Mud Puppy (Open)

[maxine]

Max loved the park! It was the best! There were people all over the place and there were so many new and exciting things to smell! And there were lots of squirrels to chase! And there were human puppies! Max loved human puppies most of all! They were so fun and happy and liked to play with Max! And sometimes there were other dogs and other dogs were the best! They were so fun and liked to run around and bark at squirrels too! Dog friends really were the best kind of friends.

And the best part was that Spring was coming! Soon there would be even more new smells and squirrel puppies! There would be even more human puppies to play in the park with and more time playing outside!

But today, Max was content to roll around in a mud puddle that she had found. It wasn’t very big, but she really wanted to play in the mud because it was so much fun! She loved playing in the mud! It was so fun being all muddy! Master wouldn’t like it very much, but Max was having too much fun to remember that she wasn’t even supposed to be at the park.

[rogerrabbit]

While some people were able to have the best time with just a mud puddle, there was one person who, really, should've been watching Max and laughing all the way that was still feeling, well, droopy. And that was just wrong, because that was Droopy's job, not Roger's. I mean...yeah, things weren't as bad as they had been, but he just felt so...stuck. Kinda like someone had crazy glued him to the floor (this had, in fact, happened once in one of Baby Herman's cartoons, but he could tell you that this crazy glued situation wasn't nearly as fun).

Right now, he was sitting on one of the benches at the park. Aw, Plum did everything she could, he knew that for an absotive, posolute fact, and he loved her for it, but he still felt, well, lousy. He had pretty much given up on ever, ever, ever winning Snow back, and quite possibly loving anyone ever again...but surely, surely he could still be happy, right? He was finding it a lot harder to be Toony, though, and it seemed like more of his accidental bumps on the head and stuff were starting to hurt. He hadn't even known it was possible to be so depressed that you got less Toony. He had to wonder what the heck was up with Eeyore, then.

Maybe it would be better if he just went home...I mean, sure, he'd miss Plum, but he also missed Eddie...gosh, choosing between your two best friends oughta be illegal.

He let his chin rest on his fist like that Thinker guy (he often thought that he'd have trouble concentrating too if he was naked in front of everybody), lips pursed and then he caught sight of the girl who was rolling around in the mud.

...wait, what?

Well...that was kinda funny, wasn't it? Most would have found that to be an understatement, but Roger was used to wacky behavior like that. In fact...he wondered if maybe this girl was a Toon too...not from Toon Town, though. Roger knew just about everybody at Toon Town. Hmmm....

[maxine]

Max really loved to roll in the mud. It was just so much fun, but Grimsby never liked it because it got mud all over the place and then he always had to have a firm talking to with Master. But mud was fun anyway! And Max liked mud! It was squishy and it felt nice on a hot day with all of her fur, especially in her dog body. She didn’t have as much fur in her human body, but it was still fun to roll around in the mud!

And as she rolled she suddenly saw a person. As much as Max loved rolling in the mud, she loved people even more! So she stood up from her mud puddle, shaking herself off as if she were still a dog and then ran right over to the person sitting on the bench. She licked his cheek in greeting like she normally did, then bounced a bit in front of him.

Max stopped bouncing so much though when she realized he didn’t look happy. Max didn’t like when people weren’t happy, but sometimes it happen. She tilted her head to the side as she looked at the person. “Sad?” she asked. “Not happy?”