Disclaimer: I do not own Tailspin, only Andy Miller, "Sea Hawk", and Anna Miller (Andy's daughter)
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Part 2: A Daughters Love
United States, Los Angeles California…
Anna Miller watched as her Grandmother fell to her knees and began to cry in front of the man in a captains uniform. Anna's Grandfather put a hand on his wife's shoulder and tried his best to be strong.
"P-please, tell me that you have the wrong Miller?" pleaded Grandma.
The captain with his hat in his hands looked down at the ground.
"I am sorry, but its true. Your son's plane vanished over the pacific two days ago, believe me I don't like having to do this job anymore than you like the news, again I am sorry for your loss," he put his hat on and strode up to the car and drove away.
Grandpa led Grandma into the house and placed her on the couch. Anna, a reddish-brown haired, 5-year-old girl, walked up to her Grandmothers side and placed a hand on her lap.
"What's the matter Grandma, is something wrong with daddy?" she asked in a worried voice.
Grandma placed a hand over her mouth as a few tears came to her eyes, she then looked up at Grandpa.
"H-how do we explain th-this to her, George! She is too young to understand!"
George kneeled down beside his granddaughter and picked up her hands into his, he sighed.
"Anna, darling. I…I, we don't know how to tell you this…" he began.
Anna looked at him confused.
"Tell me what Grandpa?" she asked.
Helen looked down at her granddaughter and picked up a tissue to blow her nose. George sighed again and looked into Anna's eyes.
"I am sorry Anna, but your father…your father isn't coming back to see you next month," he said in a soft voice.
"What? Why?" asked Anna with tears in her eyes, "Does daddy not want to see me?"
"No, no, no! He would love to see you, Anna darling…there is just no easy way to say this…but, he is-"
Anna took a deep breath.
"He's dead, isn't he?" she asked to the astonishment of her Grandparents.
Her Grandpa nodded his head as he looked at the ground. Anna threw herself into his arms as she cried.
"No, n-no, he can't be dead! N-not him to!" she sobbed.
Helen kneeled down beside her as well and pulled the little girl to her.
"I am sorry Anna, I am so sorry…" she trailed off as more tears came to her eyes.
Anna pushed off her Grandma and shook her head in denial.
'No, he isn't dead! I know he's not! He's not DEAD!" screamed Anna as she ran out of the room with her Grandparents calling after her.
The sound of a door slamming made Helen jump and she wept in her husband's arms, while George stroked her hair.
"W-what are we going to do?" she asked.
George shook his head.
"I don't know Helen, I don't know!"
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A day after the news of her father's death, Anna laid in bed staring up at the sky as the sun began to set. As the tears came streaming down her cheeks, she prayed.
"Dear lord, I know my daddy isn't dead, I want to see him again, please help me to find him…please lord, and in your name, amen!"
Anna cried herself to sleep that night and she dreamed of her father holding her in her arms. As she lay there sleeping a light glowed through her window and shown down on her sleeping form. She opened her eyes and squinted up into the light. Then a voice spoke.
"Do not worry, my child, you shall see your father again, now go to sleep…"
And then Anna's eyes drooped shut, heavy with sleep.
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The noon sun found Andy, dressed in a blue jumpsuit and a dirty white T-shirt, lying down on the ground underneath the Sea Hawk's engine cowling, working on changing the oil. The fox grunted as he struggled to loosen the bolt with a wrench. He was so concentrated on his work that her didn't see someone walk up beside the plane.
"Hey Andy!"
WHAM!
"D'oh!" yelped Andy as he held his head, "What Wildcat?"
The lion scratched his head as he stared down at the fox's feet.
"I was wondering, have you seen have you seen my drill?"
Andy slid out from underneath the plane, still holding his head and squinted his eyes.
"Yah I thought that I saw it over in the shed, on the bench beside oil barrels!" Andy said as he went back to work.
Wildcat smiled and walked off.
"Ok, thanks!"
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Anna slowly opened her eyes, only to close them tightly because of the bright light. She moaned and placed a hand over her eyes to block it out.
"Why is it so bright?" she asked aloud.
She opened her eyes again and then gasped as she stared at her hand. It was covered in reddish-brown fur and her hand, now paw, had small claws at the ends. She sat up and reached up to feel her face and head. She felt her nose and whiskers, and then felt her pointed ears sticking through her long hair. The last thing she noticed was a white tipped tail sticking out from under her nightgown.
"I-I am a fox?" she asked aloud.
She looked around her surroundings and she shook in fear.
"Where am I?"
"Hey! Who are you? What are you doing in the tool shed?" asked a voice.
Anna screamed and spun around to face a lion with a red cap on his head looking down at her in surprise. He wore a purple jumpsuit and a pair of glasses on his face.
"Whoa! Sorry, I didn't mean to scare ya!" said the lion as he walked toward her with a smile on his face, "My names Wildcat! What's yours?"
Anna smiled slightly and looked up at Wildcat.
"M-my names Anna Miller!"
Wildcat's eye glasses almost fell off his face as he gasped.
"You are Andy's daughter?" he asked.
Anna's eyes lit up and she leapt toward Wildcat.
"You know my daddy? Where is he?" she asked in excitement.
Wildcat smiled as he held out a paw and she took it.
"I will take ya to him!" and they both left the shed and headed for the grounded Sea Hawk.
Anna could see that there was another fox that was lying on the ground and working on the engine of the sea plane as they walked up.
"Hey Andy!"
WHAM!
"Gah!" shouted the fox as he slid out, holding his head, "What do you want now Wildcat?!" he cried out.
Anna gasped, she recognized that voice, her eyes started to tear up.
"Daddy?" she asked in a low voice.
Andy paused and looked over at the small fox standing beside Wildcat, in a nightgown and tears in her eyes.
"Anna? Is that you?"
"DADDY!" cried Anna as she ran toward the fox and jumped into his arms.
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