Chapter 3
Story Continues
Skipper, Kowalski and Private, who is in Skippers flipper, makes there way to the vets in the zoo. It's a very quiet walk to the vets, all that can be heard is Private sniffing.
"Skippar is Wico going to be ok?" Skipper turns his head and looks down to Private, who eyes are watering.
"Yeah" Skipper answers Private with a big smile on his face, as he bounces Private up and down in his flipper. Private's eyes start to close and he falls into a light sleep.
"You...you think he will be ok?" Kowalski asks Skippper as tears start to fill his eyes.
"Yeah" Skipper answers, as he puts his empty flipper around Kowalski.
"I really hope he is ok" Kowalski says more to himself then to Skipper.
Skipper looks at Kowalski's face, all he could see was guilt
"Stop blaming yourself" Kowalski just looks Skipper in the eye and said nothing.
"Please don't blame yourself"
"I'm not"
"Yes you are" for the rest of the walk not a word is said.
"Are we there?" Private asks as he comes out of his sleep.
"Yes we are"
"Where's Wico?" Private asks as he looks around.
"We don't know yet we have to go inside first"
All three penguins sneak into the vets making sure no one could see them.
"How are we going to know what room Rico is in? we can't read" Kowalski asks looking at each door as they pass them
"I don..." Skipper is cut off by a door opening, a zoo keeper walks out
"Hide!" Skipper orders. Kowalski and Skipper, who was still holding Private, hide behind a plant Skipper watches as the zoo keeper leaves.
"Rico is in that room" Skipper says as he points at the door that the zoo keeper just came from
"How do you know?" Kowalski asks confessed
"The zoo keeper that walked out was the one that had taken Rico here" Skipper answers and walks to the room.
Kowalski is the last one to enter the room, Skipper is very far ahead of Kowalski looking for Rico.
"Rico!" Skipper shouts
"Wico!" Private shouts just then the three penguins hears something moving on the table in the middle of the room.
Skipper jumps up to see what it is, all he can see is a red blanket with a lump in the middle, Skipper moves closer to it and giggles
"Rico" the blanket moves but he doesn't come from under the blanket Skipper starts to worry.
"Rico come on out your starting to worry me" Skipper says with a worried voice he places Private down on the table.
Skipper moves more closer to the blanket and knees down next to it.
"Please Rico" Skipper asks, the blanket moves again but this time Rico pulls the blanket so he can see Skipper but he only shows half of his face.
"Ric.." Skipper stops what he is about to say, as Rico attacks him with a hug. Skipper at first is shocked but within one second he relaxes and wraps his flipper's around Rico. Skipper can't see Rico's face, but he knows he is crying, as he can feel Rico's tears as they are wetting his feathers.
"It's ok Rico" Skipper says trying to calm the crying penguin in his flippers
"Are you ok? did you hurt yourself?" Skipper asks, Rico stops crying but doesn't let go of Skipper.
Skipper starts worry again, he looks down to Rico
"Rico?" Rico doesn't move
"Rico are you ok?" Skipper asks with worry. Skipper knows Rico knows he's worried, as Rico moves a little bit as Skipper talks.
Skipper looks behind Rico and sees Private sitting on the table, where he left him. Skipper looks behind himself to see Kowalski, he looks right into Skipper's eyes, so Skipper moves his head a bit as if to say to Kowalski to come up, but he doesn't move.
Skipper can feel Rico move his face that was on his stomach Skipper looks down and sees Rico move his head to look up.
Rico looks at Skipper, and all Skipper can see is, a white cloth plaster on the left side of Rico's beak.
"Wico!" Private shouts. Both Rico and Skipper, who are still hugging, turn to see Private sitting on his bottom with his flippers in the air. Rico smiles then looks at Skipper.
Both Skipper and Rico let each other go, Rico walks up to the little penguin sitting on the table who still has his flipper's in the air. Rico picks up Private and hugs him and Private hugs him back.
"Wove you Wico!" Private cheerfully says to his big brother. After about four minutes Rico pulls apart from Private and just holds him in his flippers.
Rico starts to look around then he looks at Skipper with sad eyes. Skipper knows who he is looking for.
"Wait there ok?" Rico nods. Skipper jumps off the table.
"Kowalski!" Skipper shouts but not too loud that Rico and Private can hear him. Kowalski says nothing he just looks to Skipper
"He is looking for you" Skipper explains. Kowalskis face lights up
"Is he ok?" Kowalski asks
"Yes he is...but" Kowalskis face drops
"He's looking for you" Skipper continues. Kowalski looks up to the table that he knows Rico is on, waiting for him.
Kowalski starts to walk to the table, but as he gets right next to the table, he looks up then looks to Skipper
"Come on" Skipper says as he jumps up on top of the table. After a few seconds Kowalski builds up the confidence to see his little brother.
Kowalski gets on top all he can see is Rico tickling Private, Skipper just smiles at them.
"Hey Rico, I got something for you" Skipper says to his little brother. Rico turns around and looks at Kowalski. Rico smiles and walks up to Kowalski. Kowalski did not know what to do Rico but just hug him, Kowalski hugs him back.
Skipper walks up to the little penguin who is on his back giggling a little bit. Skipper picks him up and walks to Kowalski and Rico who are still hugging.
"Sorry" everyone became shocked at what they just heard. Kowalski stops hugging Rico but doesn't let go of him and looks into his eyes
"did...did you just...talk?" Kowalski asks. Rico nods a 'yes'
"What are you sorry for?" Skipper asks still a bit shocked that Rico had just said something after not talking for about a year. Rico points at Kowalski
"me not listen" Kowalski looks at Rico face to face and he sees the plaster on his face for the first time. Kowalski gives Rico a weak smile then hugs him again .
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