Disclaimer: Theodore Tugboat belongs to Classic Media. However the characters I create in this are mine and my own. I do not seek profit in the creation of this story, but to bring enjoyment to other TT fans.

It was still very dark in the big harbor. All the residents were still sleeping snugly in their docks except for the early morning birds… and Bonnie. The female tugboat had a difficult night of sleep from unsettling dreams. After failing to fall back asleep, she decided to stay up and listen to the music of Mother Nature and let her mind zone out. The way she always did back at home when there was nothing she needed to do. She quietly turned on her engine and slipped away from the docks unnoticed.

Hours earlier, she had a wonderful time talking with Brunswick and befriending Bayswater barge. She learned more things about the harbor and more of the residents. And story telling time was quite interesting in itself too. They all wanted to know what it was like up in the Arctic.

~Flashback~

"During the daytime, there was much ice and surprisingly green land when we saw it. Hudson and I saw many things during the day, like the polar bears. They were very difficult to see as their fur blended in with the ice and snow."

The tugboats moved closer to hear every word. "Could you get close to them?" Asked Hank, he was enthralled with what she had seen throughout her journey.

"No, the few that we saw kept their distance from us. But a pod of white whales followed us for a while. They were quite a sight to see. Some of the more curious ones got close and jumped out of the water and splashed me." Bonnie smiled at the fun memories she had with them, even if it was for a short time. "You saw beluga whales." Foduck explained. Bonnie looked up at the safety tug curiously. "Beluga whales?" She repeated.

"Yes, it's one of the three species of whales that lives up in the Arctic Circle."

"So that's what a beluga whale looks like." She said out loud to herself. Bonnie has heard of them, but didn't make the connection until now. "Anyway moving on. Um, well when it became night time, it was very different. It was so cold and lonely up there. Even being towed by Hudson it was so quiet." She let in a breath of air before continuing on. "But seeing all the stars up in the sky and the way they shined, it was very beautiful. And when the northern lights appeared, it was like a moving painting." Her eyes seemed to glitter when telling about it.

Theodore's awed expression brightened when she mentioned the northern lights. "Oh Foduck and I saw them before!" He turned to the safety tug in excitement. "Remember when we were looking for Kulu?"

The safety tug had to smile. How could he forget? He didn't even believe the northern lights existed when the canoe told the tugs a story about them until he saw them for himself.

Emily spoke up to Bonnie. "But it must have been very dangerous with all the ice burgs around." She said concerned. "I can understand that Hudson wouldn't want to go back that way again."

Bonnie looked at the ocean tugboat a little puzzled. Hank piped up too. "George has been up there too. He said the ice burgs were big as buildings!" The other tugboats agreed. Even Theodore mentioned rescuing Rebecca the research vessel from being trapped between two ice burgs.

The female tugboat looked back at them blankly but continued. "Yes, they were pretty big. But I'm sure they're much bigger during the wintertime." Bonnie finished slowly. But now she had a question. "Who is George? Is he an icebreaker?" The tugboats laughed. "No, George is a V-tug like Emily." Theodore explained.

"He's on a job across the ocean right now. But he'll be back in another day or so." Foduck added.

~End of flashback~

She mused over what she learned of this George and what her new fleet thought about her long trip. Or their assumptions of dangerous ice burgs that is. "Well…if that's what they think what really happened up there, then that's what I'll let them think." She thought to herself.

The female harbor tug's thoughts soon turned over to her former fleet and how much she missed them. "They're still asleep back there. I'm four hours ahead of them now. Or is it five? I wonder if Benny is up to his late night antics again." A soft smile crept across Bonnie's lips at that last thought. "Cora would get her smokestack stuffed up if she caught him."

As she reminisced about the old days, the sun was beginning to peak over the sea. It filled the sky with many beautiful shades of orange, red and gold. Bonnie breathed at the sight. Watching the sun go below the ocean's horizon was a daily thing back at her old harbor. But to see it rise from the ocean was something very different. She closed her eyes and let the sun's rays warm her face and hull.

At that moment, Theodore was waking up. His eyelids fluttered open and he let out a yawn. He saw that Hank was still asleep but Bonnie, who nestled beside Hank, last night was not there. "Where did she go?" He thought and looked around to see where she went. But soon saw she didn't go very far at all. She was still close by to the docks facing the entrance of the harbor, watching the sun rise.

Theodore smiled and floated up along side of her, rumbling his engines a bit to let her know he was coming up behind her. The tugboats learned that Bonnie wasn't too fond of others sneaking up on her. "Good morning Bonnie." Theodore said, giving her a sunny smile. The female tug glanced back behind her and smiled back gently. "Good morning Theodore." She greeted in return and looked back at the rising sun. "Beautiful sunrise isn't it?"

The harbor tug agreed with her and watched it rising higher into the sky.

After watching it for a little while, he tried to make conversation with their new tug. "Are you ready for your first full day in the Big Harbor?" He asked hopefully. For a moment, Bonnie didn't say anything to him. Her smile seemed to falter. "I hope I am Theodore." She said finally, she seemed a little sad too. The harbor tug grew a little worried, he wondered what was wrong. "What's the matter?" Again she didn't answer right away. Bonnie floated there for the longest time, she was thinking about Hudson's upcoming departure. "Hudson is leaving today." She said, "Its going to be hard for me to say goodbye to someone I've become close friends with over the time we had on our trip."

Theodore empathized with her. He knew what it was like to say goodbye to a friend you've grown close to. He nudged her gently and said. "I know how you feel." And he began to tell her about his friend Dartmouth whom he didn't want to go away. As Bonnie listened, she began to feel a little better. Then she remembered. From all the excitement yesterday, she forgot to tell Theodore about her own personal encounter with the same cable ship.

"I've met him Theodore," She said softly, causing Theodore to stop mid-sentence.

"Met who?" He asked, he was a little confused by what she meant by that. Bonnie continued. "Dartmouth. A few months ago before there was talk about a transfer, he came to my harbor to lay cables. As you said, he was very kind. I remember him talking about being good buddies with an old cable ship that had a habit of getting stuck. And a young harbor tug, who was always bright and cheerful like the sun. I remember him saying to us tugs who befriended him, 'I wonder what they are doing now?'"

Theodore couldn't believe it, his friend Dartmouth was now over in the Pacific. And he still thought about him and Digby. A warm happy feeling spread throughout his hull just knowing that Dartmouth was doing okay. The harbor tug beamed at Bonnie and revved up his engines in excitement. "I can't believe you met Dartmouth!" He said excitedly. The girl smiled back. "Small world huh?"

Theodore agreed and at that moment, the other tugboats were waking up as well. The harbor tug noticed and looked to Chimey for the time. "Its almost time for the morning work meeting, Are you ready?"

"Uh huh," Bonnie said. "I'm ready." And the two turned away from the sun and back to the G.O.T.S.C.D.

The Dispatcher has given out jobs for the day. Bonnie and Theodore we're assigned to take Hudson back out of the harbor. The female harbor tug was somewhat quiet once again as she and Theodore drew closer to the big cargo ship. Hudson blew his horn to them in greeting. "Good morning you two." He called to them cheerily. Theodore whistles back in response while Bonnie went up to his side and nuzzled his hull. "Hi Hudson." She said softly, trying to smile. She felt like something in her engine broke. Right away Theodore and Hudson were worried. The cargo ship broke the silence amongst them. "Did you make any friends yesterday Bonnie?"

That seemed to distract her as she moved to the back of Hudson. "M'hm, I did." She answered. "I know I definitely made friends with Hank, Theodore, Bayswater, Brunswick and Barrington. I don't think I was successful making friends with Guysborough. Emily sounds nice and so does Mr. Safety, even though he still kinda scares me." She buttoned on her towrope and waited for the tug in charge.

Theodore smiled, he was happy to know that she thought of him as a friend too. He floated to the front of Hudson and buttoned on his towline as Bonnie explained who 'Mr. Safety' was to her friend. The tug in charge blew his whistle to say 'let's get tugging'. Bonnie acknowledged by whistling back.

Just then Petra the pilot came floating up. She was there to help them guide the ship out of the harbor. She blew her duo tone horn at them. "Is everyone ready?" She called. Both tugboats replied back with two short whistles. "Yes ma'am." They chorused. Petra took notice of Bonnie. "Hello Bonnie, I'm Petra. I'm one of the pilot boats here." She said cheerfully. Like the female tug did with Pearl, she down cast her eyes in respect. "Hi." She said softly. Petra soon turned back to the tug in charge of the job. "You may proceed Theodore."

Theodore and Bonnie were at the edge of the harbor, the farthest they were allowed to go. With Theodore's and Petra's guidance, Bonnie was able to help bring Hudson to a smooth halt. "Good job you two!" Hudson said proudly. Theodore tooted happily in response, dropping his towrope. Nothing makes him happier than a big job well done. "Thank you!"

But the female harbor tug floated very still. Petra frowned a little. "You can drop your tow line now." She said. Bonnie came out of her reverie and pulled away from her friend quietly, dropping her line as she went. "Take me with you!" Her thoughts screamed at that moment. "Or stay here! I don't care!" She opened and closed her eyes really hard repeatedly to prevent herself from crying. Her bottom lip quivered a little.

Theodore was just about to float over to her when Hudson blasted his horn, startling all three boats below. "Hey Bonnie!" He shouted. Bonnie sniffled a bit when she looked up at her big friend. The cargo ship looked down at his friend with smiling eyes and did something completely unexpected. "Boop-boo-da-doo-da-doop!"

Both Theodore and Petra stared at Hudson in surprise. "What was he doing?" They both thought. Bonnie was astonished with what he just said. "C'mon, you gotta do it! I'm not leaving 'til you do!" He said merrily. Bonnie still stared but complied.

"Doop-do-do-doop." She said in a small voice. Hudson repeated the same lines from before. "Boop-boo-da-doo-da-doop! Louder!" He shouted. And she went louder. "Doop-do-do!"

"Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring! Banana phone!" He sang. "Sing it with me!"

The girl rolled her eyes, smiling a little. "You're a nut!" She called but sang along. "Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring! Banana pho-o-one!"

"Only with you Barnacle!" He called back and they sang together. "I've got this feeling, so appealing. For us to get together and sing. Sing!" The female tug was soon laughing. All of her sadness had swept away like a storm out to sea.

The two other small boats couldn't believe what they saw a ship and a tugboat, singing a silly song. Just to get her to smile. Theodore was soon smiling and joined in the laughter. Petra was smiling too, she turned to go since she was needed else where and knew that their new tugboat would be fine.

Bonnie was able to get her laughter under control. "Darn it Hudson! You got the song stuck in my head!" She scolded, but was still giggling. Hudson chuckled. "That should be a good thing. Remember to always keep smiling. You have friends here now and you'll gain more everyday. I know you'll be just fine."

Theodore agreed whole heartedly. "And I know you will too." And then he added. "Because we are the friendliest harbor in the whole world!"

She listened to both her new friend and Hudson. Deep in her engine she knew they were right. "Thank you." She said, smiling sweetly to both of them, "Both of you. I will be okay."

The harbor tug and the cargo ship blew their whistles happily. "I'm glad." The cargo ship said and switched on his engines. "It's time for me to go. This cargo isn't going to ship itself!" With one last blast of his horn, he was off to the open ocean blue. "Goodbye Bonnie and Theodore!" He called. Bonnie and Theodore blew their horns in return. "Goodbye Hudson!" Theodore called back.

"Come back soon! And be safe!" She shouted.

"I will Barnacle!" He said and sailed off at full speed.

Bonnie sighed happily, humming bit and then turning to Theodore. "Now I gotta get that song stuck in your head!"

-End-

FINALLY! You would NOT believe how much a helluva time I had with this chapter. I intended it to be much longer, or extended you could say. But this was the perfect place to stop. And since I did end it here, I know what to type in the next chapter! =D.

I'm pretty sure I made the ending pretty corny. But sometimes it works.

Fun facts time!

When creating Bonnie's character, her name was intended to be Cora but it changed. So her thoughts on her friend is a nod to her original design.

Beluga whales do inhabit the Arctic and are very social creatures like dolphins. They are also known as "The canaries of the sea." Polar bears can also be curious about new things but only if they don't impose a threat or threaten their young. And it also helps that unknown stuff is not so far out on the water.

When Hudson starts singing Banana phone to get Bonnie to smile, (it does exist! Look it up on you tube!) Its actually something my friend does over the phone to cheer me up when I feel crappy.

Now then. I need you guys to do something for me. I would like you to pick, two tugboats out of the five. (Bonnie doesn't count!) Theodore, Emily, Foduck Hank and George. If you do that for me then I can get ideas for future chapters that can be one shooters or two shooters in PnP. Think of it as a mini story featuring your two favorite tugs. Heck it can even feature another fav character in the show. But it does have to be TT. I do sorta have something planned with the other TUGS *cough*.

For now savor this juicy bit I managed to cook up after long hours of writers blocks and distractions. M'kay?