Here you will find the story building on the tension between Cuddles and Giggles and more clues to the coming storm. Please enjoy.

SUGAR COATED POISON

BY THE YOUNG AND FREE DRAGON

Saugt sich fest an deinen Lippen
Gräbt sich Gänge durch die Rippen
Lässt sich fallen weich wie Schnee
Erst wird es heiß dann kalt am Ende tut es

It sucks tightly on your lips
and digs tunnels through your ribs
It drops softly like snow
First it gets hot then cold in the end it hurts

-Amour by Rammstein

CHAPTER TWO: EMOTIONAL BROTHEL

Everything has been said before

Nothing left to say anymore

When it's all the same

You could ask for it by name

-This is the New Shit by Marilyn Manson

In Petunia's house, Giggles sat cuddled up to Petunia, sniffling after a long discussion about last night's events. The little Chipmunk clung to the skunk as a baby would cling to its mother, and had no intention of letting go. With her mothering touch, Petunia traced her paw down Giggles' fur, smoothing down the ravaged fur of the poor girl, emotional traumatized to an extent neither quite understood. Flaky sat across from them, her lip quivering as she tried not to cry. She had been touched by the story of the rabbit and the chipmunk, and watching Giggles cry was making it hard for her to keep her head. Petunia reached out with her free paw and took Flaky's, to try and comfort her.

"How can he do this to me?" Giggles wailed. "He's my boyfriend!"

"Giggles," Petunia sighed. "You have to accept that Cuddles won't always take your side. He has a life of his own, no matter how much he may like you."

Giggles sniffled for a few moments. "I can accept that… but I can't accept that he stole from me and then yelled at me like he did!"

She began sobbing again. Flaky moved a bit closer, her body shaking all over as she tried to decide the proper moment to release the secret she was harboring and to cry.

"You don't know that he stole from you." Petunia cooed.

"But he had to! Who else could have?"

"Giggles, Cuddles is a good seed. Despite what happened last year… he is good. He likes you a lot, and he just feels betrayed that you could think he would do that."

"But he's being so unreasonable!" Giggles cried.

"Everyone is unreasonable at times," Petunia said, slightly noticing how that comment quivered Flaky's small frame like a gun shot. "No he shouldn't have called you the things he did, but I promise you that he does like you, and really does care despite how he sounds." She didn't go as far as to say loved, because she wasn't sure how Giggles would react to that.

"Giggles…" Flaky squeaked.

"He called me a skank!" Giggles cried, ignoring Flaky's small voice. "I know I haven't always been faithful to him either but-… but-… I'm just not a skank! I got lonely when he wasn't around! Is that so wrong?"

"No Giggles but-…" Petunia began.

"And I never kissed anybody on the lips! Like that girl he did last year! She's the skank, not me!"

"Giggles!" Petunia shouted, trying to get her attention as the Chipmunk sobbed. "Get a hold of yourself!" Now much more calmly. "It's not wrong that you got lonely, but it was still unfaithful to Cuddles. It was just as wrong as what he did to you, no matter how far he went with the girl-…"

"Giggles… Petunia…?" Flaky tried to begin again, shaking like she had a raging fever.

"In a moment Flaky," Petunia said, without looking at the poor porcupine. "You are not a skank, and you're not a bad person but you need to fix this with Cuddles and the only way to do that is to stay faithful and make sure he stays faithful-…"

Suddenly, Flaky exploded in bouts of sobbing. The other two girls looked over at her in confusion.

"Oh! Oh Giggles! I'm so sorry!" She screamed, shuttering with each ravaging sob. "I've ruined your life!"

"W-what are you talking about?" Giggles asked, coming out of shock and moving closer to put an arm over Flaky's shoulders.

"C-Cuddles! I… I…" She interrupted herself with sobbing and had to be comforted by the two other girls for a few minutes before continuing. "I… I've ruined him…!"

"I don't understand." Giggles said.

"L-last night," Flaky said, calming down a little to get the truth out before she had a heart attack. "I guess… after he called you… h-he came over to my house…"

"W-what did he do to you, Flaky?" Giggles stammered in disbelief.

"No! God, it was me! He acted so n-nice… we were only together as friends! And… I betrayed you! I'm so sorry! Oh my God, I'm so sorry!"

"Flaky, you haven't betrayed me," Giggles cooed, trying to get Flaky to tell everything. "Just tell me what happened."

"W-well, first we watched a TV show we both liked… and then we were talking about it… it was a soap opera… He said all these things about it that were… s-so true, and said that he didn't care if the other guys thought he was a wimp for watching it… that he liked it because it showed the t-true love of life…" She had to be comforted after this bout and then continued. "A-and then he said I looked like one of the girls on the show… and I said that no she was so pretty and I was so ugly… and… and then he started telling me that I was beautiful, and that he would count himself lucky to be with me… and he talked about how nice I was… and said things that were so sweet… I just felt like I was in love with him… then… then I…"

She began crying again, unable to hold back the tears for another second. Petunia and Giggles were in shock, and trying to coax more of the story out of the emotional traumatized girl.

"And… I just felt like I was in love with him… and… and he just kept talking about all these wonderful things about me… oh God, they were such lies! It was just weakness! F-Flippy got killed by… Mole… I was so sad afterward… even though he was going to come back… and I'm just so horrible…" She began crying so brutally that it was hard to understand her. "They were lies! What I did proves it… I-… I knew he was with you Giggles! And I didn't know about the fight! But even if I had I wouldn't have kissed him! But I did! Oh God damn me for that! And I betrayed Flippy! Fl-… Flippy… my Flippy…"

Giggles hugged the porcupine tightly as the poor thing gripped on to her without any intention of letting go as the chipmunk had to the skunk only minutes before. Her body was shaking so much that Giggles thought she might die of the stress she was putting on herself. Petunia helped Giggles to calm her down and after what seemed long hours of crying, she finally fell to a whimpering form with her head in Giggles' lap, tears still running down her cheeks. Giggles continually told her that she was not mad and that the porcupine was a good person, and that she wasn't going to hell, and she wasn't a skank or a whore or any of the other insults she called herself. Giggles wasn't really sure who to blame for any of this but she knew that this ravaged creature definitely was not a suspect.

Cuddles tossed Toothy the tennis ball and he tossed it back. This is what they had been doing for the past thirty minutes and this was what they intended to do for the next hour or so.

"What'd you do last night?" Toothy asked, as the ball thumped into his glove and he threw it back with great power for his size.

"Nothing much." Cuddles replied, backing up a little and catching it. He threw it back, making the other go a little farther back to catch it.

"Nothing at all?"

"Not really." Cuddles replied, his eyes were trained on Toothy but they were blank and hollow.

"What about Giggles' bow?"

"No idea." He replied.

"She hasn't found it?"

"No idea." He repeated, catching the ball and tossing it high.

"You'd be the first to know," Toothy replied, moving forward to catch it. "Considering she's your girlfriend."

"What gave you that idea?" Cuddles asked mildly, catching a fast ball from his close friend.

"You may have only agreed when she asked you, and not told anyone else but she can't keep her hands off you." Toothy said, jumping to catch the next ball at him.

"She's found it easy of late." He replied.

"Having problems with her?"

"You could say that."

"Why aren't you freaking out?"

"I will once it gets worse."

As Toothy took the ball into his throwing hand he threw a fast ball that Cuddles didn't expect. The ball hit him straight on in the face. He fell backwards with a cry. Toothy moved forward and stood over the rabbit who was cradling his nose, blood seeping between his small fingers. Toothy picked up the ball.

"You need to start panicking now."

"Was that necessary?" Cuddles asked, glaring up at Toothy.

"Tell me what happened and we'll see." Toothy replied.

"Toothy," Cuddles sighed, getting up and wiping the blood from his small heart-shaped nose. "I don't need help. I'm under control."

"Flaky has already told me what went on between you two last night. I want to know why she says this will ruin you for Giggles."

"Has she told Flippy yet?" Cuddles asked solemnly.

"No, the poor thing would have a heart attack if she did." Toothy replied crossing his arms, like a father trying to get his son to admit to misbehavior in school.

"Well, it won't be a heart attack that kills her or me if Flippy finds out." Cuddles sighed, turning and walking down the meadow. Toothy followed.

"Why? Yeah, Evil is in there but I doubt betrayal would remind him of his time in war… actually… maybe you're right."

"Let's get one thing straight right now." Cuddles said, stopping and turning to the beaver. His arms were crossed, his eyes glaring and his cheeks were bright red. It was probably a mixture of embarrassment and anger. "There's no betrayal here. What happened last night was not Flaky's fault."

"Well, what do you call what you did last night and what happened in the past." Toothy replied, returning the look and arm-crossing.

"Damn!" Cuddles shouted, turning around and throwing up his arms. "Is everyone perfect, but me?"

"Cuddles, you're a better person than you think. But you need to get this fixed between you and Giggles instead of just letting it burn."

"Toothy, if I try, I'll only screw it up."

"It's already screwed up, so you can't leave it like that!"

Cuddles turned back to Toothy. His expression was hard to read as he looked at the beaver. Toothy kept his stern look on his face but made sure to let the fact that he understood shine through.

"And you can't burn yourself either," Toothy said more calmly. "That means; stop trying to seduce every girl you know, and leave whatever it is that Disco Bear sells you alone."

Cuddles' eyes narrowed. "Are you stalking me or something?"

"I know you went to Petunia's house this morning." Toothy replied, matter-of-factly.

"I guess she told you about that?"

"No but she was a bit shaky when she mentioned it, and she quickly changed the subject."

"And Disco Bear?"

"He's proud of what he sells. He just won't say what it is. I figure it's some drug he learned how to make from his 70's uncle."

"How clever of you."

"Will you stop acting like I'm your enemy?" Toothy cried.

Cuddles put his finger to Toothy's chest as he spoke to him, his eyes narrowed even more. But as Toothy looked into his friend's eyes, the rabbit was now looking very tired and highly stressed.

"Until you learn all the facts and stop judging me, then you're my friend."

"What are the facts?" Toothy asked, returning the look.

"First of all, I'm not burnt, not anymore. A lot of time passes between now and the Flaky incident. Second of all, I'm not seducing anyone."

"Then why are you acting the way you are to them?"

"I'm only telling them the truth," Cuddles replied crossly. "And besides, maybe I'm trying to feel better about myself, and you and Giggles aren't doing me any favors."

"Then why won't you fix this?"

"Because I didn't do anything!" Cuddles shouted. "If that stupid little chipmunk won't trust me, and wants to make me feel guilty all the time, then I'm not doing any apologizing! It's as good as over between us."

Suddenly, a long pinpoint tore through the rabbit's chest. He was lifted up in the air as blood spilled from the wound and he screamed in pain. Whatever it was shook him a little bit, the sound of flesh being ground between whatever was holding him filled the meadow. Finally, as his screams began to die down and he went limp, the thing dropped him to the ground. As the mangled rabbit's blood began pooling around his twisted body, Mole stood there, with his litter bag and stick stuck inside of Cuddles. Blood was splattered across his clothes and body.

"Heavy trash today. You'd think someone couldn't get away with throwing something this big out." He said.

He dragged Cuddles' limp form to his side and pushed it into his bag, oblivious to the fact that he had just killed Cuddles. He waved the wrong way to Toothy and walked away, Cuddles' limp ears hanging out of the bag and crimson leaking and spreading across the bag. Toothy stood stunned and his mouth agape. While he was horrified by what had just happened, it was normal and he was recovering quickly. He began to wonder, as he wiped the blood from his body, if he would've gotten anything else out of Cuddles, and if what Mole had said was true.

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