"How is it everytime you make a comment you manage to piss someone off Iris?" the man asked while rubbing his eyes.

"It's gift..." she said sarcastically with a small smile.

Not wanting to go down the rabbit hole of this topic he decided to change it.

"What happen after you woke up?"

"I was surrounded by familiar and unfamiliar faces along with being diagnosed with a concussion and sprained ankle...and I was told I wasn't aload to leave..."

Muir Park, Ape village 3 years ago

Ellie had been shinning a light back and forth in each eye since she regained consciousness and frankly she was getting a little annoyed by it.

" Ellie could you stop now I swear that thing is making my head feel worse..." she grimaced as she held her head in pain.

Ellie put away the light and started to look at the gash on her head making Iris wince.

"Well that's what happens when you have concussion Iris..." she said quietly.

Iris took a look around to see she was in a huge hut and judging by the view it was high above ground, she could feel that she was laying in nest of something soft probably moss, she also noticed there was others in the room.

Malcolm stood behind Ellie while Caesar with Maurice and Rocket stood in the corner of the hut, she quickly turned her gaze away from the ape king as soon as she locked eyes with him.

"Hold still Iris" Ellie told her sternly.

Iris groaned as her eyes turned to see Caesar's solemn expression.

Flashback an hour ago

Caesar was about to head back to the woods with the apes and Ellie and Malcolm were about to head back the colony, they all just got out of the building when they heard barking.

Bruce ran over started to bark at Malcolm, everybody expected for Iris to come out any minute but when she didn't they got confused.

"Bruce what are you doing here?" Malcolm asked.

Bruce started to walk side to side and wine.

Caesar was getting a little concerned, he turned to look at Maurice who looked concerned as well.

"Does the dog always...act this way?..." Caesar asked Malcolm.

"No...and he definitely wouldn't have run off from Iris unless she asked him too..." Malcolm said queitly then turning his head to see his wife's worried eyes.

Caesar could tell by looking into the dogs eyes that was something wrong.

"Something is not right..." Caesar said.

Malcolm agreed with him.

"Bruce take us to her" Malcolm told the shepard, Bruce spun around and ran off to the direction of the woods, Malcolm and Ellie got into the jeep quickly while the apes went to get their horses.

Bruce didn't stop running as he took them deep into the forest, Bruce then stopped and started to whine, the apes stopped their horses and Malcolm and Ellie arrived in the jeep a minute later.

Bruce looked at the ground then back to them while whining, Caesar got off the horse and walked over to what the dog was looking at and what he saw shocked him, it was blood, a lot of it.

"What is it?" Maurice signed to his friend concerned by his expression.

"That's blood..." Ellie said said quietly, her eyes filled with shock.

Everyone began to think the worse of what happen to Iris espeacily Caesar, he went over to Bruce and touched his back causing the shepard to look up at him.

"Find her...find her" he told him trying his best to his keep composer.

Bruce did what he was told and started to smell the blood and then run off to opposite direction, Caesar quickly got back into his horse along with the apes and Malcolm and Ellie got back to the jeep, they stayed on his tail as he led them through the woods, the way he was leading them started to become very familiar and they realized why when he brought them to the ape village.

Caesar could hear loud screeching as he quickly got off the horse with the others following behind him, he had a terrible feeling deep in his gut, the other apes moved out the way as he made his way to the center of the village and what he saw shook him to his very core along with the others that were with him, Iris bleeding badly from her head as she was being cradled by his son who was arguing with the the gorilla Red, this made him easily figure out that he was the one who caused Iris's head injury and finally snapped when the gorilla started to reach out for his sister and probably was going to hurt his son to get her.

"LEAVE HER!" he yelled enraged.

The apes stopped screeching and all turned their heads to finally notice their king had returned, it became deathly quiet. Blue Eyes was relieved to see his father, Bruce started to growl at Red which only confirmed more to him that the gorilla was the cause behind this, most of apes having never seen a dog before started to screech a little but the raise of Caesar's hand shut them up though his eyes never left Red. He lightly put pressure on the Shepard's back to make him sit, Bruce whined in worry for his owner.

"Malcolm... hold him" he asked his friend lowly trying to keep his rage in check.

Malcolm took Bruce by the scruff of his neck and brought him over next to him, Caesar then walked over to his son and Iris, his gaze never leaving the gorilla.

"What...happened?" He asked dangerously low.

"Two apes where murdered this morning, they where found after you left" Blue Eyes signed to his father.

Caesar's eyes widen in shock at this information.

" Eveyone started to panic, some of them were blaming Iris...I told them we should wait for you to come back but some of them clearly didn't listen as they went out and took her..." Blue signed turning his gaze to glare at Red who kept his face expressionless at the moment.

Caesar turned his gaze to look at Iris, he brought his hand to touch her injured head, he could feel her blood in her hair, her eyes had a hard time keeping focus along with trying kept them open, he also noticed vomit next to her, along with that she was covered in mud, his face fell to sorrow at her condition.

"You hurt her?..." his question was made at Red while his gaze hadn't left Iris.

"Apes were killed after...she left village..apes have also seen...that she's violent...she's dangerous..." Red said nonchalantly defending his actions.

"You tried!...to kill her!" Blue Eyes yelled angrily.

The Apes were surprised and so were the humans by the prince yelling.

"He was strangling her, he wanted to kill her father and she couldn't even fight back!" he signed aggressively.

Caesar trembled in rage at this information, he then felt a hand on his shoulder which made turn around to se Ellie and his gaze soften a bit.

"Caesar I need to take a look at her...she could have a concussion..." Ellie told him softly.

Caesar gestured for his son take Iris and lead Ellie and Malcolm upstairs, Blue Eyes hurriedly did that while the humans and the dog followed closely behind him.

Once they left Caesar turned back to glare at Red who's expression remained the same, he now also noticed there was some bruising and some blood his face who he no doubted Iris caused while she was trying to defend herself.

"I told eveyone to leave...her alone" he said lowly.

"I was only trying...to keep-

He never got to finish because Caesar pounced on him with rage while slamming his fists down on his chest hard, the apes watched in horror they hadn't seen him act like this since Koba insulted him. They wrestled on the ground beating at each other, until Maurice came over to pull him off, deciding that was enough, although he had a strong urge to let go of his friend to finish what he started, Caesar snapped his gaze to look at his friend.

"Worry about him later, go see Iris...check on her" Maurice signed to him.

Caesar winced his eyes and then let a huff as turned his head back to the gorilla on the ground who was now being dragged roughly to his feet by Luca, Caesar then brought his attention to the other apes watching.

"The council will!...decide what to do!...about the human woman!...until then no ape outside council is to go near her!" Caesar yelled at the apes warning them and none them objected.

Caesar brought his gaze to Red who was now glaring at him.

"Get him out...of my sight" he growled under his breath as he walked off to head to the stairs with Maurice and Rocket following close behind him, he could feel Red glaring daggers in the back of his head as Luca dragged him somewhere else.

End of Flashback

"Well your going to need stitches Iris...I got my medical bag in jeep so it shouldn't be a problem..." Ellie said as stopped feeling her head started to feel her ribs from her open jacket.

Iris winced a little in pain at this.

"It doesn't seem like you ribs where cracked just bruised..." she said as she trailed her hands to her swollen ankle.

Iris winced in pain again.

"I don't feel a break so I think it's just sprained" she said as she lightly squeezed her ankle.

"Ok! Ellie as much I love being prodded at, I think I've been touched enough for one day" she said sarcastically, devoided of any emotion.

Ellie pulled away from her and stared at her with worried eyes.

"You got lucky Iris...you could have had more serious injuries..."

"It's not the first time I've been beaten Ellie...not even by a ape..." she said queitly as she held her head.

The apes in the hut were shocked by this information, Caesar espeacily.

"Doesn't mean you should be use to it...I'll back after I get my bag..." Ellie told her as she got up to walk out of the hut.

Iris began to lose herself deep in thought but then felt someone stroke her arm while hooting in concern, Iris flinched a little as she brought her head up to see who touched her. The one who touched her was female ape with braids who looked at her with concerned eyes, she realized she knew this ape.

"Cornelia?..." she asked a little surprised to see her.

Cornelia smiled gently at her, Iris suspected she came into the hut just resently and judging by the surprised look Caesar was giving the female she was right.

"Ellie and I will take you back home after this..." Malcolm told her softly.

"Thanks..."

"She can't leave..." Caesar said raspy.

His comment made her head snap to his direction.

Another chapter for you guys:) sorry if it's short I wanted to make it longer but I started to go crazy trying to lolXd also I'm still feeling well and it seems like I'm having bad luck this month I haven't been really in the mood lately...this month hasn't been good...I try to update again as soon as I can and hope the month will get better :D