Flippy kept his eyes on Splendont while he closed the door. The Red Squirrel didn't seem fazed by the bear's stares and in fact answered them with his own staring.
The room was silent with nothing more that dripping water.
Flippy kept a straight face as if trying to mimic Splendont's own blank expression but when Splendont started to approach the bound bear Flippy trembled with each thud of every footstep.
Crouching down so he was at eye level with Flippy, Splendont didn't say much and just let his eyes scan over every inch of Flippy's face.
Flippy couldn't hold the strong gaze any longer and instead looked down. Splendont saw this and grabbed his chin forcing him to look at his face, once again his eyes wandered around Flippy's face.
Flippy let him stare for about another 5 minutes before he struggled.
"Ok OK! Let me go! My face isn't going to change!" Flippy shook his head out of Splendont's hold.
"Why did you join the war?" Splendont asked sitting down beside Flippy knowing Flippy could do nothing about it.
"What's it to you?" Flippy glared.
"Well you're a small fragile little bear with a cute face. Why would you want to join the war of all places?" Splendont answered.
Flippy stared at him for a moment and Splendont knew that Flippy wasn't going to tell him.
Willingly anyway.
Splendont grabbed Flippy's bound wrists and snapping the chain. He pulled the bear onto his lap and held him tightly as Flippy struggled.
"Stop struggling. Tell me why?" Splendont ordered.
Flippy struggled as hard as he could but soon gave up. Splendont was one of those people who would get what they wanted at all costs.
"I wanted to! There! Now let me go!" Flippy yelled.
Splendont didn't. He just held the bear until Flippy tired himself out and lay there.
They lay there for a while until the door slammed open. When Flippy saw the Tiger General he clung to Splendont tighter, knowing there was going to be trouble.
...
Evil walked around Sniffles lab carefully. He had gotten away from Splendid and Sniffles, who were trying to tie him to a bed.
Walking quietly yet casually, Evil spotted Lifty was still typing on that computer.
Blinking in surprise that the little racoon was still messing with that thing since yesterday when they cracked the code, Evil decided it was because Lifty thought that if he found out where this place was then he could convince Shifty to leave.
Evil admired the little racoon's determination but he also knew it was a lost cause.
Shifty tried to kill him. Evil didn't think that Lifty fully realised that Shifty did not care about him anymore.
"Lifty! Get some sleep! We'll be leaving soon" Evil told the small creature. Evil knew Lifty didn't sleep for a while because of the black bag under his already dark eyes.
"What? No! I'm fine" Lifty mumbled turning back to the computer.
Rolling his eyes, Evil gently took the computer and placed in on the desk. Lifty was still staring at his lap as if thinking 'where'd it go?'
Evil then picked up the racoon and placed him on his shoulder gently.
"Hey! Why do I have to rest? You're not sleeping!" Lifty yelled too weak to struggle.
"Because you need it more than me and I can't sleep without Flippy." Evil replied.
There was a silence while Evil placed Lifty on the bed that Splendid and Sniffles previously tried to tie him to.
"I can't sleep without Shifty..." Lifty muttered looking at the pillow.
Evil sat down in the chair beside the bed stroking Lifty's head. "I know" he replied.
Lifty fell asleep later and Evil followed his hand on Lifty's head.
When Evil opened his eyes he was met by Splendid's angry glare.
"Oh GOD! What do you want! I'm sleeping aren't I?" Evil groaned.
"Shut up! While you were asleep Sniffles is working on our barrier" Splendid growled.
"Barrier?" Evil mumbled closing his eyes.
"The barrier that lets us come back to life idiot! Sniffles is working on it so we can come back if we fail" Splendid then turned and walked away.
"You think we're going to fail?" Evil asked.
Splendid stopped and didn't turn back to Evil when he replied. "Well let's put it this way. It's the 3 of us against an army and copies of myself and Lifty and your boyfriend as their hostage! Go YEAH! Our chances are slim" With that Splendid walked away.
Evil wanted to run after him and punch him but he was right.
They had exact copies of themselves himself even as a hostage, they had an army AND they had weapons.
They were screwed if Sniffles didn't at least try and widen the barrier.
...
Flippy was covered in bruises, cuts and burn marks and he had only been here a week.
Splendont had taken up the habit that when Flippy was in his cell he would join him and hold him for hours.
Flippy had gotten used to the staring and felt some comfort from it as if thinking that Splendont would protect him. Flippy sat in Splendont's lap, unmoving except for his chest rising and falling and his eyes blinking.
Flippy was grateful for Splendont's odd behaviour because when Flippy was first in here and was thrown into a cell all alone Flippy would beg for comfort.
Honestly it kept him sane almost.
Almost.
Flippy knew he was going to change with or without Splendont's comfort if Evil didn't save him.
Flippy had been through it before and he knew that if he made Evil once he could do it again.
And make so many more, vicious things.
The General mocked him telling him that if they had feelings for him as well, the General would just let him have Flippy.
Flippy only wanted Evil.
He wanted to sleep in Evil's arms again.
To eat and hear Evil laugh and say he was being cute.
To be kissed by Evil in random places at random times.]
But in here...
He's too afraid to sleep.
He's rarely given food.
He's told that he has a cute scream more than 10 times a day.
He is on a tight schedule and the only affection he gets is from the person who brought him here in the first place.
Flippy hoped Evil would come. He thought about him when he wasn't being tortured.
Flippy wanted to sit there and think about all the happy memories but he knew that in 30 seconds he would be tortured by being fake drowned over and over.
Looking up at Splendont who was looking down at him, Flippy let the fear crawl onto his face for a second. Splendont blinked in surprise.
The door slammed open. Just on time.