I'm sorry for the long wait. I'm going to try and update each story with at least one chapter. So, here is a chapter. Note that Italics are thoughts or descriptions from 3rd person omniscient
"What do you mean that you can't-" Jack looked scared.
"I mean I can't walk." Life looked mad, till the egg bumped into her again. "Hey little guy, it's okay I'm not mad you," Life picked up the egg and held it to her chest. She lightly pet it, getting the other egg's attention. The eggs swarmed them, bumping into everyone, trying to get Bunny's attention. They were shaking, like they were scared.
"If you don't mind, I'll be returning her now," everything seemed to darken. "Death," Life breathed out quietly, "what are you doing here?" He didn't seem very happy, "Well, mom sent me to get you, or help get you. Now let's go." Life shook her head, "No." Death looked stunned, "No?"
"No. I'm staying here. I'm not going back," Life glared at her brother. Death's expression went from a okay expression to a 'I'm mad now' expression. "Fine, but don't blame anyone but yourself when things start to go wrong." With that Death disappeared. Bunny looked at Life and raised an eyebrow. "What, I can't go back if I can't walk. So I just bought you all at least 3 weeks," Life said directing her attention back to the egg she was holding. "I can take care of this," Bunny nodded to the other guardians, "if I need help I'll tell you."
(Later that day...)
To keep Life occupied, Bunny gave her a paint brush and some paint. He had to go and see if her had anything to help her heal faster, but it would take up to 3 hours to go through the whole warren. Before he left her alone he told her, "I'll be back, here's some paint and a brush, go crazy." Little did he know, or feel, that Life had painted a line on his fur just above his tail and slightly on his tail. Once she was alone, she laughed slightly. She would laugh even more when he finally saw.
The eggs swarmed her, wanting to be painted. "Okay, okay, one at a time, I've got some time. Okay what pattern do you want?" The little egg she was talking to walked over to one of the plants and jumped slightly as if to say, 'this flower, this one'. "Okay, you sure?" The egg nodded, and Life picked up the egg and the brush. Little did she know that Bunny was seeing her from a distance, where he was looking for something to help heal her.
He watched her paint a coat of color on the shell, then set it down to dry away from the other plan eggs, then went to work on another. In about the time it takes him to do one egg, she did about 7 of them. "Okay, who's next?" Bunny heard Life saw to the swarm of eggs around her. They were trying to get her attention more than they ever tried to get his. Some would bump the others out of the way to get to the front, and some would just walk on the tops of the others. Life smiled, "Okay, you'll each get your turn, just get into lines based on the design you want. Flowers or plants over here, seasonal over here, and everything else, here."
To Bunny's surprise, the little eggs lined up and weren't trying to beat each other anymore. Life had gone through 20 some eggs before Bunny remembered why he was so far away, to find something to help her. As he turned and went looking, he heard her laugh echo though the warren. He shook his head trying to clear the thoughts of her. Only one glance at her, even in Pooka form, had left her stuck in his head. Her and her jet black hair with the slightest touch of brown streaks. Her grey long sleeve shirt and shorts and-, Bunny shook his head again.
No, don't think like that. You can't think like that, you can't, but she's so-, Bunny shook his head and ended up hitting it on a tree. "Crikey," he muttered rubbing his head. "Can't get her out of your head can you?" Death was leaning against one of the egg statues raising an eyebrow. "What do you want?" Bunny growled still rubbing his head. He glared at Nature's son.
"You know, just why you're trying to make a move on my sister," Death growled jabbing a finger at Bunny. Bunny raised an eyebrow, "And how would you say I've tried to 'make a move' on Life?" Death looked angry, "You know what I'm talking about and you better stop, or you're going to deal with me." Death disappeared again, leaving Bunny to himself. Once Bunny reached Life again she looked up at him, her light red eyes met his emerald-green. His heart skipped about two beats. "You okay?" Bunny nodded, "Why wouldn't I?" Life shrugged and went back to painting eggs. "Thanks for the help. It's only 3 days till Easter and I still have a lot of eggs to paint still." Life nodded and Bunny saw about 100 eggs walking around not knowing what to do.
"You painted all of these?" Bunny looked at one of the eggs. The only flaw that he saw was that the egg was cracked only slightly, other than that there was no flaw. Life nodded, "It's easy to paint them when you're rushed." Bunny only needed about 400 more to go. "You only need about 300, I painted about 200. They are wondering around, some where." Bunny was amazed, "How-" Life looked at him, and smiled, "I've been around for a long, long, long, well lets say long before any type of human was alive."
Bunny stared at her, but she continued to paint and hum a song he had no clue how she knew. He could make out the word pressure, pray tomorrow, and some other words. (Under pressure/ Rhythm nation from happy feet 2.) Bunny looked away, but couldn't help from looking at her again. She glanced at him not saying anything, and picked up another egg.
(First person: Life)
Bunny was even more interesting up close. I had studied all the immortals, but something was different about Bunny. He was more, well, um, more. I don't know why but he was different. I glanced up at him from the egg I was painting. He had some markings on his fur, not like paint but like in his fur. They were interesting. I was tempted to touch and trace the pattern. I smiled, and picked up the last egg that kept bumping into me. It still wasn't sure what it wanted, but I got an idea. I whispered so softly that even Bunny couldn't hear.
I smiled and grabbed the paint brush. (10 minutes later...) I had finished painting the egg and it was scary good. I smiled, it was almost 9 pm and the 'sun' was setting. Bunny was getting up to go when my hand lightly grazed across his arm making him turn. "Here," I said handing him the egg, but I had covered it so Bunny couldn't see what it was. He looked at it and looked stunned. I frowned, "You don't like it, I," I looked down, but felt his paw under her chin. I looked up, only to feel Bunny's lips press against mine.
