Okee I know the last chapter was kinda crappy I'm sorry but I tried to right it through writers' block but it's gone now so lets get back to the awesome-ness!
~Chapter 6~
Flaky kept walking and ignored him to open all the windows in her house, he walked behind her silently she decided to break the silence.
"Who told you to break into my house?" She asked already tired, broken-hearted, and cranky, Shady grabbed her arm and jerked her to him.
"Who told you to stab me? Who told you I was done with you? Who told you to whore it up with Mr. Army Bear?" He said looking into her eyes for the first time, they were dazed and unfocused with a bright red tinging one eye. He brought his hand back and slapped her. Hard. Her eyes focused on him and she scooted away, he chuckled pulling her back.
"There's my girl I thought I lost you for a second, but you were too broken, heh I guess perfection and be too much perfection sometimes." He smirked watching her writhe to get free from him.
"Why can't you just leave me alone!" She cried out to Fate but Shady took it as a question for him, he lit another cigarette and inhaled deeply.
"Flakes, Flakes, my little girl, Flakes. Asking me to leave you alone is like asking a bird not to prey on worms, I love you Flakes. And this is how I show my love." He smiled innocently walking into the kitchen, Flaky ran for the door but a knife flew past her and cut her ear. Flaky clutched her ear and looked at the ground in anger and sorrow while tears blurred her vision.
Angel! Please! Help me, take me away from him. I hate him! He's hurt me. Flaky pleaded but the voice came back softly through something like clenched teeth.
I cannot, Flaky. My sweet Flaky although I am your instincts I'm still you, he would have power over me as well. Him knowing I exist could jeopardize my plan for him. Please just hold on longer while I rest and regain our strength. And with that Flaky's angel was gone and left her alone with her demon. He walked to her, knife in hand and ran a long slender cut in her arm, Flaky pushed her palms out to stop him but he just grabbed both her wrists in one hand and carved in her flesh. Hot tears mingled with blood around her as he did whatever he pleased to her, with that knife. He dropped the knife and began to put the hot end of the cigarette against her flesh making that sizzling noise, Flaky thrashed and screamed until he finally released her, she clutched her arms to her torso shaking, she looked at two angry bleeding letters gouged in her flesh. 'S' on her left, 'F' on her right both surrounded by burn mark hearts.
"You're mine Flaky, remember that, and I want to to think about how you've been such bad girl." He said grabbing her by her hair dragging her to her room and locking the door. She laid on the floor in a puddle of blood and tears hating her life more than ever.
~Three Days Later~
Flaky's been in that room ever since the day he'd locked her in she was starving and everyday she watched the sun rise then fall wondering if anyone missed her. Flaky always saw the window was open so it provided a breeze and something to look through, she'd never dare to climb out of it, expecting a trap, she figured that's what Shady wants her to do so she left it alone. She did like how sometimes she'd smell the woods and that comforted her, but she was becoming increasingly tired with each day, if anything her dreams would wear her out. She had sweet dreams of running through the forest, she always came to a pond in the middle of it, a waterfall glistened in the moonlight and she would sing to the waterfall every night and dance around it like she had no cares in the world. She stunk horribly and would almost kill of any type of food, he hadn't even addressed her existence but sometimes she would hear quiet talking at night on the other side of the door. Just yesterday he came in once to re-make the letters in her arms and once she fought back he'd hit her in the face again, she was content with him ignoring her more than anything. Flaky's angel had been silent and when they did talk it was brief and the angel was very tired like her, they mostly fell asleep together. Today Flaky was using her quill to dig into the wall to doodle as she'd done many times to have something prolonging her sanity, the door flew open and Shad walked in with his nose plugged.
"Now you have work today don't you, hop to it this place doesn't pay for itself, and I expect you home exactly at 4:15 that's more than enough time to come home. But first do the world a favor and shower you smell god awful but I still love you, anyway get up, thirty minutes to shower then you get changed and go to work. And Flaky if you come back one second late or not at all then I'll make your life worse than I already have. If I find out you're talking to Mr. Army Bear then I'll have Berry take your place." Shady said simply and Flaky flinched, Flippy would be completely happy with Berry at his side, his gold medal, not his silver. And Flaky wouldn't wish Shady on anyone, it's just not in her nature, she laid on the carpet in a pool of her own blood and tears thinking that now things were back to how they should be...
Flippy woke up in Happy Tree Hospital remembering what he saw in the forest perfectly well four days ago, he'd broken her heart just like Shady wanted. Plus the picture was probably photo-shopped he saw Berry die before his eyes and they weren't anywhere close to Happy Tree Town, he spent the three days in his home thinking, he hadn't seen Flaky or Shady for those days. He felt like he was in a dream, that nothing was real, he'd felt like that for three days in deep thought but still couldn't wrap his head around anything that was going on.
How about you listen to me for once, get off your ass and go see Flaky you know damn well she's in a bad situation! I can't believe that you sat around here like a bitch for three days thinking! Evil raged and Flippy hung his head in shame waking up for the first time in those three long days.
Flaky needs me, and I've been sitting here. I'm such a dumbass! Flippy cursed at himself standing up and heading for the door.
Damn straight you're a dumbass now get your ass over to her house! Pronto! Flippy didn't need Evil's encouragment he began to sprint the five blocks to Flaky's house, he saw Flaky locking her door about to go to work only in weird clothes, it was about 75 degrees outside but she was wearing a long sleeve shirt,a scarf wrapped up to cover half her face, and big sunglasses. In the window he saw Shady watching her leave, Flippy walked across the street where Shady couldn't see him and took the long route to Flaky's work. He arrived at Tree-Mart and walked to the electronics section where Flaky worked she was helping Cro-Marmot find an MP3 player, once she finished helping him she looked up at Flippy and froze.
"Flaky, I just wanted to-" He began approaching her suddenly she ran away as fast as she could, he would've lost her if it wasn't for her attire that made her stick out until she ran in the clothing section and blended in, she hid in one of the circle jean racks like a child. She silently prayed he wouldn't find her so Berry would be safe, for him, for his happiness she'd sacrifice her well being, thinking about it she cried silently. Flippy crawled in the clothes rack and grabbed her arm before she could run away, she yelped out in pain and cringed; he noticed this and rolled up her sleeve, anger swept over him as he stared at the 'S' engraved in her skin. She tried to pull away frantically but he began to remove her other garments as well, getting angrier with each removal. She had a large bruise on her face, a black eye, a piece of her ear missing, burn marks, cuts up and down her arms, and she looked as though she hadn't eaten in days; Flippy clenched his fists and breathed in and out. Flaky started crying and put her things back on, while he was focusing she tried to crawl out of the rack unnoticed but her grabbed her arm gently and pulled her back.
"Flaky...I-I'm so sorry..." He began in a quiet voice, she looked at him sadly then looked away.
"I-I shouldn't be t-talking to you, it'll m-make your life better." She cried quietly, Flippy hugged her and she cried harder at how good and natural it felt.
"You make our life worth living, don't let him do this; Berry was his first but she was his past and you're his future." Evil said, Flaky looked up at him, narrow green eyes, sharp teeth and all, she began to cry harder.
"I-if I talk to you then S-Shady'll take Berry and p-put her in my place! I can't l-let you do that, I c-couldn't do that t-to you, I couldn't d-do that t-to her, y-you may not have loved her b-but Flippy d-did she was his world and, and out of her death you w-were b-born. She m-meant that much and I d-don't want him t-to lose her ag-gain." She snotted through heavy tears drooling slightly, Evil should've been completely grossed out by all the body fluids that covered her face but he simply took her scarf and wiped her face, he knew this was Flippy's battle not his but he felt sorry for Flaky. He normally didn't give a damn about anyone, but he knows what it's like for the world to have it out for you, that's what the war feels like, it's like you're charging towards that army by yourself. He kissed her softly and patted her head.
"Flaky-" He began until a purple quill shot through her arm and dragged her out, Flaky screamed mostly in fear as she was dragged out. Evil burst out the rack and faced Shady with his foot on Flaky's shoulder blade as he held her arm backwards.
"Now Flakes, my dear, what did I tell you about talking to strangers?" Shady asked her pulling her arm backwards slowly, Flaky buried her face in the carpet.
"I-I tried!" She screamed, Evil stomped towards them, Shady drove another quill between the collarbone on the other side of her body she writhed and cried out.
"Not so fast Mr. Army Bear, if you move I'll break her arm, another step and she gets her collarbone dislocated. You see, you and my dear little Flakes here are so very predictable I figured you'd want to talk to her asap which is why I told her the fate that would await your Berry so she'd avoid you, but I can't expect my little useless Flakes to do anything right. So I followed you while you followed her and lo and behold I saw you to getting cozy in the clothes rack, oh well I guess a whore will do it wherever." Shady said angrily twisting her arm until it make a sickeningly loud pop, Flaky's pupils dilated as she screamed in pain. Evil clenched his fist so hard he felt like the bone was about to rip through his skin.
"Oh dear I'm sorry, my little Flakes I let my anger get the best of me and since you won't be much use to me with a broken arm I'll see you tomorrow." He said apologetically grabbing her by her quills and putting his foot on her neck, she just laid there with a blank look on her face stained by tears then with a loud crack her eyes widened then slowly closed. Evil watched him break her neck, he's never seen her die when he hasn't done it he looked up at Shady but something blurred his vision.
"You bastard." Evil screamed charging at him, Shady pulled his quill out of Flaky's corpse Evil slashed at him with his bowie knife while Shady defended.
"Aww I made the big bad bear cry, what would Berry do if she saw you weeping over another woman." Shady shot and that hit Flippy making Evil hesitate.
"She'd do nothing because she's dead!" Evil screamed punching Shady in his temple making him stumble back, Shady's visors cracked and he laughed.
"You dumbfuck! You haven't been home yet, have you! She's there waiting for you!"
She's at my house? Flippy asked weakly he was mentally and emotionally exhausted.
Don't believe him idiot he's nothing but a liar, we were at the house the WHOLE time!
Oh yeah...
"The only woman that belongs in my house is Flaky!" Evil argued as Shady pulled himself up, he put both hands on his quill like it was a sword and charged at Evil, stabbing and cutting at him. The quill clipped his leg, Evil winced then grabbed Shady by his shoulders, and headbutt him. Shady's visors shattered and as he stumbled back he kicked Evil in the jaw, Evil fell back on a clothes rack and elbowed the glass in it. He began to fling shards at Shady who used Lumpy the Store manager as a shield, Evil simply threw the whole rack at him, Shady ran towards the grocery section with Evil hot on his tail.
"Come back here you dumb bastard!" Evil yelled, scaring the shoppers; Evil grabbed Toothy and flung him at Shady, the beavers teeth sank into his calf Shady flung him off and his head was split open by a stem on a metal spinning rack. Shady looked around for something to help him, he hadn't realized how strong the psychotic bear was especially when angry and cursed himself for not keeping Flaky alive until they arrived home. Shady turned down an isle while Evil went straight, Shady looked around for something, anything and he saw a rack of sunglasses. He tossed on a pair and didn't see the green bear in sight, until white power was dumped on him, Shady's tasted it and cringed at its sweetness.
"Powered sugar?" He mumbled to himself, then he was Evil stood there with a candy covered squirrel reaching for the bag of powdered sugar he held in his other hand. Evil sprinted to Shady and slammed the bag into Shady's quills and released Nutty who immediately began to bite chunks off Shady thinking he was a giant purple cake with a jelly filling. Shady grabbed Evil's leg before Nutty tackled him and began to punch him in the face violently, Evil bit Shady's hand and punched his glasses again.
"What the hell is up with you wearing fucking sunglasses!" Evil asked frustrated, Shady screamed at the shards of plastic in his eyes and pulled a long wickedly sharp quill while Nutty ate him.
"You prick!" He screamed before Nutty ate his heart, Shady stabbed Evil in the stomach and twisted the quill and died.
Before Evil gave into the darkness he saw something behind the shattered sunglasses, laughter shook him before he died.
Flaky opened her eyes in the Happy Tree Hospital next to Shady and Flippy everything on her was in place except her quills were in a pony-tail, she crept out of bed and tip-toed her way to the door but a purple figure cut her off she covered her face thinking it was Shady until the figure tapped her shoulder. Flaky looked up at a purple bear with a blue flower in her hair, she wore a look of confusion as Flaky's eyes began to water and she pushed Berry into the hall.
"Y-you have to get out of here?" The purple bear looked at the timid porcupine confusedly, she sized her up and took her for the typed afraid of her own shadow.
"And why is that? I came to see Shady, some pink chipmunk told me he was in the hospital. I come here and I see you, that green bear, and Shady all in hospital beds." Did she just call Flippy..the love of her...past life 'That green bear' as if he was a total stranger.
"Y-you don't remember Flippy?" Flaky asked balling her fists up, she felt an energy building up inside her, Berry's face lit up as she looked at the bear again and it finally clicked. She ran past Flaky and rushed into the room, the energy in Flaky subsided and he slowly followed the purple bear. The purple bear shook Flippy, calling his name, Flippy woke up and stared wide-eyes at her, Shady woke due to all the commotion. He looked at the purple bear and Flaky could've sworn she saw Shady swallow nervously.
"What are you doing here!" They both asked in unison, Berry looked at them both in confusion, she turned to Shady first.
"Well I heard that you were in the hospital so I came to see you and I just learned you were here; that girl told me it's so good to see you!" She exclaimed gesturing to Flaky briefly then giving Flippy a tight hug, Flaky looked away feeling like she intruded on a special moment.
"I-I can't believe you're alive, and I've missed you more than you can ever know...but you need to know that that girl over there is my girlfriend and I love her." Flippy said, Berry pulled away from him and looked at him then Flaky who was playing with the long ponytail nervously. Flippy waited for a slap, yelling, her to look at him hurt, but she simply laughed and patted his shoulder.
"She's too cute for you, plus I never thought you'd miss me so much." She admitted, Flippy and Flaky looked at Berry in shock out of her taking it so easily.
"Look, why don't you just go back home and I'll meet you there ok?" Shady whispered to Berry, Flaky eyed him, he never whispered, Berry shrugged and headed for the door. But Flaky blocked it.
"W-wait a minute! B-berry why are you talking to Shady and so accepting with Flippy choosing me, n-not that I'm not grateful but i-it seems off." Flaky said feeling the energy build up again, the purple bear looked confused.
"Berry?" She looked around and gasped. "No, no, no I'm not Berry I'm her twin sister Cherry." She said apologetically, the energy built up in Flaky again she kept it inside and looked at the ground.
Yes, release it dear. Flakes laughed, Flaky did as she was told and looked up at Shady with narrow red eyes, long claws, sharp teeth, and spiked quills.
Say hello to your animal instincts. Flakes chuckled.
"Flaky! Don't look at me like that!" He yelled commandingly at the not-so-timid approaching porcupine, Flaky glanced over at Flippy to see the he was half-flipped apparently both sides wanted to rip him to shreds. Cherry just stepped back feeling hate hang heavily in the air.
"You mean to tell me...that you made all of this up!" Flaky snapped grabbing his neck, Shady raised a hand to hit her but she didn't flinch instead her eyes burned into his soul making him recoil his arm from her, he became nervous this wasn't little Flakes. Easy to push around and treat like a punching bad, when he didn't answer; she picked him up out of the bed and flung him against the wall. He smashed against an equipment shelf, a beaker filled with alcohol smashed against his back creating wounds and burning them. Shady cried out, Fliqpy picked him up by his arms and restrained him
"Get up you cross-eyed bastard." He whispered, Shady flinched and his face turned red with anger, Flaky raised an eyebrow, raised a clawed paw and swept it across his face knocking off the visors and leaving four angry red crying marks on his face. Shady had his eyes squeezed shut.
"Open them." Flaky and Fliqpy demanded, they smirked at each other, Flaky turned to walk across the room. Fliqpy put his legs between Shady's and spread them. Flaky turned and sprinted across the room to give him a full leg pulled back, 110% hard kick to the family jewels; the thud was so loud it almost sounded like a crunch, Shady's eyes flew open and a quiver started from his legs and traveled up his body, once it got to him face he vomited. Fliqpy let him go and he fell face first into the bile clutching his regions unable to stand, Flaky bent over and looked at the crying porcupine's eyes. She chuckled at two big pupils staring at each other, then she began to laugh out loud; Shady just cringed as Flaky kicked him in the side.
"That! You tormented me just because you can't look straight!" She screamed, she yanked one of the glass shards out of his back and plunged it into his left eye, he clutched it and rolled around in his vomit pile in pain. She walked over to the emergency hose and sprayed him clean with ice cold chemically treated high pressure water. Shady was slammed against the wall with great pressure and half drowned, Fliqpy grabbed a defibrillator and smirked. The same time Flaky dropped the hose, Fliqpy turned on the defib and tossed it into the high pressure stream, electricity crackled and popped attacking Shady violently. After a minute or so of this Flaky turned off the water and walked towards him making each step filled with her pain and sorrow that he's caused her, she pressed her foot to his face, he mumbled something.
"Say that a bit louder." She bit.
"It was..for you. You'd leave but you stayed longer out of fear. I really did love you and I still did, any damage I caused you was out of fear for you leaving. I'm sorry." Shady said sincerely, peeking at her with his good eye, tears streaked down her face but she shook it off and grabbed the 9mm desert eagle from Fliqpy's ever armed belt, she aimed it at Shady but a hand landed on her shoulder and she looked back at the normal Flippy, he had worry in his eyes.
"What?" She hissed.
"If you kill him, regardless of him coming back or not, this side full of rage and hate will stay with you. It's not an angel coming to save you, trust me I've been there just don't kill him and let this piece of you go." He reasoned, she looked at Shady and how he'd hurt her physically, emotionally, and mentally, her finger twitched on the trigger but she looked down at him for what he really was; a coward that hid behind abusing others to get over his own insecurity, a bully, a worthless piece of her past that was barely worth her attention. She sighed and dropped the gun to the floor, it went off and shot Shady right between the eyes; Flaky flinched at the sound and looked over at an equally shocked Flippy.
"D-does that count...?" Flippy looked over at the normal Flaky and laughed.
~Two Months Later~
Flippy almost jumped out of bed but was cautious not to wake the red spikey ball he was curled around, he looked at her and drank in her image, she'd been wearing one of his army jackets to bed almost everyday since then and was chewing on the hem on the sleeve as she slept curled up in a ball.
She's adorable.
What a kid... Both Evil and Flippy said in the same amused and affectionate voice, there was only a pause of mental silence until Flippy was on the move again. He'd gotten used to Evil adding in his two cents about Flaky but it's been more loving than hateful, sometimes he does have his moments where he picks on the poor girl but he never hurts her or kills her.
Stop thinking and hurry up idiot. Evil commanded, Flippy pulled a cake out of the very bottom of the fridge. It was a red velvet cake with chocolate frosting, Flaky's favorite, he also took out a little green and red box. It took him longer than he expected to make eggs and bacon with toast and he cursed himself for not knowing how to cook very well, he put the breakfast on a tray with a rose and a hibiscus from her new garden in Flippy's backyard and cared it to the room.
Wait you just grabbed yours! Get mine too, it's behind the sugar in the cabinet. Evil shouted angrily, Flippy sighed went back to grab the small box although it was bigger than Flippy's and walked back to the room.
Pfft, it's bigger than mine are you trying to one-up me? Flippy thought accusingly.
If I wanted to one-up you it wouldn't even take much. Evil scoffed, then they both chuckled.
"Flaky." He whispered down to her and she stirred immediately, she was a light sleeper her nerves wouldn't allow her to be anything else. She sat up with her quills askew behind her face, she put one finger to her mouth yawned and rubbed closed eyes with the other hand. Suddenly she smelled the breakfast and a smile began to crawl over her face, Flippy set the tray on the bed in front of her and she kissed him putting her arms around his neck.
"Happy Birthday Flaky." Flippy whispered to her trying to hide the cake and boxes the best he could without dropping them, Flaky hadn't seemed to notice and she dug in; the eggs were a little salty and the bacon was burned a bit but she ate it anyway. She was about to drink her milk until Flippy pulled out the cake, she squealed and ate the large slice faster than she ate the breakfast. Flippy stood and sat on the bed behind her and began to play with her hair, it wasn't something Flippy normally does rather than being something Evil likes to do but she didn't pay the question mind seeing as they were the same person. Flaky's ear twitched as she heard fabric tie, once she finished her milk she let Flippy guide her to a mirror; she looked up and saw her hair pulled back into a ponytail held by a green bow. The bow shined and looked good in contrast to her dark red hair, Flaky reached up to touch the ribbon and the material seemed to slide against her skin, Flaky couldn't help to smile at how soft the material was. Flippy kissed the top of her head right before she was about to turn in every angle of the mirror just poking, rubbing, and caressing the magic material until she heard somebody cleared their throat. Flaky turned, shocked, to see Evil and cocked her head to the side and he held out a slightly bigger box for her.
"The ribbon was from Flippy but this one's from me." He said blushing only slightly which must be a lot for him, Flaky took it.
"When did you have time to shop plus if you two are the same then why do I get two presents?" She asked jokingly, Evil took the box and held it high above his head.
"Oh well in that case." He mumbled looking away, she whined and jumped for the box only to miss. Evil chuckled at her child-ish antics, kissed her forehead and gave her it back. She quickly opened the box and picked up a bowie knife just like Evil's, she giggled and held the weapon cautiously figuring he'd get her this sort of thing. He walked to her and turned it to the side it had 'Happy Birthday Flaky. With love, Evil' Flaky smiled and him and kissed him on both cheeks meaning to represent a kiss for Flippy as well.
"I love them both they're beautiful." She smiled and watched Evil turn to Fliqpy, she was confused again and just watched as he put his hands in his pockets.
"Even though it's your birthday we kind of wanted a present from you." He said, Flaky could literally see the mental fight he was having one side was ready while the other was hesitant, they appeared to have come to a decision and knelt on one knee. Flaky looked wide-eyed as he opened a box and that revealed an engagement ring, tears flowed down her face and Flippy's half couldn't find words so in Evil's voice Fliqpy said.
"Let's get hitched." Evil more so stated than asked but it was still a question and she knew it was a question all the same, tears filled her eyes and she practically jumped up and down.
"Y-yes!" She exclaimed, but Fliqpy continued.
"You're marrying both of us, remember that." He warned she just tackled him and kissed both sides of his face.
"I know, I know I love you both!" Fliqpy laughed, slid the ring on her finger, and kissed her passionately, she kissed back loving the natural feeling of her lips against his and finally all in her world was right again.
~End~
Ok it's not really the end and I KNOW it's a sucky chapter soo much happened but gah I just...every time I delete it I wrote it again so please don't hate me and I have at least one more chapter of the future in me so I'll get right on that.
R&R please I want to know our opinions about it!
Peace, love, peanut butter!