The last mission
ARTHORS NOTE
I still do not own Coraline or any of the places mentioned . . . sadly.
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"Shut up, geek" Coraline says slightly pushing Wybie away. Wybie smiles a dorky, crooked smile at Coraline.
"Meow..." The Cat rolls his eyes and begins to walk to another room.
"Oh look the kitty prince is moving." Coraline says wiping a tear from her eye. Wybie smiles a smaller, gentler smile.
"W-we should follow the prince." Wybie responds, making Coraline smile.
Coraline and Wybie follow the Cat to a room with an unused bed. The Cat goes under the dusty bed and pulls out a doll.
"No…" Coraline holds back tears as the Cat drags the limp doll towards her.
"Oh…no" Coraline says falling lightly to her knees; she looks at the repulsive doll, the doll with the face of her mother and the back of her father.
"This is how she did it?" Coraline half asks the Cat. The Cat bows his head in a slight nod. Wybie, even though he was very confused as to what was happening, decided to bend down and hug Coraline, being very gentle at first then going in for a deeper hug when he hears Coralines sobs being muffled by his large coat.
"I-I am sorry." Wybie whispers to her. Coraline nods, she understands, but she just can't stop crying. Coraline hugs Wybie back, wishing that he was her mother or father instead.
"J-J-Jonesy?" Wybie asks pulling Coraline away so he can look into her eyes.
"Yes?" Coraline answers in a weak voice.
"You do like t-to burn things, right?" Wybie asks with a little smile.
"Yeah, why do you ask Why-where-you-born?" Coraline asks, with a small smile creeping on her lips.
"Let's burn the doll." Wybie says, looking at the doll, Coralines smiles at his sentence.
"Let's burn the doll." Coraline says in agreement, tightening her grip around the doll neck and getting off the floor.
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A few minutes later the two children and the Cat are sitting around the houses fire place and watching the doll burn on top of fires flames. Wybie is still hugging Coraline and trying to make her stop crying. Wybie was getting slightly annoyed but tried his best not to show it. He got bored pretty quickly and decided to observe the house from where he was sitting on the floor. He looked at the mantel piece of the fire place. It had a couple of glass snow globes on top of it. There was one however that looked clouded and broken.
"Hey uh . . . J-J-Jonesy?" Wybie asked Coraline in a hushed voice.
"Yes?" Coraline answered wiping a tear from of her eye.
"Is that s-snow globe b-b-broken or something?" Wybie asked pointing to the fogged over snow globe. Coraline looks at the snow globe; it was the first time she had noticed that. Coraline looks at it for a second then shrugs and looks at Wybie, his eyes where still on the globe.
"It's the Detroit zoo snow globe; it's my mom's favorite snow globe." Coralines voice cracks as she says "my mom's" Coraline looks at the Cat.
"They are not coming back on their own are they?" Coraline asks the Cat.
The Cat nods in response. Coraline nods back and looks at Wybie, who shrugs.
"Then there is only one thing to do." Coraline says getting up and running to the stairs.
"What? J-Jonesy!? What is that thing?" Wybie calls after her. But it was too late Coraline was already upstairs in her room getting ready.