Lily tugged on the ropes binding her wrists until a sharp pull made her stop. She looked up to see her two capturers.
One of the men was starting to grow impatient and yelled "Quit dragging your feet!"
They tugged on the ropes pulling her along with them. The other one noticed that she was trying to move her hands.
"She's doing it again. Flapping her hands again."
The other sarcastically replied "Yeah. It's sign language, idiot."
He shrugged then smirked "Well, it won't matter. Once we've sell her, we'll be rid of her. She'll be someone else's problem now."
The man continued "Hey how much do you think she's probably worth?"
The other one answered "As long as its enough for the both of us."
Lily began to feel uncomfortable by the man's constant staring at her, until he replied "It's strange though. I could have sworn I've seen her before..."
Her other capturer rolled his eyes at him "What are you mumbling about, you idiot?"
He reached into the pockets of his pants and pulled out a piece of paper "Hey look! She's got a bounty! Someone's paying a hefty price for her return! This will set us up for life! No more worries about food or water!"
His companion snatched the paper from out of his hands glancing at it then back at Lily. He walked over towards her and cupped her cheeks making her look at him "I don't know what you've done. But you better cooperate with us."
Lily narrowed her eyes and jerked her head away and quickly snapped at him. The man pulled his hand back while his buddy laughed and replied "She's a feisty one!"
Then Lily heard a rustle in the trees. By the time she had looked up, Blue eyes and Ash jumped down and landed right on top of her two capturers. Grabbing their heads and smashing them to the ground, hard, with them, knocking them out cold.
Lily signed relieved to see them "About time you guys showed up! What took so long?!"
Blue eyes didn't answer her. He walked over to her "Why were you taken?" While Ash was looking over the unconscious men making sure that they didn't wake up. He noticed a piece of paper one of them was holding and bent down and picked it up. He hooted catching Lily's and Blue eyes attention. Then held it up to show them and signed
"What's this?"
Lily noticed what he was holding and quickly tried to grab it from him "Give me that!"
Ash held it up so she couldn't reach it and signed "What is it?"
Lily quickly responded "It's nothing!"
Ash replied and signed "It doesn't look like nothing."
Lily yelled in frustration "Just give it to me!"
Blue eyes walked over to them and Ash held the paper out to him. He took it and saw the picture of Lily while Ash made a confused hoot while pointing at Lily and signed "Look Blue eyes! It's her! But why is she on it?"
Blue eyes quickly shot her a glare and signed harshly "Explain...now."
Lily looked down avoiding his intense stare and slowly signed "It's nothing really-"
Blue eyes quickly interrupted her "Now! Or I will tell father...and this deal we have between us will be over."
Lily quickly responded "You can't do that! You know what will happen, if you do! It would be an all out war!"
Blue eyes replied "You think I don't know that!? But, my family comes first! My mother, my brother...my father. All apes. I'm not going to let them get killed all because you refuse to tell us why you were caught by those men. That gives me another reason not to trust you."
Lily stared at him and answered "I have people who are after me."
Blue eyes asked "Why?"
Lily replied "I have something that they want."
Blue eyes asked "What is it?"
Lily opened her mouth to speak but a familiar voice appeared in her mind
(...You promised...)
Her eyes widen and she quickly shut it not answering silently
Blue eyes raised his eyebrow, waiting "Well?..."
She struggled to open her mouth "I-I...I'm-th-the-" but that was all she could get out.
Blue eyes let out an annoyed growl and replied "I'm telling father."
Lily 's eyes widen as she saw him leaving and quickly followed after him with Ash following behind. As she managed to catch up to him. She quickly reached and grabbed his arm "No! Please! Don't!"
Blue eyes quickly turned around and growled baring his fangs at her. She pulled her hand back and backed up as he towered over her.
He replied darkly "Don't touch me..."
Lily fell to the ground staring up at him "Please I'm begging you. Please don't tell...I can't let Malcolm and his family get involved. If something happens to them. I wouldn't be able to forgive myself!"
Then she lost control and broke down in front of the two apes. Wrapping her arms around herself and started crying hysterically "My father's dead because of me! He died trying to protect me! I can't go through that again! I don't want anyone else to die because of me!" She began hyperventilate as tears ran down her face, looking down at the ground.
The two apes stared down at her, both completely shocked and unsure of what to do.
Ash looked at the blue eyed ape and signed "Nice going Blue eyes. You made her cry."
Blue eyes looked down at the girl who was still sobbing uncontrollably. What should he do? He battling internally in his mind on to do. Then he let out a small hoot to get her attention. Lily looked up and he signed "I won't tell father."
Lily hiccuped, and rubbed her eyes and answered "W-what?"
Blue eyes repeated "I said I won't tell father."
Lily smiled wiping her tears from her eyes "Really!?"
The Blue eyed ape huffed and looked away in silence and signed "Yes."
She quickly stood up beaming at him "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
But without realizing it, She wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned in and kissed him on his mouth. Blue eyes and Lily frozed on the spot. Ash stared at the both of them in awe.
Lily quickly pulled back completely embarrassed (What was I thinking?! I'm an idiot! I kissed him!)
But a thought entered her mind
She liked it...
Blue eyes mind frozed as he tried to comprehend what just happened, really happened.
Only one thing popped into his mind
He liked it...