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That night in Yoop castle.
After a dinner of once more soup and bread Dorothy and Alex helped Emma with her chore of washing the dishes. There wasn't much they could do but Locasta refused to help them. She was still sitting in the doll house. Occasionally touching her wand to the scepter. Surprisingly even with neither of them working sparks still jumped between the two.
"I wonder how this still manages to happen." Locasta asked herself as Dorothy, Emma and Alex returned.
As she set Dorothy and Alex down she went straight to her closet and rummaged through it for a while. She then pulled out a crimson nightgown and an emerald green one. She looked at Dorothy and then decided on crimson. Dorothy had both Alex and Locasta turn around before doing so herself and allowing for Emma to change in some meaning of the word private. When she was done she stretched and yawned as her door slammed shut causing a large draft to blow through the room.
"Dorothy?" Emma asked curiously.
"Yes Emma?" Dorothy replied.
"Do you and your friends want to know what I wish?" Emma asked curiously.
Dorothy looked at Alex, then to Locasta. They both shrugged and nodded in the end.
"Sure Emma, what do you wish?" Dorothy asked.
"I wish I could go outside for once, and live what mother refers to as a normal life." Emma said sighing.
"What is a normal life according to your mother?" Dorothy asked curiously.
"To have fun outside, make friends, walk around, get energy out, the list goes on." Emma said sighing.
"Well you have friends, you have me, and I'm sure Alex would agree to be your friend." Dorothy said.
"Yea, any friend of Dorothy is a friend of mine." Alex said.
"What about Locasta?" Emma asked curiously.
"I'm sure when she's done being herself in the end she will be." Dorothy said.
"Okay, fair enough." Emma said.
"Right, um, something I wanted to ask, last night, about every fifteen minutes or so, that giant grandfather clock you guys have started going off after you were asleep, why does it go off at night in the first place?" Dorothy asked curiously.
"Oh, I really don't know to be quite honest, it's never really bothered me." Emma said.
"Ah." Dorothy said nodding.
"Why?" Emma asked curiously.
"No reason in particular, it just woke me up a few times last night." Dorothy said.
"I'm so sorry, I have no control over it though, and I think mother is the one who set it up." Emma said.
"Okay then, well it can't really be helped." Dorothy said.
Meanwhile back in Kansas.
At the gale Farmhouse things were quiet now. Dinner had been finished, everything had been cleaned up, and they were all sitting in the living room and engaging in idle conversation while Annabella was knelt down in front of the playpen watching the triplets play with their kittens. This went on for an hour or so before the triplets began to yawn. Mrs. Teak and Em then decided to bring them to the crib and left henry, Mr. Teak and Annabella alone
"So, why don't you put much faith in the fact that your son has changed?" Henry asked curiously.
"Henry, you remember my dad right?" Mr. Teak asked curiously
"Who could forget him, didn't he start you off in your business?" Henry asked.
"Yes, the nicest thing he ever did for me before he died." Mr. Teak said.
"Yea, he didn't really like you much didn't he?" Henry asked.
"Henry, remember, I at one time was like my son, I just don't want my son to grow up and be like me, I never cared about my father, and he never cared about me, it's not that I don't care, it's that I don't want to make my father's mistakes." Mr. Teak replied.
"So, daddy, your father didn't think much about you, so you take out your regrets on Alex?" Annabella asked curiously.
"Now you're being nosey." Mr. Teak replied picking up his daughter.
"Well?" Annabella asked curiously.
"I swear you learned way too much from your brother and Dorothy through the last year or so, but yes." Mr. Teak replied sighing in defeat.
"Not once did a tender moment ever pass between you and your father?" Em asked walking in having over heard the conversation.
"The closest we ever got to hugging each other was a handshake, never an 'I love you', or a kind hello or goodbye." Mr. Teak said.
"Well your father was a bit of a stick in the mud." Em said.
"The old gargoyle left me everything probably even expected me to move into the old house." Mr. Teak replied.
"Well where do you keep all of the stuff he left you?" Em asked curiously.
"The basement of the workshop, in large wooden crates." Mr. Teak said.
"Why don't you go through them at some point?" Mrs. Teak asked.
"You know why, I can't, I don't ever want to have anything to do with my father." Mr. Teak said
"You say this all the time, but you never justify it, one of these days I'll go down there myself and go through them." Mrs. Teak said.
"Dear you always say that, and you never do." Mr. Teak replied.
"I mean it this time, even if I have to bring Dorothy and Alex with me to help, you have kept this to yourself for years, he has to learn or he will end up growing up like you did." Mrs. Teak said walking over to her husband and picking up Annabella.
Mr. Teak sat back speechless, he couldn't respond. He hung his head in defeat. His wife was right. He was treating his son the same way his way his own father treated him. Mr. Teak then without thinking got up and grabbed his coat. He ran out of the house and to his truck. It wasn't long before they saw him drive away through the window. Em looked at Mrs. Teak. She smiled and looked out as the lights to the truck disappeared.
"Should we go after him?" Henry asked curiously.
"No, he'll come back, It's take me years to finally say that to him, years he's been acting stone cold to Alex and I've finally said something about it" Mrs. Teak said.
Indeed Mr. Teak did come back, fifteen minutes later. He walked back into the house and sat on couch.
"Em?" Mr. Teak asked.
"Yes?" Mr. Teak asked curiously.
"Have you got any coffee? I need something stronger than tea." Mr. Teak said
"I can make some if you can wait." Em said.
Mr. Teak sighed and looked at his watch. Then to his wife and daughter. He sighed and nodded.
"I have time." He replied taking off his glasses and covering his eyes.