn't there Aster paused for a few seconds to look around the square. He saw Jackson, Pip, and Claudia playing over by a water fountain and decided to run over there. He looked around the small water fountain like he had dropped something. He was so full of concentration.
"What's wrong, Aster?" Claudia asked, stopping to look at the other child.
"I can't find Baby Tooth!" Aster said, not ripping his gaze to look at Claudia.
Jackson stopped in his tracks. "What do you mean you can't find Baby Tooth?" He swore his heart jumped.
"Oh! We're playing Hide and Seek!" Aster smiled before running off to look for her again.
Jackson felt relief wash over him. When Aster said he couldn't find Baby Tooth, Jackson first thought of the worst. How could Aster lose Baby Tooth? They ran off together not one minute ago. He watched Aster run off, only to catch sight of something in the distance. He could see the benches from side on, so he could obviously see Baby Tooth hiding. He looked back over to Aster to see Aster beginning to look worried, calling out of Baby Tooth.
"Hey! Aster!" Jackson called his voice a sharp whisper.
"Huh?" Aster turned to look over at Jackson, confused.
Jackson pointed over to the benches, a smile on his face. Aster's smile grew ten times larger and he quickly turned to run over to the benches. Aster looked under and behind each one until finally finding the one Baby Tooth hid behind.
"Found you!" Aster giggled and attacked Baby Tooth with hugs.
"Aster!" Baby Tooth smiled, hugging the youngster back.
"Okay! Now it's your turn to find me!" Aster jumped up, ready to hide.
He turned to run but ran straight into someone, falling back onto the ground and almost hitting his head.
"Ow!" Aster cried, tears in the corner of his eyes. Baby Tooth raced over to his side.
"Aster!" The person Aster ran into said. "Next time watch where you are going!"
Baby Tooth and Aster looked up to see Mrs. Overland. What was Mrs. Overland doing at the square? Did they stay too late? They had only been there for, like, ten minutes. Jackson, Pip, and Claudia had noticed Mrs. Overland before Aster and Baby Tooth did, for they were standing on the other side of Mrs. Overland, looking over curiously.
"Sorry!" Aster said. Baby Tooth stood up, pulling Aster with her.
"It's alright, sweetie. Just be more careful." Mrs. Overland smile sweetly.
"Hey, Mrs. Overland!" Jackson skipped over. "What brings you here?" Out of everyone, Jackson seemed the most curious.
"Oh, Jackson! Don't mind me." Mrs. Overland turned to the teen. "I got a call from a man named Mr. Time. I'm taking Toothiana to go meet him."
The kids looked surprised. Jackson looked at the surprised Baby Tooth and then back at Mrs. Overland. He knew what this meant, but clearly the younger kids didn't.
"Why? I mean, she's only been here for two days. Not even two full days! And who's this Mr. Time person anyway?" Jackson asked, seeming overly protective.
"Jackson." Mrs. Overland shot the teen a glare, telling him to stop asking questions. She then continued with a sigh. "Mr. Time, or Oliver Time, heard about Toothiana and asked to meet the girl. He is a British man who recently came over from England to study the time and time zones of America before he goes onto Asia and so forth."
"But-" Jackson began to ask more questions, but was cut off.
"Jackson. We gave this man an interview beforehand. It's alright."
"So!" Mrs. Overland turned to Baby Tooth. "Sweetie, you don't mind meeting a new person today, do you?"
Baby Tooth shook her head no without actually doing or saying anything else.
"Alright." Mrs. Overland grabbed Baby Tooth's hand. "I'm sorry for interrupting your play time, but you'll see each other later."
Mrs. Overland began to walk down at path towards a few cars, where she came from. Baby Tooth waved bye to Jackson. Jackson waved back.
"Oh, and Jackson!" Mrs. Overland stopped and turned to look at the teen. "I told Ms. Hamilton what time you should be back with Aster, Pip, and Claudia! So don't think you can pull anything on us!"
A smile appeared on Jackson's face. "Don't worry about it! I won't do nothin'!" Jackson said, using double negatives.
Mrs. Overland brushed it off and continued onward. She brought Baby Tooth to a dark blue van, the type mothers use. Baby Tooth got into the passenger seat while Mrs. Overland walked over to the driver's seat. The car ride was silent accept for the radio playing on low. Baby Tooth wondered where she was going and felt awkward, shuffling her feet and looking at everything that passed by through the window.
Finally, what felt like forever, they pulled up to a house. It looked just like any other house you've been before. It had a porch, a car in the front driveway, windows, and it was colored cream with red bricks on the bottom and top. Mrs. Overland took Baby Tooth out of the car and to the front door. There, they ran the doorbell and waited for someone to come.
"Hold on, get a second!" A man called from the other side. His voice wasn't very deep, but not high and obviously held a British accent. It was somewhat rushed but also like he knew what he was talking about. Hard to explain, yes.
After a few seconds, the door opened to show a tall man. Oliver Time, Baby Tooth guessed. Oliver Time had brown eyes and messy brown hair, the front of his hair almost pointing up forward a little. He had a brown jacket with a blue polo shirt underneath, along with a red striped tie and brown vest. There was a smile on his face when he saw Mrs. Overland and Baby Tooth.
"Come in, Come in!" Oliver greeted, stepping to the side so the two could walk in his house.
"Thank you, Mr. Time." Mrs. Overland smiled, walking into the house, pulling Baby Tooth with her.
Oliver Time closed the door and showed the two to a table in the kitchen. There, he excitedly sat down so that he sat across the two.
"It's nice to see you again, Mr. Time." Mrs. Overland smiled. "I brought little Toothiana over to meet you."
"Well hello, Toothiana." Oliver looked at Baby Tooth with a smile. Baby Tooth felt that he was very kind a friendly, thus trusted him more than she did Mrs. Overland. Baby Tooth hadn't said a word and only then realized that they wanted her to say hello.
"H-hello, Mr. Time." Baby Tooth smiled, dipping her head.
"You may call me Oliver, alright?" Oliver chuckled.
"O-Oliver." Baby Tooth nodded her head.
"So!" Oliver Time looked back at Mrs. Overland and then to Baby Tooth.
"Toothiana." Mrs. Overland smiled down at the girl. "Why don't you tell Mr. Time a little about yourself?"
Well, Baby Tooth thought. What was there to say? She wasn't one to lie, but she couldn't tell everything out just like that. She could say something like Nice and sweet or awesome, but not half the other words she knew for her 5-year-old act shouldn't know them.
"I…I like drawing." Baby Tooth finally came up with something and said it.
"Really?" Oliver asked. "Drawing can be fun. But what about coloring? Everybody loves to color, right?"
Baby Tooth smiled. This man seemed somewhat childish. "Y-yes."
"What's your favorite color?" Oliver asked.
Baby Tooth thought about it. All the colors of her mother and sibling's feathers popped into her head.
"I like blue." Baby Tooth decided on one and stuck to it. Blue was a beautiful color, no?
"Oh, blue is a wonderful color. I tend to like dark blue, for it's the perfect color for a phone booth, but they all just happen to be red. I wonder why." Oliver began talking faster than before, only to stop when he realized what he was going on about. "Anyway…"
"Yes, Anyway…" Mrs. Overland looked awkward, shuffling her hands. Baby Tooth didn't understand what was so awkward about Mr. Time. She, personally, loved the way he almost talked on about just the color blue and phone booths. He was one of a kind, and Baby Tooth knew that for she's seen a wide variety of adults in her years of being Tooth's assistance.
"Mind me asking, but Toothiana…" Oliver changed the subject, looking down at Baby Tooth's outfit. "What's that?" Oliver pointed to the pouch attached to the small rope tied around Baby Tooth's dress. Mrs. Overland leaned in, curious as well.
"Oh…" Baby Tooth looked at the pouch for a brief moment. "It has a few quarters. That's all."
She wasn't about to tell them she had a child's tooth in there. Alexis Hamilton's tooth. This made her think about her mother again. Thinking about it, Tooth was probably worried over Alexis' tooth too. She looked back up at Oliver and Mrs. Overland.
"You should hold onto those." Mrs. Overland said. Baby Tooth nodded hear head.
There was a silence in the air, but Oliver quickly broke it. "I was making some tea. Would you two like some?"
"No thanks." Mrs. Overland shook her head. Oliver looked over at Baby Tooth.
"Sure!" Baby Tooth smiled. She'd never had Tea, so it would be nice to try.
The day went on, Oliver, Mrs. Overland, and Baby Tooth chatting about random things, as well as each other. Oliver had gone into many rants about things , being stopped by Mrs. Overland. Baby Tooth, on the other hand, liked it when he did this. His voice was also somewhat entertaining to listen too. He'd go on about his travels around the world and his work and she found it all inspiring. Mrs. Overland thought that these stories would bore Baby Tooth, but apon looking over at the girl, she was listening to every word. She also ended up liking tea very much.
A few hours had gone on and Oliver and Baby Tooth really seemed to enjoy each other's company. But, sadly, there was a time that Mrs. Overland would have to break the talk. They couldn't sit down and talk the whole day away and soon it would be dinner.
"I'm so sorry, but I think it's about time we head back to the Orphanage." Mrs. Overland sighed, standing up from the table.
"Awww." Baby Tooth softly whined.
"Awww indeed, but you'd have to leave sooner or later." Oliver was upset, but he was an adult too. "It's not like this is you new home at the moment."
Baby Tooth couldn't help but think…What did he mean by that? She shook her head and sat up. Mrs. Overland grabber her hand and Oliver showed them to the door. Waving and saying goodbye, Mrs. Overland took Baby Tooth to the car and they drove off. Baby Tooth had already began to miss Oliver, and to tell the truth, Oliver missed Baby Tooth. The laughter in his house went from 100 to 0 in seconds and Oliver was left there to drink the last of his tea.
Getting back to the Orphanage, it was just dinner time. Mrs. Overland took Baby Tooth to the room where everyone ate. There was a seat at the large table left open in between Jackson and Pip for Baby Tooth and she ran over, taking her place. In front of her was a ready-made plate of foods that smelled really good.
"Hey Baby Tooth!" Jackson smiled. "I was getting worried that ol' Mrs. Overland had stolen your cuteness to keep for herself!"
"No. I met Mister Oliver." Baby Tooth smiled up at Jackson.
"And how did that go?" Jackson asked.
"He is a very funny person!" Baby Tooth's smile grew. "And he gave me tea! Tea is really good!"
"Really?" Jackson then turned and pointed at the plate of food in front of her. "Penny, Toby, Nova, and Dan were picking at the food as if it were all theirs so I decided to make a plate for you before it was all gone."
"Oh, thank you!" Baby Tooth smiled and turned to her food.
"No problem!" Jackson smiled and turned back to eating his food.
That night came by fast. Baby Tooth had dreams that night, but none of them were of Tooth or Jack or Bunny. She had a dream with her, Jackson, and Oliver. She couldn't tell what exactly was going on, but they were talking and having fun together. At some point in her dream it got weird. Jackson ran around in the snow saying his name was Jackson Overland Frost and Oliver flew away in a Blue Phone Booth, saying he was a doctor. How crazy. But it was still a dream, nothing to freak out over. This dream, once remembered the moment awoken, would be laughed with….
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-…- There are pictures of Oliver Time on Google. Just look up "The 10th Doctor". Yeah. Anyway…Thanks for reading and please continue the positive feedback!-…-