Plot: Cory finally has his surgery and asks an old mentor to step in as a substitute teacher while he's recovering.

Riley and Maya were currently "waiting" on Cory and it was not their favorite job. "Mom, why do we have to do this?" Riley whined.

"Because I have an entire family to take care of and the least you can do is do a few things for your father." Riley turned her head towards Cory who was currently grinning at them.

"Ugh." Riley groaned.

"Riley, I'm hungry." Cory said folding his arms over his chest.

"What do you want to eat then?"

"Hmm" he thought making Riley even more annoyed.

"Come on dad." Riley tapped her foot anxiously.

"Riley…" Topanga said sternly.

"I want soup." Riley groaned in frustration, partly because she didn't wanna do it and the fact she didn't know how to cook soup.

"I'll make it for ya Mr. Matthews." Maya said as she climbed off the loveseat.

"Thank you Maya, that's really sweet of you."

Riley stared at Maya in confusion. "Why are you doing something nice for my dad?"

"I dunno, it's like this weird feeling came over me."

"I think it's made you even fiercer." Topanga said wrapping her arm around Maya's shoulder.

"Ok can we just make dad the soup?" Riley whined.

"Is someone upset because they aren't getting praised for once?" Maya asked in a baby tone.

"I am not upset I'm just annoyed." Maya rolled her eyes not believing anything Riley was dishing out.

Topanga left the room to answer a phone call while Riley watched Maya make the chicken noodle soup for Cory.

"Here you are Matthews, piping hot." She sat the bowl onto the coffee table.

"How am I supposed to reach that?" Cory asked noting that he could barely move.

"That's your problem, I just make the soup!" she said flailing her arms in the air.

"Ah same ole Maya." Cory said.

"Don't you forget it." Maya smirked.

"Are we free to go now?" Riley asked.

"Sure, I could use some peace and quiet and no whining for a little bit."

"Ha-ha-ha very funny dad." Riley said grabbing Maya's arm as they exited the room.

Topanga came back in moments later, placing her phone on the table.

"Ok honey, I just called the doctor and she said they can squeeze you in tomorrow morning at 9:00 A.M."

"Ugh." He moaned.

"Cory you have to go through with this!"

"I'll be fine, if I just lay on the couch for a while."

Topanga placed her hands on her hips. "You can't lay on this couch for the rest of your life."

"You're right, our bed too."

"You are the most impossible person I've ever met." Topanga said sitting at the end of the couch.

"But ya love me right?" Cory grinned.

"Unfortunately yes."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Cory questioned.

"I'm just teasing you, I love you with all of my heart and that's why I want you to be big boy and have your appendix removed."

"Alright, I'll do it for you." Cory smiled taking her hand.

"Good boy." Topanga kissed him gently.

The next day had come and Riley was doing her happy dance all morning. "Riley would you please stop that it's weird." Maya said.

"I can't because my dad won't be my teacher for a whole week!"

"Your dad is also having surgery today so why don't you be a little more sympathetic." Topanga suggested.

"Fine, but I'm doing my happy dance when I get on the subway.

"Yes and then we can have all kinds of strangers staring at us awkwardly." Maya commented.

Cory stumbled into the kitchen with his arm holding his right side. "Topanga, that was horrible!" Cory whined referring to the shower he just had to take.

"Hey it was your idea to shower."

"Yeah I wanna be clean! But you could've helped me ya know." Topanga shook her head and tuned Cory out as he whined and complained.

"Ok well you two better get going." Topanga said noticing it was already 7:30.

"Do you want us to take Auggie?" Riley asked grabbing her jacket and bookbag.

"I'll take him honey, have a good day girls." Topanga said blowing them a kiss.

"We will, feel better Mr. Matthews." Maya replied.

"Thank you."

The two left the apartment which left Cory and Topanga alone in the kitchen while they waited for Auggie.

"So why don't we get your mind off this whole surgery thing and let's talk about the wedding." Topanga said wrapping her arms around Cory's neck from behind.

"Right, the wedding how could I forget? So where are we going for the honeymoon?" Cory asked smiling widely.

"Right, the honeymoon, Where do you wanna go?"

"A bed." Cory's said with his eyes lit up.

"You're cute, but I'm being serious." Topanga chuckled.

"Alright, how about the road?"

"Cory!"

"What, we'll meet Don Francisco there."

"I thought you were Don Francisco?" Topanga asked.

"I was, but I'm Justin Timberlake now."

"Please don't bring up that name in this house again. I try and suppress the memory." Topanga said referring to when she had to cut that shirt off of Cory.

"You act like you hadn't seen my shirtless before."

"You're right I have, but not with red lines and sweat indicating that the shirt was cutting off your circulation."

Cory shrugged and Topanga giggled.

Riley and Maya arrived at school and met Lucas and Farkle by the lockers.

"So how's your dad?" Farkle asked Riley.

"Whiney."

The group snickered along with Riley.

"So when is he gonna be back?"

"Next week."

"So a whole week without your dad… I like it." Lucas grinned. Riley gave him a glare since she was still angry with him.

"Well hopefully we have that substitute that lets us watch movies and get on our phones." Maya commented.

"Yeah that would be amazing!" Riley agreed. The 4 friends made their way into first period to find and old man with round glasses and white hair standing behind the desk.

"Mr. Feeny?!" Riley questioned.

"Ah Ms. Matthews, it's a pleasure to see you again." Mr. Feeny said referring to the time they'd met in Philadelphia a while back.

"What are you doing here?" Riley asked.

"Well last night your father called me and told me he needed a substitute for a week."

"So you're our substitute for an entire week?" Maya asked.

Mr. Feeny smirked and nodded. Riley knew that this wasn't gonna be a fun week she knew it was gonna involve a lot of hard work.

The gang sat down while Mr. Feeny began teaching.

Cory was sitting on a hospital bed while they waited for surgery to begin. His insides were eating him up and felt like he was gonna be sick at any moment.

"Topanga I don't know if I can do this." Cory said.

Topanga sighed. "Cory honey you'll be fine."

Cory gulped and tried to believe Topanga. "You're right."

"And I'll be right here when you're all done." She stroked his cheek which helped him calm himself a little.

"Alright Cory this is it." Dr. Hayden said. Cory felt like he was gonna pass out.

"Alrighty then, I'll see you in a few hours honey." Cory said.

"Ok I'll be waiting." Topanga leaned down to kiss him.

They wheeled him away and Topanga watched.

"Now Cory just count backwards from ten and I promise you'll probably be out before you even reach ten alright." Cory nodded and began to count backwards. Things became blurry and he felt woozy. Within seconds he was out.

"That was worse than your dad." Maya complained as they left first period.

"Come on he wasn't that bad." Riley defended.

"Yeah he was! I couldn't even fall asleep, I had to actually stay awake and listen! And he's so boring too!" Maya continued. Riley's eyes became wide as she saw Mr. Feeny approach from behind.

"Maya." Riley said trying to make her stop.

"And he is sooo old too like who teaches at that age?"

"Well how OLD do you think I am Ms. Hart?" Mr. Feeny said. Maya clenched her eyes together and turned towards Mr. Feeny.

"Hiya." She said nervously.

"I'll see you in detention this afternoon." He said sternly.

Maya groaned as he walked away. "How did that just happen?"

"I tried to stop you!" Riley said.

"I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. Your dad wouldn't have given me detention ya know."

"Yeah well my dad is used to people pushing him around."

"Pfft, we do not push him around." Maya replied as she pulled out her phone.

"Yeah ya do, his teaching skills, his hair, even how much money he makes."

Maya looked down at her shoes. "I didn't realize we do all of those things."

"Well yeah we all do, he's used to it though." Riley grabbed her books and headed to algebra while Maya stood alone in the hallway. She hadn't meant to be so mean to Cory, it was just who she was.

"Hey." Farkle said to Maya. She jumped and turned around.

"Oh my god, never do that again!" Maya scolded.

"Sorry, are you alright?"

"Of course I'm fine." She snapped.

"Farkle put his hands up. "Ok, ok, I was just making sure…"

"Yeah well I am, now if you excuse me I have to get to math." Maya turned and walked away from Farkle.

"That's weird, she has English second period." Farkle thought.

Topanga was sitting in a waiting room drifting to sleep almost, right when Dr. Hayden approached her. "Hi Topanga." She said.

Topanga sat up and smiled hoping for good news. "How did everything go?"

"Well everything went great actually; Cory is still asleep and probably will be for only a little longer. Now when he wakes up he's gonna be a little on the loopy side so things he says might not make sense to you." she said chuckling.

Topanga smiled relieved everything went well. "Can I see him?"

Dr. Hayden made a face but quickly realized that Topanga was going to see him one way or another. "Well since you're his wife, yes you may." Dr. Hayden smiled and led Topanga to his room.

"I'm going to get some papers, I'll be right back." And with that she was gone. Topanga sat her purse onto one of the chairs before going over to her sleeping husband.

"Hey sweetie." Topanga whispered as she stroked her thumb across his forehead. He began to stir and his eyes fluttered before he opened them completely.

He gazed up at Topanga who was currently smiling. "Where am I?" he asked confused.

"You just finished your surgery honey." Topanga intertwined her fingers with his.

"How do you feel?" Topanga asked.

"I can't feel my body." he replied in a child like tone. Topanga chuckled a little as Dr. Hayden entered the room.

"Oh good he's awake."

"Is it normal for him to not feel his body?" Topanga asked.

"Yes his body is just numb right now so he can't really feel anything, that's also why he's acting a little strange. The downside to this is that this is going to wear off and it's gonna be painful." She frowned.

"Oh, can he take any medication?"

"Yes we'll prescribe him some don't worry, it's just he won't be able to move for next couple of days."

Topanga nodded her head. "When is he able to go home?"

"Well he's able to be discharged in 14 hours but that'll be around midnight tonight so we've decided to just let him leave tomorrow morning."

"Alright well I'm going to call my daughter and let her know because I wanna stay with Cory until then."

"Go ahead Topanga." Dr. Hayden smiled as Topanga left the room.

Riley was eating lunch when her phone began to buzz. "Hold on I gotta take this, it's my mom." Riley said excusing herself into the hallway.

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"Hello?"

"Hey sweetheart, can you watch the house and Auggie for me tonight?"

"Um sure, aren't you gonna be home though?"

"They aren't discharging your father until tomorrow and I wanna stay with him over night, if you think you're gonna need me to come home just tell me."

"No you don't need to do that."

"Alright well I'm going to call you a little later and please pick up your brother and come straight to the hospital after school."

"Ok will do." And with that the two ended their call.

Riley entered into the cafeteria again and sat down. "What was that all about?" Maya asked.

"It was my mom telling me that I have to watch my brother and the house tonight since she wanted to stay with my dad at the hospital."

"What about your baby sister?" Maya asked.

"My grandparents are actually taking care of her for the week since my mom is gonna be taking care of my dad." Maya nodded her head and continued to eat her sandwich.

Riley and Auggie met Topanga and Cory at the hospital later that day. "Hey dad." Riley said as they entered the room.

"Riley?" he asked in a confused tone.

"Yeah." Riley chuckled. Cory had a huge grin on his face while he played with Topanga's hand.

"Mom, why is he acting like that?"

Topanga smiled. "Watch this, Cory who am I?"

"Pangy!" he squealed.

Topanga laughed. "He's a little on the loopy side because of all the numbing medication."

"Right, so he'll be back to normal tomorrow right?"

"Yep, how was Mr. Feeny?" Topanga asked.

"Well, he was a lot tougher than dad and he gave Maya detention."

"Sounds like Mr. Feeny; doesn't it make you appreciate your dad a little more?"

Riley glanced at her dad who was currently smiling and saying strange things that made no sense what so ever.

"Yeah it does." Riley said before she sat down with Topanga and Auggie.

The next day came about and Cory's pain medication wore off… things weren't pretty.

"Topanga!" he groaned.

"Honey I know you're in some pain right now."

"Make it go away!" he pleaded.

Topanga shook her head. "If I could I would."

"You said this was gonna make me feel better but now I feel like crap!"

"It will in a couple of days, you just need to rest and not do anything for a while. I'll get you whatever you need honey." Topanga witnessed the pain in his eyes.

"I'm sorry love." she kissed his forehead.

"It's not your fault."

"How about we go home and get you some rest?"

"I'd like that." Topanga smiled and held his hand.

What's going on lovelies? So sorry about no update I feel horrible about that. I was going to update yesterday but I was in a tremendous amount of pain and I had this terrible cold so I wasn't up to writing.

What did you think of the chapter? Next chapter is going to be where Maya tells Farkle what's going on and also Rucas is solved so yay! We get to see more of Mr. Feeny so get excited. Also we get to see whiny Cory while he rests and I honestly think it's hilarious tbh so get excited.

This was a fun chapter to write and I really liked it. There is gonna be a really serious chapter coming up and it's about Riley and something happening with her. I'm kinda excited to write and it deals with a sensitive topic that I feel more shows should cover.

Anyways I promise I'm gonna be better about updating its just school has been getting in the way of me doing that. Tell me what you thought and please review! I'll talk to you guys later :)