A/N Just Autumn and Sawyer playing pretend with their trainsonas, creating their engines selves (trainsona means your engine self, like if you were a Sodor engine in the TTTE context). Autumn doesn't take allergy pills, because she's loosely based on me and I don't have Sawyer's kind of allergies. Autumn's birthday's the first day of Autumn, but the request that covers her 11th birthday starts in summer and covers the Fourth of July, then the rest of the summer and then Autumn's 11th birthday, as requests like that, they give me a basis to adapt.

Autumn and Sawyer were playing with their trainsonas again.

Sawyer said, "My brother's in his room, reading something on his computer, probably.", as she got her drawing of her trainsona out.

Autumn pulled her drawing out of her backpack. The girls pretended to be their trainsonas.

Sawyer said, "Thomas is shunting coaches with me.", speaking for her trainsona.

Autumn said, for Engine Autumn "I'm taking on coal and water for my journey.".

Sawyer asked, speaking for her engine form, "Where are you going Autumn?".

Autumn said, "I'm going to the harbor and taking a freight train to the Little Western.", for Engine Autumn.

Sawyer said, "Nathaniel's pulling the Express.", then she broke character and said, "I took my allergy pill again today. But it's wearing off.". Sawyer pulled out her handkerchief and gently wiped her eyes. ACHOO! ACHOO! ACHOO! She blew her nose gently into her hanky, burbling into the cloth.

Autumn, also breaking character said, "That sounds really tough, Sawyer. Can I do anything to help?"

Sawyer said, "Just having you here helps a lot, Autumn. Thanks."

The girls went on with their game, then Autumn had to go home. Sawyer took her allergy pill again, because the hours it lasted had passed.

Autumn went through the rest of her evening, including her bedtime routine. She fell asleep cuddling her stuffed Thomas.

Autumn dreamed of being Engine Autumn, but this time it was as her trainsona was being built as she imagined her trainsona's backstory as she lay in her bed before falling asleep. She dreamed the workers in the factory were assembling Engine Autumn. Then, they painted her the red-purple of autumn leaves at times. After she was finished, they named her Autumn.

Engine Autumn came alive, blinking her wide, dark eyes, twitching her little engine nose and working her mouth, like a baby because she was a baby engine. She smiled, briefly and had this quiet, idealistic, sensitive, happy and cheeky vibe. Her expression to show she felt a lack of something.

"We've got to get you some coal and water, Autumn," a workman told the new tank engine. They had another engine in the factory shunt her to the water column and the coaling plant. A relief fireman for the railway lit her fire and they waited for her to start to steam.

"Autumn," the little engine said.

Autumn woke up from her dream.

A/N Because these Autumn stories use fantasy elements, Autumn's dreams of being her trainsona will follow a sort of story all their own, Autumn's Thomasverse. Sometimes, my dad's allergy pill will wear off a little sooner than it should, like what happened to Sawyer here. I did it for Hurt/Comfort.