104R 32: Nation/World Wide Dog Hunt.
U.S. Kansas
Meanwhile, back in America, at the Kansas police station.
"Bo, we really need to...Yeah, sorry, we should have knocked." Said Rex as he, Jason, Sabrina and Molly entered into an office that Bo was standing in, with Jason and Sabrina carrying stacks of papers. The commissioner had been working at the Kansas police department for over two weeks, trying to help them find the Miller pups.
"It's okay, you guys, i was just on my way out." Said Bo.
"What's going on?" Rex asked.
"Have you found the puppies yet?" Jason asked.
"Oh, please say that you have." Sabrina begged.
"I wish i could...but we haven't." Said Bo.
"What can we do to help?" Rex asked.
"We just started the investigation here in Kansas two weeks ago. We have everything under control, Bryson.
Rex: "Well, maybe i can make a few call..."
"If we reach a point where i think that we need your help, i will bring you in." Said Bo.
"Actually, i think we might have something that may help with the investigation." Said Rex.
"Oh, yeah, like what?" Bo asked.
"These." Said Rex before taking one of the papers from Jason and handing it to Bo.
Bo looked at the paper, revealing it to be a picture of all four of the Miller pups, with the word 'MISSING' written in red at the top.
"They're missing dog posters. Gigi and i spent the last two weeks making them. Jason and Sabrina and i have been driving all over town, putting them up, in the hopes that someone might have seen the puppies and give us a call." Said Rex.
"Good thinking, Rex." Said Bo.
"But the problem...is that the puppies disappeared two weeks ago and we have no idea if they're still in town or not.
"Right. Kansas is a huge state, they could be anywhere by now." Said Jason.
"And since we don't have enough posters, or enough time to put them up all over the state of Kansas, we were wondering if you maybe you could help us." Sabrina added.
"Oh, i see. I get the picture. Don't worry, i'll scan this poster into the computer and post it online for the whole nation to see. I'll even take a picture of it with my smartphone and E-Mail it back to the station in Paris, Texas and have the officers there send the picture out all over the U.S., as well as have them plaster the puppies' picture on all the milk cartons in America. This way, we can covered the whole nation, and the world, without having to leave home." Said Bo.
"Thanks, Bo." Said Rex.
"No problem." Said Bo.
"Uh, Jason?" Said Rex.
"Yeah, Dad?" Said Jason.
"Why don't you and Sabrina and Molly go wait outside the office for me? I need to talk to Bo alone." Said Rex.
"Okay. See ya, Dad. Come on, guys, let's go." Said Jason before he, Sabrina and Molly left out of the office, closing the door behind them, leaving Bo and Rex in the room together.
"So what's up with you?" Bo asked.
"Oh, it's not a big deal. You know, i can come back some other time." Said Rex.
"Just sit down." Said Bo.
Rex sat down in a chair that was in front of Bo's desk while Bo sat at his desk in a rolling chair.
"Okay...let's have it." Said Bo.
"My son hates my guts." Rex explained.
"Why would you say that?" Bo asked.
"I don't know, i just...i just feel it. He's been distant from me ever since the night after he woke up from his coma a year." Said Rex.
"Well, that's understandable. I mean the kid's been through a lot this past year. First he and the puppies got kidnapped by some mad woman, who stole all of the state of Texas' Dalmatian puppy population, with help from your former fiance, Stacy, then he got taken to Australia. And then, when he and the 104 Dalmatians finally got rescued, and taken back to the U.S., he finds out from his Mom and you that the man he once called Dad wasn't his Dad at all...it's you. And to add insult to injury, the kid goes into a coma for six months and wakes up to find out that the rest of his days as a 10 year old has passed him by. And then you, him, Gigi and the dogs had to move here to get away from all the media...the press...the reporters...etcetera, etcetera." Said Bo.
"Yeah, it's a lot for a kid to take in." Said Rex.
"Well, yeah, yeah, that's true, yeah, but...you have a son." Said Bo.
"Yeah." Said Rex.
"How does it feel?" Bo asked.
"I...liked Jason from the moment i met him. He was smart...funny...open. He's an amazing kid. I'm not saying that he gets those really great things from me. All i am is his bio Dad. Gigi's the one who raised him. But...i can't help feeling really proud." Said Rex.
"It's a great feeling, isn't it?" Bo asked.
"I just wish i had known before. I mean i get why Gigi kept it a secret. I ran off without a word and never looked back. She didn't even know she was gonna have a baby till after i left." Said Rex.
"Sounds like she didn't have it easy." Said Bo.
"No. She didn't think that she would ever see me again, she had no reason to. She probably wouldn't have if i hadn't gone back to Paris, Texas with Stacy. It's weird how that works out. And chilling part is that if all that had happened a year ago hadn't happened, i may have never found out that i have a son." Said Rex.
"Yeah. Wait a minute." Said Bo.
"What?" Rex asked.
"The guy that was in Jason's life from his birth to 5 years old...Brody...Jason called him Dad." Said Bo.
"Gigi spent 10 years raising Jason by herself. Five with Brody. She didn't want him to think that his father was this deadbeat Dad. So she made him think his father was this amazing war hero who died over seas in the war in (2014) when Jason was 5." Said Rex.
"Well, you have to let Jason know that he has a real Dad now." Said Bo.
"I would...except...Jason has already got the Dad he wants. And even though Brody is dead, and Jason knows i'm his real Dad,...it doesn't change the way the kid feels about Brody." Said Rex.
"What do you mean?" Bo asked.
"Gigi made sure that Jason fell in love with the idea of his hero Father. And then his Father showed up for real, 10 years later. But Jason's crazy about Brody." Said Rex.
"Did this guy, Brody, think that he was Jason's Dad?" Bo asked.
"Yes. He didn't know that Gigi was pregnant when he met her, and when he learned that she was, he assumed it was his...and she let him believe it." Said Rex.
"Did he ever find out that he wasn't Jason's biological Father?" Bo asked.
"No. He died over seas before Gigi could tell him. She was gonna tell him when he got back, but...he never came home." Said Rex.
"And Jason knows that you're his real father, right?" Bo asked.
"Yeah. And he knows that Brody isn't and the kid still wants him to be his Dad and not me." Said Rex.
"Why?" Bo asked.
"Who knows? Maybe somewhere along the way, after Brody died, Jason got use to it being just him and Gigi and Molly and found out he liked it." Said Rex.
"Boy, it's a tough situation." Said Bo.
"Yeah. What's the truth gonna do to that kid? I mean, i thought that Roxy was my real Mother for 30 years. It knocked me for a loop when i found out the truth that i was adopted and that my real Mother was the same woman who was blackmailing my former fiance into helping her and her gang of thugs steal hundreds of Dalmatian puppies, as well as my son, from the state of Texas." Rex said.
"Yeah, but don't let what happened with you and Roxy cloud your judgement. This is a totally different situation." Said Bo.
"No kidding. Jason has two parents who want to be apart of his life and have a relationship with him. When i was his age, i would've been lucky to have one." Said Rex.
"So what's the next step?" Bo asked.
"I don't know." Said Rex.
"You know, i remember a year ago when Jason was crazy about you too." Said Bo.
"Yeah. That was before Stacy manipulated me into telling Jason that she and i and the baby were moving to Paris, France. Stacy tried to turn Jason against me...and from the looks of it...it's working. That's why...i'm concidering..." Said Rex.
"What?" Bo asked.
"Maybe...the best thing i can do for my son...is not be his father." Said Rex.
"So you're willing to just...step aside and let what your Mother, Cruella, did destroy any chance you have of building a relationship with your son?" Said Bo.
Rex: "Well, when you say it like that..."
"What else am i gonna say?" Bo asked.
"I would love to be Jason's father. I just...i don't wanna mess up his life anymore than it already has been." Said Rex.
"You sure that's what you'd do?" Bo asked.
"I know he's been through. I know what it's like growing up without a Father. Going to little league games and football whenever a kid has a Dad there watching. I should have been there." Said Rex.
"Yeah, but that wasn't your fault. Stacy is the one who kept your son's existance from you for 10 whole years. She's the one who stole the letter that Gigi sent to you in the mail in college that revealed that you and Gigi have a son together. Then 10 years later, in (2020), Cruella came to America, got ahold of the letter, and used it to blackmail Stacy into helping her steal 104 Dalmatian puppies from the state of Texas. So they're to blame for you missing out on so much of your kid's life, not you." Said Bo.
"Yeah. I get that. But what about the Texas 104 Dalmatians incident?" Said Rex.
"That again? Bryson...listen to me. That was a year ago. It was not your fault." Said Bo.
"I know that here." Said Rex, pointing at his head. "but the trouble is...i'm not sure if i know it here." He said, placing a hand on his left chest where his heart was. The 32 year old American male got up from his seat and walked out of the office, leaving a sad Bo behind.
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DALMATIANS
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