After Ceaser and the team of apes finished talking and hearing Malcolm oit, they agreed to let them stay in the woods to fix the dam, but with the exception of no guns. None whatsoever. After giving them all up and making camp near the dam, the humans set to work while the apes went back home.

When they all returned home, Koba had another argument lined up as they sat in their meeting circle around the fire.

'If they get power, they'll be more dangerous! Why help them?!' Koba argued.

'They seem desperate... If we make them go, they'll attack.'

'Let them. We'll destroy them while they're weak.'

'And how many apes will die? We have one chance for peace... Let them do their human work. Then they'll go.' Ceaser signs back and Koba went silent. Ceaser could see the pure hatred and anger in his eyes. Then he began to laugh a little hysterically.

"Human work?" he asks almost in hysteric humor.

"Human work." He points to his arm.

"Human work." He points to his shoulder.

"Human work!" he shouted pointing angrily at his eye.

Ceaser stood up a little higher glaring down at him, his signature warning for any ape to back away and not challenge his authority. Koba shrunk away and left angrily while Blue Eyes walked up to his father, watching the older ape leave. He turned to his father confused.

'Koba say... Apes should hate humans...'

'Enough! From humans Koba learned hate... But nothing else.' Ceaser replied and he nodded to his son, who just looked down at the ground.

'besides. Mina is human. She is kind and strong.' His father says to his son, who perked up at the thought of his human friend. Then his face went flustered, remembering their kiss.

Blue eyes nods slowly, thinking about her. He was still confused on how to feel about the humans, but he knew how he felt about Mina. He liked her and acted as if he were her friend, but she was a human. Could he really get past that? And what about her? Did she regret kissing him? Did HE regret it?

The next day was slow, but Ceaser was becoming more worried for Cornelia's help. She wokr up in a horrible labored breathing, wheezing and huffing out short breaths as Ceaser moved to her side. An Oba looked her over, holding her hand and sitting down beside her as she was looked over. The oba shook her head.

'There is nothing we can do but hope she is strong enough to make it.' she explains. A deep sadness set in the kings heart as he nods at th female. She ledt him wirh his wife as he sat down beside her, caressing her head as she hugged the baby to her.

'you ok?' he signs. she nodded at her tired mate.

'Just need rest.' She signs to him weakly.

He shook his head and caressed her face while looking out the hut entrance, deep in thought.

'You worry about the humans...' cornelia signs. he nods a little.

'what about this female from the forest? Are you worried for her?'

'she seems so different from the others. Almost innocent in all of this chaos. I don't know what to do with her.' He signs.

'do not overthink it Ceaser, if she is good then she is good.' Ceaser nods to his mate smiling softly at her just as Blue Eyes came in, his spear in his hand.

He moved to his mother and smiled sadly down at her as he caressed his baby brother's furry little head.

'Where's koba?' Ceaser signs to his son.

'Still angry. Said he was going hunting...' Blue Eyes replied as his baby brother gets up, jumping on his brother and squeaking happily.

The little chimp cooed at his big brother as he climbed onto his lap, smiling up at him. Blue Eyes smiled sadly at hos brother, then turned to his mother, who had fallen asleep again due to exhaustion. If his mother doesn't pull through soon...

Then suddenly, it hit him; Mina's metal box! Maybe she had something that could help his mother; medicine she called it.

'father, going to see Mina. Maybe she has medicine for mother.' Ceaser thought about it and nodded.

Blue eyes was quick to put his brother down and leave the hut. He grabbed his necklace as it bounced against his fur, holding it to his chest ad hr rushed out of the colony and down thr hill a ways to see the girl.

When he reached her camp, he halts at the sight od the fire, still dead from last night and no Mina up and about. Her flaps on her tent was still closed. He slowly pulled it open and saw her slreping peacefully in her little blanket. Its so strange for her to be sleeping when it was almost mid day. He moved to her side in the tent and nudged her a little wirh the back od his knuckle. She slowly opened her eyes and looked up at blue eyes, who gazed down at her worriedly. She smiled and sat up slowly, stretching and yawning as Blue Eyes backed up a bit. She had a small tshirt on rhat rode up past her belly button and showing her skin. He looked away as she stretched, then looked back as she rubbed her eyes.

"Mina..." he then pointed to the box with red cross on it. She looked at it, then at him, confused.

'You. hurt?' she signs poorly. He shakes his head.

"mother. sick." her eyes widened and she nodded, getting up out of the blanket.

Blue eyes' gaze was drawn to her boxer shorts she used for pajamas and looked over her legs. They looked smooth aside from the hair growing on them, he almost reached out and touched them, but when she turned back with a pair of pants, he blinked in surprise; she was about to undress! He quickly got up and moved out of the tent to wait for her, gulping as he thought about her legs and stomach, his face growing warm again. Once dressed, Mina grabbed her kit and left the tent, standing up sytaihht with a hsir tie in her hand, twisting her hair into a small bun becore nodding to Blue Eyes signalong she was ready to go. She took his out stretched hand and left with blue eyes, jogging all the way to his colony with the metal box in her hand.

This being only the second time the entire colony has seen her, they were surprised to find her sprinting inside with a metal box, following blue eyes up the ramp to the king's hut. But seeing as how she was with the prince they didnt think much of it, thouhh the little ones were shocked and excited to see a human. Maurice quickly got their attention however and continued their lesson.

When the two teens got up yo the top hut, b5lue Eyes huffed at his father, who was still by his mate's side. Ceaser saw Mina and nodded in greeting as they entered the hut. She nodded back and looked over to Cornelia, who was staring at her with soft kind eyes. She smiled at the female ape and put her kit on the ground opening it and sifting through it. She pulled out a small glass jar with clear liquid in it and a syringe.

Ceaser, having seen this all happen before, sat beside the girl as she filled a bit of the syringe with the liquid and looked at him. She then tapped the crook of her elbow where the veins were more noticeable and he nodded. He signed something to his mate and she nods, holding her arm out. Mina got a cloth ready and slowly injected the needle in the female's arm, pushing the liquid into her bloodstream. In minutes, the female relaxed and began to breathe easier. Mina removed it and put it in a plastic bag, wrapped a small gauze around the female's arm to stop the bleeding, and sat back.

"she...better?" Ceaser asks.

She only taps her wrist, signaling it will be a little while until the results. Ceaser nodded and looked back to his sleeping mate and put his forehead to hers. He turns to Mina and takes her hand, to her surprise, and smiled at her, bringing her own forehead to his and held her tjere, his hand on her neck.

"Thank you." he says.

She smiled brightly at him with a nod as he let her go, letting her put her supplies away. Then she heard. little squeak and turned to the female, noticing a baby chimp half asleep on her chest, looking at her in innocent curiosity. She reached down and pet the little one's head, in which he chirped happily at her, grabbing hold of her fingers and hugging them in fascination. This must be the first time ever seeing a human and he seemed to love it. She waited until he fell asleep and slowly removed his fingers, backing away quietly. By now, the mother was sleeping much better already and blue eyes smiled, patting her shoulder as Ceaser looked to his mate, then turned to the human at the foot of their nest.

When she picked the kit up to leave with it, she auddenly stopped and looked at it, then back at the apes. They needed it more than she did, so she handed it to Ceaser, who took it confused.

"Why?" he asks.

She pointed to you and then to herself, shaking her head. He understood she didn't need it and nodded in thanks, smiling at her.

"Thank you." he says and she smiles, nodding.

"Will you stay. for food." He asks. Mina seemed surprise, but nodded in thanks.

She gave Blue Eyes a pat on the shoulder lightly before walking out of the hut, leaving the two males to their family. Blue Eyes watched her leave and sighed in relief. His mother will hopefully be better soon, thanks to Mina.

Ceaser patted Blue Eyes' shoulder, smiling as he saw the light in his son's eyes. He knew that look on his face, that hapoy feeling in his son's chest as he watched Mina go down the ramp. He knew what his son was feeling.

He felt that way about his mother.

"Go, I will stay with your mother." Ceaser spoke. Blue Eyes nodded and ledt, following Mina down the ramp and seeing her with some baby chimps. He huffed out a laugh; she was sitting with the babies to learn sign!

As he sat on one of the bridges, he couldnt help but stare at her as she made up the words with the babies, hanging on Maurice's every teaching. She looked like she belonged.