Chapter one: Ginger

Where was she? The question rummaged through her head like the speed of light, she couldn't comprehend where she was stationed at, the only clues that she was still alive was her rapid heart beating. Her breathing started to exhilate, she could see her breath in the fresh dew of the morning. The rain started to pound on her, freezing every part of Ginger to the bone, and what could she do? What else of coarse, cry.

This wasn't Tasmania, she wasn't even sure of this place, the only clue that kept repeating in her head was one word, Ireland. Ginger looked around and only saw green for miles, excluding the white fluffy animals dotting the hillside. Ginger slowly felt herself grasp the necklace, looking down she felt Kowalski's embrace starting to dawn on her.

Find shelter, theres a storm coming soon, you can tell. She heared Kowalski's voice start to order her around.

Great, she was soaking wet and now delusional as well. However, the words that he spoke stuck to her, she had to find shelter, but where? She grasped the necklace harder hoping for an answer from her beloved. She held it for a while but no reply was heard, Ginger felt herself start to cry louder, she stared at the green all around her, there was nothing for miles so where to start? Just then Ginger felt her eyes start to droup from the coldness clouding her body.

Ginger! head towards the animals, they'll help you.

Ginger, now groggy from the cold, shook her head yes and started walking, she felt her muscles starting to hurt as they gave off heat, but not recieving any in return. Ginger gritted her teeth in pain but still pushed to walk, she was almost there! She could see the fluffies more easily now and behind them there was a barn. A nice, dry barn where she could dry off. Ginger felt herself close her eyes thinking of the warmth and comfort.

Just then, Ginger heard a sickining snap, like a wooden fence snapping in too, she felt herself lap over in pain. Starting to hold her knee she relised, her knee popped out of place, Ginger was not suited for coldness or wetness either, in her mind the rain was her enemy, she never even seen rain in Tasmania for all she remembered. The only thing of rain existed by stories that her mother told her of downpours, before she was concevied or born. Ginger tried to regain balance, the pain in her knee was inconceviable, it hurt so much Ginger let out a howl of pain, she was hoping that someone would help her or even hear her.

Ginger sat on the wet grasses, hoping for a hero that would never show, she felt it. No one was going to come help an animal that no ones ever seen before, she felt it, she just knew it. Ginger sat there in her all to familiar fetal position and rubbed her popped out knee, she knew that she couldn't help herself. Her survival instincts were telling her to keep going, her heart on the other hand, told her she wasn't going to make it. Ginger could feel herself squeezing the heck out of her propsal necklace.

" No, no no I can't die, I just can't, please God let me live, I-I have so many people waiting my return, I just can't decieve their requests, I can't die" Ginger felt herself pull forwards towards her knees, burying her head in her knees so she couldn't see the world around her, for all she knew this could have been hell, or maybe that was just her.

Ginger felt herself look up, glare at the greenlands and regain balance, even though her knee pained like hell, she stood her ground and stared at the fluffies, now more then kilometres away.

" No I won't die" She felt herself start to say, Ginger then went into a running stance, knee still killing her just wanting to rest.

Ginger took off, trying to be a speeding bullet, she made her way to a wooden fence that was close by the barn. Putting one hand on the fence for support, her right hand on her knee, Ginger collapsed. She felt herself fighting back tears, tears of joy, tears of pain. She just cried, untill she blacked out from being exposed to cold climates.

" Hey, hey lassie? are you okay?" A warm, soothing voice with a strong accent awoken Ginger from a deep sleep.

Ginger opened her eyes, where ever she was it was warm and thats all that mattered, at least right now. She felt herself laying on something soft but terribly itchy. She sat up and found her fur covered with bits of hay.

" That's good love, I was scared you weren't going to make it, terrible weather outside, thank the heavens that I found you out there"

Ginger turned her attention to the voice, she noticed that it was one of those things, the fluffies she saw on the hill. Slowly, Ginger crawled over to her, she didn't want to risk pushing her knee to hard.

" Your a fluffy" Ginger said trying to make sence of things.

The fluffy made a little chuckle, it sounded almost like a baa sound, she turned towards Ginger and smiled a warm, caring smile.

" No love, I'm a sheep, but you can call me Oreaium"

A sheep? What was that? Ginger had never heard of a sheep, then again she'd never seen one on Tasmania either, it made her remember the first time she met the boys. That made her heart beat faster and her to grip her necklace, Oreaium saw this and noticed the necklace.

" Ain't that lovely, where'd you get it love?" Oreaium came closer to her, wanting to see this strange item.

" It's a necklace, a propsal actually, it was given to me by my beloved" Ginger could feel herself start to smile a bit, then it turned into a huge depressing frown, " But we live super far away now"

Oreaium tried to be of comfort, she smiled a resuring smile and walked closer, she huddled up close to Ginger and turned towards her.

" That's nice, I did figure that you weren't from these parts, tell me love what is your name? Or your country of orgain, and were is your beloved at now?"

Ginger tried to smile but the thought of Kowalski a thousand miles away, seemed to dampen her cheerful mood, did she even wear a smile? Maybe not but she felt good that she made a friend who understood her, even she did talk differently.

" My name is Ginger, I'm a platypus from Tasmania, I was transferred from the wild to a zoo in New York, I fell in love with a penguin named Kowalski, he was super cute and smart, and now I'm here" Ginger felt her heart slice in two.

Oreaium laid down beside her on a second stack of hay, she looked up at the holed roof and felt a couple drops trickle in, she sighed and turned back to Ginger.

" Aye, I understand, you see heartbreak isn't my type of comfort zone, I do know what it's like to be smitten however, even I a boring looking animal have found myself wooing someone as well"

" No no no! I'm not in heartbreak, I haven't even broke up with him, we still love each other no matter how far I am from him, he promised! w-we promised! I mean I fell in love with him and were proposed so" Ginger stumbled on a breath, she saw herself staring into Oreaium's dark chocolate brown eyes.

" You see, I made you confess, you're not alone and neither is he, and that necklace is the proof." Oreaium had a whole different demenor, she was determinded, determinded to make Ginger understand that she wasn't alone, but she was.

Ginger smiled and stared up at the peeks of sky, peeking though the roof making raindrops fall in between cracks. She laid on her back and rubbed her stomach, just like Kowalski would have done for her, even though she was sobbing through heavy breathing, she felt two things making her stronger.

Kowalski's aura surronding the necklace, and Oreaium's kind smile haunting her subconisious.

She knew she was safe here.

Kowalski, I'm here and I'm safe, so please don't worry.

Kowalski had just finished cleaning up his office, he cleaned out his bookshelf and his beakers. His office was empty, Skipper was away with Private and Rico. He smiled to himself, he knew that they decided to give him some space.

He had just been sepreated from his beloved, not for very long. However a day felt like an eternity just without her popping in from somewhere. Not seeing her dazzling smile or feeling her extra soft bill, made him wonder what she was doing now. How was Tasmania? Where the platypi looking at her with disgust or with curiousity? Surely one had to be curious where she was for a week or two. Kowalski then saw something out of the corner of his eye.

" Skipper?" Kowalski had to ask, maybe it was one of the boys checking up on him, just to make sure he wasn't a total reck or something among that line. When hearing no reply, Kowalski walked up towards the ladder and outside towards the penguin's ice block.

When he surfaced, Kowalski saw no one, he was about to turn around when he was caught by something. He looked upwards, the stars they-they were so beautiful, they twinkled so brightly and they seemed to be smiling at him, Kowalski, being a man of science thought nothing of it at first. He simply turned around, walked down the ladder and into his office, where he thought.

Kowalski could feel himself start to smile, he then laughed and fell on his back, in tears from laughing for no reason, he relised why he was having this episode.

" I hear you Ginger, I hear you" He smiled, and wondered if she could hear him.

P.S: Sounds familiar to some story saga I know, hmm? well I'll let you guess what is it :p