A/N, Greeting ppl, Thank you for all the reviews on my Penguins of Madagascar fic slipping away, very happy to hear you are all enjoying it, therefore I bring you chapter four! This is mostly going to be between Maurice and Julian.

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The two loyal bird soldiers Rico and Kowalski came to the meeting place Private had requested them at through a series of hush hush communications when their leader was far enough out of earshot. Both the birds disliked the idea strongly of going behind their own commanding officer, not to mention just the thought of the grevious punishments they would be held to if found out. It was late evening, the gates had been closed for a few hours, the tall lamps that outtfitted the zoo glowed brightly as the night's darkness crept onto the habitats of the New York animals homes. The brains and brawn of the team used the shadows, hiding their movements as Private watched them enter the habitat. The HQ was the least safe place to carry on a conversation like this, so they had found one area that they knew Skipper refused to be for any reason, Joey's Pen.

Joey the kangaroo was very strict against tresspassers, forcing Private to meet with him earlier that day and make a bribe to the roo in exchange for using his pen as a temporary meeting room, he would provide Joey with signifigant amounts of extra food during the meeting as to keep his mind off their presence.

Rico and Kowalski leaped into the pen and landed softly. Joey looked up and glared, looking back at Private who nodded and pointed at them before returning to his evening bale of food. Rico and Kowalski came over to Private with flippers in the air in question, why were they here and Skipper not?

"Alright I asked you both here because I have to tell you something. " Private said, a knot building in his chest as he found what he had to tell his teammates hard to say.

"Skipper, attacked Julian last night, thats why he was bleeding this morning." Both birds tilted their heads in question as Private went on.

"The reason I'm thinking he did was because of Julian's um...well preference issues he has at the moment."

Kowalski, "Err Preference issues? What are you talking about Private?" Private slightly rolled his eyes at having to explain the uncomfortable situation at hand.

"Um yes King Julian is um...well...he likes, penguins." The size of both his teammates eyes had doubled at this point, Rico quickly vomiting up a paper bag and then vomiting into it. Kowalski held a flipper to his chin as he put on a look of both shock and explorative thought. Private felt quite uncomfortable having to speak of this without Julian to know about it or consenting for others to hear about but it was desprate times.

"So, Julian his found interest in penguins, what like guy penguins?" Private looked at the floor as he responded.

"well he told me that and uh..hugged me." He said, trying to get the last words out of his beak as fast as he could.

"He hugged you?"

"But Julian's always been touchy feely, he does it alot."

"Yeah but not really to anyone but well..us." Kowalski said, Rico nodding in agreement. The scarred bird recalled the time Julian had been convinced by Phil an Mason to be good to everyone or else, so he'd tried and tried again to hold the scarred bird, only to get pushed away and then punched after the thrird attempt, Rico was never one for contact, unless it was from his doll he held so dearly. Private had to admit, Kowalski was right, Julian never seemed to touch any of the other zoo animals since they'd been there. Kowaski brought up an important part of the meeting.

"So, what about Skipper, you're saying he attacked Julian, so what are we going to do? He's our leader, our commanding officer, his rank outweighs us."

Private, 'I know...I don't know what to do, but something must be done. People can't be attacked just because they feel a certain way about someone."

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Alice laid the hurt lemur on the operating table, first putting a few cloths down to keep him from feeling the cold metal. Julian winced as his bruises made connection with the tabletop, trying not to move much. The zookeeper prepped a needle to put the lemur under for the stitches, checking the fluid level, she turned around to face him, hiding it from his eyes as not to scare the little guy. She complained a great deal about her job, the hours, the requirments and the constant randomness that was brought to her attention during each day at work. She did however have a heart for each creature that she cared after, seeing any of them hurt was difficult for her, but she knew how to press on and handle the problem as she'd been taught by her employers when she'd first signed on at the New York city zoo.

Quickly laying a blanket over Julian's head she inserted the needle and pushed the sedative in and then pulled it out and then wiped it with an antiseptic dab. Julian cried out a small whimper as he felt the needle go in and then be retracted. He tried to move and get away from being poked anymore, but soon felt the urge to actually stay there and take a nap. His eyelids became three times their original weight as he drifted off to sleep. After checking to make sure he was fully unconcious, the doctor began the stitches, first finding the placement of each wound, shaving the fur that was in the way, having done this for a period of twenty years, he'd become a barber of sorts when it came to prepping the stitching areas, only taking off as much fur as needed so as to grow back faster and not be as revealing for visitors. Each wound seemed to require a little more then ten give or take a few. In two hours he was done. He gave the lemur a little pat on the head and then returning to his office to tell Alice he was finished.

Maurice shook his head as he stirred in his sleep before finally waking himself up. Taking a look around from where he lay, he was back in the recovery room of the zoo hospital. His eyes suddenly fell onto the unconcious form of his king Julian the XIII. Julian lay on his back, several areas on his stomach and chest was shaved and stitched up, the bruises never showed through his fur, but before Maurice had been knocked out, he'd seen his king be beaten in many areas. Maurice picked himself up and dragged himself over to Julian.

"Your Highness?" Julian didn't respond, Maurice watched the stomach of his king rise and fall at an even pace, maurice took a paw and rubbed Julian's shoulder to wake him up easily. Julian opened his eyes lazily, letting them focus for a minute before turning his attention to his aye aye.

"Mmaurice." He said with a smile, tying to lean forward to support himself on his elbows, he quickly flinched down onto his back again after feeling a sharp jab of pain in his abdomen.

"Don't lean up your majesty, I'm still here, Julan what happened? Skipper just ran over to our home last night and started going mad crazy on you, what was his problem?" Julian sighed as he met his secound in command's gaze, he couldn't lie to his friend, he needed to know the whole speel while he had the chance of doing it in private. Julian took a breath and then sighed again.

"Maurice, I need to tell you something, donot be judging me or well you know, your exiled." He said in slight humor, trying to lighten the mood before he dived into nail biting honesty. Maurice sat on his rump and face his lemur king to listen to Julian's confession.

"I am...liking um...the penguins..as in you know er like like." He said uneasily, Maurice was unsure of really what to say to him after hearing this.

"You have a crush on the penguins? But there aren't even any females here?"

"Yeah...I know that." Julian said in a somewhat shameful voice, he felt very unkingly having kept something of this magnitude from his friend all this time. Maurice turned away for a secound as he tried to proccess all this at once, it was true that while in madagascar, Julian didn't pay mind to very many of the ladies that were in the lemur kingdom, even as they ussually swarmed him for attention. Julian ran one of his finger along the stitches of his stomach, trying to push some of the fur over the ugliness of it. The both of them were silent for a moment before Maurice spoke again.

"Well your majesty, all I know is do what makes you happy, thats what I believe in. Heck we only have the one life anyway right?" Julian looked at his friend and let a grin come agross his face, he always knew what to say to make the king fall into a better mood. Giving Maurice a one armed hug around the shoulder, he nodded.

"Yeah, that is what I'm wanting to hear." Julian's long striped tail began to swoosh around a bit as he let it fluff around and get in his aye aye's face. Maurice sneezed and casually pushed the offending tail out of his veiw before laying back down to rest, Julian laid down again also, suddenly coming upon the realization of the be he was on.

"Maurice?"

"Yes your majesty?"

"Hand me that remote, this bed needs some rocking relaxation!" Maurice rolled his eyes and dug around for the remote and handed it to the lemur king who clicked a button and then made the bed shake and vibrate. The lemurs both looked at eachother and laughed as the bed continued to jiggle and shake.

Watching the two madagascar natives through the window behind them, was Skipper. He pulled away from the glass, so confused and so lost in what to do and take from what he'd come upon. He knew what he'd done to Julian was wrong, despicable by some of the old ones of the penguin code and he knew he had to come to terms with it by doing the only thing nessesary at that point, apologize face to face and pray the lemurs would be merciful to him after causing them such pain. He took a large swallow of air to push out any other thoughts of running off as he had before with the doctor and the needles, heck he'd watched both the lower mammals take the evil doctor's abuse like men, granted Julian had to be covered by ablanket but still, the point remained, he had to make this right, not just for them, for his team, and for Private escpecially. He' seen how he'd broken the young cadet's spirit inside when he'd found out what his leader had done out of pure fear and anger and ashamed didn't even scratch the surface on how he would descibe his feelings on how he'd behaved.

Skipper opened the window behind them and stealthily made an entrance as the lemurs entertained eachother with the bed's levels and vibration settings. He closed his eyes for a secound and asked to anyone how was listening at that moment to him personally to let him make it through this alright. He then shimmed up the bedpost and stood on the bedside table. Julian and Maurice continued to laugh and flail around, julian keeping somewhat still because of his condition. Skipper brought a flipper to his beak and coughed to draw attention to himself next to them. Julian's laugh died very quickly as he recognized that assertive cough, he clicked for the bed to stop and sat upright. Slowly and feeling his heartrate begin to increase, his eyes eyes widened and turned to the left. Maurice noticed his king's strange actions and turned in the same direction his king faced to find the leader of the penguins before him. The one who had hurt him so badly and brough him here because of a misunderstanding. Maurice's glare and narrowing eyes were bad, but they couldn't be comapared with what his king Julian brought. Julian said nothing as his gaze fell upon Skipper, at first he felt nothing but terror and cold chill running down his spine. As he looked at Skipper though, his emotions altered, seeing the bird before him, standing with a look of shame and regret on his face. Julian's features darkened with a blackness as the fear subsided replaced with a new growing sensation of angery disbelief. Shocking to him that of all people, HE would dare come here and show his face before the king and his aye aye.

Skipper found himself slightly growing smaller as the lemurs orange eyes began burning into him, as if telepathically stripping the feathers and flesh off the bird alive one piece at a time. Julian, in his own time,found the strength to stand and face the penguin. He approached Skipper, each step slow and carrying more menace than the last. Skipper watched as he saw the numerous scars that decorated the ringtail's body, each a dark visual memory that would haunt him for years to come. Julian came closer and closer till he towered before the flightless bird, his paws at his side, knuckles cracking and flexing into tight fists, staring down at him with a icelike but inferno blazing gleam in the ringtail's eyes that simply read,

HOW DARE YOU?

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A/N, There you go for chapter four! Haha leave you all with enough suspense? Originally I was going to have Skipper try to make a break for it, but I don't really think that's very true to his character, granted the epsiode NeedlePoint is a different story! If anyone would like to pitch their ideas to me, feel free to and I can see what I like an what might work but for now I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll be bringing another to you all sometime in the next week or so! Thanks and please review and voice your opinions!