Speculation Of Love

By Fairly Odd New Yorker

(A/N)- Thanks Neolight for reviewing :-) My OC cast thanks you! x)

Connie: A review! Yay, I am loved!
Sarah: But you're still stupid.
Connie: But I'm stupid and loved:-3

Chapter 3- The Breaking Point

"Timmy!" Wanda shouted, literally scaring the hat off of her godchild, and he stumbled over in surprise. All four of them were completely covered in paint.

"We were only havin' fun, Wanda," Timmy protested, "Sheesh …"

Colleen scowled, "Well, whoever told you I wanted to have fun with you was out of their mind!"

Connie looked innocently around, whistling softly.

Kimberly, Sarah's African American friend, picked the red paint out of her puffy hair as she complained, "Aw, c'mon Colleen. We were only joking around! And you could've just used your wand to clean it up instead of running to your mother." She said, folding her arms.

Colleen pretended not to hear her god child, and Wanda sighed, waving her wand and causing all the paint to be removed from their skin, clothes, and hair. Connie frowned when she could no longer feel the gooshieness of paint in her swirly green pigtail, and she held up her wand and brought the purple paint back, entertaining herself with the squishy sounds.

"Where's Cosmo?" Timmy asked.

Sarah rolled her eyes, "That's obvious- he's with the twins …? Ring a bell?"

Timmy scowled, "Just wait till school …"

"What're you gonna do, throw Crocker at me?"

"Possibly …"

Wanda covered her ears, "Would you two stop fighting? I've got enough stuff on my nerves at the moment."

"Mom and Dad are fighting," Colleen explained quietly, running a brush through her curls.

"Yes – No! What? Who told you that?" Wanda's words came out too quick and nervous.

Colleen sighed, "Mom, that's the first time in my life I've ever seen Dad try to avoid kissing you like that."

Wanda's face went red, "Well, he's just … we needed to talk about something, and your grandmother showed up and I never explained …"

"Daddy!" Connie yelled; she was completely unaware of what her mother was saying or if she was even speaking. She soared across the room and tackled her father with a hug. Cosmo didn't return the hug; he was like a lifeless doll. This Connie had noticed.

"Heeyy … what's wrong?" she asked, getting back a couple feet, trying to examine him. She squinted. Cosmo stared back with that dull, unhappy glance.

"Mom, I think Daddy's broken," she concluded, turning upside down in midair, staring at him.

Sarah jumped up and grabbed her fairy god parent by her leg, pulling her upright, "People can't break, stupid."

"Oh yeah? Well, he's not a people, genius, he's a fairy!"

"Still, he's a living breathing mammal-thingy."

"Wrong again; Fairies don't need to breathe."

Sarah sighed, giving up, "Your hopeless, Connie."

"Would you like fries with that?" she asked cheerfully.

"Your brain is fried."

Timmy stopped Sarah, "Give it up. If she's anything like Cosmo, she'll never end … but … Cosmo, what the heck is wrong with you anyway?"

No response.

Kimberly put her finger to her chin, "Geez that fight you guys had must've knocked all those loose screws out …"

"For the last time; we didn't fight!" Wanda shouted. Cosmo's eyebrows went into a frown when she shouted, but he remained silent.

She sighed, trying to calm down. And then she quickly remembered, and her face went pale, "Cosmo, who's watching the twins?"

He finally spoke, "Oh, so you think I'm a complete idiot that I would leave my own children home alone!" he snapped, "Well they're not! They're with my mother!"

Wanda wanted to complain about how she didn't trust Mama Cosma, but Cosmo was in such a bad mood right now, all she wanted to do was to straighten this out.

"Cosmo, about my leaving …"

"Go ahead, leave!" Cosmo's eyes filled with tears "See if I care!"

She sighed, "Cosmo, I'm not leaving forever."

"So where are you going?" Timmy piped up with a look of concern.

"A short vacation back at my old home." Wanda explained, "But if Cosmo stays mad about it I might just …" she couldn't finish what she wanted to say.

"Might just what?" Colleen asked, as Connie made a bucket of popcorn appear in front of the children, and she poofed it away.

Wanda frowned, "I'd like to talk to Cosmo alone … please?" she asked through gritted teeth. All the anger she had inside her from each and every time he had called her names had all come out into the open. She held her wand up and transported herself and Cosmo back to their fishbowl home.

"Cosmo," Wanda started, "I have to talk to you about your bad habits …"

His angry frown was focused on a floating speck. She grabbed him roughly with her fins and pulled him inside the castle, making him turn back to his fairy form.

"Cosmo! You have to stop being a baby and listen to me!" she shouted. She sometimes really adored it when he acted a bit childish, but not when it was out of anger.

Since Cosmo refused to speak, she explained her argument, "I love you, honey. But … recently, you've been really mean to me. You call me very hurtful names like … like ugly, and fat …"

"You know I don't mean that," he said in a small voice, his frown fading a bit.

"I don't know that. I don't get any … reassurance that … that you truly love me … anymore …" she said slowly, hiding her face since she felt like crying. Her heart felt as if it would weigh her down, and she felt weak. She wanted so much not to love Cosmo but it was hard not to. No matter how horrible he treated her.

Cosmo was shocked, "Wanda! We're married!" he exclaimed, "I thought that was enough of proof that I love you, and I was just joking when I said those mean things! You make fun of me, too!"

"No, I don't!" Wanda snapped, "I've never made fun of you. I can't, remember? I'm the fat one! You're skinny!"

"Well I'm also stupid!" Cosmo said, not even trying to say she wasn't fat.

"And about the 'enough proof' garbage; how can I still believe that you love me when you never show it and you flirt with other girls? And you have the nerve to get mad at me when Juandissimo shows up?" she shouted, and broke down into uncontrollable tears. She poofed herself up to their bedroom, but found herself unable to touch the bed they shared. Instead she leaned her head against the wall, wrapping her arms close to her body as she cried and held back sobs so she wouldn't make much sound.

As overreacting as she felt she was being, she wanted so much for Cosmo to come upstairs and comfort her. But he didn't. She heard his wand as he poofed himself away, and she took this chance to openly cry, to finally release this pain and anxiety she had felt for the last few years.

She started to worry again about Cosmo being able to watch Timmy alone, because she felt this 'short vacation' might become a permanent one if Cosmo couldn't prove he loved her anymore … it hurt her to have to come to this, but maybe it was the best … for Cosmo, at least. Maybe he could marry her sister Blonda or something.

Maybe he'd be a whole lot happier … without Wanda.

(A/N)- Poor Wanda. Hopefully her kids will cheer her up a bit … next chapter- the kids get ready for the dance, but Timmy's left out. Can his life get any worse? Will Wanda and Cosmo ever be together again? Find out next :-)

P.S- To see pictures I drew, visit my page at seltzeraddict. deviantart. com (without the spaces)