I hope you enjoy this one! I had a lot of fun writing it. I don't own Toy Story. According to the time line in this fic, Jessie and Bullseye have been living with Andy for only a month and a half, so she's still freshly nervous about her new owner though she loves him.
Woody crawled on the floor behind Buzz and pressed his Karate Chop Action button. "Okay, okay, who did that?" Buzz asked and turned around, feeling for someone. He couldn't see. His eyes were covered with a scarf. Woody laughed.
"That wasn't me," he stood up but Buzz grabbed his arm. "Ah! Oh no!" Woody groaned. Buzz removed the scarf from his eyes.
"I knew it," he grinned.
"Nice try, Woody," Jessie said. They were playing a game of Blind Man's Bluff.
"Buzz, how did you know it was me?" Woody groaned.
"You're the only toy who has ever made me do my Karate Chop Action," Buzz answered. "No one else seems to remember it."
"Hey, what are you guys doing?" Mitsy asked. She appeared with Slinky, Rex, and Potato Head.
"Playing Blind Man's Bluff," Jessie smiled. "Y'all wanna join?"
"Sure," Slinky said, but the other toys groaned.
"What's wrong with it?" Woody asked. "It's a fun game."
"It isn't a fair game when you can't catch anyone," Rex moaned, twitching his little arms.
"Sometimes brains...uh, marbles are more attractive than muscles," Mitsy grinned and patted him. "You're smart, Rex, not to play with these guys."
"Now what's that supposed to mean?" Woody asked.
"I think you know," Mitsy said in a teasing tone.
"How about you, Potato Head?" Jessie asked.
"Nothing doing," Potato Head mumbled. "I don't have time to play boring, childish games where you always hide my eyes. I'm going to help my wife find her hat, again." And he walked away.
"And I'm going to play the Mario game again," Rex said excitedly, then trotted away. That left Mitsy as a volunteer. The three toys grinned sneakily at her.
"Oh! No, no, no, no, no," She declared, backing away. "Now listen, if you think that I'm going to play with you, I say forget it!" She warned, pointing her index finger at them.
"You have nothing to worry about," Jessie said, looking mischievous. "Woody's 'it'."
The princess looked very unimpressed. "Really? After what happened last time? Why should I?"
"It was just a joke," Woody grinned, trying to sound innocent.
"Oh, yeah. Sure." Mitsy said skeptically. "The last time I got caught and had to be 'it', we played for a few minutes, then you three snuck off and stood on the bed. Leaving me staggering around like a zombie, calling your names for who knows how long, hearing snickering, then to give up and find Andy's entire toy brigade around me having a ball and see you three laughing your heads off!" The three conspirators giggled at the memory. "It wasn't funny," Mitsy reprimanded them, for all the good it did. "It was...mean," she said through gritted teeth, trying not to break into the contagious laughter. "Mean and embarrassing," she was trying hard not to smile. "Besides, I always get caught so fast anyway."
"Come on," Jessie laughed. "It'll be fun. And no mean tricks this time. We promise. Right?"
Woody and Buzz looked at each other with Cheshire Cat smiles. "I said, 'right'?" Jessie said, louder.
"Uh, right, right," Woody smiled. "We promise. We'll play fair." He clasped his hands together.
"I don't believe you," Mitsy said skeptically, shaking her head.
"What?" Buzz said playfully. "Don't you trust us?"
"No," the princess answered casually. Woody grinned a big, toothy smile with the please, pretty please look. Mitsy squinted up at him suspiciously. "Uh-huh, I know that look. Somebody's got a scheme cooking. But...seeing that Buzz is not 'it' right off the bat, I'll take my chances."
"Me?" Buzz sputtered. "What did I do?"
"Sometimes you're just too smart."
"Oh. Well, thank you." Buzz grinned.
So, they blind-folded Woody, turned him around and spread out. The way he walked had everybody laughing. It was hard not to. Slinky slipped back before Woody reached him. "Over here! Over here!" Jessie called and Woody staggered in that direction, but Jessie was behind him by the time he reached her original spot. Mitsy yanked his pull-string and jumped back.
"Hey, no fair pulling my string," Woody laughed. "You can't do that! That's cheating."
Jessie crawled up behind him and kept poking him in the side, then crawling away before he could get her. "Whoa! Ha, ha, stop it! Hey...ha, ha...who's tickling me? I hope that was you, Jessie." Jessie laughed and kept her distance.
Buzz randomly pressed his laser, distracting Woody with the beeping but flipping around, just out of reach. "Aw, come on, guys," Woody complained. "I can't go on like this all day." Buzz just stood there, laughing. Mitsy tip-toed up behind Woody and yanked his pull-string again.
"Reach for the sky! My thoughts exactly. Who keeps picking on me?" Woody giggled, turning around. "Hey, you: quit pulling my string!" Mitsy was stuck in her spot, laughing so hard that Woody almost grabbed her hair.
"Ah, yikes!" she declared, ducked, and backed away.
"Aha, I thought it was you, Little Bit. I'm going to get you!"
"You'll have to catch me first." Mitsy said, and jumped back. "Hee! Hee!"
Jessie came near quietly and then burst out with a very loud, "YYEEEHHAAWWW!"
"Whoa!" Woody was so surprised, he fell over. Buzz grabbed the cowboy's hat as Woody felt around the floor for it. He heard Buzz snickering. "Hey!" Woody exclaimed. "Give that back!"
"Come and get it, cowboy," Buzz teased. Woody crawled towards the voice, but Buzz was behind him now. They all laughed at Woody's funny looking attempts. Mitsy laughed so hard that this time she did fall on the floor.
"Uh oh," Jessie grinned. Forgetting his hat, Woody followed the voice closest to him and grabbed Mitsy's ankle.
"Ah! What?!" Mitsy cried in surprise. "Not again!" Woody removed his blindfold.
"Ha, ha, ha," he laughed."I told you I'd get you."
"I knew this would happen. Uh, excuse me? Can I please have my foot back?"
"Ooo, yeah. Sorry."
"Jessie, how do you do it? What's your secret?" Mitsy asked.
"Yeah, you almost never get caught!" Slinky added. Jessie just smiled widely and formed an answer in Sign Language.
"What was that?" Buzz asked, smiling.
"It's a gift. Your turn." She eyed the princess.
"Great." Mitsy groaned. "Honestly, I don't know how I got talked into this."
"Okay, guys. Let's go find our hiding places," Woody joked aloud as Buzz covered Mitsy's eyes with the scarf.
"Don't you dare!" Mitsy turned her head and pointed back at the cowboy though she couldn't see him.
"Just kidding," Buzz snickered. "Okay, Jessie. Let her spin." Jessie started to turn Mitsy around, when Andy's voice and footsteps were heard, heading toward his room. All the toys froze. Andy walked in with his backpack.
"Andy, hurry up!" Mrs. Davis called from downstairs.
"I will, Mom!" Andy called back. He quickly grabbed his schoolbooks and notebooks out of his bag, then set them on his bed. Then he knelt on the floor and picked Woody up. "We're going to a forest today, Woody. It's a project for school. Let's see. Ah, there you are, Buzz. You're coming too." He placed them in his backpack. "Uh, hmm...come on, Bullseye. Who else?"
"Andy, let's go!"
"Comin'!" Andy threw the horse in his bag and zipped it, yanked Jessie off the floor, picked up his bag, and ran out.
Mitsy pushed the scarf from her eyes and shook her head. "How do you like that?" she muttered.
"Like what?" Slinky asked.
"They got away from me, again."
"Sure looks that way," Slinky nodded in agreement.
I surely hope that you enjoyed reading this chapter as much fun as I had writing it! When the idea came to me, it stuck with me and I couldn't help smiling as the dialogue started flowing through my mind. If you liked this, please leave a review and let me know.