Lavender And Vanilla A Wonderful Scent

Chapter 24

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It had been a few hours since the Hour Of Joy started and Crafty, Bubba and myself had all gotten them safely into one of the labs that had been abandoned, we had come down a few times before today to make the place a little more child friendly and it must have worked because now I was curled around all the children that was sleeping soundly. Crafty was drawing with some of the children that hadn’t fallen asleep with the others and Bobby was watching the entrance to the lab so fair there hadn’t been that many disturbances making it easy to tell the children that this was a new place to have nap time. I hated lying to them but there was nothing else we could do, some of the older ones were close to catching on but none of them seemed not to mind knowing that it was this or deal with being lab rats for the rest of their lives.

As time dragged on some more of the children started to wake up till there were only a few laying there sleep heavy heads along my side, it was mainly the very young children being babes and such but there were a few of the older children there to, having a break from the fear that they had to go to sleep only to wake up and work again. Though the PlayCare to any normal person looked like a child's dream it really wasn't. Not by any means.

Bobby came in at some point with more red paint for Crafty and the children, and though the children wouldn’t pick up on it there were spots in Bobby’s fur that were a darker red the same colour as the ‘Paint’ she had just brought in for Crafty. Catching my gaze she cheerily came over and sat next to me, with a big smile she said to me.
“I just got a message from The Prototype saying that there almost done in the PlayCare and we’ll be able to move the babies back up in a few hours, seeing as Home Sweet Home is the first place there cleaning up… oh also Benjamin is fine, as predicated no one got into the Critter neighbourhood though Bubba’s doing a sweep of it now”
I don’t know why she was saying all this to me like she was reporting to her higher up but I was thankful that we’d be able to move the little ones soon and that Benjamin was ok I don’t know what I’d do if anything happened to him or Dogday… speaking of, turning back to Bobby I asked.
“I-is D-dog-dogday o-ok?”
She gave me a knowing look before answering.

“Dogday’s fine”
Those two words had my heart easing a bit, I nodded my thanks to her and she, taking that as a sign that she was dismissed, got up and went back outside, skipping and humming a merry tune as she went. Placing my head down on my crossed over front paws I fell asleep to the soft sounds of giggling and slowed breaths.

It was some time later when I was woken to a smiling Bubba, his blue coat was clean and his glasses were shining, he had the biggest smile I’d ever seen him with and I could have sworn christmas had come early for him. He reacted out a foot to help me up and I took it.

{Rose: ok first of all I did a google search because I’m an idiot and I found out that elephanilla’s have something close to human feet and they are called feet not hooves because they have toenails… yes}
(Vickeeee214: you needed to stop the book and break my fourth wall just for that really?)
-Mia_Editz- peeks out through the door away with LunarrSupperr below her scooby-doo style as they both look at each other sharing a look that says ‘I didn’t know that, did you’ they both shack their head at the question and shrug, turing back to watch Rose and Vickeeee214 bicker about the importance of informing the readers about things

As Bubba helped me stand and started leading me out of the basement labs he was going on about how everything had been cleaned up and that the upper floors were done as well as the fact that the Prototype was dealing with closing the factory for the time being and that Dogday was dealing with the human higher ups. He was saying all this to me in a similar way to Bobby was earlier, like he was reporting to a higher up not his friend. As we got back to the PlayCare and out of the PlayHouse I found the pure joy on the children's faces as they were allowed to run around and watch as day turned to night. Bubba walked with me as we walked passed playing children and some of the others who were cleaning up all the… ‘red paint’ that had been ‘spilled by accident’ they all had smiles that were just as big as Bubbas and I could tell that they had all had more fun today then they had at any other point in there lives. Walking passed the kitchens that I didn’t know we had. I smelt something familia, turning to Bubba I asked.
“Org-organ-s pie?” 

His smile grew ten times bigger, if that was even possible as he nodded his head in excitement.
“Yep Piggy’s cooking something for us toys and the children”
I smiled back at him and we continued walking, though none of us besides maybe Dogday had ever eaten an organ pie it was hardwired into us from the games at the game station to be excited about them and before we’re allowed to work with the children were given a taste of long pig as a reward for becoming a bigger body, I don’t know if they do the same thing for the smaller toys seeing as they get sold and we don’t. We were making our way to the neighbourhood and as the houses came into view I saw a yellow mini Huggy running towards me, his arms open as he wrapped around my leg.

Gently I pried him off my leg and let him wrap around my arm, looking him over I saw that there wasn’t a tear on him. I know that Bobby told me he was fine but one could never be too careful and I was without him for so long that it made my heart hurt, though what made it hurt more was that dogday wasn’t here yet. Although I would never admit to Dogday I had started to fall for the overactive orange ray of sunshine, dare I say I even started to love him. Sure he’s kinda scary at times but I’d be lying if I said that him being scary didn’t make me want him even more, and when he said he wanted me to be his wife my heart almost jumped out of my chest in happiness and love for that stupid dog. Once we arrived at my house Bubba excused himself saying that he needed to go help with the clean up and that I should rest. Not like I did very much while everything was happening however when I tried to tell Bubba that I’d come help he shut me down by saying Dogday told him to make sure I was home and resting while he was taking care of the higher ups and the others were cleaning.

So having no other choice I light a fire in my fireplace to heat up the house and head up stairs to my bedroom, curling up with Benjamin and pulling the blanket Dogday had made for me over us. Slowly I let the cold, dark, welcoming hands of sleep pull me under once again. Hoping that when I wake up Dogday will be beside me, smiling.