Cuddly Toy.

I don't own Toy Story or any of its characters. I do own any and all original characters.

"She's an odd one," Darla said, coming up behind Jessie.

"Not really," Jessie told her. "It's just - well - she and Woody used to date."

"I know," Darla said off-handedly.

"How do you know?" Jessie asked, a bit suspicious.

"I have my ways," Darla said, smugly.

"Buzz told you, didn't he?"

"Does it matter if he told me?" Darla asked her. "I need to change back into the outfit Lulu left me in. Follow me."

Jessie rolled her eyes at Darla's flippant attitude, but followed her anyway.

"I'd keep a close eye on Woody and Buzz if I were you," Darla said from behind the curtain.

"Woody and Buzz?" Jessie asked. "Why?"

"They're conspiring stupidity. Normally, I wouldn't tell you since they do it all the time, but this time it involves you."

"What?" said Jessie, completely bewildered at what Darla was getting at.

"I don't know what," Darla went on, coming out wearing her original outfit. It was a strapless purple sequined leotard with a matching sewn-on tutu decorated with sequins and glitter. Darla bent down and tugged on one of her purple faux knee-high lace-up boots. "Buzz refuses to betray any confidence in what Woody has said to me. Loyalty to a friend - admirable, but annoying," She commented, placing a feather in her hair. "I swear, sometimes, Buzz can be perfectly useless." Darla finished by putting on her short cape.

"And other times?"

"Well, he is good for keeping a doll's self-esteem up," Darla told her simply.

"Woody and I have a date tonight," Jessie began.

"That's nothing new."

With a shy smile, Jessie asked, "Mind if I borrow Lady tonight?"

"Double date with the horse again?"

"Yep," Jessie said with a sigh.

"Its kind of pathetic when you think about it."

"I think it's kind of cute."

"You would," Darla said.

…

Bo couldn't understand what had made her lose her nerve like that. Well - in all truth, it would be in bad taste to just walk up to Jessie and say 'I know you're using Woody to make Buzz jealous.' That'd be a terrible thing to say! And besides, Bo was sure Jessie would've denied it. The thing to do, Bo reasoned finally, was to talk to Buzz. She needed to get his conformation that he still loved Jessie. Then, they could talk to both Woody and Jessie together.

Now, all she had to do was find Buzz.

Buzz wasn't sure how he should approach Bo to bring up the topic of Woody and Jessie's relationship. He thought about asking Darla for advice - that doll was as bold as brass - but then, he realized that she would most likely take it upon herself to set Bo straight. And then who knows what Darla might do to poor Bo?

"There you are, Buzz," Came Bo's sweet voice.

"Bo, I just…" Buzz began.

"I saw you at the fashion show," Bo said, coyly. "And I know that a certain doll has something to do with it."

"No, no! It's not what you think!" Buzz said, panicked. "Darla being scantly-clad had-had nothing to do with it! I'm not a space-perv! I'm not!"

"Buzz - calm down. I'm talking about Jessie," Bo told him.

"Jessie?" said Buzz, confused. "Jessie isn't scantly-clad. I don't think she can be."

"No! That's not what I meant!" Bo said getting exasperated. "I know you went to the fashion-show to see Jessie. I heard you calling her beautiful."

"No. I went to the fashion show to see Darla and I was calling Darla beautiful," Buzz informed her.

"Darla?" Bo repeated in disbelief. "Why would you tell her she's beautiful?"

"Because she is."

"But what about Jessie?"

"Well, I think Jessie is beautiful, too," Buzz told her honestly.

"Then you are still in love with her," Bo confirmed with a thankful sigh.

"No, Bo - I'm not."

"But you have to be! How could you not be anymore?" Bo asked desperately.

"Up elephants! Up!" Came Darla's voice. Both Bo and Buzz turned their heads and looked at her, only to see she was making the elephants do tricks. Bo saw the look on Buzz's face as he watched her.

"No!" Bo cried out in horror. "Not her! You can't be in love with that…that Darla!"

"Of course not!" Buzz quickly protested. "Darla's not even my type! She's not a redhead, she towers over me, she's mean, calls me names and she hits me."

"She hits you?" Bo asked, shocked.

"Only when she thinks I'm being a pervert," Buzz admitted, embarrassed.

"You? A pervert?" Bo said, incredulous. "But you're so innocent! You didn't even know you were a toy at first!"

"You see - I have this Spanish mode that did something."

"What?"

"I'm not sure...I think I walked in on her while she was dressing! All I know is, when I turned back into me, Darla was there in front of me holding one of her dresses up to her chest and hitting me on the head with her baton whilst screaming and calling me names. It wasn't my fault! Lulu was playing with me and saw the little hole in my back and put an unbent paper-clip in it."

"Buzz, what are you talking about? What do you mean 'your Spanish mode'?" Bo asked him, perplexed.

So Buzz went on to tell her all about his Spanish mode and how that had helped him and Jessie become a couple in the first place.

"But Bo, listen, I'm not romantically interested in Jessie anymore," Buzz told her. "And I wouldn't even want to be in a romantic relationship with Darla. Yes - she is the most beautiful, incredibly well-built doll that I've ever seen. But she more like an evil alien Empress temptress, whose plantet I crash-land on and, whilst tending to my wounds, she tries to turn me against Star Command," Buzz said, huskily, his wings popping out at the thought. "In a gold bikini, chaining me to the wall when I refuse, trying to break my will with her…" Before Buzz could finish his fantasy, Darla's baton came crashing down on his head making his wings pop back in.

"Space-perv!" Darla snapped before walking away.

"She heard all of that, didn't she?" Buzz asked. sounding dejected.

Bo nodded, somewhat appalled by what Buzz had been saying.

"She's never going to like me," Buzz said, walking away from Bo forgetting why he'd even been talking to Bo in the first place.A/N So originally the story was going end sooner, but now it's turning into something bigger. I can't how it wound have ended only Darla would have had a musical number. A/N