Forbidden Fusion

by killalao

explicit multiversal adventure with lots of cute girls.

20. Mugen's Curse

-Chapter 20-

When I woke up, Phoebe was already awake, quietly laying next to me in her nightgown.

Phoebe:"Goodmorning baby."

-just woken up- Me: "Good morning."

Me: "Did you even sleep?"

Phoebe: "A little bit, but mostly I just watched tv and waited for you to wake up."

Me: "Oh really? "

I wrapped my arms around her, kissed her and gently brushed her hair back over her shoulder.

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Is anyone else awake?"

Phoebe: "Nope, just us."

Me: "Ok."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Sooooo?"

-unsure- Me: "So what?"

Phoebe: "You know what."

-unsure- Me :"I love you?"

-cutely- Phoebe:"I wuv you too."

-playfully- Phoebe: "But, that's not what I meant."

She kissed me.

Me:"hehe."

I kissed her back, and felt her hands on my crotch moments later.

Me: "Ohhhh, that's what you want?"

Phoebe: "-giggles- Mhmmm."

-cuteley- Phoebe: "I owe you for saving me yesterday."

Me: "No you don't."

Me:"You're my wife, and best friend I would have saved you ..."

-interupting- Phoebe: "Shhhhhh."

Phoebe:"I know..."

Phoebe: "But this is part of our game."

Me: "Oh really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "Okaaaaayyy."

Phoebe: "And I'm still greatful that you saved me...silly."

Phoebe: "So you still deserve it."

Me: "-sighs- Allright then, come here."

Phoebe: "Ohhhh Cj."

Phoebe:" -giggles-."

We started to make out.

Phoebe: "Shhh, I'll take care of everything don't worry."

She sat up and slipped off her gown.

Me: "Ohhh baby girl..."

Me: "You're so beautiful you know that?"

Phoebe:"Awwwwe Cj."

Eventually after a bit of foreplay she was riding my manhood like the crazy nympho she always was

Phoebe: "Oh Cj...ohhh I love you...soooo sooo much."

Me: "oooh I love you too baby.."

Me: "Oh wow."

After we finished we cuddled for a few minutes until the time came that we reluctantly had to get up.

The rest of the morning went by normally, and soon Nina was at school and we were heading to work at the lab, with Charley in his car seat, quietly watching tv.

-in the car on the way to work-

Phoebe:"I wonder what we'll be exploring today."

Me: "Hopefully not another world with crazy police."

Phoebe:"Here's hoping for a palace."

Me:"Still hoping for one huh?"

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"Or a beach would be nice."

Me:"But we don't have any swimming clothes."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey wa go sweemee."

He cutely and randomly interjected.

Phoebe: "Maybe this summer we'll take you swimming again."

Cawey: "Cawey sweemee en bah."

Me:"Hehe."

Phoebe: "-giggles- , Yeah you swim in the bath."

Phoebe:"Not very well though."

And then Charley adorably took over the entire conversation.

Charley:"Mawa es Cawey go see Cowewah?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, Corina will probably be there to watch you while we're busy."

Charley:"Mawko go fi peesahs"

Phoebe:" Oh really?"

Charley: "Cawey no may cah-ol fo Mawko."

Phoebe: "Why not?"

Charley: "No bwahs fo Cawey..."

Charley: "Cawey no may Cah-ol."

Phoebe: "Oh...right, ok."

Me: "What if the portal takes us to his imaginary world?"

Phoebe: "Oh arceus, who knows what would happen?"

Me: "We would probably have to find pizzas."

Phoebe:"Mhm."

Phoebe: "And pancakes."

Me: "Hehe, yep."

Charley:"Cawey wa pahcays."

Me :"And there would be a giant murkrow as king."

Charley:"Mawa...Cawey wa pahcays."

Phoebe:"Oookaayy, that would be kind a bit creepy."

Me: "Yep."

Me: "But not as creepy as the puppets."

Phoebe: "From puppet town trainer?"

Me: "Yep."

-somewhat anxiously- Charley:"Mawa...pahcays...Cawey wa."

Phoebe: "oooooh...-shutters-."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "That's worse than lavender town."

Me:"Hehehehehehehe."

-frustrated- Charley:"CAWEY WA PAHCAYS!"

He had gotten a bit upset that nobody had responded to his request.

Phoebe:" You just had some for breakfast."

-cutely- Cawey: "Buh Mawa, Cawey wa mo pahcays."

He tried to reason with her.

Phoebe: "-sighs-."

Cawey: "Fo Mawko."

Charley: "Mawa may pahcays fo Cawey?"

Phoebe: "Maybe tomorrow."

-excitedly- Charley: "Mawa may pahcays fo Cawey! Cawey luh Mawa!"

Me: "Hehe."

He didn't realize he wouldn't be getting any more pancakes until tomorrow, but it didn't matter, because by the time we made it to the lab, he had forgotten he wanted them to begin with.

Dr. Black: "Goodmorning."

Phoebe: "Goodmorning."

Me:" Morning."

Dr. Black: "Today we're going to reach a milestone."

Dr. Black:" Between you two and the other testers, we're almost halfway through the unidentified portals."

Me: "Ok."

Dr. Black: " Also Melissa approved of our idea."

Phoebe:" Which one was that again?"

Dr. Black: "The one about assembling a team of members from across the multiverse."

Dr. Black: "To aid in the exploration and promotion of goodwill."

Phoebe: "I thought that wasn't our objective?"

Dr. Black: "Not for this phase of the operation."

Dr. Black: "Furthermore, as our premier team of testers, we'd like to invite you to this group."

Phoebe: "Um, ok."

Me: "Sounds Cool."

Phoebe: "Um...Cj...we'll think about it."

Dr. Black: "Ok, but think about this too."

Dr. Black: "We haven't been able to find much dirt on Team Galactic, investigations are proceeding slowly."

Dr. Black: "Odds are you won't be called upon by the defense division for quite some time."

Dr. Black:" However this next stage of the operation will be a joint project of the defense and research divisions."

Me: "So who's directing it then? Melissa or James? "

Dr. Black: "I will be directing it under their supervision."

Dr. Black: "Anyway, if you're interested, there will be a meeting next Monday, at 8:00pm, in the briefing room."

Dr. Black: "Now, onward to today's activities."

Dr. Black: "We have another new portal ready for you to explore."

Dr. Black: "It appears to lead to a forrest, and it is night time over there, so we have some flashlights ready for you if you need them."

Dr. Black :"As usual, if this one doesn't take too long we will set up another one for you to explore as well."

I procured a flashlight and a radio, and then we headed into the portal. We felt right at home in this world, except for it being night time, the portal glowed faintly behind us as we gradually wandered through the trees, tugging a safety line behind us so we wouldn't get lost.

The forrest we were in seemed normal enough, we knew it was cold so we brought our coats along, but still, after walking for 30 minutes, the cold started to set in.

Phoebe: "We should head back, it's freezing."

Me:"But we haven't found anything interesting yet."

Phoebe:"Maybe there isn't anything interesting and it's just a normal forest?"

Me: "Yeah right."

Me: "Maybe it leads to a palace."

Phoebe: "Doubt it."

Me:"Well you never know, you can't see through these trees."

Visibility was quite terrible, even with Phoebe's powers, a flashlight, and a small amount of natural moonlight, it was hard to see anything through the trees.

After about an hour of walking, we came across the safety line again, and realized we were walking in circles.

Me:"Great..."

Me:"That was a waste of time."

Phoebe:"I told you we should have headed over that way more."

Me: "Yeah, maybe we should have."

We backtracked for a little bit, and then changed direction, eventually we saw some strange, amber lights in the distance, we headed towards these lights and we found a clearing, with a large mansion, the lights were comming from the inside, indicating somebody might be home.

-in disbelief- Phoebe: "Wow, Cj look, there really is a palace."

Me:"I guess more people would call it a mansion, but whatever."

Me: "Anyone inside?"

Phoebe: "Um, I have a faint reading, I think so, but I can't tell you anything more from here."

Me: "Ok."

As we made our way towards the mansion the sound of violin music became more and more clear.

Phoebe: "I think there's some sort of party going on."

Phoebe: "You can hear the music can't you?"

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe:"There's atleast a dozen people in there."

Phoebe:"They're having a good time, they should be harmless."

Phoebe: "I'll stay out here, you go in and investigate."

Me: "How do we know they're human?"

Phoebe: "I don't know, go look in the window or something."

Me: "Here, you take the radio, and stay out of sight."

Me: "If this world is in the time period I think it's in, they'll think your a witch and try to kill you."

-surprised- Phoebe:"Ohhhhh...ok..."

Me:"Not that they can, all they have is swords and muskets."

Me: "But still."

-cutely- Phoebe :"Swords are still pointy."

Me:"Mhm."

She took the radio and ducked into the forrest, I went up to the window and peared inside.

People were dancing and seemingly having a good time, so I headed around to the front door, where a butler was guarding the entrance.

Butler: "Are you on the list sir?"

Me: "Um...I had a meeting with the master of the house."

Butler: "I'm sorry sir, but you must be mistaken."

Butler: "The master wouldn't have a meeting tonight, the same night of his famous harvest moon party."

Me: "Well um, I actually had a meeting with him tomorrow, but I'm leaving town tonight so I was wondering if I could just see him now."

Butler: "I humbly apologize, but I don't think the master would agree to such a premise."

Me: "Well it's very important so could you check?"

Butler: "I'm pretty sure he won't be able to see you now."

Me: "But I walked all the way over here from the town."

Butler: "You walked 8 miles?"

Me: "... yep..."

Butler:"Well, I guess you'll have to walk back."

Me: "Unbelieveable."

Phoebe :"You know I could have just teleported you into a empty room or something."

Me:"Why do we need to go in there so bad anyway?"

Phoebe :"Research?"

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Dr. Black says we have to find a way in or we won't get paid for today."

Me: "Really?"

Me: "Allright..."

Me: "Where are you hiding?"

Phoebe: "On the roof."

Me: "Why are you up there? Someone could see you."

Phoebe:"No they can't. There's isn't another building around for miles."

Phoebe: "But I think there's a town in the distance."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "And the chimney is warm."

Me: "Ok."

Me :"You want to meet out in the forrest?"

Phoebe: "Ok sure."

I walked away from the house, and headed back into the forrest when I was sure the butler couldn't see me.

Phoebe teleported in just seconds later, and we snuck up on the mansion together from the side searching for a vacant room she could teleport me into so I could discreetly join the party without anyone noticing.

Phoebe: "Ok here we go."

She took my hand and teleported me inside, the room was dark, the only light comming in through the windows, and a dim, flickering light comming in through the open doorway.

Phoebe:" Ok, I'm going back to the roof."

Phoebe: "Love you, be careful."

She kissed me before promptly teleporting out.

-quietly- Me: "Love you too."

She already left at this point.

I quietly snuck over to the "ballroom" of sorts, or, basically the room everyone was dancing in.

Everybody was giving me weird looks, it wasn't until somebody actually spoke to me that I discovered it was because of my clothing.

unknown man: "I don't recall seeing you around before."

Me: "Oh uh...I'm Cj."

unknown man :"So...how do you know Lord Remington?"

Me: "Lord Remington?"

Me: "Oh...we go way back..."

I figured he was the one throwing the party.

Me: "To be honest I barely got in, he may not even remember me."

unknown man :"Oh, I see."

unknown man : "If you don't mind me asking, what are you wearing?"

Me: "Um, this? It's a t-shirt."

unknown man: "How did they get the designs on it like that?"

I honestly had no idea so I made something up.

Me: "Special paint that adheres to clothes, it's a new manufacturing process they invented in China, it's going to be all the rage next year."

unknown man: "Really now? All the way from china?"

Me: "Yeah I went there on a ten year expedition."

unknown man:" For what?"

Me: "Just for the heck of it you know?"

Me: "Just to see what can be seen over there."

Me: "Like the great wall, and such."

unknown man: "I see, it sounds like you had a grand old time."

Me: "Mhm."

The man walked away and appeared to be going around, telling everyone else who I was. Fortunately whoever Lord Remington was, he didn't appear to notice me. Inevitably I was surrounded by people asking me what China was like and what the alcohol was like there, even though I've never actually been there so I didn't have a clue, so once again I resorted to making stuff up to sate their curiousity. It quickly became apparent that these people were alchohol fanatics. In addition to dancing, there was a table along the wall on the far side of the ballroom with several bottles of wine and many wine glasses set upon it, everybody was drinking some, and even I drank a very small amount, just so they would quit bugging me to try it, as it was apparently very expensive, even though I couldn't really tell.

Anyway, about 20 minutes of seemingly random socialization later, a large grandfather clock stationed next to the entrance went off. The band stopped playing and the crowd died down as a man, who I could only assume was Lord Remmington, entered the room, carrying a glass of wine. I stayed towards the back of the crowd, out of his sight. He walked up onto a stage at the front of the room, as the band set their instruments down and joined the crowd who gathered fairly closely around him as he didn't posess a microphone.

Phoebe: "Can you hear me? "

Me: "Yes."

Phoebe: "What's going on?"

Me: "I don't know, this guy is going to give a speech I guess."

Lord Remmington: "As you know, tonight is a very important night, the night of the harvest moon."

Lord Remmington: "It is now precisely ten minutes till midnight."

Lord Remmington: "And as you all should know by now, after those ten minutes the curse will become active and the transformation will take place."

Lord Remmington: "And then we shall all descend upon the village and feast upon it's citizens."

What the hell did we just get ourselves into?

Me: "Get me out of here."

Phoebe :"Meet me in the room."

I quietely snuck away from the crowd, only to get caught by the same man that spoke to me before.

unknown man: "Where are you going?"

Me: "To the bathroom, I want to watch the transformation take place in the mirror while it happens."

unknown man: "There's a bathroom back there?"

Me: "Yeah I think so."

Lord Remmington: "And who would you be sir?"

Me: "I'm your friend, from school way back, remember?"

Phoebe: "Say your name is Carl..."

Me :"Carl..."

Lord Remmington: "Ohhh...yes I remember now."

Lord Remmington: "Everyone this is Carl from Newburry."

Lord Remmington: "He just came back from China, he's one of us, don't worry."

Me: "What did you do?"

Phoebe: "A little bit of mind control and memory manipulation, I snuck up on him while he was on his own."

Phoebe: "He really does have a friend named Carl, I just change a few of his memories about him so your story would match up."

Me: "I love you."

Lord Remmington:" Anyway, as we get ready for the feast tonight, pay attention to this list of people I have prepared, these people are on to us, and may have some surprises in store.

Lord Remmington: "I want atleast half a dozen of you to go to their houses first thing, and feast upon them before anyone else."

Phoebe suddenly teleported behind me and then teleported me out.

Me: "Hey what gives?"

Phoebe: "They were distracted, I saw a window to get you out, so I took it."

Me: "Ok why?"

Phoebe: "Come on, we need to save that town."

Me :"Wouldn't it make more sense to figure out what the hell these things are first?"

Phoebe: "Yeah... about that..."

-yelling- Lord Remmington: "Find that guy! Find him and kill him before he blows our cover!"

Phoebe: "Mind control wore off."

Phoebe: "He realized his memories were fake."

Phoebe: "We need to get to the town, now."

Me: "But the safety line."

Phoebe: "I wrapped it around a tree on the edge of the forrest, if we get back before dawn they won't notice it."

Phoebe :"Any more questions?"

Me: "Do you know how to drive a horse?"

-confused- Phoebe: "What?"

Me: "We have to take a carriage it's the only way to get to town before they do."

Phoebe: "I could try."

There were several carriages parked outside the mansion, all the horses were stabled however, so we had to take one from the stables, Phoebe made use of her powers to calm one down so we could put a saddle on it, and we rode out of the stable just moments after people from the party came in and discovered us, just then the time ran out and they started to transform right then and there, the people were changing into weird, demon like creatures with terrifying faces and horns growing out of their heads. they began to chase us on foot and could almost keep up with the horse, until Phoebe threw a shadowball at one and they all began to trip over eachother. Seeing as we had no time left, we decided to forget the carriage and just take the horse.

After we escaped, the horse sprinted into town and tired out shortly after. Phoebe decide to get it something to drink while I went around the town to warn people of what was comming.

I remembered the addresses Lord Remmington had on his list earlier, so I decided to hit those up first. After Phoebe had taken the horse somewhere she decided to come with me.

Phoebe: "Since those things aren't human I think I might be safe now."

Me: "Maybe."

Phoebe: "And I'm freezing and I want to go inside."

Me: "We'll see what we can do."

Me: "We need to find number 53 fourth street. "

The town was lit with primitive gas lanterns which provided just a bit of light to see with.

The town wasn't too big, so fourth street wasn't hard to find, it was a small, wooden house, of a sort of mid 1800s style.

I knocked on the door while Phoebe kept off to the side.

A man answered.

Unknown man: "A bit late to be out on the harvest moon isn't it?"

Me: "I don't have a lot of time to explain, but, monsters are planning to attack the city."

Me: "They're planning on comming after you and a handful of others first."

Unknown man: "So the rumors were true."

Me: "What?"

Me: "You don't have much time they'll arrive any minute."

Unknown man: "Come inside, both of you , whatever you are..."

Phoebe :"You trust me?"

Unknown man: "You haven't tried to kill me yet so you're not one of them."

Unknown man: "Yet you don't look like anything I've seen before."

Phoebe: "Oh thankyou, I'm freezing."

Me: "What is all this about, those demon people?"

Unknown man: "What is she about?"

Me: "She's my wife. "

Phoebe:" I'm a gardevoir."

Me: "Like I said we don't have alot of time to explain and we have others to warn."

Unknown man: "I'll handle that."

He pulled out a weird looking pistol, darted outside and fired a flare-like projectile into the air.

Unknown Man: "They know now."

Me: "That's a flare gun?"

Unknown Man: "We don't have time, if they're comming like you said they were we have to hurry."

Unknown Man: "Follow me."

He headed down into his basement.

Me: "Seriously what's with the demon people?"

Unknown Man: "It's Vanmugen's curse."

Me: "What?"

Unknown Man :"I'll tell you after and if we survive."

Me: "Who's Vanmugen?"

Unknown Man: "Stop asking so many questions."

Unknown Man: "Now is the time to act."

As we arrived at the foot of the stairs he stopped to light up a lantern, illuminating a room with weapons of all kinds, swords, daggers, pistols, muskets, crossbows.

Unknown Man: "Any good with a rifle?"

Phoebe: "Cj's the best."

Me: "Pheebles, I've never used guns this old before."

Unknown Man: "This old? I just made these a year ago."

-surprise- Me :"You made them?"

Unknown Man: "Yes, no more questions."

Unknown Man: "Here's a rifle."

Unknown Man: "And heres some cartridges."

-surprised- Me: "They're cartridge guns?"

He handed me several tubes of thick paper that I stuck in my pockets, they were about the size of shotgun shells. The fact that they had cartridges surprised me, I though we were too far back in time for them to exist yet.

Unknown Man: "Yes, You slide the cartridge in, use the ramrod, push it all the way back, you pull the hammer back, and then it's ready to fire."

Unknown man: "And make sure you do not run out of primer tape."

Unknown man: "If you run out of tape, pull this lever here, pull the primer magazine out, and snap a new one back in, drag the first cap up and place it on the nipple."

-realizing- Me: "Oh...it's a percussion cap...ok."

Unknown Man: "Understood?"

Me: "Ok."

It was a beautiful little rifle, even if it was terribly obsolete. It was a bit heavy too, but it was a lot better than nothing.

Unknown Man: "Now get to the church down the street, the others should be on their way there."

Me:"Ok."

Unknown Man: "Get going, tell them Peter will there in a few minutes."

Me: "They'll probably be here by then, but ok."

We left the house and headed down to the church which we could faintly see at the end of the street. A few people were already gathered around.

Unknown woman: "Who are you, what is she? And why are you here?"

Me: " We're here to fight off the monsters."

Phoebe: "Peter said he would be here in a few minutes."

Unknown woman: "Oh, so you know Mr. Sipple then?"

Me: "I guess."

Unknown woman: "So what is she?"

Phoebe: "I'm an angel."

Unknown woman: "An angel with red eyes?"

-cutely- Phoebe: "Yep."

Phoebe: "Because, I'm actually a gardevoir."

Unknown woman: "What's that?"

Phoebe:" Let's just say it's a type of angel for now ok?"

Me: "It's a long story."

Phoebe: "And I'm freezing again."

Me: "We have more important matters at hand."

A few minutes passed, and another flare went up in the distance.

Me :"What does that mean?"

Unknown man: "It means they've arrived. "

Me: "Allright Pheebles, you ready to go?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

A carriage suddenly rounded a corner and thundered towards us, as the demon-like monsters leapt off the sides.

We all fired at them, then Phoebe took me up to the roof via teleport so I could reload. While the the others headed inside the church, and two more people came out and fired, slamming their doors while the demons tried to claw their way inside. Two broke in threw a window, and more shots wrang out from below us as I quickly killed one that was still trying to claw through the door.

We heard more shots in the distance as another carriage sped past with more demon things clinging to the side.

Phoebe: "This isn't going to work, they're outmatched."

Me: "Why don't you try to hit them?"

Phoebe: "My powers don't effect them that much, I can't hypnotize them, they're too blind with fury, and I can't put them to sleep either."

Phoebe: "I can throw shadowballs, but it doesn't hurt them that much."

Getting hit by a normally sized shadowball feels like getting hit with a baseball, unless you're a ghost, then it kills you. A highly charged one might do some damage, but they took longer for her to charge than it did for me to reload the rifle.

-into radio- Phoebe: "Dr. Black, We have hostiles. Repeat there are hostiles."

Me: " We might be out of range baby."

Phoebe: "I know, but I have to try."

Phoebe: "I'm going to go save our friends if you don't mind."

Me: "Ok.

She teleported out and, came back with two more people.

-confused- Unknown man: "What in blazes?"

-confused- Unknown woman: "Where...how?"

The man looked over the edge.

-confused- Unknown man: "Are we dead?"

Phoebe: "No, I brought you up to the roof before they killed you."

-confused- Unknown man: "Are you a witch?"

Phoebe: "No, I'm a gardevoir."

Phoebe: "Leave it at that."

Me: "Pheebles? There were more people weren't there?"

-solemnly- Phoebe: "They didn't make it."

Phoebe: "What now?"

A demon hopped out of the church through a broken window, it looked up at us, for just a moment before it was shot in the head by Peter, who was just now approaching the church.

Unknown woman: "Peter you're alive."

-unsure- Peter: "How'd you get up there?"

Peter: "Actually, how are you going to get back down?"

Phoebe: "I can take care of that."

Phoebe: "Everyone hold hands."

She teleported everyone down.

Peter: "Well I'll be damned, I didn't know you had magic powers."

Phoebe: "Hehe."

Me: "If I got this right, they should be attacking all of your houses first, then they'll target the civilians."

Peter: "They already hit mine, I already handled them."

Me: "Ok, so that's one group down."

Peter: "How many are there? Do you know."

Me: "Maybe 20-30?"

Phoebe: "39."

Me: "Really?"

Phoebe:" Give or take a few."

Me: "Ok."

Peter: "We'll go to your house first Dan."

Peter: "Make sure your family is allright."

Dan:"Thanks."

We all headed over to Dan's house, cutting through people's backyards to fifth street.

A carriage was overturned by Dan's house, there was a dead demon in front of the door. We headed inside to investigate, with Dan leading the way.

We found his wife hiding in the bathtub, clutching a rifle with two more demon laying dead right by the bathroom door.

Dan's wife:" Who's there?"

Dan's wife: "Don't open the door I'll shoot!"

Dan:" Relax, I't just me honey, and some freinds from the watch."

Dan: "You fought them off?"

Dan's wife: "I did just what ya told me."

Dan: "I see."

Dan helped his wife out of the tub and then we all headed back outside.

-unsure-Dan's wife: "What is she?"

-annoyed- Phoebe: "-sighs-."

Me: "She's a gardevoir."

Me: "She's a bit annoyed, she's had to answer that question 3 times now."

Dan's wife: "Sorry."

Phoebe: "It's ok."

-surprised- Dan's wife: "You can speak."

Me:" Yep, she certainly can."

Peter:" She's got magic powers too."

Dan's wife: "Realy, can I see?"

Phoebe: "Not right now, don't we have more demon things to kill?"

Dan's wife: "Right, the beasts spawned by the curse of VanMugen."

Dan's wife: "I doubt this be all of them."

Phoebe:"Yeah there's a bunch more, sadly."

We heard people screaming in the distance, so we all ran down the street to the source.

Once we made it there, more demon monsters were waiting. They had killed some poor family.

The grotesque scene brought Phoebe and I back to memories of the disaster, memories that were probably better off forgotten.

-sadly- Phoebe: "Oh Cj..:

-sadly- Phoebe: "They had a child."

-calmly- Me:"Awweee baby girl."

She hugged me, despite everything, she was a still a bit sensitive around sights like these.

Me:" There's nothing we could have done."

Phoebe: "We could have brought them some revives."

Me: "We don't have any with us you left your purse in the car, and besides, those are supposed to be for us incase we need them."

Phoebe:"I know but,..."

Me :"Look, just don't think about it too much baby, we couldn't save them, but we can try to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else."

-reluctantly- Phoebe: "-sighs- You're right, it's the best we can do."

-confused- Dan:"What's a car?"

Me:"It's short for carriage."

I didn't realize it at the time but that was actually true.

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Dan: "Ok."

Peter: "It looks like they headed up the street from here, they'll probably hit all the unsecured houses first before burning down the locked ones."

Me: "What?"

Me :"Why are they doing this?"

Peter:"I told you before, it's Vanmugen's curse."

Me: "And I asked you before, who is Vanmugen and what's his curse?"

unknown woman:"Vanmugen was a successful pirate about 50 years ago, with a strong crew of around 3000 men, during the harvest moon he led a raid on a village not far from this one, it was a massacre, the only ones that got out alive were those that defected to his crew."

unknown woman: "but even this was at terrible cost."

Unknown woman: "The rumor was that a curse was set upon those that took part in the raid, including the defectors and even their descendants."

Unknown woman: "So that every year they transform into these horrific demon beast that will attempt to raid other villages and burn them to the ground."

Unknown woman: "Lord Remmington is their leader and a descendant of Vanmugen himself."

Unknown woman: "And, because they have no choice but to raid, they spend the entire year scoping out a village with weak defences, so that they may raid successfully."

Me: "And you hunt them?"

Unknown woman: "No, we all thought the curse was just a rumor until tonight."

Unknown woman:" We all heard about it from Peter, and though everyone else blew it off as just a story , we didn't want to take a chance."

Peter: "And it payed off now didn't it?"

Peter: "I didn' t believe it either, but, then you show up with your magic lady saying they're comming."

Me: "They knew about you."

Dan's wife: "Probably be through gossip, they's human almost everyday of the year ya know?"

Peter: "But then how did you know they were comming?"

Me: "By chance we were walking through the woods, and we came across their meeting."

Peter: "You lucky bastards."

Me: "Are we though?"

Peter: "Shall have to see if you survive to the next mornin."

Peter:"If you two survive you're the luckiest bastards I know."

-nervous- Phoebe: "Don't say it like that."

Me: "Oh Pheebles, relax."

Me: "With your powers we have a competive edge they don't realize."

Peter: "What do ya mean?"

Me: "They can't hide from us can they baby girl?"

-reassured- Phoebe: "Noooo...they can't, you're right."

Me:"Allright then let's go."

We all headed down the street, trying to hunt down the remainder of the demon things. For the next hour or so we were basically playing a game of cat and mouse. We came across a house that had been broken into, in there we killed one more demon monster, unfortunately not before it had claimed the lives of the two occupants, who were an elderly couple.

Dan, his wife, and the woman whose name we still hadn't gotten, split from the group and headed to the adjacent street, hoping the beasts would finish with the street we were on, then head down the adjacent street in the opposite direction, straight towards them. Of course, due to this world's limited technology, once they split we had no way of communicating with them.

After they split, however, it was only a few minutes until our group nearly quadruppled in size, as the townspeople realized something was up, many of them grabbed their rifles and joined up with us. We let Peter take the lead, since he was accustomed to this world, and we stayed back and helped when we could.

Phoebe's powers proved to be insanely useful...

-Somewhere behind some houses at the end of the street.-

-abruptly- Phoebe: "Everyone stop!"

Phoebe: "There's two up on the top floor, planning to jump down on us as we pass."

Phoebe :"There's another waiting right behind the door."

Phoebe: "And behind the fence."

Phoebe:"We need some volunteers to go around and hit the house from the from the front."

Phoebe: "And you see that plank of wood over there on the fence with the large not? "

Phoebe: "Aim 4 planks to the left of that one."

Thanks to her powers, they weren't able to ambush us, but we were able to catch them by surprise, and because of a lack of communications technology, they never caught on. This meant that a lot of these beasts were basically just sitting ducks.

By the time we met back up with Dan's group, we had an entire army of townspeople behind us, and had suffered very few casualtys, the demons were a bit stronger than a normal human, so even if we knew where they were, sometimes they managed to kill a few townspeople before dieing themselves, particularly when people forgot to aim for the head. Unlike a human, these demon beasts could take bullets to the chest all day, maybe not to the extent of Rhyhorn, or Bubba, as they still caused a noticable wound, but they were a lot more resistant than a normal human ever would be, like they were wearing a bullet proof vest.

We took down every demon beast we came across. We couldn't confirm whether we had killed them all, but we had crippled them for sure. After that we said goodbye to our new friends, and took a long ride back to the mansion. Which unfortunately had more beast inside that had fled the village. Since it was only Phoebe and I against atleast five of them, we decided to avoid them and quietly sneak back into the woods. Then we followed the safety line all the way back to the portal.

Unfortunately they found us anyway, and soon they were chasing after us.

I shot one, scored a direct hit, and then Phoebe teleported me away.

Me: "Bet you're glad they let me keep this rifle now huh?"

Phoebe: "Yeah..ok."

Me: "I've got a few more cartridges, but not enough to kill them all."

Me: "Can you teleport us to the portal?"

Phoebe: "I don't know where it is, I can barely stay with the safety line, if I teleport us too far away we could get lost and then who know what will happen?"

Phoebe: "And we could also just end up in a tree."

Me: "Damn."

Phoebe: "And why didn't you bring your pistol?"

Me: "Why didn't you bring your purse?"

Phoebe: "Well, I...Uh...it's easier for you to carry a weapon than it is for me to carry a purse around on these things."

Me: "Whatever, now's not the time to argue."

I was holding her hand now and she was teleporting intermittently over very short distances, just enough to throw off our pursuers and keep them from capturing us.

Phoebe: "We have to run for it."

-into radio- Phoebe: "We're being pursued by demonic beasts, we need reinforcements now, we can't lose them, they might come through the portal."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "I'm calling in other agents, don't worry, we won't close the portal, as long as they can't teleport they shouldn't be as risky as Myrenthall was."

-into radio- Phoebe:"I don't think they can."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Just get through and duck as soon as you get in."

Me: "Ow! Fuck..."

She teleported me infront of a tree, which I immediately ran into, I dropped the rifle on impact.

Phoebe: "Cj! Get up, Hurry."

I stumbled, reclaimed the rifle, turned around and fired at a demon that was just a few feet behind me and gaining fast, the bullet hit it in the chest, and while it wasn't a lethal wound it did cause it to stumble and fall over, buying us some time. Another demon suddenly pinned Phoebe to the ground, causing her to scream.

Me: "Pheebles!"

Phoebe: "help..."

Her hands we glowing as she tried to use her powers to repel the beast.

I picked up a stick off the same tree I had just collided with, and proceeded to stab the beast through the neck, it slumped over and proceeded to bleed out as Phoebe quickly rolled out of the way to avoid getting covered in blood.

-disgusted- Phoebe: "Ew..."

-concerned- Me: "You ok baby?"

Phoebe: "I think so."

Phoebe: "You got me all covered in blood."

Me: "Well I didn't have much choice in the matter, it was either stab it in the neck or let it kill you."

Phoebe: "I know, but still."

-jokingly- Phoebe: "You ruined my dress."

Me:"Ohh Pheebles."

I helped her up, then she teleported us further towards the portal, as the demons were gaining rapidly.

Phoebe :"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that."

Me: "I know."

-a bit dazed- Me: "We're in a forrest, there's trees everywhere."

Me: "It's ok."

Somehow we made it back to the portal without them catching us, after we made it back, Bob immediately shut it down behind us, fortunately it seemed that the demon creatures were too far away to follow.

Dr. Black: "What happened? You two look horrible."

-dazed- Me: "Yeah, I know..."

We were both bleeding pretty bad, she had cuts on her arms from the demon trying to pin her , and there was atleast one stream of blood trickling down my face, from the stupid tree she teleported me in front of.

Fortunately a potion was able to heal everything, and for once this stupid body didn't black out on me.

We did our best to clean ourselves up, but ultimately we had to make a quick trip home for a shower and to get some clean clothes, as Phoebe insisted that Charley shouldn't see us covered in blood, and Dr. Black insisted that wearing blood stained clothes in the next portal could prompt violence or fear, which we were not supposed to spread onto the sentient denizens of the other universes. So we basically just ran home, got some extra clothes, and went straight back to work, with Charley being supervised by Corina the whole time. By then Bob and Dr. Black already had the next portal set up.

Me: "So what are we heading into this time?"

Dr. Black: "It appears to be an empty zone."

Me:"Ok."

Dr. Black:" It's a vast and empty, white area, but the drone doesn't seem to be falling so there must be solid ground."

Dr. Black: "Odds are you won't need to be in there very long because there's not much to see, but we think it's worth checking out just in case we missed something that the probe didn't pick up."

Me: "Isn't that supposed to be the point of the probe?"

Dr. Black: "Not exactly, the probe is just to make sure it's safe for you to enter."

Dr. Black: "Which it is, so, grab a radio and get going."

We did what he said, and headed inside.

It was just an empty, white plain. It was not too cold or too hot, somehow the temperature was just perfect, and there didn't seem to be a spot of darkness anywhere, aside from the whirling vortex of the portal.

Me: "Well this is weird."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "It's so empty."

Phoebe: "And bright."

Me: "Yep."

-into radio- Phoebe :"Can we go now? There doesn't seem to be anything here."

Dr. Black: "Just wait for a minute or so, maybe something will happen."

-a few minutes later-

Me: "Well this is boring."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me: "I wish something exciting would happen."

Just then a fanfair wrang out as if played by many trumpets, however there were no trumpets to be seen and confetti began to fall from the sky.

-confused- Me:"What?"

Phoebe:"I don't know."

Phoebe: "I guess you wished for something exciting to happen and it happened."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Wish for something else."

Me: "Like what?"

Phoebe:"I wish Charley was here."

Charley:"Mawa."

Me: "What the?"

Charley appeared in front of us, out of nowhere, and immediately crawled towards Phoebe.

Phoebe picked him up.

Phoebe: "Heh little guy, how did you get here?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me:" Ummm."

-unsure- Me:" That can't really be him can it?"

Phoebe: "I don't know."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Um we're going to check real quick, hold on."

- a few minutes later-

Dr. Black: "It's not him, the real Charley is still in the lounge with Corina."

Me:"So then this little guy is a clone?"

Phoebe: "What? Now there's two Charleys?"

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "I'm a little creeped out now."

-creeped out- Phoebe: "Me too."

Phoebe: "I wish the fake Charley was gone."

The "Charley" she was holding dissapeared without a trace.

Me: "I wish a Nissan Gtr was here."

A Nissan GTR appeared infront of us, out of nowhere."

Phoebe: "Cj, you can't be serious."

Me: "What? Free GTR."

Me: "I wish there was a 1969 charger too."

Me: "I also wish for 1970 Barracuda 440, and I wish for a jaguar Xj220, and I wish for a Pagani Zonda."

Everysingle car I wished for appeared parked next to the GTR.

Me: "Neat."

Phoebe: "Cj..."

Phoebe: "You know we can't drive them all home at the same time?"

Me: "I wish for one of those car hauler semi things."

A semi with an empty car trailer appeared out of nowhere."

Me: "I wish that all the cars were loaded onto the semi."

The cars dissapeared then reappeared, loaded onto the trailer.

Phoebe: "Do you even know how to drive a semi?"

Me: "I wish the semi was an automatic."

Nothing noticeable changed, but presumably it the truck was an automatic now.

Me: "I wish.."

-interupting- Phoebe: "I really wish you would stop making wishes."

Me: "mmmmmm."

I couldn't finish what I was trying to say.

-feeling a bit betrayed- Me: "Why Pheebles?"

Me: "I just want the cars."

Me: "You know how hard it is to find them?"

Phoebe: "Do you know that we have no idea if they'll even work outside this world?"

Phoebe: "And there's no way that truck is going to fit in the lab."

Me: "Please let me make wishes again."

Phoebe: "rrr."

Me: "Please."

Phoebe: "Ok."

Phoebe: "I wish Cj could make wishes again."

Me: "I wish the truck and all the cars were toys, but there is a button on the hood, that I can press, and then it and all the cars will return to life size fully functional."

The truck was reduced to the size of a toy, with the cars now being about the size of hotwheels.

And there was a button on the hood.

Me: "There, how about that?"

Phoebe: "Cj, if you press that button you'll die when the truck expands."

Me: "Ok, I wish the button had a 20 second delay."

Me: "There, how about that?"

Phoebe: "Ok, I guess that's good."

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Wish for a cup liquid diamond."

Me: "Why?"

-on radio- Dr. Black:" Just do it."

Me: "Ok I wish for a cup of liquid diamond."

A giant steel cube appeared, there was a hole on the top, and inside there appeared to be some kind of glowing, molten metal.

Phoebe: "I wish the cup was tipped over."

The "cup" tipped on it's side and the molten liquid poured out and began to cool, eventually hardening into solid diamond, albeit pretty rough quality.

Dr. Black:" It seems like whatever you wish for in this world can become real. Even if said wish would defy the laws of physics."

Dr. Black: "Liquid diamond is chemically impossible, if you didn't know."

Me:" Weird."

-bored- Me: "I wish for a remote control patton tank."

-unamused- Phoebe :"Cj."

Me: "What?"

A tank appeared.

-unsure- Me:"Where's the remote?"

Phoebe: "You didn't wish for it."

Me: "Oh, ok, I wish for the remote for the remote control patton tank."

The remote appeared out of nowhere.

-on radio- Dr. Black: "Stop wishing for vehicles, we're trying to be scientific here."

Me: "Awe, but its fun."

I picked up the remote, and turned on the tank, and started to drive it around, it was basically like a big rc car.

Me: "You wanna go for a ride?"

Phoebe: "Cj."

Phoebe: "I wish the tank was gone."

The tank dissapeared.

Me: "Pheebles..why you gotta be a buzzkill all of a sudden?"

Phoebe: "Were you going to take the tank home too?"

Me: "I wish Phoebe's powers didn't work here and that she can't wish for them back."

Phoebe: "Cj!"

Me: "And I wish that she can't make any wishes that will take away my cars."

Phoebe: "Ok ok, you win, stop it."

Me: "Hehehe."

Me:"Ohhh don't give me that look."

She gave me the puppy dog eyes...

-sweetly- Phoebe:"Give me my powers back."

Me: "Ok fine...

Me: "I wish Pheebles had her powers back."

Me: "And I wish, we were at one of those palaces she wanted to visit."

A huge and ornate palace appeared out of nowhere.

Phoebe: "Awwwwe, Cj."

Me: "Well I don't see how else we're going to find one?"

Me: "Come on let's go inside."

Phoebe: "Ok."

The palace was fully detailed with a lavishly appointed interior.

Phoebe:"I wish we could live here."

Me: "Wait what?"

Strangely, nothing happened.

Phoebe:"I guess it won't do anything cause we technically already can."

Phoebe:"But we won't of course."

Me:"Yeah I guess so."

Dr. Black:" Ok we have one more test."

Dr. Black :"I want to see if the wishes you make can effect things outside the portal."

Me: "Ok."

Dr. Black:"Say that you wish Bob had a cup of coffey."

Me: "I wish Bob had a cup of coffey."

Dr. Black: "Ok it's a negative, apparently your wishes can only effect things in there."

Dr. Black: "Allright."

-on radio- Dr. Black:"You can come back now."

Dr. Black: " We've seen enough."

Me: "Ok."

We left the palace and I found the toy truck, and brought it with me out of the portal, it's appearence didn't change as we left, and like a child with a new toy, I couldn't wait till we got home.

Phoebe:"Oh arceus it didn't change to plaster?"

Me: "Nope."

Me: "Which means."

-cheerfully- Me: "We got new cars!"

Me: "I can't wait to pickup Nina from school."

Phoebe:"Cj."

Me: "Yes baby girl?"

Phoebe: "Do any of those cars run on hydrogen?"

-realizing- Me: "Uhhhhhhhhhhhh."

Me:"One second."

Phoebe: "Wait a minute, Cj."

I turned around and headed back into the portal, made one more, extremely obvious wish then came right back out.

Me: "Ok, now they all have hydro conversions."

Phoebe: "Ok are you happy now?"

Me: "Mhm, come on, let's get Charley and go home."

Phoebe: "Ok."

About a half hour later we were home, I set the toy truck in the backyard, away from the house.

Me: "Ok Pheebles, stay back, hopefully this will work."

I pressed the button on the hood, then quickly ran away.

And then we waited, and waited...and waited, but nothing happened.

Phoebe: "Ok it has been more than 20 seconds by now."

Me: "I don't understand."

Phoebe: "It may have worked in there, but here, there's just no way it could possiblY work."

Me: "So I'm stuck with a toy truck?"

Phoebe: "I guess so."

Phoebe: "Maybe Charley would like to play with it?"

Me: "Maybe."

Me: "Why don't we try it again and then wait an hour though, just in case?"

Me: "I don't want him to get hurt."

Phoebe: "Ok, sounds good."

I went over to the truck and pressed the button again, but once again after 20 seconds, nothing happened and it appeared that it was stuck being a toy.

So we went inside and sat on the couch.

Me: "Well that sucks.

Phoebe: "Ohhhh, it's allright, you don't need that many cars."

Me: "Doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun to have them."

Charley: "Cawey wa pway!"

Me:"What do you wanna play little guy?"

-playfully- Charley: "Cawey gah Dawhy!"

He grabbed my leg.

-playfully- Me: "Oh, you got me huh?"

-playfully- Me: "Well aren't you just a tough guy?"

I picked him up.

Me: "Well now I got you."

-playfully- Charley: "Noooo Dawhy gah Cawey!"

-defiantly- Charley: "Cawey wa dow."

Me: "No, I got you."

Phoebe: "Are you hungry?"

Me: "Um, maybe a little bit."

Charley: "Cawey wa peesah!"

Me:"You want pizza hmmm?"

Me:"What happened to..."

Phoebe:"Shhh don't get him started on that?"

Me:"What? P-a-n-c-a-k-e-s?"

Phoebe:"Don't remind him."

Me:"Ohhh ok."

Phoebe:"I'll go make some sandwhiches if you boys are hungry."

Me:"Ok, sounds good."

Charley:"Cawey wa peesah."

Phoebe:"I'm sorry sweety but that's not possible."

Me: "Aren't you going shopping with Nina today?"

Me: "Maybe you could see if the department store has some frozen pizzas."

Phoebe: "They have those?"

Me: "Well maybe, they had them here before the disaster."

Phoebe: "Ok I'll see when I'm over there."

She got up and headed into the kitchen, and came back a few minutes later with some sandwhiches for all of us, even a little one for Charley. So we all had a late lunch in front of the tv, while trying to teach Charley how to eat a sandwhich without making a big mess. After that it was about 3:00pm, so Phoebe decided to leave for the afternoon.

Phoebe:"Well, Cj it's getting late so I should go get Nina, remember we're going shopping today, so we won't be back until this evening."

Me: "Right, I remember."

Me:"Remember to look for the pizzas."

Phoebe:"I will, don't worry."

Phoebe: "Charley be good for daddy."

She gave both of us a kiss.

Me: "Love you baby."

Phoebe: "Love you."

Phoebe: "And Cj, don't do anything stupid."

Me: "I know baby..."

She put on her coat and left the house, leaving me alone with Charley for the rest of the afternoon.

Me:"Now it's just you and me little guy."

Charley:"Whe mawa go?"

Me:"She's going to go play with Nina this afternoon."

Charley:" Cawey wa pway Newa."

Me: "Well maybe you can tomorrow, since she won't have school."

Me :"How's that sound?"

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

Me: "-sighs-, you little goofball."

Charley:"Cawey wa dow."

Me:"-sighs-, allright."

I set him down as he requested, and he immediately began to crawl towards the door, but that was as far as he could get because he was too short to open it himself.

Me:"Where are you going?"

-dissapointed- Charley:"Cawey wah go ousigh."

Me:"Why do you need to go outside?"

Me:"You don't want to go out there, it's cold."

-upset- Charley:"Cawey wa pway Newa."

Me:"Well you aren't going to find her out there."

Me: "She's not right outside, she's at school."

Me: "Hey come back here, maybe we can find something fun to do without Nina."

Me: "We have your blocks, we can build towers and stuff."

Me:" We can go on an adventure."

He began to crawl back towards me.

Me: "Or maybe we can find something for you on the tv."

The world war 2 documentary that was on right now just didn't seem to interest him.

Charley:"Cawey no wa teephee, Cawey wa pway."

Me:"Ok."

-cutely- Charley: "Ousigh.."

Me: "No Charley, I can't take you outside."

Me: "It's cold today, you could get sick."

Me: "And if you got sick because I took you outside, your mother would never let it go."

Me: "Trust me on that."

Charley :"Cawey wa go ousigh."

Me: "How about we go somewhere else instead."

Me: "We could go to the basement to see the trains."

-somewhat upset- Charley :"Nooooo."

At this point He would have said no regardless of what I said, if it had nothing to do with outside.

Me: "Oh come on, let's go."

I picked him up and brought him downstairs, where I started the trains up so he could watch.

Me: "Ok see."

His eyes focused on one of the trains as it travelled around the track, stuttering in places, as the layout hadn't been used in awhile. The stuttering came to an end once after the train made a few dozen laps, clearing the dust off the tracks.

Charley: "Where tway gowee? Dahwy, Where tway gowee?"

Me: "It's going around in circles silly, it's not really going anywhere. "

Charley: "Cawey pway tway?"

Me: "Um...Yeah I think we could find you some to play with."

I pulled out a box from under the table, containing a bunch of lionel o gauge tracks that had sat here since I brought them over from my parents house, the trains we had up were too small for Charley to play with, but the o gauge trains would do nicely.

Me: "Here we'll set one up for you."

I brought him back to the tv upstairs.

Me: "Ok little guy, you wait here I have to go back and get the stuff."

I changed the tv channel to something more interesting for him, then headed downstairs to retrieve the box of tracks, and another box of trains. I gave Charley a freight car to mess around with while I set up the track.

Once I had about half an oval set up Charley decided to put down the box car and he reached for the track instead , pulling it apart.

Me: "Charley what are you doing?"

Me: "Don't mess with the track or the train won't work."

I gave him a few extra pieces of track to play with to keep him occupied.

After analyzing both the track and the boxcar for a minute or so he tried to set the car on the track.

Charley: "Tway go on twah."

Me:"Mhm."

Me :"You can't just set it on the track like that though, you have to have the wheels on the rails."

I corrected it for him.

Me: "Like that, see?"

-curious- Charley: "Whee awe ray.."

Me: "Mhm."

Eventually I had made a complete oval of track that spanned most of the living room area behind the couch, then I wired it up, and got some more trains out of the other box, a few more freight cars, and a small steam locomotive, and set them on the track.

Charley: "Es tway.."

Me: "Mhm."

-cutely- Charley: "Bih Tway."

Me: "Yeah this one is a bit bigger than the ones downstairs isn't it?"

Me: "Anyway come here little guy, let me show you how to drive."

I brought him over to the controller.

Me: "Ok now all we have to do, is push this lever."

I push the lever, and the locomotive lit up and began to accelerate...backwards.

Me: "Um..."

Me: "Wrong way."

I brought it to a stop and pushed the lever again, now it was going the right direction.

Me: "There we go."

Me: "And that's how you control the train."

-cutely- Charley: "Go tway go!"

Me: "hehe."

The train circled around a few times.

Me: "You can control it Charley."

Me: "You just need to move the lever, see."

I pulled the lever back a little bit, and the train slowed down accordingly. Charley noticed this and decided to speed it back up again, gently pushing it forward.

Charley: "Go tway!"

Me :"Hehe."

I pulled the throttle back again.

-playfully- Me: "Uh oh it's slowing down."

Charley: "No tway... go fasa.."

He pushed the throttle ahead again.

And so we both fought over control of the throttle, until the locomotive derailed.

Charley: "Dawhy tway kwash!"

Me: "Yep..."

Me :"Looks like the track came apart.

Me: "I'll fix it."

I put the throttle all the way down, only for Charley to turn it back up again.

Charley: "Tway wo go."

Me: " It's not going to work when's it's crashed silly."

I pushed it back down again.

Me :"Leave it down so I can fix it."

He pushed it back up again.

-somewhat anxious- Charley: " wo go."

Me: "Ok why don't you help me fix it then?"

I brought him away from the controller to the crash site, and then pushed the throttle back down when he wasn't looking.

I set the locomotive back on the track, and pushed the separated tracks back to together.

-somewhat saddened- Charley: "Tway wo go Dawhy, es bwokeh."

-playfully- Me: "No...It's not broken."

Me: "Go turn it up again."

He crawled back over to the transformer, and slowly raised the throttle. As expected, the train began to accelerate, and continued to run around the track once again I had to lift it off the track a few times to get it going the right direction again though.

Charley: "Dawhy, see tway go ..!"

Me :"Mhm."

-cheerfully- Charley: "Es nah bwokeh."

Me: "Hehe, see I told you."

Me: "Hey I have an idea."

Me: "We can use your blocks as cargo."

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "Go get your blocks."

He crawled back around the couch and returned with a single alphabet block.

Charley: "Cawey geh bwah."

Me: "Ok son, we might need a little bit more than that."

Me: "Wait here."

I went back around to get more blocks, while I was gone the track separated again and I heard the train crash at about the same moment that I picked some more of his blocks up.

Charley:" Tway kwash ageh."

Me:"I'll fix it, don't worry."

-cutely- Charley: "Doh wohwy."

Charley: "Twa bwokeh."

Me: "Yeah that happens alot."

Me: "It's allright though, it's easy to fix."

I returned to the train to fix it. I also loaded it up with alphabet blocks, which the open freight cars had plenty of room for.

Me :"There you go, see Charley? The train can carry your blocks around."

Me: "Allright, go start it up again little guy."

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "You know silly, you just did it a minute ago."

Me: "Go start up the train."

Charley: "Tway nah bwokeh?"

Me: "No it's not broken anymore."

Charley: "Cawey may towa?"

Me :"You want to make a tower?"

He began to stack the blocks up on the train.

Me: "It's not going to stay up, but ok."

Charley: "Towa tway."

Me: "Yep..."

Me: "You gonna start it up now?"

He pushed the throttle up, the tower fell down almost immediately as the train began to move, a few of the blocks landed back in the freight car, and a few of them ended up alongside the tracks.

Charley: "Towa fah dow."

Me: "Mhm."

Me:" It can't stay up when the train is moving."

Me: "It's not a tower train anymore it's just a block train now."

Charley: "Bwah tway."

Me: "Mhm."

Charley:"Seewee tway may towa fah dow."

Me: "Well silly Charley built a tower on the train."

-meanwhile-

As I kept Charley entertained at home, Phoebe picked up Nina from school and took her to the Goldenrod Department Store to shop for a dress.

Phoebe: "Ok sweety, let's try to find you a dress."

Phoebe:"You want just a white dress or maybe something a bit more colorfull?"

Nina:" Pink?"

Phoebe: "No, no, no, pink isn't that great of a color for a dress."

Phoebe:" How about something like blue, or green?"

Nina: "Red?"

Phoebe: "Red...mmmmm...it might work..."

Phoebe: "But it won't go with your hair very well."

Nina :"What if I got my hair dyed black?"

Nina: "I could look more human that way."

Phoebe: "Don't be silly."

Nina: "Maybe he would like that more."

-concerned- Phoebe: "Nina I thought you were going just cause you like to dance?"

Nina: "Well I uh...uh..."

Nina: "I still have to look good for him or he won't take me."

Phoebe: "Well dying your hair won't make you look better sweety."

Nina:"Why?"

Phoebe:" Because it just doesn't, and if he didn't think you were beautiful with green hair he wouldn't have asked you out to begin with."

Phoebe: "Now come on, there's a few dresses over here you should try on."

Nina: "What about black?"

Phoebe: "Yeah, black will work too."

Phoebe: "So you have a choice between black, white, blue and green."

Nina:" Yellow and orange?"

Phoebe: "And purple..."

Phoebe: "And then we need to decide on the style too."

-realizing- Phoebe: "-sighs-, this is gonna take awhile."

Phoebe: "Why don't you try a few of these on and then we'll start from there?"

Nina: "Ok."

-back at home-

After playing for an hour, Charley was now trying to build a tower in front of the train to make it crash, without much , we began to incorporate hotwheels into the mix as well. We made a very crude station out of his blocks for the train to stop at, to load up with more blocks of course, and hotwheels. After another hour had passed we had incorporated almost every toy we could find outside of Nina's room into the trainset. Which now featured a castle made from Charley's newer blocks, constructed by Charley with my help. And now Morty the murkrow, the golden wartortle, and Charley's lotad and oshawott plushes were riding the train as well. I had to add a few more freight cars from the box to accomodate them.

Charley: "Mawko go fo rie."

Me: "Mhm."

Charley: "He luh tway."

Me: "He loves trains?"

Me: "Ok."

Me: "Is their pizza on the train?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

My phone began to ring.

Me: "It's probably your mother."

-into phone- Me: "Hey baby what's up?"

-into phone- Phoebe: "Nothing much, the store is about to close for today and she still hasn't made a decision."

-into phone- Me: "Oh...ok."

-into phone- Me: "Well we can all go back tomorrow."

Me: "So why'd you call?"

Phoebe :"Because I'm bored, I'm just sitting in the corner while she tries on all these dresses."

Me: "Hehe, ok."

-into phone- Me: "Um you wanna pick up supper maybe?"

-on phone- Phoebe: "Where at?"

Charley: "Dawhy tway cwash."

-into phone- Me:" I don't know, what about that barbecue place?"

-on phone- Phoebe: "It's on the other side of town."

-on phone- Phoebe: "How's Charley?"

-into phone- Me: "Oh he's fine, we're having a great time."

Charley: "Dawhy tway es bwokeh!"

-unsure- Phoebe :"What?"

-into phone- Me: "Yeah, I brought out a trainset for him to play with, and we've been playing around with that for most of this afternoon."

-into phone- Me: "He likes trains Pheebles.."

-on phone- Phoebe:"Aweee, how sweet."

-somewhat upset- Charley: "Dawhy...twah kwash...es bwokeh."

-into phone- Me: "Anyway, just find what you can and come home, I'm starting to miss you already."

-on phone- Phoebe: "Awe...Cj..., I miss you too."

-into phone- Me: "Love you babe."

-on phone- Phoebe: "Love you."

-into phone- Me: "See you when you get home."

-on phone- Phoebe: "See you too."

-frustrated- Charley: "DAWHY TWAY KWASH! ES BWOKEH!"

He was not happy.

Me :"Ok ok, I was talking to your mother little guy, have some patience."

This time instead of just the locomotive derailing, the train had tipped over completely spilling it's cargo everywhere.

Me: "Wow, what a mess."

Charley:" Ehthee fah dow."

Me: "Yep."

Me: "Is murkrow ok?"

Unfortunately we didn't have a toy ambulance.

-cutely- Charley: "No he fah dow...he geh owie..."

Me: "Ok."

Charley: "Mawko heh hur..."

Me: "His head hurts?"

Me: "What about wartortle?"

Charley: "Heh hur."

Me: "Both of their heads hurt?"

Me: "Maybe they should wear helmets?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "Is lotad ok?"

Charley: "He ok."

Me: "Why is he ok?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

I set the train back on the track and began to load it back up with toys.

Charley started it up before I finished loading it.

Me: "Charley.."

Charley: "Twah nah bwokeh no mo."

Me: "Mhm."

Me: "But now you left wartortle and lotad behind."

Charley: "They no luh twah no mo."

Me: "Ok."

Charley: "Tway cwash, watorwool geh hur..."

Me: "What about lotad."

Charley: "Lotah no luh tway."

Me: "Ok."

Charley: "He geh hur."

Me: "I thought you said he didn't get hurt?"

Charley: "Lotah heh hur."

Me: "Oh now his head hurts too?"

Me: "Ok."

Me: "I don't think it had anything to do with the train if he's only complaining about it now."

Charley: "lotah may tway cwash."

He put lotad on the tracks, the train collided with it, and push it for awhile before it fell off the tracks at the curve. The train continued on as normal.

Me: "It doesn't look like he succeeded."

Charley :"Lotah mo hur now."

Me: "Yeah, that's not surprising is it?"

Charley: "He nee mawa.."

-concerned- Charley: "Wheh Mawa?"

Me: "She's still in the city, she'll be back later though don't worry."

Charley: "Lotah nee Dahwy."

Me: "Why?"

He handed me the lotad plush.

Charley: "Lotah heh hur."

Me: "I know, but what am I supposed to do about it?"

Me: "You want me to give him a bandaid?'

Charley:"Heh hur.."

Me:"Ok I'll give him a bandaid."

Me: "If I can find one."

Me: "Wait here."

I went into the kitchen, couldn't find a bandaid, but I found some tape, so I stuch a piece of tape on the plushes' head and returned it to Charley.

Me: "There you go, he's got a bandaid now see?"

Charley: "Banday?"

Me: "Mhm."

He noticed the piece of tape and analyzed it, very thoroughly.

Charley:"es banday?"

Me: "Mhm."

Charley: "Lotah wa bah on tway."

Me: "He wants back on the train?"

Me: "Ok."

By the time Phoebe came home with Nina, we were still playing with the train. Nina came in first.

Nina :"Hi dad."

Me:"Hey sweetheart."

Nina: "Woh cool, where did this train come from?"

Me:"It was downstairs, in one of the boxes."

Nina:"Ohhhhh ok."

Me:"Did you find a dress?"

Nina:"No, not yet."

Me:"I guess we'll have to go back over tomorrow then?"

Nina:"Mhmmm."

Me:"Where's your mother?"

Nina: "She's bringing in the grocerys."

Phoebe:"Nina, I thought I asked you to help me?"

Nina:"I dunno."

-annoyed- Phoebe:"Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did."

Phoebe:"What's going on here?"

She came in, a few grocery bags floating around her.

Me:"Oh hey baby."

Charley: "Mawa!"

Me: "I told you I set up a train for him."

Phoebe: "I didn't know you set it up in the living room."

Me: "Well I uh...ummm."

Phoebe:" Awwwwe it's ok , we'll worry about it later."

-playfully- Phoebe:"Charley.."

Phoebe: "How are you little guy?"

Phoebe:"Here Cj, take these to the kitchen."

Me:"Um, Ok."

I took the groceries into the kitchen, while Phoebe picked Charley up to hug him.

Phoebe: "Thankyou."

Me:"Mhmm."

Phoebe: "Ohhh my little baby boy, I missed you so much."

Charley: "Cawey luh mawa."

Phoebe: "Did you have fun with daddy while I was gone?"

Charley: "Cawey pway tway..."

Phoebe: "I see."

Phoebe: "Daddy set up the train for you didn't he?"

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

-cutely- Charley:" Dawhy may tway fo Cawey."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Hehe, I see."

Me: "So how'd it go?"

Phoebe: "She still hasn't picked out a dress."

Me: "That's what she told me."

Phoebe: "Hopefully we'll have more time tomorrow."

Me: "Hopefully."

Me: "Did you bring dinner?"

Phoebe: "No I couldn't find a drive-through place, and it's hard to get off the highway once you get on."

Me: "Ohhh, ok."

Phoebe: "But I brought groceries so I can make something."

Me: "Ok that works."

I gave her a hug.

Me: "I missed you."

Phoebe: "Awwwe, Cj."

-cutely- Nina: "Family hug!"

She came up and hugged us both.

Phoebe: "Hehe."

Charley: "Newa..."

Nina: "I love you guys."

Me: "We love you too ."

Phoebe: "Mhmmm."

Me: "You're in a good mood today."

Phoebe: "Mhmm."

Phoebe: "Nina? Do you have any homework to do?"

Nina: "Ummmm."

Nina: "I dunno."

Phoebe: "Yeah, nice try, go get it done sweety."

Nina: "Awe, but mom..."

-anxious- Nina: "But, I have the whole weekend."

Me: "Well get it done now so you won't have to worry about it tomorrow."

Nina :"Awe."

Me: "Then you can watch tv with us after dinner."

Nina: "-sighs-, ok."

She headed into her room.

Me: "Allright what were we doing?"

Phoebe: "We were hugging."

-cutely- Charley: "Weh Newa go?"

Phoebe: "She's busy."

Charley: "Cawey wa pway.."

Me: "Charley, we've been playing since mommy left."

Charley: "Cawey dunno."

Me: "Let's take a break for a little while."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Come on, come watch tv with me."

-cutely- Charley :"Teephee?"

Phoebe:" Mhmm."

We all moved over to the couch. It was probably around 7 or 8 pm now, and Phoebe was a bit anxious to get into the kitchen.

Phoebe :"Really Cj, it's starting to get late, if I don't start on dinner now, we won't have any."

Phoebe: "And what about Charley? Has he had anything since I left?"

Me:"Yeah, I gave him some milk and a graham cracker an hour ago, I didn't want to feed him too much because I didn't know if you were going to bring something or not.."

Phoebe: "So he could probably use a little more."

Me: "Yeah, probably."

Me: "You upset?"

Phoebe: "No, it was just a long drive home."

Me: "I could make dinner."

Phoebe: "Ok, fine."

Phoebe: "Go make dinner."

Me: "Allright then."

Phoebe: "Cj...?"

Me: "What?"

Phoebe: "Thankyou."

Me: "Mhm, don't mention it."

So I headed into the kitchen, took a minute to put the grocerys away, and then began to defrost some meat to make hamburgers, a few minutes later, after I just put them on the grill, Phoebe came in.

Me:"What's up?"

Phoebe:"They want us to be at the lab early tomorrow."

Me:"What? Why?"

Phoebe:"I just got the call, something's happening with the portals again."

Me:"Again? Are they ever going to get them figured out?"

Phoebe:" I don't know."

Phoebe:" What are you making?"

Me: "Hamburgers."

Phoebe :"Oh ok."

Me: "Why?"

Phoebe :"Just curious."

Me: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Don't put any seasoning on Charley's he won't like it."

Me:"I know."

Me:"What's he up to anyway?"

Phoebe:"The tv is watching him."

Me:"Hehe, ok."

Me: "You might wanna go check on him."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I probably should."

Phoebe: "I'll set the table."

Me: "Ok."

Me: "What about Charley?"

Phoebe: "I'll just put him in his high chair, he'll be fine."

Me: "Ok."

She left for a moment to retrieve Charley from the front of the tv, then she set him in his high chair and began to set the table while I watched from the entrance of the kitchen.

Charley: "Mawa, Cawey wa teephee."

Phoebe:"Aren't you hungry? It's almost time to eat."

-fussy- Charley :"Buh Cawey wah."

Phoebe:"Play with your blocks."

-mad- Charley: "CAWEY WA TEEPHEE!"

Phoebe:"Charley."

He through his blocks to the floor.

-mad- Charley: "Cawey wah dow!"

She picked him up.

-mad- Charley: "Mawa Cawey wa dow..."

-mad- Charley: "Wa teephee!"

-somewhat annoyed- Phoebe: "Gardevoirrrr devoirrr garr."

Phoebe: "Don't get so mad Charley, you can watch tv later, but now we're getting ready for dinner."

-upset- Charley: "Cawey luh teephee."

Phoebe: "I know, but you love me more don't you?"

-a few seconds later-

-concerned- Phoebe:"Don't you?"

Charley: "Cawey luh mawa."

Phoebe:"Ok then calm down."

She set him back in his chair.

Phoebe: "Be patient and play with your blocks."

Me: "He's not a very patient little guy."

Phoebe: "hehe, no he's not."

-playfully- Phoebe:"Charleey, are you hungry?"

Charley:"Cawey dunno."

-playfully- Phoebe: "I think you are, you haven't had much to eat today."

Charley: "Cawey no huhwy."

Me: "You're just saying that cause you want to watch tv aren't you?"

Charley: "No Dahwy, Cawey no wa teephee."

Phoebe: "-giggles- that's a lie."

-playfully- Me: "Yeah, he's not quite at your level yet."

Phoebe: "hey..."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Don't you have hamburgers to attend to?"

Me:"Well, yeah, but, they can go a few minutes without needing flipped."

-playfully- Phoebe:"Are you sure?"

Me: "Yes Pheebles, it's not like this is the first I've ever cooked anything."

She teleported away.

Me: "Pheebles?"

-unsure- Charley: "Wheh mawa?"

Me: "I don't know."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Yeah, they look ok to me."

I turned to find she had teleported behind me.

Me: "What are you doing baby girl?"

-playfully- Phoebe: "Making sure you're not screwing up dinner."

-playfully- Me: "Get out."

Phoebe: "What?"

-playfully- Me: "You heard me, get out, this is my kitchen for now."

Phoebe:"Cj..."

Me:"hehehehe..."

-upset- Charley: "Weh aybowy go!"

Me: "Hehehe..."

We had left him in his highchair in the dining room, even though we were just in the next room, he seemed to think we had left him, he couldn't see us in his highchair as we were away from the entrance.

Me: "We left Charley behind."

Phoebe: "Shhh."

Charley: "Mawaaaaa!"

Charley: "Waaagoweee?"

Charley: "Mawaaaaa!"

-playfully- Me: "He wants you."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Charley!"

-unsure- Charley: "Mawa wheh u go? Cawey wa."

-distressed- Charley: "Mawa!"

Me:" You better go in there before he throws a fit."

Phoebe:"Yeah you're probably right."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Just let me check the hamburgers again first."

Me: "Pheebles."

I gently pushed her towards the exit.

Phoebe: "-giggles-"

She kissed me.

-playfully- Phoebe: "I love you."

-playfully- Me: "Hehe, Love you too baby, now go."

Phoebe: "Oh allright."

She turned around and headed back into the dining room.

Phoebe :"Charley."

Charley: "Mawa, Cawey miss."

-playfully- Phoebe: "Awe, Charley I was just in the next room."

Charley: "Wheh Dawhy?"

Phoebe:"He's in the kitchen too."

Phoebe: "He's making food for everybody."

Charley: "Cawey wa foo."

Phoebe: "Well you'll get some, don't worry."

She took a seat across from him at the table.

Charley :"Dawhy may pahcays fo Cawey?"

Phoebe: "Um, no, but I'll make pancakes for you tomorrow remember?"

-sadly- Charley: "Buh Cawey wa pahcays."

-lovingly- Phoebe: "Well I know you do sweety, but you can't have pancakes all the time."

Phoebe: "Besides, you'll have some tomorrow morning, I promise."

Charley: "Mawa ma pahcays fo Cawey."

Phoebe: "Mhm, tomorrow."

-cutely- Charley: "Cawey luh mawa.."

Phoebe: "I love you too sweety."

Phoebe:"And not because you make me pancakes every morning."

A few minutes later the hamburgers were ready and we all had dinner together at the table.

Nina: "So what's going on tomorrow?"

Me: "We have to go to work again, because something strange is happening with the portals, again."

-surprised- Nina: "Again?"

Me:"Mhm."

Nina: "Why do they keep having problems?"

Phoebe: "Because they don't even know everything that's going on with the portals."

Nina: "That doesn't sound safe."

Phoebe: "Oh sweety, it's allright, we know what we're doing."

Me: "Yeah, don't worry about it."

Phoebe: "Anyway, you'll have to come with us tomorrow."

Nina: "Why do I have to go? Can't I stay here?"

Phoebe: "-sighs-, and what exactly are you going to do here without us?"

Nina: "I could go outside, and play with my pokemon."

Phoebe: "In this weather most of your pokemon would prefer to stay inside their balls."

-confused- Me: "Wouldn't you rather come with us to make sure we're safe?"

Nina: "But you said you'll be fine."

Phoebe: "We will, but don't you want to be sure?"

Phoebe: "You can't go into the portals with us, but you can play with Charley in the lounge."

Nina: "But that's so boring."

Phoebe: "Charley doesn't mind it."

Nina: "But Charley is a baby, he doesn't mind anything."

Meanwhile, Charley was quietly munching on little pieces of hamburger that Phoebe cut up for him.

Phoebe: "Oh yes he does."

Me: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "He threw a fit just a little while ago because I took him away from the tv."

Phoebe: "And then he threw another one later because nobody was in the room with him."

Charley: "Mawa, Cawey foo awl gah."

Me: "It actually doesn't take much to upset him."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe:"All it takes is for something to not go his way."

Me: "Yep."

Charley: "Cawey wa mo foo."

Phoebe: "It will be allright sweety, besides, you can bring my ds, or that other thing you have."

Nina: "Pokemon trainer simulator?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: "So it won't be all that bad."

-frustrated- Charley: "CAWEY WA MO FOO!"

Phoebe: "Ok ok, -sighs-, Charley, we're having a conversation, you need to be more patient."

Charley: "Cawey dunno mawa."

Charley: "Cawey wa mo foo."

-unsure- Me: "Is he being snarky? "

Phoebe: "Noooo, I don't think he means to be, he just doesn't know what I'm saying."

Phoebe:"I'll get you some more food Charley, just wait a little bit."

She started to cut up some more hamburger for him.

Nina: "-Sighs-, Well ok... I guess I'll go."

Phoebe: "Good."

Phoebe: "That way we'll have more time to take you dress shopping afterwards."

Nina: "Really?"

Phoebe: "Mhm, cause we won't have to come back to get you."

Nina: "Oh right, that makes sense."

After dinner we retired to the couch for the evening, where Phoebe and I snuggled and watched tv, while Nina played with Charley behind the couch, the trainset keeping them both entertained.

Phoebe: "-comfortably sighs-, why don't you move that train to Charley's room tomorrow?"

Phoebe: "He seems to like it."

Me: "Yeah, I probably will, I never intended to leave it set up like that anyway."

Phoebe: "It kind of makes it hard to get into the kitchen."

Me: "Yeah, kind of."

Nina: "Um, Dad where's the direction switch?"

Me: "There isn't one, you have to stop it to change direction."

Nina: "Ohhh, ok."

Nina: "Ok Charley, ready?"

Charley:"Newa may tway go!"

Nina:"I will, just wait a bit, I need to get it going the right way first."

Charley: "Go Twah!"

Me:"A bit of warning sweetheart, it crashes alot."

Nina: "It does?"

Me:" Yeah, the tracks don't hold together very well, it will probably force them apart at somepoint."

Me:"If that happens just push them back together and set the train back up."

Nina:"Ok."

Me:"Charley might try to make it crash sometimes too."

Me: "If he does that, just let him, he can't hurt the train and it makes him happy."

Nina: "But what if I just want to watch the train run around?"

Phoebe: "Well his bedtime is in an hour or so, if you still want to by then you can."

Nina: "Ok."

Phoebe: "Also Cj, how many more train sets do you have?"

Me: "At that scale?"

Me: "Um, I have a bunch more trains in storage, that's most of the track though."

Phoebe: "Do you have enough track to run around his room?"

Me: "What do you mean?"

Phoebe: "Around the ceiling?"

Me: "Probably not why?"

Me: "You want to put in a ceiling train for him?"

Phoebe: "I think he would like it."

Me:" Maybe when he's older."

Me: "When he's not so bent on making it crash."

Me: "That and we'll have to find more track, and some wood, and screws, and other things."

Phoebe:"Ok."

Me: "It's a pretty big project babe."

Phoebe: "We can work on it together."

Me: "Hehe, sure."

- a few moments later-

We began to realize that the motor noise comming from the train was making it hard to focus on the tv. By this point the train had derailed atleast 3 times since Nina started playing with it, from the sound of things, once because the track came apart, and twice because Charley set some toys in front of it.

Phoebe: "Nina sweety can you please stop playing with the train? It's starting to get a little bit annoying."

Nina: : Awe, but mom."

Phoebe:" You can play with it more tomorrow."

-mockingly- Nina: "Because you need to snuggle with dad now?"

-off guard- Me:"Huh?"

Phoebe: "No, because I want to watch tv while I snuggle with your dad."

Phoebe: "So there."

Phoebe: "Drop the attitude or you'll go to bed the same time as Charley."

Me: "What's going on?"

Phoebe: "Nothing, she's just being a little snarky."

Me: "Well you did say she could play with it after Charley went to bed, and then you changed your mind."

Phoebe: "Yeah, I know, sorry Nina, I didn't know how distracting it was going to be."

Phoebe:"Why don't you bring Charley over here and watch tv with us?"

Nina:" -sighs-, ok."

Phoebe :"Your father is going to move the trainset to Charley's room tomorrow, so it will be out of the way, and then you can play with it more."

Nina: "What if he doesn't?"

Phoebe: "Well, then, that's for me to decide and you not to worry about."

Me:"I'll get it done sweety, unless something randomly inconvienient happens."

Nina:"Like what?"

Me:" Myrenthal getting unfrozen, or we get stuck in the portals for most of the day, or something..."

-worried- Nina: "Whaat?"

Phoebe: "Ohh Cj, don't scare her again."

Phoebe:"It won't happen Nina, don't worry."

Me: "Bottom line is, you will get to play with it eventually so don't worry about it."

Me: "Not that it should really be that big of a deal anyway sweety, you have your own trains downstairs, and you haven't really played with them in awhile anyway."

Nina :"I know, but this one is bigger."

Me: "That's so Charley can play with it without breaking it into a bunch of little pieces or something."

Me: "He can't play with the little trains, he'll destroy them, or try to eat them, one of the two."

Me: "That one however, is strong enough to put up with his abuse."

Phoebe: "Hehe, Cj, He wouldn't eat them, he's old enough to know he shouldn't."

Me: "If you say so."

Me: "He'd still destroy them though."

Phoebe: "Yeah, probably."

-unsure- Nina: "Why does he want to destroy them? He likes them."

Me: "Yes, but he doesn't understand that they're fragile and break really easilly."

-distressed- Charley: "Mawa! Newa wo may tway go, Cawey wa pway."

Phoebe :"Sorry sweety, but the train is too loud, why don't you come watch tv with us?"

Phoebe: "Nina, why don't you bring him over here?"

Nina: "Ok."

-playfully- Nina: "Come here baby brother."

-upset- Charley: "No Newa, Cawey wa twaaay!"

-upset- Charley: "Cawey wa dow, wa tway!"

-unsure- Nina: "Mom?"

Phoebe: "Charley don't get upset with your sister, she's just doing what we told her to do."

Charley: "Mawa, Newa wo may Cawey dow. Cawey wa pway tway."

Phoebe: "We know sweety."

Phoebe: "Bring him here Nina."

Nina brought her a rather upset Charley.

Phoebe sat up and cradled him in her arms, trying to calm him down as he continued to whine about wanting to play with the train. It didn't take long as he was only moderately upset, he had thrown bigger fits.

-calmly- Phoebe:" You like to play with the train sweety? Is that why you're all upset?"

-in tears- Charley: "Cawey wa pway tway."

-calmly- Phoebe: "I know, I know."

-calmly- Phoebe: "You can play with it more tomorrow."

-calmly- Phoebe :"Daddy is even going to move it into you room."

Charley: "Mawaaa."

-calmly- Phoebe: "Shhhh...don't worry little guy, you'll get more time to play with it."

-calmly- Phoebe:"You just have to be patient."

-calmly- Phoebe: "You like watching tv too don't you?"

Charley: "Teephee?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Phoebe: Cj why don't you try to find something on that amuses him?"

Me: "How do we know this won't? He hasn't started watching it yet."

Charley: "Cawey wa puh tow tway-ah?"

Phoebe: "Puppet town trainer?"

Phoebe: "The disc is in the car Charley, we can't watch it right now."

Me: "That show is creepy anyway."

Nina: "We can watch Torch the Growlithe."

Me: "Haven't seen that in awhile."

Me: "You have it on Dvd right?"

Nina: "Mhm."

-correctively- Phoebe: "Virtual Disc."

Me: "Pheebles, it's basically the same thing."

Me:" Go get it sweety and we'll watch it out here ok?"

Nina: "Ok."

She headed into her room for a moment, then came back with the disk, we watched the first two episodes and then Charley had to go to bed. Then we watched four more before Phoebe decided she was tired and decided to go to bed.

Phoebe:"Ok Nina, we'll let you stay up late tonight, but we better not find you on the couch tomorrow, understood?"

Nina:"I understand."

Phoebe:"Ok, have fun sweety."

Phoebe:" Cj, can you help me up the stairs?"

Me:"Hehe, are you really that tired?"

Phoebe:"Mhm, because I didn't sleep much last night."

I slowly led her up the stairs, while Nina continued to watch tv.

About five minutes later we were snuggling in bed.

Me: "So we gotta be at work first thing tomorrow?"

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me:"What do you think is going on?"

Phoebe:"I don't know, I don't really wanna think about it, I'm tired, it could give me nightmares."

Phoebe:"Maybe the portals are randomly changing again."

Me: "That would suck, that would mean we'd have to start all over again."

Phoebe: "Mhm."

Me:"-sighs-, ah well."

Me:"Atleast that means we'll get to keep our job a bit longer."

Phoebe:"Awwe Cj, did you think they'd fire us after we ran out of portals?"

Me:"I don't know, all I know is that it has been awhile since we've been on a real combat mission."

Phoebe:"Yeah, that's kind of true."

Phoebe:"But we end up getting into combat with a lot of these portals anyway."

Me:"Mhm."

Phoebe:"Anyway can we stop talking now? I just wanna sleep."

-tiredly-Me:"-sighs-, Allright, well goodnight baby girl."

Phoebe:"Goodnight."

We kissed eachother goodnight, she fell asleep just minutes later, I followed her into dreamland awhile after that.