A.N.- Okay here is chapter 6. I had to split it up into two chapters; so chapter 7 will be the flashback scene.

Trixy: Come back here you!

Me: Agh! (Runs again)

Private: Girls, stop it!(stands between us) Skippah, help me.

Skipper: (laughing) I think you're doing just fine by yourself, Private.

Me: While I try to not to be murdered by Trixy, enjoy!

Chapter 6: The Secret Spilled

(Nobody's POV)

Everyone was still playing cards when Kowalski and Cecelia return. "Kowalski, were you really that purple cat?" Skipper asks as Kowalski sits down.

"Sadly, yes I was, Skipper." Kowalski says sighing. Rico snickers.

"You poiple kitty." Rico says laughing. Kowalski rolls his eyes which make Rico laugh harder.

"So, is it time for a new round yet?" Cecelia asks. Lieutenant nods.

"Yep, we were just about to deal out the next round actually. You two want to join in?" Lieutenant asks. Both Cecelia and Kowalski nod and Lieutenant deals out the cards. They play the card game quietly for a few minutes, and then Lieutenant's fiancée, Anita, enters the HQ.

"Hello, everyone." Anita says upon entrance. She is a pretty blue and green peacock with violet eyes. Lieutenant looks over at her and smiles.

"Hey, Anita, come on ovah. We were just playing a game of cards, do you want to play?" Lieutenant asks. Anita shakes her head with a laugh.

"No thank you, Lu, but I do need to talk with you for a moment…alone."

"Oh?" Anita gives him a look. Then a look of sudden understanding floods his face. "Oh! Okay." Lieutenant gets up and follows Anita out of the HQ.

"I wondah what that's all about." Private says. Everyone nods in agreement.

(Lieutenant's POV)

"What did you find out?" I ask once we were outside the HQ. Anita hands me a dagger.

"I found this near the landmark you told me about. Do you recognize it?" she says. I nod.

"That's Mum's favorite daggah. She'd nevah part with it unless it was absolutely necessary." Anita nods.

"So you've said…many times actually. Have you told Private and the others about your parents yet?" I shake my head.

"No. I-I just don't know how. Private won't take it easily, which worries me. I just don't know how he'll react."

"Well, we'll never know until he is told. Therefore, you are going in there and you are going to tell them now." I nod slowly.

"Can't you tell them?" Anita sighs exasperatedly and shakes her head.

"No, you're going to tell them. You need to tell them, you're their brother; they need to hear it from you. They look up to you. I'm practically a stranger to most of them in there. So go tell them." I nod slowly and head back towards the entrance. "I'll come back by later to see it how it went." She then hops back over the wall and goes back to her own habitat and I reenter the HQ. Now HOW in the world am I going to start? Oh, how I wished this day would nevah come. *Sigh*

(Private's POV)

Lieutenant waddles slowly back into the HQ. He grabs a cup of coffee of the counter and sits back down at his cards. It looked like he was thinking hard about something. A thought then comes to me; it was a question that I had always wondered about but had never asked about. "Um, Lieutenant, what happened to Mum and Dad?" I ask. Lieutenant chokes on a sip of his coffee in surprise.

"What do you mean, Private? They died. It's not like they could still possibly be alive somewhe-…" Cecelia says then, realizing what she had said, covers her beak with a flipper. "Whoops." Lieutenant and George glare at her.

"Wa-What? Th-They're alive!" I stutter surprised my eyes wide with shock. Lieutenant sighs deeply.

"They may be alive. We don't really know. Anita found Mum's daggah on her trip to Egypt yesterday; so it is a slight possibility that they could maybe be alive." Lieutenant says carefully.

"So why are we still here? Let's go find them!" I exclaim standing up. Lieutenant stands up and pushes me back down into my chair.

"Private, it's not as simple as that. There's a few reasons we haven't gone aftah them. Reason one is that Dad said not to. Reason two is that I tried once and failed. And Reason three there's a large possibility that they could be not alive." I notice how hard Lieutenant tried to avoid the word 'dead.'

"How long have you known they could be alive?"

"Fifteen years." I gasp in shock; Mum and Dad had been MIA for fifteen years.

"You mean you've always known…and you lied to me? All of those years you told me they were dead, and they aren't. I can't believe you lied to me, Lieutenant." I say getting up. I notice Lieutenant flinch with my last sentence. "I-I just can't believe it." I say shaking my head.

"Private."

"No, you left them for dead. We could have gone aftah them at any time through the years. How could you?" I slide out of the room.

"Private! Come back, you don't understand!" I stop by the door.

"You're right I don't understand. I don't understand why you lied to me all of my life and left Mum and Dad like that." I slide out of the HQ. I had to go clear my head.

(Nobody's POV)

The room was silent once Private stormed out. "Well, that went as well as could be expected." Says Cecelia. George glares at her. "Um, I think I'll be going back to the lab." She then gets up and leaves the awkward room.

"He didn't even let me explain my actions to him." Lieutenant says morosely.

"That's common Private behavior. He'll be back soon; he just needs to sort all of that in his mind." Trixy says reassuringly.

"Lieutenant, why don't you tell us why you didn't tell Private." Skipper suggests. Lieutenant nods.

"Yes, I'll tell you all, maybe you'd be bettah at talking to Private about it than I."