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chapter 42 - concussion

(A/N) pic of my bunny i took today :D

Meanwhile with the boys, they’d reached donna’s house and started making sure neil was alright and the concussion wasn’t too too bad, even if it was that bad, they’d probably need to go to the hospital anyway to check his paw. But that could wait. Dylan wondered where malachi was, the most likely solution is that he was either dropping off or picking poppy up from therapy. For now, all dylan and andy had to do was make sure neil wasn’t in a whole lot of pain from the concussion, since there wasn’t a lot they could do about the claw other than ice it, change the bandages, and air out the wound as needed. They’d turned off the lights and were making sure the others weren’t being too loud since neil was shielding his eyes from the sun and the indoor lights and covering his ears at stuff he wouldn’t usually cover his ears at. His balance was fairly poor, so they kept him sat on the couch, now all they had to do was make sure the others stayed quiet and wait for malachi to get home so he could take him to the hospital to check his paw. Dylan sat beside neil and pulled him close.

“You comfy?” he whispered. Neil sat there unresponsive for a minute or so before slowly nodding his head. Since mom was always cautious, she’d drilled basic first aid for various stuff, namely concussions, into his head whenever he could, but not so often that it got annoying, and besides, he liked hearing her talk. He heard andy walk up behind them and lean on the back of the couch beside neil.  they sat in near dead silence listening to each other breathe until Andy started semi frantically looking around.

“forget something?” Dylan joked.

“just my bag, will you be alright if I leafve you boys to go get it?” Andy answered, pointing at the door with his thumb. All of a sudden as if on cue, guess who came barging in?

“Wuddup hoes?!” kai shouted as he kicked the door open. The sudden noise caused neil to flinch and latch onto dylan, who had yelped hearing him while andy had jumped back a few steps.

“Kai, if you break that door i’m pretty sure donna is going to make you pay for a new one,” neil signed, his muzzle still buried in dylan’s neck.

“Ok, ok. Anyway, i noticed andy forgot his bag at the park and i, being the chivalrous rooster that i am, decided to run over and drop it off here. No need to thank me, i know i’m soo kind and charitable,” kai flaunted as he walked in and set the bag down on the couch.

“Danke schoen. I wash actually about to go back for it,” andy smiled and went over to shake his wing gratefully.

“Dake huh?” kai asked.

“Danke schoen, it meansh ‘dank you fvery much’ in german,” andy explained with a patient smile on his face.

“Oh, cool! Anyways, i’mma head back to the guys, ciao!” kai grinned as he left again. Andy sighed and leaned back over the head of the couch and blankly stared at the cushions.

“Is something wrong?” dylan asked, petting neil’s head as he softly purred.

“No, but i just have to say i admire how your friend was willing to go out of his way to bring my bag to me.”

“Yea, that’s kai for you. Always super sweet like that.”

“Kindness is a good thing to have in your country, it seems the people here lack it.”

“Yea. like this one time, i had to go grocery shopping and i- wait, just before i tell this story, how do you feel about gay people?”
“I’m perfectly fvine wid dem, and i already know you boys are togeder. Ifv you haven’t told anyone, den you don’t hafve to worry about me telling."

“Oh, that’s uh… honestly not the reaction i was- wait you know we’re dating?”

“Yesh.”

“How?”

“I saw you two kissh outside de cafve i met neil at.”

“Oh…”

And again, ifv you boysh aren’t in a safve environment den i won’t tell your parentsh.”

“It’s not like that, my mom is perfectly fine with it, it’s just i don’t want your relationship with neil to change because of it.”

“Dat ish very considerate now ifv you wouldn’t mind, i’d like to hear de rest ofv your story.”

“Oh, right! So like i was saying, i had to go grocery shopping and i decided to drag neil with me. We were just walking around and grabbing stuff, minding our own business when this in her i wanna say mid forties comes up to us and starts ranting about homosexuality is unnatural and goes against god’s will. She proceeded to follow us around for the next 20 minutes shouting about how we were going to hell if we didn’t immediately break up and pick up a bible until a staff member came in and got her off our backs. Honestly, kinda killed my mood.”

“I’m sorry you had to put up wid dat.”

“It’s fine, just kinda something you get used to in a more down south state.”

From there the conversation fell flat and they ended up staring into space in near complete silence other than neil, who’d fallen asleep. They sat and listened to neil purr until someone opened the garage door. It was malachi coming home with poppy.

“Oh, hello dylan. Anders,” he hesitated as he gently ushered poppy through the door and shut it.

“Are you guys doing a blood sacrifice or something? Why is it so dark in here?” poppy yawned as she walked towards the stairs.
“Neil had fallen out ofv a tree, broken his claw and gotten a concussion,” anders explained.
“Ok, how bad is the concussion?”

“Mild. I’d recommend just monitoring him for a while and keeping track of his diet and reading T.V time, etcetera.”

While andy and malachi talked about concussion stuff, dylan decided to take neil to his room so he could be a little more comfortable.

“Mmn, dylan?” he muttered, half asleep, as dylan reached his bedroom door.

“Yea?” he asked as he laid neil on his bed.

“You’re pretty.”

“So are you,” dylan smiled as he tucked neil onto bed and was about to leave when he fet something wrap around his tail. He turned around and saw that nei had uncovered himself just enough to extend his tail out and grab dylan’s.

“Can you stay with me for a while?”

“Alright, but only for you,” dylan smiled and laid on top of the covers and started petting neil, who fell back asleep almost immediately.

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hey, sorry this was so late, I don't really like writing on weekends and also I'm just not feeling the most up to writing write now, a little burn out-y tbh, but I keep telling myself to just get it over with and that the break I take will be all the more satisfying if I just finish up this story. I only have 222 more words of summary before I'm done! and once I am, I wanna show off some scrapped ideas and show some out of context bits from other stuff I'm working on and you guys can pick what I work on next. anyways, it's like 1 AM, so imma go to bed, mwah mwah, gnite y'all!