Chapter 4. I hope you enjoy. Things are going to get a little...romantic in this chapter.

It was 2:00 PM when Martin came strolling in later that day. He had hung up his hat and was whistling a little tune as he shut the door.

"Martin dear, hello. " greeted Mrs P as she emerged from the kitchen.

"Mrs P." said Martin greeting her. "How are the girls?"

"Oh there just fine. Miss Rosetta is quite the brainiac."

"Excuse me?" he asked a bit confused.

"You know, she's really smart for a homeless girl."

"Indeed." he said walking into the kitchen. "I am very intrigued by her sense of knowledge."

"You don't think maybe..."

"Maybe what?"

"Maybe she's...not what she seems."

"Well of course she is. She's a homeless, speechless...woman."

"She may be more than that dear. There's just something about her that I can just feel."

"Well all in all. She's just a person. Nothing more."

The sound of someone coming down the stairs could be heard as Martin finished his sentence. He walked out to see Lizzy and Rosetta coming down .

"Hello father!" said Lizzy gleefully rushing to her dad and giving him a big squeeze.

"Lizzy dear. How are you?"

"I'm fine. How was your day?"

"It was grand. How about yours?"

"Miss Rosetta taught me how to plant flowers."

"Really?" he asked astonished. He looked up to Rosetta, who smiled.

"Yes. I can show them to you."

"Well sure. Just let me get settled in." they both walked upstairs. Martin smiled at Rosetta as they did. She smiled back, almost lovingly.

"Quite a handsome man isn't he?" asked Mrs P.

Rosetta didn't hear her as she was still staring upstairs as if Martin was still walking up.

"I thought so. Well I best be going. Have a husband you know." she said as she gathered her things and left.

The next day, Martin got up early and got dressed. He was on his way outside to update his field journal for work. As she walked through the halls from his bedroom, he stopped past Lizzy's room to check on her. She was asleep. He smiled and pressed on. When he came to the bottom of the stairs. He looked to his left and saw Rosetta, who was also still asleep. As he looked on at her, he couldn't help but smiled at her as well. What was it about him always smiling anytime he looked at her. Weird.

He went outside and breathed a huge breath of fresh air as the day was more gorgeous than yesterday. He came to the back of the house to check on the plants, which all seemed to be thriving well.

But then he came to the garden that he recognized very well, the torn up, withered garden, which by the way, wasn't looking so withered anymore. In fact the exact opposite.

"Oh my word." he said as astonished as he could. The field journal and pencil seemed to practically fall out of his hands.

"How-how did,"

He walked passed the broken gate and into the now flourishing garden.

He came to a bushel of roses. He slowly picked one up and began to take in it's sweet fragrance. Suddenly, he noticed in the soil, the picture Rosetta had drawn to describe to Lizzy her true form. He of course, didn't know what it meant, despite being quite clever and intelligent. He was about to make out what each of the signs meant. It was obviously, a flower, and a fairy. Then he figured.

"Elizabeth probably planted these and then tried to get me to believe fairies did." he thought to himself and chuckled. "Oh goodness, what an imaginative, yet wonderful girl she is."

Lizzy did indeed believe in fairies and knew that her father didn't and usually had no time for fairy tales. But even he had to "stop and smell the roses" once in a while.

After a while, slowly and quietly, came back in the house. It was still a bit quiet. He looked to his right. To see if Rosetta was still sleeping. He couldn't see her very well from where he was so he slowly walked over to check on her. Being quiet so that he wouldn't wake her. But to his surprise, she wasn't there.

He started looking around frantically for her.

"Miss Rosetta?" he called in a quiet tone.

"Miss Rosetta? Where are you?"

He started walking about, looking around for red haired woman.

He checked many rooms, but somehow couldn't find her. He checked the bedrooms, the hallways and even went back outside.

"Miss Rosetta?" he began calling a little louder, but not too loud so that he wouldn't wake Lizzy.

"Miss Rosetta where are-"

Suddenly, he smelled something. It smelled like something was burning. As he looked around, smoke began gathering around him.

"Oh dear. SMOKE!"

He began sprinting about. Looking around for Rosetta. Was she okay? Was she hurt? Was the house of fire?

"Miss Rosetta, where are you!" He rammed into the kitchen to find a startled Rosetta, who was cooking, but burning food.

"Miss Rosetta, there you are. Oh thank goodness." he breathed a huge sigh of relief.

"Wait. OH NO! SMOKE!"

He quickly darted next to Rosy and turned the stove off just in time.

"Whew. Were you trying to cook?" he asked the frightened garden fairy (Unknowingly to him).

Rosetta was dressed in a normal summer dress, but was also wearing an apron.

She nodded her head to his question.

"What...ever for?" he asked almost out of breath.

Rosy pointed her head to three plates sitting on the counter. Martin looked at them and understood.

"You were, trying to make us breakfast?" he asked.

Rosy nodded again.

"That's...so nice of you."

She smiled rather blushingly. He began staring into her eyes, and she responded by doing the same. They did this for a about three minutes before Martin broke them.

"But maybe I can teach you." he said.

Rosetta agreed. Although she was very good at cooking back in Pixie Hollow, she didn't really know how to cook on the mainland. Or as a human for that matter.

"First though, lets clear out all this smoke."

Quite a minute later. He was teaching her how to cook.

She was having some trouble with a pancake.

"Kind of like that. Here let me show you."

He got right behind her and placed his hands on hers to guide her. The two of them blushed as he did this.

"And you just take the spatula. When it's ready to flip."

He couldn't see to the front very well, he got his head kind of how over Rosy's shoulder and there heads were now right next to each other.

The spatula went under the pancake. And together, the two of them flipped it on the other side.

"Excellent Miss Rosetta! That was brilliant!" he praised her for her improvement.

Rosetta smiled and they both hugged excitedly.

"I knew you could do it." he said as he hugged her. Suddenly, the two of them found that they just couldn't let go of each other. They held their embrace for a good minute. A new feeling was coming across Rosetta as she had her arms gently around Martin. She felt really safe and loved with him. He returned those feelings by placing his head against hers. Being taller than her, he had to really lead his head down to her hair. It smelled like, well, roses. Similar to the roses he had smelled in the new garden. They began to get lost in each others embrace.

Martin began stroking his hand against her shoulder. Never in a long time had he felt such soft skin, or smelled such wonderful hair. And never in a long time, had he ever held such a beautiful woman in his arms. Rosetta cradled her head deeper in his shoulder. His hold on her was so strong and masculine. Never has a man ever held her like this before.

Lizzy, came downstairs and was dressed. She went into the kitchen and just so happened to this time see them hug.

"Hello." she said like she'd had never seen two people hug each other romantically before.

The two of them pulled away, quite startled.

Martin did a nervous chuckle before greeting Lizzy. Again.

"Oh g-good morning darling." he said acting like nothing happened just now. "Some breakfast?"

"Sure." she said curiously making her way to the table.

Meanwhile, Fawn and the others quickly made their way to the living room window.

"Okay guys. This is where I saw her. She and the little girl walked right passed me."

"Okay Fawn , now are you sure you saw Rosetta...as a human." said Tink.

"Absolutely, I'm not making it up. She was huge!"

"Well I don't see her now." said Sil looking around.

"Yeah, me either." said Iridessa moving a sunbeam out of her way.

"But I'm telling she's here." Fawn began looking around in the house to find Rosetta, but to no avail.

"Listen Fawn, maybe you were just hallucinating." said Tink.

"Yeah, being out in the sun too long. I should know." said Dessa.

"Guys come on, I saw her, I'm telling you! I saw her twice! I don't know how she got that way, but I saw her. And we need to find a way to change her back!"

"Relax, she's probably out taking care of some flowers somewhere." said Sil.

"No she isn't-"

"Fawn. Come on now, I think you need some rest."

"No I don't she was there I saw her. She's a human! She's a human! We have to save her and-"

"She's just fine. Now lets go."

The other three flew off. Fawn was on her own from here on out. No sooner had she flown away, that Rosy and Martin were just coming into the living room.

"That was delicious." he said complementing Rosy's good cookin.

"Hey listen, me and Lizzy are going out tomorrow afternoon for a picnic. Would you like to come?"

Rosetta nodded gleefully.

Fawn, who was good at hearing, overheard this all the way outside.

"That's my chance." she thought.

Well that was chapter 4. I was trying to think of a good villain, but I couldn't come up with one. So I'm just going to think of something else. Chapter 5 coming soon.