Establishing communication
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Authors Notes: Finally got a chapter out in time I hope you guys enjoy don't forget to send asks
Emptiness and then a red light. that's what she saw and then there was a cookie in front of her a cookie that was different yet the same
“Who are you?”
“I'm you, but better.”
“How?”
“Because I survived.”
“But how? I'm alive too!”
“Yeah but it's not you it's me.”
What do you mean what are you talking about
“Do you still think you're white lily?”
“Yes, yes I am.”
“You're not, you're me and I am not you. I used to be you but I'm not”
Lily stared at her confusingly until she felt something hit her stomach really hard and she opened her eyes for real.
As she opened her eyes she saw velvet looking at her and velvet punching her in the stomach repeatedly. she slowly grabbed his hand
“That's not a very good way of waking me up!”
She said slightly scoldingly but tried not to scare him
He just stared at her so she wasn't sure if he could understand her speech
The little cookie just walked the edge of the napkins, looking down seemingly contemplating jumping off
After Lily realized what he was about to do she quickly caught them. the napkins are way too tall for cookie like him to be falling off of
“Hey I will carry you down don't worry! I do have to do some stuff anyway.”
He just stared at her
“Do you want to go down?” she asked
He nodded
He nodded…so that does that mean that he understands her… she has to check
“do that again if you really want to go down.”
He nodded again, this time more aggressively
He does understand her, so he does understand cookie speech that's good, that's good
She smiled as she used magic to put him down to the table
Her son was so smart he was baked a few hours ago and he already understood her speech. she reached out for her
Grabbing it and some supplies she got down to the table opening up her notebook she took notes about her sleep and about her weird dream and then she looked for velvet
Velvet was nowhere to be seen
She looked away for 1 minute and he was gone and she felt the panic seep into her. what if he fell from the table and crumbled? what if you fell into one of her experiments?? what if..what if!
She frantically started to look around trying to find him to make sure that he's safe until she heard something
barking
She quickly flew to the the place that the voice came from and saw cake hounds with velvet in the middle of them
He was howling, clapping his hands walking around and the hound seemed to be following him. they seem to be playing with him.
She had a huge sigh of relief. well he seems to be safe even enjoying himself but she needs to keep a close eye on him
And then she questioned how the hounds got here and then she felt the headache and remembered, “oh yeah” she is the one who made them rise up
But she taught all of them. all of them had left but some of them must have stayed but then why didn't she notice them?
She knew the answer and she was too focused on her research to notice them. they just kept themselves and her nose was too deep in books to notice
She continued observing them
Velvet was having the time of his life as he was playing, trying to catch with all of them. he ran they followed and then when they catch him he followed
Lily wasn't sure if that was exactly catch since she never had hounds or played with other children but it was a good description of the game so she wrote it down on her notebook on a section that she had dedicated to her son
But she still kept her attention on velvet. she knew that he was probably safe with the hounds considering that she has the ability to command them but it was still better to be safe than sorry
But as she continued watching him she started to notice his communication seemed to be more complex and his howling seemed more than imitation
She continued observing and she started realizing he was fully talking to them as they played. He barked and howled and others reply with similar barks and howls
It was full two way communication. she only knew that he was capable of understanding cookie language even though he was only a few hours old
Did something in the ultimate dough also make him understand hound language? There was only one way to know she slowly approached him
“Hey velvet I have a question”
He barked the other stopping the play
“Can you understand them like you understand me?”
Velvet stared at her for a minute seemingly trying to process the question and then he gave nod and continued playing
He had confirmed himself. velvet was the first cookie who is capable of understanding how to fully speak fluent level hound language
She frantically started to take notes proudly. she had to investigate this more, she had to ask more questions!she continued taking notes until she heard something else
A cry.
she looked away for too long
She flew towards him, looking at him he was sitting holding his knee and crying the other hounds surrounding him trying to lick the wound but he stopped them
He may have cracked it, she can't believe it she looked away for too long again. she's a horrible mother. she reached for a pack bandages
Looking at him very gently she said
“Hey velvet I know it hurts but you need to let me see it so that I can make it stop hurting”
He stared at her for a little and then let go. she slowly lifted up his pants, there was a small crack seems to be superficial, something that wouldn't even leave a scar.
She's felt excited as she grabed bandages and she questioned “why was he crying so hard that something so small?” “but he was a child this was his first injury of course he would cry like that!” she answered her own question.
As it was finished she smiled and looked back at his face, he had stopped crying and he was looking at her. she had noticed that the bandage on the crack side of his face had gotten discolored, that might give him mold
She slowly removed it, noticing a discoloration and then he opened it. it was her time to just stare but his black sclera and slit pupil
So he was more like her than she thought. forever affected by the ultimate dough, she knew she probably had to do tests and other stuff but..
But not now
“Look, you're all better! if you want you can continue playing.”
He nodded again and slowly got up but instead of going back to the others he hugged her. she embraced the hug, there was a lot ahead of them but she was ready to face it