Chapter 28: Sleep Swimming
Sandrastar1: I'll always do more. Unless I decide to finish this fanfic. Lol.
It was late at night. Dory was playing tag with her parents.
"Tag! You're it, Mommy!" Dory exclaimed. She swam away giggling.
"Oh, I'll get you!" Jenny chased after her daughter.
Dory and Charlie swam fast. Jenny caught up to them and tagged Dory.
"You're it, sweetie!"
Dory giggled before yawning.
"Are you getting tired, Kelpcake?" Charlie asked.
"Yes, I-" She yawned again, "am."
"It's late. It's time for all of us to go to bed." Jenny picked Dory up and placed her in bed.
The couple kissed her.
"Night, honey," Jenny said.
"Night, Kelpcake."
"Night, Mommy. Night, Daddy." She got herself comfortable and went to sleep.
Her parents swam to bed and said goodnight to each other. They went to sleep.
Later on at night, Dory started to move around in her sleep. She was dreaming about playing. She giggled in her sleep.
Then, all of a sudden, she got up. She sleep swam towards her parents' house. She bumped into her mother.
"Huh? What?" Jenny woke up. She looked down and saw Dory. She gasped. She gently shook Charlie.
"Charlie!" she whispered. "Wake up!"
Charlie groaned and woke up. "What is it, honey?"
"Dory's sleep swimming!" She looked down and noticed that she was gone.
"She was right next to me! Where is she now?"
"There!" Charlie pointed his fin to Dory. She was bumping against the glass.
"Oh dear," Jenny said.
They both swam to Dory. Charlie picked her up and placed her back in bed. Dory got up again and sleep swam towards her mother.
"Okay. She should sleep with us." Jenny carried her to the cave.
Charlie went in the cave and lied down. Dory was in the middle. The couple went back to sleep.
Later, Dory stopped sleep swimming. She woke up and noticed she was next to her parents. The fry looked at them and saw them shivering a little bit.
"Poor Mommy and Daddy," she said quietly.
Dory looked around and saw lots of seaweed. She swam to it and gathered a lot of seaweed. She swam back and dumped the seaweed on them. The young girl then picked up a piece of seaweed to eat. She ate it.
"Sleep well, Mommy and Daddy," she whispered.
In the morning, Jenny woke up. She noticed that there was seaweed on her.
"Charlie." She gently tapped him.
Charlie woke up and yawned. "Morning, Jenny."
Charlie looked down. "Jenny, did you put seaweed on us?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing."
They then looked down and saw Dory. There was a piece of seaweed beneath her fin.
Jenny chuckled. "I think I know who did it."
"Me too," Charlie said.
Dory then woke up and yawned. "Morning."
"Morning, sweetie," Jenny said.
"Morning. So, Dory, why did you put seaweed on me and Mommy for? Hmm?" Charlie asked.
Dory forgot for a minute. Then she remembered. "I thought you and Mommy were cold."
Jenny giggled. "That was very thoughtful of you, honey, but we weren't cold."
Dory blushed. "Oh."
Her parents tickled her. Dory laughed.
"Also, Dory, you were sleep swimming last night," Charlie stated.
"I was? Wow!"
Jenny chuckled.
"Do you want to have breakfast now?" Charlie questioned.
"Yeah! We can eat the seaweed I placed on you and Mommy!"
"Okay," Jenny giggled.
"And after breakfast, we can play hide and seek," Jenny said.
"Yay!"
The couple chuckled. They all ate their breakfast. While Jenny and Charlie ate their breakfast, they thought how thoughtful a fish Dory was.
