The Accident: A Tinker Bell Fanfiction

1. A Day at the Stream

THE ACCIDENT

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"Who is your friend that always delivers?" Terence asked as he arrived at the water's edge. This was where Tinker Bell had been constructing her latest innovation: The Pixie Dust Express.

She had to think it over. "Hmm..., Fawn?"

"No," he replied with a silly grin.

"Iridessa?"

"Me," he told her right before presenting the tinker fairy with a "stretchy thingy." A rubber band he thought might help with the vessel she had designed. Her first test of that watercraft didn't go exactly as planned. It bounced around, skidded onto the shore and up a tree.

That was so many years ago.

~O~

That vessel had been Tinker Bell's single greatest failure since arriving in Pixie Hollow. She had designed the boat to help the dust keeping talents make deliveries to the scouts at the farthest reaches of Never Land. What made the boat design unique was an optional mode she had dubbed "Hydro-Drive."

In Hydro-Drive, the craft would deploy two skis from its underbelly allowing it to skim effortlessly across the surface of the water at high speeds. At least that was how it worked in theory. In practice, controlling it in this mode was incredibly difficult. It was too unwieldy and no solution she had thus far devised resolved the problem. Every attempt to use Hydro-Drive had ended in disaster and usually wound up damaging or destroying the boat's hull, which had been fashioned from a gourd. Fortunately, Tinker Bell had always come away from these failed tests unscathed.

Many people she knew had tried to make helpful suggestions. Fairy Mary had proposed slowing it down. Meanwhile Clank and Bobbled put in their two pebbles worth by advising Tink to push the skis further apart for more stability. Terence kept insisting that her balloon carriers were all the dust keepers needed, but she just gave him a dirty look for his troubles.

"Balloon Carriers are too slow," she kept telling him. She wanted something that could reach the coastline of the island and make deliveries quickly. The determined little tinker fairy wasn't going to let this blasted thing get the best of her. Giving up meant failure and failure was not an option.

She kindly thanked everyone for his or her suggestions and then promptly went off on her own. She would put a third ski in the front of the craft to improve steering. To that end, she found another gourd whose size and shape fit her design needs and fashioned the fifth and latest version of The Express from it. When the current prototype was ready for testing, she launched it into the water from the very same dry dock where she had built all her earlier models. Since he believed that the balloon carriers were a worthwhile alternative, Terence thought this was unnecessary. However, just like with each previous test the dust keeper was by her side.

~O~

Tinker Bell and Terence had been the best of friends since she first arrived in Pixie Hollow several years ago. They shared many adventures together and he had developed quite a knack for pulling her out of sticky situations. Like when she tried to fix the moonstone that broke, Tink went away by herself telling no one, failed to fix the precious stone and got herself marooned on a distant, uncharted island far north of Never Land. Terence figured out what she was trying to do and went after her.