Guardian Angel 6: The Plot.
"Sorry about your grandma Arnold" Arnie said. Arnold looked at him the noticed someting strange in Helga's face. She was looking at him funny. Like she was examining him under a microscope. He looked directly at her. She started to go pale. Something was wrong. "It's okay Arnie. I have to go back tomorrow for her funeral. If you don't mind I need to pack some stuff" he said and turned back to packing his clothes for he trip back.
"Okay. Bye" Arnie said and left. Arnold let out a sigh. He was glad he was gone.
"Well Helga I'm just about done" he said and looked again at her. She was staring at the door Arnie had just closed.
"Take his car" Helga said.
"Why?"
"Because. No wait. Check your break cables. I have a really bad feeling" she said.
"Okay" Arnold said and closed the suitcase. Then picked it up and lugged it out the door down to his car.
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"What the hell!?" Arnold yelled. Helga moved to go under the car to see what had gotten Arnold so worked up.
"What?" she asked.
"Look at this. Someone cut them!" he yelled holding two pieces of cable together. "It was Arnie wasn't it?" he asked. Helga shrugged. She didn't know, all she knew was that something bad was going to happen and it had to do with break cables. The reason she had been looking so intently at Arnie was because he seemed to be resurrecting some memory. "Damn!"
"I think it was your aunty" Helga said looking up at the house. His aunt was looking out at them. Well Arnold, but there were two of them.
"Why the break cables? She could have killed me!" he yelled.
"Check the rest of it" Helga said. Arnold looked the car over again.
"Not that the car would have been going anywhere anyway" Arnold said. Helga looked. The cables that lead from the battery to the engine were disconnected, the holders(the bits that connect to the nobs on the battery? Keep the leads connected? What are they called?) had been cut off as well.
"Well my battery is probably dead or on it's way, and break cables aren't cheap (so I hear my dad yell at my bro all the time. He's broken dads like four times!! Don't know how, and that's just from august last year!) this car isn't going anywhere" he said and looked up at the house to see his aunt move away from the window. He sighed.
"Here" Helga said. She dropped keys into his hands. "To your aunt's car. I borrowed them" she told him smiling. He smiled back, got up, closed the hood (Bonnet- depending on where you'r from)of his car and walked to his aunts car with his stuff. Hopped in, started it and beeped the horn a couple of times, to see his aunts astonished face looking out at him.
"Arnold get out of that car! How dare you take it without my permission?" she yelled.
"Easy!" he yelled back. And drove off down the drive radio blaring and laughing with Helga...
"I cant believe you did that" Gerald said.
"I know. Neither can i. But I just wanted to be here so badley" he said.
"What are you holding? And invisible hand?" Gerald joked
"No Helga's" Arnold said. He realized what he said and looked at Gerald.
"Your kidding" he accused. He looked at Arnold so seriously he started to feel uncomfortable.
"No" he admitted. He told Gerald everything, despite Helga's protests.
"She's right next to you?" he asked. He believed Arnold.
"Yeah. Why?" he asked.
"Which side?" he asked.
"My left" he said. Gerald looked there. Then he saw her. She was sitting there glaring at him. 'Man she looks beautiful' he thought. 'Even when she is glaring'.
"I'm sorry Helga. I didn't mean those things I said. I was just hurt and all. If I had known you were going to dis...die, I wouldn't have left you alone there" he said.
"What do you mean?" Arnold asked quickly.
"Me and Phoebe had an argument. I blamed Helga and said a few nasty things. I was suppossed to walk her home. Phoebe's request. Only I left her half way. I'm sorry" he said again.
"That's okay Gerald. You didn't know" she said her face softening, making her even more beautiful than what she was. Gerald commented on it. "I'm my soul Gerald. Your soul is the real you. It reflects what your really like. So much so that some people have been changed beyond recognition from even their loved ones" she told him. "Which is why you will sometimes feel a familiar presence and even see them and sometimes not recognize them"
They heard the music begin and Arnold told Gerald not to say anything about Helga he agreed. Then Arnold, with Helga holding his hand, made their way to his grandpa and sat down in the front pew. There was, behind the coffin, a galss window with a little fountain on the other side surrounded by plants. Arnold criend, Phil cried and the rest of the congregation cried. It went for an hour, everyone telling stories of her. Everyone was astonished when the postman, , mentioned how once when he was having a bath she appeared from his toilet (from the movie. It was funny). "I never bathe with the lid up anymore" he said. Evreyone laughed. She had brought such laughter in her long life and everyone sat and remembered all the times she had dressed up as someone. Arnold and Phil and the now ex-borders had the most to say. By the end there were more smiles and laughs than tears. Then the pole-bearers came along. Arnold at the front, and took the coffin to the waiting hearse. The song "Coutdown Lady" playing in the background. They slid the coffin into the car and closed it. It was with the closing sound of the door that it really hit everyone. Gutrude was really gone. Never would they see her swinging through the trees, or chaining herself to something...
They had her cremated. Helga mentioned it was better in a way. It got rid of any remnents of connection her soul still had to her body. Arnold nodded. There was a wake at the bording house, with everyone bring something along for everyone else to eat. Arnold was suprised to see Helga's parents there. Even more suprised to see Phil talking to Bob after Helga had spoken to him. Helga stood next to her father looking up at him. Bob looked tired. He was so scared that the next funeral he would attend would be Helga's. Arnold got that thought from Helga who got it from her father. Bob looked over at him and then back at Phil nodding. Helga turned and smiled at him hugely. He went over.
"Hello Mr Pataki" Arnold said. Bob looked at him and nodded. Then looked at Phil.
"How would you like to stay with me and Miriam? You would be close to your Grandpa, you could even stay with him. Me and Miriam could take guardian-ship of you. But we would have to make it appear that you are styaing with us" Bob said, his plotting self coming out. "Yeah this would be good. I think we can pull it off" Bob said looking at Phil. Phil smiled at him and they shook hands.
"I would like that" Arnold said. This would be good! He could see his grandpa whenever he wanted, he woulld be in town where it might be easier to piece together Helga's death and he would be free of Arnie! "I would like that alot"
(A/N: Whoa! I'm getting tired. I gotta finish here or I'm going to hurt myself (not delibratly! Accidently. I already fell of the chair!) this stoy is almost finished. The end is a shocker! hehehe)