Poppies Watered in Blood | third life | flower husbands

Part Seven

Scott woke up with Jimmy curled up next to him in a little ball. Blushing a bit Scott smiled and closed his eyes again, deciding that he would sleep in.

Scott opened his eyes once more as Jimmy stirred in his sleep wrapping his arms around Scott protectively.

All in all when Jimmy finally awoke Scott was a blushing mess.

"Uhm... how long were you up?" Jimmy asked.

"I woke up a few minutes ago"

"Oh..."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Oh nothing important"

"Mhm"

"I'm serious Scott, it's really nothing you should worry about"

"Whatever you say Petal"

Jimmy blushed at the nickname, "w-where did that come from!?" Jimmy asked and Scott shrugged, "you just kind of look like a petal"

"Y-you think so?"

"Yeah I do" Scott smiled as Jimmy blushed even harder.

A knock on their door made both of them jump. While they'd been living in The Fairy Fort for about a month, it was still jarring having someone knock on their door.

"Coming!" Scott called out slipping out of bed and walking over to the door with Jimmy close behind.

When Scott opened the door he found Grian; a short blonde haired boy whose wings changed to a different type of bird depending on his mood.

Today his wings were of a parrot, meaning he was at the very least in a good mood.

"Hey G, you need something?" Scott greeted

"Nope! But BigB does"

"What does he need help with?" Jimmy asked

Grian shrugged, "dunno, but it must be important if he wants Scott, Cleo, Bdubs, and you Jimmy."

"Well I guess we can help him, I just hope it's not dangerous or anything" Scott mumbled.

While BigB was an easygoing type of guy, Scott had to admit he had a tendency to misjudge certain situations.

"I'm sure it's nothing like that" Grian reassured

Hopefully he was right and it was just a building or expansion project.

Hopefully

Maybe

Surely

When Scott and Jimmy met up with the group leaving Grian to do Grian things Scott already knew this wouldn't be good by how the lilacs were telling him and Jimmy to run.

"Scott, Jimmy I'm glad you could come here" BigB said smiling.

"Good to be here..." Scott said hesitantly.

Noticing this Jimmy wrapped his arms around Scott's left arm in a comforting motion. "Hey you two" Cleo greeted

"Hey Cleo" Jimmy responded.

"So you two a couple now? Or-"

"Cleo!" Scott cut the undead zombie off as he and Jimmy's faces turned bright red. "Come on now Cleo don't tease them" BigB protested but even he couldn't hide the chuckle he gave at how flustered the two of them were.

When Bdubs finally showed up, it was getting to be the afternoon.

"I'm glad you all could make it" BigB thanked, "and uh... I'm sorry" Scott tilted his head in confusion before arrows started raining down on them.

Scott summoned vines to conceal them, but flaming arrows started to appear. Damn BigB and his power to hide the identity of anyone he so desired.

If BigB had any other power then they'd maybe be able to gain the upper hand.

Scott pushed Jimmy out of the way as a flurry of arrows came at him. Scott screamed and collapsed to the floor as five of the nine arrows hit.

Jimmy rushed over to him and frantically started trying to heal Scott.

"LOOK OUT!!!" Cleo shouted pushing Jimmy out of the way as another arrow stabbed Cleo straight through the heart. "Mom!" Bdubs shouted running over to her.

"Take Scott and go!" Cleo ordered, "I'll fend them off" hordes of undead zombies starting filling the clearing and Bdubs and Jimmy carried Scott away with arrows shooting at their ankles.

After about an hour of running they stopped to rest in a forest with Jimmy using his energy to heal Scott's wounds.

"What are we going to do now?" Bdubs asked as Scott positioned a sleeping Jimmy so that he was leaning on his shoulder in a blanket of flowers.

"I... I don't know"

"We could run again"

"Running is a lot more dangerous, and what about the others? If BigB is a traitor wouldn't that put the others in danger as well?"

"Ok you've got a point there, but we can't just go back!"

"So we hide out in this forest, it won't be much, but it'll be enough so that The Shadow Queen knows we're alive if BigB tries to claim that we died."

"Scott you are a genius! But wouldn't BigB know we're here?"

"I don't think so, his powers make it so that he can't know when a presence is near him."

"Right, he can't do much else besides mask someone's presence."

"Indeed, which is good for us since it means we just have to be careful not to show ourselves nothing more"

"Exactly!"

"Let's start by finding a place in this forest to call home"

"I think I know a spot"

"Alright then, lead the way Bdubs"

And with Jimmy on his back, Scott followed Bdubs to a lagoon he would often go with Cleo to whenever times were tough.

His logic was that if Cleo was alive, she'd come here hoping to find him.

All in all it was a smart plan, but the lagoon was quite exposed, so Scott used his power to make it more hidden.

Even if things had gone to shit it wasn't so bad.

At the very least Scott, Bdubs, and Jimmy were safe from BigB, and whatever plan he had going on in his mind.

Hopefully Grian would be safe.