After everyone was fed and went back to what they were doing and making sure the Triple-D and Dimitri are in the attic.
"so, why do you need these?" Da Vinci asked laying down looking over the blueprints.
"well, since we need to change it so no one else gets their fur pulled, we need to draw over it." Dawkins said from a small door in the wall and pulled out something that looked like a small stroking machine. "and this should help?" he said walked back over and then laid down right next to her. "and with your skills, it shouldn't be too hard." He said, he then looked around. "what happened to D.J.?"
"he said he was going to update a playlist for something, he was already gone while he was still talking." she said looking over the blueprint. "are you sure it's ok to draw over this?" she said.
"yeah, I have digital copies of all of them, so if I need to, I can print them again." He said. looking over the little toy.
"oh, ok." She said still looking.
"oh, right. Here." Dawkins said handing her a pencil, "so would a shell look better, or plaster over the gaps so fur won't get pinched? Personally, I think a shell would look more aesthetically pleasing, and with a design of the solar system." He said.
"I would have thought of the milky way galaxy would have been better." She said more of a joke but did think it would look better.
"oh, you're right, and if we angle it just right, as it's in use it would look like the real thing." Dawkins said with excitement.
Da Vinci laughed at how he was acting, her heart skipped a beat, 'do I really like Dawkins. Or is it just the idea D.J. implanted.' She thought while still looking at him and feeling a big smile on her face as she looked and to the blueprint and started drawing over it, 'maybe.'
Dawkins then turned to the machine while holding the toy next to him and remembered something, "oh right the wires." He said getting up and grabbing the wires, "I should have questioned how you could do this when I just asked you to loosen some of the bolts." He said fixing up everything that was wrong with it, he was done. It took him longer to walk and ask the question than it did to fix it. "now then." He said getting back and laying down again, this time he was closer than he thought because he felt Da Vinci's fur brush against his fur. He then shook it off, "anyways." He said grabbing a different pencil, "I say we should use a bord to keep it flush and compact. But I also think a dome would help with keeping others away as it's pushed out, and if pushed into it, it will push you to the side to the side." Dawkins said drawing as he does.
Da Vinci was distracted for a second when Dawkins laid down but snapped out of it when he started drawing. "oh, yeah. I think a dome would be better, if it's a bord and someone gets pushed in, someone could get hurt."
"I know, but a dome distorts an image, but then again. Then again, if you're the one to make the art, then it's going to be incredible." He said still looking at the blueprint.
"do you really think my art is good?" she said.
"no, not really." he said, her heart broke a little after hearing that, "it's how you make them that makes then incredible." She looked at him confused. "let's take the time you were making shirts; they were just splotches nothing too complicated. So, when you left, but we still needed the money so I took charge thinking it couldn't be that hard." He then dropped his head. "I was wrong, I was so wrong." He said. "no matter what I did, they looked nothing like when you did them. I even copied one exactly, but still nothing. I don't know what you do, but your art is nothing compared to anyone else, and that's me comparing it to the Leonardo Da Vinci." He said.
Da Vinci was looking away blushing, "wow, no one's ever said that about my skills before." She said.
"well, I don't have a reason to lie to you, just being my honest self." He said.
She gathered all the courage she could and looked back at him. "can I tell you something?"
"sure, you can tell me anything." He said looking at her, but because of how close they were, their noses were almost touching. This caused him to blush.
"well…I wasn't expecting today to be like this but I'm happy it did. I've had fun." She smiled at him.
"as did I. one of the best days I've had this week." He returned the smile.
"I'm also happy that I could get to spend some time with you, we may have a big family, but I haven't spent that much with others. I'm glad we can spend this time together."
"same here, I don't spend time with others except for Dylan and Dolly, so have someone to talk to at the same level."
She smiled at the, "but the real thing I wanted to tell you is…well…" *pho* that noise started them, *pho, pho* "what is that?" she asked.
"I don't know, it's kind of sound like…you did turn off the kibble pump when you were done, right? Dawkins said with a worried look now.
"I thought it was always on?' she said. they both turned to see the pump was inflating and you see some spilling out.
"oh…" *POP* the kibbles then started stilling out.
Now. With everyone cleaning up.
"well I understand why there's kibble, but what about everything else, the blows, soap, toothpaste, chew toys, and clothes?" Dylan said moping the floor. A few of the other pups had helmets with dryers on then walking around.
"I theorize that a chunk of kibble landed on the blow flinger lunching all the blows with one of them hitting the kitchen knocking over more bowls and brock the tap. While another found itself upstairs where it not only opened up chou toy closest but also in the bathroom, turning on the brusher leaking toothpaste." Dawkins said with a washcloth.
"so, what about the vacuum?" Dolly asked collecting the bowls and taking them to the kitchen. Washing the bowls where Summer and Spike when they weren't splashing soapy water on each other.
"your guess is as good as ours, it was in the basement and no one brought it up." Da Vinci was using a broom and dustpan.
"am I doing this right?" asked Dorthey while on of said vacuum cleaner but she was wobbly as she does so.
"you're doing fine, it's hard the first time." Dylan said, he stopped for a second, "you know, I would have thought Mom and Dad would have been back before us, considering how late we got back."
"We have been." Delilah said. this spooked everyone cleaning. They looked around but could find anything. "up here." She said.
they all looked up and saw Delilah and Doug hanging from the ceiling inside a net. "oh kibbles, the safety measures." Dawkins said rushing to the scanner, with Dylan close behind with a few tools.
"Why do you have safety measures?" Dolly asked.
"Cruella may be dead and buried, but that doesn't mean that she's could be the only one after us. And before you say anything, it's better to have this and never use it, then not have them and need them later." Dylan said passing tools to Dawkins without him having to say anything.
"oh, that's very thought full." Delilah said as she was being lowered.
"always thinking about the family, I love you both." Doug said bringing in Dylan and Dawkins.
"ok, that's enough." Dawkins said.
"just a bit longer." He said.
"well along as were here, GROUP HUG!" Dylan said, and then everyone that was right there jumping into the hug.
A few minutes later.
"and with that, it's fixed." Dawkins said.
"so why did it activate on mom and dad, and not us?" Dylan asked.
"hum…" Dawkins said connected the pad to the scanner and looked at up the history, "oh, that's not good." he said.
"what?" Dolly said with Dorthey on her back.
"the history log says there were only two scanned in the last hour. The scanner mistook mom, or dad scan and thought intruder. And thought the door was forced open and activated, but the last scan thought it was Donut who was scanning, anyone could have come in. looks like this all happed then everything started going bad. I think I should waterproof this scanner as I did on the outside scanner. I found toothpaste on the scanner and thought nothing of it." he said.'
"yeah, I think that's best. Now beside we serve 'dinner'." He whispered, "show me the bathtub, and let me see how what I have in store for me." He said cracking the paws.
In the bathroom.
Dylan just looked at the tube, his eye was twitching at the sight of a rainbow stains tube, and not even or uniformly. He placed this paw in the tube and ran it over the paint. It may have been a few hours old, but it was semi-dry and wet. "I don't think we can save the tube, we're either going to live with it, or get a new tube." He said. "maybe, Da Vinci could do something, but that might take a few days." He said. "we'll talk about it later. Let's just go eat." He says. Dawkins was just sitting there staring at the tube, "Dawkins?"
This got him out of his trains and a slight blush, "what!" he said.
"let's go back down and eat." He said, "something up?" he asked concerned.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine nothing to worry about, come on let's…" Dawkins froze mid-step.
"what is it?" Dylan asked.
"were out of kibble." That was all he said.
Dylan just looked at him and then realized that all the kibble they were cleaning up was inedible, and any kibble they did have, was not enough for everyone. "You're right, and at this time, we can't get kibble delivered." Dylan then thought of anything to feed the family he was then pacing around. That was until he thought about something. "I got it." he said and ran out the door to his three houses. Dawkins ran with him to know that he was walking about, Spike saw them running and followed thinking he could help. Once they got into the treehouse, Dylan was throwing small boxes and after looing inside.
"Dylan, what are you looking for?" Dawkins asked
"a phone." That was all he said.
Spiked looked around and then saw it on top of a game box, "that it?"
"yes!" Dylan said jumping for it, "come on, come." Dylan said pushing everything in the phone. He then just sat there staring at the phone.
Dawkins and Spike looked at each other and were about to ask something, that was until, 'Hello, Dylan. What's wrong.' Hunter's voice rang out.
And with that, another chapter is done. This may not have been how I wanted it to end, but it's fine.
Word of the day
Vaunted (vaunt-ed)
Adjective
Highly or widely praised or boasted about
Well, that's it for me, until next time. Red Omega out, Peace!