CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Over at San Luigi's Italian Restaurant, Trixie and Timantha were sitting at a table in the RESERVED section listening to a business executive talk about upcoming plans for the next modeling photo shoot. Timantha was in her human disguise, though still wearing the dinner dress that she had POOF-ed up in front of Brendan earlier.
Timantha had spent a half-hour looking in a couple of neighboring stores before Trixie arrived. She looked stunning in her cocktail gown and mink stole. Just like a movie star.
"I bet Timmy would have loved to have been with you tonight", Timantha said after they had kissed each other on the cheek in greeting, "you look ravishing!"
"You don't look so bad yourself, Timantha", Trixie replied, "That gown really looks great on you".
"Well, just so we don't have drunken executives trying to chat us up", Timantha said, "Timmy and Brendan might take that rather badly". Trixie giggled.
Trixie and Timantha had taken their seats at their table and – after cocktails and dinner – were now listening to the speakers talk about the locations for the next series of swimsuit model shoots. One of the proposed locations pricked Trixie's ear.
"Wow, Jamaica!" Timantha said, "That's a location shoot I'd love to be on".
"I just bet you would, Trixie", Timantha replied. Trixie smiled and squeezed her hand.
"By the way, those latest pictures of you really look great", Timantha said. Trixie had brought her portfolio over with her, and Timantha had taken a look at it. One thing that you can definitely say about Trixie is that she photographed well.
"Thanks, Timantha", Trixie replied, "normally, when a model becomes a mother, that person's modeling career is usually kissed goodbye, but I'm so glad that even after having twins, my body sprang back to it's former glory. It's nothing short of a miracle".
Timantha nodded without speaking. She was responsible for that. After Trixie had borne both Tammy and Tommy, Timantha had POOF-ed upon Trixie a spell that restored her back to her pre-natal beauty. Just then, Timantha frowned.
"Are you all right, Timantha?" Trixie asked, "you look kind of pre-occupied all of a sudden".
"I think so, Trixie", Timantha replied, "I just had a weird feeling all of a sudden that something's amiss".
"Creepy vibes, you mean?" Trixie asked, "It could be that salad we ate before the main course".
"Yeah, maybe", Timantha replied half-heartedly, but the feeling of uneasiness was not going away. It was in fact becoming more insistent.
Timantha opened her handbag and pulled out her pager. She sent a page to Brendan, but the message RECEIVER INOPERATIVE came back on the pager's screen.
"Is there a problem, Timantha?" Trixie asked.
"There's no acknowledgement of a page I sent to Brendan", Timantha replied.
"Your husband probably turned it off", Trixie replied.
Timantha nodded, but she knew that the fairy pagers did not function like human pagers. They should not suffer breakdowns or power outages.
"Excuse me for a moment, Trixie?" Timantha asked, "I need to go to the bathroom".
"Okay, but don't take too long", Trixie replied, "my pictures are going to be shown in a few minutes, and I'd like you to be back before then".
Nodding, Timantha stood up, and then she walked over to the ladies restroom. As she entered the restroom, she went to a stall and closed the door. Sitting on the commode, she took out her fairy cell-phone and dialed Brendan's cell phone number.
The message NUMBER NOT IN SERVICE came up on the phone's screen. Timantha frowned, then she dialed Wanda's number. As they were all together at the Turner Residence, there should be no difficulty in finding out what was wrong with Brendan's phone and pager.
The message NUMBER NOT IN SERVICE appeared again. Now Timantha was getting worried. An attempt to call Cosmo's cell phone resulted in the same message, and an attempt to call them on the phone in the fishbowl castle resulted in no reply.
Timantha tried calling the number for her house, thinking that they may be at the Pennington househole, but there was no rely from their either.
Timantha thought for a few seconds, and then phoned the Turner Residence. She quickly POOF-ed her voice to sound like Trixie's. After a few seconds, the Vicky-bot picked up the phone.
"Turner Residence", the Vicky-bot said.
"This is uh…Mrs. Turner" Timantha said, "Is everything all right back there?"
"Absolutely, Mrs. Turner", the Vicky-bot assured her, "the Tammy and Tommy units are doing their homework, and the visiting Pennington unit is doing likewise".
"Very well, Vicky-Bot", Timantha replied, "Thank you".
After she terminated the connection, she restored her voice, and then POOF-ed up a device, which she activated. The device homed on fairy magic wands. She punched in a request to track the wands of Wanda, Cosmo, and Brendan. The location address that flashed up on the screen surprised Timantha.
"The Buxaplenty mansion?" Timantha said out loud, "What are they doing over there?"
Timantha knew that Veronica was married to Remy, but there should be no reason at all for Brendan, Cosmo, and Wanda to be present there, unless…
Just then, a tap on the commode door took her attention off her thoughts.
"Timantha?" Trixie called from outside, "My pictures are about to be shown. Are you done?"
"Oh… yes, Trixie", Timantha replied.
Standing up, she flushed the toilet, then opened the door and walked out – though not before POOF-ing away the wand tracker. Timantha went to one of the basins and washed her hands, then she followed Trixie back out to the business dinner.
While Trixie and Timantha were looking at the latest holo-shots of Trixie at her last shoot, over at Flappy Bob's Learn-a-Torium, the infants Tammy, Tommy, and Penny were trying to figure out how to get out of the playpen.
All three of them realized that Tonya changing them into six-month old infants was a smart move on her part. At that age, they could not walk as their legs were not developed enough, plus their heads were rather large by comparison, making them top-heavy. They could crawl, but that was about it.
Just then, two figures came into the nursery. The trio recognized them as one of the pairs of Happy-Happy Betty and Happy-Happy Gary clones. The Learn-a-Torium had several pairs of these clones running the facility.
All of them – fairies included – did their best to ignore the happy-happy-musical-intro that the clones were infamous for. After THAT was over, Betty came on up to the playpen, kneeling down in front of it, while Gary was busy arranging some of the baby items on a shelf.
"Awww", Betty said as she looked in, "Looks like you baby-wabbies are going to be staying with us for a while. So now let's have some mushy-wushie Soy time!"
With that, Betty picked Tommy up out of the playpen and placed him outside. Betty turned around in order to first get down on her knees, then remove the pacifier from Tommy's mouth – the spell on the pacifier only making it impossible for the babies themselves to remove it- then before Tommy could say anything, Betty shoved a spoon of soy protein baby food into his mouth.
Tammy – who was watching Tommy suffer – noticed that Betty's butt was against the outside of the playpen. There was a cell-phone in the back pocket in easy reach.
Tammy crawled over and reached her hand out between the playpen's bars. Reaching out, she managed to grab the cell-phone. Gently, Tammy pulled the phone out of Betty's pocket.
Wanda breathed a silent sigh of relief. Neither Betty nor Gary seemed to notice. Tammy hid the cell phone under a blanket. Penny nodded in satisfaction.
"Okay, baby-wabbie", Betty said, "you're no longer hungry-wungry, so back in the pen you go".
Tommy blurted out, "Ge-goo-be-boo-ga-ba", before Betty placed the pacifier back in his mouth, silencing him. Betty then grabbed Tammy for her feeding.
As Tommy tried to gag – though the pacifier made that impossible – Penny gained Tommy's attention, and showed him the purloined cell-phone. Tommy nodded.
After Tammy was finished being force-fed the baby food, Penny was taken out and given the same treatment. After Penny was put back in the playpen, Betty stood up.
"Okay, baby-wabbies", Betty said, "that should keep you for the night. Have nice dreamy-weemies".
With that, Betty and Gary walked out. After a few seconds, Tammy pulled out the cell phone.
"Okay, Tammy", Wanda said, "punch in the following number, and I'll speak into it".
Just then, a POOF briefly lit up the room.
"That's what you think", a new voice said. All of them looked up to see that Tonya had appeared. Juandisimo was with her. Both were looking down into the playpen.
Tonya reached down and took the cell phone out of Tammy's hands, handing it to Juandisimo. Juandisimo POOF-ed it away. Juandisimo then POOF-ed away the diapers that all three wore, leaving them nude.
"Juandismo's precaution in keeping you under watch seemed to be prudent", Tonya said as she picked Tammy up out of the playpen, "but I really hate being disturbed from my TV watching, so…"
Tommy and Penny watched helplessly as Tonya took Tammy over to a nearby chair. Tonya sat down, and then put Tammy over her knee. Tonya then started to spank Tammy on her bare bottom - hard.
With the pacifier in her mouth, Tammy couldn't cry out as Tonya spanked her. After about twenty rather hard spanks, Tonya picked Tammy up off her knee and brought her reddened tear-streaked face close to hers.
"Try something like that again, Little Missy, and I'll have to be a little more sterner next time. Got it?!!" she shouted.
Tammy nodded.
Tonya put Tammy back in the playpen, and then took Tommy out. She proceeded to spank him just as thoroughly as she had done to Tammy, and then when she was done punishing Tommy, she did the same to Penny.
Back in the playpen, the three silently crying babies looked up at Tonya's gloating face.
"Let that be a lesson to you three", Tonya said, "I don't like being interrupted. The next time you try something, I'll be making use of something a little more unpleasent on your butts.
With that, Juandisimo POOF-ed into Tonya's hand what looked like a large wooden paddle. Tonya THWACKED the paddle into her other hand menacingly. Tammy, Tommy, and Penny got the message.
POOF-ing diapers back onto the three, Juandisimo then looked at Tonya. Tonya nodded. With a final POOF, Tonya and Juandisimo vanished. Tammy, Tommy, and Penny silently cried while their butts throbbed from the spankings they had received.
"She is so incredibly mean", Wanda muttered. Sobbing silently, Tammy nodded. It looked like it was all going to be up to Timantha.
For her part, Timantha sat rather uneasily through the rest of the post-dinner speeches. The feelings of unease had not abated. She knew that something was badly wrong. Finally, the business dinner broke up. After several guests had commended Trixie for her portfolio, Trixie rejoined Timantha.
"You want to go over to the cocktail lounge for a drink?" Trixie asked, "it looks like I'm going to get more shoots, and I'd like to celebrate".
"Sorry, Trixie", Timantha replied, "but I really have to get going. I'll be in touch, okay?"
"Okay, Timantha", Trixie acknowledged, "take care and have a good night".
Nodding, Timantha briefly hugged her best friend, and then left the restaurant. Walking around a street corner, she noticed that no one was watching. Bringing out her wand, she POOF-ed herself away to Fairy World. She had to find out what was making her feel like this...