Puppy Love Chapter 1
Hey guys this is a new short story which will be about ten chapters long and updated once a month. It's a little like the Puppy Boy one shots I did in my one shot book as this is a Hybrid AU..
Ages at start:
Danny: 19 years old
George: 24 years old
Jorel: 23 years old
Jordon: 22 years old
Matt: 23 years old
Dylan: 21 years old
Aron: 24 years old
A small female child runs over to a cage holding a young male inside. The girl was scared of the men around her who said they had come to rescue her and all of her friends. The male inside the cage was skinny, pale and you could see from his ears and tail that he was a German Shepherd and Husky mix. "Pup pup wake up, I'm scared," the little girl says, but the male doesn't move. His eyes were closed, and his breathing was slow and laboured. One of the rescuers crouches down so he was at the little girl's eye level. "Don't worry little one, we will get you and your friend out of here to a safe place," he says. The rescuer was worried about the male, they knew all the hybrids were treated badly and injected with all sorts which usually ends up killing them.
The rescuer was going to have to call their medical expert to let him know he was getting a critical case in a few hours. They were currently in Redding California which is eight hours away from Los Angeles where the male was based. They didn't think the hybrid was going to make the eight-hour journey to get the care he desperately needs. "Hey Callum! We got a crit on this one!" the rescuer shouts over to their leader who was walking over, making sure all of the hybrids were going into the mini bus to be taken to their centre to be checked, cleaned, fed and given medication to tackle all the mistreatment. The little girl didn't like the shouting but that was because she was a hybrid too, so her hearing would have been more sensitive, and she would have put shouting with something bad going to happen.
"So, we need to get G on the case, you'll have to call him and see if he is nearby. I can get the truck with all the medical equipment on it here so we can at least give him some chance of making it," Callum tells the rescuer. The rescuer who is called Mason nodded at his boss and passed the little girl over to him, so she could be safe. She did not want to leave and cried out for the male in the cage, but Callum managed to reassure her pup was being rescued as well. They were going to wait for G to get there first. Mason unlocked the cage and carefully lifted the male into his arms, the male was cold. Since he was unconscious he wasn't shivering. They had to get G to the scene as soon as possible.
Mason: Hey G, you anywhere near Redding?
G: Yeah, I am about a 5 min walk from the rescue place why?
Mason: We got a male who's critical. He's not gonna make the journey back to Los Angeles without your help.
G: I'll be there in five after I hang up. Can we do it in the second minibus though? Don't trust the new ambulance vans.
Mason: Sure, there will be space in the back seats on the second bus for us to set up a little station for you to stabilise him. Hope this doesn't affect your other job too badly.
G: Sounds good to me. It will be fine, we are only in the studio at the moment, when the hybrid is more stable and feeling better he can come with me.
Mason: That's good, all I have on him right now is that he seems to be a German Shepherd Husky mix, will need to get his file to find out more.
G: Fair enough, just don't make caregivers like us wait too long for the information after the rescue. Gotta know what I can and can't feed him when he wakes up.
Mason: Will do, probably going to have the meeting four days after rescue, we have a lot of youngsters this time round and only a few who need a lot of treatment.
G: That's good, I hated the San Francisco one. My last crit had medical issues I didn't know about and died in my arms. So many of those hybrids didn't make it.
Mason: I know I hated it too, these ones seem to have a better chance this time, but there is no way to guarantee it until we give them all check-ups and then see what happens when we treat all the mistreatment stuff like usual.
G: Yeah, I take it this pup is coming back with me to mine and I'll do all the treatment there.
Mason: Yeah, we'll drop you two off first and then go to the main base. They will want to bother you a bit with updates on the pup though.
G: I can deal with that. Best get going then.
Mason: Yeah, see you in five.
G: see you in five.
Mason sighs and looks at the hybrid in his arms. The male had not responded to anything going on since he was discovered and that worried Mason. He hoped that G would get to them soon and help because he was really doubting weather or not the hybrid was going to survive until nightfall. G arrived in time and Callum had all the equipment set up in the back seats of the minibus. "Wow, he is as bad as I thought, and he is super small too," G says as he sees the hybrid for the first time. The hybrid was still not responding but they took him into the back of the minibus where they started to get to work on him and to stabilise the pup. It didn't take too long for them to get him breathing sort of normally and stable for the long ride back to Los Angeles.
The little girl who was so upset when she was taken away from the hybrid walked over to him again and G let her because it gave her comfort to know that her friend was going to be okay. "Pup pup going to be okay?" the little girl asks G. G looks at the little girl with a smile. "Yeah, I am going to make sure that your pup pup is going to be okay," G replies which makes the little girl smile. "My name is George, what's your name little one?" G asks, trying to make the little girl feel more comfortable around them and trust them more with her friend. "My name is Sophie," the little girl says. Sophie gave George a small smile, she was starting to trust him a little now. She knew her pup was going to be okay.
The eight hour long journey was torture for the rescuers, some more of the hybrids had become sick over the course of the ride and were going to need treating sooner. George could only take the male hybrid he agreed to, he had no room in his house for anyone else. Sophie had crawled up and laid herself down on the hybrid's chest and fallen asleep to the male's heartbeat. George felt sorry for her, she wasn't going to see pup again once they got back to Los Angeles in two hours' time. It was clear to him that she was close to the male and he must have looked after her while he was feeling fine. "I'm sorry little one," George mutters to the youngster as he saw the sign for Los Angeles.
He was ten minutes away from home, the little girl was going to have to be moved off the pup in order for them to carry him to his new home where George could treat him better. He was so thankful the hybrid only needed high flow oxygen at the moment and not a ventilator, it made it easier for them to move him from bus to house. "I think the little one will stay asleep G, she was so tired earlier," Mason says. He was watching the situation while George was monitoring his patient. "I know, I just feel bad that I have to separate them now and not when she knows he is better. I know eventually she will be going to a different caregiver, but it doesn't make it easier," George replies. They were now five minutes away.
"Yeah, the caregivers at the main base will distract her and soon enough she won't be worrying about pup so much. We will tell her obviously when you tell us he is feeling better, we won't be cruel to the little mouse," Mason says, they discovered that Sophie was a mouse hybrid which made her rarer than her puppy friend. George knew Mason was right, there will be a time where little Sophie won't remember she has a friend called Danny who was a dog hybrid. They found the file with his name and information on finally. He was one of the oldest hybrids to be still alive from the ones that they had rescued which made sense as to why Sophie was more attached to him. They had finally made it to George's house.
"I'll call you later with an update on him," George tells Mason, they had managed to get Danny into his new home without disturbing Sophie and without the hybrids condition getting any worse. George knew he had a long night ahead of him. They had no way of knowing how Danny was going to react to all the medication he was about to receive in order to reverse the affects all the chemicals and stuff he has been given in his nineteen years of life. George always stayed up the first night with any new critical case he received. He would feel more comfortable sleeping either this time tomorrow or when one of his friends was over to keep an eye on the younger male for him while he slept in case the hybrids condition was to change.
Danny seemed to cope just fine, there was no real change in his vitals other than the fever he initially had come down and was broken. George messaged his friend, asking if he wanted to help take care of a hybrid with him. His friend, Jorel had immediately said yes to helping out. He knew that the more help that George had the better it was going to be for all involved. The hybrid was going to have some difficulties settling into a normal life and they need to provide him with as much support as they possibly could to give him the best chance of becoming independent. George went to make himself some dinner, he knew the hybrid would be fine for a half an hour's break. The alarms on the monitors would alert him should Danny feel any different.
Later on that evening George felt more comfortable about sleeping for an hour. Danny had managed to remain stable the entire night so far and George knew that meant it was only going to improve from there. He sat on his guest bed and looked at his new charge, the pale young male looked peaceful as he rested in the bed. George took a moment to move some of Danny's fringe out of the way. He was admiring how beautiful the hybrid was. Danny's brown hair managed to hide his ears perfectly so it was a little more difficult for George to confirm he was a dog hybrid, but he managed it okay. The colouring of fur on the tail and the ears was amazing, it suited the young male well. George fell asleep happy that he had done some good.
George p.o.v – the next morning
Danny has successfully managed to survive the night which is good. He is still not awake, but I am not expecting him to be for at least another two or three days because of how ill he is right now. He is so malnourished and everything that he needs to have sometime recovering and regaining his strength so that he could enjoy living a free life with me. There is something different about him that I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but I am sure I will discover what it is eventually. Jorel is coming over so I can teach him how to look after a hybrid so maybe one day he can rescue on himself and take care of it just like I do. I don't know how much longer I will be rescuing hybrids though, if our band gets popular then it might be more difficult.
I gave Mason an update and they told me that little Sophie was fine, she misses Danny but knows that he is very poorly and had to go somewhere else to make him get better. She knows that she isn't going to see him again, but she told Mason on the way to her new placement that she was happy as long as it was me that was going to be looking after her pup pup. That was good that Sophie is happy and she trusts me to look after her Danny. I did feel bad about separating the two of them last night, but if I didn't do it then it would have happened later on and she would have been more upset over it. I told them my next update was probably going to be when Danny wakes up because I doubted a whole lot was going to change between now and then.
I went to answer the door half an hour later and Jorel was there with lunch from Mc Donald's. I smiled and let him in. even though I did get some sleep last night I was exhausted because my body wouldn't rest because I was worried about Danny. The last thing I wanted to happen last night was for him to pass away while I was fast asleep and that would have been a preventable death. "Morning George, how's the new charge doing?" Jorel asks me. It is still just about morning time. "He's doing alright considering what he has been through, not woken up yet though. I don't think he will wake up for another couple of days yet," I tell him. He hands me my lunch and we go into the kitchen to eat it. Danny was probably still going to be asleep by the time I get back up there.
I was right, Danny was still out for it in the guest bed when I took Jorel upstairs to meet him for the first time. Jorel took his time and let the pup know who he was and everything just in case he was going to wake up while we were there. I needed to do a dressing change on a nasty infected wound on Danny's lower right leg, so I let Jorel watch so that he knew how to safely do a dressing change on someone. Jorel was eager to learn and said he had applied to do a first aid course so he would be able to take on a hybrid at some point. "It's best to wait a while for that Jorel, I know the main group aren't going to do another rescue mission until there are hybrids to rescue. We rescued around twenty or thirty yesterday from one of the big institutes in California," I tell him.
"Yeah, I figured that much out, and I was also going to wait a while until Danny was feeling a lot better so that I could have your help with it because I wouldn't be as confident looking after one on my own especially if it was my first time," Jorel tells me, I hug him since he was nervous. I know this is something he really wants to do and I am more than happy to help him be able to achieve this. "That's okay, Danny will probably be fine by the time another rescue mission becomes available. They are usually like at least six months apart. I will help you for definite when that time comes," I tell him. Danny did show a little bit of response to pain when I was clearing out the infection so Jorel made it his mission to keep the unconscious hybrid as calm as possible.
"He's going to be fine right?" Jorel asks, I told him how to put a bag up on the IV pole. I was not going to tube feed Danny yet. I know he is a small hybrid especially for his age but I was hoping he could gain the weight back by eating food and extra feeds through a tube were not going to necessary. "Yeah he will be fine, a lot of what is wrong with him right now is the stuff that they experimented on him with has damaged his system and he has that nasty infection. Once they all clear up he should be perfectly healthy," I tell him. In a few weeks' time we are going into the studio to record our first album and I knew already that Aron was not going to like Danny being around. We have no choice though, Danny is going to want to stay with me and I was going to let him.
It's also going to take Danny a while to trust people other than I think Jorel and I. I know he is going to trust me after I explain that we rescued him and that he was going to be staying with me from now on and he was going to be well looked after. "Yeah, I hate how people think that they can get away with being able to hurt someone and experiment on them because they think it is fun," Jorel says, and I nod at him. I agreed with that statement one hundred percent. "They only think that they can get away with it until they are found and the hybrids are taken away from them. They do get criminal charges brought against them for what they do to them," I explain to Jorel. There is a lot going on behind the scenes when it comes to rescuing hybrids.
I have a lot of evidence of abuse that I have send to Mason and Callum to help towards the prosecution of the people who created all the hybrids. It is safe to say that Danny has been very badly abused in a few different forms. It was one of the things that would put you off being a hybrid caregiver. You have to help them through the memories of the abuse that they have been through. I am going to have to do this with Danny when he is awake, and he trusts me more. He is going to have nightmares and night terrors over his nineteen years of memories of abuse. I think he is one of the oldest hybrids that I have had the pleasure of looking after which will make things interesting, I am going to have to teach him a lot about the world.
He's not going to know how to look after himself, that much I knew when I saw him for the first time. I had to give him a sponge bath very gently because of all the wounds I found hidden under the dirt from the lab workers not bothering to clean the hybrids. The same was reported with the rest of the hybrids we rescued yesterday. He looked good now that he has had a clean. I don't mind teaching him all his life skills, I feel like he would benefit from Jorel and I teaching him. "He's going to need a lot of help Jorel. We are going to have to teach him a lot about the world because he is not going to know any of it," I tell Jorel, if he wants to help me out then he has to know what he is going to be in for when he wants to be the main caregiver to a hybrid.
"Yeah, I imagined as much since he doesn't know a life outside of the cage you said he was found in. He probably doesn't know a lot about food or the world, so everything is going to be new to him apart from what he was used too," Jorel says, it doesn't seem that he is put off by that fact. I watched as Jorel placed a flannel on Danny's forehead since the poor hybrid had another fever that we couldn't deal with any other way, I only just gave him Tylenol an hour ago and he has to wait another three or four before I can give him anymore. I felt so sorry for him, he isn't getting as much of a rest as I would have liked, but that will probably be more likely when he has been awake for a few days and can get into a good sleep pattern even if that does include a few naps.
One of the hybrids who was rescued yesterday and got worse on the drive over turned out to have a nasty heart condition and passed away a few minutes ago. It made all of us who were there at the rescue sad, but there was nothing that could have been done for the hybrid, he was going to die anyway it seems. "Another thing to consider when you want this job is hybrids do pass away sometimes its expected, but most of the time it isn't. One of the hybrids we rescued yesterday passed away," I tell him, and he was shocked. He didn't know the hybrid though, so it wouldn't upset him that much. It would be a lot worse if he knew the hybrid. I still have to wait a couple of days to get Danny's file from Callum though.
The file can't be given to me until the board decides that I am a fit career for Danny, even though by the time the decision is made Danny would have already been in my care for a week and he would have been cared for during that week with me and built up a trust with me. Its hard to get a hybrid to trust you and you have to be careful with what you do so that you don't shatter that already fragile bond. It's the board that everyone has problems with, they don't work on the frontline of hybrid rescue, so they don't see what we see, and they don't deal with the poor hybrids like we do and don't have to nurse them back to health like we do and help them get somewhat of a normal life. It frustrates me to no end.
I show Jorel some documents of the policies that we have to follow while Danny seems to be comfortable in his comatose state. I had even managed to lower the amount of oxygen Danny is relying on at the moment, but I am not going to mess with it further until Danny actually wakes up, so I don't make him worse and set his recovery back a few days. "Wow the board are a bunch of dicks by the sounds of it," Jorel says when he looks at the documents. I nod at him as he passes the documents back. "Yeah, but at the end of the day they are efficient and because of them a lot of labs have been shut down," I tell him. I have to give them credit for that, they do send us out there and give us the permission for the raids.
"I can't wait to see Danny awake, I wonder what his personality will be like when he gets to know us a little more," Jorel says, I like his enthusiasm for the job. I hope that he manages to keep this level of enthusiasm up even when the job has its bad days. It's already been a rough twenty-four hours with the new rescue just with the other people around. Danny's luckily managed to stay stable this entire time so far which is good. He's not needing much oxygen anymore but I am still keeping him on it because he could get worse and it's not doing him any harm to have this little bit of help. I will probably keep him off oxygen when he wakes up and I know he is more confident at breathing on his own since he can't really do that right now.
I did some more vital checks on Danny and he was doing quite a bit better than he was this time yesterday. I can't believe I have had this guy for twenty-four hours now. "Yeah, it will be good to have Danny awake, he is doing good considering the injuries and the infections he has had for a while. Probably tomorrow I will see if he can go down to a normal flow of oxygen, but I am not gonna push him if he is not ready," I tell Jorel. Danny responding a little to the cold stethoscope on his chest, but I knew he was a bit frightened of it even though I told him who I was and that I wasn't there to hurt him. I guess he will be scared of medical treatments for a little while until he is able to associate them with nice people.
"Do you want me to help you with the dressing changes later George?" he asks me. He had seen the one I did on his leg, but I knew I needed to give Danny a sponge bath and there are a few dressings that I did last night which need changing daily. "Yeah, you can even help me with the sponge bath Jorel. I don't see any harm in it," I tell him, if Jorel was ready and willing to help me, who was I to deny him. He is going to need to do this when he gets a hybrid himself, so he needs all the skills now if he is going to be allowed to do it. I am going to help him when Danny is better to sort out all the forms he needs to join the team. "Are you sure this is something you want to do?" I ask him, he is carefully cleaning Danny's hair while I clean the rest of him.
"Yeah, I want to do this. Would we be able to look after female hybrids?" he asks me. I chuckled, there was an adult called Vanessa who was rescued from the last centre who needs a home. "Yeah, in fact I think I know of a hybrid who would be suitable for you. She is called Vanessa, she is an adult cat hybrid," I tell him, and I chuckle as his eyes light up. You would still need to fill out the forms, but there is less work involved. He doesn't need to give her as much intensive care as we are giving Danny. "That would be cool, I wouldn't mind looking after Vanessa," he tells me. I could call Callum later and ask for the forms so that Jorel could fill them out. I am going to be his reference and I would also be his mentor in case Vanessa gets sick and he needs some help with her. "Yeah, I will call Callum later and ask for the forms, so we can get that started, she doesn't have a home yet. Callum asked me yesterday if I knew anyone suitable and I was going to say you, but I didn't think you wanted to," I tell him.
"That's fair enough. I suppose you would need to know how I feel about hybrids before recommending me. I don't mind looking after hybrids now," he tells me. I was glad, I was watching him now carefully combing Danny's hair and detangling all the nots in it and giving him a little trim to kinda neaten up the brown mess that was his hair since he probably hasn't had a hair cut in a while now. His hair was quite matted in a few places and Jorel was very cautious about the ears on the top of Danny's head as well as his human ones. Danny's ears flicked a couple of times when Jorel touched them with his fingers. I can't wait for him to be awake more. His tail was only wagging a little bit when he was on his side.
"He's got a beautiful fur colouring. What breed did they say he was?" Jorel asks me. I had only just realised that I hadn't told him yet. He just knows that Danny is a dog hybrid because of the ears and tail that he has. "He is a German Shepherd and Husky mix. A rare breed for a hybrid if I am honest since they usually go for the Labradors and the retrievers because they make good hybrids and they have the loyalty," I tell him. I was going to say that those breeds were going to be used best as slaves, but I think he already knew that because I said about the whole loyalty factor and we don't really see hybrids out on the streets. He felt bad for them, but there was not much he could do about it that he isn't already doing.
The rest of the day was pretty chilled out for what we were doing. We went down the stairs and I asked Callum to email me the forms. At first, I was going to wait until I knew that Danny had woken up and he was fine, but he is stable and Jorel would like to help Vanessa and she was ready for help now and she was healthy enough to be in a new home within the next few days. I am so tempted to keep Danny, he is so cute and by the time he has learnt everything he needs to know he will have a good bond with me and I wouldn't want to purposefully break it to give him to someone who could potentially hurt him or give him back if they find him too difficult to deal with. I know a lot of people who initially said they would give a loving forever home to these guys then give them back because they discover a problem that they are not ready or prepared to deal with.
I went to bed that night feeling confident Danny was going to be fine, if he wasn't then his alarms would go off and then I would be right there looking after him. Jorel offered to stay the night, but I told him to go home because Callum was probably going to do a home inspection in the next day or two to see if he was suitable to have Vanessa move into his apartment. I hope those two fall in love with each other. The way Callum described her to me when he was asking me to help find her a home was the exact description Jorel would use for his dream girl. I texted Jorel just before I fell asleep to let him know that Danny was still okay and resting peacefully in his room like he was before Jorel left.
And that is the end of the first chapter, I hope you enjoyed and see you in the next one!
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