'Stars All Over'
a fanfiction by
Kaci
based on the show
'Fairly-Odd Parents'
(c) Butch Hartman
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"Eighty-two... eighty-three... eighty-four..."
Alexia stood against a wall, her wrists crossed over her eyes as she counted aloud.
Behind her, Timmy was scurrying back and forth through the house, frantically searching for a hiding place. Finally, he dove underneath the couch.
"Ninety-nine... one-hundred! Here I come, Timmy!" announced Alexia as she turned away from the wall and placed her hands on her hips. She looked around, soon spotting one of Timmy's feet peeking out from under the couch. She grinned.
"Where, oh, where has Timmy gone...?" she mused aloud, walking around the couch in a wide circle. "He sure is good at hiding... it may take me HOURS to find him..."
Alexia stood in front of the couch and reached down, pulling off her shoes and stepping up onto the couch. To Timmy, it looked like she was just standing there, because all he could see was her feet. Alexia leaned over the edge of the couch and slowly inched her hands forward. She grabbed him by the ankles and yanked him out from under the couch, giving a squeal of amusement as she pulled him onto the couch and began tickling him as she had the day before. Timmy laughed and struggled, squirming half-heartedly to get away.
"Nice hiding spot, short-stuff!" said Alexia, pinching his cheeks (yes, on his face). Timmy pulled away and toppled off of the couch, sitting up and grinning at her.
They'd been playing like this all day; games like Surgeon General, Chubby Bunny, and now Hide and Seek. Also, as would any child on a Saturday morning, they'd spent a good two hours or so vegging out with some cartoons.
By now, the clock read noon. Alexia stood up and looked down at Timmy, nudging him playfully with her foot. "Whatcha want for lunch?" she asked.
"I dunno," said Timmy. "What do YOU want?"
Alexia tapped her chin. "Let's go get Chinese."
Timmy looked up. "You're gonna take me out somewhere?"
"Sure!"
"You can drive?"
"Cha. I'm sixteen, Timmy, I've got a license. I drive a hatchback that's older than George W. Bush, but at least it gets me around. Doesn't your usual babysitter drive?" asked Alexia as she started pulling her shoes back on.
Timmy hopped up onto the couch beside her. "Vicky drives, but she never takes me anywhere."
Alexia stood and pulled her keys out of her pocket. "Well, I'm more fun than that," she stated with a wink. "C'mon, we'll rent some movies on the way back." She headed towards the door, Timmy following suit.
"Wow! Thanks, Alexia!" he said as she lead him to her car; a beat up BMW hatchback. Cosmo and Wanda, who'd been discreetly supervising Timmy all day, appeared in the back seat as a set of floor covers.
Timmy headed for the passenger seat, but Alexia stopped him.
"Ah-ah," she said. "Children under twelve in the back. Sorry, kiddo, but it's the law. Besides, I wouldn't want you getting suffocated by the airbags." She opened the backseat. Timmy only grinned and hopped in, buckling his seatbelt.
"It's okay," he said. "Mom and dad make me ride in the back, too, most of the time."
Alexia grinned as she slid into the driver's seat and buckled her seatbelt. "You're a good kid, y'know that?"
Timmy beamed. His substitute babysitter turned on the radio, some sort of alternative rock music streaming out of the speakers. Timmy looked down at Cosmo and Wanda. He waved. The two appeared at his side as two gnats.
"You seem to be enjoying yourself," said Wanda happily.
"Uh huh! That Alexia girl's a lot nicer than Vicky!" Cosmo concurred.
With a nod, Timmy said, "She's taking me to get Chinese food, and then we're gonna rent movies. She's so nice to me!"
"Yeah, too bad it's only for this weekend," said Cosmo, taking his crown off of his head and twirling it around on his insect feet.
Timmy frowned at Cosmo. "Well... maybe mom and dad'll forget about Vicky and stick with Alexia instead..."
"I don't think so, Timmy," said Wanda. "Alexia charges more than Vicky does by the hour. You know as well as I do that your parents like to save money."
"But Alexia's so much nicer to me!" Timmy protested, but deep down he knew that Wanda was right and that there was no point in arguing. "Ah, forget it..." He sighed a little and slumped down in his seat.
Before long, Alexia parked her car at Chef Chang's and climbed out, Timmy following soon with Cosmo and Wanda in his back pocket as a pen and a notepad.
Half an hour later, Alexia and Timmy made their way back into the car, to-go boxes in tow. Not too long after, they'd rented a few sci-fi flicks and were making their way back to Timmy's house.
Timmy was looking over the various DVD's nestled in the backseat with him, when the car suddenly came to a halt. Several of the movies toppled into the floorboard, hitting Cosmo and Wanda, who were once again floor covers. They gave muffled squeaks.
Alexia jumped out of the car. "Timmy, stay here!" she said, before running off.
Confusedly, Timmy sat up in his seat. "Where are we?" he asked to Cosmo and Wanda, who appeared behind him as gnats once more.
The area outside the car was pretty much a ghetto; run down buildings and trashy streets as far as the boy could see. He looked off in the direction that Alexia had gone. She was kneeling beside a little boy who sat on the steps of one of the buildings. The little boy had a black eye.
As Timmy watched, Alexia pulled the boy to his feet and escorted him to the car. Timmy noted the little boy had teal eyes like Alexia, but his hair was a light shade of brown, much like his own.
Alexia opened the backseat and let the little boy climb into the car beside Timmy. "Timmy, this is my brother, Kayden. I'm gonna drop him off at a friend's house, okay?" she said, looking at her brother worriedly.
Kayden gave Timmy a small smile. "Hi," he said.
Timmy returned the smile nervously, waving slightly. He heard Alexia sigh as she shut the car door and climbed back into the driver's seat. Pretty soon they were mobile again, but no one was talking. Alexia turned the music on.
After a few minutes of silence, the car stopped once more. Alexia let Kayden out of the car and led him up to the door of a small house, a bit run-down and in need of a paint job. Kayden turned to wave good-bye to Timmy. Timmy waved back.
The door opened and Alexia spoke to the woman who'd answered it for a few moments. She gestured to the car where Timmy was, then down at Kayden, finally reaching into her pocket and handing the woman some money. The woman nodded and led Kayden into the house. Alexia returned to the car, looking worried.
She started the car and headed off to Timmy's house.
"Uh..." Timmy hesitantly began. "What happened...?"
He could see in the rearview mirror as Alexia bit her lip in thought. "M-my dad forgot to drop Kayden off at his friend's house," she said quietly.
Timmy decided it best not to pry and instead busied himself by muttering to Cosmo and Wanda under the dull stream of depressing rock music Alexia had switched to listening to.
Pretty soon, they were home.
Even though they'd eaten not more than an hour before, Alexia popped some popcorn and brought some sodas into the living room. Over the course of eight hours, they watched movie after movie.
By the end of the fourth movie, Timmy had laid his head in Alexia's lap and was half asleep. Alexia, on the other hand, was watching the movie with an unfocused and dull expression.
Half an hour later, Timmy was out. Alexia slowly and carefully stood up, replacing her lap with a pillow from the couch. She went over to the door and picked up the backpack she had left there the day before, tugging it over to the living room table. She brought out a small black book and a pen and began writing.
While writing, she reached over and turned the movie off, instead switching the channel to TTV, Tunes Televison. She made sure the TV was turned down as not to wake Timmy, and she continued writing.
When she was done, she stood and cleaned up the living room. Then, Alexia walked out of the front door, closing it behind her quietly.
Timmy awoke as one of the singers on TV started screaming lyrics, despite Alexia having lowered the volume. He blinked blearily at the room around him, for a moment wondering why he wasn't in his room. Then he sat up, stretching his arms, and wondering where Alexia had gone.
The boy slid off of the couch and walked over to turn the TV off. As he passed by the table, he noticed the little black book, lying open. Unable to stop himself, he sat down and started reading what Alexia had just written.
'I can't believe he did it again. Dad hit Kayden again. This is the third time this month. Man... If I weren't so scared of losing Kayden, I'd call social services... But I've only got a year and a half before I'm eighteen and I can take care of Kayden myself. I took Timmy, the kid I'm babysitting this weekend, out to get some lunch. On the way back, I drove by my house, just to see how things were. Kayden was sitting on the front steps with a black eye. I had to take him to Mrs. Saddlebrook's house. I hope the Turners pay me a little extra. I'll need it to make up for paying Mrs. Saddlebrook to take care of Kayden. I need to go unwind.'
And it stopped there. Timmy stood up, thinking over what he'd just read. It must've been her diary.
As he went to look for Alexia, he glanced out the window, taken aback by what he saw. Alexia was lying in the driveway, staring at the sky. He cocked his head to the side.
"What the...?" Timmy murmured. He went to the front door and walked out onto the lawn.
Soon, he was standing over Alexia, looking down at her confusedly.
"What're you doing?" he asked.
Alexia looked up at him with a weak smile. "I've got stars all over," she said quietly.
Something changed. Timmy looked at Alexia blankly, as if she had just told him she'd found a cure for cancer. Inside, he felt his mind go from confused, to curious, then to pleasantly puzzled.
Without a word, Timmy smiled and lay down beside Alexia, looking up at the stars she'd been admiring.
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End Chapter Two!
Reviiiiew!
a fanfiction by
Kaci
based on the show
'Fairly-Odd Parents'
(c) Butch Hartman
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"Eighty-two... eighty-three... eighty-four..."
Alexia stood against a wall, her wrists crossed over her eyes as she counted aloud.
Behind her, Timmy was scurrying back and forth through the house, frantically searching for a hiding place. Finally, he dove underneath the couch.
"Ninety-nine... one-hundred! Here I come, Timmy!" announced Alexia as she turned away from the wall and placed her hands on her hips. She looked around, soon spotting one of Timmy's feet peeking out from under the couch. She grinned.
"Where, oh, where has Timmy gone...?" she mused aloud, walking around the couch in a wide circle. "He sure is good at hiding... it may take me HOURS to find him..."
Alexia stood in front of the couch and reached down, pulling off her shoes and stepping up onto the couch. To Timmy, it looked like she was just standing there, because all he could see was her feet. Alexia leaned over the edge of the couch and slowly inched her hands forward. She grabbed him by the ankles and yanked him out from under the couch, giving a squeal of amusement as she pulled him onto the couch and began tickling him as she had the day before. Timmy laughed and struggled, squirming half-heartedly to get away.
"Nice hiding spot, short-stuff!" said Alexia, pinching his cheeks (yes, on his face). Timmy pulled away and toppled off of the couch, sitting up and grinning at her.
They'd been playing like this all day; games like Surgeon General, Chubby Bunny, and now Hide and Seek. Also, as would any child on a Saturday morning, they'd spent a good two hours or so vegging out with some cartoons.
By now, the clock read noon. Alexia stood up and looked down at Timmy, nudging him playfully with her foot. "Whatcha want for lunch?" she asked.
"I dunno," said Timmy. "What do YOU want?"
Alexia tapped her chin. "Let's go get Chinese."
Timmy looked up. "You're gonna take me out somewhere?"
"Sure!"
"You can drive?"
"Cha. I'm sixteen, Timmy, I've got a license. I drive a hatchback that's older than George W. Bush, but at least it gets me around. Doesn't your usual babysitter drive?" asked Alexia as she started pulling her shoes back on.
Timmy hopped up onto the couch beside her. "Vicky drives, but she never takes me anywhere."
Alexia stood and pulled her keys out of her pocket. "Well, I'm more fun than that," she stated with a wink. "C'mon, we'll rent some movies on the way back." She headed towards the door, Timmy following suit.
"Wow! Thanks, Alexia!" he said as she lead him to her car; a beat up BMW hatchback. Cosmo and Wanda, who'd been discreetly supervising Timmy all day, appeared in the back seat as a set of floor covers.
Timmy headed for the passenger seat, but Alexia stopped him.
"Ah-ah," she said. "Children under twelve in the back. Sorry, kiddo, but it's the law. Besides, I wouldn't want you getting suffocated by the airbags." She opened the backseat. Timmy only grinned and hopped in, buckling his seatbelt.
"It's okay," he said. "Mom and dad make me ride in the back, too, most of the time."
Alexia grinned as she slid into the driver's seat and buckled her seatbelt. "You're a good kid, y'know that?"
Timmy beamed. His substitute babysitter turned on the radio, some sort of alternative rock music streaming out of the speakers. Timmy looked down at Cosmo and Wanda. He waved. The two appeared at his side as two gnats.
"You seem to be enjoying yourself," said Wanda happily.
"Uh huh! That Alexia girl's a lot nicer than Vicky!" Cosmo concurred.
With a nod, Timmy said, "She's taking me to get Chinese food, and then we're gonna rent movies. She's so nice to me!"
"Yeah, too bad it's only for this weekend," said Cosmo, taking his crown off of his head and twirling it around on his insect feet.
Timmy frowned at Cosmo. "Well... maybe mom and dad'll forget about Vicky and stick with Alexia instead..."
"I don't think so, Timmy," said Wanda. "Alexia charges more than Vicky does by the hour. You know as well as I do that your parents like to save money."
"But Alexia's so much nicer to me!" Timmy protested, but deep down he knew that Wanda was right and that there was no point in arguing. "Ah, forget it..." He sighed a little and slumped down in his seat.
Before long, Alexia parked her car at Chef Chang's and climbed out, Timmy following soon with Cosmo and Wanda in his back pocket as a pen and a notepad.
Half an hour later, Alexia and Timmy made their way back into the car, to-go boxes in tow. Not too long after, they'd rented a few sci-fi flicks and were making their way back to Timmy's house.
Timmy was looking over the various DVD's nestled in the backseat with him, when the car suddenly came to a halt. Several of the movies toppled into the floorboard, hitting Cosmo and Wanda, who were once again floor covers. They gave muffled squeaks.
Alexia jumped out of the car. "Timmy, stay here!" she said, before running off.
Confusedly, Timmy sat up in his seat. "Where are we?" he asked to Cosmo and Wanda, who appeared behind him as gnats once more.
The area outside the car was pretty much a ghetto; run down buildings and trashy streets as far as the boy could see. He looked off in the direction that Alexia had gone. She was kneeling beside a little boy who sat on the steps of one of the buildings. The little boy had a black eye.
As Timmy watched, Alexia pulled the boy to his feet and escorted him to the car. Timmy noted the little boy had teal eyes like Alexia, but his hair was a light shade of brown, much like his own.
Alexia opened the backseat and let the little boy climb into the car beside Timmy. "Timmy, this is my brother, Kayden. I'm gonna drop him off at a friend's house, okay?" she said, looking at her brother worriedly.
Kayden gave Timmy a small smile. "Hi," he said.
Timmy returned the smile nervously, waving slightly. He heard Alexia sigh as she shut the car door and climbed back into the driver's seat. Pretty soon they were mobile again, but no one was talking. Alexia turned the music on.
After a few minutes of silence, the car stopped once more. Alexia let Kayden out of the car and led him up to the door of a small house, a bit run-down and in need of a paint job. Kayden turned to wave good-bye to Timmy. Timmy waved back.
The door opened and Alexia spoke to the woman who'd answered it for a few moments. She gestured to the car where Timmy was, then down at Kayden, finally reaching into her pocket and handing the woman some money. The woman nodded and led Kayden into the house. Alexia returned to the car, looking worried.
She started the car and headed off to Timmy's house.
"Uh..." Timmy hesitantly began. "What happened...?"
He could see in the rearview mirror as Alexia bit her lip in thought. "M-my dad forgot to drop Kayden off at his friend's house," she said quietly.
Timmy decided it best not to pry and instead busied himself by muttering to Cosmo and Wanda under the dull stream of depressing rock music Alexia had switched to listening to.
Pretty soon, they were home.
Even though they'd eaten not more than an hour before, Alexia popped some popcorn and brought some sodas into the living room. Over the course of eight hours, they watched movie after movie.
By the end of the fourth movie, Timmy had laid his head in Alexia's lap and was half asleep. Alexia, on the other hand, was watching the movie with an unfocused and dull expression.
Half an hour later, Timmy was out. Alexia slowly and carefully stood up, replacing her lap with a pillow from the couch. She went over to the door and picked up the backpack she had left there the day before, tugging it over to the living room table. She brought out a small black book and a pen and began writing.
While writing, she reached over and turned the movie off, instead switching the channel to TTV, Tunes Televison. She made sure the TV was turned down as not to wake Timmy, and she continued writing.
When she was done, she stood and cleaned up the living room. Then, Alexia walked out of the front door, closing it behind her quietly.
Timmy awoke as one of the singers on TV started screaming lyrics, despite Alexia having lowered the volume. He blinked blearily at the room around him, for a moment wondering why he wasn't in his room. Then he sat up, stretching his arms, and wondering where Alexia had gone.
The boy slid off of the couch and walked over to turn the TV off. As he passed by the table, he noticed the little black book, lying open. Unable to stop himself, he sat down and started reading what Alexia had just written.
'I can't believe he did it again. Dad hit Kayden again. This is the third time this month. Man... If I weren't so scared of losing Kayden, I'd call social services... But I've only got a year and a half before I'm eighteen and I can take care of Kayden myself. I took Timmy, the kid I'm babysitting this weekend, out to get some lunch. On the way back, I drove by my house, just to see how things were. Kayden was sitting on the front steps with a black eye. I had to take him to Mrs. Saddlebrook's house. I hope the Turners pay me a little extra. I'll need it to make up for paying Mrs. Saddlebrook to take care of Kayden. I need to go unwind.'
And it stopped there. Timmy stood up, thinking over what he'd just read. It must've been her diary.
As he went to look for Alexia, he glanced out the window, taken aback by what he saw. Alexia was lying in the driveway, staring at the sky. He cocked his head to the side.
"What the...?" Timmy murmured. He went to the front door and walked out onto the lawn.
Soon, he was standing over Alexia, looking down at her confusedly.
"What're you doing?" he asked.
Alexia looked up at him with a weak smile. "I've got stars all over," she said quietly.
Something changed. Timmy looked at Alexia blankly, as if she had just told him she'd found a cure for cancer. Inside, he felt his mind go from confused, to curious, then to pleasantly puzzled.
Without a word, Timmy smiled and lay down beside Alexia, looking up at the stars she'd been admiring.
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End Chapter Two!
Reviiiiew!