Chapter 6: The Other Fairies

Written: 1 Jan 2005-6 Jan 2005

Posted: 6 Jan 2005

Lucas watched the two fairies approach the farmhouse from the porch. He smiled. He hadn't seen Wanda in quite awhile. Not since the reunion a couple of years back. And he didn't remember the last time that he had seen Cosmo, but he did know it was a lot longer than when he had last seen Wanda. Which was just as well, as he lost his anger over whatever had happened between them. He even had forgotten what it had been.

"Hello, Wanda," he said. "What brings you by?"

Wanda took a very long second going up the front steps before answering. "We need your help."

"Oh?"

"When is Wanda not Wanda," Cosmo asked suddenly.

Lucas sighed. "Okay, when is Wanda not Wanda?"

"When she's somebody else!"

Lucas snorted. "You call that a riddle?"

Wanda's eyes were getting wetter. "That's it. I am somebody else."

"Oh, is that so," Lucas chuckled. "Then you would you be?"

"I'm Timmy Turner's mother," Wanda said.

"Timmy Turner?"

"That's our godkid," Cosmo supplied.

"Ah." Lucas turned back to Wanda. "Now I know for a fact that fairies and humans can't switch bodies."

"Wait a sec," Wanda said. "Who said anything about switching bodies?"

"What else could the problem be?"

Wanda looked to Cosmo, who just shrugged. "Uhmm… I can't think of thing."

"Exactly. But I must admit that you're acting very out of the ordinary, Wanda."

"Don't be blind, you fool," Cosmo said. "Wanda would never pulled a prank on you, Lucas. Or anyone else for that matter. She just isn't capable of it."

"I don't know. I think she might a lot of hidden talents that just might surprise us."

"Maybe switching bodies with humans is one of these talents," Wanda said reasonably.

Lucas thought for awhile. He assimilated all that he just heard into his thought matrixes. Indexing, cross-referencing and storing away for future reference. Soon he came up with an answer. "No, not possible."

"Why you pig-headed, chauvinistic, blind fool." Wanda suddenly lunged for his neck, catch him off-guard. She got her fingers around his neck and starting to wring the life out of him. "I have been through too much already for you to dismiss my story. I've changed my world-view already. I suggest you do the same."

Wanda let of his neck, and fell to the floor gasping for breathe. "Okay. I won't. Dismiss it. Out of hand."

"I just don't my son to find me like this."

"That's perfectly understandable," Lucas agreed. He knew better to disagree. "I know what you mean."

"And I just want my Wanda back," Cosmo cried.

Lucas led them into his parlor, where his wife was crocheting an afghan by the fireplace. She looked from her handiwork and smiled warmly. "Who's your new girlfriend, Lucas?"

"Girlfriend?" Wanda shrieked. "I'm not his girlfriend."

The fairy's smile broke. "Whoa, settle down. I was only teasing Lucas here?" He laughed sheepishly. "So what brings you two around these parts?"

"Isn't that Lucas's question," Cosmo asked back. "And just who are you, anyway?"

"She my fiancée," Lucas answered. "Belinda."

Belinda did a little bow. "Forgive me. I would do a curtsy, but it seems that my leg is broken for the moment."

"What happened," Wanda asked.

"Skiing accident."

"Ah. Of course. My husband gets those all the time."

Lucas nodded. He could well imagine that Cosmo getting into a lot of ski accidents. But then he remembered that Wanda was apparently suffering from the delusion that she was human. "So where is this husband of yours now?"

"So what time is it now?"

"You know," Cosmo added. "In Dimmsdale, California."

Lucas poofed in a clock face to a spot in the middle of the air. "About noon. Local time."

"At lunch, plotting his vengeance against Dinkleberg, I would imagine," Wanda answered.

"Dinklebeg?"

"Yes, that's right. Why?"

"Oh no reason," Lucas said.

It seemed to be an even smaller world than usual. What were these people doing dealing with Dinkleberg? Didn't they know?

"Isn't there a way to find if this woman," Belinda said, "was telling the truth?"

"Theoretically," Lucas said slowly.

Wanda's eyes lit up. "What is it?"

"Come into the backroom and I'll show you what they have."

"It's not like I have much choice in the matter," Wanda said.

Lucas led Wanda and Cosmo into the back. He hoped this was going to work.

-OOO-

"I am glad that you have come to me," the Oracle said.

They were all sitting on the floor sitting around the campfire that The Oracle had in the exact center of her hut.

"Do you have an answer for us."

The Oracle laughed warmly. "I have many answers to many questions. But which question did you want answered."

"Where is Mrs. Turner," Wanda asked.

"In your body." The Oracle sighed. "I'm sorry but that's all that I am able to see."

Timmy pouted. "Some oracle you proved to be."

"Hey, even though I am the Oracle, I still can't see everything."

"Okay…" Timmy paused. "Then why did Wanda and my mom switch bodies?"

"I can't tell you. I saw the forces at work, but they were a little complex for me to follow."

Timmy and the two fairies with him wilted. "Great."

"But don't despair, Timmy Turner. I can show you can show you who could." She handed him a card, which he read.

Lucas P. Fillman.