The man stared at her, not sure how to comprehend the events she just told him.

"Iris...what you saw...is impossible...your father-

"Dead yea I know but yet I kept seeing him even after he died...like he was haunting me..." she cut him off curtly as she trailed off in her thoughts.

"You were hallucinating him weren't you? Because of your grief, you blamed yourself for his death.

She closed her eyes and nodded in confirmation as tears steamed down her face.

"You said was seeing him does that mean your not seeing him anymore?" he asked with a raised eyebrow.

She nodded again.

"When did you stop seeing him?"

"6 months after we found the bodies..."

"And why did you stop seeing him?"

"Because I was able to do something I thought I would never be able to do...I forgave myself..." she said hoarsely.

Muir Park 3 years ago

Iris was breathing heavily while trembling, her eyes looked at the orangutan full of terror not in fear of him but of what she just saw. Maurice hooted softly trying to calm her down while still holding both of her wrists gently but firmly in his hands. Her breaths soon became slower and the trembling had stopped causing him to let go of her but he could see there was still a little hint of fear in her eyes.

"What happened? Who were you talking to?" he signed to with concern.

Iris quickly looked to direction of what spooked her to see it was now gone.

"Nothing...No one I'm fine..." she said under her breath as she quickly looked back to him.

Maurice could clearly tell it wasn't nothing but he didn't want to push her, not when he just got her to calm down.

"Wait a minute? Why are you here? Were you following me?" she asked suspiciously as she stared hard at him.

"Caesar wanted me to keep a eye on you as you got back home."

Iris crossed her arms becoming annoyed.

"He's just worried..."he signed with tender eyes, trying get her to understand his king's reason.

She rolled her eyes and scoffed.

"I know this might be hard for his bullheaded brain to understand but just because I'm female doesn't mean I'm weak and helpless" she said agitated.

She then turned around to continue on her way but was stopped by the orangutan who grabbed her arm causing her to turn around to look at him.

"He doesn't think that, the woods not safe right now and apes getting nervous about you."

"I know how to defend myself Maurice...now could you please let go of me...I have something I have to do" she said as she pulled her arm out of his grip.

"Where are you going?" He signed curiously.

"I'm going back home to pick up my dog then I'm heading towards the abandoned part of the city."

Maurice's eyes widen a little in surprise because that's were Caesar was heading with Rocket and Luca.

"Why?"

"I'm meeting someone there, I don't have time this" she said in frustration as she spun around and took off with Maurice following after her which made her turn around to face him slowly, looking clearly peeved.

"Your just going to keep following me arn't you..." she said quietly.

He gave a look that confirmed her suspiousions.

She groaned loudly and turned back around to start walking again not bothering with the ape that was following her, she could out run him and lose him but was too tired emotional, physically, and mental along with feeling like crap to deal with it. As a way to block out everything she started to sing a familiar song to her, Mutiny by Think up Anger.

Maurice paid attentivly to the song she was singing.

While the song went longer she stopped singing because they had arrived back to her home.

"Please don't growl at my dog..." she said to Maurice quietly.

He scoffed at this.

She walking up to her door with him behind her and opened it. Bruce who was sleeping on the floor quickly ran over to Iris once he heard her come through the door.

"Hey buddy do you want to come with me to do a errand" she said softly to him.

He barked in agreement which made her smile. She then went over to her table pick up a knife she had left there and put it in her pocket. She then noticed that Maurice was looking at her book shelf with interest.

"Do you like to read?" she asked as she walked over to him.

He grunted in confirmation.

"I teach the childern in the Colony but we don't have books."

Iris could understand that due not many apes were keen on the idea of humans things in the colony.

"Where did you get all of them?" He signed curiously.

"Book stores and libraries...you would be surprised of how many of them are laying around."

Well it wasn't really much of a surprise really, humans were more busy looking for means of survival then to read for the last 10 years. Iris started look around the book shelf until she found what she was looking for which was To Kill a Mocking Bird she then handed to Maurice.

Maurice looked at the book then back at her not sure how to react.

"Keep it I've read it multiple times...you will probably be intrigued by it" she said as she walked out the door with Bruce.

Maurice followed her, watching her closely, while he was not yet intrigued by the book he was becoming intrigued by her.

Wow another chapter I'm on a roll :D Tell me what you guys think. I heard the song Mutiny by Think up Anger from a Wftpota trailer and I thought it suited it :) you guys should check it out

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