Epilogue
Jennifer thought back on their adventure. They were lucky to get out with only a broken arm to show for it. The doctor in town had given then all a once over. Tammy's arm was in a cast. Magnolia was told to go easy for a week or two, but would be fine. Geegaw had a small cut on his forehead, but came through unscaved, and Zipper didn't even have a scratch. She had been given a clean bill of health also, but couldn't shake this feeling of impending doom.
The Eagle had been sent back, and a telegram sent to Bink that it was on its way. Jennifer would of preferred E-mail, but that small town didn't even have a computer that she could access.
Tammy was sleeping, Zipper on her shoulder. The two were cute, Tammy's head tilted back, mouth open wide, and zipper snoring loud enough to be head over the roar of the cargo aircrafts engines, but Jennifer was worried that Zipper was replacing one lost friend with another.
Geegaw and Magnolia were going over how exactly the plane would be hidden. The group had been able to hop a civilian style transport, hiding in the cargo hold until they were in the air, and then emerged into the pressurized cabin.
Magnolia was grateful for the change in aircraft, though the cold didn't seem to affect her as strongly as it did before. She was laughing and throwing out comments, but Jennifer could also see a cold Magnolia, lying on the floor of a tent out in the middle of nowhere. How things have change in the matter of days, yet they seem to stay the same.
Jennifer sighed. She just wanted to get home and spend the last two days at the old house with every one else there. To just feel safe in a warm bed, and didn't have to go out in to the cold again
Chip rolled over, his hand falling on a warm lump on the bed were his wife should have been. He stretched and yawned, and then after putting on his bathrobe, headed out to find his wife. He stumbled into the kitchen, suspecting that she was working on some invention, or grading papers, but was disappointed to find it empty. Next he tried the living room. He sighed and was about to go back to bed when the sound of metal on metal drifted up from the hanger below. He carefully made his way down the stairs. There he found his wife, in the cockpit of her new plane, leaning against the control stick, causing the control surfaces on the wings to respond likewise.
The chipmunk slowly entered the craft and gently pulled his wife back to a more comfortable position. As he did so, the reflection of a picture that had previously been hidden in Gadgets lap caught his eye. In it stood Geegaw and Jennifer on one side, with Tammy, Maggie and Zipper on the other, pointing to the uncovered fuselage of the aircraft.
Chip smiled knowing that they went through something that he may never hear about, but that was probably for the better, and to be honest, he didn't want to know. All he knew was that Tammy had a hair line fracture in her left arm, Maggie seemed to be more tolerable to the cold, and Jennifer seemed to grow in her self-confidence. This was always a good thing for a Hackwrench to do.
Chip sighed as he placed his arm over Gadgets shoulder. She moaned and cuddled, but never woke up.
'She was always a cuddle.' He mused as he slowly drifted off to sleep as two watchful eyes kept tab on everything that happened.
Jennifer thought back on their adventure. They were lucky to get out with only a broken arm to show for it. The doctor in town had given then all a once over. Tammy's arm was in a cast. Magnolia was told to go easy for a week or two, but would be fine. Geegaw had a small cut on his forehead, but came through unscaved, and Zipper didn't even have a scratch. She had been given a clean bill of health also, but couldn't shake this feeling of impending doom.
The Eagle had been sent back, and a telegram sent to Bink that it was on its way. Jennifer would of preferred E-mail, but that small town didn't even have a computer that she could access.
Tammy was sleeping, Zipper on her shoulder. The two were cute, Tammy's head tilted back, mouth open wide, and zipper snoring loud enough to be head over the roar of the cargo aircrafts engines, but Jennifer was worried that Zipper was replacing one lost friend with another.
Geegaw and Magnolia were going over how exactly the plane would be hidden. The group had been able to hop a civilian style transport, hiding in the cargo hold until they were in the air, and then emerged into the pressurized cabin.
Magnolia was grateful for the change in aircraft, though the cold didn't seem to affect her as strongly as it did before. She was laughing and throwing out comments, but Jennifer could also see a cold Magnolia, lying on the floor of a tent out in the middle of nowhere. How things have change in the matter of days, yet they seem to stay the same.
Jennifer sighed. She just wanted to get home and spend the last two days at the old house with every one else there. To just feel safe in a warm bed, and didn't have to go out in to the cold again
Chip rolled over, his hand falling on a warm lump on the bed were his wife should have been. He stretched and yawned, and then after putting on his bathrobe, headed out to find his wife. He stumbled into the kitchen, suspecting that she was working on some invention, or grading papers, but was disappointed to find it empty. Next he tried the living room. He sighed and was about to go back to bed when the sound of metal on metal drifted up from the hanger below. He carefully made his way down the stairs. There he found his wife, in the cockpit of her new plane, leaning against the control stick, causing the control surfaces on the wings to respond likewise.
The chipmunk slowly entered the craft and gently pulled his wife back to a more comfortable position. As he did so, the reflection of a picture that had previously been hidden in Gadgets lap caught his eye. In it stood Geegaw and Jennifer on one side, with Tammy, Maggie and Zipper on the other, pointing to the uncovered fuselage of the aircraft.
Chip smiled knowing that they went through something that he may never hear about, but that was probably for the better, and to be honest, he didn't want to know. All he knew was that Tammy had a hair line fracture in her left arm, Maggie seemed to be more tolerable to the cold, and Jennifer seemed to grow in her self-confidence. This was always a good thing for a Hackwrench to do.
Chip sighed as he placed his arm over Gadgets shoulder. She moaned and cuddled, but never woke up.
'She was always a cuddle.' He mused as he slowly drifted off to sleep as two watchful eyes kept tab on everything that happened.