He searched through Vinny's bins and then as he had done many other places before, he began to scratch on the door, Vinny did what Tony always did, he looked around a bit before looking down to see Tramp sitting there on his doorstep, but unlike Tony in many ways, Vinny galred at Tramp and began to shout, "What do you want you mangy mutt! Oh, food is it? Oh, I get it, Tony's stopped serving yah now 'as he? So you come running back to ole Vinny, well I got a surprise for you mutt! I ain't serving yah!" he shouted down at Tramp, Tramp could tell he was a little drunk, his breath smelt like Jims did on Christmas and special parties, but Tramp ad it covered, he might be a little older now but he could still give big puppy eyes, and he watched as his trick worked, Vinny began to soften up and his frown turned into a more pleading look, pleading Tramp not to give him that look, "Oh, come on now, don't give me that look," he resisted for a bit, a bit too long, "Oh go on then! But i'm telling yah! That's the last time I serve a traitor." Tramp snickered as he gathered up the mouldy bones, another difference between Tony's and Vinny's, Tony's gave one good quality bone, Vinny's gave many mouldy bones.

He carried them all the way back to where he'd last left the pups but as he arrived they weren't there, he looked all round for the four little devils but found non of them, he'd dropped the bones just outside of the barrell and was desperately searching for them, he mentally told them to have left a sign, asked for a sign, asked for any proof that they had not gone or that they were not far away, he hadn't realised he'd been that long gone, he called out all their names at least twice, "Daisy! Wolf! Ziggy! Jackal! Where are you? Daisy? Wolf? Ziggy? Jackal?!" he cried, he looked at the ground again and noticed paw prints, it looked like Ziggy had put his foot in some red paint and had left with his siblings.

Following the trial he ran for as long as the trail went on for, and unfortunately it stopped at a three way street, which road had they taken? Ad they gone in the direction of the pound? The zoo? Or the park?

He had to search near enough every road but felt he didn't have enough time on his own, so he ran back in the direction he had come from, ran past the barrell, past Vinny's, who was still shouting and swearing like there was no tomorrow, and straight up to the Darlings household, he entered the way he had many years ago when he attacked a rat in Juniors room, he looked around, he watched as Jim Dear and Darling passed by going up the stairs, he remembered the time he'd done a similar thing when Scamp went missing, he'd watched them go upstairs to bed and he thought of his family, the family that were in this house right now.

He snapped out of his thoughts as quickly as they came and continued into the next room where he knew Lady would be sleeping peacefully, he quietly and slowly ran into that very room and looked around for Lady, it had seemed she had moved from her regular spot and was now lying on the armchair, she smiled in her sleep making Tramp only wonder more about what she was dreaming of, and he felt bad that he had to wake her, but he nudged her nose anyway.

She stirred a little before finally waking up and looking at him directly in the eyes, she jumped back away from him as if he was about to attack her, he wispered "Pidge its me, I need to talk to you, its important," she said nothing which gave Tramp the opportunity to continue, "Its about the pups." E said, Lady scoffed and walked away from him.

"I don't want to hear it Tramp!" she snapped in a whisper, she continued on into the room where her pups were sleeping making sure their father had not woken them, "You do what you like with them, I have my own pups to look after." She whispered sternly, but Tramp knew she wouldn't stay mad for long, he walked beside her nuzzling into her side, she sighed, he'd defeated her, why'd he always do that? "Ok, lets hear it." She said loosening her tone a little but keeping it down to a whisper.

"Thats the thing Pidge I need your help, I don't know what to do where to go, I know I havent exactly been the best father to our pups recently but these four are different, their, well, difficult, especially on my own, I need your help to decide on what to do when we find them." Tramp explained, Lady hadn't understood fully when he said 'find them' she probably thought he was playing a game with them or something and he was cheating, again, in asking her for help, and he was using that as an excuse to get rid of them to get her and their pups back, but Lady wasn't jumping to any conclusions just yet.

"I told you, Betty is more than happy to take them for us, she's been lonely for a while and she could really use the company, her owner doesnt mind, she says she near enough looks after herself, but its no fun to just look after yourself thats why she'd be happy to help, besides, the only reason you find it difficult is because your on your own with them, so tell me what you mean when you say 'when we find them'?" she asked, Tramp kicked his front legs with his back legs and looked to the side mumbling something, "What?" she asked, he turned to face her –

"I lost them."

Authors Notes: Dun, dun, dun, oh Tramp you silly dog, next chapter might take a while, I'm not sure on what to do, give me idea's if you have any.