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Author's Notes: Some of you say that you like what I did with Cosmo's character. Many of the recent episodes show Cosmo as a jerk, so I made him back to the sweet and stupid Cosmo of the early seasons, Timmy in recent episodes is bratty, so I also made him the one from the early seasons who despised his evil babysitter. Tell me if you like the story. :)
Timmy bursts out of bed at 7 am. He wants Cosmo and Wanda back. Timmy runs into the closet and tries to pick out what to wear. The door slams shut behind him. "AAAH! It's so dark!" Timmy screeches. He fumbles for the door handle and lets himself out. Timmy dives into the bathroom, changes and darts for the stairs. " Mom, I have to go out." he mutters as he flings the door open. Timmy is blown back by the frosty gale.
"Here's your jacket, Timmy, It's unusually cold today." sighs Mrs. Turner between sips of coffee. She tosses a pink parka at him.
"Thanks, Mom." replies Timmy under his breath, as he puts on his coat. He jogs out the door, this time braced for the biting cold of the outdoors.
Timmy keeps a steady pace to Jimmy's house a few blocks away. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees Danny in ghost form. "I can see you, you know." he yells to Danny.
"Good." Danny dives behind a moving van and reemerges as Danny Fenton. "I was going to go to your house to see if you wanted to go last-minute Christmas shopping with me. Then I was going to stop be Jimmy 's to see if he wanted to come too. I need some ideas , too. I never know what to buy people."
"Okay." answers Timmy. "Let me pick up Cosmo and Wanda first."
"Fair." Danny responds. Soon enough, they are at Jimmy's house. Danny knocks on the door.
The door is opened by Mrs. Neutron . "Hi, boys, Jimmy's outside in his lab. Wow, It's cold here."
They end up in the lab, where Jimmy is inspecting a few readouts. "Danny, were you in the lab last night?" fires off Jimmy when he turns around.
"No." Danny rubs his hands. "Why?"
"VOX detected a ecto-energy creature in the lab." Jimmy says .
"It's probably nothing." mutters Danny.
"Well, Timmy, I can understand why you're here." Jimmy presses a button on a nearby remote. Cosmo and Wanda appear and they hug Timmy. "Now, Danny, why are you here?"
"I wanted ask you two if you wanted to go Christmas shopping with me." Danny replies .
"Why so late?" asks Jimmy, rapping the day's date with his knuckle on the calender. "It's already December 21st"
Danny shrugs. "Ghost fighting means less time to go shopping for presents."
"I haven't really done much either." Jimmy sighs. "Just Mom, Dad and the family."
"Can we take your hover car?" asks Timmy
"How else are we going to get there, fly?" Jimmy snickers.
"Well, I could fly me there, but I couldn't carry both of you." Danny grins.
The trio climb into the hover car and fly to the RetroAmity Dale Mall. Jimmy tries to make pleasant conversation, but the cold is stifling their ability to speak.
But unknown to the three boys (and two fairies) there are three other girls heading there to do some last minute shopping...
" What exactly do you get for a boy" muses Cindy aloud in Jasmine Fenton's car.
"Well..."Jazz taps the steering wheel absently. "Sam, what do you get for Danny, normally?"
Sam thinks. "I don't know... something I know he'll like."
"So you're dropping us off?" questions Libby from the backseat next to Cindy.
"For the second time, yes." Jazz replies. "Pick you up here at 12, ok?"
They arrive and give a last smile and wave to Jazz before she drives away.
Cindy's ears perk up. She hears a few familiar voice indistinctly. "Yeah, we're going to have to team up to think of what to buy." she hears.
"Sam, turn around."Libby insists. They all turn around to see the boys clumped together. Timmy meets the girl's gaze. He appears to whisper something to the other boys.
They all turn to see each other. "So...what are you here for?" asks Cindy , her voice wavering a little bit.
"Just.. buying presents and stuff for some people." Danny says, his vision fixed on the silent Sam.
"Who?" wonders Libby.
"We could ask you the same question." says Jimmy, shuffling his feet on the cold pavement.
"Just last minute shopping. For people." Sam breaks her silence.
"Yeah. See you around." says Danny carefully as they rush into the double doors leading into the mall.
Timmy, Jimmy and Danny all take a deep breath. "That was close!" Danny gasps.
"This still hasn't helped us figure out what we need to get for the girls." adds Jimmy unhelpfully.
"Wait..." mumbles Timmy. "Wanda?"
Wanda and Cosmo appear over his head. "What do you need?" Wanda asks.
"Can you watch over Cindy, Sam and Libby?" replies Timmy. "This way we know what they're getting us, so we can get them something about the same. I know they're worried if they are being given 'boyfriend' gifts, or if they have to give 'girlfriend presents'" He confides.
"Sure, I'll do it." Wanda tries to poof away, but finds that Cosmo is tugging on her sleeve and is sniffling.
"Don't leave me!" he sniffs.
"I won't be gone long." Wanda reassures him.
"Ok, then." Cosmo brightens up. "So, boys, what do you want to get your friends and/or potential partners."
Jimmy arches an eyebrow. "You have abandonment issues, don't you."
Cosmo bites his lower lip. "Mayyyyybe. Anyway, we should get started on that shopping" He pushes them toward the nearest store. He turns and smiles at Wanda before she poofs away.
Wanda poofs where the girls are, at a small store. She follows the sound of the voices . "Libs, what do you think you're getting for Sheen?"
"Oh, the usual, a new Ultra-Lord DVD that came out yesterday." Libby points to and picks up the brightly -colored case. "Do we have to get Timmy a gift?" She fingers a graphic novel of the Crimson Chin.
"I would say..yes" says Sam, who is perched on a nearby seat in the bookstore/music/movies paradise. "Well, I'm getting him one."
"Easy for you to say." says Cindy jokingly. "You would have to be loaded to be able to afford all of this stuff."She points to the basket on the floor next to Sam's feet, which is overflowing with future purchases.
Sam's face flushes. "Eh...I'm" She lowers her tone. "kinda filthy stinking rich."
Cindy nods. "Well, you don't act like it, so whatever."
"Anyway," questions Libby. "What are you getting for Danny?"
"A ring that says 'my sweetheart'" deadpans Sam . "Seriously, I'm getting him a NASA flight schematic."
"And for Tucker?" asks Cindy.
"An upgrade for his PDA" Sam replies, absently twisting a lock of hair around her finger. "And you, Cindy? What are you getting for Jimmy?"
"I don't know." says Cindy ruefully. "Something to tell him how I feel? Or a friend gift?"
"Buy both" advises Libby. "See what he gives you before you give him his. Then decide . "
"Good idea" Cindy yanks two things off the shelf, but out of the view of Libby, Sam and Wanda.
Wanda exits with a poof. She has everything she need to tell the boys.
Sam's eyebrows knit . "Did you hear something?" She leans up and looks at the top shelf where Wanda had been less than a second ago.
"Must've been nothing." Libby replies, checking out a book about llamas (presumably) for Carl.
"Well?" ask the boys anxiously.
"They're buying you both friend gifts and more than friends gifts." Wanda reports. "They say that they'll judge it on your gift."
"Aw mannnnn" Danny sinks into the chair.
"Good that we bought both kinds." adds Jimmy.
"You might have." Timmy retorts. "But I don't have a sort-of girlfriend, so I bought everyone a friend gift."
The boys and Wanda leave the store about a hour later, overloaded by the amount of packages they are carrying. They run (literally) into the girls, but miraculously don't drop anything. Sam, Libby and Cindy wait outside for Jazz, as the boys load their stuff into the hover car nearby.
Danny walks over to Sam. "Who're you waiting for"
"Oh, Jazz" Sam says airily.
Danny grimaces. "She said she wouldn't give me a ride, because of a prior commitment."
"You get anything good?"asks Sam.
"Yep. I got everything I needed" Danny smiles, then hops into the hover car, where Jimmy is threatening to drive off if he doesn't get in.
Wow, 4 pages. That's good for me. Read and Review.