Hey everyone! Haven't written anything in a while… been very busy at college. Sorry! I promise I'll get back to my other work eventually, but I just saw the Tinker Bell movie, and read some of the books, and fell in love with Pixie Hollow!

Here's a Brand-New story for Tink and her friends in Pixie Hollow, kind of Terence-centric, mostly because I think he doesn't get enough love, especially in the movie. (Even though my friend Bella and I both know his five minutes of screen time were the most important five minutes in the entire movie… Bella, you know who you are… =D love ya, girl)

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Tinker Bell… I'm pretty sure Great Ormond Street Hospital still has the rights. Sir J. M. Barrie gave them all the rights to Peter Pan and all related story material when he died. Nice guy. HOWEVER: I do own Andromeda, Lysander, Quicksilver, Nemesis, and all the other "dark fairies". They are mine.

By the way, for those of you who don't know, or haven't read my other work, I begin every chapter with a random fact. I think that if you're going to blow off homework or any number of other useful things to read fanfiction (which I do quite a lot) then you should learn something.

Random Fun Fact: pearls melt in vinegar.

Chapter 1!!!!!

Once upon a time, a sweet little baby named Emma was born to the de Lacey family. She was charming and kind, with a lovely mouth and beautiful green eyes, and her parents loved her very much. Her first few days of life were wonderful, but they contained no events out of the ordinary.

But on April 23rd, something extraordinary happened. On April 23rd, when her mother woke her up in the morning, Emma de Lacey laughed for the first time. Although her mother could not see the laugh, it certainly was there.

The laugh floated happily through the open window and over the beautiful gardens outside the de Lacey home, and it picked up a tiger lily blossom as it flew through the air. The laugh made its way towards Never Land, and the island moved to accept it, for Never Land knew this laugh was special. The island also instinctively knew that this laugh would be needed sometime very soon.

On the island itself, the Never Fairies were busily beginning their preparations for autumn. There were still a few months to go before autumn was to be brought to the world, but still the fairies worked.

The minister of autumn surveyed the scene happily. Quicksilver, his pride and joy, was a fast-flying and wind talent fairy, and she was the best for bringing that wonderful brisk autumn breeze to the world. Here she was, practicing her talent, much to the dismay of the summer fairies beneath her, used to very warm weather. She laughed as they shook their heads at her talent, and though they teased her for her quick spirit and breezy personality, they were glad of her skills.

The other fairies and sparrow men were hard at work in their own realms, garden talents in the gardens and fields, water talents in the brooks and rivers, and all manner of other fairies toiled elsewhere.

A garden talent named Rosetta gently wiped her perfect face on a leafkerchief after a hard day of work. As the garden talents began to leave for the day to take some well-deserved rest, Rosetta thought of her friend Terence, a fairy-dust-talent sparrow man. Terence shared his talent with no one, a rarity in Pixie Hollow. And although he never complained, Rosetta often suspected he was a bit lonely.

After a quick minute of thought, Rosetta finished cleaning up her area, then flew to the dust well to see how Terence was doing today. He was sitting on a overhanging branch, with a pine needle and paper, probably making a list of things that needed to be done before the change in seasons.

Rosetta had once asked him why he made so many lists. He told her it was because he often had no one to talk to, and lists were both useful and a good way to pass the time. This had been one of her first conversations with Terence, even though she had known him for over one hundred years. He hadn't meant it to come out as anything other than a statement of fact, but Rosetta had taken it to heart, and shortlt after this conversation, she had begun visiting Terence every few days, just to talk. She'd gotten to know him, and had discovered he was actually quite fun. He wrote poetry, another way to pass the time, and he knew things about every fairy in Pixie Hollow. "If you listen when they come to get their daily ration of pixie dust, you'd be amazed at the things you might hear," he'd said with a laugh.

Today when Rosetta saw him making his "autumn to do" list, she smiled, and remembered their first conversation. Terence was a sweet little daisy top, and he didn't deserve to be alone.

Terence suddenly stopped writing, as he felt someone's eyes on him. He looked up and smiled. "Fly with you, Rosetta. How are you?"

"Fly with you as well, Terence. I'm just peachy, how 'bout you?"

"I'm all right. It's been pretty quiet around here today, so I've had time to work on my lists for the season."

"Terence, don't you ever stop working and just have fun with your friends?" Rosetta had only meant it as a joke, something she would say to anyone who was working too hard, but she stopped cold at the look on his face. She knew that few fairies or sparrow men in Pixie Hollow had bothered to befriend the dust keeper. Not to mention Terence's past attraction to Tinker Bell, who had been dating her fellow tinker-talent Bobble for the past three seasons.

Terence had begun to think that Tink cared for him, but at the celebration ball last winter, when Terence had spent the last three weeks working up the courage to ask Tink to dance, he had seen her kissing Bobble in the starlight garden.

That same night, he'd overheard Fawn and Silvermist talking about Tinker Bell and her new relationship, which, Terence discovered, was not so new. It had hurt him that Tink hadn't shared her relationship with him, even worse when she hadn't told him the next day. Eventually, he got it out of her, and eventually, he began to get over his feelings, but not without a cost. He had come to believe, as the only dust-talent left, he was destined to be alone.

Rosetta silently berated herself for reminding Terence of that moment, but at the look on his face, she resolved to help him lift his spirits. She gently touched his shoulder. He looked up at her, surprised. "Terence, you're not meant to be alone. Oh, don't worry sweet pea, you'll find someone soon. You will…"

He grinned sheepishly. "Are you trying to reassure me, or yourself, Rose?" She playfully hit him on the shoulder, but before he could retaliate, a commotion on the ground stopped them.

He went over to the edge of the well and called down to the fairies and sparrow men below. "What's going on?"

"See for yourself!" said a garden talent fairy, and pointed to the sky. Terence and Rosetta looked up and saw a flower floating in the wind. Rosetta frowned. "What's so special about a flower in the wind?" Then Terence heard it. "Listen, Rose. It's a laugh! Wonder where it came from… it's beautiful." Rosetta looked closer, and as a garden talent she knew she was looking at a rare and beautiful flower.

Terence grinned for real now, his momentary sadness forgotten. New arrivals were his favorite. He tried to help himself, but he always hoped that one might be a dust talent, like himself. He shook his head, dispelling that notion. No use getting disappointed again.

He flew up to a single shelf near the well and took a chalice down to the dust below. He carefully filled the chalice with the precious pixie dust, and he and Rosetta flew quickly to the arrival ceremony. The questions on their minds were shared by every fairy and sparrow man in pixie hollow. Who was this new arrival, and what would their talent be?