Okay, I was able to write out one more chapter before Thanksgiving.

This just kept swimming in my head so I had to write it down and post it before I went bonkers.

Tinker Bell returns to Tinker's Nook

Take 1:

Tinker Bell arrives at Bobble and Clank's house in the middle of the night. She knocks on the door.

Tinker Bell: Bobble? Clank? Guys?

She opens the door, the room is dark and Tinker Bell cannot see anything inside. Suddenly there is a FOOMP! sound. Nothing happens. Bobble and Clank race to the door where Tinker Bell is standing unharmed and looking rather confused. Clank is wearing a contraption the two invented to launch a net at bridge trolls. The Troll Stopper.

Bobble: Clank! You forgot to load the launcher.

Clank: I did no such thing. You forgot to load the launcher. I was wearing it at the time.

Bobble: No, snail brain, I told you 'make sure the net is loaded before putting on the troll stopper.'

Clank: No you didn't, I put it on and I was waiting for you to put in the net.

Tinker Bell: Guys.

Bobble: Why would I do that? We always load the net before putting on the launcher.

Tinker Bell: Guys!

Clank: That's when you put on the launcher.

Tinker Bell (whistles loudly): {FWEET!} GUYS!

Clank and Bobble stop arguing and turn to their friend.

Tinker Bell: It doesn't matter. Just load the net and let's shoot this scene again. (She stops, realizing the inadvertent pun she just made) Um…, yeah. What I just said.

Clank and Bobble sneer at each other before relaxing their aggressive postures. The return to their cottage and Bobble loads the net for the next take.

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Take 2:

Tinker Bell arrives at Bobble and Clank's home in the middle of the night. She knocks on the door.

Tinker Bell: Bobble? Clank? Guys?

She opens the door, the room is dark and Tinker Bell cannot see anything inside. Suddenly there is a FOOMP! sound. A net shoots out of the room, envelopes Tinker Bell and she falls over.

Tinker Bell: AAAHH!

She rolls over with the momentum of the net and falls off the patio dropping onto the hard ground below.

Tinker Bell: OOOW!

Clank and Bobble race to the door. Clank is wearing the Troll Stopper on his shoulders. They look over the edge of their elevated patio and find Tinker Bell still wrapped in the netting slowly, but painfully standing up.

Clank: Oopsie!

Bobble: I think we turned it up a little too much.

Clank (cluelessly): You think so?

Bobble: Splinters, Clanky, you really are a snail brain.

Clank: Oh yeah? Well, you're slower. You're a…, a…, you're a slug brain.

Bobble: What? That doesn't even make any sense. Slugs are not slower than snails.

Clank: Are too.

Bobble: Are not.

Clank: Are too.

Bobble: Are not.

Clank: Are too. I've timed them.

Bobble: Are…? You've timed them?

Clank: Yes, I did.

Bobble (suddenly interested): Really? how?

Clank (excitedly): Come inside, I'll show you.

Both sparrow men return to their home so Clank can show Bobble his design and testing methodology.

Tinker Bell (from below, still caught up in the net): Help! Clank? Bobble? Guys? Anyone?

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Take 3:

Tinker Bell arrives at Bobble and Clank's home in the middle of the night. She knocks on the door.

Tinker Bell: Bobble? Clank? Guys?

She opens the door, the room is dark and Tinker Bell cannot see anything inside. Suddenly there is a FOOMP! sound. Tinker Bell is splattered with a hot gooey substance. The impact knocks her over.

Tinker Bell: OW! HOT! HOT! HOT!

Silvermist and Vidia race out to help her. Silvermist drops gallons of water on Tinker Bell to wash off the hot stuff while Vidia makes a powerful wind to cool down the tinker fairy. The wind pushes the water away from Tinker Bell and gets Silvermist soaking wet.

Silvermist: Nice shooting, Tex.

Vidia: Oops. Did I do that?

Bobble and Clank race to the doorway.

Bobble: Clank! What was that? Hot pudding?

Clank: Uh oh. That was my anti-glacier hot gooey melting device, not the Troll Stopper.

Bobble: Anti-glacier…? Clank, there are no glaciers in the warm seasons.

Clank: Of course there are, Bobble, they're stealthy remember? Like ninjas.

Bobble: Glacier ninjas?

Clank: That's right, so I came up with the anti-glacier hot gooey melting device to melt them if one tries to sneak up and eat me.

Bobble (face palms and shakes his head in disbelief): Clank, there are NO glaciers in the warm seasons. And even if there were, they certainly wouldn't eat people.

Clank: YES THEY WOULD! I saw a tv show about it last month on the SyFy channel. It was called THE GLACIER THAT ATE MONTREAL.

Bobble: CLANKY! That was a cheezy SyFy Channel tv movie, not a documentary.

Clank: You mean it wasn't true?

Bobble: No, none of it was.

Clank: So Montreal is still there?

Bobble: Absolutely. It is all right where it should be.

Clank looks at Tinker Bell who is now free of the hot goo, but is beet red all over from the intense heat.

Clank: Sorry, Tinker Bell. I'll be more careful next time.

Tinker Bell: Bobble, unplug his cable tv, would ya? Or better yet, get him a girlfriend.

Bobble snickers at the joke.

Tinker Bell: What's so funny?

Bobble: Never mind, you would never believe me.

Tinker Bell quirks a suspicious eyebrow.

Director Peggy Holmes: Let's get on with it, we need to finish these night scenes so we can get some sleep.

Nothing happened between her and Slush.

At least nothing happened once Viola realized what she was about to do and stopped herself.

"My apologies, Slush," she told him trying to regain her composure and professional air. "I do not know what came over me."

"So it wasn't my musky scent?" he quipped.

Viola put on her hat and turned to leave.

"What's got you so glum, Vee?"

"My name is Viola, not 'Vee'" she told him straight away. "And I am not glum."

"Whatever you say, Vee. But I can see it a mile away."

"I am not so obvious," she stammered.

"Nope."

"I am fine."

"Yup."

"Goodbye."

"Okay."

Viola had walked to the doorway and gripped the doorknob, but she couldn't turn it. Not for lack of strength, but because she couldn't bear to go back outside.

"Want to talk?"

"About what?"

"You're hurting."

"I'm not hurting. Not at all."

"Okay."

There was momentary silence between the two of them.

"I feel…," Viola's voice quivered and broke as she tried to speak. "I feel…, betrayed."

"By…?"

She paused. Then answered, "By my queen."

Slush watched her. She stood motionless by the door feeling trapped in limbo between the fear of what she had almost done inside and the confusion of what had happened outside.

"Tea?" he asked.

Tinker Bell builds the snowmaker

Take 1:

Bobble: Where is Clank?

Clank arrives. He is pulling a cart full of lost things to complete the snowmaker. He also has company.

Clank: I didn't tell everyone. Only Fawn, Ro, Sil, Dess…and Vidia.

Vidia (sarcastically): So, there's another you?

Rosetta (scathingly): Vidia!

Vidia: What? If there's two of them and only one of me how is that fair?

Tinker Bell: I think you've got enough spit and vinegar for both of us, Vidia.

Vidia: How sweet of you to say, Tink.

Iridessa (yawning): Could we please got on with this? I'm falling asleep.

Silvermist: Yeah, me, too.

Director Peggy Holmes: Agreed. Let's keep moving.

Fawn: You're not yawning, Sil.

Silvermist: I'm not?

Fawn: Uh uh.

Silvermist (face palming): Oh right! That was Dessa. Silly me.

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Take 2:

Clank: Bobble, perhaps you and I are brothers? It's possible. We look almost exactly alike.

Tinker Bell smiles and shakes her head at Clank's ridiculous statement. She flips her hammer end over end, it conks her in the head.

Tinker Bell: OOOW! Stupid hammer.

Tinker Bell looks up and sees Vidia nearby. She has a mischievous smile on her face and her wings are twitching. Tinker Bell just rolls her eyes at Vidia.

Tinker Bell: You got me good.

Vidia (feigning innocence): Who? Me?

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Take 3:

Clank: Bobble, perhaps you and I are brothers? It's possible. We look almost exactly alike.

Tinker Bell smiles and shakes her head at Clank's ridiculous statement. She flips her hammer end over end. Vidia catches it in midair.

Vidia: Yeah, if those two are brothers I'm the Queen of England.

Tinker Bell: Huh! I was about to say the same thing.

Vidia: Great minds think alike.

The two fairies fist bump.

Vidia: How's your head?

Tinker Bell: I'll live.

Vidia: I always knew you had a hard head.

Tinker Bell (drops her face into her palms): I walked right into that one, didn't I?

Vidia: Yup.

"Okay, CUT!" Director Peggy Holmes announces. "And scene. Great, we are done for the evening. Everyone go home and get some sleep. I will see you in the morning for breakfast.

Iridessa can barely keep her eyes open. She stumbles towards the entrance to the workshop. "Finally, I'm not sure I can make it home without falling dead asleep mid-flight."

"Well, I've got a sofa that pulls out into a bed, you could sleep there if you like," Tinker Bell offers.

"Thanks, Tinker Bell. But I wouldn't want to put you out," the light talent fairy replies.

"Oh, I don't mind," the tinker says in return.

"Thanks." Iridessa flitters around the open air quad in wide circles. "Now where is your place again?"

Tinker Bell takes Iridessa by the arm, turns her around and points her in the right direction. "It's over there."

"Gotcha," Iridessa says through a yawn. She heads towards the tinker's residential area.

Everyone else turns to leave the workshop except Clank. He has an itch on his lower back and is anxious to scratch it. When he is alone he reaches around under his shirt and leggins and begins to relieve the itching.

"Ahhh," he says scratching at the itch.

Vidia comes back into the room. "Hey, Clank, Peggy told us that… YAAAAHH! What is that?!"

Clank is startled and jumps into the air. He lowers his shirt to cover up his bare back and slightly exposed rump.

"Sorry," he tells her. "I thought you were out of the room."

"I was," she says angrily. "Now tell me what that thing was!"

"What thing, Vidia?"

"You know exactly what I'm talking about," Vidia hissed. "That tattoo of me you have on your butt!"

"I don't have a tattoo on my bum, Miss Vidia," Clank insists. "Not of you or anyone."

"Well I saw it clear as day staring back at me!" she screeched at him. "And it was ugly as sin! Is that what you think of me? You think I'm so disgusting that you have to put an ugly looking tattoo of me on your backside?"

"I swear I don't know what you're talking about!" he kept saying with determination.

Vidia scowled at him. "You get that awful looking thing off your ass or I'll scrape it off myself! Is that clear?"

"It's not his fault," Vidia. She turned around and saw Bobble standing in the doorway. He must have come back in when he heard the commotion. "I did it as a practical joke on Clank because I know he likes you so much."

"He wh-wh-? He what?" Vidia burbled dumbfounded.

"Aye," the skinny tinker said. "He's got a bit of a crush on you."

Vidia exploded with laughter. "Yeah, okay, okay. You got me. Great practical joke. But let's get serious here. There is no way that I could ever find this big, dimwitted clunker attractive. He's just not my type." She then blew up her cheeks to mimic Clank's weight. She let out her breath and kept on laughing.

"Right, Clank?" She turned towards the large sparrow man, her arm raised expecting a high five. Instead she sees that he looks terribly hurt.

"Wait? You mean it's true?" she ask him, her laughter immediately silent.

Clank swallowed hard. "Yes. It's true."

Clank then lifted his shirt and revealed a perfectly rendered tattoo of Vidia on his chest. "It's so I can keep you close to my heart."

"Whoa!" the fast flyer said.

She started bobbing and weaving towards the door, looking completely blindsided, her eyes staring off into deep space.

"Wha? Huh?" she kept mumbling to herself.

"I had better make sure she makes it home okay," Bobble tells his friend. "She looks like she got clobbered by a pound of pebbles."

Bobble leaves to follow Vidia and escort her home. Clank sits down, insulted, hurt and pained. He sniffles and wipes the tears from his eyes. "You're right Vidia. A big, dumb, ugly like me hasn't got a chance with someone like you. I always knew that, but it was nice to think it could have happened. It made me feel good when I imagined it all in my head. A nice little daydream that wouldn't hurt anyone. Well, almost no one."

He pulls out his touchscreen phone and begins a web search for a parlor that can remove the tattoo.

Wow, lots of big developments going on behind the scenes of the film.

What did Viola mean when she said that Queen Clarion "betrayed her?"

And does Clank really have a crush on Vidia or is this just some elaborate practical joke for all the mean and snide things she's done and said to the guys over the years? Is Clank method acting by staying in character? Or is all of that real heartbreak?

And is the correct form: "Glacier Ninjas?" Or "Ninja Glaciers?" And would either be a cool name for a rock band?

Thanks for reading and please review so I'll know if you like this chapter or would rather watch paint dry. (Boy, that's a tough one, isn't it?)

Thank you.