Special Delivery

"What's wrong, Tommy?" Chuckie asked.

Tommy sighed. "My daddy's getting a new baby."

"What do you mean?" Lil asked.

"Mommy showed me a cat-log with a baby in it. She can walk, wet her diapee-"

"You're mom?"

"The new baby! She can even talk! I can't talk to grown-ups! The new baby is going to be better than me at everything!" He let out a sad sigh. "My daddy wants to replace me because I gave him a booboo."

"I don't think that's true, Tommy," Chuckie said.

"It is true! He mailed for her and she'll be their favorite!" He looked down sadly. "Tomorrow she'll come and daddy won't need me. He'll probably send me back to wherever he got me…"

The next day he waited for the baby that would replace him, deciding he could at least show her around before he had to leave forever. But when the mailman came there were no babies…

"Baby?" he asked, lifting a letter up.

"Oh good, mail's here," Stu said excitedly, shifting Tommy over before opening the door. "I need to talk to the mailman." The carrier, looking a little bit stressed from dealing with the neighborhood dogs, was startled to see Stu. "Hi, I have a package I was supposed to get."

"I'll check."

Tommy began to wander out, spotting the mail bag the carrier had. The new baby was probably hiding in there. That's where he would've hid. So after the mailman got out a slip of paper Tommy wandered over and began to look inside.

"Baby?" he said softly. "You'll like it here… it's a good home. Be nice to mommy and daddy… please?"

"Yeah, sorry. There was an issue with delivery. You'll have to pick it up at the post office."

"That sucks," Stu complained before sighing. "Sorry, not your fault."

"Thanks. A lot of people blame-" the mail carrier lifted up his bag only to stop. "Whoa, this… hey!" he opened it and pulled out Tommy, who cringed when he saw Stu. Was it time for him to go? Was this the goodbye? "Almost took this little guy for a ride!"

"Heh, he likes to explore. Always getting into the oddest spaces. Come here champ!" Stu picked Tommy up, cradling him close, Tommy still looking at the bag, waiting for the baby to pop out.

"Gives you a lot of trouble?"

"Like you wouldn't believe." Tommy sniffed at that only for Stu to add, "But wouldn't trade him for anything in the world."

"Aw," the mailman said, waving goodbye before heading on his way.

"Come on champ, let's go get the new baby doll. Maybe stop afterwards for a treat?"

Tommy giggled and laughed but not because of the treat. Baby DOLL! Not a new baby! His daddy had said it himself… he'd never replace Tommy!

'I was just silly!' Tommy thought as he hugged Stu. 'Daddy'll never get a new baby.'

In Heaven a little soul with a jellybean-shaped head just giggled.

~MC~MC~MC~

Author's Notes: Hey, it's that time again! With our trinity of 'Tommy thinks his parents are replaced but then gets sad because he hurt Stu' chapters done let's look back at the episodes I've done and offer a bit of commentary!

At The Movies- What inspired this story, honestly, as I made a joke about it to either Boris or NoizyBunny, I forget who. What is with the parents taking 1 year olds to EVERYTHING?!

Slumber Party- And the first time we work on rehabilitating Angelica. It won't be the last.

Baby Commercial- Originally Jackie the Director wasn't included and it was just a boring commercial and there was more of Tommy commenting. But I then decided it would be more fun to screw around with Jackie.

Little Dude- The first really hard chapter. Sometimes… the parents are competent in show. Didi trusted 3 girls of babysitting age. She is looking for a new babysitter as we established in 'Waiter There's a Baby In My Soup'. The girls' only mistake is setting Tommy on a truck but how did they know it would suddenly go driving off? And he wasn't ever spotted. The Food fight finally gave me my opening for a plot change.

Beauty Contest- And CONVERSELY I knew within 20 seconds what this chapter would be about! God damn it Lou remember you have more than one grandchild!

Baseball- So my brother works in media. There is NO WAY they would offer tickets to a 1pm game at 7 am the same day. You only see same day ticket contests for evening games and even then it is usually playoff. So by doing it correctly Didi was able to come because babies under 3 don't need tickets. And why did they give a baby with only one tooth a hotdog?

Ruthless Tommy- …I so badly debated for once keeping the parents incompetent and having Tommy go to the criminals' apartment and it slowly dawning on him how this wasn't a fun adventure. But that would have been too dark. That said, it did make me think that someone should do a story called "Tommy Dies At The End" and every chapter is how Tommy should have died and then he resurrects like Kenny from South Part. And eventually its all the babies. Just to get really outrageous deaths at points like "Chuckie's Duckling" where Dil stuffs Herbert in his diaper only the duck bites off… er… you know… and he bleeds to death.

Moose Country- One where… I had nothing. The parents were competent. Lou too. And the adventure wasn't dangerous at all. So it became me nipping Lou's sleeping problem in the bud.

Grandpa's Teeth- In memory of Chadwick Boseman and his Black Jeopardy skit.

Mamma Trauma-…Didi can be insane at times.

Real or Robot- Or DEAF! She can also be deaf!

Special Delivery- And this wraps up the little arc, with Tommy having learned a lesson, happy… and Dil preparing to come on down.