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Chapter Four: Names

She felt safe on his shoulder so she kept showing her gratitude by rubbing against him. Until that filthy Ottsel jumped at her. Baxter, or what ever his name was, didn't look Happy with her. Jak yelled at him but he didn't listen. He again jumped at her and she jumped up, hiding in Jak's gravity defying hair. Daxter scratched Jak who hissed in pain. After that she sat up and looked around. The sights were amazing from up this high. She looked to Daxter and chittered at him. "Slow down Toots, how am I to Understand you when you go that fast." But her attention was already diverted onto something else and she was chittering on about it.

She wasn't aware of where they were headed but she did know that she was having fun being so high up. It wouldn't be long before they reached the stadium where Kiera was, though the Muse didn't know it, Torn was inside. And he wasn't pleased with what he was being told. Or rather that his ask for help was being rejected. "I told you, no." Kiera, a turquoise haired woman, growled. "This is probably just another plan Jak has set up to try and get me to like him more than a friend. And I can't believe you are willing to help him." She waved the wrench in her hand around absentmindedly.

"I'm not helping Jak with anything as stupid as that." He growled and in an instant he realized his mistake, but it wasn't soon enough. Kiera turned on him. A wrench as a weapon in her hand and him powerless. If he even laid a hand on her in self-defense Jak would tear his arms off. "I didn't mean it like that. I just meant you were right. I'm not the type of person to help Jak like that. If it came to him asking me I'd sit back and watch him make a fool of himself." Kiera hesitated long enough for Torn to think that she might consider helping him search for the missing Muse.

"True but I'm going on a search for a missing animal. Besides if you thought you'd have realized that with how large Haven City is, you'd never find it on your own." She again started to wave the wrench around as she spoke. Only this time she was facing the zoomer she was supposed to be working on and not him.

"I won't be searching alone if you'd help me." He pointed out. But Kiera just shrugged him off and continued to work on the zoomer. She leaned down and bent one leg at the knee as she struggled to reach what she needed to. And Torn couldn't help but to briefly admire her ass. "I'll help to keep Jak off of you for a while." She stood right up and looked at him. She examined him for a few moments. Then she turned back to the zoomer and started to talk to herself. It sounded like she was trying to weigh the pro's and con's of actually helping. Getting Jak off of her case seemed to out weigh most of the con's. Apparently he had a talent for cock blocking. "A week." He said. And she stopped tightening a bolt to turn and look at him.

"A Week? No way. Five weeks and you've got a deal." Torn thought for a moment. And shook his head. He turned for the door. "Four weeks." She offered and Torn started to walk forwards. "Three?" She was practically begging. This time Torn stopped walking for a while and thought up of a good deal breaker.

"Two weeks and you can babysit the Muse when every you want to be with Razor." She looked at him as if he was insane. "Tell Jak you're watching my Muse and he should leave you alone for that day, though if you use it too often then he might actually catch on." She looked thoughtful. But then she shook her head.

"And I'd actually have to take care of the thing. No. Two and a half weeks. I can't go any lower than that." The Con's of this were that he'd have to possibly around the Ottsel half of that time. Daxter was a nuisance that he could live without. But the Muse. He had actually started to like the thing in the single day he had it. He was just about to agree to her terms when Daxter's annoying voice reached his ears. "Fine, two weeks and babysitting duty." He smirked. He could deal with that. And if the Muse was able to find his house Kiera could release her and the Muse could make it home.

"Tattoo Wonder, what are you doing here?" Daxter yelled loudly. But neither him nor Kiera paid any attention to him. Jak's hair was moving and chittering. "Hello Kiera baby, wanna go out sometime?" Just as Kiera was about to point out that he had Tess he continued to speak. "Me and Tess would like to double date sometime."

"Daxter give up." Torn said. He wasn't too thrilled to have the Ottsel around. But then a head popped out of Jaks hair. An orange head that had large ears with black tips . It's eyes were two colors. "Deal's off." he said and only Kiera understood what he meant. The Muse made a loud trilling sound and jumped from Jak's head and landed on the floor nearly face planting and as it tried to get a grip on the concrete floor and move forwards it slipped and slid. When she did finally reach him she quickly made short work of getting tangled in his legs, nearly knocking him over. "There you are." He said and his gruff voice didn't sound the same as a moment ago when he spoke to Daxter. It was slightly softer, but there was only so much that a voice as gravely as his could change.

The Muse was purring when he picked her up and she made sure to rub up bother arms and she moved to her back rubbing his hands. In truth she was scenting him, or marking him. It meant he was hers. He didn't care even though he knew what she was doing and put her onto his shoulder. She circled his neck several time rubbing against him before calming down a bit and settling down laying across the back of his neck. Her head rested on her front paws on his right shoulder and her back claws hung off in the front of his left shoulder and her tail flicked back and forth happinly.

"Well I never expected the Tattooed Wonder to like animals. I though his face alone would scare them off." Daxter said and The Muse cracked an eye open to look at him softly growling before rubbing her cheek to Torn's and purring again. There were several other comments made about him and his 'scarf' before Daxter brought up something relevant. "What's it's name."

"Her name. She doesn't have one yet. I was just thinking of calling her Muse. Simple and to the point." Jak nodded his agreement though Daxter snorted and Kiera made a face. "Then what do you suggest?" He grumpily said. They would obviously come up with something flash or gawky.

"How about Rhoswen?" Kiera suggested. Torn made a face. If that's the best they could come up with he would still name her Muse.

"No way!" Daxter shouted. "You should call her Daxter. After the greatest worrier you know." His moved his nonexistent eyebrows. Kiera and Daxter continued to argue about names. And just when he was about to give up and tell them to shut up Jak spoke.

"How about Salek?" He suggested. Then a light pink blush crossed his cheeks when everyone looked at him. Neither of the previously arguing two could think of anything better. So Torn nodded.

He left and headed towards his home with the Muse, now unofficially named Salek. Once they made it back Torn felt exhausted but he needed to feed himself and Salek. He took her off of his shoulder and set her on the ground. He made it into the kitchen before he stumbled. Salek had decided to wave around his feet as he walked. A growl left his lips and she mewled up at him. Torn just rolled his eyes and went into his fridge. He pulled out a two pieces of fruit and set them on the table before going to grab a knife. He turned back to find Salek trying to bit into one but not managing to get a piece off. Small teeth marks were all over it. He took it and cut it up before putting back onto the table.

He was shocked by how vicious she was when eating. Her front claws dug into the fruit and tore piece after piece off. Once the entire slice was in shreds she grabbed pieces of it and shoved them into her mouth until she couldn't fit any more. "I'm never going to give you up again." She didn't even look at him as he whispered this. Torn chuckled and she sat up on her hind legs to look at him. Her cheeks were stretched out. Without thinking he tapped her nose and she went cross eyed to try and see what he did. An instant later she spat all the fruit out and sniffed it again before moving off the table to look at the fridge. Obviously fruit wasn't something she liked. He opened the door and the muse jumped in.

She sniffed from shelf to shelf until she found the lunch meat. Torn grabbed her and a pack of meat from the fridge before letting the door close. Once again he set her on the table and this time he gave her lunch meat to eat. Again she viciously attacked the food. Only this time she ate it too. After that he went into the shower and she followed him. One he was fully naked she sat n her hind legs and looked at him before looking at her self. It was almost like she thought that she had to remove her fur but didn't know how. He paid no attention to her and stepped into the shower. She, of course, followed. Torn didn't want to shower with her in there so he pushed her out only to have her re-enter.

So he stepped to the side, adjusted the shower head, and turned the water on. Salek screeched and ran from the showers. He was sure he heard something fall out in the larger room with the bunk beds. But he didn't care, he had his shower back to himself.

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