These Stories are all going to be loosely based on a line from the Christmas song 'Twelve days of Christmas', however the lines will all be changed to fit thing on the show and will be based on Danny. Each story will be a day leading up to Christmas Day at Leopards Den. So I hope like these semi-Christmassy stories.
And as a bit of background info: Rosie and Dylan (hold onto your knickers RAX fans all will be made well) are married and Dup is alive and Ed Still lives at Mara but there is no Fiona, and it's Christmas at Leopards Den.
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree.
On the first day of Christmas my best friend showed to me a vulture in a pear tree.
Alice sat in a chair on the veranda, her hand on her massively bloated stomach. It was Christmas in twelve days and Alice smiled at all the work everyone had put in. Danny and Dup had spent ages on ladders putting up the fairy lights around the perimeter of the house so that at night they could look at the lights that flashed white green and red.
Nomsa, Caroline and Bobbie had decorated the Christmas tree inside, Bobbie doing the under layers that he could reach with most of the decorations, leaving the top half of the tree reasonably bare. Charlie and Liv had put little trees in the guest huts and in the surgery. They had decorated the house in Tinsel, wrapping it around trees, posts, the 'Leopards Den' sign and everything else they could find. They had even put a big red bow on Cassidy, much to his disgust, he had run as fast as he could on his three legs to get away from them when they tried to catch him, but he could not run fast enough. So now their resident male Cheetah and family pet was wearing a bright red bow.
Rosie, Ed and Danny had looked after all of the animals, and in the past few days there had been a lot. Alice had been the only one not to do anything this Christmas, except sit and watch, much to her dismay. Due to her current condition and the fact that she was due any day now she was confined to the chairs on the veranda all day every day. If she so much as lifted a finger she would get in trouble from all of the girls in the house, who would then refer her to the men of the house, namely Danny he would try his hardest to convince her to stay put, but it would not last long. She would only do it again and again.
As she sat there thinking about all of these things, Dup walked past and stopped just in front of her. 'Alice have you seen Trevanion, I have a problem with a vulture.' He said. Alice looked at him, it was her chance to get out of this chair.
'I don't know but if you want I can have a look if you just help me down there…' she started, it was a long shot but worth a try. Danny walk out of the door before she could finish.
'No Alice, its ok. I am here and you can stay there,' Danny said as he passed Alice a cup of water with some ice in it. 'Got to make sure you are ok and are hydrated so drink up.' He said it as he gave his wife the glass and a big cheesy grin. 'Drink up, I'll see you soon.'
Alice half groaned half smiled as they walked away. If she drank that, in 30 minutes she was going to need to go to the bathroom…again. Then again that would give her the excuse to get up. Danny while so caring, reminded her of a little child with his best friend when he was with Dup.
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'So what seems to be the problem then Dup?' Danny asked. He looked around; Leopards Den was thriving and was alive with the buzz for Christmas.
'There is a vulture.' Dup said as he turned o Danny. As he did he saw his best mate try to hide a smile. 'It's not funny Trevanion; this is not any old vulture.' Dup said, frustrated by Danny's lack of response to his crisis.
'Dup, Leopards Den is full of vultures, Rosie release a few just the other day' Danny looked at Dup, but he was still not convinced.
Just follow me Trevanion, and then you will understand.'
Moments later Danny and Dup arrived at a tree, or to be more specific a dead tree. It was broken in half, and half of it was lying horizontally across the ground. On the trunk of the dead tree was a Vulture, just a plain ordinary vulture sitting in a dead tree.
'So what seems to be the problem? It looks perfectly healthy to me.' Danny said, 'I don't get what all this fuss is about.'
Dup just looked at him, then the vulture and then back at Danny, 'Don't you recognise him?'
Danny laughed. 'Dup, there are plenty of vultures out there, how would I recognise an individual one? If it's a vulture I know, which it isn't I don't recognise it.'
'But Danny, look at him, look closely, its Peeters.' Dup said, almost a complaint at Danny's ignorant remark.
'Are you sure, Dup, I mean how do you remember what Peeters looks lke? We have not lived at Clear water for atleast four years. Have you seen Peeters between then and now?' he asked. He looked at Dup, who had a stubborn look of certainty in his eyes as he stared back at Danny.
'Trevanion, look at him, I know it is Peeters. Besides, he followed me everywhere and I have seen him every now and again.' Dup said. 'He must have followed us when we moved back to Leopards Den.' Dup said. There was a small amount of sentiment in his voice as he looked at the vulture that had caused him a lot of trouble. Dup took a step towards Peeters. 'Is that you old pal?' he said as he talked to the vulture.
The vulture squawked and flapped his wings as if to say 'Yes'
Danny then did the same double take as a Dup did earlier before speaking to his mad best friend. 'Well Dup, I must say I have seen some strange things in my time, but this comes close to the top. What now?'
Dup just laughed. 'Nothing my friend, I just wanted to make sure he was ok.' He looked at the Vulture and then turned around and began to walk back to the house, leaving Danny standing there by himself.
As Danny followed Dup back to the house we mentally went through all of his lists for the day. He checked off everything and realised that he had nothing left to do today it was time for him to do Christmas shopping for everyone, but first he had to tell Alice about Peeters, the vulture in the dead tree.
And there you have it, Different form Last year, they are all being edited but I don't feel like I can write the same way that I could before…I don't know, I'm just not feeling it but I figured I might as well upload anyway…:)
