Toy Fic

60. We Belong Together

Woody and Buzz entered the bedroom to much fanfare. Jessie gave a great whoop and kissed Buzz passionately on the lips. Dolly hobbled up to Woody and, before glancing at Buzz and Jessie out of the corner of her eye, shook Woody's hand with a wide smile.

"Good to have you back, cowboy," she said quietly.

"Well, shoot, it sure is," Slinky said with a smile. He turned to some other toys. "Okay, who had this week?"

"I did," Hamm said, lifting a hoof.

Buttercup, Mr. Potato Head, and Chuckles produced a large number of coins and passed them over to Hamm.

"I keep on losing money on this cowboy," Potato Head muttered angrily. He stepped up to Woody anyway and shook his hand. "But, really, Woody, it's a relief to have you back. I mean it."

Rex and Trixie lifted their eyes from Bonnie's handheld game, and apparently noticed Woody and Buzz for the first time. They both screamed with delight and ran over to embrace them.

"Well, come on, Buzz," Woody said. "We've got to let Bonnie know we're back."

They snuck into the living room and huddled under the computer desk, without Bonnie or her mom taking notice. They went limp, making very deliberate clattering noises that caught Bonnie's attention immediately.

Bonnie walked over to the computer desk and moved the chair out of the way. "Woody! Buzz!" she said with delight.

"Oh, good," Bonnie's mom said. "Where were they?"

"Here under the desk!" Bonnie said.

"Aw, see? What'd I tell you? Right where you left them."

The déjà vu was too much—Woody and Buzz couldn't help but let out small chuckles. Bonnie did a double-take.

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The next morning, Andy joined Bonnie in playing with toys in the front yard. Andy was relieved that Woody and Buzz had finally been found, and gave them no small amount of attention early on in the play session.

But soon enough, the two were left in the grass as Andy attended to Bonnie's other toys—she had never favored one over any of the others, and he tried to keep up with her method of playtime.

Andy and Bonnie had their backs turned when Sid passed by on the sidewalk. Woody and Buzz sat up and waved to him. He smiled enthusiastically and waved back.

Jessie and Dolly snuck away from the playtime, and snuggled up to their respective guys, though they had to freeze when Bonnie noticed them.

She giggled. "Look, Andy!" she said, holding the four of them up. "Aren't you glad they're all together?"

Andy smiled. "Yeah… yeah, I am."

Andy took Woody and gazed at him happily. Woody couldn't help but squeeze Andy's finger ever so slightly, leading Andy to do a double-take exactly like Bonnie had the evening before.

They were in sync—they had no reason to doubt each other. Woody knew that Andy would brush it off as his imagination, which he did. Andy had known that Woody would always come back… and he did, then and for the rest of time.

the end