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Magnolia Dolittle Chapter 4
Given that her father doesn't wish to bother himself with this untimely intrusion Magnolia finds it as her task to greet their visitor outside at the door. Chee-Chee and Wolfie choose to accompany her. Chee-Chee would rather not be face to face with them so he waits at the front gates to let them back in should the doors accidentally lock on them.
Wolfie follows his mistress outside.
Just as Poly reported there is a boy caught in one of the numerous traps her father has spread around the property. But he is not alone. Between Poly coming to them and now a young lady has shown up.
It's quite obvious the two had been busy conversing in somewhat of an awkward conversation before she showed up and Magnolia is only just catching the end of it.
"I've come from Buckingham Palace on urgent business. Can you tell me if this is the home of John Dolittle?"
Stepping out from behind a tree and into the open, Magnolia said "I can tell you that."
Both heads turn, redirecting toward her.
"Who are you," asked the young lady, raising a quizzical brow.
"I am Magnolia Dolittle, daughter of John Dolittle," said Magnolia, arms crossed. "What are your names?"
Making a polite curtsey as she introduced herself, she said "Lady Rose."
Glancing at the young man in the hanging net, Magnolia said "And you, boy?"
"Stubbins," said the boy, cheerfully, waving a hand in greeting.
"And why are you here," inquired Magnolia.
"I have an injured squirrel. I was told Dr. Dolittle could do something to help," said Stubbins, helpfully.
"My father certainly can. It's a Pleasure," said Magnolia, gesturing at her cat. "This is Wolfie."
"Hello," said Wolfie, although it sounded much like bark to them.
"Did your cat just bark," asked Lady Rose in bafflement.
"Of course," said Magnolia, smiling. "Now I believe you mentioned having business with my father."
"Yes, the Queen is ill and has summoned him to Buckingham Palace," informed Lady Rose.
"Oh my, that does sound serious," said Magnolia, worriedly. "I'll take you to him, but I feel obliged to warn you that he's not exactly up to visitors. He hasn't really tolerated any for quite some time."
"I'll bear that in mind," said Lady Rose.
"I don't mean to be rude, but can someone please help me down," asked Stubbins.
Magnolia unties the rope connected to the net and the entire thing plummets to the ground unceremoniously.
"Ow," he groaned, temporarily stunned.
Lady Rose conceals a small smile behind her gloved hand.
Chuckling, Magnolia said "Come on. Best to get this over with now."
The two trail after Magnolia to the front gates with Wolfie walking around their legs, staring at them.
Knocking on the gates, Magnolia called "Chee-Chee, I'm back. I need you to open the doors."
"Chee-Chee," said Lady Rose, brow furrowed.
"A family friend," answered Magnolia, keeping Chee-Chee's identity a secret for the fun of it.
Speaking to Stubbins now, Lady Rose said "Have you been here before?"
Shaking his head, Stubbins said "No."
"The Queens told me all about it. It's a most unusual place," said Lady Rose, speculatively.
"It may be to some, but I've lived here my entire life. To me, it is completely normal," said Magnolia.
Straightening his posture confidently, Stubbins said "I'm prepared for anything."
Magnolia rolls her eyes.
Yeah right.
Smirking, Wolfie whispered, "This is going to be good."
Lady Rose has an answer to Chee-Chee's identity.
Chee-Chee opens the gates and is met face-to-face with his worst nightmare. Seeing the extra humans Chee-Chees nerves get the better of him. He roars out in terror.
As a result, Stubbins releases a high-pitched scream that poor Chee-Chee replicates before falling backward in a dead faint.
Wolfie places a paw over his mouth to muffle his amused snicker.
Exasperatedly, covering her alarm well, Lady Rose said "Wonderful. A gorilla answering the door. Just as the Queen said."
"Of course, he'd answer the door. He's the only one other than my father and I capable of doing so," said Magnolia, speaking as if that's the most obvious solution. "Come on, Chee-Chee. Get up. You're not hurt."
"I'm okay," gasped Chee-Chee, a hand to his heart.
Getting over his startlement quickly, Stubbins said "I already love this place."
Authors Note:
For those of you on fanfiction I'm sure you've been facing the many unwanted ads when you're reading a story. Well, yesterday, I finally had enough, and I got an adblocker app. It worked! No more ads on any level! The one I got is Adblock Pro: Safari Ad Blocker. It really works. Just follow the instruction video that it attached to it.
Heads up everyone there's someone on fanfiction you need to seriously watch out for. Early a couple of months ago after I woke up I was checking my email and I saw I had a new guest review on my A Dog's Purpose Is Strange Magic 2 sequel. I took a look at it and got a very big shock. Some random person I've never spoken to before on here or anywhere else in my life was basically threatening me. Intimidating and practically ordering me to write a threatening letter to someone on their behalf, telling to stay off of for life or else they and everyone else close to them would be killed, disgustingly telling them to kill themselves. And at the bottom of the message this crazy person wasn't done. Warning me that if I don't send the letter then they would kill me and for confirmation to email them to make absolutely sure I complied with their demands. Of course I did nothing of the sort. Instead of doing what they wanted I reported them to the website, sent copies of this deplorable guest review message to police officer cousins of mine so they could have it on file, and I went to a nearby police station and reported it.
When I spoke to the police officers and they checked everything on the message they saw, that while the address and names of business were accurate the people and their names were not. They agree it was more than likely a scam because of the email address on the bottom in order to perhaps get access to personal information or potentially hack my computer. Despite that I'm still very happy they took it seriously as I showed and told them everything. All the same I'm still very happy that I brought this to the attention of law enforcement. Even though the entire thing might be fake I'm still very happy to have brought this to the attention of those who can do something about it if it was legit in some way. This may have been a scam, but it's obvious these people are beyond irresponsible if they try to goad people into sending death threats to random strangers just to get access to info.
Be that as it may if this does unfortunately happen to you do not send any messages to the email addresses they put down and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you bring the message to the authorities immediately whether it is legit or not.
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I hope you all like this one! I certainly did while writing it for your vast enjoyment! ;D
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So, in light of all this, it is important to live life to the fullest as much as anyone can.
I know I am. ;) See you guys next time.