Cuddly Toy

I don't own Toy Story or any of its characters. I do own any and all original characters.

A/N Last chapter guys! A/N

"I know something you don't know! I know something you don't know!" Darla said sang merrily to Woody and Jessie as she circled them.

"Are you going to tell us what it is?" Woody asked "Or are you just going to taunt us?"

"Bo followed you on your date last night," she told them, off-handedly.

"What?" Said Jessie, shocked. "How do you know this?"

"I know because I followed her. She saw and heard everything you two did and said last night."

"Everything?" Woody asked, mortified.

"Everything," Darla simply replied, studying her plastic nails.

Jessie was completely bewildered."Well, why would she follow us?" .

"Well," Darla began. "Woody knows why and Buzz knows why and even I know why. But you, sweetie..." She said to Jessie, leaning towards her and grinning. "Don't know why."

Jessie suddenly crossed her arms and narrowed her eyes and looked at Woody.

"What?" He asked nervously.

"The stupidity?" Jessie asked Darla.

"The stupidity," Darla confirmed.

"I think it's time to talk to Bo," Jessie said.

"I thought you were going to wait for her to come around," Woody said weakly, worrying what could happen when Jessie found out what Bo had been thinking.

"I don't like being followed and I also don't like you," -she said pointing to Woody- "keeping secrets from me!"

"Darla followed us too!" Woody pointed out, hoping he could stall Jessie and maybe misdirect her anger.

"No. Darla followed Bo," Jessie told him sternly. "There's a difference! And why are you trying to get me mad at Darla anyway?"

"I-I'm not!" Woody quickly said.

"Eyes on the prizes, Jessie, he's trying to distract you," Darla told.

"It's time the two of us have a talk with Bo right now!" Jessie said sternly.

"Right!" concurred Darla, throwing her fist up in the air.

"Let's go Woody" Jessie said, pulling him by his bandana.

A lot of things were running though Jessie's head. She felt violated for one thing: Bo had followed them and spied on them, witnessing her and Woody's intimate moments! She felt a sense of pity for Bo, however, after hearing what Woody had said. How must Bo be feeling, learning how Woody had harbored a crush on her while with Bo - that he'd thought about leaving her! Jessie briefly wondered if Woody truly meant what he said. Even though, as cruel as it was for Bo, Jessie wished with all her heart that it was true; that deep down Woody had always felt something for her before they were together, just as she'd felt something for him, even when she was with Buzz.

And that thought brought guilt.

Jessie had truly cared for Buzz when she was in a relationship with him and had 'liked', liked him and also wanted to be with him, but she had still 'liked', liked Woody deep down inside too. She had never led Buzz on and hadn't tried to make Woody jealous when she was dating Buzz. She had been happy in that relationship, just not happy enough...

Woody made her happy, so happy, and finding out that he was keeping something from her - something to do with Bo, his ex girlfriend - hurt, not to mention that Buzz and Darla knew what it was! She told herself not to worry; Woody had told her that he was completely and totally committed to her. But she couldn't shake her uneasiness.

They made their way over to the dresser with Darla in tow.

"Climb," Jessie said sternly to Woody.

Woody sighed, not looking forward to the confrontation that was going to happen within a few minutes. He gave Jessie a quick, what he hoped was a reassuring, kiss on the check and began to climb.

Bo stared numbly off into space; the shock from the revelations of last night had not completely worn off.

'What was I really to Woody?' She asked herself idly. 'Was I just someone to fulfill his needs? Or,' Bo began to think with hope. 'Maybe he was lying to Jessie? Maybe he really does love me and doesn't want to hurt Jessie.' Bo knew it was wrong to hope that Woody was using Jessie, but her strait of mind was desperately not wanting to believe that Woody's feelings for her were never as strong as hers for him.

"Woody," Bo breathed hopefully when she saw him climb to the dresser top. "Jessie," Bo said disappointment when she followed him up. "Darla?" Bo asked, puzzled, when she made her appearance.

"Darla?" Woody repeated, exasperated. "Why did you follow us? This has nothing to do with you!"

"Stop hyper-focusing on m!" Darla reprimanded. "It's not going to help."

"Why do I bother talking to her? Why?" Woody asked Jessie.

"You're doing it again," Darla told him.

"W-what's going on?" Bo asked them.

"That's what I'd like to know," Jessie said, her hands on her hips and her eyes narrowed. "Why did you follow Woody and I on our date last night? Why did you spy on us?"

"I…" Bo said, faltering; she had never seen Jessie this angry before.

"Well? We're waiting," Jessie said sternly.

"I wanted to see how you act around Woody when you're alone," Bo admitted to her.

"Why?" Jessie was truly bewildered.

"Because I just…I mean thought…I just needed to prove…"

"Prove?" Jessie questioned. "Prove what?"

"That-that-that," Bo couldn't say it; the words wouldn't leave her mouth.

"That you're using Woody to make Buzz jealous," Darla finished for her, dully.

Jessie looked completely shocked.

"Is-is that true Bo?" Jessie asked Bo. "Is that what you've been thinking this whole time?"

Bo just nodded.

"Darla, how did you find out about this?" Jessie questioned, rounding on her.

"Buzz told me and Woody told Buzz and Bo told Woody," Darla said casually.

Jessie turned to Woody looking very angry and hurt.

"So you knew about this too?" Jessie asked him.

"Yes," Woody admitted.

"Is there a reason you didn't think to tell me this?" Jessie asked, trying to keep the venom out of her voice.

"I didn't want to upset you?" Woody told her, his answer sounding more like a question than an answer. "And have you do something rash?"

"Do something rash?" Jessie sounded outraged. "What did you think I'd do? Run up here and demand a wrestle session to defend my honor and break her into pieces?"

"Well I…." Woody began.

"You did think that, didn't you!" Jessie accused, gasping.

"When you get angry, s-sometimes you don't think straight."

"How do you think I am? Darla?" Jessie said.

"No, of course not!" Woody quickly said. "It's just...I know how you can get sometimes and I didn't want you to do something that you'd regret later."

"In other words, you think I'm a rash, violent mad-doll woman!"

"No! That's not it at all!"

"I don't know who I'm mad at more," Jessie began. "You," She said pointing at Bo. "For thinking I'd do something so hurtful and sneaky to both Woody and Buzz or you," Jessie said now pointing to Woody. "For not telling me this and not trusting me to act reasonably about it. Not to mention you confiding in Buzz about this!"

"Jessie…" Woody said sounding pained.

"I don't even know if I can talk to either of you right now," Jessie said to them, her voice breaking.

"Maybe it's time for a girl-talk," Darla said soothingly, putting her hand on Jessie's shoulder.

"Jessie," Woody said desperately. "Please listen to me."

"We'll laugh, we'll cry," Darla continued.

"I don't want to listen to you right now," Jessie told Woody.

"But Jessie-"

"What part of girl-talk do you not understand?" Darla asked Woody.

"Darla," Woody snapped. "This is really none of your business! It's something that Jessie, Bo and I need to talk about! So will you just go away?"

Without saying another word, Darla went behind Woody, grabbed his pull-string and belt, picked him up and tossed him off the dresser.

Woody, Jessie and Bo screamed.

"Darla! How many times have I told you? You are not allowed to throw Woody off things!" Jessie yelled at her before climbing down the dresser to check on Woody.

Darla turned to a still shocked Bo.

"That Jessie has such a short attention span - she really needs to work on that. Hey, your sheep has three heads!" Darla exclaimed. "Wow, this would be such a great side show!"

'I'm up here alone with a mad doll woman!' Bo thought, alarmed.

"Um...Darla...you said something about a girl talk?" Bo asked her.

"Huh, what?"

"You wanted to have a girl talk?"

"Oh yeah, right," Darla said, forgetting about the sheep. "Alight sweetie. Tell me all about your cheap, torrid little affair you had with Woody."

"It was not a cheap torrid little affair!" Bo said huffing.

"Wasn't it?"

….

A small crowed of toys had gathered around where Woody had fallen.

"What happened Woody?" Buzz asked him, helping him up.

"She threw me off the dresser," Woody said, dazed.

"Who did?"

"Darla did."

"She's gone too far!" Buzz said, making a fist and hitting his palm with it.

"Woody, are you all right?" Came Jessie's concerned voice as she pushed her way past the other toys.

"Yeah, I'm fine," He told her.

"I don't care if she is the leader! Darla just can't go throwing toys around, willy-nilly! And I'm going to tell her so," Buzz said before climbing up the dresser.

"Good," Jessie said, ignoring Buzz. "Now I can still be mad at you and not feel guilty."

"Why are you mad at me?" Woody asked her. "I didn't do anything wrong!"

"Didn't do anything wrong? How about lying to me?"

"I never lied to you! I just didn't tell you what Bo said when you asked me how she took us being together."

"Well, withholding the truth is just as bad as lying in my book!"

"Jessie, please be reasonable?" Woody begged.

"Oh, now you expect me to be reasonable!?" Jessie asked him, exasperated.

….

"I see," Said Darla as she listened too Bo tell her about when she and Woody had dated. "What lead to your break-up?"

Before Bo could respond, Buzz appeared.

"Darla, I want to have a word with you!" He demanded angrily.

"What part of 'girl-talk' do you boys not understand?!" Darla said angrily to Buzz. "Why don't you have a belt?"

"Because I'm not bonus=belt Buzz."

"Well, you should be!" Darla stated before executing a good round kick and knocking him off the dresser.

"Continue my dear," Darla said sweetly.

…

Meanwhile at the foot of the dresser.

"Woody, I swear sometimes I think that you still think that being in relationship is just about kissy-face!" Jessie told him angrily.

"Of course I think that being in a relationship is more than just kissy-face!"

"AAHHHH!" Screamed Buzz as he fell, landing right in front of Woody and Jessie, making them jump into each other arms out of surprise.

"Buzz?" Woody said.

"What happened?" Jessie asked.

"Darla kicked me off the dresser," Buzz said, sitting up and sounding dazed. "My kind of woman!" He finished smiling, before falling back down.

"Boy am I glad I never wrestled with him," Jessie said, as they began to help Buzz up.

….

"So because you were sold while Woody was away at cowboy camp, the two of you never got closer," Darla said.

"If I had never gotten sold, Woody and I…"

"Would have still broken up," Darla told her, matter-o-fact.

"You don't know that!"

"Jessie and Buzz broke up and neither of them was sold."

"But…"

"Woody never loved you, you know that," Darla hissed in her ear. "You know he always wanted Jessie. How long do you think he'd have been able to continue living a lie with you while all-the-while wanting Jessie, fantasizing about Jessie, loving Jessie."

"I thought you were on my side," Bo whimpered.

"I'm on nobody's side," Darla told her. "I'll tell Woody you want to see him."

Woody wasn't sure what he was going to face as he climbed up the dresser to talk to Bo alone. Jessie was still too mad at Bo to talk to her, which was a good thing in a way Woody supposed.

"I guess we have a lot to say to each other, don't we?"

"I guess we do," Bo replied.

"Bo…."

"Was it all a lie?"

"Was what?"

"Us, Woody, us," Bo said.

"Bo, I cared for you a great deal…"

"But you never really loved me!" Bo shouted angrily. "All that time - it was a lie! You never really loved me!"

"Did I ever tell you I did!?" Woody shouted back.

"No," Bo said sadly. "At least you never lied to my face about that."

"Bo, I…"

"Yes, I know you cared about me! You cared about me so much that you were going to leave and go off to Japan and live with Jessie!"

"I didn't, did I? I came back, didn't I?"

"Yes, you came back. You came back for Andy, not me! And you came back with Jessie!"

"But I stayed loyal to you," Woody emphasized.

"But not in your head or heart."

"What do you want me to say, Bo?" Woody asked sounding tired.

"I want you to say…I want to you say that I meant something to you, that I was more than just someone to fulfill your needs!"

"You were Bo."

"Don't lie to me Woody!" Bo said, angrily. "Just because I want to hear it, it doesn't mean I want to hear it as a lie!"

"It's true that I was never was in love with you Bo," Woody began. "But that didn't mean that I didn't like you. I liked you a lot, Bo, and I wanted to be with you. When I came back and found out you'd been sold… Bo, I grieved for us for a long time and I missed you. I missed being with you... You were my girl, Bo and I did care very much about you and you did mean a great deal to me and I'm sorry it wasn't enough. I'm sorry it wasn't what you thought it was. I'm sorry I couldn't love you."

"If I had never been sold, what would have happened to us?"

"I think in time we would have broken up on our own."

"Oh, yes, your undying love for Jessie would have eventually come through." Bo said bitterly, turning away from him.

"Or maybe I would have realized that you deserve someone better than me..."

"Always making yourself the good guy in the end," Bo retaliated, turning sharply towards him.

"All right, I get it: you're mad at me. But I'm not going to bend over backwards to get you forgive me!"

"You used me, Woody!" Bo yelled, letting her hurt and anger take over.

"How did I use you?!" Woody yelled back. "What? Just because I had a small crush on Jessie and wasn't in love with you? There's no written rule that says you need to be in love with someone to be in a relationship with them!" His tone was harsh and Bo took a step back.

Woody sighed. "I'm tired of this Bo," He said. "There's nothing I can say or do to make things right with you and maybe I don't even want to anymore. This has gotten way out of hand. I'd moved on long before Jessie and I were together and, after Dolly and I broke up, I moved on again. Bo, you need to move on too."

"Woody…" Bo said her voice full of pain and love.

Woody moved close to her and it looked to Bo as if he was going to kiss her and as angry and hurt as she felt...Bo desperately wanted him too.

"Goodbye Bo," Woody whispered in her ear before leaving.

Once Woody was off the dresser he went in search of Jessie, knowing that she would want to talk to Bo as well. He found her with Darla. Both dolls were lounging with the big cats from Darla's play-line. Woody wasn't sure how he felt about Jessie being so close to toys that might end up hurting or killing her.

"I finished talking to Bo, " Woody said.

"I guess it's my turn now," Said Jessie getting up.

"Sit," Darla instructed Woody. "You look miserable."

"I feel miserable," Woody muttered as a toy Tiger jumped into his lap.

"Aw, Zsa Zsa likes you!" Darla said gleefully.

"Great," Woody said, unenthusiastically.

….

Jessie forced herself to keep her temper in-check. She felt insulted and violated. She was going to let Bo know how she felt and right now she didn't care how Bo was feeling. It wasn't as though Bo and Woody had been married or had broken up recently.

"Bo-" Jessie said when she reached the top of the dresser.

"Jessie I…"

"Don't!" Jessie snapped. "First thing's first: eavesdroppers deserve what they hear. That was a private moment between Woody and me! And you had no right to follow us, no matter what was running through your head! And while we're on that subject, you could have come to me and asked about my relationship with Woody! You could have asked about what happened between Buzz and I, but you didn't! You went around thinking the worst of me and plotting and scheming!"

"No, that's not true!" Bo cried. "I never thought the worst of you."

"So, using someone to make someone else jealous, makes them okay in your book?"

"No, I thought you needed help in the right way to get Buzz back."

"I don't want Buzz back! I am with Woody because he is the one I want to be with. He is the one I love. Whether or not you want to believe that is up to you. And that's all I have to say to you."

"Jessie…" Bo began.

"Goodbye Bo," Jessie said firmly before climbing down the dresser.

Bo hugged her sheep; she's never felt more alone than she did at that moment.

"Hi," Came Buzz's voice.

"What are you doing here?" Bo responded gloomily.

"I thought maybe you could use a friend/" Buzz said sitting down.

"I guess I've lost any chance of having Woody and Jessie for friends, haven't I?"

"I wouldn't say that. Woody and Jessie will come around just as long as…"

"I stop trying to make things the way they were," Bo finished for him. "Does it hurt? Seeing Woody and Jessie together?"

"It used to," Buzz told her honestly. "When I used to see the way Jessie would look at him when she thought no one was watching. She'd look at him with so much love and longing that it must have hurt, but that was all Jessie ever did. Until I told Woody to tell Jessie how he felt, he and Jessie didn't act on their feelings. They avoided each other because they didn't want to hurt me and for a while...I allowed it. I allowed them to be unhappy. I didn't want my ex-girlfriend and best friend to be happy for my own selfish reason: pride. I just didn't like the idea of Jessie feeling that way about anyone who wasn't me, even if I didn't feel that way about her anymore. But...seeing them unhappy began to hurt even worse. So when Jessie did come to me and told me about her and Woody wanting to be together, I told her I already knew and that I was happy for them and gave her my blessing, whether she needed it or not."

"If it were me, I wouldn't have given them my blessing!"

"We both know that's not true."

"What makes you say that?"

"Because you're not cruel."

"It hurts Buzz!" Bo cried, burying her head in his shoulder. "It's hurts so bad!"

"I know," He said, wrapping a nervous arm around her shoulder.

"It wasn't supposed to be like this," Bo sobbed. "I always thought that Woody and I would…."

"Things have a way of turning out differently than what you think it's going to be like."

"Buzz?" Bo asked, timidly. "Why did you and Jessie break up?"

"The short answer is we just fizzled out. We both had these different ideas of how a relationship should work and how you should act. I had the idea that I was going to be the perfect boyfriend and that being the perfect boyfriend meant never fighting with her and always agreeing with everything she wanted to do. It worked for a while, but then after awhile Jessie began to get fed up with me always agreeing with her and never having an idea or opinion of my own. She started suggesting we do really stupid things and tried to pick fights with me. But I just didn't get it. And, finally, Jessie broke up with me. I was glad in a way since I wasn't really happy anymore ether."

"Oh," Was all Bo could say. "So what's the story between you and Darla?"

"Darla is just a fantasy and, as the song says, sometimes a fantasy is all you need."

"Buzz...will you sit with me for a little while longer?"

"Sure."

….

Elsewhere in Lulu's room:

"I guess you're still pretty mad at me, huh?" Woody said to Jessie.

"Yep," Jessie crossed her arms.

"I just want you to know something: I never told Bo I loved her, because I was never in love with her. But, oh Jessie, I really do love you. I love you so much that I do stupid things and I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't tell you what Bo thought and I'm sorry I told Buzz and not you and I'm sorry Bo got hurt and I'm sorry I messed everything up and please, please don't break up with me," Woody pleaded.

"Oh, Woody," Jessie said softly, uncrossing her arms and placing them around him. "I'm not going to break up with you. I love you too."

Woody sighed in relief and leaned in to kiss her.

"But," Jessie said, leaning back. "I think we need to have a talk about being honest with each other."

"Aw, Jess, I learned my lesson already!" Woody moaned. "Instead of talking couldn't we be kissing?"

"Talking first followed by kissing," Jessie told him. "Lots of kissing."

"Lots of kissing?" Woody asked brightly.

"Lot's and lots of kissing," Jessie giggled. "But first talking."

From her own spot Darla observed both Woody and Jessie and Buzz and Bo.

"Balance," She said with a smile.

The end.

A/N Since this the last chapter it's a long chapter. I can't help feeling that everyone of OOC though. Well I hoped you all enjoyed this story and maybe I'll write more life in Lulu's room stories. A/N