Balto: The Parallel Timeline
Chapter 4: Yeah Beautiful
That night Sierra was with Violet in the waiting room of the hospital.
Ever since they returned home from the sled race Violet had been coming down with a high fever and nasty cough.
Nervous about their daughter's health Violet's parents scheduled an appointment.
As Sierra sat their waiting for Violet to go in for her appointment, all she can think about was Togo and how much it hurt her to see the sad look on his face. Sierra decided that one night she would sneak out and go to Togo.
Her thoughts however were cut off when...
"Violet Jones."
As soon as the nurse said that Sierra, and her owners got up and walked to the door where the doctor was waiting. Violet and her parents walked through the door first but when Sierra was about to walk through the door when the nurse got in her way.
"I'm sorry, but no dogs are allowed beyond this point." The nurse said before closing the door in Sierra's face.
However Sierra was still anxious to see if her girl was going to be alright so she walked out the main entrance of the hospital and went down the alleyway and she looked through all the windows but in every single one of them were kids and teenagers all letting out nasty coughs and showing signs of fever.
Sierra guessed that whatever Violet caught was spreading throughout the town at a fast rate.
Sierra then finally made it to the window that showed the check up room, which showed Violet being checked out by the doctor.
Just then...
"Sierra?" A male voice said from behind.
Sierra let out a startled gasp she turned around and saw Togo sitting there watching her.
"Oh hey Togo." Sierra said before she turned her attention back to the window.
"Well uh Sierra...I was hoping that maybe that we could...uhh go on walk you know just the to of us as long as you're okay with it." Togo said.
Togo then noticed that Sierra wasn't interested and she didn't even reply.
Togo saw Sierra's ears flatten against her head.
"Sierra, is something wrong?" Togo said as he approached her.
"Violet's in there." Sierra said.
"In the hospital, why?" Togo asked.
"She has a high fever and a nasty cough." Sierra explained.
"Togo do you know what's wrong with her?" Sierra asked.
"I don't know, but I know one way to find out." Togo said.
Togo then led Sierra away from the window and toward the door that led to the hospital's boiler room but...it was locked.
"I have the keys to the city!" Togo said as he removed the screws to the door hinges.
Togo then pushed the door open.
Togo then moved aside for Sierra.
"Ladies first." Togo said.
"Oh Togo." Sierra said as she blushed heavily.
Sierra walked into the boiler room, and Togo followed behind.
Togo then led Sierra into the hatch that led to the pipeline system.
"Stay close Sierra." Togo said.
Sierra nodded in agreement and she then got close to Togo's side and the two crawled through the pipeline.
"It's so dark and gloomy down here." Sierra pointed out.
"Not that I'm scared of anything." Sierra said but however she lifted her head up she gasped in fear to see a spider web inches from her face.
"Gloomy? Are you kidding, it's the most beautiful spot in the world." Togo said.
Sierra didn't understand what Togo meant by that, but she didn't question it.
"Dogs travel the whole world to this little spot to look at most beautiful site on planet." Togo said again as they reached the end of the pipeline room.
Sierra came following behind him.
"I can't see why though?" Sierra said as she brushed dust and dirt off her pink bandana.
"That's because you're not looking the material that's half-full, and half empty." Togo said to her.
Togo then walked over to some broken bottles and pushed them to a hatch that provided enough light for Sierra to see what Togo was doing.
"This right here is the polar ice caps." Togo said.
"Togo, those are broken bottles and they're not half empty, they're ALL empty." Sierra said.
Togo then gestured his head to the light.
"The sun." He said.
"Togo..." Sierra said completely confused.
"And...to the north." Togo said as he motioned on the bottles to the north.
Then what happened next took Sierra's breath away, a colorful bright light immediately light up the whole room.
"The Northern Lights, Oh Togo you're right it's beautiful." Sierra said.
"Yeah...beautiful." Togo said looking at her.
Sierra's blue eyes then met Togo's brown eyes, it took Sierra a minute to realize that when Togo said "beautiful" he didn't mean the Northern Lights, he meant...her.
"You know I've never met anyone like you Togo." Sierra said in a soft loving voice.
"And I have never met anyone like you too Sierra." Togo said.
Togo and Sierra leaned in and their lips met: they were kissing.
They kissed for two minutes before parting Sierra and Togo then stared lovingly at each other. Togo then began to gently and lovingly stroke Sierra's fur, Togo felt something inside of him, and it surely wasn't happiness...it was love.
"Sierra...I...I...I..."
But before Togo could finish his sentence he was cut off the sounds of footsteps coming from above him and Sierra.
Togo and Sierra immediately went to the hatch that was closest to them and listened carefully.
"Goodnight Violet." They heard the doctor say.
"I'm so cold." Violet said followed by a nasty cough.
"We have an extra blanket right here just get some sleep okay." The doctor said.
Then Togo and Sierra heard the footsteps of the doctor walking away from the hatch and into a different.
Togo and Sierra followed the footsteps of the doctor to another hatch and they listened into it.
"Doctor, how's Violet?" Mrs Jones asked.
"She's exhausted from coughing her fever is getting worse." The doctor replied.
Sierra let out a gasp of worry.
"Looks like she has Diphtheria, she's 18th case this week, and I'm out of Anti-toxin serum." The doctor said.
Togo then turned to check on Sierra, but she was already walking down the passage ways of pipeline room, crying.
"Sierra! Sierra I'm sorry!" Togo said as he followed her from behind.
As soon as Togo exited the hatch that led them into the pipeline room he saw Sierra sitting in the middle of the boiler room softly crying.
"Sierra, I'm sorry...I didn't want to upset you...I...I...I shouldn't have taken you down there." Togo said as he lowered his head.
Sierra sniffed and she looked at Togo.
"No, I'm glad you did." She said reassuringly.
Then they heard a loud crash coming from outside they turned to see what it was and what the saw made Togo groan.
It was Iron, and he had a chain of sausage in his mouth.
"Iron?" Togo and Sierra asked.
Iron without responding pushed Togo aside and he wrapped the chain of sausage around Sierra.
"Sierra, why don't you join me for dinner eh, you'll start at one end and I'll start at the other...and when we get to the middle." Iron said with a disturbing chuckle.
Togo was angry now, Sierra and him had just shared their first kiss together and yet Iron was still trying to hit on Sierra.
"Okay that's it, you asked for it Iron." Togo growled he then tried to bite the sausage chain.
"No Togo wait." Sierra said.
Sierra then began to walk around Iron in flirty manner her tail even stroked Iron's chin.
"Sierra what the heck are you doing?!" Togo whispered to Sierra in disgust.
Sierra then singled her head to the boiler.
As soon as Togo knew what Sierra was going to do he smirked.
"We'll I have to say Iron your offer is pretty tempting." Sierra said in a flirty tone.
"Oh well certainly is." Iron said followed by another disturbing chuckle.
"But there's only one problem with." Sierra said.
"And what is that?" Iron asked.
"I always prefer my meat...cooked." Sierra said.
Then Iron let out a holler of pain, as it turns out Sierra had back him up into the boiler and burned his tail in the process.
"Come on lets get out of here!" Togo cried to Sierra.
Togo and Sierra then sprinted down the alleyway and down the Main Street until they were sure that they lost Iron.
"That was exciting." Sierra said.
Togo didn't reply he was still hurt by the site of Sierra flirting with Iron, although Sierra wasn't really loving on Iron and was instead trying to get Iron's tail burned so that she and Togo can have an opportunity for them to escape.
Togo had secretly been loving Sierra since they first met but Togo was worried if he did admit his love to her and Iron and his goons found out Sierra would be made fun of as well or he would attempt to steal her from Togo.
"Togo what's wrong?" Sierra asked concerned about him.
"Oh it's nothing Sierra." Togo replied.
Sierra smiled and nuzzled him.
"And Sierra I'm also very sorry about Violet, I know how much she means to you." Togo said.
"It's okay Togo, she'll better soon I'm sure of that." Sierra said.
Togo then looked at the clock that was outside a shop, It was 12:20 AM.
"It's getting late Sierra we better call it a night." Togo said to her.
Sierra then nodded in response.
"Let me walk you home, Sierra." Togo said.
"Oh Togo, such a gentleman you are." Sierra said giggling.
Sierra then walked up to Togo's side and the two walked down the street to Sierra's house.
A/N: Sorry for the delay folks I've been really busy with things on my DeviantArt Profile and some things going on in rl. But anyway here's Chapter 4 guys and I also excluded the scene when Balto if falsely accused of stealing the meat because it's my least favorite scene in the whole Balto movie. And I hoped you guys liked the part when Togo and Sierra kissed. Anyway I'll see you all in Chapter 5.
Drew out!
