I Believe in Love and Kindness 💜

Meanwhile backstage, Trev fixed an angry glare onto Dev wanting to rip him apart. How dare he insult him! If he thinks his humiliation is over, he’s got another one coming. He’ll just ramp it up and hopefully, he’ll get kicked out of school, thrown off the hockey team, and possibly be sent back to the institution. Demented Dev Dimmadome will continue to suffer. He deserves it. The message still hasn’t permeated his thick skull.

He then tore his eyes away from the Dimmadome heir as he, his sister and his former anti-godparent’s partner pretended to be shot and slowly collapsed onstage to play dead. As Dev sang the final line of that shortened and altered version of the song, Trev eyed Hazel, Jasmine, Winn and even Alan with scorn and ire. He raised an eyebrow at the young kindergartener as he looked like he was about to pounce on him. Trev then scoffed. That Turner boy thinks he’s so tough? Yeah right. If he does try anything on him, the little brat will get his ass kicked.

With Hazel giving him the stink eye while she, Jasmine, and Winn along with her human disguised fairies guarded the cabaret props, Trev walked away to stew in his anger, mumbling to her, “Bitch.” 

She rolled her eyes at him and shifted her attention to Alan, “Don’t let him get to you. Just ignore him.”

Alan’s small body began to shake in his anger. He must protect Dev. His super cool older friend. Plus, he just called Hazel a bad word! Rude! That Trev kid is such a jerk and deserves to be punched in his stupid face. 

Hazel knelt down in front of him to speak to him at his level, “Alan, we don’t want you to get in trouble. I know you really like Dev and he’s your friend but don’t let Trev get that satisfaction of seeing you get angry. That’s what he wants. He wants to see you get in trouble. Okay?”

Tearing his blue eyes away from Trev, Alan then looked at Hazel. Seeing her pleading look, he then took a deep breath. She was right. Hazel is also his friend and not wanting to make her mad, he nodded. 

Back onstage, the overture going into the cabaret portion of Dev’s act began to play. As the Dimmadome heir continued to lay on the stage playing dead, the stage floor opened, the red couch with Peri and Irep, dressed in their cabaret costumes, sitting on it rose up while Liz and Skye stood up and rushed backstage. While the two businesspeople with the assistance of Cosmo and Wanda began to slip out of their marching band attire, the cabaret portion of the backing track began to play with its interlude. 

Once Peri gained his bearings after Irep helped him stand, The Terrible Twosome walked over to the pretend dead godkid and lifted him up. Holding his upper body, Irep asked, “Got his legs, Puff?”

Peri nodded, so glad most of Dev’s weight was on Irep, one hand clutching the handle of his cane, “Yeah. Even though Dev is a small kid, he’s not exactly light when he plays dead.”

Irep just silently snickered at that as they carried Dev over to the red couch. They let him go as Peri sat down behind Dev, sitting him up, fanning him off, and like during the Eras Tour with Taylor and Kam the dancer, Peri decided to play with the limp Dev by making him wave his arms. It took every once of Dev’s self control to not laugh at his godparent playing with his arms like he was a doll. 

The crowd and everyone backstage burst out laughing. Like with Alan’s act, Timmy held his phone, recording it. He had to show Peri and Liz this later. He was enjoying every second of this. Back onstage, Irep knelt down in front of Dev to remove his marching band shoes leaving him in his Duckworth socks as Peri continued to wave his arms, having way too much fun.

Peri then grabbed his cane as Irep made his godkid stand up. When he gained his bearings, he removed Dev’s marching band jacket before his godkid pretended to faint. He and Irep grabbed him, making him stand up. Dev pretended to faint again, then Peri and Irep made him stand. Dev and The Terrible Twosome repeated that bit one more time before the young boy pretended to wake up. 

Like they have rehearsed, Dev perfectly imitated Taylor pouting like she did during the Eras Tour while Peri undid the velcro on the back of his marching band uniform. As Dev was still pretending to pout, Irep turned him around as Dev slipped out of his marching band uniform to reveal his white and gold cabaret costume with a white shirt and bowtie, a gold tux and white pants as Peri prepared his godkid’s gold cabaret jacket.

Still pretending to pout, Dev acted to reluctantly turn around as Peri slipped his gold jacket over his tiny shoulders. As Dev used his godparent’s body for support, Irep helped him put on his gold cabaret shoes while still pretending to pout. Peri gestured to the crowd, smiling, making them all laugh.

Finished with fastening the ties on his shoes, Irep stood back up. Peri let him go before he and Irep “presented” Dev to the crowd. Then the human disguised anti-fairy shoved a microphone into Dev’s hand. The Terrible Twosome gently shoved him backing up onto the platform in front of the red couch.