Ten minutes later

The Tinker stopping station was actually a small cave built into the ground. It had a small house just to the left of the cave, which was built into a section of a tree trunk that stuck out from the main tree, and inside the cave were several pens, which were made of thick twigs and leaves, for carts that needed to be repaired in any way to come in. Outside the cave, to the right of it was a small warehouse, made out of several sticks stuck together with a small tower sticking out of the top to keep an eye out for any hawks that may fly overhead, where different supplies were kept from stones to twigs to seeds to usable leaves. Next door was a small stone building in which there were tables set up outside for fairies to stop and grab something to eat on wherever they were headed. Three more pens were next door to the stone building, each filled with a cart.

At the moment, it was quite busy. A few carts were parked in the pens next to the stone building with about two more in the cave. A few fairies were in the small stone building talking and getting something to eat, whilst other Tinker fairies were inside the cave working on a few carts. One of them was Rosetta's. She had just arrived here a few minutes ago to get the front wheel of her cart fixed. She was standing next to the stone building, her back to the entrance to the stopping station that came off the dirt path, admiring herself in her small mirror she had taken out of her glove compartment when she arrived here in her cart. As she fumbled about with her hair, the Tinker fairy who had accompanied her here walked over.

"Almost done, Rosetta," he said to her.

"Thanks, hun," she replied, smiling. She closed the oyster shell and followed him over to the cave where the cart was.

"Just gotta finish putting on the new wheel," he said as he walked to the front of the cart and knelt down to finish attaching the wooden wheel onto it. As the garden fairy watched him, she felt a bit of her red hair be out of place. She opened up her oyster shell and searched her head to try and flatten the built of hair that was sticking up.

It was then her eyes rested on something near the entrance to the stopping station. Looking at it closely, she saw it was a scout fairy with black hair, dressed in a dark brown leaf top and dark brown leaf trousers and was wearing a pair of light brown shoes. It was that same fairy that she had seen earlier on further down the path. Her eyes went as wide as dinner plates and she slammed the oyster shell with a gasp, her eyes staring ahead with a hint of shock and fear held within them, drawing an odd look from a female Tinker fairy that was walking past with a few twigs in her hands to fix the back of the cart in the next pen to the right of hers.

"Okay," the Tinker fairy at the front of the cart said, getting up from the cart. "Wheel's on, Rosy, so your ride should be easy from now on, as long as you don't go crazy on the pa-" he stopped talking when he saw her staring ahead with wide eyes at the wall as if she was in a trance. "Are you okay, Rosy?" he asked her.

She shook her head. "Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm fine, sugarcane," she replied. "I-I was just looking at that hitch hiker scout fairy,"

The Tinker fairy looked outside the cave, his eyes going from left to right but he saw nothing. The only fairies he could see were either other Tinker fairies or were the fairies that were getting something to eat at the stone building next to the warehouse. There was no other fairy who he could see was a scout fairy.

"What hitch hiker?" he asked.

Rosetta looked over her shoulder at the land behind her, her eyes searching every inch, but she too could find nothing. The hitch hiker she had seen had disappeared.

"Oh," she said, turning her head back the right way, though she was concerned about seeing him again and then not seeing him all of a sudden when she and the Tinker fairy tried to look for him. "He must have gotten picked up,"

The Tinker fairy shrugged. "Probably,"

Rosetta got into her cart and started it. "Well, thanks, hun," she said.

He raised his hand in reply and smiled at her. "Have a good time at the sanctuary," he called to her and she waved at him in thanks as she reversed and drove off out of the Tinker stopping station and turned left and drove down the path. Where she was heading to was a large garden sanctuary on the other side of Neverland. She had finished her work for the season on the Mainland so she was heading there to have a rest. She had heard it was a good place as many other garden fairies over the years had gone there and said it was a good place to relax. She had always wanted to go there but had never had the chance to, until now and she was going to enjoy it whilst she had the chance.

As she disappeared down the road, she failed to notice the scout fairy standing behind the stone building, watching her go on down the road. He sighed.

"Here we go again," he muttered and walked down the road after her.