Red Heart
(This is a novelization of the episode Right Hand Man with my own ideas and a twist at the end. I had this idea for a while, so I decided to start it. Also, I'm skipping the opening with the penguins.)
Pairings: Julien/Julia (Juliena), Julia/Clemson (Clia), minor Julia/Kowalski (Jualski) and slight Julia/Maurice (Muaju)
Summary: A new lemur named Clemson is transferred to the zoo. He soon falls head over heels in love with Julia and Julia returns his feelings, but Clemson has eyes for Julien's crown. Can Julia help Clemson see what really matters before he makes a big mistake?
Chapter 1: New Arrival
Julia looked at Julien, annoyed as Maurice came over. "Julien, sometimes you're just so lazy. Don't you think that there are some things that you can do by yourself so you don't bother Maurice?" she asked. She couldn't stand Julien at times; he often felt like he didn't want to do anything on his own. Julien looked at Julia with a big smile; he was apparently not listening to her.
"Julia, why do you think Maurice is here?" Julien asked. Julia sighed; she hated it when Julien did this with her. She knew this, so what was even the point of answering anymore. "Julien, you just do this because you don't feel like doing anything on your own. Don't you think you could give Maurice a break?" she asked. She really liked Maurice, but she couldn't stand it when he had to do things he didn't want to.
Before Julien could answer that question, the four penguins, Skipper, Kowalski, Private and Rico all jumped up to see them. Surprised, Julia smiled. "Hi there, guys." Julia said. Then, she directed her attention to Kowalski and brightly smiled.
"Hi, Kowalski." Julia said, happily. Kowalski started to blush and then smiled. "Hi, Julia." he responded, nervously. He wasn't paying attention much, but upon hearing Skipper he snapped out of his state.
"A new arrival was unloaded at the loading dock at 0600 hours and..." Before he could finish, Private interrupted him by saying "It's a lemur!"
"Oh, I was building to that, Private!" Kowalski said, annoyed. Mort and Maurice were both surprised while Julien was interested. "A new lemur? I always figured having four now would be too many." Julia commented, counting on her fingers. Julien however was excited by the thought of a new subject.
Julia just stared at Julien as she listened to him; as much as she couldn't stand him at times, he was a lot of fun and one of the reasons she stuck around at the zoo.
Sometime after the penguins left, a cage was dropped into the zoo. After Alice was done with the new arrival named Clemson, she headed off. After she was gone, Julien, Julia, Maurice and Mort all jumped to see the new arrival. "Hello? Clemson, was it?" Maurice asked. Julia looked inside the cage to see that he wasn't responding.
"He looks like he's still asleep. I don't think he should disturb him right now." Julia noticed. However, Julien wasn't listening again and just ignored Julia. "Clemson! As your king..." he started, but before he could continue, Clemson immediately woke up.
"King? Did he say 'king'?" Clemson asked. He immediately scattered out of the cage much to the surprise of Julien, Julia and Maurice. "That was fast!" Julia commented, surprised. Unfortunately, it seemed like Clemson wasn't listening very well because he was looking at the wrong lemur, in that case, it was Mort.
The other three looked on at this with different reactions. Julien was looking on with his arms crossed and a look of anger on his face, Julia was looking on in surprise while Maurice was quick to clear this up. "Clemson, that's not the king." Maurice explained. Clemson looked to see Mort and immediately kicked him away. But the three were surprised when Clemson came over, except he went to Maurice.
Julia just sighed and looked at Julien. "I don't think you made it clear enough as to who he should direct his attention to." she whispered. Understanding what she meant, Julien decided to make things clear. Clemson, surprised, looked over to see Julien and Julia.
"Hi." Julia smiled, waving to Clemson. As she listened to him along with Julien, she couldn't help but wonder why he got her attention. She wasn't sure why, but there was something about Clemson that got her... attracted to him. Her thoughts were interrupted by Clemson who was still talking to Julien.
"I'll just stay down here until I can get up." Clemson said. Julien and Julia both smiled at this. "Oh, fancy!" Julien smiled, impressed. Julia was impressed as well, but for a different reason. She felt like she was attracted with someone other than Julien: the new arrival nonetheless.
Mort looked on at this with behind Maurice with anger on his expression. "You've got to be kidding me." Maurice muttered, as he watched this scene on.