"Cosmo, Wanda! Help!" Timmy yelled to his Fairy Godparents.

"Timmy! What's wrong?!" His godparents poofed into existence, the concern evident in Wanda's voice, Cosmo on the other hand was polishing a quarter much more concern over it's well-being than his charge's.

"Why is Vicky still a babysitter?! I wished that she would retire last night! But my parents left a note saying she will be over to babysit me all summer!" Timmy yelled, the fear in his voice quite obvious.

"Well maybe it's a glitch or something with our magic, it wouldn't be the first time... and lets not forget that the whole reason you got us was because of Vicky torturing you, maybe it's a sign?"

"Don't care, need to not die, I wish Vicky retired from babysitting... again!"

Timmy's godparents raised their wands which glowed with light, then promptly fizzled out and went flaccid.

"Really?!" Timmy yelled out.

"Well er... maybe we could try something else? Why are you so worried anyway? I'm pretty sure Vicky isn't going to kill you, she would get in a lot of trouble for that. Wait... this doesn't have anything to do with that dream you had does it sport?"

Wanda was piecing things together far faster than Timmy would have liked, that was exactly the reason he was going to be killed by Vicky and he knew somehow Vicky would find out about the dream, in the years he had known Vicky she was becoming far too smart for her own good, it wasn't wrong to say that she was likely closer to finding out about Timmy's fairies than Crocker had ever been, still in these situations where someone was going to find information that Timmy didn't want them to, he knew a tactic that always worked: deny, deny, deny.

"Nope definitely not I most certainly did not have a mildly romantic dream involving Vicky, you're crazy for even suggesting such a thing!"

Yep he definitely did not deny that far too strongly for it to be the case.

"I didn't suggest anything..."

"Well good, cause its not the case... anyway I have an idea. If I cant make Vicky retire, then I'll just wish for summer to be short and back to normal that way I don't break the space-time whatever."

"Continuum."

"Gesundheit. Anyway I wish summer was back to normal!"

Again his godparents raised their wands and again the familiar sound of them not working was heard.

"Are those broken or something?"

"I don't think so... try some other wish."

"I wish I had a banana split."

Once more they raised their wands and this time the wish was granted and a banana split appeared in Timmy's hands.

"Okay... what's going on here?"

"I'm not sure sport, this is certainly strange... Why don't you head out for a while and try to cool off, I'll have a look in the rulebook and find out if anything like this is mentioned."

"*sigh* Alright fine I made plans with Tootie and the guys anyway maybe I just need some fresh air."

Timmy left his room and started for the front door grabbing the spare key his parents left him and the credit card just in case he needed to buy something. Exiting his house he locked the door (his parents had reminded him too many times to do this by now) and started in the direction of the mall, and, towards what he assumed would be the last vestiges of freedom this summer.

A short while later Timmy arrived at the mall (thank goodness for public transportation) and met Chester, Tootie, and AJ at the food court, they had already ordered their food and had done so for him as well, which was easy, he had the habit of ordering the same thing every time they came down here: cheeseburger and fries and to hell with anyone who said the cholesterol would kill him, he had magic on his side and didn't expect to live much longer than a week at the rate things were going anyway.

"So what's new and exciting with you guys?" Timmy asked.

AJ went first.

"Well my parents and I are heading to cape cod for the summer to see the sights, apparently we'll be gone for a month or more, my dad says it will be a good bonding experience to drive there rather than fly."

"Shit, one down." Timmy thought to himself.

Chester went next.

"My dad is planning on hitching our trailer up to the truck and driving around the country to chase his dream of being a country music star. So who knows how long I'll be gone, I'm sure we'll be back though, this isn't the first time he has had this idea..."

"That's two now..." Timmy didn't like where this was going.

Lastly Tootie chimed in:

"I don't know if my parents have anything planned but they have been acting kind of suspicious... maybe they're going to surprise me! Oh! And before I forget Vicky called and said she is going on a vacation for the summer too."

"Vicky's babysitting me because my parents are going to Tibecuador for the whole summer and probably for the early fall as well... Her idea of a vacation must be to torture me all summer, she does get quite a kick out of it."

"Huh, so that's what she meant when she called me earlier today..."

"Shit man, I'm sorry to hear that. We were all so happy when Vicky stopped babysitting us, we had heard that her customers were dropping like flies. I heard my mom talking to someone over the phone saying you were like, her last customer or something." replied AJ.

"Yeah lucky me..."

"Well don't worry too much Timmy, my sister has really mellowed out lately, maybe it won't be so bad..." this from Tootie.

"Yeah I'm sure we'll have lots of fun!" the sarcasm was quite evident in Timmy's voice.

Timmy knew better than to bring up even the barest hints of the dream he had last night to anyone but that didn't stop it from flooding his thoughts near constantly, where did that dream come from? Could it have been from the amount of time he and Vicky had spent with each other in such close proximity? It was fair to say that due to his parents neglectful nature (whether or not they did this consciously, he wasn't sure) he had probably spent more time around Vicky and (as much as he didn't want to admit it) he was actually closer to her than he was to his own parents. There were a few instances he would never forget, where Vicky's softer and extremely well hidden side came out and he felt that maybe underneath the demonic babysitter visage was just another human girl who had needs and wants like anyone else that didn't involve violence and world domination. He could even admit that she had stuck her neck out for him a few times and he had returned the favor to the best of his abilities. Hell he could admit that when she wasn't trying to maim him or otherwise inflict bodily harm she was even cute...

The shock of this thought caused Timmy to gasp and inhale the drink he had been absently sipping causing it to as he put it 'go down the wrong pipe'. He was now choking and sputtering out of nowhere and Tootie began slapping him on the back.

"Jeez Timmy, you okay?"

Though he found his voice to be just over a choked whisper he managed to get out:

"Yeah, fine... wrong pipe that's all."

Satisfied with the answer and that her friend was no longer choking to death Tootie returned to talking to Chester and AJ. Timmy himself joined in the conversation after a few deep breaths. A few hours later it was time for everyone to head out and they said their goodbyes, it seemed they would not see each other for quite some time since everyone but Timmy was going away for the summer (except Tootie but that was open to change any day now) Chester and AJ were, as it turned out leaving the next morning to go on their respective cross country trips and Timmy simply didn't expect to see them again because, as was said before, he would soon be dead.

After taking the city bus back to their neighborhood Timmy and Tootie (Chester and AJ's parents had picked them up from the mall and while Tootie's would have, she wanted to head back with Timmy due to her still having the dying lights of affection towards him) walked back to their respective houses together, they went to Tootie's first even though Timmy's was closer due to a combination of chivalry on Timmy's part and partly because he wanted to postpone his death sentence as long as possible.

"Well here we are."

Timmy hadn't noticed how far they had walked as he was trying to piece together his mind after the combination of the strange dream he had with the fact that death was fast approaching (he by now figured that with the amount of baby sitting she had done Vicky probably had enough money to kill him as her crowning babysitting achievement and then pay off all the right people so she would get off scot-free) and finally the fact that despite the intense fear he received from her presence there was some part of him deep in his mind where one normally locks away their various psychoses from the world that liked Vicky or at least felt something positive from thinking about her. The fresh air that Wanda suggested he get only drove him further towards the edge of his sanity!

"Alright Timmy I'll see you later then?"

"Not likely."

"Ugh... you worry too much." There was a playful mocking tone in this statement that Timmy noticed.

"That's how I've stayed alive this long."

"Yeah sure. Alright bye."

"Bye, should I turn up dead before you see me then it's pretty safe to say Vicky did it."

Tootie just stuck her tongue out at him in reply and closed the door to her house.

"Well time to face my demons I guess..."

Meanwhile...

Wanda was painstakingly checking the enormous book entitled 'Da Rules' looking for any reason as to why two seemingly unrelated wishes would fail. Cosmo meanwhile was cowering in fear of an orange cat with tire tracks along its body, a general disheveled appearance and an eye patch, she couldn't quite place the cats name but remembered it was her husband's problem not hers and returned to her book.

"Aha! Here we go! "A child's wish can not be granted and could potentially be undone without prior warning should it be deemed too selfish or have any bearing on love in the child's life, not necessarily the child's own personal love but not necessarily not the child's own love." ...So either we can't grant the wishes because they are too selfish or there is love at work here somewhere..."

"What?" asked Cosmo.

"Not now honey I need to figure this out, play with the cat or something."

Said cat extended its far larger than any cat should have claws and began slicing Cosmo into fillets.

"Thank you dear, now lets see... granted the wishes were definitely selfish but that doesn't usually stop them from being granted (in fact it very rarely stopped them from being granted) so that leaves love... Well my relationship with Cosmo is just fine... and Timmy's parents are out enjoying their four hundred and seventy... eighth honeymoon, so they're fine... Timmy gave up on Trixie Tang and she never cared about him anyway... and he told us Tootie gave up on him a short while back... So that leaves-"

Realization dawned on Wanda then and she hoped she was wrong and it was indeed just the fairy council not granting a selfish wish, but somehow she had a feeling it was what she had concluded through trial and error, something that had now been put into motion and could not be stopped. It made sense seeing as how they spent so much time together even if they didn't particularly seem to like each other, she deduced that at some point they had, in the deepest reaches of their beings developed feelings for one another and were probably not even aware of it yet. Timmy had unknowingly set things into motion with his wishes.

"How serendipitous... or perhaps not once Timmy finds out. I... should probably tell him, there's nothing in the rules about that."

Wanda knew this wouldn't be a fun conversation, the fact that Timmy had unknowingly developed feelings for the person who had through her actions brought Timmy the immense happiness of receiving Fairy Godparents but only by making herself out to be the cruelest person he knew was likely going to be quite a shock to him.

They say love is blind, but apparently it was also deaf and possibly catatonic as well.

A/N: I'm probably going to update this daily except on the weekends as my current financial situation prevents access to the internet on the weekends but who knows maybe I can write over the weekend and upload a bunch of chapters on Monday, we'll see how it pans out. I'd like to give special thanks to Samuel Sadi and hoagie for inspiring me to start writing (in general) and about this pairing ans Samuel again for teaching me how to make an author's note at the end of the story. And finally thank you to my reviewers. Let us hope this author's note comes out correctly.