Missing You

Bugs was in the kitchen one evening making dinner. Pasta salad and friend carrots, his family's favorite. Just as he took the pasta off the stove, the phone rang.

"Yo," he said into the receiver.

"Hey Bugs, it's Tony Cervone."

Bugs leaned against the counter surprised to hear his voice. The directors at WB had been getting at little lazy with his fellow Looney Tunes lately and they hadn't had much planned for them to do in ages. He was looking forward to what Tony had to say. "Hey Tony."

"How are Lola and the kids?"

"They fine. How's the wife?"

"She's alright. How is everyone else?"

"Five letter word for insane."

"Crazy?"

"Exactly."

Tony chuckled. "Some things never change I guess."

"So to what do I owe the pleasure of your call?"

"The guys have got a new idea for a new Looney Tunes movie."

"It's about time. We haven't done a thing since our Christmas movie and even that was three years ago. What's it about?" he asked curiously.

"Well to keep it brief you've been commissioned to catch a convicted robber who stole some sacred jewels from a museum."

Bugs raised his eyebrow. He was used to the movie ideas being cheesy but still. "Why the hell would sacred jewels be kept in a museum?"

"Well where should they be?"

Bugs shrugged. "I don't know. In the ancient pyramids, the emperor of China's jewelry box, Queen Elizabeth's tomb."

"The script is still in the process of being written. We're only halfway done with it."

"Okay so when are we going to start filming this?"

"The plan is to do it all over the summer since that's when most of your free time is. Oh, and we're several of the scenes in Spain."

Bugs smelled something burning and noticed he forget to turn off the stove. "Oh shit!"

"What's wrong? You don't like the idea of filming it in Spain? I thought it would be a nice way to broaden our horizons. We'll be there for maybe two weeks."

"No, my food is burning. This is my real reaction." He paused for a moment. "Oh shit!"

"So this is a good idea, don't you think?"

Bugs shook his head. "No! I mean…I don't know Tony. I can't leave Lola and my children for that long. Isn't there another way to do this?"

"Come on Bugs, it'll be fun. We want the movie to look as exotic as possible and what a better way to do that then to film in another country? I talked to Daffy about it, he loved the idea."

"Daffy doesn't have a family to take care of."

"Look, think about it okay? A movie wouldn't be a movie without Bugs Bunny would it?"

Bugs rolled his eyes. Every time he was skeptical about a movie or TV show idea they had they always played the "it wouldn't be a show without Bugs Bunny" card. Just because he was the most famous out of the group, they thought that would convince him every time. "Fine, I'll consider it."

"Good."

"Good then."

"Can I finish making dinner now?"

"Proceed. I'll talk to you later."

Bugs nodded. "Alright bye." He put their dinner on plates and put them on the table. Then he went outside in the backyard where Lola and the children were. "Dinner's ready."

While they were having dinner Bugs was thinking about the movie shooting in Spain. The thought of leaving his family pained him, even if it wasn't for very long. And he truly did want to do the movie and the scene in Spain, but what about Lola? He decided he'd talk to her about it later that night.

Lola was in their room, laying across their sorcerer sized bed watching Jersey Shore. Miranda had been trying to get her to watch it and she'd never seen it until now, and to be honest she hated it. The one thing she couldn't stand was these over dramatized reality shows that consisted of sex, superficiality, and people going back and forth arguing about dumb stuff. That's why she never watched this show or the Real Housewives of…wherever.

Bugs came over and lay next to her. "You're watching Jersey Shore?" He was surprised. She was just telling him the other ay how dumb this show was.

Lola shook her head. "I was actually about to change it. I don't know how people can stand to watch these fools." She changed the channel then muted the TV. She put her arms around him and kissed his lips. "What's up sweet heart?"

"The sky is up of course," Bugs said with a smirk.

Lola rolled her eyes. "Duh." She kissed him again passionately craving the sweet taste of his mouth. She rolled on top of him still kissing him and he caressed her back and legs making her moan. But then he broke off remembering what he wanted to tell her.

"I have to tell you something."

"What is it? Were you eating my cocoa butter again?"

Bugs laughed. "No, not this time." He licked his lips thinking about the taste of her mango cocoa butter that was meant to be used as lotion. "Warner Brother's has a new movie for us."

"That's great. What's it about?"

"We've got to find this dude who stole sacred jewels from a museum."

Lola raised her eyebrow. "Why would sacred jewels be in a museum?"

"That's exactly what I said!" At least someone agreed with him.

"When are you going to start filming?"

"They said over the summer so I'm assuming next month."

"I'm glad you're doing another movie. You haven't actually starred in one for a while."

"Yeah. But we're filming some scenes in Spain, so I'll have to go away for a while."

Lola's face fell. "Why Spain?"

"Its 'exotic'," he made air quotes on "exotic".

"How long will you be gone?"

"Two weeks."

"Two weeks? You're going to leave me for two whole weeks?"

"Look, I don't have to go. I'll stay here if you want."

Lola wanted him to stay with her, but if he wanted to go she couldn't be the one to keep him here. It wouldn't be right. She was a big girl; she could handle it, right? "Do you want to go?"

"Yeah I want to make the movie but if it'll make you sad if I leave then no…"

She put her finger over his lips to stop him. "Then go."

"Are you sure?"

Lola nodded. "Yeah…go make you're movie. I'll be fine, honestly."

Bugs could tell she didn't like the idea of him leaving, but he knew if he tried to argue with her she'd throw him out of the house anyway just to prove she wasn't upset about it. "Okay."

She sighed. "Okay."

"Good," he tapped her nose jokingly.

She smiled. "Fine then."

"Fine." They both started laughing.

It was the day Bugs was leaving. Lola woke up early that morning, around 7:00 to be exact. She knew she didn't need to be up early, she wasn't driving Bugs to the airport until ten thirty. Bugs was still fast asleep next to her snoring slightly. She put her arms around him and buried her face in the soft white fur of his chest.

She really did not want him to leave. She could barely stand being away from Bugs in a regular day, what would she do for two whole weeks? What would she do without his smiling face in the morning, or his arms to hold her, or his sense of humor that kept her going, or him to cuddle with at night? Maybe she was being over dramatic. It wasn't that long right? He'd be back before she knew it. But he was like the air she breathed. If she didn't have air, how would she survive?

She heard him yawn and saw him waking up. "Good morning love."

He kissed her lips. "Good morning. You're up early."

"So are you."

"True shit." Bugs held her close to him. "I'm gonna miss you."

Lola sighed. "I'll miss you too."

"Last chance to tell me to stay."

"Would you stop it? You know damn well you want to go and it wouldn't be right for me to keep you from going. Two weeks is not that long. Stop trying to make me tell you to stay!"

Bugs raised his eyebrows. "You know, most women would be begging their husbands to stay with them. Here you are yelling at me telling me to get out."

Lola stroked his ear. "Maybe if you didn't want to go I'd be begging you to stay. But you want to leave me behind and there's nothing I can do about that."

"It's not that I want you to leave you behind, it's just that we're finally making another movie."

"I know that, I was just teasing you." She kissed his lips as hard as she could.

Bugs looked into her eyes. "Do you want to make love one more time?"

Lola nodded eagerly. "Please."

Later that day they were at the airport and Bugs was about to board their beautiful white private jet.

Jacob and Kristy hugged him. "I'll miss you daddy," Jacob said.

Bugs kissed his forehead. "I'll miss you too kiddo. I'll call you."

"Daddy, can you get me a French Barbie doll?" Kristy asked.

Bugs chuckled. "I would if I was going to France. People from Spain are Spanish sweet heart."

"Well can you get me a Spanish Barbie?"

"If I can find one I'll get it for you." He kissed her. He went over to Lola who was standing behind them. They threw their arms around each other and hugged each other tightly.

"I'll miss you so much Bugsy."

Bugs kissed her. "I'll miss you too Lola. I'll call you every day three times a day."

"I'll hold you to that," Lola said. They kissed again as hard as they could savoring the moment.

He ran his hand through his hair. "Bye Lola." He gave his children another hug then went to get on the plane.

Once he was on the plane she waved to him and soon he was off.

The week seemed to go by extremely slow. Sure he kept to his word and called them several times a day but it wasn't the same as having him there to hold her in his arms and kiss her. She felt lonely without him. He was the one person she saw every day and spent the majority of her time with. He was constantly on her mind as much as she tried to push him away. He was a part of her, he had half of her heart and that half was on the other side of the world.

Despite how lonely she felt, she tried her hardest to keep herself distracted. She spent her time playing with Jacob and Kristy who missed their dad a lot. But being as young as they were they were able to distract themselves from Bugs' absence a lot easier. Throughout the week they all enjoyed themselves though. Lola took them to the park and the beach and to the mall with Penelope. She took them up to the Golden Gate Bridge one Wednesday and sent Bugs the pictures afterwards.

After putting the kids to bed on Saturday night she was in her own bed on the phone with Bugs.

"So how's the filming going?" she asked.

"It's going pretty good. We've got about three scenes done from Madrid and Barcelona."

"Remember when we stayed in Barcelona a few years ago?" Lola asked recalling when they'd gone on a vacation with the kids to Barcelona.

"Yeah and we went rock climbing and you almost fell."

Lola laughed. "Don't bring that up again, that was scary."

"I wouldn't have let you fall."

"I know. How many scenes are you doing there?"

"Like…five. I think."

"I can't wait to see the whole movie."

"It's going to be good. The production value of it is really good. What have you been doing all week besides going to the Golden Gate?"

"We went to the park and the beach. We went to the mall with Penelope the other day. It was funny, I got Kristy a raspberry smoothie. We were on the second floor and they were looking over the railings at the first floor and there was this guy in an all white suit walking past. Then Kristy dropped her smoothie on him. His suit was all purple and he looked like he was about to curse us out."

Bugs laughed. "Only Kristy would do something like that."

"That's your daughter."

They stayed on the phone for a few more hours then they started to get tired.

"I miss you a lot Lola."

"I miss you too Bugs. Good night."

"Good night Lo. I love you."

"I love you too." She hung up the phone then lay down to go to sleep. It felt weird being alone in their huge bedroom. Usually by now she'd cuddle up in his arms and they'd drift off to sleep together. A week had gone by but it felt like a year. One week left and she'd have him again.

It was Wednesday, a few days before Bugs was coming back home. Lola was going insane. She missed him so much it was unbearable. She'd resorted to wearing his red robe around the house to feel closer to him (not that she didn't wear his clothes when he was there, just for different reasons). She was craving his body so much she was afraid she'd start having withdrawal symptoms. Hearing his voice over the phone wasn't enough, she needed him in person. She felt extremely stupid for all of it. It ashamed her that she couldn't go a few days without her husband without feeling unbearably depressed. She tried to convince herself otherwise but she was positive she'd lost her mind.

She had been laying on the couch in the library. At first she'd been asleep but she'd woken up a half an hour ago and was just thinking about Bugs now.

Kristy came in and bent down to look at her face. "Mommy, when are you going to make lunch?"

"Give me five minutes."

"You've been saying that for a half an hour. I'm hungry."

Suddenly they heard a crash and she jumped off the couch and ran into the kitchen to see what happened. Jacob was standing on a chair with the cabinet opened and there was a plate shattered on the floor. "Jake, what are you doing?"

"I was hungry and you wouldn't make lunch."

Lola felt guilty now. She was so caught up in her own unimportant depression over Bugs that she'd been neglecting her children. "I'll make your lunch now. Both of you stay where you are until I clean up this glass, I don't want you to get hurt."

After cleaning up the shattered plate she made them both peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and carrots for lunch. Before she could make something for herself the doorbell rang. She opened it and found Sylvia there.

"Hey Lola. What's wrong? You look terrible."

Lola rolled her eyes. "Thanks."

Sylvia went inside and Lola closed the door behind her. "Seriously, your head looks like it just went through the spin cycle of a washing machine."

Lola glared at her but then she laughed at her crazy comparison. "Did you come here to tell me how terrible I look?"

"No, I just need some company. I miss my Sylvester boo and Jr's off with his friends. How are things holding up around here without Bugs."

Lola shook her head.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

They went into the library and sat on the couch Lola had been laying on before. "I miss him too much. I'm going crazy. He's like water to me, I need him to survive." She dropped her face into her hands. "And…and then I feel so dumb for it. It-it's not like he's not coming back. He-He'll be back in a few days. What if he's found some hot young Spanish woman and he's having an affair with her?"

Sylvia raised her eyebrows. "You really think Bugs will do that to you?"

Lola shook her head. "I guess not." She looked up at Sylvia. "Is it normal to feel this way?"

Sylvia hugged her. "Absolutely Lola. I know exactly how you feel. I feel this way every time Sylvester goes away for something. You've just got to keep your head up, count your blessings, and go through life the best you can while he's gone. Like you said, they'll be back in a few days then we'll have nothing else to worry about."

Lola gave her a grateful smile. "Thanks Sylvia."

"Jake, Kristy, we're not going to do this tonight okay? It's bedtime." The one thing Lola hated was chasing Jacob and Kristy around at night trying to get them to go to bed. It seemed like they got on an energy rush right before they went to bed and it was almost impossible to get them to settle down. Kristy ran past her and she grabbed her and picked her up. "Gotcha you crazy little girl." Jacob ran past her and she grabbed his pajama shirt. He tried to run but she dragged him to his bed. "Get in the bed before you get in trouble." Jacob listened to her and got under the covers afraid to find out the meaning of "trouble".

"Are you gonna call daddy?" Jacob asked.

"Yeah, give me a minute." She put Kristy in her bed then got the phone from her room and called Bugs.

"Hello?"

"Hey, it's me. Your children want to say good night to you."

"Okay, but I've got something to tell you first."

"You're having an affair with a sexy Spanish woman?"

"Huh?" He said sounding confused. "No, of course not! I haven't given any of these girls a second thought. "

"Oh," Lola said feeling embarrassed for asking.

"Anyway, I'm coming home tomorrow."

Lola almost tripped. "What?"

"I'm coming home tomorrow. We finished all of the scenes. The other guys are staying to enjoy the vacation for a while but I can't stand to be away from you another second so I'm coming home."

"Oh Bugs, thank you, thank you, thank you!"

Jacob and Kristy came in when they heard their mom screaming. "What's going on?" Jacob asked.

"Your dad's coming home tomorrow!"

"YAY!"

They were at the airport the next day around three o' clock waiting for Bugs' plane to land. Once it did and he got off Jacob and Kristy ran over to him and hugged him.

"Hi daddy!" Kristy said.

"We missed you!" Jacob said.

"I missed you too."

"Did you bring us something?"

"I sure did." He pulled out a Buzz Lightyear doll and handed it to Jacob.

"Cool." He pressed the button. "Hasta el infinito y más allá!" it said. "What did it say?"

"To infinity and beyond!" Bugs said imitating Buzz Lightyear.

"Cool."

He pulled out a Barbie doll in a long flowing Spanish skirt. "Here you go Kristy," he said handing it to her.

She pressed the button on the back.

"Soy una chica Barbie en el mundo de Barbie
Vida en plástico, es fantástico
Puedes cepillar mi pelo, me desnudas por todas partes
La imaginación, la vida es tu creación…" it sang.

Kristy hugged Bugs tightly. "Thank you daddy!"

"You're welcome."

Bugs looked over at Lola and smiled at her but she was frowning at him. "Why do you look mad at me?" he asked.

She pointed at him. "You!"

"Me?" Bugs was very confused about why she looked like she was going to bite his head off.

"Don't you ever leave me alone for more than twenty four hours again!" she exclaimed.

"I thought you missed me, why are you yelling at me like this?"

Lola glared at him for a few more seconds but couldn't take it anymore. She knew good and well she wasn't mad at him and all she wanted was to be in his arms and never let go. She held her arms out to him. "Come here you crazy rabbit."

He hugged her tightly and kissed her as hard as he could not even caring that they were in a public place with tons of people watching. "I knew you weren't mad at me."

"How could I be?"

"I got something for you too."

"What did you get?"

He pulled out a gold ring with huge rubies on it and put it on her finger that didn't have her wedding ring on it. It was beautiful. It wasn't too big or too small, it fit her finger perfectly, and it sparkled in the light. She threw her arms around him again and kissed him. "I love you Bugs!" His lips connected with hers again and he dipped her so low that her ears were touching the ground.

Jacob and Kristy gave them disgusted looks. "We don't know them," Jacob said. They went and sat on a nearby bench and played with their toys waiting for them to finish.

Bugs and Lola stopped kissing. "Hey, where'd they go?" Lola asked.

They saw them sitting on the bench. "You two come back over here before someone abducts you," Bugs said.

They went to go get his suitcases then headed back home.