A pet's secret chapter 11 Cards
"Jester, are you really having me do this right now? I thought we had a nice conversation, so why are you making me do street fortune telling?"
Javenna was stood there in her circus uniform shuffling her Tarot cards and watching as Harley and Doctor put together her table and chair with a small money box to the side.
"Because Doctor and Harlequin broke the door down to protect you from your own nightmares, and we can't move on until we pay the hotel back."
"I didn't tell them to rip the door off its hinges...wait... hold on... you've been favoring your right foot today, did you hurt yourself somehow?"
"Never you mind that, Doctor is seeing to me, now you need to see to the hotel, now that you're all set, break a leg dear, we'll bring you some food, Harlequin will be close by if you run into trouble."
"Why does this feel like I've stepped into my Golden moon's shoes?"
Not a moment went by that her beloved wasn't on her mind. She missed him terribly, his voice, his smile, the way he always smelled like the sweet confections he was making. She plucked a card from her deck, someone Harley had made her, and her eyes misted up at the sight of the sun card. Smiling up at her frolicking in a spring sunrise on the card, was her Pierrot.
Harley put a hand on her shoulder.
"Keep it together kitten, he needs you to stand tall...and we need you to not become a leaky mess before you've even had one customer."
"Oh, shut up Harls, I've got this... I'm.. I'm okay. I can cry later for now, I'm going to sinch this, how much do we need?"
"Hmmm... about five hundred give or take..."
"Okay that's doable if I charge fifteen or so..."
"Gonna gouge rich assholes?"
They both laughed, Harlequin moved off to hide in the shadows and Javenna reshuffled her deck to put the sun card back in its place. After a few hours of baking in the sun, taking frequent water breaks and summoning Harlequin once to deal with a guy that wouldn't stop asking for her phone number.
She managed to go over the needed amount and packed it in. They'd be at the safe house and lay in waiting some place in the woods The trucks would be about a mile out, Jester's idea to keep suspicion as low as possible.
The door was paid for, the circus packed and the journey continued.
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Peter was furious, Pierrot could hear him. He was on his phone yelling at someone about destroyed or contaminated samples? Did he mean the blood they'd drawn from him? Were they going to prick and poke him more? He'd hated it the first time! They weren't even as gentle about it as Doctor was!
Cilis was the only nice thing after, if he could Pierrot had decided to take his new friend with him when his chance to escape arrived. He was too gentle to belong here, and he was sure his love could help the young man!
Crashing and more yelling, that man was really having a fit, it reminded Pierrot of watching human toddlers and how impulsive they could be about their wants. How old was this man anyway to act line an infant? So distasteful.
It was lonely here, being shipped from one glass box to another, his hair was tangled and they hadn't let him bathe since they caught him, not for a lack of Cilis trying to get permission for such a thing. He missed cooking for everyone, and he wanted to make something sweet!
He saw Cilis enter, the poor boy had a blackened eye, the sight of it made his heart sink.
He pointed to his own eye to express his question since the mic wasn't on yet.
Cilis shook his head, he looked so upset, then he pulled out a card deck before activating the mic.
"Hey big guy, would you be open to learning a few card games? I'm sure you're board, and I can't get permission to let you out of there, but I can pass things to you through the slot like these, and we can play a few rounds of cards."
"But Cilis your eye, shouldn't you put some ice on it?"
"Later, when things are a little calmer, for now I just want to keep my head down, and stay out of sight, and how much more out of sight can I be than in here with you?"
"I... suppose that makes sense, but you promise to take care of your eye little friend?"
"Of course, buddy, now let's start easy, with some old maid, it's fun and I think you'll like it once you get the hang of it."
"Sure? But can you tell me something else first? Since you won't tell me what happened with your eye, would you tell me when they plan to move me again?"
"Pie, you know I can't, they still don't even know you can talk, and I've been keeping the lid on that one for likely too long, if I start telling you when we're going to move, they won't just skin me alive they'll flay me."
That did not sit well with Pierrot. Humans really were the worst when it came to how they treated one another, but this was something to work with.
"You know, if my family ever comes to find me, would you ever consider leaving with me?"
Cilis paused shuffling the deck in his hands and took a deep breath.
"Pie... I don't think either of us is ever getting out of here, it's a nice thought, and I really appreciate you thinking of me in your ideas, but the odds of your family, of Sylla finding you are not great, not with the way we've been shuffling around."
Cilis drew a card from the top of the deck, and showed it to Pierrot, a three of hearts.
"It'd be like trying to find this card again after shuffling the deck, not impossible per say, but if you're just picking from random spots in the deck it'll take a long time, and by the time she does figure out where we might be going, we'll already be on our way from the meet up point with HQ, but if by some miracle of miracles, she finds us, then sure. I'll leave with you and her.
That was more than enough, Pierrot smiled and let the subject rest.
"Okay, now then, about those games you wanted to teach me?"
