ONE-SHOTS

Not Quite Home Alone - the Simpsons

This oneshot, requested by @ILuvKyle123, is basically about Homer and Bart being home alone. It's pretty much just fluff, with them getting closer. I'm sorry if it's similar to the beginning of the episode Bart After Dark, I watched it pretty recently and some inspiration may come from there. Not told from the point of view of any characters, Bart stays home pretending to be sick, Marge is out at... somewhere (and takes Maggie with her) and Homer wants any excuse to stay home. Hope you enjoy!

"Bart! Bart get out of bed!" yelled Marge. "You need to get to school before I leave!"

"But mum, I don't feel so good," Bart replied lazily. "Will you take my temperature?"

"Sure, honey!" Bart chuckled quietly, clutching the hot-water bottle hidden between his sheets. Marge came in with a thermometer. "Oh dear, your temperature is very high. But I'm out all day, with Maggie,"

"Does that mean I'm home alone?" he asked hopefully.

"Of course not, sweetie. Your dad can stay home, right Homer?"

"Woohoo! I mean, of course, I would be delighted," Homer said from the next room. Bart groaned loudly.

"Hmm. Well okay, if you're sure," Marge said, kissing Bart's forehead. "See you later!"

~15 minutes later~

Homer came upstairs holding a bag of pretzels to find Bart sitting on his bed, kicking the wall.

"Are you okay? You're not- wait a minute! You're not sick, are you?"

"Listen, Homer, I faked a temperature to stay home alone. But you had to stay, so now I can't do anything!!"

"Come on, we can still have fun, can't we? Let's go to Moe's."

"Homerrrr!"

Homer sighed. "Fine. The Kwik-E-Mart. We'll pick up supplies for a movie marathon!"

"Yes!" Bart smiled.

They arrived at the Kwik-E-Mart 10 minutes later. As Homer grabbed about 20 bags of popcorn, Bart ordered 2 squishees. Behind them Kearney was using a crowbar to open the back of a gumball machine while Dolph and Jimbo stood stuffing their pockets with chocolate. (Sorry I had to add them in!) "Here you go, Mr and Mr Simpson," said Apu as he passed over a six pack of beers as well as the squishees. "Thanks Apu," said Homer, dropping the popcorn in Bart's arms so his face was hidden. They took the junk back to the car and Homer cracked open a beer.

Halfway home they were pulled over by the cops. Homer had to take a soberness test while Bart stuffed his face with popcorn, watching as Snake Jailbird rolled out of the car and into the city. Homer passed and they headed home.

"Ugh, change the channel boy," said Homer lazily.
"But the remote's closer to you," Bart moaned, before opening his 7th pack of popcorn.
"Well use a stick or something!" he replied. Bart groaned loudly and grabbed the bag of pretzel sticks. He lobbed them one by one at the TV until Homer grabbed the bag. "Give it to me."
He shoved his face with pretzel sticks. "What a waste of pretzels."

"Can we order pizza?"

"Sure, son," said Homer and passed Bart the phone. Bart put on a fake German accent and said into the phone:

"Hello, who is this?"

"Uh, it's [muffled] Pizza sir."

"Oh, das ist gut! Send over five of your finest Bratvurst pizzas."

Homer giggled in the background. Bart passed him the phone as the pizza guy tried to explain they didn't have bratwurst and said in a deep voice;

"And remember, we never had this conversation." He hung up, laughing.

"Good one, dad!" snorted Bart.

"Thanks, son," said Homer, ruffling his hair. "I had a good time tonight."

"Me too."

Bart gave him a quick hug. "So, wanna prank call Moe's?"

"Of course, son," Homer laughed.

THE END

Sorry, this one's pretty short. I did enjoy writing it though, it was a nice change from writing an actual plot and was good for doing during home school! Hope you all enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next chapter!!