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Marybelle Doc and The Magic Coffee Cup Chapter 1 Reason's Aim [by Dr.Who3]
Marybelle opened her eyes and stared at the clock. The glowing numbers proclaimed it to be 1 AM ! She knew she should be fast asleep but she just couldn't. So much was happening in her life and it all seemed to be happening so fast. Her boyfriend of over a year had asked her to marry him. She just couldn't understand how he could love her so intensely or how she could feel so strongly for him. Why?!? There must be reasons! There must be something to explain why and how, so she could feel safe, knowing her life was based on the comforting safety of reason. Since she couldn't sleep she decided to put on her thick warm pink robe and go downstairs to the 'puter and see if there was anyone on the chat line. Arriving downstairs she sat down in front of the 'puter in the little storage room that she had converted into a 'puter room. Tiredly she clicked all the clicks needed to get her to a chat room. Chat seemed pretty dead that night. When she scanned the list of available rooms they nearly all had 0 people listed. Then just as she was about to give up and return to bed she saw 1 person in a computer chat room called "Cat chat". Cat chat? she thought. What's a kitty room doing in the computer section? Curious, she entered the chat room. There was only one person there, a man named "Doc". She clicked on his profile to read what he had written there about himself. It said he liked to write poetry and collect coffee cups with Christmas pictures on them, one of which is magic, and that his little relatives thought he might be "THE" Santa. She asked him why his little relatives thought he might be "THE" Santa? he replied that He had a big tummy and often wore red suspenders over a green T-shirt [kind of Christmas colors] and kept the presents in a closet in a large plastic trash bag at Christmas time. He also had found a red Santa hat on sale at a store and had placed it in the closet near the bag of presents to keep them guessing. Of course, he always sidestepped the question of whether he was or wasn't Santa which only served to further convince them. And he collected the Christmas coffee cups too. That reminded Marybelle about the "magic coffee cup" mentioned in Doc's profile. So she asked him about that. Doc admitted that he had a magic coffee cup that he used to take friends on magic coffee cup rides but he explained that he only used it rarely for very special friends or when there was a special reason. Try as she might, Marybelle could not get him to explain more about the coffee cup thing and figuring it was just another part of the Santa joke he played on his little relatives she let it drop and went on just chatting with him. He seemed to be a nice warm person, a good listener, and soon Marybelle found herself telling him all about her boyfriend and how she couldn't sleep because she just couldn't make sense of her life. Suddenly there was a sparkling in the air beside her and slowly a figure appeared. It was a man in red suspenders, green T-shirt, bluejeans, and carrying a coffee cup! "Now I know I've fallen asleep at the keyboard again" she thought. "No sense in being afraid of a dream though". Marybelle asked if Doc had come to take her on a magic coffee cup trip to show her how to reason out her life? He replied that he would indeed show her reason but that it would not be what she expected. She said she was ready and stood up waiting to see what would happen next in her dream. Doc waved the magic coffee cup transporting them both to a magical field filled with flowers, mostly blue and purple flowers. The fragrance effected them almost like a glass of wine, relaxing yet not befuddling. In the center of the field was a blue statue standing tall, overlooking the field. The flowers were nearly waist high so even the statue was covered to the knees. A ribbon was tied to the statue and stretching out away in a line to where they could see a rabbit head bobbing up and down, barely visible above the flowers for an instant each time he hopped. As they walked closer they saw that the rabbit was hopping around the statue in a circle while holding on to the ribbon. Doc and his friend looked first at each other then at the rabbit. Marybelle asked "Mr. rabbit, Why are you hopping 'round and 'round this statue while holding this end of the ribbon?" The rabbit answered, his voice a bit breathless from trying to hop and talk "I am dancing with my love of course!" Marybelle was shocked "but she's a statue not a rabbit!" "She is only a statue on the outside. . .which is all you can see. . . .but on the inside. . . somewhere in her heart she is a rabbit. I can see her and, loving her, I dance." Marybelle looked at Doc being very concerned for the rabbit "Do you suppose he's mad? " she whispered. But the rabbit, having big ears to listen with overheard her whispered question. " Silly, all in love are a little mad. 'Tis a simple wisdom, often overlooked." Watching the rabbit continuing to hop minute after minute was a bit hard on them but he was so determined to dance with his love. Finally doc heard a sound behind him and turned to see a neatly dressed man. He was wearing a white suit, with a black arm band and carrying a huge, long slender gun with something engraved upon the barrel. He walked through the flowers with a businesslike stride. As he approached he saluted smartly "Hi there! Major Reason Able reporting. I'm here to put an end to this madness." "Ohhhh? And how will you do that?" Doc asked. "With this, my trusty weapon!" answered Major Reason. He handed the weapon to Doc and his friend so each in turn could examine its fine workmanship. On the barrel was written, "Logic". "Hmmmmm", said Doc, "And what do you plan to shoot with your logic, Major Reason?" "Why the rabbits love of course!", was the answer. Hmmm, but won't that kill the rabbit too since logic must shoot through him to kill his love? asked Doc. "Well", said the major,"Reason and Logic can never abide love and so we are doing the little rabbit a favor by putting him out of his misery. With that he suddenly heaved the weapon to his shoulder and took aim preparing to fire. Just as he fired Doc shoved him roughly, spoiling his aim. The little rabbit, being startled by the sound stopped hopping and looked around. Seeing the Major and his gun the little rabbit ran right at the statue and with a desperate leap, jumped up. . .up. . up right into one of the eyes of the statue disappearing from sight! Falling to the ground, Major reason said calmly, "this only delays things a bit you know. We will get him at the last." And with that, Major Reason and Logic disappeared with a puff of smoke. Doc waved his magic coffee cup and taking Marybelle by the hand they too jumped through the eye of the statue. When they arrived they were in another field of flowers identical to the first, complete with another statue. There was the rabbit hopping around and around the statue and holding the ribbon. Marybelle turned to Doc, her eyes filled with concern, "Do you think they will ever get him?" Doc looked sadly at his friend, "I don't know. Some love is strong enough that even when shot by Reason and Logic it survives but that is a rare occurrence." "I try to spoil his aim every little chance I get." With that Doc waved his magic coffee cup , transporting them back to their own world. "I must go now friend as I have other chances to spoil Reasons aim. Bye for now." With a wave of his cup he was gone. Back in her 'puter room, She looked around. "Wow! What a dream that was!" she thought. Then she looked on the printer and saw a transcript of the adventure had been printed out! Laying on the stack of pages was a single blue flower.
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