Author's Note: My apologies for taking so long to update. I had a final exam earlier today, and haven't felt very good over the last couple of days, but I'm feeling better now, and now that I'm officially on winter vacation until mid January of 2015, let the good times on Fan Fiction roll, and that means, let the stories, continue! So have the next chapter, and enjoy!
Chapter 4, Evil Tommy, Part 2
Location: In the wee hours of the morning, Tommy and Dil's home in Yucaipa, California, May 24, 2014
Dil and Tommy were sound asleep, but poor Dil, was having a nightmare. The nightmare started out as a flashback to Dil's younger days. He was just a small baby, unable to move on his own or sit up very well, so he sat in the backyard, propped up in one of those boppy pillows, while he watched his older brother, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Peter play. They were all pretending to be animals. Tommy let out a howl.
"Doggy doggy!" Cried Dil.
"No Dil, I'm a wolf! See?" Said Tommy with a smile, as he crawled across the grass.
"Meow, and I'm a kitty cat!" Said Chuckie, as he made kitty cat noises and crawled across the grass behind Tommy.
"And Lil's a rooster, Peter's a giraffe, and Phil's a, uh, Phil's a…" Said Chuckie, looking in the direction of Phil, who was lying on his back, kicking his legs up in the air.
"I'm a bug, that gots stucked on his back." Said Phil.
Just then, Everybody overheard the grown ups talking.
"Today the pups are going to meet their uncle Freddy." Said Betty.
"Wasn't he the older brother who gave you problems when you were young?" Didi asked.
"Yeah if it wasn't lizards in my sandwich it was snails in my shoes." Said Betty.
"Or tickling you till you wet your pants." Said Stu.
"Never wet them once Stu boy." Said Betty.
"Older brothers can be really mean despicable monsters, and I know one who…" Said Stu, but as Stu continued to ramble on about Dil's uncle Drew, Dil turned back to his brother and friends talking about what they had just overheard.
"Tommy did you hear that? They just said older brothers are monsters." Said Chuckie.
"Well I'm an older brother and I'm not a monster." Said Tommy.
"You don't look like a monster, monsters don't gots shiny heads like you got." Said Lil.
"You don't sound like a monster neither. Monsters roar!" Said Phil.
"And, you don't do scary creepy stuff like monsters do." Said Chuckie.
"You guys are right, Tommy's really nice to Dil." Said Peter.
"So, I guess not all older brothers are monsters." Said Tommy.
"That's right." Said all of the other babies and Peter in unison.
"Ok, now can we be aminals again, cuz I'm a rooster and I was about to lay me an egg." Said Lil.
Everybody got back into position, and Tommy started howling. Then Chuckie started meowing, and Tommy started to growl, and chase Chuckie around the yard. While originally, they appeared as themselves, the flashback turned into a nightmare, as Peter and all of the babies except for Dil, all transformed into the animals they were pretending to be. Tommy, appeared to be a weirwolf, with dark purple hair up top his head, his eyes glowing the evil red and green like Tommy's were glowing back in present day reality, and he sprouted fangs. Now Tommy proceeded to chase Chuckie, now a black and white kitty cat wearing square rimmed glasses around the yard, biting his tail, making Chuckie screech a painful meow at the top of his lungs. Weirwolf Tommy, let out another howl once he had completed his victory.
"Doggy! Doggy!" Shouted Dil.
"No Dil, wolf!" Growled weirwolf Tommy, as he charged up to Dil, sending an evil glare into Dil's eyes, then, he opened his mouth, and bit into Dil's nose with his fangs.
Dil screamed in pain at the top of his lungs, as the nightmare ended, and Dil awoke in his crib, continuing to cry and scream. This in turn, awoke Tommy from across the room, and Tommy, was angrier than ever. Rather than being comforting to Dil, who had been awakened from a nightmare, all Tommy wanted, was for Dil to be quiet, so he could sleep. Tommy charged out of his bed towards Dil's crib, grabbed a hold of the bars, and started shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Shut up Dil, shut up!" Shouted Tommy, but it was no use. Dil continued to cry and scream.
"Shut up or I'll destroy you!" Demanded Tommy.
"Go Tommy! Go Tommy!" Cheered Shadow Abbigale and Shadow Tommy from within Tommy's head.
"I mean it Dil, either you shut up now, or… or…" Shouted Tommy, but before he could finish his sentence, Peter and Didi walked into the room.
"It's ok Dil sweetie, mommy's here." Said Didi, approaching the crib, picking up Dil, and giving him a hug, rubbing his back and comforting him, trying to get Dil to calm down.
That's when Peter spotted Tommy on the floor near Dil's crib.
"Tommy what are you doing out of bed?" Peter asked.
"I was trying to get Dil to shut up and be quiet." Muttered Tommy.
"Tommy, you know that yelling at Dil isn't going to help." Said Peter.
"I don't care, I want Dil to sleep, and besides, the voices in my head were cheering me on." Said Tommy.
"Voices?" Peter asked, in confusion.
"Yeah that's right, you heard me, voices, they've been telling me what to do. One of them sounds like me, and the other one, sounds like an olderer girl's voice, maybe closerer to Taffy's age." Explained Tommy.
"Tommy, I think this is all your imagination talking to you. They want you to do bad things, but you don't have to listen to them." Said Peter.
"Yes I do, and I'm gonna do exactly what they say until I get the whole world to myself." Barked Tommy.
"Come on Tommy, you don't really mean this, do you?" Peter asked.
"Read my lips Peter, yes I do." Snapped Tommy, followed by a rathberry, as he stuck his tongue out at Peter, and ran back to his bed.
By this time, Dil had quieted down, and Didi lay him back down in bed.
"Goodnight boys." Whispered Didi, as she and Peter left the room.
"Didi, do you mind if I stay the night?" Peter asked.
"Of course not, you're welcome to stay at anytime." Said Didi, as she tip towed back down the hall to her and Stu's room, while Peter went and made himself comfortable in the room that use to belong to grandpa Lou, before he moved out.
Location: Tommy and Dil's home in Yucaipa, California, the following morning, May 24, 2014
Tommy and Dil awoke for the day, and Peter got everybody dressed. Tommy was difficult about getting out of his pajamas, but Peter got him dressed anyway, because he felt it wasn't right for a child to stay in their jammies all day. Dil noticed Tommy's attitude, and was convinced, that older brothers were monsters. He decided though, that he would prove it for himself. So while Peter struggled to get Tommy ready for the day, Dil waited for Tommy at the top of the stairs. Peter noticed that several of the books that Tommy had pulled off the shelves the previous afternoon were still on the floor.
"Ok Tommy, you and Dil head down to breakfast, while I see to cleaning up this room." Said Peter, as Tommy headed out of the room.
As soon as Dil saw Tommy coming, he stood with his back to the stairs, his arms spread out, like he wasn't going to let Tommy pass to get downstairs.
"Hey Dil, move out of the way, I'm hungry." Demanded Tommy.
"Only if you promise to be nice." Replied Dil.
"Never! Don't you know I'm ruler of the world? And you're not gonna stop me!" Snapped Tommy.
"Please, don't hurt me." Cried Dil, now shaking as he caught a glimpse of the red and green evil glow in Tommy's eyes, his arms out in front of him, trying to defend himself from Tommy.
"Oh yeah? I can and I will." Growled Tommy, as he continued to stare at Dil.
"But, you're my big brother, you'd never hurt me, not the brother who saved me from the monkeys. Not the brother who shared his toys with me to keep me from crying, even after Yucky, I mean, Angelica tolded us you'd disappear once you didn't have any hand-me-downs left. Not the brother who made me my own special toy when he was the man of the house, or who taughted me about music, and cured me of Jungle Fever, he'd never hurt me, would he?" Dil asked, as he tried to smile and calm down, hoping this evil Tommy was only his imagination.
But as Tommy overheard what Dil was saying to him, once again, the shadows took over his mind.
"Come on Tommy, you know Dil's nothing but a naughty baby and he's never gonna get any better. Remember?" Asked Shadow Tommy from within Tommy's head.
Just then, Tommy had a flashback to when they were in that forrest. He had just rescued Dil from the monkeys, after ditching Chuckie, Phil and Lil, who weren't interested in being his friend anymore because all he cared about was Dil.
"You think this is funny? Phil and Lil were right! You're a naughty baby and you'll never get any better. I'm through being your big brother, I don't want my sponsitility no more!" Shouted Tommy, as he threw the pocket watch on to the ground.
The monkeys spied the pocket watch on the ground, and Dil saw them.
"My monkey! My monkey!" Said Dil.
"You want monkey? I'll give you monkey. You'll have a monkey mommy, and a monkey daddy, and a monkey brother!" Shouted Tommy, as he held out a jar of baby food bananas.
"My nanna, my nanna." Said Dil.
"Dil wants monkeys and monkeys wants the nannas, oh, everybody gets what they want." Growled Tommy, as it rained harder around him, and lightning struck in the sky.
Just then, the flashback ended, returning everybody to present day reality, one year later, the evil two-year-old still staring at his one-year-old brother, trying to keep his evil-fyed brother from hurting him, but something deep down in Dil told him, it wasn't going to happen. Just then, Tommy's eyes glowed a fearce shade of red, as if they were on fire. Scared by this look, Dil started to cry.
"I thought I warned you what would happen, the nextest time you started crying. Well, get ready to meet Mister Booboo." Snapped Tommy, as he drew his hand back, and punched Dil in the stomach, knocking him over, and sending him, toppling down the stairs.
The crying only got louder as Dil fell down the stairs, landing down at the bottom with a loud thud, and a huge bump on the back of his head.
"Oh my gosh! Dil!" Shouted Stu, as he ran to the bottom of the stairs and picked up Dil, examining him.
Just then, Peter walked up behind Tommy.
"Tommy? Did you just push Dil down the stairs?" Peter asked.
"Maybe I did and maybe I didn't." Replied Tommy.
"Come on Tommy, tell me the truth." Said Peter.
"Ok I did, but that naughty baby will never stop crying. Oh, why didn't I just let Phil and Lil take him back to the hopcickle when we had the chance." Said Tommy.
"Come on Tommy, you love Dil, you would feel bad if he had gone back to the baby store, wouldn't you?" Peter asked.
"I hate Dil! I don't wanna be a big brother no more! And so, I'm getting rid of this. Goodbye you dumb old sponsitility, you've gots no use to me, if you're only going to stand in my way of taking over the world." Shouted Tommy, as he took the pocket watch out of his pocket, and held it high in the air, ready to throw it down the stairs.
"Come on Tommy, you don't really want to get rid of that do you?" Peter asked.
"Throw it Tommy, be rid of your sponsitility, if you want to rule the world, you must get rid of it." Said Shadow Abbigale from inside his head.
"Alright, I'll do it, I'll do it!" Grumbled Tommy, as he threw the pocket watch down the stairs.
"Who are you talking to? Not those voices again I hope." Said Peter.
Tommy nodded and ran down the stairs, before Peter could utter another word. Peter was getting really concerned for his friend. This wasn't like Tommy at all, and he hoped he could get to the bottom of this.
After Tommy ran down the stairs, he ran through the living room, breaking every toy in sight. He broke all of the legs, arms, and heads off of the Reptar dolls, he bit down on the blocks, squished Happy Hairy, and threw a handful of Playdough on to the ceiling. It was like the time Dil wrecked all of their toys and Susie had to fix them, only ten times worse. Peter walked into the room to see this mess.
"Tommy! I'm surprised at you!" Said Peter.
"Well get use to it." Snapped Tommy, sending a green and red glow in his direction.
"There go his eyes again." Peter thought to himself, as he walked into the kitchen, where Stu was placing bowls on the table, and getting out the box of Reptar cerial, while Didi was seeing to nursing Dil's head with some ice.
"How's Dil doing?" Peter asked.
"Oh he'll be fine, he just needs some ice on his head to bring down the swelling." Said Didi.
She looked around, and noticed that Tommy wasn't in the room.
"Where's Tommy?" Didi asked.
"He's in the living room." Peter replied.
Stu walked into the living room, to find Tommy in a mess of broken toys.
"It looks like a horror movie in here, only with toys!" Said Stu, as he scooped up Tommy and carried him back into the kitchen.
"Is Dil at it again?" Didi asked.
"No this time it was Tommy!" Replied Stu.
"Oh I wouldn't worry about it Stu, I seem to recall Didi saying when Dil did it a while back, that he was simply testing the bounderies of physical force." Said Peter.
"Yes but according to Lipchitz, children should be more or less grown out of that phase by the time they're two." Said Didi.
"They also should no better than to push their brothers down the stairs." Said Peter.
"What?" Stu and Didi asked together in shock.
Peter went on to explain to Stu and Didi about the behavior he had been witnessing in Tommy as of late. This got Didi concerned, as she started to rummage through her collection of Lipchitz books for an answer.
As they were talking, Tommy proceeded to pour the entire box of Reptar cerial into his bowl.
"Hey! Put some of that cerial back that's not all for you." Said Peter.
"Oh yeah? And who's gonna stop me?" Asked Tommy in a snappy tone of voice.
"Come on Champ, time to take your medicine." Said Stu, as he put a bottle of blue liquid on the table. It was the antibiotic that the doctor had prescribed to Tommy to help get rid of his ear infection and to insure where his head was injured wouldn't swell up and hurt.
"Aren't you gonna take your medicine Tommy?" Peter asked.
"No! That medicine is yucky!" Shouted Tommy, as he pushed the bottle in Dil's direction.
"Oooh! Prettyful!" Said Dil, as he curiosly eyed the bottle of blue liquid, that was sitting, open in front of him.
"Only naughty babies like you need to eat yucky tasting stuff." Said Tommy.
Dil took this as a sign to drink the medicine, so he picked up the bottle, and started chugging it down. He coughed and sputtered several times, getting his parents attention.
"Dil no!" Shouted Didi, but it was too late, Dil had finished the contents of the bottle.
"Now what are we going to do Didi?" Stu asked.
"We're gonna have to take Dil to the hospital. Oh but I can't seem to find anything in Lipchitz to help with Tommy's violent behavior. We're gonna have to take him to see Lipchitz ourselves." Said Didi.
"But what about Dil?" Peter asked.
"I'll take him." Said Stu, as he got Dil out of his highchair and prepared his diaper bag for the hospital.
"I don't know if I want to send Stu with Dil to the hospital alone. After all Peter, didn't you say you've been noticing Tommy's odd behavior ever since he came home from the hospital yesterday?" Didi asked.
Peter nodded.
"Alright, I'll take Tommy to Lipchitz' clenic, you two take Dil to the hospital, we'll keep in touch via text messenging." Said Peter.
"Well alright." Said Didi, as she, Stu and Dil headed out to the garage, got into the car, and drove away faster than anybody could say Reptar, three times fast.
"You're not taking me to any dumb old doctor." Snapped Tommy.
"Come on Tommy, you know this isn't like you, don't you want to be back to your old self again?" Peter asked, getting his stuff together and a bag of Tommy's things, what he hadn't destroyed.
"This is the new me, get use to it." Snapped Tommy.
But Peter wasn't going to have it. One way or another, he was going to get Tommy back to his old self, and he only hoped, that Dr. Lipchitz, would have some answers, as he gathered up Tommy, and they left for the clenic.
And this, ends chapter 4. So, will Dil be ok? Or has the medicine he swallowed poisoned him, causing him to die. And how will things go at Lipchitz' clenic? Will Tommy get cured of his evil spirit? We'll find out, in chapter 5, so please, do stay tuned!