"I'm guessing by your facial expression, you didn't expect to see us today." Felicity smiled.
"What're you doing here?" Eloise asked curiously as she walked into the room as Nanny then spotted her.
"Surprise..." Akito and Estelle told her.
Eloise smiled as she then looked up to Nanny.
"Eloise, one of these days, we're going to freeze, freeze, freeze." Nanny shuddered as she shut the window as it was open.
"Nanny, I'm hungry." Eloise pouted.
"Imagine my surprise..." Nanny deadpanned slightly, then noticed the four kids who were in the room and she was surprised as well. "What on Earth?"
"Hi, Nanny!" The four kids smiled.
"Where did you all come from?" Nanny asked.
"Uh, I cannot speak for the others, but, I came from a 4:00 bottle of wine..." Felicity shrugged, taking that a little too literally.
"No, no, no," Nanny stopped her right there. "How did you get here? I never heard anything about having visitors up here..."
"We decided to surprise you both." Akito said.
"Make yourselves at home I suppose..." Nanny sighed with a shrug.
Eloise crawled out onto the couch and took the phone as she called for room service to get some breakfast and to charge it.
"I haven't seen you guys since you all arrived on Planet Blanc." Ditto smiled.
"What're you doing here, buddy?" Estelle asked the blob Pokemon.
"Oh, you didn't hear?" Ditto asked as he crawled into her hands. "Princess Ixta dropped me off here as a gift for Eloise since we got along so well after she left to Planet Freleng with Captain Planet and Zadavia. I'm so proud of her... I'll miss her a whole lot, but Eloise is just the best so far."
"Yeah, and he continues to transform into my ribbon." Eloise giggled.
"I just love your hair, what conditioner do you use?" Ditto smirked.
Eloise giggled, then returned to the phone once she got a response. "Hello, this is me, Eloise, I'd like an Irish baked oatmeal with seven spoons, delivered with a roast beef bone, and a raisin on the tippy top floor-"
Nanny then mumbled as she also wanted something ordered.
"And rather hot coffee," Eloise added for Nanny, then looked to her cousins. "Would you guys like anything?"
"Some pancakes would be nice." Akito smiled.
"Ah, yes, and four orders of your best and fluffiest pancakes, charge it please, thank you very much." Eloise then added to room service before hanging up.
Nanny held her head, then looked to Eloise as she clearly had something on her mind. "What?"
"I'm thinking about what absolute fun I'll have at tomorrow's Debutante Ball..." Eloise smiled dreamily.
"You haven't been invited, Eloise." Nanny reminded.
"I will be..." Eloise insisted, then came into her nanny's arms. "Say, what's a Debutante Ball?"
"Yeah, what is it?" Ditto asked.
Nanny smiled as she held Eloise close in her arms. "It's a night when girls from all over the city are introduced to New York's Society..." she started to explain. "It's their first really grown-up dance. It's time to show they can act like adults."
"My mother was a debutante." Eloise then added in.
"Yes..." Nanny smiled in memory of that.
The other kids then smiled as they imagined it.
*Flashback*
Darla was almost a teenager as Aunt Sarah was hosting a debutante ball party and forced Mo to come along and luckily for her, Atticus came as her date. The blonde girl wore her curls down tied with a low bow and she had a light pink dress on with white gloves and white flats.
"You look so grown up..." Atticus smiled down to his adoptive little sister.
Darla blushed. "Thanks, Atticus..."
"You really do look all grown up, you almost look like one of those fashionistas," Patch smiled. "Or one of those movie stars."
"Oh, you guys, I look pretty, but I couldn't be as pretty as Jessica or Mom..." Darla insisted.
Several boys walked up to Darla and asked her to dance.
Darla walked by the numerous boys, she seemed to reject them all until she accidentally ran into someone. "Oh, pardon me..."
A slightly older boy with wavy golden blonde hair and copper brown eyes looked down to her and smirked.
"Urchin?" Darla blinked. "You came here too?"
"Of course I did, I wouldn't miss this ball for the world." Urchin smiled.
Darla smiled bashfully to him.
Urchin smiled back. "Would you like to-"
"Sure!" Darla replied.
"Dance?" Urchin finished his question with a chuckle. "You have a lot of grace."
"I'm a little rusty." Darla giggled.
"Here, let me help you..." Urchin took the girl's gloved hands.
Darla blushed at the touch and weakly followed him as they moved out onto the ballroom.
"There were many gentlemen your mother could've been with that night," Nanny narrated to Eloise. "All of the boys loved her and all of the girls wanted to be her... She was the envy of some of her friends..."
"Wow, Urchin, where did you learn to dance so wonderfully?" Darla asked.
"Ariel and Eric taught me..." Urchin admitted bashfully.
"Really?" Darla asked as she danced with the merboy of her dreams, much to the dismay of every other boy in the ballroom.
"Mm-hmm," Urchin nodded with a small smile. "They had such a lovely anniversary party... Triton turned us all human so we could come and dance with Ariel."
"That was so sweet of him, I wish I could have been there." Darla said.
"Me too... You'd be the bell of the ball." Urchin smiled.
Darla blushed. "Oh, no, not me... Not prettier than Ariel..."
"I think you are." Urchin smiled as he gently stroked her blonde hair behind her ear.
Darla smiled bashfully as they danced together.
We then see younger Nanny standing next to Aunt Sarah, James, and Elizabeth.
"I say, Sarah, that blonde girl looks oh-so familiar to me..."
"Oh, Hilary, it's probably a coincidence..."
"Why's that, Aunt Sarah?" Mo asked.
"Hilary used to look after a little girl once..." Sarah looked down to her adoptive niece. "What'd you say her name was? Daisy? Dodie?"
"Darlene." Nanny corrected.
"That was it." Sarah snapped her fingers then.
"Yes, until her parents and older sister were in a terrible accident..." Nanny explained with a sharp sigh. "I always hoped the dear was raised by a kind and loving new family... I loved her like she was my own daughter."
"Wait, did you just say that you use to look after a little girl by the name of Darlene?" Atticus asked, coming over to the younger nanny.
"Why, yes, yes, I did..." Nanny nodded. "Do you know her?"
Atticus looked back to his little sister as she continued to dance with her not-so secret childhood crush. "Actually, yes..."
"Then you must know where she is." Nanny said out of hope.
"As a matter of fact, I do..." Atticus smiled.
Nanny smiled very hopefully back to this kind stranger.
*End of Flashback*
"Your mother/aunt never looked more beautiful..." Nanny smiled as she reminisced, little did she know, that was also going to be the time she would reunite with the little girl she had practically raised since birth.
"I'm going to be a debutante," Eloise firmly promised. "That's why I'm going to the ball tomorrow and dance with my own prince!"
"Yes, but who knows where that prince of yours might be?" Akito said.
"You're gonna need to get cleaned up first," Nanny smiled and kissed the girl's forehead before letting go of her. "So... Let's move, move, move!"
"When morning duties are at hand, me, Weenie, Skipperdy, and Ditto skip as we everly fastly can!" Eloise told her cousins before marching with Nanny to get cleaned up to start her day, both singing a morning song from jolly old London.
Larvitar, Vulpix, Teddiursa, and Misdeavus all came out of their Pokeballs at once. Nanny and Eloise sang as they went to the bathroom with Ditto going after them.
"Hey, buddy," Akito hugged his Pokemon. "Better hide... Nanny's gonna give Eloise a bath."
"You got it, Dad." Larvitar said before finding a place to hide.
"Felicity, have you been using your father's watch again?" Misdreavus asked
Felicity hid her hands behind her back and shuffled her foot against the pink carpeted floor. "Non?"
"Felicity?" Misdreavus asked suspiciously.
"Maybe?" Felicity grinned nervously, showing her baby fangs to her ghost Pokemon.
"Why?" Misdreavus asked.
"We wanted to go to the Debutante Ball..." Felicity admitted.
"Ooh." Teddiursa smiled.
"It just sounds so magical..." Estelle did a small twirl like a petite and perfect ballerina. "Dancing... Perfect gentlemen... A string quartet... I haven't heard of anything more glamorous than maybe the Grand Galloping Gala."
"Yeah, Mom, Dad, and Aunt Cherry even got to go to one." Akito smiled.
"Oui, oui." Felicity agreed.
Vincent looked distant.
"Wouldn't you say so, Vince?" Estelle asked. "Vince? Vincent!"
Vincent was looked out the window as he saw a familiar red-headed girl walking down the street with her school uniform and backpack on.
"You really wanna go see her, don't you?" Akito asked.
"Huh, what?" Vincent turned to his siblings and cousin as he had color in his cheeks.
Estelle and Akito looked to each other, then smirked as they looked back to their older brother.
"What?!" Vincent glared at them for making those looks on their faces.
"You are so in love with Jenny." Akito smirked.
"Love, love, love." Felicity and Estelle added.
"She's just a friend..." Vincent folded his arms as he turned beet red slightly.
"Nope, you're definently in love with her." Akito smiled.
"She's just a friend..." Vincent lowly growled. "Acquaintance even... A colleague... A pretty-"
The others snickered to that.
"Shut up!" Vincent grabbed his hair in annoyance.
"Dad, if that's true, then why is your face red whenever you think about Mom?" Vulpix asked.
"Yeaaah... Whyyy?" Estelle smirked.
"You mind your own business!" Vincent glared at his sister.
Estelle just cupped her mouth and giggled.
"I sure do wish Mom could come to the Debutante Ball with us." Vulpix frowned.
"Me too..." Vincent whispered, calming down a little bit.
"Oh, and Vincent I'm sure that Jennifer will be most happy when she sees you at the Debutante Ball." Nanny smiled.
"Yah!" Vincent jolted slightly, then smiled sheepishly while shaking to the older woman. "How long have you been standing there?"
"Not long." Nanny said.
Vincent smiled sheepishly.
"You're a very sweet, sweet, sweet boy," Nanny hugged him. "I'm sure Jennifer would be glad to go to the ball with you if you're invited."
"I'm sure we'll be invited." Akito said.
