#bit shorter

poor john just wanted to be protected from the sun, but dennis is a bit of a brat

bonus dennis faces the consequences of his actions (dont worry he very much hoped for those consequences)

part 9

Green Leaf- Cowbirdsoar 

Part 1 

The claw marks were just the first sign. They tried to stay positive and convince themselves that it was just a fluke. But then they found the fur.  

Cowbirdsoar was the first to spot it. It was innocuous, just a patch of white in a bush. Still, it chilled him to the bone. It’s cat fur, I just know it. He was frozen in place by his thoughts. But the others caught his gaze.  

Nighthawkflicker flattened her ears, and her tail lashed behind her. Madtomtuft wrapped her tail around the others. Brambleclash was the only one who moved towards it.  

If it’s from an infected cat and she touches it- Cowbirdsoar felt his heartbeat in his ears. He pushed ahead of her.     “Stay back!” He hissed sharply. 

 Brambleclash took a step back.  

He felt so weak staring them down. “We can’t touch it. Not,” He struggled against himself, “not until we know it’s not from one of them.”  

The others looked at each other. Madtomtuft stepped forward and placed a careful paw on Cowbirdsoar. “Alright. We won’t touch it.”  

He felt himself relax at that. At least his clanmates still had his back.  

“We should at least smell it,” Brambleclash suggested. That could rule out cat but if it’s airborn like a cough...  

Danny wished he could stay home but his mother was persistent that he either goes to school or the hospital, and after hearing how long their college friend was in the hospital after he got hit with the 1st portal, he did not want to spend his teenage years in quarantine.

Not to mention Danny got hit with a huge portal rather than the small prototype his parents described, and it hit his whole body rather than just his face. Going to the hospital was off the table. Besides it was just a stomach ache, he should be fine.

Yeah, no. He was not fine.

I slither out from under my rock on occasional, this time I have come with a fic based on this idea in which one of Crosshair's squad tries to erase Tech's work on the wall and Crosshair stops them.

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Crosshair had spent much of his time in his head, unable to comprehend his new reality. It simply brought him too much pain. He always knew his brothers would get sick of him one day, he didn't expect them to leave him though. To abandon him. Not that he would or could ever blame them, he simply loved them too much. He just wished they had loved him that much too.

He sat on a bed, and as he gazed across the room, his gaze settled on Tech's bed. It was terribly clean, that was very much unlike Tech. He was messy, especially with his bed, "If I get an idea in the middle of the night for my projects, all I have to do is sit up. Crosshair, tell them it's perfectly reasonable for me." It's reasonable, Tech. It is! Hunter, if you don't let Tech have his work on his bed it'll infest the entire room and then you'll trip on something and ruin Tech's entire project and he'll never hug you again. "Yeah!" Tech sticks his tongue out as he runs back to his work.

He couldn't help but to smile as he stared at the empty bed, he almost wanted to laugh as fond memories slowly faded back. Memories of Tech working endlessly and carelessly. It was the thing he was most passionate about, all his little projects, Crosshair remembered all of them, there were hundreds of them, but with every project, Tech would ask, "Crosshair will you please check my math?" Never had he ever said 'no.' But for some reason, Tech wasn't here, and he didn't ask him anymore.

As Crosshair continued to stare, the room lit up with life, Tech's bunk flickered to life, and as Crosshair stared, he saw Tech, running with blueprints and chalk in his hand, "Cross' come help me in a sec! 'Kay?" Tech climbed onto his bed, writing on the wall, he wrote in a way only Tech himself could decipher. Crosshair nodded, I'll get up in a minute.

He could hear Tech's voice so clearly, "If I centralize the scanner then it will result in a more accurate read! Cross' get over here!"

I'll be there in a sec' Tech. He heard his brother giggle as he worked. You figured it out. See, you don't need me-

"Of course I do! You're my brother! Now come! Double check my work!" Crosshair smiled as he took a breath, he was going to get up, he swears he was. But then, Tech's work started to fade away, Tech started to fade away as a figure came into view with a rag.

Crosshair narrowed his eyes, they were wiping away his work! Crosshair jumped to his feet, whoever was doing this had no right. Damn reg, always hurting us, always hurting Tech. Crosshair found himself gripping someone's wrist tightly, who they were Crosshair didn't know and he didn't care.

Crosshair gripped their wrist and gave them no opportunity to snatch it away, "It's not done" Crosshair hissed as he shoved them back, letting go, "He hates it when you do that." Crosshair ripped the rag from their hand, throwing it aside before pulling out a piece of chalk. "I always lose them. Crosshair, chalk me.... Please."

Crosshair took the chalk in his hand and rewrote the equation this intruder had erased. They stood there, bitterly. Crosshair wrote it out, hoping that was it, "Did you erase my 67 squared? Who erased my 67 squared?!" Crosshair felt a pang in his head as the chalk found its place back into his pocket. The bed was now empty, Crosshair didn't know where Tech went, he only hoped he'd come back. Please come back! I'm sorry Tech! Crosshair shook his head. They were gone. Doesn't matter, they'll come home again, they aren't gonna leave me here.... Right? Crosshair didn't let himself think about his family any longer. So, Crosshair turned to whoever this person was and ordered,

"Don't ever try that again."

The cemetery is cold, quiet.

I smiled down at my phone, another text from Liam. We’d been texting for four hours and for those hours, I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face. Always jokes around about being ‘besties’, it was cute but I’d never taken it seriously. We talked nonsense but that didn’t make a difference to me. We’d been talking about music when he’d defended my taste. I had quite a range of taste in music and most people disagreed with me, but Liam shared my love for Radiohead. “I’m glad at least someone agrees with me!” I’d typed. “Hahaha, yes, I am pretty great.” Liam was such a humble person but he’d never stop joking around. “yes, you so are ‘bestie’ ;)” he replied almost instantly “So are you bestie :)” I smiled to myself “I’m not sure if that was a joke or a compliment haha” and again, his reply was almost instant. “Compliment :) Kate, you’re my best friend don’t you even forget that.” Ever since that, my name’s been bestie, rarely Kate unless he was being serious.  

“Yeah it’s me Li, what’s wrong?” I bit my lip, he didn’t sound good. “Um, um, I......” My heart was beating faster by the second, I was so hoping he’d say those three words, or that he missed me, or for him to ask me not to go, anything to let me know how he really felt. “Um...” there it was again, um. “I think you took my jumper by accident.. I can’t find it in my bag haha sorry.” My heart sunk, he didn’t miss me, he didn’t love me, he didn’t want me to come back, of course he didn’t... “Oh! That’s fine, um I don’t know how I can get it to you though, I might just have to mail it to you once I move?” my hands we’re shaking, I couldn’t believe how naive I was. “Yeah that’s fine, actually now I think of it, keep it. I know how much you loved it on the beach. Sorry to bother you.” My mind went reeling back to the beach.....

All six of us walked along the beach, laughing and carrying on like usual, playing tips, running along the sand. It was around 7am at night, it was dark and Liam knew I was scared of the dark, of course he decided it would be fun to mess with me and scare me at every chance he had! He grabbed my ontop of my shoulders from behind and I tried to hold back a scream but failing not to jump. “You ass! What are you doing, stop it! Haha, I have goosebumps already okay?!” I said between giggles. “Aw, I’m sorry it’s just so much fun! Are you cold though?” “Yes! It’s freezing out here Li!” Without hesitation he took off his jumper, passing it to me. “No, no way I couldn’t! Then you’ll be cold you goof, just put it back on okay?” I wrapped my arms around myself in an attempt to get warm. “And you call me a goof! Look at you, bestie just take it, you know me, I hardly get cold!” I tried to push the jumper back at him but I just couldn’t refuse. The jumper he’d handed to me wouldn’t be special to anyone else, it was some surf jumper, but it was special to me. It was his, it smelled like him, and as weird as that sounded, wearing a jumper that smelt like him, was one of the best things. I felt like his arms were wrapped around me and he was protecting me ,I looked up and smiled at him. “Thank you” he just smiled sweetly back at me, put his hands in his pockets and kept walking.