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Roy regarded Chet with a calm encouraging grin. "He's right Chet. Just think how happy Chester will be when he can play with all the school kids everyday when they come to visit Mr. Fajou and the Bentleys to get their gingerbread cookies." His grin fell away when Chet's paper didn't stop separating Kelly from the rest of those around the kitchen table. Gage loudly coughed, getting everyone's attention. He wore a very serious face as he said. "I still think you made a horrible mistake Cap. I really think that you must've .." and his face lit up with laughter."...given away the wrong Chester B, You should've given them Kelly here and saved us a whole lotta future grief." Johnny joked. "Very funny Gage." Chet said, finally taking some bait. "I'll remember that the next time you get lost and your buns are roasting in a hot fire and I'm the one sent to look for ya." The gang chuckled, thinking they were finally lifting away the dark cloud hanging over Kelly's head. Even Cap finally got up out of his chair and strode over to Henry's old dog house and he patted its newly restored paint job. "Listen gang...uh, despite what I've decided here, it doesn't mean we can't keep our eye out, you know, from looking for the next stray to come along. Am I right? Heck. We see tons of em every fire. " Gage was still frowning because it had finally sunk in that his attempt at humor had actually failed to get Chet out of his pity pit. "Yeah, Cap. That's... that's a really good idea. We'll uh, just, we'll just go about our business and wait for another dog or something to come to us." "Exactly Gage.. " Cap agreed. "My guess is the next dog to land at Station 51 will do it OUT of a baby basket and without any mysterious note attached around his neck." "Here. here." Johnny piped up in a toast, raising his mug of coffee. "To Chester Bartholomew. Once a puppy lost, now a pup found, and living it up in the coolest house a dog could ever wish for, the Morrow Drive Movie Mansion." The gang all joined in the toast whole heartedly, hooting a few whistles and cheers until Chet finally raised his mug, too. Everyone pretended not to see the water glistening in Chet Kelly's eyes as he looked for the millionth time at a photo of Chester Bartholomew that he had carried in his uniform pocket ever since the first day the tiny beagle pup had arrived on the kitchen doorstep, as they drank in the little dog's honor. As if by magic, a box of tissue suddenly appeared out of nowhere, shoving underneath the funnies Chet was only pretending to read. ------------------------------------------------ |
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----------------------------------------------------------- Dixie McCall watched the three well dressed diners surrounding her at a Manny's Fine Dining white topped table, and smiled. Her wildest long time wish, had finally come true at last. Kel Brackett sat with his mother and his father, all together, at one table. Dixie grinned even bigger. ::It's been three hours. And the sparks still aren't flying. You know, sometimes I amaze even myself. Maybe I should study to become a doctor AND a psychologist, just to make it official someday:: she considered. Dixie sipped her Amaretto sour and studied her friends' faces as they shared their life stories of the past ten years with each other, in full, heartfelt, gritty detail. But Dixie felt she didn't even need to listen. It was enough just to be there. ::Nah..:: she thought about her future career plans once more. ::Why should I even bother? I get to enjoy the rewards of doing that kind of work right now. No muss, ...no fuss. And what I'm witnessing right now is a fine, fine example of the power of human reconciliation at its very best.:: Dixie was absolutely sure that Joe Early next to her was revelling too, in the fact that not once through the entire nine course dinner, had Kel Brackett's anxiety tied face twitch, revealed itself. ::Yeah. Somedays I really love my job.:: Dixie mused once again. :: I couldn't be any happier, I think ever, ...than I am.....right ........now..:: Wordlessly, she clinked her drink with Joe's as they both continued to be inadvertantly ignored by their close companions. Pleased as punch, Dixie McCall and Joe Early both tuned back into the animated dinner conversation going on around them and nurse and doctor both, privately went on celebrating and watching with both eyes as the old Brackett family circle remade itself into something .... finally and truly, everlasting. ----------------------------- |
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FIN :) Season One, Episode Two- FATHER AND SON |
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