Don't worry I haven't quite forgotten you all yet. Sorry about that long delay, I have been doing lots of uni assignments etc. It's quite sad how long it's been since I added to this I had to reread chapter 9 to remember where I was up to. Any I have delayed you all long enough, so get ready for chapter 10 (Yay double digits)!
Chapter 10It was pretty late when Timon finally made it to his mum's house. He was all alone just as he had planned, although Max had explained why his skylight was blocked by Zazu and Ma, he still felt that something wasn't right and was actually feeling a little nervous, as to the answers he may get from his Ma about other questions that had been on his mind.
He knocked on the outside of the stump before entering, which was rare for him, as he normally just would parade inside. Inside the stump he could hear a quiet conversation-taking place although he was unable to hear what was being said. Soon he heard footsteps coming toward the entrance and then his Ma's face poking through the opening.
"Timmy?" she said a little surprised because one, it was late and two, he had knocked.
"Hey Ma," said Timon a little unsure of what to say.
"Didn't expect to see you here this late, long time no see," continued Maha.
"I came to apologise," said Timon while looking at the ground.
"Apologise, to me?" began Ma, "For what?"
"For embarrassing you the other day," continued Timon, trying to look her in the eye but failing because this was a rare occasion where he felt shame.
"Oh, how sweet," said Ma coming towards him and giving him a hug, "but sweetie, I don't really think it's me you should be apologising to," she continued gesturing inside.
Timon then realised she wanted him to apologise to Zazu; he knew he was defeated and would have no choice even if he argued. So he went inside with Ma, to where Zazu was.
Zazu was even more surprised to see Timon there.
"My son, has something he wants to say to you," began Ma.
"Do I have too," whispered Timon in Ma's ear so that Zazu couldn't hear.
"Go on Timmy," she continued ignoring her son's request.
Timon then stepped towards Zazu kicking his feet on the ground and said quickly all in one breath to get it over with, "Sorryforactinglikeajackassandbitingyourheadofftheotherday". After this he had to taking in a huge gasp of air.
Zazu couldn't say he was very impressed with this apology but as this was Timon he knew it was rare to get any from this meerkat, so he replied, "You are quite forgiven, I'm glad we could put all this unpleasantness behind us."
"Well, isn't that nice," commented Maha.
Timon then turned to Ma, "Ma could I ask you something?"
"Sure, sweetie."
"Alone," added Timon motioning towards Zazu then to the door.
Zazu raised an eyebrow at this, thinking, 'How much more obvious does he want to make it that he's going to talk about me?'
"Ummmm…sure thing sweetie," replied Maha, and then turning to Zazu, "we'll just go outside for a minute."
Once outside and out of hearing range of everyone, Maha turned to Timon full of curiosity and confusion about why he wanted to speak with her alone.
"What's wrong Timmy?" she asked.
"It's about Zauz."
"Well, I figured that much out, Hun, I don't know why you don't like him so much," Ma began to ramble.
"It's not about me liking him, Ma, it's about you…liking him," said Timon feeling a bit awkward about having to mention this.
"Well, of course I like him, began Ma, then seeing Timon facial expression, "Oh! you mean like him like him?" she ended a little shocked about this unexpected turn in their conversation.
"Well, do you?" asked Timon.
"Ummmm…. truth is sweetie…I don't know," replied Ma softly.
This is what Timon feared he felt a little angry but there was no point in yelling, so he just said through almost clenched teeth. "Do you like him or not?"
"Relax sweetie," assured Ma, putting her hand on his shoulder, "Nothing has happened yet we'll just see what happens."
"What about Dad?" said Timon feeling a few tears well up in his eyes beyond his control.
"Sweetie, your father died a long time ago, and I will always love him, but…. after a while I feel lonely, for companionship and it may be time to finally move on."
"Don't I keep enough you company?" inquired Timon a little insulted that he was no longer enough to keep his Ma happy.
"Timon," said Ma, bringing him into a full hug now, "You are my very special little boy, and nothing is ever going to change that, but sometimes I feel I need someone, else in my life, perhaps my own age, who will be with me all the time, not just around meal times."
"Does it have to be Zazu? I mean you two aren't even the same species." said Timon who to some extent did understand what his mother was saying, but still didn't want to believe it.
"Since when were you, against inter species relationships?" commented Ma surprise that he of all meerkats would mention this point. She then looked at Timon and saw how he had just realised how stupid his mentioning of this point was, considering his past. "Timon, I told you nothing has happened yet…"
"But you do like him," butted in Timon. " I know, I've seen you together laughing and holding hands."
" Even if something where to happen, that doesn't change the fact that he lives at pride rock and I live here, soon he will be going back, anyway so don't worry about it sweetie," said Maha in a little bit of a flat voice.
Timon, although hating the idea of his Ma having feelings for Zazu did feel sorry for her. He felt bad about trying to make her feel guilty about it and this time it was actually he who gave his Ma a hug followed by a kiss on the cheek. "Sorry Ma," he said softly in her ear.
Just while they were in this embrace they suddenly heard a lot of screaming in the main colony area and had to rush back to see what all the noise was about.
When they arrived on the scene, they saw meerkats running around everywhere in panic, trying to get away from a larger even more panicked animal which was gold in colour running around in circles yelling, "PREADATOR ALERT! GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!"
Timon recognised the animal straight away to be Kiara, and tried yelling out to her, "Hey calm down!" but unfortunately he, for once wasn't loud enough because of all the screaming and panic.
Timon considered trying to run out and grab her but then realised he would be trampled. Pumbaa luckily just arrived on the scene, also drawn there by the commotion, and he ran out in front of Kiara forcing her to skid to a halt to prevent herself from a collision.
"Pumbaa," sobbed Kiara. "Zazu's dead! I…I think there's a predator on the loose, we have to get everyone out of here," she said sounding very distressed.
'Zazu's dead?' though Maha, 'a just left him a little while ago how could he be dead?' she wondered while scampering back to her home, to make sure.
"Kiara," said Timon, walking up to the pair, "the only predator around here is you."
"But…I saw his feather an… and blood!" she replied still a bit panicked.
"He's alive," called Maha, from her home.
"But how?" asked Kiara.
"Zazu just had an accident on the way over and broke his wing," explained Pumbaa, "he's been resting at Mrs Ma's place."
"So there's no predator?" inquired Kiara.
"Nope, just you," assured Timon.
"Oh…ok…. sorry everyone," she said very embarrassed to an now very angry and frustrated group of meerkats, who were at this point were so exhausted from all the sudden commotion that they just shook their heads at her and went to bed.
After a bit of silence and Kiara had had a short visit with Zazu just to make sure he was all right, she headed back to Timon and Pumbaa's place to have a well-deserved rest for the night.
All for now! Hope you enjoyed that I'm better at humour than emotional scenes I think but oh well (I tried). In case your wondering about Timon and his past and what that has to do with inter species relationships, you can take it two ways: some people think he is gay and he and Pumbaa are a couple, or you may choose to think of it as he has lots of (Non-sexual) relationships with different species as friends such as the lions and Pumbaa and Zazu too when they do get on. I personally like both interpretations, as I am an open-minded hippy hence I love reading both Timon +OC fics and slash fics