Chapter Three; The Children

Good, I'm glad that you're enjoying it so far. Isn't Jeannie's friendship sisterly relationship with Roger Healey just as cute as her romantic one with Tony? I think so. And it will get even cuter a couple of episodes later, and the cutest as soon as the baby is born and he becomes Uncle Roger. There's still awhile to go until that happens, but it'll go faster than it would in real life since we're already at month two of her pregnancy. Anyway, you still haven't told me whether you think that she's going to have a boy or a girl.

Please tell me I am very curious. Unless you're the one who voted boy in the poll. Anyway, guess you all will have to just wait and see because my lips are sealed. Here's the next chapter! Thanks for all the good reviews on each of these episodes!

Amanda, Jeannie, and Doctor Bellows got into their bathing suits and headed down towards the pool together. Just as Jeannie was bending down and unstrapping her sandals she realized that another man was staring at her. "Hey, you're beautiful. What's your name gorgeous?" he asked her as she slowly stood up again and shook her head.

"No, Jeannie." She told him.

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you Jeannie. I hope you don't think I'm being too forward but you're just about the hottest woman that I ever saw." He told her.

"Really?" she questioned him before she placed her hand on top of her forehead. "I feel cool as a cucumber." She said as he grinned at her.

"Beautiful and she's got a sense of humor." He said.

"Excuse me sir, but this woman is married and she's got a friend that's like a brother to her. Both of them are very overprotective of her and either one of them or both of them would probably knock you out for the count if they found out that you were trying to make a pass at her." Mrs. Bellows told him.

"Oh. Now you tell me." He said while glancing down at the lack of his muscles before he turned around and walked away.

"Honestly the nerve of some men, you would have thought that he would have noticed that you're wearing a wedding ring on your finger." Mrs. Bellows said with a roll of her eyes while her husband simply just chuckled. "And just what do you find so amusing and interesting?" she asked him.

"I'm sorry Amanda, I was just wondering what that man would like if Colonel Nelson and Colonel Healey got ahold of him." He told her.

"There wouldn't be much left of him. There's hardly any of him now. He was as skinny as a stick." She replied while they finished taking off their shoes and placing their other items on top of the chair and started heading towards the water. That's when Jeannie caught a glimpse of a couple of children by themselves towards the shallow end of the pool.

The boy who was quite a bit larger and skinnier than the girl had short brown hair and light blue eyes. The girl had looked just like him except for the fact that she had brown eyes and freckles all over her cheeks. "Hello there." Jeannie began smiling warmly at them but the girl just simply gave a rather large gasp while she hid behind her brother. "It's alright, I'm not going to hurt you." She reassured them.

"Our mommy and daddy told us that we shouldn't trust strangers." The little girl told her.

"Well that's a very good rule to follow. But I was just wondering where your mommy and daddy were." Jeannie said.

"We don't know." The boy told her. "They left us here a few days ago and they never came back." He said.

"Well, what are your names?" Jeannie asked them.

"I'm Peter and this is my little sister Sarah." He replied.

"Those are lovely names! How old are you?" she wondered.

"I'm twelve and Sarah just turned seven a few weeks ago." He told her while he pointed to his chest and then over his shoulder at Sarah.

"Well Peter, my name is Jeannie Nelson and I'm a friend." She told them. "Why don't you stay with me and my friends?" she suggested.

"Alright." Peter replied.

"Don't go away, I'll be right back." She told them before she turned around and hurried away back over to Doctor and Mrs. Bellows.

"Well hello there Jeannie, back so soon?" Mrs. Bellows asked her while she smiled brightly at her.

"Yes, because I'm afraid that I have a little problem." She told them. "I just met these two sweet and adorable children named Peter and Sarah and their parents just left them all alone." She explained.

"Really? You mean that they have been abandoned?" Mrs. Bellows inquired as Jeannie nodded and bit her lip.

"Yes, I'm afraid so." She replied.

"Alfred this is serious, we should call the police." She told him.

"I agree, I'll go back up to our room and call them. Jeannie, Amanda, you stay down here with the children and keep a close eye on them so that they don't get frightened and wander off." He told them as Jeannie nodded again.

"Yes, of course Master." She told him since Tony had left her temporarily in his and his wife's care. That's when all of a sudden he turned around and walked away.

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"Ah yes, yes I see." Doctor Bellows said with a nod while he continued talking on the phone. "Well thank you for all of your help." He said when all of a sudden his wife opened the door and entered the room. "Goodbye." He said as he hung up and then turned his head back around to look at her. "What are you doing here? Where's Jeannie?" he asked her.

"I told her to stay down at the pool with the kids." She told him.

"Oh good. Hopefully she won't get into any trouble though being down there all alone and unsupervised." He said.

"What happened Alfred? What did the policeman say?" she asked him nervously but he just simply shook his head at her.

"I'm afraid that it isn't good news. Peter and Sarah were left here one rainy night when their parents went to go to the grocery store. However once they finally made it there, there was a robbery and neither of their parents made it." He told her.

"How terrible! Peter and Sarah are orphans?" she questioned him.

"Yes, I'm afraid so." He replied.

"Well Alfred this is going to break their hearts. How are we going to tell them that their parents are never going to come back?" she asked him.

"I don't know. All I know that it won't be easy. And I honestly can't believe that nobody ever did until now Come on Amanda, we better go back down to the pool. I'll find some way to break it to them, don't worry." He told her before they both turned around and left the room shutting and locking the door behind them.