Lorraine's Fan Fiction

The House at Pooh Corner
Chapter X Title exclude the words 'and we leave them there.'
Final paragraph: end with 'So they went off together.'

Chapter X1

In which Pooh has a Feeling That Something Will Happen

Pooh said to himself as he got up in the morning that Something Will Happen.

"Maybe not today. It is a happy morning. But I think. Well, no, I am not sure. Perhaps I'll make sure."

He went over to his cupboard, got up on his stool and looked deep inside. Yes, his Honey Pots were there, not whispering to each other, not even saying Good Morning. They were waiting, he decided. Waiting until after 11 o'clock, maybe a quarter past.

As it was breakfast time, and Pooh had That Feeling, he decided to see Piglet. Piglet will know about breakfast. So off he went to Piglet's house.

Piglet was feeling peckish. He had decided to visit Kanga and try to see if Roo did not want any breakfast. Then Kanga would give it to him, whatever it was. When Pooh saw the No Body was at home, he sat and thought about the feeling.

"Something is Going to Happen. Maybe it is a hungry song. A no Breakfast song. A no Piglet song.  Here is what he sung, waiting for Piglet to come:


Where is Piglet? Where is breakfast?
There's no-one here.
I must be the last.

 I am so hungry. I am waiting.
There is a Feeling.
Something is grating.

 Happenings must happen
To me and to us
Something is flapping.

"Oh! it's you Piglet. Why are your ears flapping?"

"Because I have not had any breakfast, Pooh. Have you?"

Pooh did not think so because his stomach was telling him another story.

"We'll go and see Rabbit, Piglet. That's what we'll do. Because Rabbit knows."

What Rabbit knew, Piglet wasn't sure. His ears stopped flapping, he mader them sit up straight to look very Tall and Important. it was Important to look Tall and Important when you went to see Rabbit.

They found Rabbit making a munching noise.

"I'm eating my breakfast. It is too early to see me, even though I am sitting outside in the sun," said Rabbit.

"What's your breakfast, Rabbit?" asked Pooh.

"Carrots today Pooh. Lettuce tomorrow, Turnips on Friday. I keep to a Routine."

Piglet thought that a routine must be very exciting. Knowing what to do is an Important Aspect of Life. He decided to make one immediately.

"Rabbit. can you make me one too?" he asked.

Rabbit had his mouth full and the crunching noise was louder. Piglet waited and waited and waited.

"What is it you want, Piglet?" He bent down to Piglet.

This was too embarrassing. Piglet stood on tip toe, with his ears still straight up.

"A routine, Rabbit. I'd love a routine too."

Further thought about routines was interrupted by Pooh, who suddenly remembered about the Feeling That Something is Going to Happen. Even with No Breakfast, he grabbed Piglet's hand and said in a very loud voice that he had a Feeling. No it was not a Breakfast Feeling, for Rabbit was sure that's what it was.

"Then it must be a honey feeling, Pooh."

Pooh knew about the honey feeling and that was what this was not.

"I know," he said. "It's about Christopher Robin, who had Gone Away. And he will Grow Up and Up and Up and won't even see us."

"Not see us?" Rabbit put his ears up too. "Of course he will see us."

Piglet's ears fell down.

"Pooh, will we grow Up and Up and Up too?" he asked.

"That's another reason we came to see Rabbit, who knows Important Things, and nearly everything else," he said.

Rabbit felt that this was the Best Morning Ever. He can now take total control and take Pooh and Piglet to the enchanted forest, where Owl was, and Eeyore was and maybe Kanga and Roo would be playing, and Tigger would play in and out of the shadows. He offered Pooh a special Honey Cake he had been saving for such an occasion, and for Piglet a Milo, made of real milk that he would have really liked.

Everyone sat in a circle in the middle of the forest. Even all Rabbit's friends and Relations had come.

Rabbit took charge and said that Pooh had a Feeling and saw Piglet and they came to see him.

Now, Pooh, tell everyone what it is."

Pooh said his feeling was about Christopher Robin, who had gone away. Now he would grow Up and Up and Up and not see us anymore. No-one said anything. The trees let their leaves fill the silence and the branches bounced in the breeze.

Tigger stood up and coughed. "We will grow up too, (cough, cough)."

Eeyore chewed on his Thistle and chewed it again. He liked to taste it again and again.

Then he said, "Everyone, listen to Me. I know about this. Once I had a Grown Up look at me. I can say, with authority, with authority, Rabbit, that when Christopher Robin grows Up, like that, he will see us."

Rabbit had to assert himself. "Thank you Eeyore. We needed to know that. Now we can leave Pooh's Feeling because we know Something Will Happen and we will all see it."

Piglet whispered to Pooh.

"Pooh, this is an enchanted forest and we can go on Forever and Forever."

"Thank you Piglet. I shall go home. It is nearly eleven and when I get there I will look in my Honey cupboard. I did that once today and now I need to do it again.

And so it was, that Christopher Robin Grew Up. Pooh and Piglet and Everyone else would go on and on forever.