Ha! :D You all are going to get a kick out of this one ;)

Time was running so dangerously short and the dog was all the way up on the second floor awhile the others have already gotten outside the premises without him. Poor Slinky felt helpless when he was in the destructive hands of two twin girls who were waiting their turn for their booster shots. Soon the time came when the nurse at the desk called up the next patients to go in. Slinky, unfortunately, was dragged in with them and they allowed his behind to scrape and bounce painfully on the carpet flooring. Being this still could be the end for him; either he would be pulled in half or have his cords tangled up from such rough play could render the poor doggie to bark out in agony, then all mayhem would break lose, as though it hadn't already.

Once he was sure the trio had made it safely out of the pediatrics, Jack was now determined to get their doggie friend out there as well before they begin crossing over to the parking lot across the main hospital road. Of course, avoiding the eyes of the doctors and the patients, it would very well take a little while.

Gaddily bob-howdy! Slinky was all in a terrible tangle almost and he couldn't do anything to get out of it. Where are ya'll? Darn! This dog'll never get outta here with these gals yanking over his tail. he thought out thoroughly and hopelessly.

He had to get free. But how? His friends were so far off. Bonnie was ten times as far. With a final glance, Slinky saw an open window inside one of the offices. The caretaker of the twin kid who had him, took him right off the child's hands.

"We have to leave it here. It's not your toy."

"But, Ma! I want it!"

"It's not yours. We have to leave it here, okay? I'll buy you one like this one."

"Okay." moaned the girl and her mother placed Slinky on top of a side table near that office that they had passed.

Once the family had gone, Slinky jerked into motion and plopped onto the floor before breaking into a bouncy run toward that office. With no one around to see him, Slinky slowly sneaks up to the door frame and sticks his snout in before peeking. The office was completely unoccupied. Right when the lost dog was about to go inside, something dislodged him. Something tackled him suddenly, having him roll underneath the rectangular desk in a rut.

"Ah...Ooh..." was all the flustered Slinky could say.

"Do you want the humans to catch you?" spoke the voice of someone who was a complete stranger to him.

"What-who are you?"

Slinky was lying on his back after his rough roll over from being shoved so voilently. In his point of view he was staring at an upside down stuffed rabbit who was crawling his way up to him, scowling.

"No time for quality time. Your pals are waiting for you."

Slinky tilted his head in bewilderment as he rolled over back on his feet. "My friends?"

"Yes!" ushered the rabbit before hopping up onto the computer chair, pushing it to turn around toward the window before hopping up on the shelf in front of the window. "Hurry stupid! They're out there right now!"

"'kay, okay, I'm a gettin'!" panted the tired doggie as he hopped head first to grab onto the fabric of the chair. Jack saw Slinky struggling to hang on since he was having irkesome trouble of pulling up his own hindquarters up with him.

"Ugh!" Slinky plopped himself flat on the seat, utterly worn out. "I'm tuckered...my back end's sluggin'..." sighed Slinky while Jack hopped back down to the chair.

"I knew I was gonna regret this...all right, come on!" Jack pushed as he began to reel up the iron curls up one by one in order to get the dog's other end up before someone sees.

"Aaiii!" Slinky yelped when he felt his line get stuck on the wheel of the chair. "Not good!"

Grouchy, Jack looked downward to observe what the problem was. "Great...you're stuck..."

Slinky cringed at the tone of his voice as the bunny leaped down to free the iron line. Meanwhile Slinky heard more feet coming up the hall, toward the office and whimpered, shakily.

"Hey!" he hissed down to Jack. "Yo, you! Hey, hey, hey-"

"WHAT!" Jack hissed back nearly losing his cool with the pesty Slink.

"Someone's comin'!"

"Dur..." Jack rudely answered, continuing to pull at the line to get it out.

Suddenly, success! Jack gave a final tug and the line snapped out of the space between the chair and the wheel. "Got it!" exclaimed the rabbit before picking up Slinky's back side and throwing it up onto the chair. He hopped back up as well after Slinky got kicked with his own hind leg.

"Thanks."

"Thank me later, get out the window!" Jack motioned in a hurry.

"What? You're babblin'!"

"Just do it, dog, or I'll throw ye out myself!"

Meanwhile, outside in the side gardens by the Pediatrics entrance, Buzz, Woody and Jessie sneak through even more thick shrubs to stay out of plain sight from the people walking by.

"Woody, I-I don't like this..."

"Just calm down, Jessie."

"No! I mean, are we able to get back to Bonnie? Of all we know, she might-"

"Don't talk such silly nonsense, cowgirl." Buzz hissed at her to be quiet as someone closely walked by. "We'll get back, I'm sure of it."

"There's no way we're leaving Slinky behind." Woody clarified as he moved leading both Buzz and Jessie through the brush.

To their surprise, a familiar voice was heard from above; the gruff voice of a certain toy canine up in the window, just one story high.

Mrs. Anderson would do all that she could to find those toys, but her little Bonnie was due out in fifteen minutes. Where were they? Searching the entire hospital was too rash, way too rash. But Bonnie would be so crushed that her best friends were gone. Those toys were irreplaceable. As she waited solemnly in room 229 for Bonnie's return, someone knocked at the door. It was Bonnie's twenty year old cousin, Patricia. She had come to see Bonnie recover, also she had a welcoming gift in the paper bag she was holding.

"Patty, hey" Mrs. Anderson greeted her neice with a hug. "You're early."

"Yeah, I got out of class early and...what do ya know, why not make sure the brave girl chugging along good?"

"You're sweet." Anderson smiled. "She should be coming in around ten minutes."

"Cool. I stopped at the Sunnyside Give Away on the way here and I got her a couple presents."

"Aw, you didn't have to do that."

"No, it was nothing. I barely spent any cash on 'em. Look at this,"

With that she took out a shoe box and inside it looked like it contained nothing but tissue paper, but once Patty unwrapped it all, she had revealed a seemingly priceless porcelain of a western lass wearing a pink bonnet and a frilly hand-made dress holding a thin blue herding staff. The dolls' face was classically hand-painted and glassy and clean. Mrs. Anderson looked her over, admirably.

"Wow, she's gorgeous. How much was this?"

"Just five bucks. I got it at a bargain price. It used to be a part of a lamp, but I thought it was cute and it made me think of Bonnie, so..."

"It's great, she'll love this."

Before Patty forgot about it, she reached again into the paper bag and took out a cheap penguin toy.

"Oh, and I got this at 25 cents. I thought it was cute." she said as she squeaked it before giving it to Anderson.

"Well," she sighed, putting the porcelain gently on the table along with the squeaky penguin. "She would love these, a lot, if only she had the others that she brought."

"What happened?"

"Well, someone took them thinking that they were someone else's and I have no idea where they can be so..."

"Not the cowboy doll, she loves that one. All the reason why I got the girl for her."

"I don't know what to say."

"I'm sure they're around here somewhere."

Aw man! Well, until next time *nervous grin*