"Ok where to begin here um you ever heard the phrase the calm before the storm. I've always felt this phrase was wrong in both weather and in life I've always seen it as the calm that causes the storm the events that you cause or the events that happen in the calm domino into the events in the storm. This is one of those times this is the last sample of calm before the storm starts to role in but as always we will weather it and ether come out stronger or flickering like a candle in the wind but ether way we will weather it!" As she says that a rusty squeak and clank and rattle sounds in the background she then smirked and said. "And with that I'd like to say batten down the hatches and I hope you enjoy my fucked up life."
I woke up to rex licking my face again this was about the third time I have passed out on this couch and the third time rex has done this and like the last two times I dragged myself to my bed before collapsing in it and passing out again. A short time later I woke up unable to ignore the damn sun poring through the window this had been one of the positive reasons I had gotten this place. This natural alarm clock was nice and came with the added bonus of waking up to a pleasantly sunlit and warm bed. Unfortunately, this time it was just too damn early I really needed accouple more hours of sleep.
"I still need more sleep." I mumbled heading for the shower.
"What the hell is up with this heat why is it so damn hot in hear." I went over to the ac unit and cranked it up before continuing to the shower. Where I tried to nod off in the shower but again I had the dream with the blurry figure and rather than trying to fight it or chance another run in with that nightmare thing I just gave in and slipped my paw between my legs. I staid like that tell I ran out of hot water again after that I dried off and was hit by a blast of frigid air as I left the bathroom.
"Damn it that's fucking cold." I said rushing over to the ac unit and switched it off I then grabbed a blanket. To try and warm up even though I was freezing cold and a little wet on the outside it felt like I had a hot fire burning inside of me.
"What the heck do I have a fever or something." I mumbled aloud.
I didn't fill sick well ok I felt like crap but not sick like that. I went over to the first aid kit I kept in the kitchen. Well first aid kit might be a bit of a stretch as mine contents looked more like what you would find in an apothecary but since I hated the harsh chemical medicine and avoided it when I could. Herbs and remedy's like these where what I preferred, and I wasn't half bad at making them. I soon found a thermometer and stuck it in my mouth then turned on the tv to the news and set down on the couch. As I weighted my paw slipped between my legs as I checked the thermometer I was warm but not more than a very low fever.
"ok think um I feel hot tired hungry and my paws still a little sore and I'm slightly dizzy though that's probably do to the lack of sleep and a proper meal and I." as I said that I yanked my paw from between my legs as I realized what was going on. I was in heat and strangely it was out of season and what was worse it was a lot more powerful than the miner nuisance I was used to and if it was anything like the way my sisters described there's to be. It was only going to get a lot worse before it got better I might even need to get a suppressant from the pharmacy.
Though I had to try the remedies for now and hope it's enough as I try to work through it I hunted down the old book of remedies. This book had been given to me and written by my ant rose and looked up the recipe and it was one of the more powerful remedy's in the book and then started to brew up the remedy as I cooked breakfast. I had been able to make 5 doses with what I had on hand though that was barely enough for a day and a half. I then poured each dose into a bottle each then put them and a bag of the main ingredient and a bag mint leaves into my bag. The main ingredient was a type of kudzu leaves I could chew on if it flared up. As for the mint leave I could use them to get the horrible taste the kudzu left behind out of my mouth.
Once I had finished with that I ate my breakfast. I had toast with peanut butter a pack of each of microwave pancake's and French toast and oatmeal and washed it down with a can of ginger ale. I then went and got dressed picking out a pair of t shirt and jeans because. I had planned to clock in then run errands today but because I knew it wouldn't take the full day I had put a change of clothes in a grocery bag. I then grabbed my stuff that I needed for the day and drank one of the doses the stuff tasted terrible, but most remedies and even modern medicine tasted like that, so I guess I can't really complain too much. That said I still had to wash it down with another can of ginger ale as I left my apartment for the day and started for work before deciding on a minor detour.
I stopped in front of Sam's crappy apartment building and weighted for her to come out and the remedy to kick in it finally did but it only maid it just barely manageable. I was definitely going to need something a lot more powerful I thought as I started to chew on a kudzu leaf. As a Z.P.D. officer who was walking the beat had spotted me putting the leaf in my mouth. This one was another wolf, but he was pure Wight he walked over and asked what I was doing I held up my paw one finger up signifying one moment as I spit the chewed up leaf into the trashcan and said politely. "sorry about that officer did you need something."
"yes, I'd like to know what it was you were just chewing on and if you'd let me check those bags of yours." He said politely with his paws on his hips, so he could easily reach for the items on his belt if he need it like his guns of which he had two one was a trank and the other was a live fire he also had a baton and taser on his belt. I also noticed his nose twitched as he sniffed clearly searching for the smell of drugs on me.
"Sure, it's a species of kudzu commonly used in herbal remedies though I should warn you that it would make you sick if you ate it, but it has some rather useful effects if you chew on it or boil it." I said holding out my bag for him I had nothing to worry about I knew the law and I had nothing to hide.
He gave me a surprised look then he started to look through it pulling out a few tools a circuit board and a book I had been reading. And my copy of home barrows catastrophe the four remaining doses In their bottles I got another funny look for that. He then opened and sniffed the two bags of leaves and cursed at the foul smell of the kudzu and then sniffed with delight at the mint it even got his tail wagging and asked me. "Is this mint?"
"Yep it gets rid of the awful taste of the kudzu." I said casually.
"And the bottle tools and this thing are for what." He asked picking up the circuit board and looking it over.
"That's a simple circuit board the tools and that are form my job and the bottles are a remedy maid from the kudzu and before you ask. I'm a licensed herbalist and no I'm not licensed to sell those are for personal use only so that's not a problem." I said pulling out my certification out of my wallet and giving it over to the wolf who pulled out a small device to run it.
Then asked with a raised eyebrow "And what are these used for then."
"I um there forrr um." Now I was blushing I motioned him to lean down so I could whisper it. And thankfully he actually did though I couldn't miss the partly annoyed and amused smile as he kneeled down on all fours.
"There heat suppressant for some reason I found myself in it this morning and need some help getting it under control." And with that the wolf who was now blushing stood up and returned my stuff as his device beeped he checked it and said.
"Well everything seems in order though this license will expire at the beginning of spring, so I'd go ahead and get it renewed." He then returned the license and walked off.
I sighed in relief then put my headphones and weighted, but it wasn't long before it started to get late. So, I went in to try and find her, but it figures with a building like this her buzzer was broken. "Great." I tried her neighbors broken the next set broken and the next set after that and again they were all broken. I then decided to try the building manager and to my surprised it actually worked.
"Um hello is this one really working." I asked tentatively, and a little louder then was necessary.
"Yes, it fucking works what the fucking hell you want." The very loud and very angry voice came out of the intercom and yelled at me.
"Um can you buzz me in I've tried over half the buttons and they don't work." I asked trying to keep my own temper in check I really don't like being yelled and or cursed at.
"No first off who the damn fucking hell are you and second why I the god dame fucking hell should I let you in if you aren't a paying tenet and third why the fuckin fucking fuck hell should I chair." He yelled sounding slightly drunk or high maybe both I honestly don't know what the difference is, but he was definitely super pissed.
"Because I just need to talk to my friend and I will leave as soon as I'm done and if her button had worked I wouldn't be bothering you right now. Also, the sooner you let me in the sooner I stop bothering you." I was trying to play nice and see if that works and if it don't I'll piss him off more that usually works in my favor well I usually had to punch someone but hell if it works it works I thought as the com went silent for a few seconds before he finally spoke.
"Oh, fuck make it quick and keep your talk quiet or else" he said and to my surprise he actually buzzed me in.
"Huh first time that's actually worked." I mumbled as I hurried in before he changed his mind and then tried to find her room number it didn't take me long to do so. 'And Is that a past due notice on the door how much trouble was she in!' I thought as I looked around at my surroundings This place was a crumbling dump I'd bet it wasn't even close to code I'd be surprised if the rooms that still had doors even still had power and water. 'I really really need to get her out of here.' I thought as I knocked on her door. Then I heard something moving on the other side.
A few minutes later Sam came to the door and cracked it open just enough to say. "Look Freddy I told you already it will take me a few days but I I will ask my boss for an advance s so you will get your money just please."
"Like hell he will I'll see this place shut down and scheduled for demolition before then." I said interrupting her with a smirk on my muzzle.
"Lilly wh wha what are you doing hear." she said opening the door.
"I came to walk you to work but now I'm getting you out of here this place won't last a day after an inspection and that's what I plain to do." I said as I walked in.
"bu bu but I can't afford anywhere else I can't even afford this place after the mugging I lost all my money all of it and now" she said sadly looking like she was about to cry.
before I interrupted her and knocked her sad train of thought clean off its tracks. "Z."
"Um what?" she said giving me a very confused look.
"Z or Zheleznyye-kogti damn that's a hard first name to pronounce um she's the black wolf from yesterday she owns my building if there's any free rooms she'd take you in in a heartbeat. If not, I know a few places, but this isn't a good place for you it's just not." I said before she had broken down in tears and sobbing as she pulled me in for a hug.
I guess ending up on the street's must have been a major threat to her damn or maybe she just really needed help luckily, I was more than happy to help her and both heaven and hell knew this wasn't my first and won't be my last time I've done something like this and so far, it payed off and in my favor well most of the time anyways now all I needed to do was to make some calls.
"Um hay you going to be ok" I asked tentatively before she set me back down on my paws.
"Yeah I'm just a little shaky right now I feel like I have been treading water on my own for so long and constantly slowly sinking now just as I'm about to fully go under you show up and throw me a life line" she said clearly trying to pull herself together.
"Um wow I'm not really sure what to say." I said blushing she had thrown me for a loop.
'I know people say we bunnies are emotional, but this cat was so emotional but mostly sad.' I thought as I patted her on the back.
"But look I'd like to give you a minute but we are running late, and I need to be clocked in and running errands on time and I'd rather not have you walking to work on your own tell your attackers caught or things calm down." I said checking the time on the weird little clock that was built into my locket.
Sure, I had a wrist watch but I liked the weird little clock unlike a normal clock that had hands this clock has four little rotating rings. Each ring had a slightly smaller ring in the middle except for the fourth one which holds a tiny copper disk. That had the pattern that the tiny music box used to play the tune that played when it was opened. The other three rings where divided into. Second and minute in the first ring hour and day in the second and month and year in the third and it was back dropped by the clockwork mechanisms.
On the other side there is a picture of me mom dad Fred and Thomas from when I left the hospital. For the first time for my other siblings this was a baby pitcher of them with their litter brothers and sisters and mom and dad in front of the burrow. Mine was of me at the age of six in a weal chair with mom and dad standing behind me and Fred and Thomas on each side. Oh, I guess I should also mention that us girls got heart shaped lockets decorated with the flower we were named after and the boys each got a pocket watch we get them on our 10th birth day. I snapped it close as the song that played when its open started to repeat.
"That's a very pretty locket um if it not to invasive of me to ask what do those little rings mean." She asked curiously.
"yeah its fine." I said popping it open again and pointing out each ring and its meaning and then she spotted the picture.
"Oh, who's that." she asked pointing at me in the picture.
"That's me and Fred's on my right Thomas on my left and behind me is my mother and father." I said pointing out each in the old photo.
"That's your mother she looks like she would be your older sister and is that really you look so much younger than your brothers and and you're so small. you don't even have your black markings you actually look a lot more like them hmmm." She said sounding surprised and a little curious.
"Yeah I get that a lot the black marks started appearing shortly before I turned ten. As for my mom I get that a lot she looks younger than her oldest child, but I have no clue how or why she does it. As for my size I'm a runt so of course I was small the steroids didn't get any major results tell around the time I hit puberty and I quite literally doubled in size. after that I was marked as clear for any major health risk and was very slowly taken off the steroids." I said snapping the locket shut again then tucked it back in to my shirt.
"Any ways we need to get going I'll wait outside as you get ready." I suggested this because the tiny apartment was only a single room leaving us with little to no privacy.
"Ok I'll need a few minutes, but I'll be as quick as possible." She said before running off to get dressed as I left and called Z.
"Urg what is it fluff you do realize its 9 am and I'm mostly nocturnal." She complained groggily.
"Sam was mugged." I said and then quickly pulled phone away from my ear.
"WHAT GRRRRRRRRRRRR WHERE AND WHEN AND WHOS THE BASTERD WE GOING TO BEAT THE FUCKING CRAP OUT OF!" Now she was growling and that meant she was pissed good.
I know wolfs and they view family and in certain situation friends as a pack and I am a proud member of hers and in her eyes. Sam was ether a member of my pack or she viewed her as my mate do to that embarrassment of a morning. Also, to attack even a distant member of the pack was like declaring war and a very bad idea. Though in this situation it was a very powerful tool but one I didn't like to use. like this but desperate times and all that.
"She's ok as for who we don't know Sam got away from him and that's all we know at the moment. She managed to get away with nothing more than a scratch on her arm. Sam has already given his description to the Z.P.D. and there looking into it. Also, as for when it happened yesterday and that's not the biggest problem at the moment." I said weighting for the growls to slowly die down.
And once it had she said. "And what could be worse then your girl getting mugged."
'Yep she definitely thought we were sleeping together.' I thought and blushed
"She's about a day and a half judging by the notice away from being on the street. She pulled the last of her money out of the bank to make a partial payment on a shit pit some ass hole claims is an apartment and the mugger took the money along with her bag wallet and I.D. . Now I'm more than willing to pay hell I have a lot more then I need we both know that, but I need to get her out of here Z its bad its really really bad hear." I said concern evident in my voice I then sighed and continued. "Look I don't like asking you this, but do you have a spare apartment I'll cover the first month and."
"Stop yes first three months minimum then will talk payment and 6C I'll leave the key in your mail box and next time don't hesitate." She said sounding like she was more than mad that I had tried to convince her instead of just asking as the line cut off.
"Wow that worked a lot better than I expected ha it's good to have a friend like her." I said as Sam came out of what was soon to be her old apartment.
"Well good news you got a new apartment price yet to be arranged but knowing Z it will be fair at least you can move in as soon as today" I said as Sam gave me a shocked look complete with a dropped jaw this got a little laugh out of me.
That seemed to snap Sam out of it and say. "Bu bu but how you I was only gone 6 minutes how did you manage that."
"Z and pack mentality" I said casually earning me a confused look from her I then sighed and said "wolfs have a thing called pack mentality. a pack is made of friends and family who they consider them self close to. I'm proud to say I'm a member of her pack that's a big deal to them and is never to be taken lightly it's an honor and is to be treated as such. Any ways the moment I told her your situation and she knows if I was desperate enough to ask for her help that you were in deep and I mean in a really bad way. she jumped at the opportunity to help me help you and honestly she was a little upset that I was so hesitant to ask."
And again, I found myself lifted off the ground an into a hug. "Thank you you and her and the others your all too kind I don't deserve such kindness but thank you thank you so much." She said braking down into tears after a few minutes she finally calmed down enough to speak. "I'm I'm sorry I just."
"It's ok I understand." I said as she sat me back down and wiped away her remaining tears as I patted her on the back. "Are you going to be ok." I asked her as she tried to regain her composure. "Yeah I think I'll be ok." She said with a sad smile. "Ok that's good now we need to get going we have a busy day ahead of us" I said before leading her out of the building.
"Me Fred and Thomas will come by after work to help you pack the main problem will be my rabbit size car you might barely fit but your stuff wont I'll rent a trailer it shouldn't take more than two or three trips. If you want the furniture though I should warn you the apartment comes with a medium size class couch and bed." I said but Sam didn't respond instead she just followed me.
"Are you ok you seam distant." I asked clearly concerned trying to bring her back from whatever dark part of her mind she had just been in
That seemed to have snapped her out of it and bring her mind back to the topic at hand as she said. "I'm sorry what."
I sighed. "ok I was telling you I was going to help you move but you where zoned out with a dark look and clearly missed what I said so what's wrong."
she gave me a sad little smile that didn't come close to hiding the sad and dark emotions in her eyes and said. "I'm just trying to get this all straight in my head and there's a lot more in there then I'd like and most of it dark but thanks to you it's not all dark well not anymore at least."
That statement strangely made me a little week in the knees my heart feel heavy. And made me feel sadden and a little angry or pissed or both there was to many damn emotions and feelings running through me right then. All I really wanted to do was lead her somewhere safe far away from that darkness and sadness and just hold her. But I couldn't I know how this world works you couldn't just smash or run away from the problems of the world. I know I've tried and failed at both and I know you can't just fix it ether there's just too much of it broken to be fixed or some is to vast or to badly damaged to fix quickly or easily and some pieces are just too far beyond repair and can't and or will ever be fixed or fixable. The best strategy I've found it's better to chip away at the problem bit by bit tell you make it easier for them to go and fix the problem them self's and that seems to fix a lot more and a lot faster then anything I could do on my own and I'll do the same with Sam. I just hope that whatever she has that was broken could be fixed.
I hugged her this time and said. "I just hope it helps I can do a lot, but I can't fix everything."
I sighed and let her go as she gave me a confused and concerned look before we continued our walk in silence. tell we reached our destination and are greeted by Fred and Thomas.
"Hay there you two are I was wondering when you were going to get hear I was even about to call your cell to see if you wanted one of us to walk Sam hear today but you beat me to it." Thomas said pulling the guts out of the brake room toaster.
"Yeah she was on my way in and why are you gutting my toaster again?" I asked through a sigh rubbing the breach of my muzzle trying not to let it become anything more than irritation.
"It's busted I found a frozen waffle way too big for it jammed in it the Mechanism was locked up and a few of the parts where bent I'm trying to fix it but ether I'll need a few new parts or a new toaster." he said picking up the broken parts and showing them to me.
"Ok fine why don't you check the store room the last two toasters you tore apart are in there along with all the other things you have broken or build." I sighed referring to the growing scrap yard we called a store room.
I mean we have a medium size class car rear axle back there and who knows what else was back there or where half it came from. One day it was mostly empty then the next random junk started to appear and more of it kept appearing and we kept finding uses for some of it or its parts and would slowly start to eat away at tell boom there was more. Than some would just vanish, or something would get lost and just would appear in there and I have no clue how or who's doing it.
"Ok I'll take a look at what we got." He said getting up.
"Before that I need you and Fred in my office um Sam mind clocking us both in and weighting down hear." I asked and hoped I hadn't barked it out like I do when I took command.
"Oh um ok." She said walking off as I headed up and tried hard to and failed not to watch the sway in her hips and tail as I felt my own tail twitch.
I shook my head trying to clear it before I continued on up and set down at my desk and then shakily chugged the bottle of suppressants and thought. 'what the hell was that!'
All the way up the stairs images of Sam naked and one of Thomas though he was clothed had flooded my head leaving me dizzy and desperate. I covered my muzzle with my paw and closed my eyes then leaned my head back hoping the suppressants would kick in soon. And hopefully last me long enough to get to a pharmacy and something a lot more powerful.
"Hay oh sis it reeks in hear what's gotten into you." Thomas said covering his nose with his paw making my now constant blush darken.
"It's not my fault I'm in heat and the suppressant I brewed up this morning just fizzled out I've already taken a second just give me a minute to let it kick in and to collect myself." I said before getting up and opening my filing cabinet and pulled out a can of sent mask and sprayed the office and myself heavily.
"There how's that." I said feeling it start to ebb away slightly.
"A little better but I can still smell you though its mostly gone." He said his nose twitching as he sniffed. As I started to regain my composure as I said.
"Well let's hope that suppressant will take care of the rest of the smell now more importantly on my way in I went to get Sam and learned that she was about to be kicked out onto the street." "What!?" Fred and Thomas interrupted me in their weird unison they seemed to have.
It's not just them speaking at the same time but their identical reaction and motions. Hell, I'd say they thought the same thoughts but who knows maybe they can. But mom and dad always just said it was a twin thing I've heard it called twin empathy, but I think it's just there to much alike.
"Yeah well I've already fixed it all it took one three minute call to Z and it was all fixed and went better than I had hoped." I said with a smile
"That's good now." "What do you need of us." Thomas said and had Fred pick up and finish his sentence both with a mischievous smile.
"Stop that you know that creeps me out now after work today you Sam and I are going to pack up her tiny shit hole apartment. And you're hopefully going to keep her busy long enough, so I can get her out of her lease without getting her involved in that mess. Also, it shouldn't take long or much she hasn't got a lot and you can't fit a lot in a space that small two or three trips at most. We get that done and it will get a huge weight off my shoulders and a much larger one off hers. So please well you help me out hear." I said and weighting for a moment to see what they'd say.
Thomas mischievous smirk grew, and he said. "Fine will help if you add it to our overtime and answer one question."
I sighed and said giving him a look that said you're on thin ice. "Fine and depends on the question."
"Is this just one of your charity cases or something more" He said smirking at me.
"Um first one I think I mean she just needed help" I said sounding a little confused and thought to myself. 'And now he's smiling why is he smiling?'
"Well ok then so a cat huh." He said in his weird way he used when he got when he played cards. or when he seemed to know something the rest of us didn't figure out tell later.
"What the heck does that mean." I said very confused and more than a little defensive.
"Oh, its nothing you will figure it out soon enough." He said walking off as Fred gave me a confused shrug and followed him.
I sighed and got my car keys off my desk where Thomas had left them like I ask him to and went down to find Sam. I found her sipping pot brewed coffee in the brake room.
"Oh, hi so how did it go." Sam said with a polite and strange mix of sad and slightly hopeful smile that seemed to put a vice around my heart. I couldn't tell why though I had way to much mixing around in me at the moment.
"Yeah I just enlisted them to help me move you into your new place." I said with a smile and trying to and slightly failing juniper to keep my focus.
"Oh, I um thank you." She said her smile leaning a little closer to happy now.
"Your welcome now here comes the hard part I've got errands to run so you won't have any work to do. So you have two options surf the web um my computer as I still haven't finished yours or you can come with me I'll leave it up to you." I said heading to the door before remembering something I had forgotten and turned back towards my office.
"Um I'll go with you but um where are you going." She said following me.
"I forgot something in my office." I said heading back up and grabbing the jar spider. I then doubled back down to my car.
"Why are you bringing that." Sam asked as she squeezed into my car she could fit comfortably if just barely.
"It's one of the errands we have to run today." I said starting the car and driving off. We soon arrived at the salon where I had Fred make me an appointment the day before.
"Why are we hear." Sam asked looking around at the surrounding building.
"I need a full body trim my clothes don't fit right anymore I ether need a trim or a larger wardrobe." I said with a sigh as we walked in.
"Is it really that bad" she said giving me a odd look as we walked in
"Worse than you think you will see soon enough." I said before heading to the counter
I then asked the female otter behind the counter. "um I'm Lilly I'm hear for my appointment and um if you could see if you can squeeze my friend hear in and let her have whatever she wants you can put it on my bill."
"Weight Lilly you can't." she said before I interrupted her.
"Look this is something nice I'd like to do for you but if you want we can run a tab so you can pay me back later but let's discuss that later for now enjoy it and relax." I said shooting down any protest from her.
As the female otter at the counter said. "We are ready for you both now please follow me."
She led us off to a section of back rooms where we were each assigned an attendant then where separated into private rooms. Most high end places like this had some one of your gender and species on staff because full body trims required you to get naked I stud in the small room and stripped as the female rabbit I had been assigned grabbed the trimmers.
'And she was bighting her lower lip crap it's happening again.' I thought as she started to shear off my fluff I tried to ignore it as she worked and felt her lay a hand on my ass. And again, I tried to ignore it and continue she soon finished and led me over to a tub on the other side of the room and help me wash the trimmed fur luckily there where rules with this stage and no touching was a big one all she could do was hose me down.
'god I hated doing this, but it takes two to do this sort of thing and I have no other option' I thought as I got out and into a full body fur dryer and within seconds was dry and warm. I then wrapped myself in a robe and grabbed the basket that held my belongings and went to one of the stylist chairs. Where my fur that would normally be exposed was cut and styled. My paws rubbed, and claws trimmed I had to admit this part I liked unfortunately it soon ended to soon in my opinion. But after they had finished I was led back to the small room to get dressed. Once I was finished I walked out to meet up with Sam who looked cleaned and refreshed and a lot less scruffy. To my miner amusement it took me speaking to her to get her to recognize me.
"So Sam how do I look." I said enjoying her reaction.
"You weren't kidding you look completely different." She said as I turned to look at myself in the mirror and had to admit the change was dramatic. With my fluff I looked like most soft/wider build doe's but without it I had a thin and compact build except for the common round hips us female rabbits had but I felt mine rode a little higher and wider but heck maybe I just have size issues. I turned around to get a better look at Sam.
'I had to admit they had done a really good job on her and had they painted her claws blue?' I smiled and turned to the counter and it was the female rabbit I had been assigned as an attendant. She rang me up $137 for the two of us I hated how expensive it was but again I didn't have many other options. I sighed and paid and not surprisingly on the back of my reseat was her phone number and a note.
'Call me and lets have a little fun fluffy.' And under the note was a heart with two crossed Venus symbols in it. I had walked out before letting my displeasure at the note show and of cores Sam noticed and asked. "What's wrong?"
I sighed and held up the back of the reseat and watched as she read it and started to blush.
"Does this happen often?" sam asked tentatively.
"Way more often then I'd like and other them my mother sisters and ants I never met a female rabbit that wasn't effected hmm I'm honestly surprised you haven't tried anything." I said teasing her a little.
"What I n mean I'd be lying if I said you weren't attractive but I'm not into girls sorry pleas no i" Sam said rapidly panicking a little and starting to jibber.
"Relax I'm not either though I'd have to say I've thought the same about you but you're not my type to big not a rabbit wrong gender now I'll say I'm not against the hole mixing genders and species thing but it's just not my kind of thing." I said casually interrupting her.
"But with what you and Fred said I thought?" She said sounding very confused and a little thrown off balances.
"Yeah I get that sort of thing a lot most assume because I attract females so easily that I'd act on their advances but all they ever seem to want from me is sex it's not love. This whatever it is causes lust and in all honest I'd much rather be rid of it." I said with a sigh as we reached the car and got in.
"Oh, hmm ok but way I mean you could have whoever you want male or female way not take you pick and settle down." Sam said like that was the most obvious thing in the world and every females goal.
"Who says I want to settle down I'm happy the way things are and have worked to hard to get where I am to throw it all away. And as for take my pick I hate that phrase it implies that ether you aren't worthy or can't go after the mammal you like because some unwritten rule of etiquette or whatever says you can't. I've always felt that you should try for who you like rules and rank or etiquette be damned well as long as it is not illegal, or you aren't forcing yourself on the other that is." I said driving us to the rainforest district.
"Well I um wow I um never well hmm since I was a kitten everyone told me I need to find a successful mate and settle down have a litter or two and let him take care of me and I've never really thought beyond that hmm ether you're the wisest or weirdest bunny I've ever met" she said with a little chuckle before slipping into her own thoughts again.
"I think it's a bit of both I'm definitely not normal not even close." I said before we finish the car ride in silences. Ten minutes later we arrived at the server bank in the rainforest district.
"Um what's this place." Sam asked following me in.
"Well though the computer services branch is owned by Lilac and suns the servers are and services are used by all companies owned or operated with in connection with the Lilac name along with a handful of companies that rent our services. So there has to be more than just that one little server building where we work I mean just the basic infrastructure needed to support such a massive system wouldn't fit in that one building. So the system is divided between seven other buildings like this one scattered throughout the city and that's not even counting command where we work and Lilac and suns private connection and server bank. And as for why we are hear part of my job is to check into these locations from time to time and today I needed to do so because I've put it off for about as long as I can" I explained exited the car.
After that we headed in to the building but unlike the building I worked in this one had a guard at the door. As well as an attendant in a waiting room but as this but all of was hear because it also housed a small business office and was the business front for the branch. I kept trying to convince my father the owner of Lilac and suns to brake the branch off into its own company. but he's never shown any signs of doing so. Sam would have had to show her id to get in but as she didn't have any that was another thing I'd have to fix I had managed to get her a guest pass. The only reason I was even able to do that was because I was the second highest authority figure in the company. I was only out ranked by my father anyone else other than my father who tried that would be escorted off premises or have the Z.P.D. called on them.
"I'm sorry about all this." Sam said apologetically.
"It's ok it wasn't your fault that some asshole mugger attacked you." I said patting her on the back and leading her into the building.
"So, um what do we do hear." She said looking around at the building.
"We need to meet with the manager hear she actually an old friend of DUCK!" I said lowering my head and ears as a fruit bat crashed into Sam.
"Maybe I should have said bat you two ok?" I chuckled a little and asked Sam and my old friend and former college roommate Juniper.
"Yeah I'm ok um hold on one second Sanderson turn that damn heater fan off at least when I'm hear that's the third time this week its blown me off cores!" She yelled at one of her subordinates and jump up and off Sam and into the air before half gliding half falling to landing next to me.
Before turning to us and mumbling. "Why the hell does a camel want to live in the rainforest anyways?"
As I helped Sam up juniper wasn't big enough to do any real damage to Sam when she had crashed into her. though if she had hit me maybe it leave a mark and nock me over but with Sam it only managed to nock her over onto her ass. "how about you Sam you ok." I asked as Sam dusted herself off.
"Yeah I'm ok though a little shaken up." Sam said looking at juniper with a funny look in her eyes that I couldn't place but something about that made the word predatory come to mind.
"Anyways Sam this is juniper the friend I mentioned before and juniper this is Sam my new friend and secretary." I said introducing the two.
"Pleasure to meet you." Juniper said extending a claw to shake Sam's paw.
Sam cautiously excepted and said. "Um same."
"Good now that you two have met I need this month's reports juniper." I said heading toward junipers office.
Sam followed me as juniper took flight to lead the way. As we walk there an elephant bumped a tower computer that she had on her desk and had been working on. It fell off and would have landed right on Sam. At that moment it again happened I acted without thinking I jumped and rebounded off a nearby desk I then collided with the computer in midair. And then put all the strength I could muster in my legs and kicked off the tower as hard as I could sending the tower flying into the wall and smashing it. I then braced to fall to the floor but to my surprise Sam caught me but she over balanced and fell on her back. I laid there panting for about a half a second before I felt Sam's arms wrap around me as she hugged me close. I felt her quiver in shock and fear of what had just happened as the other mammals rushed over to check on us. Now I know a computer falling on someone sounds like it wouldn't be that dangers but as it was a large class computer and as a medium was about as big as me or Sam and in some cases heavier then both of us. So now try doubling the size of that then you realize that if it had landed on her it would have crushed her well either that or it would have caused severe injuries. And that's if the impact didn't kill her first.
"Are you two ok?!" juniper asked worriedly rushing over to the two of us
"Yeah I think so Sam's a little shaken up, but I don't think she got harmed" I said as Sam sat up suddenly and still holding me like a kit would a stuffed toy.
"I think I'm going to be sick I don't feel so I I I!" She had said panicking as the impact of what had just happen hit her then her eyes rolled back in her head and she passed out.
"Sam!" I said as she fell back and dropped me.
"Help me get her to a chair or something!" I said trying to lift her and though she wasn't that heavy, she was just too big and limp for me to lift.
One of the larger mammals picked her up and took her to junipers office and set Sam down in a chair as juniper got Sam a cup of water and I tried to bring her around. After a few minutes Sam finally woke up.
"Finally, um now focus on my voice and stay calm." I said as juniper handed her the cup.
And after she took a few sips Sam asked. "Um what happened?"
"Long story short you passed out after you nearly got hurt." I said carefully I didn't want her getting all worked up again and passing out again.
"Hmm um Lilly did did you just save my life." Sam ask sounding almost afraid of the answer.
"Um yes I thank so though there was a chance of survival it wouldn't have been good for you though even if you would have lived it would have left you crippled and broken for the rest of your life." I said sadly because I was lying to her and giving her the probable best case.
"I I honestly don't know what to say thank you seems like it's too little, but I can't think of anything else I mean I ow my life to you I just." She said desperately searching for words.
"Look just forget about it its nothing special it's not like it's even the first time I've done it either." I said trying to get off the subject.
"What do you mean it's not the first time?" Sam asked shocked and slightly confused.
"Didn't the doctors tell you when you landed on me I greatly cushioned the fall if you would have hit the ground you would have likely broken your skull open. I think there also a few jokes about how you were able to hit a target that small or how luckily where that you hadn't landed on a porkpie and or some joke about how fluffy I was." I said continuing to try and change the subject.
"No, they didn't tell me about that I I didn't know." Sam said sounding a little shell shocked.
"Um what are you two talking about." Juniper asked worriedly.
I sighed and ran my paw over my ears pushing them back only to have them pop back up but only half way and crooked before they just fell back before I said. "I'll have to call you later and explain I'd rather not have to with Sam in the room."
"ok well talk later then." She said giving me a concerned look.
I calmed Sam down as juniper filed the report then got me the reports I need for the months review but as we went to leave I spotted the elephant who had nearly hurt/killed Sam. I wanted to hit her but I knew it wasn't done on purpose but as if she was trying to make it worse.
I heard her as she whispered to her friends. "This is way we shouldn't have to work with the tinies they should stick them somewhere small and out of the way and where they won't cause problems I mean just look what happened today plus it not like they can do the job as well as us larger mammals especially with their tinies brains"
'Ok that's it she's going to get it I can't punch her for he opinion, but I can prove her wrong.' I thought as I jumped up onto the desk and pulled an old parlor trick I have used one to many time.
I focused on the anger I had always boiling under the surface and had learned long ago to control and brought it to the surface and then pushed it out as I radiated pure rage in a way that tripped almost every mammals flight instinct. Though if you where to look at me from another room I'd just look eerily calm but to anyone in the room I would look well like a rabbit and their worst nightmare. I've heard it described as complete extreme and unexplainable terror.
"First off best not to gossiped like that when your bosses bosses bosses is in the room and can easily hear you. Second your entitled to your opinion but note that opinion was related to a coworker you nearly just accidently killed or extremely injured and you need to take your size and ability into consideration and be responsible for them instead of complaining about other mammal's differences now I'd take that in to consideration as I add sizes class bigotry comment to your company record and I hope this doesn't happen again." I said calmly before I hopped off her desk letting the rage ebb and ending my little trick.
Now I had to word that carefully because if someone was to look over the security vids. I couldn't be charged with threatening or harassing any one it would just look like a manager chewing out a subordinate for a bad comment. Rather than me scaring the ever living crap out a extremely larger mammal. I walked over to Sam and juniper and judging by their looks and the looks of the others in the room I may have over done it.
"Um what was that." Sam said in a scared whimper.
"Um let's talk outside." I said quietly before leading the two outside.
"So what did you think of my little trick" I said trying to lighten the mood once we where out side
"That was a trick." Sam asked confusedly.
"Yeah it's a bit hard to explain but yes it's a trick." I said plopping down on a bench.
"How was that a trick it was like you had flooded the room with hate and anger to the point it was over whelming and terrifying how the hell do you even do that" Juniper said freaking out some.
"Like I said it's a trick um some call tricks like these masks most use them to hide their emotions. Though there are some like me who can use them to project an emotion though it's hard to do but honestly for what I did in there that was the easy part the hard part is to do it while hiding the emotion on my muzzle. All the fear and rage you all felt it was all stimulated by nothing more than simple social cue's and body language and a lot of pent up anger nothing more." I said still trying to calm them down.
As I thought to myself. 'Damn why can't I do that trick with any other emotions it would make all this a lot easier.'
"look I'm not the only one who can do this sort of thing Thomas can do the same to confuse and or trick people and Fred well. All he can really do is piss people off but that's more his personality then any trick." that last comment got a chuckle out of juniper
Who said. "Well that's true."
"How about to apologize for scaring you two I buy you both lunch." I offered.
"Oh yes I know a good place and it's got a challenge posted." That got me up I hadn't done an eating challenge since I was in college and so broke I had to hunt them up just to eat some nights.
"Oh, I'm hooked oh um does the place serve preds we can't forget Sam" I asked her hoping they did because I was hoping to try the challenge.
"I thank so Zed the tiger who works under me is always talking about their grilled chicken fish and turkey raps." Juniper said trying to think about it.
But Sam who up tell that point been silent her ears and tail perked up when juniper mentioned the meats.
"Chicken fish and turkey all in one oh I have to try that." Sam said practically drooling over the idea of it.
"Ok then let's go juniper lead the way." It was less than a five minute walk to a nearby restaurant and as Juniper had said posted in the restaurant window was a sign. all you can eat free and a fifty dollar gift card and all I have to do to win it was to eat fifty eight of my size class soy dogs that would be a piece of cake for me. Unfortunately, that got me thinking about cake and that made me hungry well hungrier I was always hungry do to the howl higher metabolism is needed to fuel my body in enhanced states of exertion thing.
We walked, in and I asked for the challenge we were then lead to a table as a small crowd formed to watch. As the waiters brought the food and my groups drinks and set a ten minute timer and said loudly. "go." That started the challenge I went right to it pushing the whole dog into my mouth and swallowed it whole I then ate another and another. to the crowds shock the plate full of dogs vanished and I finished with three minutes to spare.
"Few" I said a second before a shockingly and extremely loud and long burp escaped me.
"Oops um excuse me sorry." I said apologetically and somehow getting a strangled laugh out of Sam.
The laugh started as a strangled chuckle that turned into a full blown laughing fit and I had to admit I liked seeing her like that rather than how sad she has been lately. So, I took my prize of free food a gift card and one happy cat I got to say these where a damn good set of prizes. We took advantage of the free food. Sam got four wraps one of each type of meat and the fourth was mixed she seamed to enjoy it and juniper got a fruit bowl and I ate three more plates of dogs they were good a bit dry but good. We soon finished and left me and Sam went back to my car and juniper went back to work.
"So where to next." Sam asked as I started the car.
"To my ant Allice pet store to check out jar spider hear." I said driving us the short distance there before getting out and leading Sam in with the jar in hand.
"Welcome oh hay big sis." Said a teenage buck with brown and grey fur.
"Oh, hay Greg I didn't know you worked hear." I said to one of my many many brothers.
"Yeah I mean I haven't worked hear long I just couldn't take that damn fast food joint I swear we never stopped moving and at least hear I get a seat to set on when we are slow. Which admittedly is a lot so yeah its already a thousand times better." Greg said leaning back in his chair.
Greg was a bit of a odd ball like me and unlike most rabbits he preferred to keep his front paws busy rather than his rear ones though that wasn't to uncommon in my family. Along with advanced problem solving we where some of the best rabbit mechanics engineers and computer specialist in the city because of that though.
"Well good for you now mind telling me where ant Allice is." I asked him.
"Sure, she's in the back go ahead and head on through." He said gesturing to the door behind him. I followed his directions into a large storage room.
"Soo that was one of your brother's um if it's not too much to ask how many siblings do you have I mean bunnies are known for rapid multiplication but I'd rather know the truth from one of the species rather than just rumors." Sam asked me.
"It's ok and that's a very good way to look at stereotypes as most aren't true. Though it pains me to say and this has been my experience that at least some part of it will have some partial truth at some level but it's usually not as bad as mammals think. But yes, we are highly efficient at multiplication as its our species greatest survival mechanism. Though most seem to think it's to do with some rabbit obsession with sex thing, but I can honestly say that this isn't true though a heighten sex drive is part of that survival mechanism. Though to answer your question and to put it simply yes us rabbits have large family's as for my sibling count I have ninety one siblings and my mother's pregnant again." I explained casually.
"Weight what you have that many siblings but but but how is that even possible." Sam said sounding dumbfounded and shocked.
I giggled at her reaction and replied. "Like I said we rabbits are efficient at reproduction and multiplication but I'm sad to say that that is a living count. I didn't count the runts and miscarriages that aren't uncommon, and I can say I didn't count runts because I didn't count myself in the sibling count where ninety two in total"
Sam still looked spectacle and looked like she was about to say something but was interrupted.
"Lilly that you damn this maze of boxes just just give me a second water bloom I'll find my way there soon enough." ant Allice said loudly as she tried to find her way to us and after about 5 minutes she finally did find her way to us.
"There you are now what did you have in mind this time." Allice said with a knowing and warm smile.
Ant Allice was a older softer doe who had lost her mate to a war. Though we weren't related by blood she treated me and my family like we were though I guess that could have had more to do to the fact she had never had one of her own. She was a runt like me and she like me was born below what is commonly referred to as the survivability margarine. This margarine system in fact was the system to declare whether or not a child was a runt or not but as, so few runts survive it earned this morbid nickname. Though in ant Allice case she was born just barely under it but that was enough that her parents just abandoned her figuring she'd die. though as she was far healthier then I was she managed to survive with only a few complications and without any treatment. but as she was left to die and abandoned her parents or birth wasn't even recorded tell after she was twelve months old and on that day observation patient A1173 became Allice doe well that was tell she married my uncle and became Allice willows.
"I brought you something." I said holding up the jar.
Strangely this got a funny look from ant Allice and she said. "No, I can't nor, would I could."
"Hu why?" I asked sounding surprised.
"That species of arachnid is endangered and how you found even one is beyond me but I can't sell it so I'd say keep it or try to give it to the nature park though if you want to keep it you will need either a bigger jar or a terrarium." She said heading back into main store.
"I think I'll get a jar and box up whatever else I will need." I said looking down at the spider it was large fluffy and missing half of one of its legs and for some reason I liked the little thing.
"As you wish water bloom." Ant Allice said with a smile.
She then got me some hay bugs to feed it and a heat lamp. I then paid for all of this and after saying my goodbyes left I then went to a large class store where I got a much bigger jar. I then proceeded to the six other server banks these went over without any problems well excluding being hit with a strawberry launched by a small pachyderm who sneezed. Once I had them all I took the reports and went to Lilac and suns law practice building where I dropped them off and Sam got super confused as she could only seem to tell me apart from the swarm of other rabbit. I then decided to visit my father me and Sam got off the elevator on the top floor and as we walked in as my father and an ocelot where starting out. My father an aging brown turning grey tall buck. With him was a large and large was a understatement hear ocelot from his paws and arms. I could tell he had some really powerful muscles but the marks on them told me he was using some form of powerful steroid and the bloodshot eyes told me it ether contained some form of narcotic ether that or he was taking way to much of it. Looking at the rest of him you wouldn't be able to tell he was juicing do to he was beyond unhealthily fat. For some reason something in me was screaming bad sickening evil threat monster that last one kept repeating and as if to make it worse Sam tensed. As if she was terrified behind me as the ocelot looked at me and gave me that pathetic small weak prey looks a lot of assholes gave me. Then his look turned to discussed and almost hatred when he looked at Sam.
"So what do you want now I gave you what you wanted your dream life with those damn machines if its money or help you won't get it I've already wasted too much on you." The ocelot said to Sam who looked like she wanted to bolt.
Before Sam said sounding terrified "no daddy I I I'm not hear for you I'm hear doing my job." Sam took a deep breath before saying a lot more boldly but still shakily. "my employer here asked me to help her run some work errands and need to speak to her father nothing more." Sam said surprising me.
Though that was enough I had decided I was going to back her up here and putting a little of my trick behind It. "Yes now if you're not done I will weight for him in his office oh I should also mention Sam has been doing good I wish you would have mentioned her experience with computer before. I'm already considering moving her to work position where she can get on the job experience though she's already very good at work I've given her." I said before leading Sam over to my father's office.
A few minutes later my father entered and said. "So what was that all about."
"Not sure he just kept triggering one alarm bell after another I'd be careful with him and especially when he's in the same building." I said wondering how far I should take this,
As my father said. "Why I know he's a predator and a less then pleasant one at that, but I don't see why I should have such great caution with my dealings with him."
"Because he tripped so many alarms and his arms are covered in these" I said parting my fur to show him the painful looking stretch marks and scars I had all over me. These types of scars appear when whatever was under the skin had grown larger than the skin could handle to quickly and would leave tares in the skin that would scar.
My father looked shocked before saying. "Are you sure he said a neighborhood pet had attacked him."
"I'm sure I've dealt with them before and I know them when I see them his hopped up on something powerful well either that or a lot of it. Though judging by his symptoms I'd say best guess he was doing both and you know as well as I do what can happen when a mammal who is pumped full of that stuff snaps." I said trying not to remember what I had done.
"Yeah I do I'll ask a few of you mother siblings to boost security and keep a eye on him." My father said as he considered what to do next.
"I'm sorry but why I mean yeah my he's a horrible mammal and all but he's not that bad is he." Sam asked a little worriedly.
"You should learn to trust Lilly's instincts she got good ones and there better then most and though they are let's say more primitive then what we deal with their also more accurate." My father said proudly as Sam gave me a confused look.
"I'm not sure that I understand but I agree he's not a good mammal." Sam said looking at the floor.
I'm not very good at reading mammals my father is good at it, but Thomas was the best I knew he could read every one like an open book that is if they couldn't put on a mask. Me on the other paw I am lucky to tell when someone was trying to lie to me but even I could tell that was a sore spot and there was a lot more to it than a bad father and I desperately wanted to know and ask for more. I also wanted more than anything else to fix whatever it was, but I knew that wasn't right and if I did try to I'd just make it worse.
"Well I guess that your hear to drop off this month's report right so Is there anything I need to know about." My father said changing the subject another of his tricks I wished I could learn.
"Um yeah I only got the clip notes from the managers, but I'd post three more guards on the nocturnal district server bank and they have had another probing attack this month. I'd have someone secure their access point and get those signal blockers I know the have their problems but there's a reason why they are used by the government and big name companies use them. As for their few problems they branch from them working to well also its rare for them to fail and it would take a E.M.P. pulse to knock them out well that or someone able to get close enough to smash it." I said referring to the one big security error my dad didn't seem to want to fix.
"I know but I worry about cutting out all communication to the building will be problematic In an emergency." He said worriedly.
"Dad the land line internet connection and even the emergency radio relay would all be unaffected by it will only block wireless signals." I said repeating what id told him three times already.
"I know but it's still seems like a big risk." He sighed and said awkwardly.
"dad you put a emergency call button on every floor a radio relay back up generators and a small armory and a stocked shelter in every building the only way the place could be any more like a fortress if you hired more guards and built fortifications." I said with a sigh as Sam looked at us clearly shocked.
"I know ok look I'll do the first two and look into the third maybe adding it to that security company that your mother runs." He said clearly not wanting to mention mom's occupation even though he was one of their best clients.
"You know she will just send it to me and I'll tell her the same." He winced when I said that.
"Yes, but she will at least ease my nerves." He said fiddling with his tie.
"Fine whatever just don't take too long I don't want my perfect record broken by some punk with a signal jack." I said as the three of us started for the server room my dad in the lead and me in the rear.
As we were about to reach the elevator when I caught a whiff of something and I thank that caused my suppressant to fizzle out and this time it hit me a lot stronger it had me falling to my knees clenching my gut as it bordered on painful. My father and Sam ran over to try and help me. Sam tried to help me up unlike my father who stopped and covered his muzzle with his paw as he realized what was wrong.
"Lilly" Sam said as one of my paws shot into my bag for the suppressant.
Though I was not sure if it would help as the last one lasted a little over half as long as the first but I chugged it anyways and said. "Yeah it's just a stomach ache I ate a little too quickly earlier is all the bottle I just drank should help."
"Um Sam could you please go fetch my secretary my daughter hear prefers herbal remedies to modern medicine but let's see if I can't convince her to take some stomach ache medication she should have some so please hurry." He said slipping his paw into his pocket to get his phone to contact his secretary before Sam could reach her.
"Um ok I'll go get her." She said darting over to the elevator.
The moment the doors closed he started typing a text as he asked me. "Ok what's up and why are you not just telling her what's going on."
"No clue it just started yesterday, and it just keeps getting worse this stuff is the strongest thing I could brew, and it seems to be losing its effect. I mean the first time it fizzled out like this I figured I needed something stronger. But honestly what's happening now it's like comparing a punch in the gut to being hit with a sledge hammer a size class up." I said as he helped me to a chair and grabbed a can of sent mask and started to liberally spray me with it then winced at my comparison
"Ok that was painful to even just think about and I'm trying hard to not think about what kind of effect that level of let's say discomfort would have on my daughter. Though even doing that I honestly have to marvel at your control, but you still haven't answered my question why hide it." He asked trying to keep his distance as I was giving off a powerful and large dose of hormones designed to attracted and arouse male rabbit bucks.
"Because it's embarrassing I wouldn't have let you know about this if the suppressant hadn't fizzled out like this. I can normally just shrug it off douse myself in sent mask and be done with it but this is a lot worse than what I'm used to but even knowing that I tried to do the same as I always do though I clearly needed something a lot more powerful to try this." I said as it again started to ebb.
though this time I knew it wouldn't go down enough to be even close to bearable this time as last time it hadn't gone away as well as the first time I had tried and this time I doubt it would even manage to make it bearable. Sam came back with the bottle of suppressants and a can of ginger ale and I guessed I had dad to thank for that I took the pill and drank the can. After a few minutes this brought it back down to barely bearable and after saying my goodbyes and watching my dad try to sneak the bottle of suppressants into my bag. I decided to let him as I needed the suppressants hell I needed something a lot more powerful than that, but I'd have to make do for the time being. Me and Sam headed back to work after that I spent what was left of the day setting up the spider in the jar that was bigger than my file cabinet then got back to work on Sam's unit it would take a few more days but it was starting to come together a few hours after that Fred and Thomas came in to my office.
"Hay sis wow ether the jar you were keeping that spider in got a hell of a lot bigger or you bought a giant jar to use as a terrarium." Fred said walking over to go check it out.
"meeh I decided to keep it as I couldn't sell it and just liked the hole jar thing I even put the old jar in there and the spider seems to like it I think its building some kind of nest in it." I said glancing over at the odd and interesting new addition to my office.
"Well it is interesting to say the least hmm oh sis are you ready to go I'd like to get this over with sooner rather than later as I figure if we finish up quickly enough we can go for a round at the iron works." Thomas said readying to go.
"Sure, but we will have to see when this is all over and don't forget we still have work tomorrow." I said packing up to go.
After that the four of us squeezed into my car it was a tight fit and yeah, we weren't getting much else in there luckily. I had called a rental place and had them drop of a trailer earlier so we where all set and ready once we arrived I told Sam to head on up an I watched as Fred and Thomas opened and unlocked the trailer. Once they had finished with that the three of us headed in and where shocked by the loud yelp as Sam was nocked to the other end of the hall we rushed over to try and help her I was the first to reached her and I tried to wake her up.
"Sam Sam say something Sam!?" I said shaking her and then I noticed the blood not a lot but enough to stain my paws and shirt.
I jumped back trembling not able to think straight and my head was spinning as. Thomas started to check her over Thomas had medic training he couldn't pull off a surgery but could treat minor wounds. I even once watched him stitch up a nasty bight mark one of my brothers had gotten from going swimming in a snapping turtles pond.
"She's ok she took a nasty hit and cut the back of her head when she hit the floor but nothing manger the cut might need stitches though." Thomas said looking her over
"That cunt will need a hell of a lot more once I'm done damn fucking cunt bitch wanted to leave get out of her rent and not giving me may damn money, so I'll take my pavement out her cunt and ass chuck her the fuck out and sell of what I can of her damn useless cheap crap in her apartment". Said a large silverback gorilla who's voices I recognized as the building manager.
That snapped me out of its a bit hard to describe the rush of emotions I felt next, but It was like everything had just snapped into place as I realized what had happened. Right before it felt like I exploded rage emanating out of me full force. As almost all color was leached from the world as my eye color shifted to almost completely grey. Then I felt my fist tighten and when I looked down at my paws which was strangely still stained bright red with Sam's blood. Then when I looked up at the silverback only one word popped into my head. 'KILL!' I was about ready to use every ounce of strength I could muster to do just that's when I heard Sam whimper and somehow that managed to snapped me out of my raw rage.
"Wh wh what happened where am." Sam groaned coming to then she stopped when she spotted me, and shock and fear showed on her muzzle as she realized what was happening.
"An ah Lilly no no run he." Sam said trying to jump up.
As Thomas held her down and said. "Calm down and stay still or you will get hurt worse she's got this."
"Oh really and how the hell will such a pathetically tiny bunny cunt do that." He said mockingly as he tried and failed to demean me.
"I was going to pay you off willing to take care of whatever insane price you could come up with just to try and keep this nice but now." I said in a falsely calm way as I walked over to him and he gave me a greedy smile that even I could easily tell he was liking where he thought this conversation was going but I then said. "But now I'm not going to give you a damn cent and I will do everything in my power and use ever tool in my considerably large arsenal of influence and contacts to ruin you and burry you in a hole so deep you never see the light of day ever again!" I yelled that last part clearly angered.
As soon as I finished that he lunged forward his large arm trying to grab me by my ears that was away over used first strike used by larger mammals. I easily dodged it by launching myself forward and up I then slammed my paw into his muzzle with every ounce of strength I could muster. I couldn't send him flying like the ocelot in the bar, but full force was still enough to have him stumbling back before landing on his ass though that had more to do with his clumsy ness then my punch.
"You damn bitch." He yelled before I hopped back out of the reach of his lower hands.
I was normally a little clumsy and gangly on my paws. I found it hard to walk normally because I tripped over my own paws if I ever tried to walk flat footed. So, I walk on the front of my paws this made walking a little hard but because I had such good balance and control like this could run hop and jump as good as some high grade acrobatics and it didn't hurt that I had some acrobatics training as one of the many types of therapies I had when I was growing up. Now that he couldn't reach me he jumped up to press the attack I hopped back three more times making him follow me before I jumped as hard as I could forward ramming my shoulder into the crook of the arm that he had been using to move himself forward causing him to fall over hitting his head on the wall. As I slipped under his arm and then jumped pulling off a flip and turn as he started to right himself I slammed feet first into the back of his head then kicked off like I did with the computer earlier that day he fail forward and bumped his jaw on the floor and as he started to get up I landed on his head again and again I kicked off his head slammed into the floor this time with a loud and strangely satisfying crack sound. I landed in front of him stumbling a little as I spotted Sam who was watching her jaw hanging open and she looked completely shocked I smiled over at her and wanted to giggle a little at her expression. Though I didn't really have time to as I had to hop to one side and turned around as his fist slammed into the spot where I had just been standing and that was just way too close I couldn't afford to take a hit from this guy a hit from him would probably kill me or come very close to. I then jumped up onto his arm I then jumped on the other arm when he tried to swipe me off and found myself in front of his face and fearing heed try to bight me as I was right there. I decided id strike first I reared back and punched him, and he stumbled back again as I landed gracefully on the floor as he crashed onto his back and to my great satisfaction as he sat up he spat out several teeth and teeth fragments.
"End this now and let us get Sam's stuff you'll get this month's rent and get to keep what few teeth you have left." I said knowing he wouldn't except I just didn't want to be the bad guy hear once I beat the crap out of the guy, but I figured I'd give him the out.
He then spat again this time there wasn't any teeth but there was a lot of blood and he had tried to spit on me, but I didn't even need to dodge I think it probably had something to do with the black eye I had just given him.
"Like hell I will you damn bitch." He said as got up and I readied to fight.
Surprisingly instead of doing the same he ran now this sounds like I just won but the truth is if they run off this usually meant they were up to something and as usual I was right as soon as he managed to get the door at the end of the hall open he reached in and pulled out a steel baseball bat.
"Crap!" I said as I jumped back to doge his first swing.
After his first swing missed he reared back to try again but right as he tried to swing it at me a deafening bang rang out as a large hole suddenly appeared in the baseball bat and everyone in the room turned to look at Thomas who was holding his oversized revolver I don't know guns, so I can't tell you what it was, but I'd call the damn thing a fucking paw cannon because of how big and loud the supposedly rabbit sized gun was. The large gorilla looked at Thomas then at the large hole in the bat before he dropped it and started to run off again.
"welp shit hit the fan fast follow him we can't let this escalate into a shootout." I said before darting off after him.
We found him in his filthy trash covered room loading a shotgun and as he tried to bring his gun to bear but as he did he met with to armed rabbits and a third i.e. me lifting and throwing a table at him I started grabbing everything I could lift and throw and thought that might hurt him is it hit. This totaled a table three wooden chairs and a old television set this last one was twice my size and to my surprise it hit and managed to knock the gun out of his hands. Before Fred with his two automatic hand guns shot the shotgun to the point it be unusable before putting the guns away
"So what now you shoot me kill me or just beat me and take what you want and then leave." He said nervously.
"No now that we have removed the threat of a shootout we will ether continue the fight no guns if I lose and you don't kill me I'll pay any insane fines or charges or damages you want to but if I win you will be lucky to see the light of day ever again now for option two you get this month's rent we take Sam's stuff and we never see you again." I said again in a falsely calm manor, but I was getting very tired and a little sick I was hoping to end this.
He smirked and said. "I think I'll take my chances, so I can earn back what I've lost."
He then dove for me I jumped out of reach then kicked him in the face then hopped back then repeated with different blows trying to end it quickly I reactively struck dodged moved strike and repeated over and over filling my strength slowly ebb as I tired and felt more and more sick. Then with one final punch to the head I heard something brake as he fell over unconscious and as soon as I was sure he wasn't going to get back up I flopped on my back.
"Damn that guy was fucking tough either that or hyped up on something powerful." I said panting.
"Damn sis it's been too damn long sense I've seen you go all out your and I have got to say you are really out of shape id go hit the gym." Fred said checking how much ammo he had left.
As Thomas pulled out his phone to call the Z.P.D. and Sam who had been watching at the door way and was standing there in shock.
"How?" Sam said a few minutes later as sirens could be heard off in the distances.
In response and as if we did it on purpose we three rabbits said "Don't underestimate us bunny's."
A little over a hour later the cops let us go and arrested the gorilla who's skull I had apparently cracked but no severe damage had been done. I also new one or both my brothers would inform my father and he would drop the large and powerful hammer that was Lilac and suns law practice on the unsuspecting silver back. After that it didn't take long to load up and transported Sam's stuff and it only took two trips as the only furniture Sam wanted was one old and large and comfortable chair we soon started to drag Sam's stuff up to her apartment and was taking a break.
"Lilly I think you should ease off a little I know your strong and all but you will burn out if you aren't carful." Sam said sounding a little worried.
"I'm fine I'm just worn out and really need a good meal but I'm fine." I lied I felt really sick and I mean really sick" I said trying to play it off as I finished another can of ginger ale.
"Yeah sis you don't look so good." Fred said sounding a little worriedly
"Im fiii oh crap" I slurred as the room spun and started to fade into black as I felt my body hit the floor and the last thing I saw before it all went black was a blurry figure I think was Sam. As I was about to lose consciousness the last thing I saw was a golden key.