Up in Smoke

Ch 7

Back with Timmy, he had returned back to his house. When he saw Nina there, he knew one thing. His fairies appeared.

Wanda started to say, "Let me guess..."

Nina confirmed, "Went to dinner without Timmy."

Cosmo asked, "Wait, can we do that? Cause that is stupid!"

Poof blinked, "Wow, dad actually said something smart."

Timmy lightly chuckled before he saw Nina's look. He asked, "Nina? What's wrong?"

Nina sighed, "Timmy, my uncle...might be coming back."

Timmy did a double take. His fairies were nice enough to leave the room for them to talk.

The pink hatted boy asked the obvious, "Are you going to be evil again?"

The Goth girl quickly shook her head, "No way! I left with my mom since I felt something awful was going to happen."

Timmy stated, "Yeah, like being frozen with your boss."

Nina replied, "I didn't regret leaving evil. I did regret leaving my uncle behind."

Timmy pointed out, "You had no choice."

Nina eyed him, "You know that he doesn't know about the Darkness battle?"

Timmy was quiet for a minute before answering, "Yes I know. But that's okay. We can tell him sooner or later."

Nina teased, "Oh like telling your parents about the Tangs?"

To that, Timmy scoffed. "Please they are the last people I want to talk to right now."

Nina totally understood. She hugged her friend.

"Thanks Timmy."

Timmy returned the hug.

"Anytime Nina." They parted from their hug. He asked, "You want to check on your uncle, don't you?"

Nina nodded, "If that's okay."

Timmy replied, "Yeah, go for it. I'll stay over at the hotel for the night."

Nina texted her mom before she made a porthole to the island. She then headed out. When Nina left, Timmy's fairies appeared.

Wanda told Timmy, "You are a good kid, Timmy."

Timmy turned to his fairy godmother and replied, "Aw thanks Wanda..."

The fairies made themselves Timmy's items and then went to the hotel with the pink hatted teen.

...

Meanwhile, on the island, the Goth girl was trying to figure out why her magic brought her to Crash's house. It wasn't until she saw her uncle passed out on the couch that she had got her answer. She went over to him, kneeling down next to him. She felt his forehead. He felt warm. She got to her feet and got an ice pack.

When she got back, she saw that Cortex was starting to wake. She placed the ice pack onto his forehead. Cortex slowly opened his eyes as he saw his niece there.

"N - Nina...?"

Nina greeted, "Hey Uncle Neo."

The two were in an unsettling silence before her uncle spoke again.

He asked, "W - what are you doing here?"

Nina pointed out, a bit sarcastically, "I could ask you the same question."

Cortex was about to say something snarky back but decided not to. "T - the ice block was melting. I - I got back here by pure chance and then I got sick. E - end of story."