Hey Y'all! Sorry to keep you all waiting. I've been trying to figure out how to write this chapter and I finally nailed it! Hallelujah! Hehe! Enjoy chapter 11!*
Behind Bonnie's house was a small forest area with a creek. Pete was already there when Woody and the others came into view. Pete chuckled at the sight of him.
"I didn't think you'd show up, Woody. The stubby cowboy said. I honestly thought I took you out of commission."
"Then you don't know me at all, Prospector. Woody said, stepping forward. You can beat me as hard as you want, but I will never back down."
"I see you brought most of your friends with you this time, including Light-beer." Buzz growled at him. "And oh, is that your lovely wife? My my, she is hot!" Bo had taken her skirt and wrapped it around her like a cape and she held her crook like a battle sword. "Oh, I love a fierce woman."
"Shut up, you devious, lying dirt bag!" Bo yelled.
"Yeah, and where's my niece, Stinky Pete? Jessie yelled. I know you have her!"
"You mean that pretty little girl Owen's been hanging around with? Sorry, haven't seen her. She and Owen probably ran off together. Which doesn't surprise me considering how bad of a father you are, Woody. Can't even keep your little ingrate in line, can you?" Buzz, Jessie, Bo and Woody gasped.
"Alright, that's it. Get them!" Woody yelled. He and his family ran at Pete and the fight began. On the other side of the creek, Slinky, Hamm and Rex stopped beside a log, panting.
"What's the use? We'll never find her in this place!" Hamm whined.
"Come on, fellas, Woody trusted us to find her." Slinky said.
"What if we never find her?" Rex cried. Just then, the leaves on the bush beside them rustled, making them all jump.
"What are you guys doing here?" Rosetta asked.
"Rose!" They cried.
"Where's dad?" Suddenly they heard yelling and ran to the creek. Rosetta gasped when she saw that the fight had already started. "Oh no."
"Come on, we can still stop this." Owen said, taking her hand.
Woody scanned the area. Carl was fighting off two pirates, Jack was fighting one named Barbossa, Buzz and Jessie were fighting two gnarly looking pirates and Bo was taking on a female pirate all on her own. It was just starting to rain as three more pirates advanced towards Woody, who knocked out one with a punch to the face, kicked another in the shin, but the third knocked him down with a swift kick to the groin. The pirates jumped on top of him, kicking and punching.
"Woody. Pete growled, advancing toward the sheriff. You're mine!" Woody had managed to get all three pirates off of him, but didn't see Pete till the last minute and was thrown to the side after Pete struck his face with the end of his pick ax. Placing a hand on his cheek, Woody felt a small indent where the ax sliced him and growled. He jumped up and went to hit Pete, but the short cowboy grabbed him and they both fell into the creek. Prospector grabbed him by the throat, pushing him deep into the mud.
"Give up, Woody. You could have avoided all of this if you had just let us go to that museum." Woody kicked him in between the legs and pushed him back onto the grass. His family and the pirates had stopped fighting for the moment. He climbed back up out of the creek and rushed at Pete, but the Prospector was faster, for he pushed Woody to the ground and pinned him down with the sharp end of his ax in-bedded in Woody's shoulder.
"Ah!" Woody cried out.
"Face it, Woody, you destroyed my one chance of being happy, so think of this as me returning the favor!" He pulled out a small knife and went to jam it into the sheriff's chest.
"No!" A small voice cried out. Rosetta jumped across the creek with Hamm, Slinky, Rex and Owen behind her. She kicked the knife out of Pete's hand. "Prospector Pete, please stop!"
"Rosetta!" Bo and Jessie cried.
"You! You little brat! Get her! I will not be distracted!" Two pirates went to grab her, but she attacked them in two seconds flat. She stood up tall and took a deep breath.
"When your show got canceled, you were upset, weren't you? When you were sitting on a dime store shelf, you watched every toy be sold off to a kid and deep within, you wished, even prayed that you would be the next one, am I right? You just wanted to feel like you mattered, that you were deserving of someone who wanted you, who would take care of you, who would love you. I understand that because I've felt the same way you have."
"What?" Bo, Buzz, and Jessie said.
"Huh?" Woody said. Rosetta continued.
"Ten years ago, I lost my mother in a house fire. Six months after that, I lost a really good friend who looked after me. I spent five years in a toy store alone, thinking that I wasn't good enough to be with a child, that I wasn't deserving of love from anyone, human or toy. That all changed when I met Molly, my first little girl. Then I met all of her toys, and Andy's toys, and then Woody and Bo. They took me in, adopted me and loved me as their own daughter. I felt wanted, I felt love. Something that I thought I would never have again came back to me and I know lately, I haven't been completely grateful for it, but I would never ever give it up for anything. I see it in your eyes, Pete, that you want that feeling too. I look at you, and I know that deep down, you are still hurting."
"You don't know anything about me, young lady." Pete said.
"No? Then how do I know about one moment when Amy needed you most?"
"What, what are you...?"
"October 2004, when the Tri-country got hit with that super tornado, Amy held onto one toy during the entire storm, do you remember who she held onto?" Pete's face turned from angry to shock.
"It was me. She grabbed me because she thought with me being a cowboy, she would be safe." Rosetta walked towards him.
"I know it wasn't always easier with Amy, but didn't you at one point enjoy being with her?"
"I, I did. Honest, I did. But then she had to destroy my face and use me as the villain and..." The little girl gently took his hand.
"Then she wasn't the right kid for you. And that's okay. Just because she wasn't the right kid, doesn't mean the right one isn't out there, waiting for you. In fact, there is a boy down the street from us. His name is Joseph, and I know he happens to love cowboys. If you'd like, I can take you over there and you can see if he seems like a good fit." Pete stood there, pondering the thought. Jessie held onto Buzz, and Woody locked eyes with Bo, who's hands were over her mouth.
"What, what if he doesn't like me?" Pete finally asked.
"What if he does? Rosetta asked. You'll never know unless you give it a try. What do you say, Prospector Pete?" She held out her hand and Pete looked at it, and then looked at her. Then, to everyone's surprise, he pulled the little girl towards him and hugged her.
"Thank you, little young-in. I would like that very much."
*Okay, when I was writingthe end of this, I thought of the song 'Speechless' from the new live action Aladdin for Rosetta's speech. It was such a good song and a good movie if you ever get a chance to watch it!*