Engine Driver Bonding

Bonus - Toby and Tanya

Toby the Tram, everyone knew who he was. He was older, but he has also been a loyal engine for a long time now. He has a great personality and overall adventurous look to him. He doesn't sleep at Tidmouth Sheds like everyone else of the Steam Team, but he is still a member of the team, and they all know that, he is number 7.

Tanya was Toby's driver. She and him had made a close bond very fast when they first met and they always keep in touch with each other. However, Toby does think that Tanya can be a little overprotective of him. She'll always ask Toby where he's been every time he leaves without her and sometimes not let him work with someone who gets in many accidents, like Percy, who is one of Toby's closest friends.

Despite that, Toby and Tanya really appreciate each other. But right now, Toby has something he isn't sure if he can tell Tanya yet.

Tanya was inside her house practicing her guitar, she worked on many songs for the Steam Team band and has now been known as the guitarist for the band, and she is also very good with the violin. She also shared her house with Hallie, who is Henrietta's guard.

Toby knew she was inside, so this gave him an opportunity to leave alone and go somewhere he was planning to go. He asked Henrietta to say to Tanya that he's going somewhere else and that she will be okay with it.

" Toby, this is like the 4th time now. Can you just tell her already? " - Henrietta

" I will soon. I'm just not quite ready yet. " - Toby

" Do you really think she'll have a mixed reaction? " - Henrietta

" I mean, maybe, she might not approve considering her protectiveness of me. " - Toby

" Well, you have someone else to protect you now. " - Henrietta

" Yeah, I guess. " - Toby

He thought maybe she was right, as the one he keeps visiting is also willing to be his protector.

" OK. I'll be back home soon. " - Toby

He now left and is looking to finally tell Tanya what he has been doing now when he comes back.

After about a half hour, Tanya now looked outside and saw that Toby was gone, again, and now she was getting a little upset with this.

She left her house and went outside to Toby's shed.

" OK. Where is he now? " - Tanya

" He said he'd be back about now. " - Henrietta

" Yeah, but where did he go? " - Tanya

" He'll tell you. " - Henrietta

" But why can't you...." - Tanya

The sound of Toby's bell was heard and both girls saw him coming back.

" There you are, what are you doing just leaving like that? " - Tanya

" I'm now gonna tell you. " - Toby

" Please do. " - Tanya

" You see, I was gonna tell you sooner, but I wasn't sure how you would feel. " - Toby

" What is it? Is someone harassing you? Are you trying to run away? " - Tanya

" No, I have a girlfriend. " - Toby

Tanya's eyes widened as she heard that.

" You have a girlfriend? Who? " - Tanya

" Are you mad? " - Toby

" No, but can you please tell me who it is? " - Tanya

" Yes I will, it's Mavis. " - Toby

Henrietta smiled at her partner as he finally said it.

" Wow. That's really great. " - Tanya

" Really? " - Toby

" Yeah. It's about time you started looking. " - Tanya

" Well I've actually been watching her for many years, and then I was finally able to say something to her, and what do you know, she gladly accepted. " - Toby

" Awww. That's great. But why didn't you want to say something to me? " - Tanya

" I just wasn't sure if you would be ok with it. " - Toby

" Why would you think that? " - Tanya

Toby didn't know what to say, but Tanya actually started to get something.

" Toby, you need to know this. I'm not your mother or anything, I'm your driver and I'm here to protect and help you. So I am sorry if I'm a little overprotective of you, but you can do whatever you want just as long as you let me know. " - Tanya

Toby smiled.

" Thanks Tanya. I'm glad you understand, and i'm sorry if I....." - Toby

" You don't need to apologize, I'll take whatever. " - Tanya

" OK. " - Toby

" So, if you wanna go and be with your girlfriend, i'm sorry, Mavis right now, go right ahead. You don't need me right now. " - Tanya

Toby smiled more.

" Thanks again Tanya. " - Toby

" Anything for you Toby. " - Tanya

" I'm proud of you boy. " - Henrietta

Toby blushed and soon left again to be with Mavis for the day, but he gave one last quick bell ring to Tanya. She was like a mother to him, but she was still a great friend.

Tanya was glad to see her engine be happy the way he is. As long as she can try and not get too overprotective of him, then maybe things will get better.

She thought they would.

THE END. For real.

Finally, this is finally over. I hope all of you enjoyed this nice story. While I did enjoy it, it really was very hard for me to write, as it was so hard to think of what to write for each pair. So I'm glad that i'm now done with it, but I still did enjoy writing it.

I'm sorry that this last chapter is shorter than all the others, but I wanted to add Toby as a bonus since I've never really added him to my other stories and he was also part of the Steam Team. He is in my stories at least. So this is for the Toby fans then.

Thank you all for reading and I will hopefully be back soon. I'll see you all again soon. Love, Ethan and stay safe and healthy out there.