Peabody let out a heavy groan, his head, it felt like a thousand tiny hammers were constantly hitting it. He felt sick, like he was going to throw up, he was also extremely thirsty. Languidly Peabody reached for his phone, he clicked the button on the side and cringed back when the bright light hit his eyes. Once his eyes were use to the light, he looked at the time.
12:48 pm.
It was beyond late, but still, he felt tired, maybe just five more minutes of sleep.
He shut his eyes, what felt like five minutes later, he reopened them. His head still pounding heavily against his skull, his mouth even drier and the nausea even worse than before. Still, he picked up his phone and looked at the time.
2:59 pm.
He groaned deeply once again, he really didn't want to get out of bed. He shut his eyes, the phone falling on his chest once again, just when he was about to sleep even more, he remembered something. Something that made him shoot up like a rocket.
"The kids!"
He had four children in his house, the fact that he couldn't hear anything coming from outside his room meant that something was wrong. Ignoring his headache and nausea, Peabody shot out of his bed and ran out of his room. He walked down the hallway and into the living room. Not before bumping into a wall first.
Rubbing his head, he looked around the living room and blinked, the place was picked up from last night, all of Sherman's presents that were on the table were gone, most likely in his room, the bottle of gin and glass was no longer on the table. Still, the kids were no where to be seen, walking into the kitchen, he noticed that Sherman's cake was put away, and the dishes were cleaned up.
He rubbed his temples, his head feeling like it was split in two.
"Kids? Children?" He called out. Looking around the kitchen, nope, no children in here.
Did they leave the penthouse? Did Sherman use the WABAC!?
Wasting no time, Peabody ran towards the elevator, but before he could push the button to go down, the elevator dinged, it caused Mr. Peabody to take a step back. When the doors opened, he was slightly surprised to find Penny and Sherman standing inside, Penny holding a brown paper bag.
"Mr. Peabody, you're up!" Sherman said happily, a smile on his face.
"Uh, Yes, I am, Where are Benjamin and Guinevere?" Peabody asked when he realized that those two weren't with them.
"Oh, they went home." Penny said, walking out of the elevator, Sherman in tow.
"They just walked home?" Peabody asked, following the two children, they put the bags down on one of the tables.
"Yeah, They know where they live, plus they said they would call us when they got there." Penny mumbled, taking out some items from the bag. Sherman then tossed something to the dog, who caught it quickly, he looked at it, Aspirins.
"Ben told us that you might have a headache after what happened last night, So, we walked down to the store and got you some aspirins and ibuprofen, we heard those where the best to cure headaches." Penny explained as she crumpled up the bag, Mr. Peabody noted that they also got a few candy bars.
"Oh, well, thank you for this, but you two shouldn't of left with out waking me."
"We tried, you wouldn't wake up." Sherman said, his voice had a slight tone in it that made Peabody frown a bit.
"Well, you could of left a note." Peabody sighed, rubbing the back of his neck.
"We did." Both Penny and Sherman said in unison. Peabody opened his mouth, then shut it, then he scoffed.
"Don't lie to me, I would of seen a note lying around." Peabody told them sternly, Penny walked past the dog and over to the table that Sherman's presents were once on, she picked up a piece of paper and showed it to Peabody. The white beagle started to read the paper.
Mr. Peabody, Penny and I are walking to the store up the street, no need to worry, be back soon.
-Love Sherman.
"Oh..." was all Peabody could say, he rubbed the back of his neck once again. Then sighed deeply.
"Thank you two for doing this, I do appreciate it, but, Sherman, I really don't want you leaving the Penthouse with me knowing, you understand why, I know you do." Peabody said, a slight scowl on his face, he then softened up a bit, his head pounding again and the nausea was making a comeback. The dog was trying very hard not to gag in front of the children.
"Of course, Mr. Peabody, it won't happen again." Sherman said, his voice small.
"It's alright, I'm going to let this slide but you do it again, then I will punish you, now, I'm going to go to the restroom, Sherman, if you could possibly get me a glass of water, just leave it out side the door." Peabody said, then hurried away, both children heard the door of the restroom shut, followed by the unmistakable sound of retching.
"Wow, he sounds real sick, do you think it's the stomach flu? I got one once, threw up all day, it wasn't pretty." Sherman said, sticking his tongue out while holding his stomach.
"I don't know." Penny confessed.
"Well, I should get him that water." Sherman said and ran off to do that. Penny sat down on the living room while Sherman went to do that, just then, the phone rang. Penny waited but it didn't seem like Sherman was going to get, Getting up she grabbed the phone and answered it.
"Hello?" She asked, for a few seconds there was nothing but silence, then a voice spoke.
"You shouldn't answer other people's phones, Little girl." The voice was deep and mysterious, it made Penny shiver a bit.
"If you want to talk to Mr. Peabody, He's not here." She lied, there was another silence followed by.
"Yes he is, in fact, he just ran to the bathroom, why are you lying?"
Penny felt a slight anger fill her, who was this man?
"You gave Sherman the dog, didn't you?" She asked him, her shoulders tense now.
"Maybe, it doesn't concern you...Take my advice, leave the house tonight...I don't want to hurt you, you seem nice enough..."
With that the line went dead, Penny dropped the phone and gasped.
"Penny?" She turned and looked at Sherman, a glass of water in his hand. He took one look at her frightened face and became concerned.
"Did something happen?" He asked her, she quickly shook her head.
"No...No..." She lied, he gave her a look, then shrugged and walked away to the bathroom. Penny placed both hands on her chest, then over her mouth.
What was she going to do? Tell Sherman? Tell Mr. Peabody? Call the cops? She looked down at her hands, She had to do something! This man was going to hurt Sherman and Mr. Peabody! She couldn't just leave them.
Taking a deep breath, she picked up the phone again, she didn't want to call the cops, no, Sherman admitted to her and Ben yesterday that he didn't like cops, he said a few of them said it was Sherman's own fault that he got kidnapped.
She had to think of something! whatever this guy had planned it was happening tonight.