SUMMARY:
Tommy and Tammy have inherited Cosmo and Wanda as godparents, but what happens when Tammy discovers that Cosmo and Wanda were once Timmy's fairies? How come no one remembers? But before they can find out, their dad decides to send Tommy away to boarding school? (Vicky-Bot's idea). Who will have custody of the Godparent Duo Cosmo and Wanda? They can't be separated and must remain with either Tommy or Tammy. However Fairy Court decides to leave Tammy within the 'Fairysitting Program', where she'll have to share a godparent with someone she least expects - her neighbor Ronny Buxaplenty! And his mysterious Godparent Poof?

"I'm telling you this is a bad idea," Ronny said, he and his fairy Poof standing outside of my house. It was late at night, merely a few hours since he and I had met.

Meanwhile inside, I was busy cleaning the kitchen floors. Actually the whole kitchen but I'm starting with the floors. My babysitting Vicky-Bot had decided to put me to work non-stop by scorching my kitchen and having me clean it all. Apparently according to her reasoning, one twerp missing meant the other having to do twice as much work to make up. Normally this wouldn't be as bad since I'd 'wish' it all clean.

Only now I can't.

Scrubbing the tiles, was tiresome. I stopped and wiped my brow with my arm, done with one corner. I tried to stand back up only to slip over the moist floors and to fall back down on my behind. Ouch? "This bites," I sighed with a frown.

"Could always wish this fixed, you know." Hearing that voice, my head jumped up to search for the source. Instead I looked to the window where on the other side of the glass was Poof and Ronny from next door. Were my glasses playing tricks on me?

"What?" I rushed up to open the back door for them. And there there were in the flesh. "Ronny? Poof? What're you doing here?"

"Thought you could use some help," Poof winked, showing off his wand in a showy spin. "Just give me the word and I'll-!"

"IS THE KITCHEN CLEAN YET!" the robotic-voice boombed from the living room.

"I wish we were in my room!" I panicked, Poof holding up his wand. Within a second, the three of us had magically escaped to the protection and privacy of my bedroom upstairs. The Vicky-Bot's gonna murder me (maybe really) but at least I wasn't caught with these two. I noticed Poof and Ronny were looking at their new surroundings. But remembering our circumstance, my mind fumed once more. "I'm gonna ask again - what are you two doing here? We almost caught caught for cryin' out loud!"

"Yeah by a robot," Ronny scoffed. "That's your babysitter?"

"So what!" I defended. Wasn't he just giving me the cold shoulder a few hours ago?

"We just thought we'd drop by and check up on ya," Poof interrupted before Ronny and I could erupt into some big argument. "Ain't that right, Ron?"

"Yeah I guess," he muttered in reply, glancing away, showing a hint of stubborness.

This prompted Poof to elbow the boy. "Be nice remember?"

Did they really come by to check up me? But it just seemed to good to be true... and too simple. "Look thanks guys but I'm okay, honest. My brother and I deal with this all the time. It's nothing I can't handle on my own."

As if to directly defy my statement, the door was blown away, revealing the Vicky-Bot with two arms as flamethrowers. My pupils dilated, the lines of flames reflecting in my glasses as the three of us jumped in panic.

"I wish she was incased in a block of ice!" Ronny shouted, with Poof quickly granting the said wish. Within a cloud of purple dissipating smoke, my door was blocked by a giant brick of ice, the Vicky-Bot stuck inside with the flames somehow unmoving. I prevented myself from giving off a loud sigh of relief as I stared... for a while. "Nice babysitter," Ronny remarked sarcastically, giving me an odd side-glance, to which I couldn't help but reply with a nervous grin to.

And so to pass the time (and seeing as my door was jammed by the huge ice block) we had Poof poof up a buffet for us to eat for dinner, filling my room with the abnormal scent of a well-cooked meal. Well, I'm not complaining. To the side of the room was a long table covered in a white cloth. Silver boxes of food with lids and candles and serving spoons lined the table. And well, we ate and spent the evening here. I had some some mashed potatoes, some meat-thing, a dinner roll. Well I could only take so much on a plate from a long buffet table.

"So this is why you and your brother got fairies?" Poof asked me, the two of us sitting on the floor with our plates of food. Well, he was floating-sitting.

I nodded, bitting some of the bread. "Yeah. After our mom died and having a single-dad working all the time, we got stuck with this baby-sitter." We starred back up at the frozen figure. Scary kind of, but somehow funny since it's so... immobilized. "And I'm guessing you were assigned to Ronny on account of his working parents, too?"

"Yeah," Poof, sipping juice out of a fancy glass he made. "I know he gives off that 'don't bother me' impression but he can be pretty cool once he opens up to you."

"Really?"

"Totally! Don't worry he hated me at first, too. Trust me." I looked to where Ronny was, looking over the contents of my bookshelf. "Why don't you try talking to him?"

"Ah no I don't think-"

"Ah don't be shy here all you need is a little push," Poof said with a slap on my back, however this only ended up with me disappearing in a poof and reappearing over Ronny. And you know gravity. I fell. On him. And it hurt. The two of us looked up and over to Poof's direction across the room. Poof gripped his wand and gave us a sheepish grin. "My bad!"

"'Push' huh?" I murmured as I tried to sit back up. I guess when Ronny mentioned that Poof can be off sometimes with his magic "Sorry about that."

"Nah it's okay. Poof tried to get us to talk, didn't he."

"How'd you know?"

"He's been trying to get me to give you a second chance all day. How else did you think we ended up on your back door-step?" So it was all Poof huh? I'll have to remind myself to thank him later. "And he uh, also persuaded me sort of that I owed you an apology."

Is Ronny being awkward? Hmph. Well, leave it to him to be awkward with apologies. He seems like the kind. "It's okay," I reply.

"No it's not. I thought you were some spoiled brat who only wanted my fairy to make up for your lack of wishes. Like I was supposed to know you have an evil robotic dictator as a baby-sitter."

I laughed. "Funny. I thought the same thing about you almost." I reached into my bookshelf and pulled out a thin scrapbook. Inside were pictures of me, Tommy, Wanda, and Cosmo. "When Jorgan told me about the whole 'Fairy-Sitting Clause', I really didn't want to go along with it. I thought it'd be like replacing Cosmo and Wanda, my old fairies. But, Poof doesn't seem to bad." We both looked to see Poof keeping himself busy over by the block of ice stuck in my doorway. With a marker, Poof was drawing all sorts of doodles on the surface of the ice. "And quite frankly, you're not all that bad either I suppose."

"Not all that bad? I'm amazing," he joked cockily. He reminded me of Tommy when he said that. "Tammy right?"

"Yeah."

"I guess I'll be willing to be apart of this who fairy-sitting arrangement, on one condition," he stated. "No abusing my fairy-god brother's magic."

"Like I'd even try," I scoffed. Guess this means we're on good terms now. "And 'Fairy-God brother'?"

"Seems more reasonable than calling him my fairy-god father when he looks the same age as me."

He's got a point. "Is that why you're so protective of him? Because he's still a kid?"

"I guess. But we're not the only ones who's had it rough, you know. Poof's Jorgan's son."

My head swapped. What'd he just say? "Say what?"

"Well, adopted son, really," Ronny corrected, Gosh my heart practically skipped a beat. Poof? Raised by Jorgan? Jorgan a father. How horrible. "Poof told me that he can't remember his real parents and that he was an orphan for a long time until Jorgan ironically took him in."

"Seriously?"

"That's what he told me. Something about amnesia from when he was real little," Ronny confirmed. "Couldn't remember anything. Jorgan threatened me at first to be sure to take care of Poof when he was first assigned to me, even though I'm sure it was supposed to be the other way around, the fairy protecting their kid and all. But we're pretty good now and everything's been smooth sailing since." Meanwhile while glancing down into my book, Ronny seemed to notice a picture stick out from the rest. "That your twin brother with brown hair?"

I looked to the one he was pointing at. It was the same photo I'd retrieved from Santa's Bag in the North Pole, the one with Cosmo, Wanda, and maybe Dad in his youth. "Oh, that's my dad when he was a kid. I got it from the North Pole with my brother and Cosmo and Wanda." I took the picture out of the scrapbook for probably the fifth time since I'd gotten it. It's intrigued me, but Tommy and I never had the guts to show it to Cosmo and Wanda. "The two fairies in the back are Cosmo and Wanda."

I could sense the realization slowly hovering over his head as he starred harder and harder into the old photo. I wonder if I had the same look on my face when I first saw it. "Wait, then... did your dad have fairies? Your fairies?"

"Who knows? Doubt it though. According to him he had a pretty okay life. Childhood friends with my mom. Two cool parents. Average at school. Can't really find a reason why he'd need faries. Although," I taped the picture back into the scrapbook, "it'd be pretty cool to find out if Cosmo and Wanda really were with him as a kid."

"May I make a suggestion?" Poof asked, coming into our conversation, slightly spooking me.

"No," Ronny disapproved with a warning glare.

"Ah lighten up, Ronny! This may be exactly what Tammy needs!"

"And what's that?" Ronny asked suspiciously.

"We visit the Temple of the First Wish!" Cricket sounds emitting. Does Poof expect us to know what that is? "... It's a dangerously cool and adventurous area?"

"No," Ronny denied instantly.

"Aw come on! It's a pyramid up in Fairy World! And I heard that according to legend, inside it lies the secret to granting an adult their memories of their childhood with their fairies." My ears perked. That's oddly specific but maybe true? I mean, finding a true fire way to possibly giving dad back the memories he possibly once had? "Maybe Tammy here could venture up there and find out how to make her dad remember?"

"That's just a stupid rumor," Ronny denied.

"Maybe but it'll be fun anyway!"

"He has a point," I shyly agreed, receiving a surprisingly look from Ronny. I kind of surprised myself. "I mean, even if we don't find anything it could really be fun." Normally I'd be against things like this, what with Tommy and all. I mean, going to a place called the Temple of the First Wish? Sounds like something out of a dangerous action movie. "Besides, this trip can be like a celebration for us finally, uh, bonding, you know?" Way to sound worse than cheesy, Tam.

"Plus going would be a good excuse for Tammy to see her brother and her old fairies again," Poof suggested, the two of us now on a mission to persuade Ronny.

However this suggestion appeared to take Ronny's attention the most. "Wait now we're bringing that other kid?"

"He's my brother and I miss him," I reasoned. "I know you and Tommy for sure aren't the best of friends but maybe this is what we need to all get along." All get along my butt. I know for a fact that Tommy and Ronny will never have a civil moment together. Not now. Not ever. But I wanted to go, with all of them. Just one of those sudden urges, you know? This must be how Tommy always feels, always wanting to do something stupid for no apparent reason. "Please?"

"You miss them that much huh?" Ronny said with that same bored look. Despite this babysitting-clause we were forced to be a part of, Ronny knew I'd always be missing my real family. There was no other way to reason. Ronny sighed. "I guess I'm in, then. It'll get us out of the boring routine of the day at least."

"Cool! Nothing like a vacation to spell out a new family! Hugs!" Poof then had the laughing me and the pouting Ronny in a headlock-hug between his arms. These two may be new, but I think they'll be pretty good friends for the long run. Well, Poof anyway. Ronny I'm not so sure. Me and him still seem a bit rocky, I think. Well, I took it upon myself to find out.

Dad's car had drove up in the driveway and that was their cue to leave. Can't have Dad finding out that the instant I live alone that I have two guys hiding up in my room. No way. So Poof and Ronny decided to split before Dad could come in. "Thanks for helping me with the Vicky-Bot," I smile.

"Any time," Poof nodded with a tip of his crown.

With a nod to the fairy, I turned back to Ronny, looking as nonchalant as ever. Makes me wonder if he ever laughed before. Ha. "So, are we cool now?" I asked him hopefully, holding out my hand for a handshake.

He thought for a second. Just a second, before he shot me a discrete half smile complied with and shrug. "Yeah, we're cool." He even had the effort to take out his hand from his pocket to shake mine.

Poof granted our wish to unfreeze the Vicky-Bot and transport her downstairs, harmless and oblivious to the magic. Dad came home, our neighbors were gone, I was alone, I was content. End of story.

"And best of all, I don't feel as lonely anymore," I wrote in my journal. Today's events were well worth recording. Tommy leaving, Jorgan introducing me to Poof and Ronny, making friends with Ronny, all today. Definitely eventful in my case. "Tomorrow I'll try and contact Tommy. We can all arrange for a quick get-together in Fairy World of all places, if you can believe it. We barely got to go there before, so maybe this will be exciting. What was it Poof said? The Temple of the First Wish? Sounds cool enough. And I know it's only a legend, but maybe we really could get Dad back his memories, that is, if he had any to loose anyway. I still don't know if Dad was really ever Wanda and Cosmo's god-kid, but how else would you explain that photograph? It's totally Dad!" I paused writing to yawn. With so many exciting thoughts running through my head it's surprising I can even manage to feel sleepy. "I better get some sleep. I've had a long day, tomorrow most likely to be even longer. Goodnight."

And that is how my first day without my little bro turned out. I made friends with the family enemy, and I came to actually like my fairy-sitters. And even more surprising, they like me back. At least I think they do.

Meanwhile on the other side of the world...

"Home sweet home," Tommy breathed, pushing a tall cart with all of his luggage, and his fishbowl. With the shut of the door with his foot, he and his fairies were finally all alone and in private. The three were inside Tommy's new dorm, thankfully without a roommate. The room had a gold and red color scheme to it. A little elegant for Tommy's taste, but it had a bed and that was all that mattered.

The ten-year-old ran to the said bed and jumped right into it. The flight was exhausting, you can imagine. "What a dump," Cosmo blantly said. "Talk about old fashioned."

"Cosmo this school's been around for over a hundred years," Wanda stated. "Of course it's not gonna look new."

"Who cares! As long as we're not in the air," Tommy said lifting his head. "Oh wait! I forgot to call Tammy!" As if his exhaustion magically disappeared, Tommy ran to the cart of bags and began rummaging through them, making a mess of his new room in the process. Meanwhile Cosmo and Wanda poofed back into their fairy forms, stretching from being cramped inside the fishbowl the entire flight.

"My legs are killing me," Wanda said, combing out her wet pink hair.

"I'll say! I can barely feel my fins!" Cosmo added as he performed in-air squats.

Wanda blinked. "Honey you don't have fins."

"Can't blame me for thinking I do after I DID for the past fifteen hours."

"Found it!" Tommy exclaimed. he help up a yellow and pink communicator that resembled something of a fairy communicator. He jumped onto the edge of his bed in a sitting position as he tinkered with the contraption. Cosmo and Wanda flew to either side of him, ready ot greet their other godchild. But despite all the button pushing, all that came through the screen was grey static. "Come on! Work! Work!"

Eventually on the other line I picked up. His screen became colored and revealed my half-asleep face. "Ack, Tommy?" I asked, putting on my glasses and turning on a flashlight.

"Tammy!" the boy exclaimed. "Yow. You look how mom used to look with a bad hair day. Did I wake ya up?"

"Yeah, but it's fine. Did you land?"

Suddenly Tommy was pushed aside by Cosmo. "Hi Tammy! Hi! We miss you! Look at the background! Tommy has a tacky looking room see! See? Do you see it?"

Just then Cosmo's head was pushed aside by Wanda. "Hi sweetie. Are you doing okay? How's your father? Did you meet your with substitute fairy-god parent are they treating you well?"

Despite my sleepy-state, all I could do was laugh. I miss them so much. "I'm okay Wanda. And Dad's okay, too. Just got back from work. And... yeah, I met the new fairy who'll be substituting for you and Cosmo. And can you believe it? He's our neighbor's fairy god parent."

"Whoa whoa hold up!" And now Wanda's head was pushed aside so that the entire screen was taken up by tommy's whole head. 'Here we go.' "By neighbor do you mean rich kid Ronny Buxaplenty? Ronny stinkin' Buxaplenty?"

"Yeah so?"

A loud groan of aggravation came from the other end. "Tammy agh I can't believe this. Do you want me to fly back over there? Is he causing you any trouble? Cause if he is then I-"

"Tommy shut up! You're loud. Dad might hear you," I interrupted. Somehow I knew he would react this way. Tommy hates Ronny. Ronny hate Tommy. Well, there you go. "But it's fine. He and his fairy are alright and we get along so you have nothing to worry about."

Tommy just scoffed. "If you say so."

"But while I have you on the line," I began, turning to my other side under the covers of my bed. Maybe now would be the best time to break the idea of the trip to him. "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure sis anything."

I couldn't suppress the grin on my face. How backwards is this? "How do you feel about going on another trip?"

And just like that his expression came to mirror mine. One of mischief. "Are you kidding me I just got off of one." He then paused to see I was serious, only to make him grin even more. "You really wanna? Do you even know where you wanna go?"

"I know exactly where I wanna go," I replied. "But all I'm telling you is that it's up in Fairy World. I'm gonna go with Ronny and his fairy. You in?"

"Tsch yeah. If that Buxaplenty kid is going with you then you know I'm going. No one goes anywhere with my sister unless I'm around."

"How caring of you," I stated bluntly and sarcastically. As sweet as that statement was that he just said, it makes me a little wary about the future. What if I ever find a guy I like? They'll have to get through Tommy first... wow. "So you're in."

"You know it! Right Cosmo? Wanda?"

"Yay! We get to leave the dump!" I heard Cosmo cheer in the background. Ah Cosmo I love you so.

Tommy laughed, too. "Cosmo and Wanda are in. This escapade of yours tomorrow?"

"Yup," I nodded, unable to stop smiling. I just felt so happy right now. Nothing to worry about for once.

My brother could sense that, too. "See? We're not all that far apart after all. Oh! Before you go-" Tommy seemed to rush off to somewhere as I saw on my screen the shaking of the background sideways then upside down then right side up. Soon enough, it was Tommy again a little further back, showing off the stuffed animal I gave to him before he left. "Look!"

"Bunny...!" I silently squealed, keeping in mind that the entire neighborhood was still asleep. Best to keep it that way. "Oh my gosh Tommy you really did keep it thank you!"

"Expect nothin' less, sis," he winked.

"We'll let you get back to sleep now, Tammy," Wanda said, coming into the screen next to Tommy.

"Okay. Goodnight Tommy. Goodnight Wanda."

And to finish off the communication, Cosmo crashed into the both of them and took up the whole screen to himself. "BYE TAMMY! SEE YOU TOMORROW!"

"Heheh, bye Cosmo," I silently giggled before pressing the END button on the walkie-talkie. Gotta thank Cosmo and Wanda for thinking this up for Tommy and I. "See you guys tomorrow..."