A/N: I do not own Bob's Burgers.
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It's early in the morning the mist rolling over the town being carried by the ocean winds, the land had the color sapped from it, every tree, every home, shrouded in grey, the shops lining up the streets yet to open, their doors still close, the signs dimmed, but one shop sadly had it's last day. Pulling up in a car all three of the Belcher siblings, now all grown up, stepped out and stood in the now empty green home, looking right through the glass the restaurant was completely gutted, the booths, stools, the beatn-up ice cream machine, and even then counter was ripped out. Glancing up, the three can see that the sign that proudly displayed their father's name was now gone nothing more than the faint outline where it once mounted. Their memories try desperately to remind them to recognize their family restaurant, perhaps to even trick them into believing that it's still here, but the reality was staring right in their faces.
Gene remembered all the time he stood outside in his burger suit to promote the restaurant... well, in his own special way, playing out musical farts, barks, and robot sounds.
Louise remember the time she almost ruined her dad's and Mort's reputation by telling everyone they sell human flesh. Now that she looks back at it, what was she thinking or if she was thinking at all, but it was still pretty funny. She even still have the poster that Hugo displayed on their window all those years ago.
Tina on the other hand remembers everything that the family went through, her dad taking up a second job as a cab driver to pay for her 13th birthday party and inviting his clients to it, their first time meeting Marshmallow that night, that time that animatronic shark wrecked the restaurant, the time they meet Critter and the One-Eyed Snakes, or the time their mom wanted to do a dinner and show. Ect. Ect. Ect. There were too many to count.
Tina, Gene, and Louise stood in glum silence clad in warm jackets for the chilly morning breeze so not waiting any longer the three approach the door to the apartment, the key clicking with the mechanisms of the lock. The door creaking echoed throughout the barren halls of the former Belcher residence, each step the siblings make just amplifying the nothingness each room is filled with now, but to start out their memory lane was the top of the stairs remembering the time their mom got Moolisa down the stairs, or the time Teddy threw his back out. Before proceeding to the rest of the apartment, they are reminded of the chaos their mom let out of hand when she tried to have a bed and breakfast, Louise still getting a smug from it. However, before revisiting their once personal spaces, they glance at the bathroom. Remember that the family laboratory saw its fair share of the family's escapades. Their dad trying to potty train the turkey, Gene spending his nights in the tub due to the flu before Thanksgiving, or when Lousie made him look like their dad.
Moving on they retrace their steps back to their rooms.
All the doors were removed so they all just entered standing in the center, almost forgetting that there used to be a bed here, all the posters of, horses, boy bands, musicians, or fictional characters taken down by them awhile back, the missing bed and dressers made it so much roomy, even the carpeting was gone giving a cold feeling.
Louise stood with her back to the wall, the same side as the door, now remembering how small her room is that she and her mom tried to build a loft bed and recalling when she had that fever dream she never been as mad at her family since then, well maybe except when her dad hired Logan.
Tina looked back to all the "erotic friend fiction" she wrote, all the fruitless attempts to hide her dairy from her family, now it's more easier then since she has own place, but she kinda missed her family having that much of an interest in her, she looked down to the section of the floor where she conducted witchcraft, to where her desk used to be recalling the time she remotely controlled a robot at school from home while never figuring out her siblings used it to roleplay as a security robot.
Gene on the other hand remembered all his time writing music especially the where he elusive dreamed, that was a waste of time, but the experience made him better off, that song is still his favorite yet.
Exiting the his room Gene headed on over to the kitchen, from the trap they setup for Santa only to find Teddy squashed under their fridge, and all the times he went through his numerous phases proclaiming "This is me now!" He is still can't believe his family even put up with him, but they're not like most families and for that he was grateful for.
Tina mean while stood at the doorway to what was once their parents' room, the same nothingness as their's all the times they all came to sleep together either just because, or that they were watching a scary movie they were too young to watch. But she will definitely remember the time she and Louise fought and Aunt Gayle, of all people, got them to stop fighting to value each other as sisters. They never fought like ever since.
Louise came into the last space in the apartment, the living room, the bookshelf, the couch and the t.v were all gone, Gene and Tina soon joined her, so much of everything they done as a family was here. From the time Louise assassinated the couch, or when they won that giant wooly mammoth in the greatest heist a group kids will ever do, the Thanksgiving dinners, every Christmas present opened under the tree, or dumping all the candy they've collected every Halloween night. The movies they experienced together, the personal concerts the only son played just for them, the parades and events that happens right out their window.
Louise: "Sucks that it all has to end."
Gene: "I always thought dad would've passed the restaurant down to one of us."
Louise: "Would you like to run the restaurant?"
Gene: "Oh no, no. I'm loving be a freelance musician too much to give that up."
Tina: "Guys, listen."
Tina interrupted her siblings holding each of their hands in a comforting moment, but needed them to know this.
Tina: "I know it's sad that dad and mom, had to close the restaurant, but they were getting old and couldn't keep the same pace like they used to anymore."
Gene & Louise "We know."
Tina: "And as much they wanted to pass down that torch to one of us, they knew we had dreams of our own to follow."
Louise: "Yeah, Like Gene with his music and you with your horses."
Tina: "Exactly. And also we don't actually own the building, we were just renting. But that's besides the point, our time here maybe over and done, but the memories we made together with our family and friends will always be with us."
Louise: "And nothing can take that away from us."
Tina: "Precisely."
Gene: "They have to pry these memories from our cold dead hands!"
Louise: "Thata boy, Gene."
Linda: "Kids!"
Back down stairs the familiar voice of their mother beckoned for them from the entrance.
Linda: "Kids come on out."
All three of the Belcher kids wasted no time heeding their mother's call seen waiting patiently by the curb with the family station wagon parked right behind Tina's car with their, Aunt Gayle, accompanying Linda. Both the Genarro girls showing their age as both their hairs are starting to have their color fade and lines appearing on the corner of their eyes. But the two sisters are just as exuberant as always.
Linda: "Awe... were my babies having a trip through memory lane?"
Louise: "Yup, that'swhat we were doing."
Linda: "We share so many fond moments here do we?"
Gayle: "And I was in some of them."
Gene: "You sure were Aunt Gayle."
Linda and Louise hold each other closely taking in the scene and letting out a tear each.
Gayle: "If only your father were here with us right now... oh wait there is, Hi Bob."
Bob: "Uh, Hi Gale."
Bob appeared offset his hair greying the most, now the whole immediate family was here together all taking in the most precious moment of all, the grand opening of Bob's Burgers. Well one of them, the mist by this time was starting to roll back, the sun starting to pierce through bringing back the color and the life back to the town as everyone starts open up shop.
Teddy: "Bob! Linda! Kids!"
Gayle: "And Gayle."
Teddy: "Oh um, hi Gayle."
Everybody: "Hey Teddy."
Teddy: "Didn't I- did I miss it?"
Bob: "No, we still got like a minute or two before he gets here."
Mort: "Heya Belchers and Ted."
Louise: "Well, neighbors for a few minutes."
Mort: "And that's why I'm treasuring a few precious moments while I can."
Linda: "Oh I'm gonna miss seeing you guys sitting at your stools serving you fries and coffee."
Teddy: "Yeah, but at least the kids were kind enough to get my stool out for me before they chuck it."
Bob: "Wait, what?"
Gene: "Did we tell you that? I felt like we told him that."
Bob: "I don't think you were supposed to do that."
Gene: "C'mon, dad, it's just one stool."
Louise: "Yeah, plus it has Teddy's name on it anyway."
Bob: "Alright fine."
Linda: "I still can't believe this day has come."
Louise: "It's the end of an era. Always thought it would've gone down in a blaze a glory."
Bob: "Eh, it almost did."
?: "Mr. Belcher?"
A short familiar man in a clean suit addressed the patriarch of the family, Mr Drowling, standing before them.
Mr. Dowling: "Everything is in order all we need is the check."
Bob: "Alright, here you go."
Gene: "Never seen so many zeroes on a piece of paper before... OK maybe one time, but that wasn't on a check."
Teddy: "You got a deal of a life time when being bought out Bob."
Louise: "Sellout."
Linda: "Well now that the kids are old enough to take care of themselves, we're like "Eh, what the hell" me and Bobby are gonna have best retirement."
Handing off the check Dowling requested they hand over the key to the apartment over for Mr. Fishoderer to retrieve later. Louise had the key and she would've hesitate, but there was no issue as there was no point fighting, she would if she were a kid, but felt a better understanding to what it means to grow up.
Louise: "One chapter end."
Bob: "And a new one begins."
It was done, the restaurant, the apartment, is now up to the next venture, and the family hope to whoever it is they have crazy adventure and live out their dreams. Everybody climbs back into their cars, Teddy in his truck, the kids' parents and aunt in the station wagon, and them in Tina's car. As they pull out Louise looks back seeing their childhood home shrinking in the distance until it and wharf disappeared when turning the corner the convoy of three diving these streets released another flood of memories. The first thing to pass by was the hill, on any other normal day it'll just be that, but in the winter it was a sledder's paradise. Then there was Wagstaff. So much crazy stuff happened there to recall although it was a pain, the kids there were pretty neat, well expected for one. Continuing forth they flew right passed the One-Eyed Snakes' old club house, now laid condemned where ever they are now she hopes they're rocking out with that karaoke machine.
The drive went on for a good hour, the kids didn't need to turn the radio on to lighten the mood as it would only distract them from the already pleasant thought of times passed that they themselves felt like ghosts moving on to next life as the old familiar neighborhood faded to the background of memories and gave way to the new familiar.
Their travels finally came to a stop as the convoy of three along with three more cars just pulling onto a lot to a waiting restaurant, the sign yet to flip to open, about four times bigger than Bob's. Stepping out of the family greeted everyone else as the three new arrivals were Jimmy Jr, Courtney with a baby boy and her family, and Kathleen.
The three couples of Tina and her boyfriend Jimmy Jr, Teddy finally striking big and settling down with Kathleen, and Gene settling down with Courtney already bringing their son into their crazy family and Linda that can't get enough of her grandson.
Lind: "Oh, let me see my grandbaby."
As Bob and Linda, Mostly Linda, shower their grandson in love and the rest of the family converse Louise walks up the front door another familiar face opens for her.
Young Adult Sized Rudy: "Goodmorning boss."
Louise: "Ready to start this party, Rudy."
Young Adult Sized Rudy: "And by party you mean work, sure am."
Teddy: "Hey you guys open already? I'm starving here."
Louise: "Sure am Uncle Ted."
Louise held the door wide open for everyone to come flowing in but Bob held back.
Bob: "Louise, before we go in, I just want to say how proud I am of you. Not just right now, but all throughout when the restaurant was still around."
Louise: "To be honest I did kinda flaked on some jobs, like handing out flyers."
Bob: "True, but also not true. Because each time the restaurant was on the line you brought your A game, when someone tried to put you down you always outsmarted them, and when you had a goal in mind nothing could stand in your way."
He told taking a step back together to stare bask in a new proud moment of their lives. Although it's not the same restaurant a new one stands in honor of those nostalgic times.
Bob: "Look at them, they're all so happy."
Through the spotless glass Louise all of her family by blood like her mom, aunt, brother, sister, and nephew, and by bond/marriage like Teddy and Courtney, they were all sitting at their booths and Teddy sitting at his stool at the counter, the same one that they brought from the old restaurant.
Bob: "C'mon let's not keep them waiting."
Louise: "Hey you wanna join me in the kitchen? you know like old times."
Bob: "I don't see why not. About show Rudy how's it really done."
Louse: "Go easy on him dad."
Bob: "Don't worry, I know what it's like to work with a stubborn chef."
After finishing their moment together Bob goes in to join Rudy in the back and Louise flips the sign to open. The restaurant might gone, but the memories of those days will be with them forever.
The End
