A/N: I added chapter titles!

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Franny uncrossed her legs. Crossed them again. Uncross. Cross. Uncross.

Blink. Breathe. Glare at her watch.

She rolled her eyes. Since Lewis had told her to go downstairs and wait, it had been almost an hour. It had looked like he had been sketching shoes this time, although there wear no lose parts scattered across his desk, so he seemed to still be in the planning stage.

Franny huffed. The planning stage is where Lewis usually got hung up and spent hours planning and losing track of time. Although the toys he made where better than anything he could ever buy her.

So he lost track of time again. What was different about that? But she hasn't been with with him for more than five minutes for more than a week. Date nights were sacred.

"I guess it's time to go get Lewis again."

She marched up the steps, (actually the last set in the house; she had gotten Lewis to replace the rest with the suck-drop tubes), thinking about the movie. Or rather, what she hoped they would be doing instead of the movie. Just then, she saw a mass of blonde in a white lab coat heading the opposite direction. She cocked her head, stopping. "Lewis?"

The hair had been too short.

Glancing at the lab door, she made a snap judgement. "Lewis?" She called, jogging after him.

He had rounded a corner, and before Franny could catch up, she heard a strange sound. And when she turned down the next hallway, there was no one there.

That sounded like... nah. She shook her head, turning back to the lab. Lewis didn't time hop without her these days, anyway.

…...

The garage was sitting open, like it normally wasn't. Grandpa Bud had bought himself a new car though, and he loved cruising through town in it. His favorite part was when he had tried to drive backwards with the face drawn on his bald spot, and Grandma had had to save him from crashing. Now she always tried to go with him because of how prone he was to doing things like that.

(He's not an idiot, Wilbur, she'd say, he just doesn't think. Then she'd smile like he was the president of the whole world)

So, oddly enough, there was only one vehicle left: the second time machine. The one the Bowler Hat guy had taken, (Wilbur shook his head. Goob had come back to visit once or twice, and was a nice enough guy now. But he couldn't quite bring himself to remembering to call him that; how many former villians have you heard of named Goob?), waiting for Wilbur, beckoning him.

He gulped. Marilyn Monroe had used that same "come hither" look that this darn time machine was vibing now.

So he did the same thing he had done with Marilyn; ran over as fast as he could. "Is the little time machine lonely?" He purred, hoping no one would walk in as he stroked the side of the thing. He stepped into the cockpit, taking in the controls. "These don't look so different." He mused, putting his hands on his hips. "Mom's just paranoid is all."

Sitting down in the pilot's seat was exciting. He shivered with giddiness; this machine was off-limits to him and he kind of felt like a little kid the first time he ever stole one of Mom's frogs to bring to show and tell. Or stealing cookies. Or trying to rewire Carl so that he'd let Wilbur play in the suck-drop tubes.

But he couldn't just sit and wait, he reasoned. Carl would eventually find him, (he was programmed that way, but mostly it was because Carl was his friend and they had been together since Wilbur turned 3), and then he'd never hear the end of it.

"Here goes nothing," He said, and grabbed a lever, pulling it down with a snap.

-…...

When she entered the lab, the blonde boy was shaking. "Lewis!" She cried, running to him. "What's going on?"

His eyes were vacant, staring wide-eyed into space. He slowly turned up to meet her eyes.

"Franny?"

She hugged him gently, kneeling down next to his chair. "Are you okay? What happened?"

He shook his head, trying to force out words. She waited patiently for him, but he didn't speak again. "Lewis?"

"I can't..." He shook his head, looking at her. "I need to find Wilbur."

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A/N:

Oh my! Plot? Yeah, I can barely believe it either. XD Also, so sorry about the shortness of this chapter. The next one is taking shape to be quite a bit bigger. And it's going be EPPPIC! Just take my word for it. ;)

Thank you to all my lovely reviewers! Novanto, Yearof-theDragon, AniLovesMe, Eminnis, Mary_Penelope, WandaCosmoForever... You guys make my day every time you leave me love!

Mary_Penelope: Isn't he, though? What a DODO! XD