A/N, greetings all who are reading this, glad to know you stumbled upon my latest in the POM series! This will mostly be a Private/Julian fic, dunno how it will turn out so lets just see what happens shall we?

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"Aha! Take that for hurting the royal toe by putting yourself in my walking way!" King Julian yelled triumpently at the golf club he kicked in aggression.

"Mort! Be moving the golfy club out of my way!" He watched as the small mouse lemur dragged the club over to the side and tossed it over the edge. The smallest lemur had quite a bit of strength for his tiny stature when it came to the protection of his beloved ones, the feet.

Standing upright Julian looked around for his secound in command. He couldn't see him very well, was he hiding?

A game of hide and seeking was in session and noone was alerting the king of this? Why not? The tall lemur thought to himself. Checking a few known sneaking passageways they used often in the game, Julian finally came upon his aye aye. Something didn't fit though, he looked, a bit odd.

Maurice stood next to the bottom of the habitat, coughing a fit. His eyes were red and bloodshot, a bit of snot was creeping down one nostril, quickly wiped away by the lemur's paw. He looked up and faced Julian, his legs shaking as he supported himself by one paw on the wall of the habitat, he could barely stand.

"Eurr, Maurice? What are you doing?" The king questioned in a voice of slight caution, his instincts, while blinded by ignorance and pride, still managed to get through the thick skull of the lemur that his aid was not exactly okay. Julian took a small step back, tiny, a little half step, yeah, right there.

Maurice opened his mouth to respond but only found himself having to lean over and cough hard. Julian stood for a secound before finding a serious problem on his hands. He had heard that cough before, not by Maurice, but other lemurs in his old kingdom. His secound in command had been hit with the Madagascar cold. It was a bit off a bland name he always thought, but that was what had been deemed to every one of the lemur's who succomed to this horrible illness.

Julian gasped in realization of what was happening to Maurice, yelling out to his third in command...ugh although he couldn't really see how that thing could make things better, Mort, to get over to the two of them.

"Mort! Be bringing Maurice inside the royal secret passage, he needs to get lying down NOW!" The ringtail shouted, making the plushy lemur jump and then drag his big booty'd buddy over through the hidden gateway they'd found monthes ago, hidden behind one of the ferns. He marched ahead as the little lemur tried his best to catch up while carrying the huge form of his friend. Julian occasionally glance back to make sure they were all still together, giving a break to all of them to rest momentarily so they could continue. Then both he and ever loyal servant Mort dragged the gray lemur to the other end of the passage, opening up at the women's restroom of the hospital. Helping lift the large friend of theirs, they quickly darted behind the legs of the stall as they heard someone enter the bathroom.

Julian put a finger to his lips as he watched Alice enter the restroom and head for the sink. Growling loudly, she had in no doubt been at the recieving end of Phil and Mason's poo flinging. She clenched her teeth as she douse her manly like hands in sanitizer and then rinsing madly. Looking in the mirror she took her hat off and combed her hair back and replaced the cap and headed out. Julian peekout from under the stall before motioning for the small sevant to follow. They made their way to the recovery room, pausing for a minute to allow the king the joys of the vibrating bed before hoisting Maurice ontop of it. The gray lemur gaze up at his king who had a worried expression on his face.

"Julian, where are we?" He asked, Julian put a paw on his white chest.

"Donot be speaking Maurice, you need to keep from talking too much, I am under the impressions that you are having the Madagascar Cold." He said as a flash of lighting struck in the window behind him, which was a bit odd seeing as how they'd had little to no clouds that day. Maurice shook his head, what? That wasn't even possible, to get that specific illness, he would have had to be in contact with something from their old areas of Madagascar, and everything in the lemur habitat was either plastic or grown in the city. Niether Julian or Mort had ever felt the effects of this cold before, so how did this happen? Maurice laid his head back on the pillow and stared up at the ceiling as Julian stood over him, his striped tail drooping over Maurice's face, forcing him to brush it off and away.

Julian then turned to leave, lifting a hand and curling a finger for Mort to follow him

"Hey wait, where are you going King Julian?" His aye aye asked, at this point very confused and becoming dizzy, King Julian turned to him and spoke.

"I am going...ugh to the flightless birds, that brainy one they've got called kawksoi (I know its kowaski but Julian was always hard with names), I think they can fix you." He then jumped from the bed to the checkered floor and headed out. Remembering he's asked Mort to follow, he was struck by an odd and uncomfortable heavy breathing behind him, the mouse lemur wasn't looking where he was going, more like watching where the royal feet were going.

"Mort?"

"mmhmm!" The tiny lemur nodded anxiuosly

"Actually stay here and shut up a little okay, don't get Maurice to talk or he'll get worse if I am remembering clearly." Mort's eyes fell and he dropped his head and headed back for the recovery room, taking one more look back as the royal feet strode down the hallway.

Julian came through the bolted doorway, loudly. The penguins were in the middle of an unusual card game, each one was standing on one foot, their left fliper atop their head while balancing a bag of seed on it. The king's entrance sent all bags falling to the ground as the lemur opened the door hard enough to have it slam into the wall next to him. All the birds collapsed in suprise and got to their feet. Skipper marched up to Julian and thumped a wing in his chest.

"Hey, what in the name of Nottingham's arc welder are you doing here Ringtail?" He questioned the lemur. Julian smacked his wing off his chest and grabbed him by the shoulders.

"Maurice has befallen a terrible illness. I have put him in the hospital but he needs to be be fixed or he will die!" The lemur said in a very dramatic fashion. Everyone stared silently at the ringtail for a moment. Skipper raised an eyebrow.

"...Kowaski, give me options here." The brain of the team quickly analyzed his clipboard.

"Well Skipper you could either try a number of our frontal assaults or evasive manuevers..."

"NOT FOR THE RINGTAIL! Give me options on what he's talking about." Rico tiptoed next ot Kowaski and gave him a light slap on the head. Kowaski grabbed his head and glared mildly at Rico and then reacknowledged his clipboard.

"Oh, Well to determine the steps in taking on lemur medical services, we need to know what we're up against, we need to get to Maurice."

"Sounds appropriate! alright Ringtail we'll help you...now let go of me." Julian shook his head slightly as he had dazed off.

"Huh wha?"

*Smack* Julian cringed as Skipper brought a stiff flipper across the face. Immediatly letting go of the leader penguin, Julian followed the others to the recovery room where Maurice stayed. His tail drooped somewhat against the ground as they made their way to the room, Private noticed he seemed a bit nervous, watching him bite his lower lip every now and again. AS the others trudged ahead, he held back next to the lemur. It was his nature to look out for people and to generally make others feel better, no matter who it was. He strode next to Julian for a minute, the lemur noticing the young bird walking by his side. For a short while they traveled in silence until Private decided to break it. Putting a wing up and giving Julian a light comforting pat seemed like a good idea. Comforting anyone in this way is a good idea...unless your short and they are tall, in which case Private's wing unintentially patted Julian's lower back, right above his tail.

The King whipped around violently with a shocked and angry look on his face as he glared down at the penguin's youngest recruit. Private gluped and took a small step back.

"What is the meaning of this!" Julian's outburst stopped the group as they entered the hallway of Maurice's room. Skipper turned to the lemur and teamate in the back.

"Whats the holdup?" He demanded. Julian stiffened up straight and pointed a black and gray paw at Private.

"I will be telling you what the holding up is, your little buddy was trying to feel my royal booty!" Everyone gave Private a raised eyebrow stare for a sec before Private cleared his throat.

"Ahem, um actually I was just trying to pat him on the back...but I forgot the height difference. Er sorry Julian." He said, turning to the Ringtail while turning a shade of red. Julian narrowed his eyes and then rolled them as he remembered they were on a misson to help his friend and just waved it off. On the way inside he kept an eye on the bird and his slippery flippers.

The birds marched in and hopped atop the bed next to Maurice who was currently blowing his nose. Kowalski stepped up next to him and began scribbling notes on his notepad, eyeballing the grey lemur's every move.

Kowaski turned to the group and gave a brief diagnosis.

"After much time and careful observation I've determined that this lemur has a rather unusual cold. I'll need to to take test samples back with me to run further examinations, oh they'll be groundbreaking!" As he snapped a rubber fin onto his wing, forcing a cringe out of Maurice.

"Uh..Groundbreaking? Julian couldn't we just have Alice take care of this?" The king shook his head

"No Maurice! We cannot trust the people to do what is in your best interests, especially that red haired one, she's very unpretty." He said, muttering the last part to himself.

Skipper, "Kowaski, grab the samples and make haste back to the HQ, Rico! Smokebomb!" The scarred one hurled an ignited black ball they set off as the flightless birds dissapeared. Kowaski and the lemurs coughed and waved the smoke out of their eyes.

Kowaski frowned, "We're supposed to do that as a team." He rolled his eyes and grabbed a few swabs from the vetrinary desk. He wiped a few on maurice's fur and then stuck one in his mouth. Putting them into a matchbox, he turned to Julian and Mort.

"you'll have to bring him in for further testing, but for now just go home and wait for our instructions he said. hopping off the table and leaving out the door. Maurice stood up next to his fellow lemurs.

"The penguin's right Julian, let's get home, I'm sure this will be all over in the morning anyway." He said calmly. The two other lemurs nodded and headed back home for the night. King Julian watched Maurice through the entire trip back, just to be sure that he wasn't getting worse at the wrong time. They arrived back at the habitat and all crawled up onto the bouncy. They found a note on the floor of the rubber entertainment toy next to a few blankets.

King Julian

For the moment keep Maurice warm with these blankets and then come to the HQ in the morning

...oh and Private wishes to apologize again for...his actions.

Julian tossed the card aside and looked at Mort and Maurice already tucking themselves into the warm, soft blankets. He snuggled in next to them, pushing Mort onto the other side of Maurice so he wouldn't have to be near him. As the others drifted off to sleep, Julian found himself, restless. After trying repeatedly to fall asleep for a royal nap, he ot up and walked about his habitat. He looked at his boombox longingly, knowing he couldn't get either of his subjects to partake in a bit of dancing at this hour. Shrugging his shoulders he walked out of the habitat for a bit and headed out into the zoo for a walk. He heard splashing coming from the penguin's habitat and found himself heading toward it.

Watching the four take turns diving into the pool and back out, the king noticed each one emerging faster than the other had, they were timing eachother.

Private leaped down into the very bottem of the pool and then made a launch for the surface, shooting up like a bullet and landing atop the concrete surface.

"Good work Private, shaved two secound off your last dive!" The leader said, giving the small one a hi five.

"Thanks Skippah!" He said in his english accent. The four birds shook themselves dry and then began to crawl down into the hatchway inside their home. Julian walked up to the small brid making his way toward the door when he spotted Julian.

"Oh hello, I assume Kowlski's note said I was sor-" Julian held up a paw to stop him.

"Don't be worrying silly penguin, I'm not here about that, besides, I'm knowing it was a accident now." He said.

"Oh, alright...um is there something you needed?" The bird inquired, Julian glanced over to his habitat, unsure of exactly what he was doing over here.

"Uh...well I'm not really able to sleep at the moment, my royal brain is annoying me."

"You mean something's bothering you?" the penguin asked, the lemur king responded.

"Oh yeah, dat." Private was somewhat unsure of what to say next, he watched Julian's tail swish against the ground a bit before speaking again.

"Well, did you want to talk about what's bothering you?" He asked, tilting his head a little. The lemur thought for a secound with a paw to his chin before nodding and taking a seat. Private smiled a bit and then took a seat to listen to the royal ringtail's troubles.

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A/N, Well here is my first chapter, tell me what you all think of the pairing, I haven't seen much of it so I'd love as much feedback as possible! thank you