We're back with more Mary/ Wildfall. . . . and Mary's still in a pissy mood for it, hehe.

 
Warning: Language Mary was still furious at Wildfall for dumping her for that redheaded bimbo and stood back from the crowd that had been trying to get thru the barrier. They appeared to be arguing about something and Mary could care less.

"If he wants the bimbo, fine, I will just go alone, I don't need him or anyone else. I will prove it to him and that slut." Mary fumed to herself, fighting back the tears. "I will NEVER again make the same mistake that I made with Wildfall. I bare my heart to him and he tosses me away like a piece of trash. Well I will show him." Mary thought about what a fool she had made of herself in her house (in her own damned living room!) when she opened up to Wildfall and told him how she felt about him and how close she was to wanting to give herself to him only to have him shut her down and turn to that damn redhead because she was older and more experienced. She had been in love with him for as long as she could remember and wanted him to be her first lover. She remembered the feeling of his warm naked chest against her bare breasts and the feeling of his hands on her breasts and the longing when they kissed. She had never known feelings like that before that morning. She yearned for his touch and wanted him to take her completely and suddenly he put a stop to it, dressed and said they had to take care of business first. Then they go outside and he sees that bitch and like a beacon went straight for her and to top it all off she was not that good looking and had hardly any breasts.

And she dressed horribly on top of it!

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Wildfall tried to close his eyes to think but all he saw was an outline of his beloved Mary Kate. It did, however, alievite some of the aching forming in the back of his head. He could feel it all the way to his eyes. Not being familiar with the sensation, it made it rather difficult for Wildfall to focus on the task at hand.

Not that his companions were making it all that easy.

"Whaddaya mean you're in charge?!" Tomato asked, utterly breaking Wildfall's chances of concentrating and throwing him face first back into the real world.

"Obviously," "Boobs" McGuffin barked back confidently. "Look, missy."

 
"Don't 'missy' me, okay?!" snapped back Tomato, so nicknamed for her fairly bright, unkempt red hair.

"Look," he continued, "the point is, I'm the experienced sailor here. I'm probably the smartest, and I'm here to watch out for Miss Mary, so I'm thinking we do things my way!"

"No way!" she shot back. "Look, I'm all for having a leader, but you can't just call it like shotgun on a horse carriage ride!"

Tomato laughed. "Why not? I just did! Look, buddy, Wild-something, I'm sure you see reason here, right?"

Wildfall sighed dramatically. It's an Ireacan thing, ya know? "I just see two hot headed rookies arguin' over nothing, honestly guys."

"Rookie?!" Tomato lifted an eyebrow. "I ain't a rookie, pal. Do you know how many years of sea I got under my belt? Well.. okay, months, anyway. Plenty, that's how many!"

"Yeah, rookie?!" she asked, fuming. "Okay.. I'm totally a rookie, but you don't need to point it out in public!"

"Come on, ya two," Wildfall called out meekly, barely heard over the noise of everything going on around them.

Tomato's cheeks burned red, as did her temper. "Do we even have a plan here?"

"Course I got a plan!" McGuffin shot back, looking around. "I just gotta talk to Miss Mary.. hey, where is Miss Mary, anyway?"

"Why don't you go look for her?" Tomato said sharply, drawing a chuckle from Wildfall.

"Good idea!" McGuffin answered, taking the suggestion seriously. He called out loudly, "Hey, Mary!"

Mary turned at the sound of her name and realized that she was alone. "I've got to stop getting into my thoughts so much. Better go see what they want and try to ignore the bimbo," Mary told herself as she rushed back to the group.

"Someone calling me?" Mary asked as she joined the rest.

"Just us, Mary," Wildfall called out, smiling. "Finally, a voice of reason. These two are acting like kids."

McGuffin frowned. "No, I'm acting like a leader."

"We don't need a leader!" Tomato answered, frowning deeply. "We need to split up and look for clues. Who wants to go with me?"

"Ahhh." Wildfall laughed. "No thanks. Already got a job; lookin' out for Mary."

McGuffin's frown deepened. "Thought I was looking out for Mary, pal."

"For your information, Boobs, I don't need you to look out for me, I've got Wildfall and NOBODY is taking him away from me, Do you both get that?" Mary said as she looked directly at Boobs and Tomato.

"I'm finally getting Wildfall trained and am staying with him. You two can go your merry ways and look for your own clues," Mary told them as she moved closer to Wildfall and put her arm around his waist and snuggled up to him.

"But, Miss Mary, I was only making sure you would be safe with this questionable looking character and his lady friend," Boobs McGuffin said in a dejected voice as he looked at the ground.

"I appreciate the gesture. Boobs, but Wildfall does a great job of watching out for me and protecting me. You go find yourself someone who needs your protection," Mary told him as she hugged him goodbye.

Looking a bit dejected herself, Tomato started to walk off. Thankfully, that's when Wildfall spoke up. "You know, the gal here could probably use someone to get her safely back to her family."

She turned around, frowning. "But I wanted to go with you and Mary."

Wildfall smiled. "Hey, who do you think your paw would feel better about you travelling with? A couple of questionable folks like MK and me (no offense, Mary)? Or a nice proper sailor boy here?"

"Sailor boy?" Boobs McGuffin raised his eyebrow slightly.

Wildfall shrugged. "You know what I mean."

Tomato looked at him, apprehensively asking, "Would you mind if I accompanied you?"

Boobs turned to Tomato and smiled. "It would be my pleasure to have your company. But you'll have to listen to exactly what I say and do exactly as instructed. There's an order of command here, you see. Can you promise to do those two simple things?"

"Sure I can do those things," she answered as the two walked off.

"Why are your fingers crossed?!"

She quickly shoved her hands behind her back, fingers still crossed. "They're not.."

"Listen, Tomato. . ." Whatever else Boobs had to say was lost to the noise of the crowd as the two walked off.

And this does it for what MK's handler (Bina) and I called our "Tomato Boobs" trilogy, hehe.

I stuck Tomato and "Boobs" together because it seemed like the right way to end the story. (The voter liked it too, calling it "very much the right choice.") After all, Mary and Wildfall ended up together. This one offers up more conflict, just like the last one. But it ends it a lil more decisively, with the two splitting up. Since they're NPC's, we won't see much more of Tomato or Boobs - until they show up in other co-writes. The voter also called this co-write "Super cute."

This is the only time we see the same set of multiple PC's show up in back to back co-writes. Next up are back to back solos- and they feature the returning Sir Fumblies (who is due for a history update by the end of the year hopefully)!

We've still got quite a bit of story to cover between now and the Finale! I hope you are all enjoying. We'll alternate between Fumblies and Sassy for a bit, and then we'll get back to Wildfall & Mary stories. Fun, huh?