Sweetest Gifts
A fan fiction by Kate-chan 91
Disclaimer: This is the sequel to a fanfiic of mine; what do YOU think?
Kate-chan 91's tidbits (A/N): Welcome to the first chapter of the sequel to "L'amateur de Moi"! (Don't worry- you don't have to read "L'amateur de Moi" to get what's happening, though it is preferred.) While this will start off slow, it will get better as time goes by. Also, while I may be starting this on a Tuesday, I will actually update this on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays starting next week (After I finish all of my homework and projects, that is ;-) ).
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Enjoy!
Chapter One: 14 Years Later
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Five-year-old Winnie Fenton had just walked through the door after a busy and productive day in Kindergarten. Because she usually would follow this, to her own personal displeasement, with an after school snack of carrot sticks (or, if she was lucky, apple slices), she was thrilled when she saw her mother in the kitchen baking half a dozen batches of cookies. She gleefully reached out for her precious salvation when...
BWAP! A hand grabbed her minature arm.
"Uh-uh, Winnie, not right now."
"Mommy, why are you making so many cookies, anyway?"
"They're all for dessert tonight so we can celebrate the fact your father has actually broken his record."
Winnie thought about this for a minute. "... Is that a good thing?"
"Yes, Sweetie. You see, Daddy has this big reputation that he always gets fired at least a week after he's hired into a job. It's a bad thing, really."
"Oh... Can I have a cookie?"
Her mother was just about to answer when the two of them heard the front door slam and footsteps walking towards the kitchen. In shuffled Winnie's father, who dropped the mail, a pink piece of paper, an envelope, and a white and green thermos on the kitchen counter.
"HOORAY!" Winnie yelled as she swiped the pink paper off the counter and ran off with it and a smuggled cookie into the living room.
"DAMMIT, DANNY! WHAT'S YOUR EXPLAINATION THIS TIME?"
"Sam, this ghost I was fighting destroyed my boss' car!"
"Okay... and how did the ghost wind up destroying the car in the first place?" Sam asked her husband.
"Let's see: I was in my cubicle doing my own business, my ghost sense goes off, ghost makes all hell break loose in my office room, I go ghost, kick said ghost's ass until we both end up fighting outside in the parking lot, I punch the ghost, which sends it land right on top of said boss' car, car alarm goes off, I suck said ghost into the Fenton Thermos, I change back, and said boss finds me by his now destroyed car and fires me. Are you happy now?"
Sam sighed. "Danny, I hate saying this, but you're going to have to get your life together somehow for the sake of all of us. We're expecting two more little mouths to feed any day now and we can barely feed three mouths as it is!"
"I can't get a new job here unless I want to be a bagboy!"
"Oh, no- We're not moving again for a LONG time! We've lived and worked in Amity Park, San Franisco, Reno, Las Vegas, Lincoln, Topeka, Saint Louis, Jefferson City, Gary, Indiana, Knoxville, Atlanta and now Acworth, Georgia in the last ten years alone! I want Winnie and the babies to have a time in their lives without having to start a collection of Daddy's pink slips and questions like, "Mommy, when are we going to say good-bye to the house?"Sam explained in a somewhat angry voice.
"Okay, okay, I get the point! I'll try to find a new job tomorrow! Just let me relax for a second!" Danny yelled as he sat down in a chair, grabbed a cookie from a tray when his very pregnant wife wasn't looking, and started sorting his mail. As he was doing so, he muttered, "Junk, bill, bill, junk, Reader's Digest, Woman Genius Magazine subscription offer, even more junk, bill, bill- HEY, SAM, GET OVER HERE FOR A SECOND!"
"What is it?" Sam asked when she got over to where Danny sat down.
"It's a letter from Casper High asking us if we want to go to our high school reunion. It has been ten years since we graduated there, right?"
"Hmm... It's been that long? It felt longer than ten years to me... What date is it going to be on?"
Danny looked at the letter for a date. "Well, what do you know- It's going to be at the school gym on Labor Day, almost exactly a week from today."
"Do you think we should give it a shot?" Sam asked as she grabbed a calendar and opened it to the September page.
"I guess so- Winnie won't be in school that day and she hasn't seen neither of her grandparents yet, anyway..."
"Alright then- we're going to Amity Park- but just for the reunion and nothing else, got it?"
"Got it."
Both Danny and Sam then made a pinky promise and resumed their activities afterwards. Both parents, along with their daughter, were going to have to work very hard either way: it was going to be a busy week- they were inevitable before a national holiday...
End of Chapter One
A/N: Liked it? Hated it? Please review and tell me; they're greatly appriciated! I'll also be adding more stuff here starting next chapter, so get ready!
(PS- Residents of Acworth, especially my good friend Patricia, I have absolutely no idea what you are thinking about me adding one of the town's right next to my hometown- sorry if you do not like it; Danny, Sam and Winnie will be on their way back to Amity Park next chapter anyway... )
Ja Ne!
Kate-chan 91