Chapter 21

"There's no place like home. There's no place like home." I talked to myself. My eyes were still closed as I started feel warm and soft. The warmness and the softness was from being covered over me. I felt a cloth placed on my head and it was wet and cold.

"Wake up sweetie." a feminine voice that was recognizable.

I continued to say, There's no place like home. Until I started to open my eyes and it was blurry like every time I wake up from a dream. However, it wasn't a dream when I came from. I looked around that I was at home, in my room. My belongings where there, where I had them placed when we moved here.

I than saw the most beautiful faces that I have not seen for a long time.

"Mason.. Mason, it's Mom. Your father's here too." Mom said.

"Mom? Dad? It's you." I said as I was still waking up.

"Yes my son." she said as she removed the washcloth from my forehead.

"Mom, Dad, someone wanted to see you." I hear my sister's voice from downstairs.

"Hello! Anyone home?!" another voice came. A stranger came upstairs to my room. "I heard the Scotland Yard, were sent here and I heard about an American teen was missing and I came here to see if..."

"Mason, this is our neighbor Jim. Jim, this is our son Mason." Mom introduced me to our neighbor.

"Well by Jove, he seems all in great shape now." he said happily.

"Yeah, when we found him, he was out cold from a knock on his head and we thought that he was going to leave us." Dad said.

"But I did leave Dad. That was the trouble, I tried to come back home for days and days, and nights." I tried to stand up, while my mother tried to settle me back to bed to relax. Dad was surprised with a chuckle with Jim.

"Now calm down son, you just had a bad dream." Mom said before leaving the room to get rid of the washcloth.

"It was a dream." Dad nodded.

"Mason... you're awake." Alice came to my door. "Mas, I need to say I'm sorry. I should have yelled at you."

I forgave her already when she came down and I touched her face with a smile. She even gave me a new copy of Watership Down. As I looked at the book, I remembered Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and everyone else that inhabitant at the "High Lonely Hills".

"It wasn't a dream, I was at Watership Down, just like the television series." I remembered.

"You watched the series? My kids always love watching the series when they were younger when it first came out. They still do to this very day." Jim recalled.

"Exactly, I met everyone there. I met Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, Hawkbit, Dandelion, Blackberry, Pipkin, and everyone else there." I added. Everyone founded interested as I told whom I met. "But I couldn't have could I?"

"We dreamed a lot of silly dreams though." Mom came back and placed her hands on my.

"But Mom." I got my mother's attention along with everyone in the room. I felt something was around my neck and I found the necklace that El-ahrairah gave me.

"It is a truly live place. I was given a necklace so I could return to see them anytime." I took off my necklace and showed them the necklace. Everyone looked at the necklace and back at me. "Even though, some of the places was scary, like when I was captured by General Woundwart and Vervain."

"Captured?" Dad gasped.

"Yes, but I knew that Hazel and Bigwig's Owsla would come to my rescue. However, when I was at Watership Down, the warren was beautiful and I was a rabbit too. At the same time, I kept saying to everyone that 'I wanted to go home.' They sent me back home at first with their help to see that you all were gone. I than have to stay with them until 'The Prince of Rabbits" show and they send me home."

Dad and Jim chuckled as they were interested. My mother was amazed, as my sister would usually think I was dreaming, but she was listening. "Does anybody believe me?"

"Of course, we believe you son." Dad answered.

I than hugged Mom with embrace and kissed her. "All matters that I'm back home. Home. And this is my room. Where I belong, everyone I love is here. I'll never try to run away ever and ever again. Because I love you all."

My parents and my sister joined with me in a great, big, family hug. I was happy that I'm at where everyone loves me and where I belong. "Oh Mom... like Dorothy says in the end of The Wizard of Oz." Before I could say anything, I saw a glow on my necklace that no one else has seen and I started to hear voices of my friends from the other side. My heart continues to run like a rabbit, but until then. "There's No Place Like Home."

The End.