A new chapter in the ongoing saga of Milori and Clarion. Milarion fans get your hankies out.

At Butterfly Cove

Director Peggy Holmes reorganizes the butterflies and films the scene correctly. Tinker Bell and her friends properly greet Periwinkle where the butterflies flutter, flitter and dance around to an awestruck frost fairy. Everything goes off without a hitch, except that in the background, if you look very closely, one of the butterflies looks into the camera, waves and says, "Hi, Mom!"

Rosetta (speaking slowly): My name is Ro-se-tta.

Vidia: Ro, she's not from the moon. Humans have been there. They've checked.

Director Peggy Holmes: Cut!

Presentation of the Flower Blossom

Take 1

Rosetta presents Periwinkle with a flower

Rosetta: Oh, this is called a periwinkle, too.

Periwinkle (taking the flower): Thank you. I'll keep it forever.

Periwinkle frosts it over with her frost talent. She frosts the blossom in the shape of Darth Vader's head.

Vidia (her hand over her mouth and in a deep voice) (mimics Darth Vader's heavy breathing): Tinker Bell. I am your father.

Fawn: That would explain a lot.

Vidia: HEY!

Director Peggy Holmes: Cut!

Take 2

Rosetta presents Periwinkle with a flower

Rosetta: Oh, this is called a periwinkle, too.

Periwinkle (taking the flower): Thank you. I'll keep it forever.

Periwinkle frosts it over with her frost talent. She frosts the blossom in the shape of the Pixie Dust Tree.

Director Peggy Holmes: Cut! Cut!

Take 3

Periwinkle frosts the flower blossom in the shape of Spock's head.

Vidia: He's got pointed ears, too. I've always wondered if he was a fairy like us.

Tinker Bell: Well, if he is, Spock would probably be a Tinker.

Vidia: Nobody's perfect.

Take 4:

Periwinkle frosts the flower blossom in the shape of Peggy Holmes' head. All the girls laugh.

Director Peggy Holmes: My nose is not that big!

Take 5:

Periwinkle frosts the flower blossom in the shape of the Big Ben clock tower in London. It even chimes on the hour, every hour.

Tinker Bell: Wow, Peri, you must be part tinker.

Vidia: Ugh, great that's all we need around here. Two of them.

Rosetta: Actually, if Periwinkle is only part tinker then that would be just one and a half.

Vidia: I'm rounding up.

Director Peggy Holmes: CUT! Let's go.

Take 6:

Periwinkle frosts the flower blossom in the shape of Kermit the Frog. She even starts to mimic the voice as Peri manipulates the Kermit frost Muppet.

Periwinkle (as Kermit): Hi ho, Kermit the Frog here and welcome to the Muppet Show live from Pixie Hollow.

Vidia: Yeah, I'm just not buying it.

Silvermist: Ooh, I love Kermit. Can you frost a Miss Piggy Muppet?

Periwinkle: Sure, here you go, Sil.

Periwinkle frosts up a Miss Piggy Muppet for Silvermist. The water talent takes the Muppet and begins to manipulate it, even providing a voice.

Silvermist (as Miss Piggy): Oh, Kermy, this is a wonderful place to do the show.

Rosetta: Miss Piggy? How can you like that pop diva? She's nothing more than trailer trash swine who just pretends to be sophisticated. Nothing at all like me.

Silvermist (as Miss Piggy, very angrily): OH YEAH? HI-YAH!

Silvermist has the Miss Piggy frost Muppet karate chop Rosetta in the gut which sends the garden fairy into the flowers surrounding them with a sickening thud.

Silvermist (gasps): Rosetta! (She drops the frost Muppet and rushes over to her friend to pick her up). Oh, I'm so sorry, I guess I really got into character.

Rosetta (angry): Alright, that's it! I'm makin' bacon tonight!

Vidia: But you're a vegetarian like the rest of us.

Rosetta: I'll feed it to the squirrels, now where is that pig?!

Fawn: Ro, Miss Piggy is just frost.

Iridessa: Yeah, it's already starting to melt. See? (She holds up Miss Piggy Muppet and the frost has indeed started the collapse under the heat.)

Rosetta: Heh, well I feel a little silly.

Silvermist: Yeah. Me, too.

Director Peggy Holmes: Let's wrap this up, girls. We're burning daylight.

The Race to the Border

Periwinkle: I don't feel so good.

Periwinkle falls to the ground

Periwinkle: My wings. I can't feel them.

The snow maker is producing less and less snow and it is no longer cold enough to keep Periwinkle safe in the warm seasons. Tinker Bell has Peri's wings wrapped with ice. Tink's friends push the snow maker as fast as they can while Tinker Bell and Vidia carry Periwinkle over their shoulders.

That's when they get pulled over for speeding by two motorcycle cops from the California Highway Patrol, or CHiPs.

Vidia: You just can't get enough of me, can you, Ponch?

Officer Frank Poncherello: No I can't, sweet cakes.

Officer Jon Baker: Do you girls know how fast you were going?

Officer Frank Poncherello: Fast enough to set off our radar.

Periwinkle: Hello!? Remember me? Frost fairy in crisis over here.

Vidia: Yeah, were kind of in an emergency.

Silvermist: Aren't you two in the wrong show?

Officer Jon Baker: That ended years ago. We got a transfer out here so we could work the last couple of years before retirement.

Iridessa: Wait, if you two are California Highway Patrol then you don't have jurisdiction here in Pixie Hollow.

Officer Frank Poncherello: Special dispensation from your queen.

Officer Jon Baker fills out a speeding ticket and hands it to Tinker Bell.

Officer Frank Poncherello: See you tonight, Vidia?

Vidia: In your dreams.

Officer Frank Poncherello: What better place for us to meet. (Two men mount their motorcycles and leave)

Tinker Bell: Wow, this is the first time I've ever gotten a speeding ticket.

Vidia: I've gotten dozens of them. No big.

Periwinkle (who is lying on the ground, weak): Hey, could we please get back to the Winter Woods before I melt?

Tinker Bell: Sorry.

Peggy Holmes dials her cell phone to contact Viola. "Any luck finding the royal couple, Viola?"

"Not yet, director Holmes," she tells the frazzled film maker. "I've back tracked through the Winter Woods to all the places they told me they were going to visit on their date. But they haven't turned up yet."

Peggy Holmes sighed. "Okay, this is what I'm going to do. Having just one fairy look for the two of them in this large area simply isn't enough. Round up whatever fairies you can over there and set them out to looking for Clarion and Milori. I'm going to get the fairies over here to look for them in the warm seasons. Maybe with all the extra eyes and ears we can find them. It's time for them to film their scene at the border and there's no sign of them."

"Understood, director Holmes," Viola replied.

"Can we help?" Tinker Bell asked of director Holmes.

"Yeah, Tink and I can help search the Winter Woods with the other frost fairies," Periwinkle added.

"Viola," she said speaking into her phone again. "I'm going to send Tinker Bell and Periwinkle into the cold season. Where should they start?"

There was silence from the other end of the line. "Viola?"

"Have them start at Lord Milori's private residence," the summoner replied. "I'll have the other winter fairies begin in the Frost Forest and Glacier Pass."

"Understood," director Holmes responded. "I'm sending them over right now."

Peggy returned her cell phone to its holster on her hip. She then turned to the sisters. "Okay, Tink? Peri? Viola wants the two of you to search Lord Milori's private residence. She searched there already, but that was hours ago."

"Got it. We are on our way," Tink replied eagerly. Periwinkle frosted Tinker Bell's wings and the two flittered off into the Winter Woods to find their respective ruling monarchs.

Peggy Holmes then turned to the others. "Okay, the rest of you find as many fairies as you can and start searching the warm seasons."

"Where should we begin, director?" Clank asked.

"Try the Pixie Dust Tree," she replied. "Then look in whatever secluded places fairies use when they go on a romantic night out."

"We will find them where ever they are," Bobble said, saluting. He and the others returned to the Pixie Dust Tree and gathered every fairy they could on the way to start the search.

Director Peggy Holmes looked up into the sky and realized just how late it had become. If the royal couple wasn't found soon she would have to postpone shooting their scenes until the next morning. But she still had to film night time scenes with Tinker Bell, Periwinkle and Dewey. If she were to film the border scenes tomorrow it would have to be extra early in the morning just to stay on schedule. She, her crew and the cast would get very little sleep. Peggy grabbed her iPhone and looked at her scheduling for the next few days trying to rearrange it to accommodate shooting the border scenes tomorrow without disrupting her crew and the cast too much.

"I hope whatever they are doing it is worth all the trouble they're causing," she grumbled.

In Milori's bed chamber Clarion slept quietly. She was tired after their passionate exchange. The Lord of Winter give her little kisses to the back of her neck and down her spine. His hand slowly ran down her arm and then clasped her hand, intertwining his fingers into hers. When he did he felt the wedding band around her finger. It had been so long since the wedding. And yet they had so few days to be with the other. They would meet every evening at the border like they did before the border law was put into place, but that simply was not enough. Milori and Clarion knew they had scenes to film today, but they mutually agreed to stay here instead. He could still remember the conversations they had which led to this decision. Actually, it was just the same ongoing conversation with the same ongoing stalemate. At least until today.

He had finally given in to her desires, even though he had maintained the same misgivings. "We are always so busy," he can remember telling her on numerous occasions. "We can barely find time to be with each other."

"We will make time," she would always reply. "If it is that important to us we will always make the time."

Milori stared at Clarion's sleeping form. She was so beautiful with her hair down. He could watch her sleep all night long if he could. He leaned over and kissed her every so tenderly on her cheek. Milori thought he saw her smile a bit when he did.

How could I have denied you this request for so long, he told himself. Of course, he knew why. How could two very busy monarchs whose days were always filled with work, administration, conflict resolution and whose schedules were planned days in advance ever hope to raise a child. He wanted this as much as she did, but he was pragmatic about it.

I hope you are right, my dearest. I hope we can find the time. I don't want our little one to be raised by ministers and nannies. I don't want our faces to be seen only once in the morning when he wakes and once more in the evening before he sleeps. Or she. I want us to be fully a part of our little one's life every day from birth until our lights go out. Maybe I was just being a coward. Too afraid to change my life, to make my days and nights all about the child. I will find the time. I will always find time to be with our little joy.

He wrapped his arm around her waist, snuggled up against her and listened to the cadence of Clarion's gentle breathing. Rest, my love. Perhaps this evening we will have become lucky parents.

I warned you about those hankies.

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The characters of Officers Jon Baker and Frank "Ponch" Poncherello are from the tv series CHiPs and are property of MGM Studios / Turner Entertainment. CHiPs was created by Rick Rosner. The standard disclaimer applies.