Hey everyone! I hope you are liking the story, I've been kinda busy lately so sorry ^^' I forget to update... But hey I have free time so heres a chapter for ya! I thought I was suposed to be LESS busy in summer but apperently not :/. Anyway have fun seeing the crew and their weird interactions!
~Akimo
Wren stood, frozen with horror. She slowly turned around to see the towering Chase with a goofy smile on his face. She couldn't choke out any words.
"I finally found you! You sneaky devil." chase smiled, squatting down so he was eye level with Wren. Wren scrambled for the edge of the table.
"Not so fast! Don't you dare think of running off this time." He said, putting up one giant hand to stop her.
"I told you not to look for me!" Wren yelled, spinning to face him. Chase just sighed.
"And I told you I would love to be friends. I mean what's stopping us? You must be so lonely in your house by yourself. I know I am..." He trailed off, playing with his fluffy hair shyly. Wren's face softened a bit.
"It's just... Humans are dangerous. I'm just trying to survive here okay?" She explained. He crossed his arms.
"But I could help you! I swear I'm not bad. Wouldn't it actually be safer for me to just bring you food and stuff?" He smirked, bringing up a good point. Wren opened her mouth to reply and shut it again, unable to come up with a good argument.
"This human!" She yelled in her head. She paced impatiently back and forth for a few moments before turning back to him.
"Hey, could you get me some... Crackers? I'm kinda hungry." She lied, trying to find an escape. His smile faded.
"No way. The last time I got you something to ran for the hills. No way, unless you come with me." He said sternly. Her face turned pale.
"No way am I being handled by him. He'd probably squish me to death." She thought, shaking her head in a definite no. He scratched the back of his head.
"Then I guess no crackers for you." He laughed, taking a seat on the floor to make himself more comfortable. Wren sighed, sitting down herself when she realized she wasn't getting away anytime soon.
"So where exactly is my stuff?" Wren asked finally. Chase giggled.
"Well. Right here actually." He said, pulling her satchel from his pocket. Wren jumped up again and ran over to the edge of the table that was closest to him.
"Hey! Come on! Give me it1 I need that to live!" She yelled, reaching desperately from the table as if she could somehow reach him without falling to her doom. Chase's giggle turned into a chortle.
"You look so cute! Oh my gosh! Hahaha!" He laughed. She grit her teeth.
"Hey! I didn't choose to be tiny!" She yelled at him, clenching her hands into tiny fists, turning away so he wouldn't see her actually blushing. He nearly fell over as he laughed, but composed himself before Wren got too angry. He stuffed the satchel back into his pocket.
"If you want them back you are gonna have to talk to me you know." He said with a mischievous grin. Wren groaned, sitting down with a huff. He giggled a little bit again. He sat for a bit before sighing.
"Are you just going to sit and watch me?" She asked, turning around to face him. He thought about it for a moment before replying.
"Well... I never really thought I would find you again. So now I can't just let you walk away now." He smiled awkwardly.
"So I'm guessing that means you wont give me my stuff back yet..." Wren frowned. Chase nodded with a smirk. Wren rocked back and forth impatiently as she sat.
"Can I ask you one favour? This one is real. I promise I wont run away." She asked, looking him dead in the eyes to make sure he knew she was serious. Chase was hesitant, but nodded seriously.
"Could you get me some honey? I'm running low and it's kind of an emergency." She asked, hating that she had to rely on Chase. "If you just gave me my stuff back I could get it myself... buuut." She brought up. Chase narrowed his eyes, thinking she would run away again.
"If get you some do you promise to talk to me again?" He proposed. Wren nodded reluctantly.
"Okay okay, fine. Stay right here, and you better still be here when I get back!" He called as he ran off to the kitchen. A moment later he returned with a bottle. He was panting slightly.
"That was fast..." Wren commented. Chase Rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.
"Well I had to run okay. I thought you would ditch me again." He mumbled. Wren was surprised he actually cared that much. He set the bottle of honey down next to Wren. Wren stared at it for a moment, waiting for Chase to do something with it. Chase just stood, looking at her like she was supposed to do something.
"You do know I can't take ALL of this right?" Wren said, gesturing to the bottle of honey that was nearly twice her size. Chase suddenly realized his mistake and snatched the bottle back as he blushed.
"Oops... I don't meet much tiny people." He said, grabbing a thimble out of a drawer beside the couch.
"We prefer Borrowers thank you." Wren snorted, feeling inadequate and unimportant beside the human. Chase just laughed and filled the thimble with honey.
"So that's what you are. At least I know now, I would hate to be rude." He smiled. He handed her the much more manageable thimble. Wren gave him a small smile of gratitude that stunned him for a moment. She turned to leave but then realized she would be giving her secret entrance by his DVDs away if she did. Chase sat down on his couch and watched her climb down the cords, stop and think.
"Lost?" He asked with a slight snicker. Wren grit her teeth.
"No! I bet I know this house better than you do!" She retorted. Chase threw his hands up in surrender.
"Hey I bet you do, I only inherited this house from my great aunt last year." He said, getting up from the couch. "But I bet it takes a while to get home from here. You said you lived in the garden right?"
"Yeah wh-" Wren's question was cut short by a large human hand grasping her body. She kicked and screamed like a mad man but he didn't let go. He headed off towards his back door. Wren flailed for a good five minutes before finally stopping.
"You done?" He asked with a chuckle. Wren just frowned angrily. She finally relaxed as he opened the door and walked outside. His grip was firm but soft. Taking care not to hurt her, but at the same time never daring to drop her. By the time he had walked half way into the garden she had grown comfortable in his grip. He opened his hand and let her crawl into the grass.
"You should really mow the lawn..." Wren brought up, barely managing to look over the grass. Chase just laughed and sat down in the grass with her.
"Sorry about not waring you." He apologized, playing with the grass in front of him.
"Thanks... for the lift." Wren mumbled, barely audible to the towering human. Chase smiled and gave her a wave as he got up, his face had a slight pink glow to them. Wren waved back and to her surprise was smiling as well. He ran off into the house and Wren sighed deeply.
Seed stood in the kitchen, stirring a pot of soup and glancing at the door. Shio was looking over her shoulder with interest.
"You are a pretty good cook." He said, looking at the pot. Seed smiled to herself, thinking of different dishes she could make for him. Lost in her thoughts she nearly spilled a bit of soup while stirring. Seed nearly jumped out of her skin when Shio grabbed the spoon she was stirring with.
"Careful! Don't spill it." He laughed and Seed could barely breathe.
"Oooooo! Steamy!" Came a snickering voice from the hallway. Shio jumped, spilling a bit of the soup onto the hot stove.
"Pen! You made me spill!" Seed yelled, grabbing a cloth and wiping the mess up before it could burn too badly. Shio gave Pennelope a death glare, but she just snickered and skipped into the kitchen with a happy smile. Derek followed, setting the herbs they had collected down on the table. Seed stopped wiping and froze for a moment.
"What's that?" She asked, turning around to see a small bee buzzing around the room.
"PEN WHY IS THERE A BEE IN HERE?! GET IT OUT!" Seed yelled, winding up her cloth to swat at the tiny fuzz ball. Pennelope grabbed Pollen, hugging her closely.
"NO! Pollen is my friend! You can't hurt her!" Pennelope yelled, burying her face in Pollen's fuzz. Seed's anger melted and he gave a little sigh. She turned back around and finished wiping up the soup.
"Well... Make sure you keep it out of Granny's room, I don't want her getting any more sick." Seed said, throwing the cloth into the sink.
"Pollen isn't an it she is a her." Pennelope corrected, letting Pollen go and watching her buzz around the room. Seed turned her attention back to the soup. She pulled out a spoon and handed it to Shio. He nodded and took a taste of the soup. He smiled and nodded.
"Wow! It's really good!" He beamed. Seed's face lit up as Derek and Pennelope laughed in the corner. Seed ignored them and turned the heat off on the stove. She took out a small clay bowl and dished some soup into it. She picked up the hot bowl with a dishtowel so she didn't burn her hands and brought it to Granny's room. Granny smiled as Seed walked in.
"Granny you are supposed to be sleeping." Seed frowned as she sat on the bed. Granny just gave a slight chuckle and held her hands out for the soup. Seed handed the soup over, careful not to spill it. Granny took a big spoonful but Seed caught her wrist.
"Woah! I just made that like two seconds ago you might want to let it cool down." Seed instructed. Granny frowned.
"Well why didn't you let it cool before bringing it to me." Granny retorted, blowing on the spoonful of scalding soup. Seed just smiled at the criticism.
"If she is this snappy she must be feeling a bit better." seed thought as she stood up and turned to leave.
"Anything else you need?" She asked. Granny shook her head and Seed nodded, walking out of Granny's room and closing the door quietly behind her. Seed sighed and sat down in one of the kitchen chairs. She looked to the door, wondering where Wren was and why it was taking so long.
"I'm going to go and see if I can find Wren..." She said, making for the door.
"I should go with you! You know... for protection.. or something." Shio offered, jumping at the chance to be with Seed. Seed paused for a moment, then shook her head.
"If I bring more borrowers then we would be a lot more noticeable, and I don't want to chance it seeing as Wren has been gone for a while. She might be in trouble, and if she is I'll come back and get help. Okay?" Seed explained, hoping she didn't hurt his feelings. Shio just nodded thoughtfully.
"Good idea, We'll all stay and look after Granny, good luck!" He smiled, giving a wave as she ran out the door.
Seed kept her eyes peeled for any sign of Wren's green tunic as she wandered through the walls of the house. She eventually sighed and gave up after a few long moments and decided to give the garden a shot. Seed made it a good two feet into the backyard when she heard the back door open. She panicked, scrambling back into the cover of a nearby rose bush. She thorns pricked her skin but it was either this or being caught and Seed would rather die than be seen by a human. The human had his hands cupped, holding something that he obviously didn't want to break. He walked to about the middle of the backyard. Squatting down he unclasped his hands and revealed Wren. Seed reeled in shock for a moment before clutching the rose branch with anger.
"I warned her about humans but noooooo. She had to go and befriend one and endanger everyone." Seed snarled in her head. After a few moments of watching them talk the human walked back inside the house and Wren turned towards the house, looking around for anyone who might have seen them. Seed ran out from under the rose bush and made a bee line for Wren.
"WREEEEN!" She yelled as she ran, surprising her and making her nearly drop the honey.
"What the hell Seed!" Wren yelled, her eyes darting to the door, making sure Chase was inside.
"Wren. Can you please explain to me why you were just over there," Seed pointed to where Wren and Chase were a few moments prior. "Yeah right there, I dunno, TALKING WITH A HUMAN. NOT TO MENTION LETTING HIM CARRY YOU." Seed said harshly, sticking her face in Wren's. Wren stopped dead for a second, realizing that Seed had seen pretty much everything.
"Well.. Look Seed I don't have my satchel and-" Wren tried to explain but Seed was too angry to listen.
"Relationships with humans contradict every Borrower's very nature! You could have been killed or worse, sold to a scientist or something. I mean we could fetch a fair price on the black market right? But nope! You decided to endanger our family because you kinda liked the guy. You Don't even-" This time it was Seed who was cut off.
"LISTEN, maybe you want to play it safe and be boring, never taking risks. But Granny needed some honey, and I found a way to get it. Now if you want to sit here and waste time bickering over the fact that I made a relationship that could get us VALUABLE RESOURCES then go ahead and keep on yelling but I'm going to get this honey to our lovely Granny before she gets any worse." Wren said, her cold stare harsher than ever and her voice as cold as an icicle and just as sharp. Seed was shaking with anger but said nothing. She just stormed off with a very long, loud, and angry groan.
Wren sighed deeply. She looked down at the honey, then shook her head free of her thoughts. She set a brisk pace back to her house.
"Damn it! Why didn't she just stay at home. Now she's angry..." Wren thought as she sighed again. "I told that fool to not look for me. Its not like it's my fault!" Wren nodded, her reasoning clearing all doubts from her head. By the time she was finished thinking she had made it home.