Chapter 7: Painful

Well it was almost over, her meaningless life was almost over. The sign that said in huge letters had told her that she was leaving, again.

Ginger just stood in wide eyed shock, the sign almost mocking her in a way that she wanted to tear it down. However, there must have been a reason for why she had to be transferring, wanting answers she walked over to Marlene's.


Marlene walked back with Ginger to read the sign, Marlene looked at it, sighed, and solemly turned towards Ginger. Marlene looked as if she didn't know what to say to her, she put one hand on her shoulder like Skipper would have, and said softly.

" It means your going back to Tasmania for some reason"

Ginger felt her hands go up to her face and start to bawl, why? Just after she got used to the boys and Marlene, and after she felt loved, she would never recieve that feeling in Tasmania. She would just be put a former shell of herself, lonely and bitter. Ginger cerently didn't want that to happen again, she wanted answers why she was leaving.

" I think I know who can help me" Ginger said while turning towards the penguin habitat.


Ginger explained what was going on to Skipper, he listened carefully and asked Kowalski to take notes. The whole time Ginger saw that Kowalski was halfheartly writting, which was unuseal for him, however she knew the reasons why. Ginger could feel herself start to cry which made her more angry, the whole time she was here she just cried, cried, cried, cried. That might have been a reason, they probably saw her so upset they figured she was homesick. Ginger dried her tears immedatly.

" Okay men, you heard the situtation, we need answers and now!" Skipper motioned for Rico and Private to do a background check on any zoo files. Skipper then turned towards Marlene. Kowalski and Ginger.

" You three are going to go over to Alice's and listen well, she sometimes says things outloud"

All three of them nodded, they left the HQ and walked over to the zoo's main office. Ginger never really said much, and neither did the others. They just walked in silence and listened to the owls that hooted above their heads, Ginger could feel a conversation starter rising in her throat, but she dislodged it, she did feel like talking but the words didn't come out, just as a little sqeak and that was it. After what felt like an hour, they arrived at the zoo's main office.

The window was lighted, and they could see a silhoutte of a girl, presumbly Alice. Ginger just sat in the bush just as the others had did, this time with the look of anger on her face she wanted to hear why she was leaving, by the looks of the darkness in the aura of light, there was a meeting going on.

" Alright you knuckleheads listen up! I'm Alice and we need to talk about a platypus transfer" They heard Alice's voice boom.

Bingo, was all Ginger thought to herself.

" What seems to the problem with the platypi, besides her different complexion?" They heard an older man ask,

" Well I have complains from people that they never see her, or hear her, so I figure she's homesick, she is a wild platypus from Tasmania"

Ginger listened and relised, she had never seen any humans and they didn't see her, she was always to busy with the boys or Marlene. So it did make sence when they tagged her as homesick, but that wasn't the problem! To bad animals couldn't speak in human tongue. Ginger turned to Kowalski, he looked heartbroken she wondered what she even looked like. Ginger held out her hand and Kowalski put his flipper around hers.

" How much time do I have left?" Ginger had to ask, she wanted to spend her time wisely.

Kowalski took out his notebook, flipped furiously through it and paused at a page, he scribbled for about 10 minutes and then looked worse.

" About 0.0 minutes and hours, you'll be gone by tomorrow"

Ginger looked at Kowalski and heared quiet little sobs arising from his chest, he was crying. Ginger felt herself involuntary start to sob herself, she craddled herself around him and he did the same, Ginger could hear Marlene even start to sob. Ginger didn't want to leave, she doubted herself for even dubbing this place as a mistake, it was a correction! a correction in her life! why couldn't anyone else see that? It made her cry more as she relised she was being shipped out tonight.


Ginger hid herself in her burrow, aware that this was the first place that Alice would look. But what could she do? She was being shipped regardless, no matter what she said. The others had left and she wanted for Kowalski to come over and talk to her, she even made sure she had enough space in her burrow for him. Suddenly she heared the sound of something gliding through the water.

She creaped outside and saw Kowalski was gliding towards her, something was shining on his neck, it was pretty and it made her calm, she saw that whatever it was he was cradling it in his flipper. Ginger stepped into view, she didn't care if Alice grabbed her right now, only because she was with the one and only true person she loved.

Kowalski.

What suprised her was that she admitted it to herself, all this time she was deniening it, and she hadn't even relised that she loved when he touched her, it made her feel loved like the love that she used to share with her mother. Ginger felt her arms opening up wanting to be embraced by him, she was his, no one elses, they both were not alone anymore. Even if they were seas apart they would still love each other and thats what true love is about, being or not being with the one you love regardless of what the outcome is.

He gave her a huge teddy bear like hug and smiled at her, he then grabbed the item around his neck and held it out so she could see it, Ginger gasped it was the most beautiful thing she'd ever seen. It was a heart shaped necklace with a bunch of colorful little beads inside, she looked at Kowalski.

"It's a proposal, you take this so I know that you'll always love me and I'll be yours, and when, er if you come back I'll take you as my wife, but! only you take this necklace" Kowalski said while curling his flipper around the necklace.

Did she want to become married to Kowalski? The answer was already in her heart, yes. Yes she did she wanted his love, they fitted so well together and they would be perfect together.

" Yes, I do" Ginger said while she put the necklace around her neck, Kowalski smiled, leaned closer, she did too and they kissed and cuddled each other, Ginger held tight to him for a long time, she wanted to remember his warmth, his kiss, his everything. When they let go of each other Ginger suprised herself, she didn't cry though she felt like she wanted too. Instead Ginger wore her goofy looking smile and giggled, it then turned into a long over exargareted laugh, something she never thought she'd ever do, when she stopped she smiled and looked at Kowalski.

" Thank you, I'll never forget you, I don't think I could" Ginger said while eyeing the necklace.

" That piece of paper that Private said was classified, was actually blueprints for that necklace, Skipper and I both thought it'd be a nice present for your birthday or something, I must admit I'd never thought I'd give it to you soo soon, but" He stopped midsentence, not sure of what to say.

" Thank you" Ginger said, now she felt tears start to fall from her face.

Just then they saw Alice coming around the corner, Ginger turned to Kowalski gave him another hug, and he swam away over the wall, leaving Ginger by herself. Alice came through the employees gate and looked and smiled at Ginger.

" Well girl, you'll be happy now were sending you back to Tasmania, so in the cage you go" Alice stuffed Ginger unto a metal cage and started walking towards the main office. Ginger still wearing a bit of smile, kept looking at her proposal necklace. She grasped it and said to herself,

Yes, yes I will be back, you can count your life on it, I'll find my way back to you Kowalski, please believe me!


What goes around comes around I guess, Ginger once again put into another crate only this time she was going back home. Home, wasn't a good word, her home was in New York with the boys and her one love. Ginger knew she wasn't alone however, she still felt the embrace of Kowalski in her necklace. She slowly closed her eyes, still seeing only more darkness. She tried to drift off to sleep.

Ginger was awakened by a loud siren sound just moments later, it scared the heck out of her as she felt her crate being picked up, also the sound of humans screaming commands at each other was disturbing. The only thing that Ginger got out the whole scream fest was of the word Ireland.

" What is that place?" Ginger asked herself aloud, it cerentaly wasn't Tasmania she knew that for sure. Just then she felt her crate being dropped, and nothing else. Slowly she felt the crate breaking in several places, when the top fell on top of her, Ginger peeked her nose out the crate and smelled fresh air for miles. When Ginger got out of the crate she saw something she hadn't expected to see.

A huge castle just miles away, long bends of green grasses everywhere she turned. A flock of rolly pollie animals all with fluffy white fur all over them. She wasn't sure where she was, but she had one idea.

She remembered when the humans were screaming at each other, the word Ireland showed up quite a bit in the conversation, she thinks she knows where she is.

Ireland.

THE END! thanks for reading, btw the Ginger story is what I want to make an arc, this was the first one where I introduce Ginger, second is her finding herself in Ireland after a wrong plane command and 3rd you'll find out!