Lorraine's Fan Fiction Final

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 when he got up that Something Will Happen.

He went over to his cupboard and looked deep inside. Yes, his Honey Pots were there, not saying Good Morning. They were waiting, he decided, until after 11 o'clock.  It was breakfast time. He decided to go and see Piglet for breakfast.

Piglet was feeling peckish. He had gone to visit Kanga in case Roo did not want his breakfast. Then Kanga would give it to him, whatever it was.

When Pooh saw No Body was at home, he sat and thought about the Feeling that Something Will Happen. This is what he sung, waiting for Piglet:

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’ve just finished Roo’s breakfast. Have you had breakfast, Pooh?" 

Pooh did not think so because his stomach would be telling him.

"We'll go and see Rabbit, Piglet. Because Rabbit knows."

What Rabbit knew, Piglet wasn't sure. He pointed his ears up to look Tall and Important. He wanted to look Tall and Important when he went to see Rabbit.

They found Rabbit making a munching noise.

"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.  He decided to make one immediately.

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

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

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

Further talk about routines was interrupted by Pooh, who remembered his Feeling that Something Will Happen. He 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 honey feelings and that this was not one.

"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 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," he said.

Rabbit felt that this was the Best Morning Ever. He could take control and go to the enchanted forest, where Owl was, and Eeyore was and maybe Kanga. Roo would be playing, Tigger would bounce in and out of the shadows. He offered Pooh a special Honey Cake he had been saving for such an occasion and Piglet a Milo with milk, his favourite drink.

Everyone sat in a circle in the middle of the forest. Rabbit's friends and Relations had come, including Small. (You'll remember Small? Pooh found him.)

Rabbit stood 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. He would grow Up and Up and Up and not see us anymore. No-one said anything.

Tigger stood up and coughed. "We will grow up too (cough, cough). We will be Up with him."

Rabbit did not think so. How Up could one go? Pooh did not think so. He was Up enough. Piglet and Roo decided not to go Up at all. Kanga agreed. Owl said he could fly Up and Up. Small tried being Up but only managed one side, legs in the air and it looked very odd, him seeing sideways. Rabbit told him to keep being small and right way up because he might need to find him. This idea of being found (again) overwhelmed him and he put all his legs on the ground straight away.

Eeyore chewed on his Thistle. He liked the taste and the prickles on his tongue. He said, "I know about this. Once a Grown Up looked down at me. So I can say with authority, with authority Rabbit, that when Christopher Robin grows Up, he will see us. We will look Up and see him too. It will be easy."

The thought of Looking Up to see an Up Christopher Robin, it being easy, made everyone immediately practice Looking Up.

Rabbit asserted himself. "Thank you Eeyore. We will Look Forward to Looking Up.”

Piglet whispered to Pooh, "Pooh, we can go on Looking Up 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 I need to do it again."

So off they went, into history.