Chapter 10- Recovery: Part 1
Ryder lays on the couch with eyes open. He decided to wait for the pups to wake up before he starts his day. While he waits he thinks of what happened.
-Ryder: Why would someone hurt all of the pups? Self defense? No, the pups would be on self defense. That guy must have attacked first. But why was he here? For me? For one of the pups? It's not like he wanted to visit in the middle of the night. Who would do this?
Ryder leans up.
-Ryder: Who did do this.
Ryder runs over to the elevator and takes it down. When the elevator stops at her bottom he sees the body in the driveway. Ryder slowly makes his way to the body, seeing the torn neck and torn arm.
-Ryder: My god!
Carefully not getting any blood on him, Ryder searches the body to try to find any information on the guy. Ryder finds a wallet in the front left pocket and opens it to show a license.
-Ryder: Mark Gruut. 36 years old.
Ryder puts the wallet back and examines the wounds again.
-Ryder: He was only hurt in two places. He shouldn't be dead from two tears, even if the tears was infected immediately. He didn't lose enough blood to die, even though there is a lot.
Ryder stands back up and pulls out his pup pad. Scrolling through his contacts, he stops at the contact 'Adventure Bay Police Department' and presses the screen.
-woman: Hello, this is the Adventure Bay Police Department, how may I help you?
-Ryder: Hey Jonas, this is Ryder.
-Jonas: Ryder? You don't really call us, is there something wrong?
-Ryder: Yes, there is. I... have a corpse in my yard.
-Jonas: Oh No! I'll contact Lian from the hospital right away.
-Ryder: No. He can't be brought back to life. He's been dead for too long. I'm going to need someone to take him away and someone to found out why he's here.
-Jonas: Officer Sam and Investigator Jacob. I'll send them there right away.
-Ryder: Thank you Jonas.
Ryder ends the call and puts his pup pad up. Before he slides it in his back pocket, he checks the time on it. 6:59am
-Ryder: I wonder if the pups are up yet?
Skye slowly starts to wake up. Grunting from the pain, she tries to stretch but the amount of pain was too much. She stops and silently curses. Instead of trying to move she quickly blinks a few times to reset her eyes and looks around.
-Skye: (in her head) So I'm back at the Lookout. Inside on the top floor. Everybody is around me, sleeping.
Skye turns her head to the right.
-Skye: (in her head) And who is beside me? Chase!
Chase was right beside her sleeping. His two left legs was laying on top of her. Breathing out of his mouth, Skye gets a whiff of his breath.
-Skye: Jeez, Chase. What did you eat?
Just then the memories of last night hit her head. The smell of the sack she was forced in. The horrible pain experienced. The never-ending anger she had. The sight of her friends being kicked and punched...Then there was Chase. Out of nowhere he rescued Skye from death and he showed that man what happens when you mess with the paw patrol. Skye remembers seeing his eyes when he saved her. It seemed like his soul was gone, vanished. Like he couldn't control himself. Then he tore that guy's arm up. Smeared his teeth and breath with blood. And took the chance he found to kill that man. Skye even remembers right before she passed out. The worried face of Chase looking at her. His eyes was back to normal then. She finally remembers the three words Chase yelled at the intruder. 'LEAVE...SKYE...ALONE'.
Tears rolled down Skye's eyes while she remembered. She wipes away her tears on Chase's chest, thinking he won't care.
-Skye: Thank you for saving me Chase. I guess since you being asleep is the only time I will not be shy enough to say this but...I...love you.
Skye gets a surprised lick on her forehead.
-Chase: I love you too Skye.
Skye looks up to see Chase smiling at her, but she seen the dried tears that ran down Chase's face a while ago.
-Skye: Were...you awake the whole time?
-Chase: No. I woke up when you decided to use me for a tissue.
Skye laughs a bit but stops in pain.
-Chase: Don't try to move or anything, I guess even laugh. You was hurt the most.
Skye lays her head down but picks it back up and looks at Chase.
-Skye: Do you mean it?
-Chase: Mean what?
-Skye: That you love me?
Chase's face softens.
-Chase: Of course I do. I mean, how many times did I accidently show you that I cared during missions?
Skye thinks for a moment.
-Skye: Too many. And how many times did I show you?
-Chase: Pretty much one main one.
-Skye: When was that?
-Chase: I'll always remember that time when you laid your head on me.
-Skye: ...Are you talking about Friendship Day?
-Chase: Yeah.
Skye rolls her eyes.
-Skye: I showed you plenty of more times you know.
-Chase: I know, but that one time is always on my brain.
Skye laughs again but stops in pain.
-Chase: I know that you can't really move, but your cuts might need cleaned. At least before an infection starts.
-Skye: You think I can clean my cuts?
-Chase: No, I don't think you can.
-Skye: What do you m.,.
Skye was interrupted when Chase starts to lick her.
-Skye: (giggling) Hey! What are you 'laughs' doing?
-Chase: I'm cleaning your cuts.
Chase lifts Skye's right arm and licks a few cuts clean. Then slowly moves her on her side to lick some other cuts close to her ribs. Chase did his best to miss her breasts since she might hit him for it.
-Skye: (laughing) Stop! It tickles!
-Chase: Almost done.
Chase licks the cutsand bruises on both her front legs.
-Skye: (laughing) Are you done yet?
-Chase: There's one more place.
-Skye: You cleaned every cut, what else is.,.
Chase licks her whole face. Skye couldn't help but giggle.
-Chase: There. All done.
Skye wipes off the saliva from her face.
-Skye: I will say, there's not much pain anymore.
-Chase: Your welcome.
-Skye: And I think you should brush your teeth.
-Chase: Huh?
Chase exhales in his paw and smells his breath.
-Chase: Uh, your right. And now I think you should take a bath.
-Skye: Your also right. I can already smell you on me.
Skye slowly stands up and turns to the others, feeling a lot better.
-Skye: When are they going to wake up?
-Chase: Hard to tell. Fighting can take a lot out of you.
-Ryder: Skye?
Skye turns her head to see Ryder standing in the elevator.
-Skye: Hi Ryder.
Ryder runs over and hugs Skye.
-Ryder: Thank goodness your alright!
-Skye: Yeah, of course I am.
Ryder slowly releases his hug on Skye.
-Ryder: Why are you all wet? And kinda smell like Chase?
-Skye: I...um.,.
-Chase: .,. In order to not get an infection, I had to clean her cuts.
Ryder looks at each of them for awhile before answering.
-Ryder: Thanks Chase for taking care of your teammates.
-Chase: It is my duty Ryder sir.
Ryder scratches behind Chase's ear.
-Ryder: I'll be back. I need to get any medication I can find to help. Licking wounds only helps temporary. It still needs to be bandaged up.
Ryder stands back up and heads to the bathroom, not hearing another pup waking up.
-Marshall: Uh, everything hurts.
Chase and Skye looks at Marshall standing up. Chase runs over to him.
-Chase: Marshall, are you alright!?
-Marshall: I'm breathing, does that count?
-Chase: I guess it does.
Marshall pushes on his ribs and holds his pain in.
-Marshall: I think I got a broken rib.
Marshall looks at the bruises and cuts on his arms.
-Marshall: Looks like these cuts might get infected. You want to clean them for me?
-Chase: What? No!
-Marshall: Ah, but you licked Skye clean.
Chase face turns red, and even redder when he thinks about how Marshall said his sentence.
-Chase: You were awake this whole time!
-Marshall: Yeah. I woke up about fifteen minutes ago.
-Chase: So why didn't you say anything?
-Marshall: I didn't want to.
Marshall starts to lick his wounds by the time Ryder came back with a first-aid box and some rubbing alcohol.
-Ryder: Marshall, Thank goodness your up too!
-Marshall: Yep, I'm good.
-Ryder: Three awake, four left to go. Marshall, are you good to move around?
-Marshall: Kind of.
Ryder walks over to Marshall with the first-aid and alcohol.
-Ryder: Your the first I need to check. Lay on your back.
Marshall does what he was told.
-Marshall: I think the only thing bad is a broken rib.
Ryder presses on Marshall's ribs.
-Ryder: You have no broken ribs.
-Marshall: Well it sure feels like it.
-Ryder: You only have a bad bruise there.
Ryder continues to check. He puts some bandages on the bigger cuts and alcohol on the smaller cuts.
-Ryder: Your good to go Marshall.
-Marshall: Thanks. I'm guessing you need me to help with the others?
-Ryder: Yes. With your knowledge I need you to patch up everybody's wounds.
-Marshall: You want me to wake them first?
-Ryder: I prefer for you to not. If there awake then they are going to react. Go down to your ambulance truck and get the 'emergency supplies'. Then come back up here and check Rocky and Everest. I'll check the rest.
-Marshall: Okay Ryder.
Marshall walks to the elevator.
-Ryder: Marshall.
-Marshall: What?
-Ryder: I think you should wake Zuma up too.
Marshall nods and takes the elevator down. Ryder looks back at Chase and Skye.
-Ryder: Who wants to get checked first?
-Chase: I don't need checked Ryder. I wasn't hurt.
During the conversation Ryder walks over to Skye and bandages the seen wounds.
-Ryder: Doesn't matter if you wasn't hurt, your still going to get checked. Better safe than sorry.
Ryder finishes Skye's treatment.
-Chase: Alright then. Go ahead and check me.
-Ryder: Actually, I decided that I'm not going to check you. I'm going to have Marshall do it in his ambulance.
-Chase: So I'm getting another full checkup?
-Ryder: Not just you, everybody. Especially after something as bad as what happened.
-Chase: And when?
Ryder takes a moment to think about the question.
-Ryder: Well, I'll have Marshall check all of you before we go to bed tonight. That way the wounds will heal a bit.
-Chase: Alright.
Ryder starts to patch an unconscious Rubble. While he finished the elevator came up with two pups.
-Zuma: Holy cow! What happened!
Zuma ran over to the hurt pups.
-Zuma: Who would do this?
Marshall walked over to the unconscious Husky and started to patch her wounds.
-Rocky: My guess is it was five people working for the scientists.
Everybody looks at Rocky, which was barely able to stand up. Ryder ran over and checked him.
-Ryder: There was five men Rocky?
-Rocky: Well, three men and two women. And they wasn't a match for us.
Rocky started to laugh but coughs up blood. Ryder wraps cloth around the cuts and scraps.
-Ryder: You need to get some more rest, but you also need to be fed. Hey Chase, can you.,.
-Chase: Say no more Ryder. I'll fix us breakfast.
Chase walks over to the kitchen and finds a bag of dog food. He pulls it over to the bowls and pour the dog food into each food bowl. When they were all filled he put the remainder of the food back. He then jumped up to the counter, grabbed a pitcher that was already laying out, and pushed it underneath the faucet of the sink. He turned the hot water on and waited for the pitcher to fill completely up before turning off the faucet. Chase grabs a lid for the pitcher, puts it on, and as best as he can climb down to the floor without spilling the water. He takes the lid off and throws it back on the counter. Finally, he evenly dumps the warm water into each bowl, puts the pitcher back, and stirs the food with a spoon. During this, Marshall and Ryder checked and woke up the remaining pups.
-Chase: Breakfast is ready!
Instead of the usual 'yips' from Skye and the 'yay' from the rest, they just walk over to the food and eat, making no conversation. Chase walks over to his food bowl and start to eat. He was the only one not eating slow, so he was first to finish. He decided to jump on the chair opposite of the kitchen in the living room and wait for the rest to finish. He noticed Ryder eating some cereal out of the bowl.
The first two pups that finished the food was Marshall and Everest. They both went over to the couch, snuggling and talking.
The other pups finish at about the same time, but each one went somewhere different. Rubble and Rocky pretty much stayed there. Zuma went to the bathroom. And Skye walked straight towards Chase. Chase started to fire up his brain and wonders what Skye will do or say to him.
-Ryder: Skye, can you come over hear a minute?
-Skye: Sure.
Skye walks over to Ryder and started to talk. Chase couldn't make out what they were saying, so he eventually stopped trying.
-Ryder: Skye. You have the best memory out of all of us, so...
Ryder takes a notebook and pencil from the top of the counter.
-Ryder: ...Can you tell me what the people from last night look like.
-Skye: I guess.
It took Skye a minute but she described the people in detail. She thought she actually did too much details since Ryder's eyes slowly got bigger and bigger. Ryder completely filled the first page of the small notebook.
-Ryder: Thanks Skye. This will surely help.
Ryder scratches behind Skye's ear and let her continue off. Ryder tears the piece of paper out of the notebook and shoves it into one of his pockets.
-Skye: Chase, can you help me with something?
Chase was surprised that that wasn't one of the things he thought Skye would say or do.
-Chase: Uh, sure.
Chase hops off the chair and follows Skye to the elevator. They both take it down to the bottom level. When they exit the elevator Chase's focus went toward the body in the driveway.
-Chase: (in his head) What does Skye want? I hope it doesn't involve the body.
Chase decided to ask, still focusing on the corpse.
-Chase: Skye, what did you wa.,.
Chase couldn't finish his sentence since Skye pressed her lips against his. He wanted to back up and away but both his mind and heart told him to stay still and let her. They held the kiss for about three seconds before she pulled her head back. She smiles at Chase, which in return smiles back.
-Chase: So you just wanted to be alone with me.
Skye nods and gives him a shorter kiss this time.
-Skye: Chase, you saved my life and we both found out we love each other. I want to repay you, so I thought we can do something together.
-Chase: What do you have in mind.
-Skye: In my mind? I think we should do something more 'physical' than just kissing.
Chase's face turns red at knowing what she meant.
-Chase: Skye, no matter how much I want to do that with you, I can't.
Skye puts on a worried face, thinking something is wrong.
-Skye: Why?
-Chase: We're too young.
Skye was about to ask why does age matter if your in love, but she remembers that Chase is a police pup. Not only underage sex is illegal, but this is Chase. The one thing he does is follow the rules if he can. She recalls when one time Chase forced other officers to arrest him because he stepped in a park that didn't allow pets. But that was years ago when they all had to go to Barkingburg for Ryder to help the queen.
-Skye: Just this once Chase.
-Chase: Sorry, but the rules are the rules...But.
Skye holds her head back up to face Chase.
-Skye: But what?
-Chase: (smiling) There might be other things I can do to you.
-Skye: Like what?
Chase giggles before he tosses Skye on his back.
-Chase: I guess you will find out.
Both Chase and Skye heads over to Chase's puphouse, walks in, and closes the door, followed by locking it.
About five minutes after two men walks up to the lookout. One seen the corpse.
-?: This must be the person.
-2nd?: Yeah. You go and find out who he is while I talk to Ryder.
The first person bends down at the corpse and examines him while the other walks to the lookout. Before entering, he stops from hearing what sounded like moans coming from one of the puphouses. He tries to listen.
-Skye: Come on Chase. The deal was the faster you move your tongue, the more enjoyable your blowjob will be.
-Chase: I remember the deal, but my tongue is tired.
The man decided to ignore it and takes the elevator up.
Ryder watches Skye and Chase take the elevator down.
-Ryder: (in his head) Where are they going?
Thinking that his question will be answered later, Ryder walks over to Marshall, which was still beside Everest.
-Ryder: Marshall. Do you think you can give the pups a checkup again this night?
Marshall looks over to Everest, which winks at him, then turns his focus back to Ryder.
-Marshall: Sure, but why late in the day?
-Ryder: So the injuries you all got can heal a bit.
-Marshall: Oh, yeah. I don't mind.
-Ryder: Thanks.
Ryder was about to leave before he stops himself.
-Ryder: And Marshall?
-Marshall: Yeah?
-Ryder: I get you two are together now, but you are still underage. So don't fool around again.
Both Marshall's and Everest's face turns completely red.
-Marshall: Uh...how...did you find out?
-Ryder: Your pup tags has a high resolution holographic camera. It projects itself out a bit, showing an electronic screen, and points to your body so I can see you and speak to you.
Marshall swallows the remaining dignity he had left and tries to change the main focus of the conversation.
-Marshall: How does are pup tags do that?
-Ryder: How does your vehicles turn into a house, back to the vehicle? I'm just that good.
-Everest: Are you going to tell Jake about what we did?
-Ryder: ...No.
-Everest: Thank you.
Ryder started to walk away.
-Marshall: Ryder?
-Ryder: Yeah?
-Marshall: Don't you think Skye and Chase will do something like what we did?
-Ryder: Chase won't let it happen. He knows the rules.
-Everest: Yeah, but Chase would do pretty much anything for Skye.
-Ryder: Mind your own business you two. Please.
Marshall and Everest nods and Ryder walks to his bedroom to get his pup pad that he put on charge. Ryder picks the pup pad up, finds Chase's name, clicks on silent so Chase doesn't find out, then taps the icon. The camera view showed Chase's head between Skye's rear legs. Ryder quickly turns the camera off.
-Ryder: At least it is not actual sex, but I still need to talk to them. Later.
Ryder puts the pup pad in his back pocket and leaves his bedroom. He hears the elevator kick on, so he waits.
-Ryder: (in his head) Or maybe I can talk to them now.
Ryder was surprised that instead of two pups arriving, a man appeared from the elevator. Not just any random man, a man he recognized this time.
-Sam: Hello Ryder.
-Ryder: Hello Officer Sam.
Both shake hands.
-Sam: You can just call me Sam.
-Ryder: Okay.
Ryder pulls out a piece of paper from his pocket and hands it to Sam.
-Ryder: The person laying out there wasn't the only one here last night. There were five in total. That paper describes each one in perfect detail.
Sam reads the paper.
-Sam: Do you know why they came here?
-Ryder: I'm not for certain, but my educated guess is that they are trying to take my pups.
-Sam: What do you mean by educated guess?
-Ryder: There are these two scientists that visited twice and wanted to take my pups, but I refused. After the first visit, three other people tried to kidnap a pup. Then after the second visit, five people tried again.
-Sam: Were you awake during the fight?
-Ryder: No, I didn't know it happened intil one of my pups told me.
-Sam: So your pups was in self defense.
-Ryder: You know us. We don't start the fights.
Sam nods.
-Sam: Well, none of you are going to jail for murder since none of you wanted to kill.
Ryder never thought that him or his pups could have went to jail for murder. Luckily, he doesn't have to think about it now.
-Sam: I'm going to get this information to Jacob.
-Ryder: I would follow to greet Jacob, but I need to stay with my pups.
Sam nods and takes the elevator down. When to the bottom, he walks over to the investigator.
-Sam: You found anything?
-Jacob: Yeah. This Mark Gruut person died from getting one of his life arties torn.
-Sam: And there is only two bites on him. One on the neck and one on his hand.
-Jacob: Yep. Whoever did this knew how to kill.
Sam looks at the lookout.
-Jacob: I wouldn't want to be around the pup that did this.
Sam turns back around.
-Sam: How do you know it was one of the pups?
-Jacob: The injuries are bites from a dog.
Sam hands Jacob the piece of paper.
-Sam: I'll get the body while you read that and get the cleaning supplies.
-Jacob: Okay.
Jacob goes down the hill where a black suv with some red and blue lights flashing and opens the trunk, getting the mop and water. He makes his way back up the driveway, passing Sam carrying the body. Jacob uses the mop and water to wash up the blood, then goes back to the suv. Putting up the cleaning supplies beside the body in the trunk, he closes the trunk lid and hops in the passenger seat.
-Sam: Ready?
-Jacob: Yep.
Sam puts the suv in drive and drives away.