Mime woke up, feeling beaten and tired, he heard a smacking sound each time it made contact with his forehead. Russel was kissing his forehead repeatedly, enveloping his arms around him in a warm hug. "Yarr! About time you woke up lad. Told ya I should have been the one to do the job, you look roughed up than I expected" told Russel. Yeah, roughed up, that's another way to say what happened last night. Russel got up off of the bed, carrying Mime with him. Mime thrashed around, trying to make Russel drop him, which he succeeded. Russel wondered what got into Mime, he usually enjoyed being carried around by the pirate. "Something wrong lad?" asked Russel, Mime shook his head, not wanting any kind of contact after the horrible events he experienced.
"Alright lad, whatever you say" said Russel, closing the door to the bathroom. Mime felt sore, especially his throat and ass. The agonizing pain of the rough fucking he experienced had remained, he felt dirty, and not just his body, his whole being felt filthy and disgusting. Russel had gone out of the bathroom, Mime was oblivious to how long he was standing around in his own thoughts, or Russel himself. "Mime?" Russel was finding it weird, Mime was spaced out, and not acknowledging his presence. He grabbed Mime's shoulder. "You alright Mime" Mime got startled, pushing Russel away, Russel stumbled a bit, not entirely expecting Mime to push him all of a sudden.
Mime remembered Axel's rough touch and instinctively pushed wherever the arm came from, instead, he was now looking at Russel with a shocked look on his face. Mime felt like a freak with the face Russel was giving him, and rushed to the bathroom, locking it. Russel, thinking it was his fault knocked on the bathroom door saying "Sorry if I startled you Mime, just worried about you is all. You can take a break if you want, I'll be fine running the place myself"
Mime heard every word and that did not make him feel any better. Russel was asking him to loaf around here. What was he going to do? Wallow in his sadness? "I'll see you soon my little purple…" Mime looked around, scared out of his wits like a madman. Was Axel here? He looked around the pirate themed bathroom, but there was nobody around. He was hallucinating, or was he? He covered every window he had with all the dirty clothes in the laundry basket, hoping that it would at the very least give him a semblance of privacy.
When Mime finally took a bath, he filled the tub with as much soap as possible. He scrubbed as hard as he can, to the point that his skin hurt. Thankfully, he did not do it hard enough to damage any skin. He held the bar of soap tightly, as if it would keep him clean as long as he held it in one hand. Mime would spend the rest of the day inside the bathroom, cleaning himself.
Russel opened up the restaurant, the same routine as usual, except Mime wasn't there to help. Customers had come bustling in, asking questions about the whereabouts of the wolf, which was an annoying and mundane question for the otter. What Russel didn't expect was the wolf coming back, with a wider smirk than usual, as if he didn't get embarrassed in the first place. Swarms of fans had come running to him, he swore these fans were like blind sheep following a false shepherd. After the crowd had dispersed, Axel had started strolling to Russel's direction. Russel wondered what else he could be plotting, trying to stay as calm as possible despite the hostility he was feeling.
"Well well, I see Mime's not here. Was he feeling "sore"?" said Axel, trying to be as suggestive as possible. "He's not feeling well if that's what ye be asking. Whatever, what is it that you want now?" asked Russel, wondering what he meant of all the words by sore. "Oh you know, I had a run in with your little friend last night." Said Axel. "Oh really?" asked Russel, so that's why Mime seemed to have been shaken. "Oh yes, you see, we made a deal and *grk* and *grk*" Axel burst out into laughter, the crowd and the fans, growing a bit uncomfortable with the way he was laughing. Russel became impatient and shouted "Just spit out whatever you're saying, I be wasting enough time listening to the likes of you!"
Axel wiped a tear, he had laughed at the thought of just spilling the beans right here right now, But he had a reputation to uphold, this was not for the public to hear. "Why don't we go outside, I won't take much of your time. And watch your little temper there tsk tsk tsk, won't be good business if you keep yelling and be angry inside your own restaurant." Said Axel, wiggling a finger in front of his face. Russel huffed and followed Axel outside right at the parking lot. Axel thought this was a good enough distance from the ears of the patrons.
"So what were you going to say in the first place? You made a deal with Mime right? I swear if be touching him I swear I'll rip your throat out" said Russel, his teeth gritting and his face scrunched up that Axel could feel his gaze boring holes into his face. "Hold on, hold on, why spoil the surprise. I'll need you to sign here" Axel held a form, it was the same paper he had presented to him for the rights of constructing a building for his family business. "And maybe I'll tell you a little bit about the doe's sweet deal with me" said Axel convincingly. If Russel had his way he wouldn't sign it, but knowing the wolf, the deal would be anything but sweet. "Oh and don't worry, I'm not asking for the whole land this time, I just need enough for a whole building, and that's that. No tricks up my sleeve." Said Axel, holding his hands up.
Russel read the fine print, something that Axel found boring and wished that he'd just sign it. With reluctance, Russel signed it, knowing full well that this cannot be good, but the deal that Mime made with him. Mime had arrived at the restaurant, but Russel was nowhere to be seen, some customers had asked him where Axel had gone, he shook his head at each time, that question had his heart beating like a hummingbird. Had Axel been here? He looked at the parking lot, seeing the two were alone, talking and Russel signing some sort of document. Mime dropped whatever thoughts he had, even avoiding Axel and ran to Russel. "There, now tell me what you did with Mime to make the lad so gloomy." Said Russel, shoving the paper on Axel's chest, pushing him backwards.
He saw Mime and that made his revenge even more perfect. Mime was wearing a hoodie now, as opposed to his usual outfit, he covered as much skin as he can. Russel almost did not recognize him, if not for the antlers that the hood was bunched up with. "Looks like the VIP of the show has arrived" said Axel "You know what deal we made? I offered him a few minutes of his time pleasuring me. In exchange, I would not go through with suing this pathetic place, don't you know its rude to embarrass your own customers in your own establishment? I was technically a customer of yours, did you know that? Or were you blinded by your own pride that you wouldn't let me have your own land and decided that Mime here was a better price to pay for this place?" said Axel, showing his true colours. Russel seethed in pure righteous rage, "So you raped him? I'm going to ban you, you will never return herer, I'll even report you if I have to" blurted Russel, being pulled by Mime who was not taking this unwanted confession well, tears ruining his makeup.
Axel took this opportunity to make things even worse. "And you know what happened? He came! He came because of me! I was his first, and you know why? Its all your fault for not taking him first, and now that I have what should have been yours, he'll be thinking of me each night that you two spend together. Forever!" said Axel, each word like an ejaculation to his ego. Mime couldn't take it anymore and dropped to his knees and cried, his tears staining the ground of the parking lot. Russel was blinded by primal rage, he lifted his hooked hand, and slashed at Axel's face. Axel barely had time to dodge and ended up with a deep wound on his face, it was going to give him a scar on his face but it was worth it to him. Mime grabbed Russel's hand, making Russel realize that he was scaring Mime more than he was already.
All the fans saw was a jealous otter attacking their idol, their phones recorded the whole thing and the whole world saw it. People came running to aid the wolf but he lifted his hand, getting the crowd to stay quiet and back away. Axel stood up, a calm expression on his face, changing from the prideful and maniacal attitude to calm and reasonable "That hurt you know. Did I do something to upset you? I'm sorry if I said anything offensive to your boyfriend." Said Axel apologetically, Axel continued with his crocodile tears. "Fine then, I'll leave. If you really hate me that much, I'll respect your wishes. But slashing at me with your hook, I thought you were better than that. People, I don't want you hurt them, I wouldn't wish for anything ill for these two" and opened his car, and drove away. His revenge was complete, he got what he wanted and he broke his enemy's pride. He pat himself on the back and headed back home, but not before patching himself up.
A few customers, ones that had been coming here ever since it started, could did not believe it one bit, including the tiger general and Buddhist monkey who took a liking to the food here. But the fans, which made up of 80% had started to glare at Russel, and left the restaurant, taking the several other customers with them. Only a few had stayed, although the remaining customers went back in to eat, the atmosphere that the incident radiated made it hard to enjoy the food.
The other tree friends in happy tree town saw this, and felt sick to their stomach how the wolf had manipulated Russel. Unlike the customers, they knew who Axel really was. They didn't know what to do but they'll help out Russel, one way or another. Russel stood there, no longer caring if he lost his reputation. Axel had forced Mime to do something he didn't want and hurt him. If worse comes to worst earlier, he'd lose lost Mime and his rights to have a restaurant. But that was not what's important right now, Mime was all that matters right now. If he saw that wolf again, no customers or even Mime would be able to stop him next time.