"Come on, Larch, hurry up!" Molly shouted. She was already at the base of the hill, waiting with Fiver.
"I am coming. Don't worry." He reassured the little doe, as he finally met up with the two.
"Sorry, but I am just so hungry right now." Molly tried to apologize, as she started to jump up and down impatiently.
"Since we can't go alone anymore, we need you!"
"Alright, alright, then let's go." Larch replied. But soon, he stopped in his tracks.
"Um, does anyone know the way?" He chuckled, since he was very unfamiliar with the area.
"Here, I know where a farm is. Follow me!" Fiver announced. Taking over, he led the other two rabbits.
As they walked along, Larch was paying special attention to the surrounding area, making sure there was no danger around, since he was trusted by Hazel to keep his little brother and Molly safe.
If Fiver returned with just one scratch, or just one hair missing, all the blame would be on him. He wouldn't necessarily get kicked out of Watership Down, but he would be on everyone's bad side. Maybe not Hawkbit's, but most.
If anything, he seemed to have grown very fond of the little seer. He was always so nice to everyone, making others laugh, putting other's happiness before his own…but sadly, he did get bullied, which Larch wasn't a big fan of.
Especially Hawkbit. It seemed that all of his rage was only focused on Fiver, but why would someone want to bully him? He had done nothing wrong. But now he wouldn't have to worry about it. Larch would watch over him with Hazel.
"Hey, Fiver, you know, you never did tell me the story of how you became that fox thing." Larch stated.
"No, you don't want to hear that. It's…umm…boring." Fiver told him. Trying to make up excuses, he turned his head away from Larch.
"Come on, it can't be that bad!" Larch reassured him. But it was really that bad.
"Well actually it was..." Fiver was cut off by Molly's sudden outburst.
"It was actually the funniest thing, especially the part where he got stuck in the main entrance!" Molly laughed, making Fiver stare at the ground, since that was the most embarrassing moment of it all.
"He got stuck?" Larch asked, seeing that Fiver was in fact blushing.
"Yep, the whole warr..." Molly was cut off by Fiver, who put his paws over her mouth.
"Nothing happened. Can we just continue on to the Farm?" Fiver pleaded, trying to change the subject.
"Alright, let's go" Larch agreed, seeing how embarrassed Fiver was about this.
"Hey, what did you do that for?" Molly complained once Fiver had released her, giving her lover a glare.
"Sorry, but it's embarrassing!" Fiver told her, as he rubbed up against her, trying to get her to relax.
"Alright. I can't stay mad at you." Molly apologized. Soon, the two rubbed up against each other. Then they started to play with each other, trying to shove one another to the ground.
Larch just laughed quietly as he watched the two rabbits starting to shove at each other playfully.
"This is so much better than Efrafa!" Larch thought, since he had never seen rabbits having any fun in Efrafa, since most of them were just slaves.
They soon arrived at the farm near one of the large stone walls, but they were forced to stop, Fiver had started to look for something along the wall, which confused Larch and Molly.
"Why did we stop, Fiver? I am hungry." Molly asked, coming up from behind and sitting down next to him.
"I can't seem to find the small opening in the wall." Fiver answered her, as he sat there staring, and then started looking along the wall again.
"Well, why do we need an opening? We can always use the main gate." Larch suggested to the little seer, who shook his head in protest.
"No, we can't." Fiver told him sadly.
"Why, not?" Molly whined, and he really couldn't blame her, as she was very hungry.
"We can't go in the main gate, because we will surely be spotted!" He protested. If they were spotted, they would almost definitely be killed by the man and his thunder stick.
"Well, then, what should we do?" Larch asked, as he stared at the large wall.
"I don't think we can jump over it!"
"We might be able to dig under the wall." Fiver suggested.
"Alright, let's do it!" Molly shouted, wanting to get to the food as fast as possible.
The trio moved along the wall until they found a weak spot. Then they began to dig, switching off whenever one of them got tired. Molly was the one who finished the small hole, and she immediately went to the garden and started to eat.
Fiver was the next to crawl under the large wall. He barely made it through the small opening. Turns out that when Molly was digging, she didn't make it large enough for them, but only enough space for herself.
So Larch was the last to come through. He had the most trouble. In fact, he had gotten stuck in the hole. Luckily for him, Fiver was there.
"Umm, can I get some help?" Larch whispered, trying to only get Fiver's attention, embarrassed enough that his whole backend was now trapped underground.
"Here, I got you. Don't worry." Fiver chuckled, as he leaned down and took Larch's right paw. Larch was in fact blushing, most embarrassed at having to be saved from this moment.
The little seer pulled back with all of his might, his back paws digging into the dirt as he used it for leverage, while Larch used his back paws against the dirt. Sadly, it looked like he would have to get Molly to help them. Now, that would be most embarrassing…but lucky for him, they wouldn't have to. Larch had popped free, landing on top of Fiver.
"Sorry, Fiver." Larch apologized as he got off of the little rabbit.
"Oh, no problem. Let's go eat!" Fiver stated, then ran over to join Molly at a half eaten head of lettuce.
"Don't have to tell me twice." Larch thought as he sat close to them, eating a carrot, but also keeping an eye out for any dangers.
While the group was eating and enjoying themselves with the nice, big, and juicy vegetables, Fiver forgot to tell Larch and Molly some crucial things about the farm, mostly of its inhabitants-a dog and cat.
Molly had stopped eating. She actually wanted to talk to Fiver in private, but Larch was right next to them, so she really didn't have a chance to.
"Umm…hey, Larch, can you go get me a flower?" Molly asked, trying to get him to leave for a minute.
"Why do you need a flower?" Fiver asked her, trying to see if something was wrong.
"Umm, my stomach hurts. I just wanted to eat a flower so it would calm down." Molly lied, trying to get Larch to leave…but her plan backfired.
"I will go get it!" Fiver shouted, and soon left through the small hole they had dug, leaving Molly. She sighed. She needed Fiver, not Larch.
"Alright, what's going on?" Larch questioned her, seeing the sad look on her face.
"I just wanted to talk to Fiver alone." She told him. "It's something personal."
"Well, when he comes back, I will let you alone." Larch told her, which made her smile.
"Thanks. I didn't mean to be rude about it." She apologized. Then, to her surprise, Larch hugged her.
"It's alright." He whispered.
"Hey!" A mysterious voice shouted.
It was Fiver. He had just seen the two hug each other, but he wasn't happy about it, and he soon came over to the two, looking very mad, and scaring the other two, since they have never seen the little seer like this.
"What do you think you were doing?" Fiver shouted, scaring Larch and Molly, and also confusing them.
"What?" Larch asked, staring down at the very mad little seer.
"I saw you moving on her!" Fiver shouted, shocking the two.
"Fiver, he wasn't doing anything! He just gave me a hug." Molly told him, trying to calm him down before he did something he would regret.
"No, I don't want to hear it!" He yelled, scaring her. Soon Larch had to intervene.
"Fiver, we weren't doing anything. All she wanted was to be alone with..."
"Yes, alone with you!" Fiver interrupted him.
"I can't believe this! We let you into our warren and this is how you repay us? This is how you repay me?!"
"Fiver, I didn't do anything!" Larch yelled, trying to keep his temper.
"He really didn't! I was just asking a favor of him!" Molly pleaded. But Fiver wasn't having any of it, and just ignored her.
"No, I don't want to hear you. I understand now that you love him more, don't you?!" Fiver screamed at her, making her cry.
"Fiver, stop! You are being mean!" Larch stated, trying to defend her.
"I can't believe I was so stupid!" Fiver shouted towards Molly. But this time, she had something to say.
"I hate you! I never want to see you again, Fiver!" With that, she left, leaving Larch and Fiver alone.
"Good job Fiver, you just lost the doe of your dreams." Larch told him angrily and then left as well to go comfort her, leaving Fiver all alone in the garden.
Fiver just sat there panting, and started to scratch at the ground, while he tried to think over what had just happened.
"What have I done?" Fiver thought to himself, as he started to shed a tear.
"I just gave up the only doe that would ever love me!"
He started to walked back to Watership Down, going through the main gate, not caring if he was seen crying as he went.
He decided that he wanted to take the long way around. It put him closer to the Efrafa patrols, but he just wanted to be alone to think.
"How could I make her cry? I am such a jerk!" He screamed, heartbroken.
"She must hate me now. Why shouldn't she?"
"She loves Larch now. But why would she love me anyway!"
"Maybe they were right. Maybe it was just a simple hug…and now I've lost her forever!" He stopped, smashed his paws into the ground, and started to cry into them.
"Why should I even go back home?! Everyone will hate me, anyway." He soon collapsed onto the ground and buried his head in the dirt.
Molly didn't even run that far. She was just outside the wall, with her face in her paws, crying.
Larch was forced to dig the hole a bit bigger so he could fit through and help her.
Soon he was there to comfort her. For now, he just held her, rocking back and forth trying to calm her down.
"Shhhh," Larch whispered, trying to stop her crying.
"Why did he yell at me? I thought he loved me!" Molly cried, as she lay in Larch's paws.
"He was just upset. He didn't mean anything he said." Larch told her, as he continued to rock her like a little kit.
"All of the fun we had together, sleeping, playing, eating with each other…It's all gone now, and it's because of my stupidity!" Molly cried.
Larch had had enough of this, and soon he grabbed her, pulling her towards him.
"Hey, you aren't stupid, and you shouldn't beat yourself up for it. If anything, I am the stupid one!" Larch reassured her, giving her a small smile.
Soon she had stopped crying enough to talk to him.
"I guess it was also our fault." She sniffed then looked towards the wall. Larch sighed, knowing she was right.
"I don't want to lose him! I love him."
"Well, you know what? You aren't going to lose him!" Larch told her, confusing her.
"Come on! Let's get you to back together!"
He grabbed her paw, and, to her surprise, they went away from the Farm, heading towards the woods.
"Shouldn't we get Fiver?" Molly shouted as she tried to keep up with Larch.
"No, he will be alright. We've got work to do!" He told her as they disappeared into the woods.
Sadly, Larch couldn't have been more wrong, since he hadn't checked on the little seer, or he would have known that he had already left.
Fiver had moved away from Watership Down's direction, and soon headed towards some random direction. He didn't want to be anywhere near Molly. He didn't want to hurt her anymore.
He just stayed in silence as he walked. Then he found that the sun was about to start setting, so he need some place to sleep for a bit.
Lucky for him, he had found a hollowed out hole, big enough for him to sleep in, and big enough to keep him safe because of the boulder above it.
As he watched the sun beginning to set, he thought to himself, remembering the good times he had had with Molly.
Especially the very first time they had met. Even if it was the most embarrassing thing in the world, when his eyes first fell on her, she was the prettiest doe he had ever seen.
He soon came to a conclusion.
"That's it! I will go and apologize! I love her and I won't give that up, even if I have to fight for it! Fiver shouted and jumped up. He accidentally smacked his head on the rock, causing him to yelp in pain…but that wasn't going to stop him.
Once he got his bearings back, he sprinted back to Watership Down, thinking that they were already there waiting for him.
Back at Watership Down, Hazel had gotten worried. The sun was setting, and Fiver, Larch, and Molly weren't back yet.
He was outside waiting at the very edge of the Down, staring in the direction of the Farm, hoping that they would come any second now.
Soon Bigwig had joined him, not to look for them, but mostly to gloat that he was right about Larch.
"See, I told you we couldn't trust him!" Bigwig yelled at his leader, who wasn't very amused by it.
"He probably took them to Efrafa and handed them in to Woundwort, for all we know!"
"I don't want to hear it, Bigwig!" Hazel replied, forcing Bigwig to be quiet.
"I knew I should have taken them instead of Larch. Why am I so stupid?" Hazel thought.
"What will I ever do without him?!" Hazel was trying hard not to cry but it soon became more difficult as time went on.
Soon, it had started to grown dark, and Fiver, Molly, and Larch were still nowhere to be seen, forcing Hazel to do something.
"Alright, I can't wait anymore! We have to go find them." Hazel announced.
"Go get Dandelion, Holly, and Strawberry. We may need a lot of rabbits if something has them…or worse."
"Why?" A mysterious voice asked. It came from the dark trees below the base of hill.
Once the figure had revealed itself, they saw that it was none other than Larch. He had come back to see if he could get Fiver to follow him, but was met by a very angrily looking Hazel.
"Larch, where have you been?!" Hazel shouted, surprising Larch by his anger.
"I was out with Molly. Now, where is Fiver?" Larch asked with a smile. Soon it disappeared, as he saw that Bigwig and Hazel looked confused.
"What! You mean he isn't with you?!" Hazel replied angrily, as he moved closer and closer to Larch.
"How could you lose my little brother?!" To Larch's surprise, Hazel lunged at him, but was stopped by Bigwig, who grabbed him and pinned him down.
"I am sorry Hazel. I thought he was here!" Larch told him, trying his best to defend himself and calm down the mad leader.
"Why would you leave him the first place?" Hazel growled, and glared at him from under Bigwig.
"There was a fight at the Farm! I had to go to Molly instead of Fiver, and the last place I saw him was in there. I thought he was going back home!" Larch told them.
"Wait, there was a fight between Fiver and Molly?" Hazel asked as he started to calm down.
"Yes, and it was my fault!" Fiver shouted. He was listening from the base of the hill, and decided that now was the best time to reveal himself.
"Fiver! I thought you were gone forever!" Hazel shouted. As soon as Bigwig had gotten off of him, he bolted towards his little brother and gave him a nice long hug.
"Please, don't ever, ever, scare me like that again!" Hazel told him. Fiver just nodded in agreement.
"Fiver, what happened at the Farm?"
"Me and Molly…we...we broke up!" Fiver stated sadly, as a tear rolled down his cheek.
"Aww, Fiver, I am so sorry." Hazel told him as he squeezed him tighter. Bigwig and Larch just let the two brothers enjoy one another as they stayed still in silence.
"Fiver, I know how it might have looked, but trust me. I can fix it!" Larch told him, but Hazel wasn't having any of it, for he held him tighter.
Fiver loved Molly. All he wanted was to have her back, even if it meant he had to trust this rabbit again, so he jumped out of Hazel's arms and slowly walked over to Larch.
"Fine. I want her back. I miss her." Fiver whispered, in return, Larch just gave a large grin.
"Alright, follow me and you will get her back!" Larch shouted in excitement as he ran back to the woods, but was stopped by Hazel and Bigwig.
"He isn't going anywhere with you!" Hazel told Larch, as Bigwig got in his way, preventing him from going anywhere.
"Please, Hazel! I love Molly!" Fiver told them as he stared at the two. Of course, they could never say no to those eyes.
"Fine, but I am coming with you." Hazel sighed.
Larch led the way through the dark forest. Bigwig was with Fiver, while Hazel was up ahead, talking to Larch.
"If this is a trap, then you are so dead!" Hazel hissed at him, showing he meant business.
Soon the darkness that was shrouding them was starting to light up. It started to get brighter and brighter until they were on the opposite side of a large Willow tree. It was bright inside.
"Fiver, I think it would be best if you entered first." Larch told him. At first, Hazel was a little skeptical, but soon he let him go.
Fiver pushed back the large branches that drooped overhead and entered, the whole place was lit up by small bugs with lights on them. As they moved around, Fiver noticed that he was under the giant willow, the flowers laid everywhere on the ground, forming a romantic setting.
Then Fiver's attention was caught by the tree. There was a large hole in the top, perfectly cut out so the moonlight could shine in, and in the middle of the small ray of light, was none other than Molly.
Fiver mouth dropped once he saw her. She was standing right under the light source. It made her fur shine like a star. She stared back him, and soon walked over to him.
"I am sorry Fiver. I was an idiot. I love you, not Larch. It was just an accident that you saw us like that!" Molly explained to him.
"Can you ever forgive me?"
"I don't have to, it was my fault anyway!" He told her. The two started to stare into each other's eyes.
"Fiver, I have been meaning to ask you this, but I could never find the right time till now." Molly told him, scaring him a little, and making him think that maybe their relationship might end here.
"Can I... Can I..." Molly stuttered. She was very nervous at the moment.
"Can I be your Mate?" She blurted out, shocking Fiver, whose mouth was quivering. Soon Molly started to get sad. Obviously, he was going to say no and all of the time was wasted building this place.
"Yes! Yes you can!" Fiver shouted in excitement. To Molly's surprise, he grabbed her and swung her around.
"I have been waiting to ask you myself. I love you, and I never want to leave you again!"
The two spun around and around as if they were dancing, shouting in excitement as they fell to the ground on some of the flowers that puffed up like an explosion of love.
Larch could hear the shouting from the two lovers. Obviously, it was a sign that his plan had worked and they were back together.
"Come on Hazel, Bigwig, let's go home. These two lovebirds need some time alone." Larch told them, hinting that they needed to leave the two some privacy.
"Thank you Larch! I can't believe I never trusted you!" Hazel told him.
"No, no it was my fault. I take the blame for that, but at least I fixed it." Larch replied with a small smile.