A/N: I forgot about this story. Sorry! But it's here nowww!
Disclaimer: All characters in here belong to Mondo Media!
It was breakfast time and, as usual, the friends decided to go to the diner for breakfast.
Toothy was extra-tired that day and ordered strong coffee. Cuddles stared at him oddly.
"Dude, you're gonna make yourself high offa coffee if you drink that!"
"Shut up, Cuddles, please. I'm tired and need the energy," Toothy stated, yawning, then gulping the coffee. Cuddles stared at him.
"That didn't even scorch your tongue, or burn your throat?" Toothy shook his head and yawned again. "And you're still tired! Good God, Toothy, what keeps you up every night?"
Toothy glared at Cuddles and said, "You already know."
Cuddles sighed and said, "You need to stop thinking about that and find a new crush. It's already gotten you threatened, killed, your house burned down..."
Toothy glanced up, annoyed, and finally noticed his blue hero was there and watching them oddly.
He nearly had a heart attack. He turned back to Giggles quickly, asking for another cup of coffee.
Giggles and Cuddles exchanged a glance that seemed to say "I'm worried", then continued with what they were doing.
Splendid obviously overheard the whole conversation between Cuddles and Toothy. He'd been in the diner at least five minutes before Flaky, Toothy, and Cuddles walked in. He had glanced up from his newspaper, then back down at it as he sipped some of his coffee. It was evident the rabbit nor the beaver noticed him, and he himself hadn't really paid much attention to them... at least, not until he heard the yellow rabbit mention something about a crush. Then he looked up and watched them oddly while Cuddles listed the things that this crush had caused.
Toothy had glanced up from his coffee cup to look in annoyance at Cuddles, but Splendid knew he'd finally noticed Splendid was there. Toothy had quickly turned back to Giggles and ordered more coffee.
Splendid was confused. He knew Toothy wasn't intimidated by him or anything like that, Toothy was possibly his biggest fan, and he wasn't particularly used to Toothy turning away so quickly. In fact, he was used to the fanboy watching him the entire time, but lately Toothy never watched him for long, even when he was in costume...
For some reason, this kind of ticked Splendid off, and he didn't know why. Surely he didn't actually want all of Toothy's attention?
Splendid knew all the Tree Friends knew about his secret identity thing, he knew they just pretended to not recognize him out of politeness. He remembered the reason he realized this was because of, you guessed it, Toothy, who had accidentally called him Splendid while he was in disguise. Toothy had run away after realizing what he'd said, but it helped Splendid realize that no one fell for the desquise thing. He just kept up with the disguise thing out of habit.
Splendid watched the beaver and the rabbit converse for a little while longer before deciding to get up and leave finally. He wanted to go think a few things over...
"Umm... Toothy... Me and Giggles wanna go on a date, but you never feel comfortable being alone, so..." Cuddles glanced to the side, trying to calmly tell his friend he either needed to stay with another friend of their's or stay at his house all day. Toothy understood.
"Don't worry, Cuddles, I wouldn't want to be there on your date anyway. You know, I actually kinda wanted to go check on the repair progress on my house," Toothy suddenly said. "And I think if I avoid going on that one street, I might be safe..."
Cuddles looked at him skeptically, then said, "Alright, if you think so..." Then he hurried off to join Giggles, who took his hand and began walking towards the park.
Toothy began walking in the direction of his house, his mind already wandering to the thoughts of a certain blue flying squirrel...
Unfortunately, Toothy was wrong. He took a different street, but the same gangster was there anyway. The gangster threw a knife at Toothy. The knife flew right by Toothy's head, missing by mere centimeters. Toothy immediately began running and shouting for help, but the gangsters were on him in a minute, shouting at him to leave town and die permanently. They began beating the poor beaver up, who was trying frantically to get away, but was failing miserably.
Luckily for Toothy, Splendid happened to be passing by at that moment and noticed what was happening. He immediately went to the rescue of the defenseless beaver.
Toothy was in the hospital recovering from his 'd been amazed by the fact that Splendid actually saved him-without killing him.
"TOOOOOOOOOTHYYYYYY!"
Toothy winced as he heard the familiar yellow rabbit burst into the hospital, shouting his name.
"TOOTHY OH MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED?"
Toothy looked up in annoyance at the yellow rabbit. "What''s it look like? I was attacked."
"But they didn't kill you? That's good!" Cuddles smiled slightly in relief.
Toothy sighed. "They would have killed me, but..."
"But what?" Cuddles seemed interested to know what happened.
"Splendid happened to be passing by," Toothy sighed slightly. "I think I was half unconscious but I do remember him bringing me here. I'm just glad he didn't ask questions as to why I was attacked."
Cuddles snickered quietly, then said, "Splendid is kinda oblivious. It's so obvious you li-"
"Cuddles, you should probably leave; he needs rest," Sniffles stated as he came in. "You should be able to go home about tomorrow. Just be careful; you broke your arm and fractured one of your ribs, and your bruises will be quite sensitive for a while."
"Gee, now my next death will be ten-times more painful!" Toothy exclaimed, sinking lower in the hospital bed.
Cuddles grinned slightly, then said, "And to celebrate you coming out of the hospital alive, we'll have another movie night! What movie should it be this time, Toothy?"
"I don't care," Toothy stated before taking his sleeping pills. "Whatever makes you happy, I guess..."
Cuddles watched his friend fall asleep before grinning slightly and leaving the hospital to go announce another movie-night.
Toothy was sitting on the couch when he took a sip of the tea. The moment the tea entered his mouth, he began gagging and spit it out again.
"Who made this tea? Tell me Nutty didn't make this tea!"
Cuddles looked apologetically at Toothy. "Sorry, I was busy and you couldn't very well make it yourself, and he was the only other person here."
Toothy set the cup to the side, then said, "You could have hidden the bag of sugar..."
"I know, but then Nutty would go to the store and buy a hundred packs. So it was either one or one-hundred packs."
Toothy heard another knock on the door and quickly got up, saying, "I'll get the door!"
"Aww, Toothy, your arm's broken! You shouldn't be doing any work!" Cuddles stated, jumping up and racing Toothy to the door.
"Okay, I got a new batch of tea up!" Giggles called from the kitchen. "The other batch is Nutty's batch, okay? In fact, I've labeled them, so read before you pour."
Toothy nodded slightly to himself, storing that info in his mind, before reaching and opening the door... and he immediately wished he had let Cuddles deal with it.
Along with Disco Bear, Petunia, and Mime was no other than Splendid!
"Hey guys! Come on in!" Cuddles said happily, standing aside and letting them pass. Toothy also stood aside. He noticed Splendid glance at him before walking past.
Toothy closed the door, then grabbed Cuddles with his one good arm and dragged him into the kitchen, nearly bumping into Giggles. Giggles glared slightly before going out into the living room with glasses of tea.
Toothy stopped and looked at Cuddles. "I thought you said he wasn't coming," Toothy hissed quietly.
"Well, if you knew he was coming, you wouldn't have showed you face," he stated matter-of-factly.
"Exactly! I don't know how to act around him..." Toothy muttered just loud enough for Cuddles to hear.
Cuddles rolled his eyes and said, "Just act normal, man."
Cuddles then dragged Toothy back out and pointed at the couch. "Sit."
"Why? Can't I just go to my room? I am feeling kinda tired anyway."
Cuddles slapped his face, then pushed Toothy into a sitting position. "Dude, you need to calm down. Now, I'm gonna go make the popcorn!" He suddenly turned to Splendid, who happened to be right next to Toothy. "Splendid, will you make sure he doesn't leave this room? He's been getting attacked so much recently I wouldn't be surprised if someone set a bomb in the room he's staying in."
Toothy glared at Cuddles, who grinned when Splendid nodded slightly. Then Cuddles ran off to the kitchen to make some popcorn.
Mime went off to help Cuddles and Disco Bear went to go fluff his hair. Giggles was sitting in a chair, reading a magazine and sipping tea. Nutty was in the kitchen, drinking his special sugar-filled tea.
Toothy stared at the blank screen on the TV. He glanced at Splendid, who was reading a novel about... whatever it was about. Toothy stretched his legs, then started to slip off the couch to get away.
"Where you going?"
Caught. Dangit!
"Nowhere," Toothy muttered, glancing down at his arm. He was wondering how Splendid noticed him trying to get away when he was reading his book.
"I'm back! Now while we wait for the other guests, let's all go do something! Waddya say, Toothy?" Cuddles decided to be a little stupid and clapped the beaver on the shoulder, who yelped and batted his hand away. "Oops, sorry, forgot about the sensitivity!" Cuddles stated sheepishly, glancing at Splendid, who was watching him in a way that Cuddles could only describe as annoyance. But why would he be annoyed? He could read his novel when people were screaming and dying, surely he could read when Toothy yelped that way... unless...
Cuddles set the popcorn down on the coffee table. Then he said, "How about we play the ABC game to pass the time?"
"ABC game?" Toothy asked curiously, not understanding.
"Yea, the ABC game. Where someone says something of a particular subject starting with an "A", then the next person says the A-word, then says something starting with a "B", and so on..." Cuddles explained. "It's basically a memory game. Sniffles told me about it."
Disco Bear had already by this time returned to the living room and was listening to this when he smirked. He went and stood right beside Giggles, a flirtatious smile on his face. Giggles looked annoyed.
Cuddles glared slightly at DB. "Toothy, remind me why I invited him?"
"It was either him or Flippy," Toothy muttered. "He was the better choice, though. The most he'll do is flirt with your girlfriend, Flippy would attempt to murder us all."
"Flippy wouldn't have even come," Splendid suddenly said. "He said something about a date with Flaky a few days ago after killing nearly everyone."
"You actually talk to him after he kills everybody?" Cuddles asked.
"Yea. He's harmless when he's not 'flipped-out', don't you know that?"
While they were talking, Toothy attempted to get away again, but Cuddles saw Splendid glance over at him. Cuddles quickly stopped him and said, "Why are you so determined to leave?"
"You know why," he muttered, staring at Cuddles in a way that said I knew you were stupid, but not THAT stupid!
"Well, yea, I do know, but oh well. You're not leaving. I'll tie you to that couch if I have to!" Out of nowhere, rope appeared in Cuddles' hands. Everyone, even Cuddles, was confused.
"Okay okay okay, geeze, alright..." Toothy muttered. He didn't exactly want to be tied to the couch, especially when Splendid was sitting right beside him.
Cuddles grinned happily and tossed the rope away. "Good!" He exclaimed, then there was another knock on the door. He bounded over to it and opened it, letting the other people in, warning them about which tea they got.
Then Cuddles began the movie since everyone was there, and everyone sat in silence as they watched Nightmare on Elm Street.
_To_Be_Continued_
Well, I had originally planned this to be a two-shot, but I changed my mind and decided maybe three chapters. BLAH.
