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Andy's mom knocks on the door and it opens with a buzz.
Mrs Davis greets a lady behind a desk. "Hey there!"
The lady gushes "Wow! Haven't seen you in ages!"
We are places on the table, between the 2 women, next to the young girl.
I just wanted to drop these old toys off." There's a pause before Mrs David's continues "Is this Bonnie? Look how big you are."
A little girl, clutching an intimidating looking monkey. She blushes, her mom brushing her hair back with the palm of her hand. "Say hi, sweetie."
A quiet "hi" is heard before she returns her attention to the monkey.
"The lady behind the desk then asks "hey, How are your kids, Molly and Andy?"
Mrs Davis answers "Not kids anymore. Andy's going to college on Friday."
"What!"
"Can you believe it?"
The lady moves to open the box, lifting the flaps, peaking at our frozen states "Are you sure they won't miss having these?"
The box codes again "Nah. They never get played with."
Before we know it, we'll after the women finally finished talking, the lady from behind the desk starts to carry us down a hallway.
Jessie peaks through the box, Woody and I fixed at the back of the group, him arms crossed and irritated. I'm not going to lie, it is frustrating to be here, knowing the truth and not being believed, but then again, I do have more patience than Woody.
Mr Potato Head ask eagerly "Do you see any kids?"
Rex gasps "Where's she taking us?"
The lady pushes a door open, placing us on a table that over looks a colourful room.
"Look!"
"Wow!"
"What? What is it?" Rex interrupts.
Peaking over the shoulders of the many gathered heads I see glimpses of many sweet looking kids, fiddling with toys, hugging bears, reading books and chatting with each other gently.
They have a nature just like Andy's.
Sneaking a glance at Woody, he looks nervous.
Rex upset whinges "I can't see!"
A woman, who looks to be the carer for the young folk in the room ushers them towards an open door "OK, everyone. Recess. Come on."
Standing up, resting their entertainment down carefully, they dash to the door, where it shuts behind them.
Looking out at the now empty room, Hamm questions "So now what do we do?"
"We go back to Andy's. Anybody see an exit?" Woody comments, arms crossed.
Mr Potato Head rolls his eyes his mood lightening towards the end "Exit schmexit. Let's get played with."
Buzz who's peeking out the hole warns us "Careful. These toys might be jealous of new arrivals."
Rex finally has had enough pushing past us " I want to see!"
He shoves me over into Woody who holds me close carefully.
"Hey, watch it!"
"Rex!"
" it's my turn!"
Rex rushes to the front, though with such movement the box tips over the edge, throwing us to the floor with a thud.
We spill out, all dishevelled.
Looking up in shock, we see millions of toys in front of us looking just as shocked as we are. It's overwhelming.
A Jack-in-the-box pops out, smiling wildly "NEW TOYS!"
The many toys emit into cheers, moving closer to us all.
Picking himself of the floor first, Woody pulls me up from under my fore arm, a hand on my back who has too begun picking myself of the floor.
Dusting myself of I look at everyone. There's stuffed toys, play foods, wooden figures, troll dolls, Lego figures, figurines, absolutely everyone and anything.
Sticking close to Woody's side I spot Jessie greeting a rock monster guy shaking his hand "Well, howdy! Glad to meet ya!"
Buzz Near her shakes the hand of a robot "Buzz Lightyear, at your service."
To my right I see Hamm, Slinky and Barbie shaking the multiple arms of a purple octopus.
Hamm chuckles "Boy, oh, boy, oh, boy."
Rex to my right laughs happily, surrounded by many dinosaurs. Maybe now he'd be able to play that 'dominant predator game' he joked about all those Christmases ago, back when we got buster.
A jacked looking Bug kneels by Mrs Potato head "Oh, thank you. May I?" She giggles nervously as the bug flexes his arm, her... I guess feeling him up.
Behind her Mr potato head flex's his arm, shocked as it flops.
A crane passed the Aliens, they point mesmerised at it "The claw!"
A truck's horn is heard approaching as it reverses, parking.
"Well, hello there!" He smiles
A magenta bear taps Ute and it elevates allowing him to slide off.
"I thought I heard new voices!"
The bear Carrie's a wooden cane, almost like from one of those builder kits hammers. The bear has a creamy coloured stomach, the fluff oh his coat looking slightly mattered. I mean what can I say it's a daycare.
"Welcome to Sunnyside, folks. I'm Lots O Hugging Bear. But please call me Lotso." Lotso greets us, seeming kind enough.
Buzz steps up, his hand outstretched awaiting a hand shake "Buzz Lightyear, we come in..."
Lotso suddenly wraps Buzz in a surprising hug.
Chuckling he comments "First thing you gotta know about me, I'm a hugger."
Breathing heavily, Buzz is let go of as Lotso continues "Oh, look at you all. You've been through a lot today, haven't ya?"
Mrs Potato Head dramatically swishes her hand around "Oh, it's been horrible."
Lotso both hands resting on his support "cane Well, you're safe now. We're all castoffs here." He motions to the whole room "We been dumped, donated, yard-saled, secondhanded and just plain thrown out." He wanders over to the side "But just you wait, you'll find being donated was the best thing that ever happened to ya." He wraps a Dinosaur and cat in his arms.
In response to this Woody scoff, us still planted at the back of the group.
I listen and watch as Rex eagerly asks the bear a question " Mr. Lotso, do toys here get played with every day?"
Stepping backwards past the crowd Losto answers "All day long. Five days a week."
Jessie a little more nervous questions as we follow the magenta fluff ball "But what happens when the kids grow up?"
"Well, now, I'II tell ya." Motioning towards a wall of pictures he looks up and begins speaking "When the kids get old, new ones come in. When they get old, new ones replace them. You'll never be outgrown or neglected, never abandoned or forgotten."
Looking at the group that look mesmerised, utterly in love with the idea even more much to Woody and I's dismay.
"No owners means no heartbreak." Lotso finishes
Our friends cheer.
"Yee-haw!"
"It's a miracle!"
Mr Potato Head looks back at Woody, his arms cross firmly "And you want us to stay at Andy's."
Woody stresses , his arms flying down irritated at constantly trying to make his point "Because we're Andy's toys."
Lotso wanders over, his paw resting on the majority of Woody's back "So, you got donated by this Andy, huh? Well, it's his loss, Sheriff. He can't hurt you no more." He taps Woody roughly on the back.
I push Woody back up, my hand flying to his chest quickly out of I guess a initial reaction
Woody begins " Whoa, whoa, no, no, no..."
"Uh no no, he didn't hurt us, he still needs us, we still have a place in-" I step up, calmly looking up at the large bear.
Woody's hand rests on the small of my back, either to assure me he's there or ready to pull me back if need be, or all of the above.
Cutting me off Lotso says in an odd manner. "Powercouple hey...?"
Almost as if he's studying our behaviour towards each other , making note of our back to back supporting comments.
Lotso looks me up and down, confusing me.
Woody's other hand moves quickly to rest on my shoulder.
"Excuse me?" I question as he turns ignoring me and speaking over my voice.
"Now, let's get you all settled in."
I look at Woody, him already looking at me with a worried look, I give him a quick nod to let him know Im alright, just shaken.
"Ken? Where is that boy? Ken? New toys!" Lotso shout to a huge, I mean gigantic dolls house.
A man pops out of the far window on the top floor of the house "Far out! Down in a jiff, Lotso."
We walks to the side where he rides a plastic lift to the ground. Stepping out I notice he's got a pair of blush blue loafers on, a pair of matching golfers shorts and a half an open Leopard print button down with gold accents, equip with a blue ascot.
With a clap of his hands 'Ken' aka "So, who's ready for Ken's dream tour?"
"Dream? More like nightmare" I nudge Woody's side briefly, earning a little playful huff from him in return
( if only you knew gorl)
Lotso motions to us new comers "Let's show our new friends where they'll be staying."
Ken turns to us his eyes locking on a certain someone " Uh... Folks, if you want to step right this way..."
His jaw drops as his sentence falters.
Looking to my side where he's staring I find Barbie. She's looking right back at him with the same love struck eyes.
I swear time slows down as they dramatically walk to each other's, meeting in the middle.
"Hi, I'm Ken." He smiles at her, still in this trance.
"Barbie. Have we ever...." she doesn't break eye contact.
Ken pulls out a smirk "Uh-uh. I would've remembered."
Not taking my eyes away from the scene I question aloud quietly "Is this what love at first sight is? Are we like this?"
I hear a 'Phff' sound come from Woody followed by "No no, we're Ace-high"
This makes me give out a small giggle, "you flannel mouth" I smile up at him.
My Hand finding his once more.
Bringing my focus back to the 2 love struck folk Ken flirts with Barbie, shooting her a compliment "Love your leg warmers."
She giggles, leaning closer to his face "Nice ascot."
Cutting the moment short Lotso jumps between to top of them "Come on, Ken. Recess don't last forever."
Getting right back to business Ken offers his forearm to escort Barbie "Right on, Lotso. This way, everybody."
Lotso hobbles off "You got a lot to look forward to, folks. The little ones love new toys."
Buzz Comments "What a nice bear."
Rex says optimistically "And he smells like strawberries."
(Emperor Zurg: Such a gentleman.) (this was in the script, and even thiugh it makes no sense it's staying, I don't care what you say)
Woody sighs as we follow further into the daycare, getting further away from Andy.
Ken brings us through the room "Folks, if I can share, here at Sunnyside, we've got, well, just about anything a toy could ask for."
Lotso comments as we walk through double isles of baskets and many mingling toys. "Spare parts, superglue, and enough fresh batteries to choke a Hungry Hungry Hippo."
We are brought to another space, behind a sliding door "Think you're gettin' old? Well, stop your worrying'"
Ken continues his sentence as an elephant who's being testified sneezes in the background "Our repair spa will keep you stuffed, puffed, and lightly buffed."
Then we are lead back to the house of ken "And this, well, this is where I live. It's Ken's Dream House. It has a disco, it's got a dune buggy. And a whole room just for trying on clothes."
Losto keeps walking and I follow my group, the conversation between the two plastic dolls behind me being present in my ears.
Barbie gasps "You have everything!"
Ken sighs "Everything except someone to share it with."
Barbie let's put a love struck gasp.
How can she be head over heels already, it's wild.
Lotso brings us to a large blue door "You need anything at all, you just come to me. Here we are."
Knocking a short pattern of knocks the door opens shortly after.
A baby doll, slightly drawn on and a drooping eye pulls the door open, a toy bottle in their hand.
Lotso thanks the guy "Why, thank you, Big Baby. Why don't you come meet our new friends? Poor baby. We were thrown out together, me and him. Abandoned by the same owner."
(AGAIN! ANLTHER ONE WHAT THE HECK Stinky Pete: Oh, you poor things.)
Lotso continues leading us through a bathroom, off but alright "But we don't need owners at Sunnyside. We own ourselves. We're masters of our own fate. We control our own destiny."
Mr Potato Head lets out a yelp, looking over to see he's slipped over.
'Haha sucker'
"Oh. Watch out for puddles."
Making it to the end of the room with are lead through a red door.
"And here's where you folks'll be stayin'. The Caterpillar Room!"
Jessie looks around in awe "Look at this place!"
"The Caterpillar Room? Wasn't the other one a butterfly, does that mean these guys are younger?" I think aloud, my comment ignored by both the magenta bear, Ken doll and the baby, though I'm not sure that they are verbal.
"Wow!"
"Holy moly guacamole." Hamm wanders
"Jackpot, baby!" Potato head whistles
"Whoa, puppy." Slink, Jessie and Bullseye stop near a little pop up play set.
A cow, pig and elephant greet them one at a time with a hello.
Toys wander the room, lively.
Mrs Potato Head Carries on to dramatically "It's so beautiful."
Looking over to Woody I see him look down at his boot, a toy phone knocking his leg.
Lotso questions across the room asks "How long's it been since you all got played with?"
Slinky answers, his voice raspier than what it was many years ago " It's been years."
Lotso chuckles, motioning up to a red bell on the wall " Well, just you wait. In a few minutes that bell's gonna ring and you'll get the playtime that you've been dreamin' of."
We gather back around as Rex practically jumps "Play! Real play! I can't wait!"
Lotso sitting back down at the now returned truck he starts to wrap the encounter up "Now, if you'll excuse us, we best be headin' back. Welcome to Sunnyside, folks."
"Thank you!"
"Take care, Pinky!"
"Goodbye, Mr. Lotso. Thank you!"
"Will I see you again?" Barbie asks Ken
"Oh, I'll see you tonight. In my dreams." Ken answers, flirtatiously. The 2 haven't left each other's sides.
Lotso ushers "Ken? Let's get a move on."
Ken out of no where starts to rant, her hands in his "Barbie, come with me! Live in my dream house. I know it's crazy, I know we just met, heck, you don't know me from G.I. Joe but when I look at you I feel like we were..."
Ken and Barbie comment together "Made for each other?"
Gasping they look back at us.
You know what, she seems to have fit right in, and Molly did move her on. I make a little heart with my 2 hands, a warm excited smile graces my face for her. Taking a quick glimpse around and I see Mrs potato head giving her the go ahead waves with her hands and Jessie a thumbs up. A couple of other smiles from the boys too.
Barbie pops her leg "yay!"
Lotso ushers Ken back.
"Coming, Lotso!"
They dash off to the truck, muttering things like "this is so exciting!"
Together the hop on the truck, Barbie in kens arms as they drive off.
The big baby closing the door behind everyone who had left, a same bye leaving their mouth.
The toys attention was instantly brought to the kids outside.
Hamm says as they all wander off "Sounds like kids to me!"
Rex also walking towards the windows "Oh, I wanna get played with! Why can't time go faster?!"
"How many do you reckon are out there?" Jessie asks Slinky
"Oh, they sound so sweet." Mrs Potato head gushes from a far.
Woody and I stand back, watching everyone mingle excitedly.
Looking at each other, I see a sadness in his eyes, a pain and strain.
"I think it's time to go" I whisper, ready to break the news to them.
Woody nods as we slowly wander up behind the group.
Softly Woody states "Look, everyone. It's nice here. I admit it. But we need to go home."
Jessie, thinking positively with a future in mind smiles "We can have a whole new life here, Woody. A chance to make kids happy again. Ending her sentence with a joyful spin.
"We can't forget about who is still back at home..." I mention, by Woody's side.
"Why don't you stay?"
"Yeah, Woody. Stay with us."
Hamm: Come on, Woodster.
"You'll get played with."
"Y/n you know you want to"
"We can't. No." Woody begins.
"Stay here."
"You can make a new kid happy."
"No. G-Guys, really" Woody snaps "NO!"
Everyone, looks at him, faces dipping, shocked. To be honest I don't exactly understand why. They know that he... we are against the idea of being here.
"I have a kid. You have a kid. Andy!" Woody begins to state his reasoning "And if he wants us at college or in the attic, well, then, our job is to be there for him!"
Dropping his once lifted arms, grabbing mine with one hand "Now we're going home! And whoever wants to join me is welcome." Beginning to walk away he ushers the space ranger along with us "Come on, Buzz."
After less than 5 steps towards the door I freeze, Woody slightly tugging my arm at the sudden stop accidentally. Looking back we see Buzz, standing stationary with the rest of the group.
"Buzz?" I whisper.
Stepping up and looking between the both of us he states "Our mission with Andy is complete."
"What?" Woody mutters under his breath.
Buzz Continues "And what's important now is we stay together."
"Together is at home" I comment, as if it were obvious.
Woody is gobsmacked "We wouldn't even be together if it weren't for Andy." Letting go of my hand he holds his boot up, showing Andy's name to the group holding up his boot which has Andy's name written on it "Look under your boot, Buzz. You too, Jessie. Who's name is written there?" He finishes rhetorically.
The heads of everyone drop, I'm not sure if it's hurt, or shame or even sadness, maybe a mix of everything.
Rex quiet and solemn speaks " Maybe Andy doesn't care about us anymore."
"How could you ever think that, all these years together, I can't stress it enough" trying my best to get the message across.
Woody too stress the events of earlier today "Of course he does. He cares about all of you! He was putting you in the attic. I saw. You can't just turn your back on him now!"
Jessie snaps, having had enough "Woody! Wake up! It's over! Andy is all grown up!"
How can they not see?
I stand speechless but most importantly concerned. Concerned as to what this means for the group, and concerns as to where they think this daycare will lead them to.
Woodys face looks at her with disbelief before it quickly drops. His eyebrows tightening, his nose scrunched.
Woody gives in "Okay, fine. Perfect." Rolling his eyes, before shooting back at them " I can't believe how selfish you all are."
Jessie glares at my cowboy, him glare right back.
Silence fills the room, glares being short left, right and centre.
Woody's voice once again soft, yet not kind this time "So, this is it? After all we've been through."
Stepping forward, Buzz reaches his handout, awaiting a handshake.
Though Woody doesn't accept. Harshly, Woody straightens his hat and turns swiftly on his heel, storming off.
I stand there watching Woody for a moment, seeing Bullseye follow after him.
Looking back one last time I muter out a small "sorry guys" before following after, my eyes unable to meet any of theirs, staying glued to the floor.
Woody orders "Bullseye. No, I said stay!"
I see Woody sigh, not able to here what he says to the horse next but see him gently pat him on the head, seaming to be speaking softly to him now.
Head dropped Bullseyes begins walking back to the group, as he walks by him I gently caress the back of his ear on last time.
"How are we going to get back home Woody?" I ask having now made it by his side, reaching for his hand.
"Please just stay " Woody whispers.
"What.." I question thinking I've heard him wrong.
"Please stay here Y/n with the others" Woody elaborates, moving his hand away from mine trying to reach for it.
"I- no, I'm not staying unless you're staying" I challenge.
"No, I have to go back to Andy, and you're not about to left in the attic by yourself" Woody seems as though he's trying to convince his inner thoughts.
"He put me in that collage box too Woody" I remind him, shocked that he has even considered leaving me behind.
"It's to dangerous to get back home" Woody protests, his eyes burning into my own.
Feeling hurt at his underestimate of me I begin listing what I've done for him "I'm fully capable to get back home. I was with you when we were trapped at Sid's house, I was there to save you from Al sending you to Tokyo, I was the one who ran that room when you couldn't, I was the one who helped you through the transition from Bo no longer behind apart of our live!"
My voice grows louder " I WILL NOT SETTLE TO NOT BE APART OF YOUR'S. WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH TO MUCH TOGETHER -woody! " my voice breaking to a quiver at the break of his name.
"I want to protect you Y/n" Woody says grasping my shoulder and cheek, holding home safe within his hold.
"I don't need protection" My heart both flattered and offended. He knows what I'm capable of, right?
I stand there, studying his face. He looks at me with such glassy eyes, full of burnt out and helpless emptiness.
It's scary almost.
"You are best to say with the guys and protect them, you will do more good with them" Woody states making me feel alienated in his eyes.
"Woody I'm your deputy because I am able to handle myself, I'm here because-" I cut myself off, looking at his reaction of rolled eyes, empty and broken.
"Listen to me Woody" I snap, grabbing his vest and pulling him to bring his attention back to me.
"No listen to Me Y/N" Woody raises his voice at him, shouting in my face. His hands roughly clutch my arms. "You are to stay here, this is final. If you would just understand"
Apathetically I look down, unable to look at his what are usually welcoming, warm eyes "I don't feel safe here, please just let me go with you"
"Your safest with the others" Woody holds the both of my hands.
"But what about you, I can't live not knowing if your ok"
"I'll be there with Andy"
"I should be there too, like how we promised to stay by each others sides" I bring up the night we, well confessed.
A woman's voice, the one from earlier behind the desks is heard "Bonnie? Bonnie?"
Woody simply sighs, pulling my head towards his own, his hands on the sides of my cheeks. Gently he places a kiss on my temple muttering "I'm so sorry my Deputy"
Before running off toward the door.
The speaking gets louder and I slip behind a chair, watching the door open "Bonnie? You in here?"
On the brink of crying I helplessly watch as Woody catches the door, looking at me for just a moment before slipping through the gap and disappearing forever.
Holy moly. I did not intend for that to be so long...Yo fun fact, last night when I had a break down, the first thing I thought of was "this is a great mindset to write" so the whole of Woody leaving from the start of that convo to the end, I was legit sobbing. It was great😚
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(Idk y I made that so threatening)
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