Walking a Fine Line

Chapter 1: It's my own design

Evangeline successfully resurrected her dad, Thomas, using the new wand that was given to her by Snazzy Shazam's cousin, Caroline. The Undergroves are glad to be a family again. Eve has shown Thomas her high school graduation video and a photo slideshow showing moments before and after she met the 7D, Megan, and others. She did have a photo of her with Dopey's ex-girlfriend, Brittany, but she deleted it just after showing it to her dad, who was totally okay with that since he had some photos that he deleted from his old phone that were best left forgotten, and after Eve got him a new phone, of course, he wanted to keep old photos of him with her and Verena and take some new ones. He got to meet not just Eve's boyfriend, Bashful, but, of course, the other dwarves, Megan, Queen Delightful, and Lord Starchbottom, who is now King Starchbottom. Job-wise, Thomas was a police officer before being promoted to detective, and he technically still is a detective, but he's on sabbatical right now since, you know, being brought back from the dead out of nowhere means spending time with your loved ones who did try moving on before getting to finally see you again. Right now, it's been months since Eve brought him back, and his sabbatical is almost done.

Happy: That's amazing, Mr. Undergrove, that you solved crimes for a living.

Thomas: Call me Tom, and yes, I did, well, I still do, and I will see my buddies at the precinct if some of them are still there.

Sneezy: They must've been crushed when you died.

Thomas: They were. I would bring Evie there for "Take Your Daughter to Work Day," and she was about eight or nine, I believe, when she said that she wanted to be a detective and follow in my footsteps when she's older. Do you remember that, sweetheart?

Evangeline: Mmm-hmm. I thought it meant dressing like Sherlock Holmes, and then I first walked into the precinct, and it was like, "Shit, not that kind of detective attire."

Verena: You did dress up as Sherlock one time for Halloween.

Dopey: Which one, Robert Downey Jr. or Cumberbatch?

Sleepy: Iron Man or Doctor Strange?

Grumpy: Does it matter?

Evangeline: No, it doesn't, but it was neither. It was from an old cartoon Holmes series. I forgot the name of it. It for sure had Sherlock and/or Holmes in the title.

Doc: So you wore a checkered hat and smoked a pipe?

Evangeline: Yes, and don't worry, it was a prop pipe. My parents are not the type to let their kid smoke a real pipe.

Dopey: Other parents let their kids smoke?

Grumpy facepalmed.

Grumpy: Stupid. You seriously think other parents would do that?

Eve lightly smacked the top of his flowerpot hat.

Evangeline: And they did. A kid I knew in school who also lived in our neighborhood had been smoking too young, and they were his dad's cigarettes. At least he didn't get lung cancer.

Thomas: When I saw smoke coming out of Dylan's mouth, I took his dad in for questioning, and he confessed to giving his son tobacco at a young age, and he spent a year in prison.

Megan: Wow. Do you know where he is now?

Evangeline: No, but the few things I'm assuming are that he is still close with his dad, neither of them has smoked since then, and that Dylan somehow forgave him for letting him smoke as a kid.

Verena: His parents divorced around that time, and his mom was living in a different city, so she didn't know what happened until Dylan told her a few years later.