Chapter number 4, has been brought to you today by… 'The eternal optimist who always thinks of happy endings while on her permanently reserved position on the big comfy couch of denial'. Add your support to the Big Comfy Couch of Denial today! Because Cosmo and Wanda should never be so cruel.

Okay…and the results are…drum roll please…

Tootie…3

Trixie…0

A mystery…0

So Tootie wins! Yay! My personal choice is Tootie as well. I like to see the boy get the girl of his dreams in most instances, but in this case, I'm routing for the girl to get the guy.

Remember that this (…) means that the twins are talking to each other telepathically and ((…)) means that Cosmo and Wanda are talking telepathically.

Read onward brave reviewers! Hint, hint. I really don't have to pretend that you guys are Cosmo for that do I? Lol.

Trixie21

No, I don't own FOP or any reference to its varied characters mentioned herein, and unless the new episodes that follow 'School's Out' begin showing the love again, I wouldn't want to. So, for now, Butch Hartman can keep his name tacked on…even if it is for nothing more than the royalties at this point.

Oh…and I don't own The Big Comfy Couch either. That belongs to some broadcasting company in Tennessee I think. : )

Fairly OddParents : The Next Generation

Chapter 4. Rules and Logistics

Tammy and Tommy were able to convince the Vic-Bot that they had done their job and after almost 5 minutes of begging, it had finally allowed them to go to their rooms, though they had been ordered to stay there the rest of the day. The twins however, did not relocate to their individual private spaces. They both went directly to Tammy's room where Cosmo and Wanda poofed in to begin the full explanations.

"Wow," said Cosmo as he looked around at all the pink. "Timmy's room sure has changed. Wanda, if you wore pink instead of yellow, you'd be able to hide without magic!"

Wanda ignored his ramblings as she poofed up their large, well used copy of Da Rules.

"Hang on a second," Tommy said as he looked at Cosmo. "How did you know this was Daddy's old room?"

Wanda looked at Cosmo quickly as she hurriedly thought of an explanation.

"Uh, well, we know a lot about you two already. Its part of the job to come in at least a little prepared to make it easier for everyone concerned."

"And that includes knowing that our Daddy grew up in this house too?"

"Well, of course. It's a family thing so we should know."

"Then how come he's called our Daddy 'Timmy' twice now?" asked Tammy referring to Cosmo.

"Well, that is his name, right?"

"Only to Grandpa, Grandma and Mom."

Wanda bit her lip. These kids were definitely not as slow on the uptake as their father had been at this age. Tammy had Wanda penned and she knew it.

Wanda grabbed Da Rules and started flipping through it furiously trying to find some thing that might help her out.

((Wanda? What are you looking for?)) asked Cosmo more than a little curious over Wanda's uncharacteristic harried page flipping.

((I'm checking to see if there's anything about revealing to godchildren if a godparent has been with their own parents as kids.))

((I…don't think we're supposed to)), replied Cosmo after a very slow moment of thought.

((Me either. But I'm not sure if I read it or just heard it.))

((If its not written, should we tell them?))

((We may not have a choice either way. I think they've figured it out already and if not, they'll get it shortly enough.))

"So, that book is pretty important, huh?" asked Tommy.

Wanda glanced up.

"Oh yes. This is Da Rules for Fairy God Parents. We have to follow these very carefully or we could get into serious trouble."

"Got it."

"You do?"

"Well sure. It must be pretty important if you're ignoring us to read it."

Great. Now Tommy was taking a turn. Compared to Timmy at this age these two were geniuses!

Wanda sighed. Either human kids were being born smarter, or she had to be slipping.

"Well, I can't find anything specific that says otherwise so I guess we can tell you. We know so much about your house and call your father Timmy because that's who he is to us. We were god parents to him too."

Tommy grinned broadly as his eyes went wide.

"Wow! Really? I can't wait 'till Daddy gets home so I can ask him what he wished for. I bet he'll be thrilled to see you two!"

"NO!" shouted Cosmo and Wanda at the same time in stark dread.

Tommy and Tammy jumped at the fairies sudden panic. "What?" they asked.

"That's rule number one when you have Fairy God Parents kid. You can't say a thing about us," informed Cosmo, happy to be able to say something helpful.

"Why?"

"When a child reveals the presence of their fairy godparent, that godparent has to go away forever," said Wanda.

"Besides, Timmy won't remember us anyway," added her husband as he twirled his wand in one hand in what first appeared to be sudden boredom. Wanda gave him a stern reminding gaze and he stopped the twirling immediately with an 'I'm sorry, I forgot' smile. Cosmo idly twirling his wand was never usually a good thing, even if it was only because he was a little down remembering all the great times they'd had with Timmy. He'd really missed him.

"He wouldn't?"

"No," replied Wanda, pleased that the potential Cosmo disaster had been successfully averted. "When the child becomes to old to need fairies anymore, or makes the mistake of revealing them, the fairies return to Fairy World and all traces of their magic are removed from the child's life and memories forever."

"That's a rule too?"

"Sorry, sport."

"Okay. So we can't say anything to anyone and when we don't need you anymore, you go away. I'm guessing that because that's a pretty thick book there's a whole lot more rules than just those two, right?" asked Tammy her eyes glittering from behind her glasses with interest at the book.

"Too many," said Cosmo with a distasteful glance at the always growing tome.

Wanda gave him a baleful look.

"There may be a lot, but they're needed. It may seem like it makes things more difficult for you, but actually it makes our job easier and keeps it all on the up and up."

Tammy scrunched up her mouth and nose as she tapped her index finger on her chin absently.

"So what else do we need to be aware of for now?"

"Well, we can hear you when ever you call so we can find you almost automatically by that. We can go anywhere you need us to with you, but we'll go in camouflage."

"Cama-what?" asked Cosmo.

"In disguise, dear."

"Oh, that! That's easy!"

So saying Cosmo proceeded to magically transform himself into a dog, a cat, a bird, a lamp, a straw, a pencil, a pillow…anything in fact, that he could think of just then.

Wanda sighed, but let him go. At least he was occupied.

"As you can see, we can transform into just about anything we need to in order to maintain our secrecy."

Tommy looked at Cosmo with a grin.

"That's cool, but are you guys always green no matter what you turn into?"

"Cosmo is. That's his eye color. Normally, the eye color of a fairy denotes what his or her transformation color will be, though there are exceptions and some will go by their hair color."

"So you're always going to be pink," deduced Tammy.

"Exactly. Except for when we're goldfish. But thanks to our magic, even if someone does notice we're an odd color, they dismiss it quickly."

"Awesome! Sounds like Mibs!" crowed Tommy.

Wanda looked at Tammy curiously.

"Mibs?"

Tammy rolled her eyes.

"Tommy has a thing about aliens and extraterrestrials."

"Oh! M-I-Bs! The old 'Men in Black' theory."

"That's the one. Wait until you see his room."

Wanda looked at Tommy as the boy continued to watch Cosmo quick change between disguises before she whispered to Tammy, "Should I tell him then that the whole original Men in Black thing was just a scheme concocted by a couple of Pixies trying to take over the world?"

"Um…maybe you could wait on that one. His alien interest usually gets me time alone."

Wanda nodded with an understanding smile.

"You got it sweetie."

"Okay. So what else do we have to know?"

"Lets see…you can't wish to win a contest, you can't wish to be rich and you can't wish for anyone to be maimed, beaten or killed."

"The last three I definitely get, and the one about not wishing to win a contest is understandable since it wouldn't be fair, but why not being rich?"

"Hey, the moneys gotta' come from somewhere and we're not thieves or counterfeiters."

"Oh oh oh! Don't forget the one about true love!" added Cosmo as he changed from a fire hydrant to a garden gnome.

Tammy blinked curiously.

"True love?"

"Right. Our magic also doesn't work on those with true love if it could break them up."

"So magic can't stop true love?"

"That's right."

"So I couldn't wish for you two to get a divorce if I was mad at you two?"

Wanda gave the girl a shrewd gaze.

"First off, I'd be very upset and disappointed if you felt bad enough to do that, secondly, you wouldn't have been the first to try, and third, I reiterate that NO fairy magic is strong enough to separate those with true love."

Tammy held up her hands before her in a surrendering gesture and a weak smile under Wanda's firm look. Obviously, Wanda was particularly touchy on that point.

"Its okay. I was just asking. I would never do that anyway."

Wanda's face cleared instantly. "Good. Now what else do I need to go over."

"Why you're here for us in the first place?"

"Right. Fairy God Parents are only assigned to children who are the most miserable or in the most need of help."

Tammy and Tommy looked at each other.

"But we weren't miserable until today. Shouldn't we have been having trouble for a while before you were sent to us? I mean, I may be only nine, but it seems to me that someone is jumping the gun with us," the brown haired girl said.

Technically, Wanda agreed.

"That is normally how it works. But I think, based on who your father is, our boss decided to just assume that you two would attract the same trouble he did and put us in place before things got much worse."

Tommy gave an excited half grin as though he'd just found out what Santa was going to bring him two weeks before Christmas morning.

"Our Daddy got in trouble?"

"Are you kidding?" exploded a now back to normal Cosmo in loud laughs. "He was a magnet for it!"

Tammy looked at Wanda for the confirmation.

"I'm afraid so. He's caused more changes and amendments in Da' Rules then all the other children combined in all the years we've been doing this."

"Cool!" said Tommy. "Our Daddy the detective was a bad boy!"

"No, no. You misunderstood. He was never a bad boy. He just didn't think about what he was wishing for before he wished for it sometimes."

"Yeah! He never thought about the Cosmoquences," added Cosmo.

"That's consequences dear."

"Not when I'm granting the wish!" he grinned.

Wanda nodded her head in accord. Wow. He actually had a point.

"Well, that's true," she smiled.

"So we should probably think about what we actually want before we just say 'I wish', right?" asked Tommy.

"It might a good thing to be clear about. Your father took some time before he figured that out himself."

"Was it hard being his godparents?" the boy questioned. "Did you ever want to just give up?"

"Give up on him? Never. We loved your father very much…we've loved all of our god children really…but he did have his moments when he was difficult and exhausting."

"He was one of our favorites though," smiled Cosmo.

"I hate to admit to having favorites, but he was one our best, yes. He's also one of the only god children to keep us over seven years."

"Wow! Seven years?"

"Yeah! He took a really long time to grow up," said Cosmo as he zipped around the room haphazardly.

"Like a certain green haired husband?" hinted Wanda with an amused smirk.

Cosmo suddenly stopped his aimless meandering and looked at Wanda in surprise.

"I grew up?"

Wanda smiled.

"My point exactly."

Tammy and Tommy giggled as Cosmo pouted.

Wanda quickly floated to her husband with a sweet smile.

"But you know I love you anyway dear," she said before planting a firm kiss on his cheek.

Cosmo beamed happily.

Tommy faked gagging and his green eyed godparent gave him a lofty look.

"Just you wait pal! Your turn is coming soon enough."

"Yeah right," said Tommy with a haughty smile.

"Ha ha! That's what your dad said about your mom!"

Tommy's smile fell.

Personally, I thought the whole Pixies coming up with the MIB scenario was pretty cool. Surprisingly, it was my H who came up with that! Heh…and I thought he had no imagination. Go figure.

And now my thanks to the following reviewers…

Moon java - Glad you liked it! I just loved the idea of C/W poofing up over a toilet and to imagine the look on a couple of kid's faces as a pair fairies appear over one had me in stitches.
Darkliger01 - Soooo glad you're loving this! Thank you for your vote as well! And don't worry…more to come.