Prompt: Leo - "You should wear a bell around your neck" - 'The West Wing'
Burt Hummel had never felt so panicked in his life. If he had hair on his head to pull out, he would be doing it now. How was he going to tell Kathleen that he had lost their four year old son? All he had done was look away for a few moments, and when he looked back Kurt had disappeared.
Had somebody taken him? Should he call the police? One thing he knew for sure, standing there wasn't accomplishing anything.
"Kurt," Burt called out, hoping that his son had simply wandered away and hadn't been snatched by somebody. He looked around the park area, scanning the area for his boy. Kurt had been wearing his blue windbreaker but there wasn't a bit of blue in sight.
Burt picked a direction and started walking, hoping he was heading in the right direction.
"Kurt, where are you?" Burt called out again, now attracting the attention of other patrons.
"Here I am, Daddy," Kurt called back, coming around a row of bushes. He held up a fistful of wild flowers. "I picked flowers for mama," the little boy told him, oblivious to his father's panic.
"They're lovely, bud," Burt said, even as he scooped his son up in his arms. Kurt might have only been out of his sight for several minutes but it had been way to long. "Maybe I need to get a bell for you to wear when I take you places."
"Like cows wear?" Kurt inquired, thinking of the picture of the animals he had seen in his picture books.
"Sort of," Burt said, chuckling at the thought of his son wearing a cow bell around his neck. Kathleen would never go for it.
"Cows go moo. Would I have to moo, daddy?"
"No, Buddy," Burt replied, as he started walking toward home. He wasn't taking the chance of Kurt wandering out of his sight again today.
"Good. That would get boring," Kurt told him, resting his head on Burt's shoulder, more than content to be carried home so he could show his mother the flowers he had picked for her.