Chapter 11, Reluctantly Heading Home
Tommy POV
I remained on the couch with poor sick Rosie, as we watched the rest of the Dummi Bears DVD. No sooner had the DVD finished, when Peter came into the living room, and founded me. He did not look very happy.
"Hey Peter, what's wrong?" I asked.
"Tommy, what are you doing here? I told you to stay put in our room while I got our suitcases packed." Said Peter.
"I'm sorry, I gotted bored, and felt really bad for Rosie, so came downstairs to keep her company." I replied.
Peter let out a huge sigh and relaxed a bit.
"I understand you feel bad for getting Rosie sick, and it's great that you want to take care of her, and, you've done a great job so far, but we really need to head home now." Said Peter, putting a hand on my shoulder.
"Hey, I've gots a better idea." I said.
"What's that?" Peter asked.
"Since you need to go home, but Rosie isn't well yet, why don't you go home, and I'll come home after Rosie's all better! I'll be the firstest baby to fly on an airplane back home all by myself!" I said, with a determined look on my face.
"I'm sorry Tommy, but I don't think this is such a good idea. Besides, you're only two-years-old, you're too little to fly by yourself." Said Peter.
At that moment, I stood up from the couch, and looked Peter straight in the eyes.
"Too little? Too little? I'll have you know Peter, I got my ball from Rosie's grandmother's yard, brought home a baby from the post office, the one that came in the mail, found what was making that crash in the garage, turns out it wasn't Spike, but a little mouse the whole time, gotted the light out of the fridgerator, flushed the flusher on the giant potty, helped my mommy find her place in the sun, defeated Mr. Friend, saved the Mega Hyper Heros, lived through the end of the world when the sky was falling, found water on a really hot day, got a turtle back to its daddy at the shopping place, saved my daddy's pennies from being taken by a pirate when the pirate light was out, found Lady Luck for my grandpa, stopped Angelica from keeping all of the ice cream coupons for herself, rescued Reptar Junior from Chuckie's basement, found my mom's present after rescuing Dil at a bakery, helped Dr. Susie fix Cynthia, and founded the cookasaurus. And if you think it ends there, I've done lots more than that. I gotted Dil out of the compooper, saved us from Angelicon, and talked to pants when playing Adventure Squad with my friends. I founded Chuckie's library card, played the fun way game when that fun way guy came to Chuckie's daddy's coffee place to make it a funnerer place to be, and don't forget how I helped get Angelica and Taffy switched back so they were themselves again, and I gotted Taffy out of the video game, and, saved us from the giant bee at the basketball game. I also helped my mommy and daddy with their garage sale, and gotted my mommy an A at college so she wouldn't cry. And let's not forget how I was alone in the forrest with my friends, and saved Dil from the monkeys. If I can do all of that, then I can go home on an airplane all by myself after Rosie's all better. Are you with me?" I said.
Peter just looked at me, raising an eye brow.
"I'm sorry Tommy, but in case you didn't notice the height difference, I'm not Chuckie. You're not going to convince me all that easily to go along with this plan. And yes, I remember the bulk of that stuff you did, I was there for much of it. And while it's great and all, I'm sorry to say, but you're still too little to fly home by yourself. You've gotten into a lot of trouble in your time, I can only imagine just how this adventure would go." Said Peter, as he began to tell me his idea how this would all go wrong.
End of Tommy POV
Normal POV
Peter started to imagine what might happen if he let Tommy head home on his own. First, Tommy comes out of Rosie's apartment building. He stands at the curb, waving his hand around, hoping to get a taxi cab's attention. Unfortunately, because he's so small, nobody notices him. Then, at a nearby red light, a taxi cab stops. Remembering what they looked like from seeing them that first day they arrived in Boston, Tommy runs over to the ideling taxi cab, and starts banging on the window. As he taps, the light changes from red to green.
"Uh oh, better do something fast." Tommy thinks to himself, as he clings on to the cab with all of his might, and it starts to speed off into traffic.
By this point, Tommy is screaming, holding on to the taxi cab with all of his might, but his strength starts to give out, as it stops at another traffic light. While stopped, the driver rolls down the windows. Tommy uses this as an excuse to climb into the taxi cab.
"Well hello little guy, what brings you here?" Asks the driver, but Tommy can't talk to grown ups yet, so he just holds up a picture of an airplane he drew before leaving Rosie's, hoping the driver will get the hint of where he wants to go.
"Ah, cute airplane! Have the cab fair?" The driver asked.
Now Tommy had never heard this term before, so he wasn't sure what the guy meant. He had only heard that things could not be fair at times, like when Angelica spoiled his fun, or that time when his parents took Henry away after he tried to wash his hair with Mustard, making a huge mess. Confused, Tommy slumped down in the passenger seat next to the driver, as he turned his attention back to the road, as the light had changed to green, and a swarm of traffic was built up behind him, honking nonstop. A few minutes later, the cab pulled over to let an elderly couple get in for a ride. They climbed into the back seat, when they saw that Tommy was up front.
"Is this your child sir?" Asked the elderly man.
"What a cute little boy!" Added the elderly woman.
"No, he's not. Look, kid, I'm sorry, but if you don't have any money on you, then you need to get out." Said the driver.
Of course, Tommy didn't have any money on him, but he'd do just about anything now to get home, even if it meant giving up some treasured posessions. He pulled his plastic screwdriver and the pocket watch, known as his sponsatility out of his shorts pockets, and handed them to the driver. The driver just handed the items back to Tommy.
"Sorry kiddo, I need cash." Said the driver disappointingly. Tommy thrust the items back into his pocket, looking disappointed. Then, he got an idea! He crawled under the seat, and at this point, the man turned his attention back to the road.
"Where do you wish to go miss?" Asked the driver.
"We're going to Logan Airport sir." Said the elderly woman.
Tommy, sitting as quiet as a mouse beneath the seat of the cab was relieved. At least he'd get to the airport, one step closer to getting home. Finally, the cab stopped at the entrance of the airport. The elderly couple saw to paying their cab fair, and getting their suitcases out of the trunk. While all of this was going on, Tommy used this as a way to escape, sneaking into the airport. He found a long line of people going through that metal thing called security, so snuck into the line, hoping he'd be spotted as a passenger. It came his turn to go through security, and he passed with no trouble, as the people figured he was a child traveling with an older gentleman who came up behind him.
Now Tommy was walking through the long hallway with all of the gates in it. Unfortunately, there were several of those large rooms where people waited for the airplanes, he had no clue which one to go to. He finally, went to one at random, and sat down in a chair near the giant window, as the airplane landed, and passengers started to walk off. As he heard the announcer talking over a loud speaker, he knew it was his cue to go get on to the airplane, so he went and got in the line of people getting on to the plane. Then, he came up to the person at the other end of the gate.
"Tickets please." Said the person.
Tommy then remembered, he had something called a ticket stub in his shorts pocket, so pulled it out to show the nice person.
"Well hello little guy, you traveling with your mommy and daddy I suppose?" Asked the person, a lady with frizzy red hair, smiling.
Tommy smiled and nodded, waving the ticket stub around in his hand. The lady took it and frowned, handing it back to him.
"I'm sorry little man, but this is a movie ticket, not an airplane ticket. Reptar vs. the Aliens though, is a very good movie!" Said the lady, smiling again.
Tommy wasn't giving up. He knew he had to get on this airplane, and he was going to get on, one way or another. He scooted over, letting the rest of the passengers get on. At one point, an oversized, muscular man was yelling at the flight attendant, complaining that his flight was delayed. Tommy used this distraction to crawl past the loud mouth man, sneaking on to the airplane. He quickly looked around for an empty seat, before getting caught. He spotted one next to a little brown haired boy, roughly three years older than him. Tommy sat down in the seat and buckled his seatbelt.
"Who are you kid?" Asked the boy to Tommy's right. Tommy turned and looked at the boy.
"Tommy, I'm heading home." He replied.
"Oh, that's nice. Where are your mommy and daddy?" The boy asked.
"They're not here. I'm flying by myself." Tommy replied.
"Ha ha ha, that's funny. You look too little to be flying by yourself. What did you do, sneak on the airplane?" The boy asked.
"Maybe." Tommy replied.
"Well kid, you know what they do to shrimps who sneak onto airplanes, don't ya?" The kid asked.
"No, what?" Tommy asked.
"You'd better not get caught, or else, they'll put you in jail!" Said the kid.
"Oh no, I've heardid about Jail. It's worser than time out, and you're stuck behind wide bars, never to see your mommy and daddy again. Or at least that's what Angelica tolded me when I almost went to jail for breaking my bestest friend's daddy's glasses." Tommy replied.
"Good luck kid, you're gonna need it." Said the boy next to him.
A few minutes later, a flight attendant came down the isle checking tickets. While the kid seemed tough at first, he was a hero a minute later, saving Tommy's butt.
"Hi mam, I'm Freddy, and this is my little brother Tommy, we're traveling together." Freddy lied.
"Oh, ok then, you carry on then." Said the flight attendant, as they continued down the isle, to make sure everyone was seated.
Then, the boring speech about the safety devices came on over the loud speaker. After they were done, the plane got ready to take off.
"Flight 243 for Paris France, is ready for takeoff." Said the announcer, as the plane went up into the air.
"Uh oh, I'm headed to Paris, that's not where mommy and daddy live." Tommy thought to himself.
"So, you live in Paris kid?" Freddy asked.
"No, but I've been there before, and that's where Reptar lives. Hey, that gives me an idea! Reptar can get me home. Maybe getting on the wrong plane wasn't such a bad thing after all." Said Tommy, smiling at his seat mate.
"Reptar lives there? I thought that lizard lived in Tokyo. I'm going to Paris to visit my grandma and see the Eiffle Tower. No matter, hopefully, you get home kid." Said Freddy, as he took out an Armidillo Dave comic book, and got engrossed in his reading.
Tommy leaned back in his seat, eager to get to Paris, in hope to seak help from Reptar to get home to where he belonged. Unfortunately, he forgot what evil person lived in Paris, and he was about to meet up with an evil villan of his past, worser than Angelica, or even that Reggie kid he had to put up with in Boston, and poor Rosie had to see nearly everyday of her life.
Finally, the plane landed in Paris, and everybody started to walk off. Tommy was the last one off the airplane.
"See ya kid." Said Freddy, as he left Tommy at the gate, now scanning the area for Reptar, but not having much luck. He could swear Reptar picked them up from the airport and took them to Reptar Land the last time they came here.
Then, out of nowhere, a hand grabbed at Tommy's shoulder. He spun around, to find himself, staring at a red haired woman, dressed in a flight attendant's uniform, her eyes with an evil look in them, and a very long nose.
"Something looks familiar about that face." Tommy thought to himself, as he studied the woman. Then, it hit him. This was Coco, that mean lady that almost married Chuckie's daddy.
Now that she no longer had her job at Euroreptarland, she was working at the airport.
"Where you headed kid?" Asked Coco.
No answer from Tommy, as he couldn't talk to grown ups yet, so what was the point.
"I said, where are you going kid, answer me when you speak to me, do you hear me? Answer me!" Coco shouted, causing several passing passengers to stop and stare.
Tommy bit his lip. He now knew what kind of trouble he had gotten himself into, and it wasn't going to be so easy to get out of it this time around. Then, a news report came on a TV hanging down from the ceiling. Coco turned to see what was happening on the TV, as did Tommy.
"And in international news, the whereabouts of a missing two-year-old purple haired toddler by the name of Tommy Pickles. What has happened to this missing child? If anybody has seen him, please call the number on your screen. We now take you to the parents of this lost child. An Amber Alert has been issued." Said a news reporter on the television.
"Hey Champ, we hope you're out there somewhere, and come home soon." Said Stu into a microphone.
Didi, nearly in tears, embraced her husband. She took the microphone from her husband.
"Bring back my baby!" Didi cried into the microphone, going into uncontrollable sobs.
"Wait a second, I recognize those people. They were at the wedding that red headed two-year-old scoundrel ruined!" Coco snarled, as she flipped Tommy upside down, emptying the contents of his pockets on to the airport floor.
She bent down and picked up the screwdriver, the movie ticket stub, and the pocket watch, which had fallen open, revealing the picture of younger Tommy and Dil on the inside. Coco gasp at the sight of this picture, recognizing the faces of the two infants from that time she tried to lock all of the kids away in Paris, hoping they wouldn't ruin her wedding, only to be very wrong in the end. Then, her angry face turned into an evil smile.
"Well kid, looks like you won't be going home. Thanks to you being a stow away on a plane, I now can get my revenge! Ha ha ha ha ha!" Said Coco, as she carried Tommy out of the airport, who was now crying, hoping Coco would ditch him, allowing him to go off and find Reptar, and get home, but looks like it was no use. Coco was going to have her revenge, and Tommy was in a deeper whole then he ever imagined to ever be in.
They got to Coco's apartment, a dark, dirty, smelly place in a part of Paris unfamiliar to Tommy. She locked him away in a small closet with no windows, and blocked the door with heavy boxes, so Tommy couldn't get out. The closet was completely empty of shelves, or anything, causing Tommy to be stuck, and when he tried to open the door, by standing on his tippy toes and reaching for the doorknob, it was stuck, so he couldn't get out.
As time droaned on, Tommy grew hungry and thirsty, eventually, falling asleep. Coco never returned with any food or drink for the child, and whenever she was questioned if she had seen this child, she lied, telling people she never saw him. However, because Coco wasn't making nearly as much money working as a flight attendant, she was way behind on her rent. Three days later, she was evicted, and the people cleaning out her apartment, found Tommy in the closet, now dead, as a result of lack of food and water.
His dead body was sent to the Pickles in California, and Coco was sentenced to life in prison as a result of child malistation and murder.
End of Normal POV
Tommy POV
"G Peter, if traveling by myself means I'd have to see that mean Coco lady again, then, I guess, you win, we'll leave now." I said reluctantly, after Peter finished telling me his story of what he feared would happen to me if I tried to get myself home.
"I knew you'd see it my way. Now come on Tommy, let's go get you dressed, we need to leave here in half an hour." Said Peter.
I knew half an hour meant one episode of Dummi Bears, which wasn't much time, so went and gotted all ready to go. Peter gotted me all dressed, and as I got dressed, I thought about what I'd need to tell Rosie. This had been a pretty awful trip up to this point, but one thing did go right. I came to see Rosie and go to her birthday party, and even if things ended in a terrible mess, at least we sawed each other, so our time together couldn't be all bad, if we got to be together.
After Peter finished getting me dressed, he got to packing up my Reptar suitcase, while I went back downstairs and toldid Rosie goodbye.
"Hey Rosie." I said, approaching her on the couch, where she was now sitting up, trying to sip on some ginger ale.
"Hi Tommy." Said Rosie.
"I'm sorry, but I've gots to go now. I tried to get Peter to let me stay here to take care of you, but, it can't happen." I said disappointingly.
Just then, Rosie threw down her cup and started to cry.
"Now, don't cry Rosie." I said.
"But Tommy, I don't feel good, and I'm gonna miss you. And, you're finally over your tummy bug, and you have to go? Please, don't go!" Cried Rosie through her tears.
I gave Rosie a hug, and thought of something to get her to cheer up.
"I know, things didn't go as we planned, but you know what?" I said.
"What?" Rosie asked.
"We got to see each other, and you took care of me when I was sick, and I took care of you while you were sick, or at least during part of it. So, it could have been worser, we could have not seen each other at all." I said.
"I guess you're right Tommy, being sick is no fun, but when a good friend is there to help you feel better, it's not so bad." Said Rosie.
"See? And after I rested for a couple of days, I gotted all better, and you will too." I said, pulling her Dummi Bears blankie around her, and turning around, to find Peter, staring down at me.
"Ready to go Tommy?" Peter asked me, as he picked me up in his arms.
"Yeah Peter, let's go home." I said, as I turned, and waved goodbye to Rosie.
"Bye Rosie." I said.
"By Tommy, bye Peter, thanks for coming." Said Rosie, as she waved back.
"We'll call your sister's iPad tomorrow and see how you're doing, letting you know we made it home safe." Said Peter.
Rosie gave a small little smile, which helped me to feel a little bit better about having to leave, and Peter said bye bye to her mommy on our way out.
"Thank you for coming. Sorry Tommy got sick, but here's hoping you two can come back again sometime. I think despite all that went wrong, Rosie had a good time." Said Rosie's mommy.
"You know what, I think so too." Said Peter, as he shook Rosie's mommy's hand, and we headed outside the partment, where we gotted into a cab.
Peter tolded the driver to take us to the airport, and we were off. By this point, I was pretty tired, as I hadn't slept since the nappy I tooked yesterday, where I had that horrible night scare, so closed my eyes and dozed while we drove to the airport. When we gotted there, Peter got me and our stuff out of the taxi cab, and we went through the same routine we went through back home, giving our suitcases away to the peoples that would put them beneath the airplane, and going through that metal security thing.
Once we gotted through that thing, we did something different from the lastest time.
"We have some time to kill, as our airplane won't be taking off for another hour, or in your language, two episodes of Reptar, so why don't we get a bite to eat." Suggested Peter.
I was feeling kind of sad about having to go home, and wasn't really hungry.
"I'm not all that hungry." I said.
"Come on Tommy, you haven't eaten anything today, you need to eat something." Said Peter.
"Oh, ok." I said with a sigh, as we went into some small restaurant, with a few tables.
The place smelled nice, so hopefully, there's be some yummy food to eat. Peter got a sandwich of some kind and a soda, while I had some spaghetti and some juice. I was hungrier than I thought, as I ated everything.
"I think somebody was hungrier than he thought." Said Peter.
I nodded at his comment, as I took my last sip of juice, relieved my tummy liked the food too. I was not up for throwing up on an airplane. After we finished our lunch, we both went potty, and then, went to the gate place, where we gotted on to our airplane. A few minutes later, we were seated, the announcer person came on again, and toldid us about how to exit the plane safely if we gotted hurted, and then, we took off to the sky.
Once we were in the air, I turned to Peter.
"You know what Peter?" I asked.
"No, what?" Peter asked.
"I'm glad I sawed Rosie, even if I was sick mostest of the time we were there." I said.
"I'm glad Tommy, and, I'm proud of you for helping Rosie to feel better, and finding the silver lining of the trip." Said Peter.
"Huh?" I asked, not sure what Peter was talking about.
"Well Tommy, a lot of bad things happened on this trip, you know that, I know that, and even Rosie knows that, but you found a silver lining. You see Tommy, every cloud has a silver lining." Said Peter.
I then looked out my window on the airplane, where we were flying up through the clouds. I surely didn't see no silver lines anywhere, just white fluffy clouds.
"Uh, Peter, we're in the clouds, and I don't see no silver lines." I said.
"You silly thing, it's just an expression that means, despite bad happenings, you found something good, getting to see Rosie was the good thing, or the silver lining." Peter explained.
"Oh, ok, I get it now." I said, leaning back in my seat, letting out a huge yawn.
"Tired Tommy?" Peter asked me.
I nodded, as I leaned back against the seat and closed my eyes.
"You take a nap, you deserve it. After all, I'd be exhausted too if I were up all night, caring for my sick friend. We'll be home before you know it." Said Peter.
And with those final words, I fell asleep, for a very long time, as my trip home was the fastest trip I ever tooked in my entire life! The nextest time I opened my eyes, I wasn't on the airplane no more. I found myself in a bed, at Peter's castle of the Confederacy. Peter came into the room, to see I was waking up.
"Good, you're awake!" Said Peter, who sat down on the bed, his iPhone in his hand.
"Where am I?" I asked sleepily, looking around, in hopes I was right.
"We're at my castle Tommy, you fell asleep on the airplane, and slept up until now. It's a new day Tommy, and it's getting late, as we need to get to the park. Your mom and dad are due back from your Uncle Ben and Aunt Elane's at anytime now." Said Peter.
"Did you let Rosie know we made it home safe?" I asked.
"I'm about to do that now." Said Peter, as he made the Facetime call to Rosie's sister's iPad.
She picked up on the third ring, and she and Rosie's heads, appeared on the screen of Peter's iPhone.
"Hi Peter, did you and Tommy make it home safe?" Mary asked.
"We sure did Mary." Said Peter.
"Hi Tommy." Said Rosie.
"Hey Rosie, how are you feeling?" I asked.
"I'm much better." Rosie replied.
I breazed a sigh of relief, happy that Rosie was feeling better. We talked for a few more minutes, until Peter said we had to go. After we gotted off of his iPhone, we headed down to the kitchen of his castle, where I had a bowl of some Reptar cerial, and a PB&J sandwich.
"Wow! Breakfast and lunch, all in one!" I said.
"That's called brunch Tommy, and, it's practically lunch time, so you're getting both at the same time. I must say, you must have been tired Tommy, as even the pogostick that Goofy let me borrow to get us home when we landed late last night, didn't even wake you up." Said Peter.
I just giggled and went on happily eating my cerial and sandwich. Then, I gotted dressed, and General Frolo E. Lee took me and Peter to the park, where I ran into all of my friends, Zack with purple hairs, and, well, this ends, my trip to see Rosie.
End of Tommy POV
And well, that ends this chapter, and the story from Tommy's point of view, of his trip to see Rosie. There's one more chapter of this story, wrapping up Zack's long weekend of visiting Tommy, and, I've got more questions to add another bonus chapter in Ask the Dynamic Trio, but first, I think a nap is in order, so gonna go take one, and I'll be back later on, with the twelth and final chapter of this story, and chapter 7, of Ask the Dynamic Trio, so please, do stay tuned! Hope you're still enjoying this story thus far, and to everybody who's been reading and reviewing, I thank you so very much!