OUR VINES HAVE TENDER APES

Hi, all you GI fans! I'd like to dedicate this one to Sparki for her genius fic about Tongo joining the group. Yes, Sparki, my friend, Tongo is so cute! I'm guessing not a boat, but a helicopter was on other island lol.

Gilligan ran screaming through the jungle till he found Jonas Grumby, known to him as the Skipper. "The… The ape… She's in… She's in my bed!" he shuttered, fully panicked.

"Gilligan, calm down! Why don't you just coax her out?" the Skipper suggested, and Gilligan looked at him as though he had gone mad.

"Coax her? Skipper I can't do that!" Gilligan protested.

"Why not, Gilligan?" the Professor asked. The two had been hanging the net Gilligan had groken two days before, and now the Professor had it back in his hands… once again destroyed.

"Because… She's… She's an ape!"

"What about Gladys and all the other monkey relatives you've befriended?" the Professor asked.

Gilligan opened his mouth to argue but had no dispute in mind. "I guess I did act like a chicken… She just scared me," he admitted, a grin coming to his face. "Hey, Professor, Skipper, you think with Tongo gone, the ape was looking for a new friend? Maybe she likes me," he asked, and they both nodded.

Gilligan ran off, excited. The other two gave it an hour before they went to check on him. They found the two in the hut playing patty cake.

"I named her Mabel, and soon I'll show her off to the others… We sure do have lots of new ape friends here," Gilligan said, seeing them.

The two only smiled and nodded. They waved and backed out.

"He really does have a gift," the Skipper said, amazed, and the Professor nodded.

"Too bad he never seems to realize it. I think only reason we're still alive is because of that boy's gift with nature; he seems to truly be able to live peacefully with animals," the Professor said, truly amazed still at their friend's gift.

Gilligan waited till they left then took Mable's arm and the two went out. He found Gladys's and the two became immediate friends.

"You two be good, and leave my friends alone," he said, and left them.

Gilligan didn't go far, but climbed a tree and watched the two play around, glad they were friends. Thjen he took his diary and a small pencil from his back pocket. Opening it, he began to write.

Dear Diary,

Gess no one outs there trusts us. A guy cam and pretendered he was an ape man namd Tongo. Relly he was jus a jerk in disgize. He wantd to be an acter like Ginger only to me was a jerk. He left us cuz he thot wed tell on him for bein a baby cuz an ape took him. Wed never but no une beleves. If no une ever dus diary I dun thenk well ever leve.
Gilligan