“Hi puppy” spooky said softly, watching the wolf puppy trot over to the corner spooky was taking up residence in.
Puppy barked in response, coming over and promptly stretching out on spooky’s lap.
Spooky reached down and petted the puppy’s head, being sure to scratch behind his ears just the way he liked it “baby?”
Blurry’s ears twitched in acknowledgement
“Where’s my blurry, puppy?”
Puppy made kind of a growling sound
“It’s alright, I love my puppy too” spooky soothed, pulling the small creature closer to his chest “but I miss my blurry, and I’m worried my blurry might be upset”
Puppy kind of started to whine
“Is my blurry upset?”
Puppy barked back, prompting spooky to reach down and scratch his little head again
“Can you ask blurry to come back to me, baby?”
Spooky watched the puppy whine as his body started to shift, soon it wasn’t a puppy at all in his lap, simply a dark haired boy with his face buried into spooky’s shoulder.
“There’s my blurry” spooky mumbled into his hair “can ‘ya tell me why my puppy paid me a visit earlier?”
“Scared” blurry said into his shoulder
“Of what?”
“I was on patrol on the grounds and Nico..Nico said I was walking too slow and..”
Spooky buried his face in blurry’s hair “yeah?”
“He got mad” blurry finally mumbled
“Can I see?”
Blurry wrapped his arms around his stomach and curled closer to spooky “no.”
“Is it bleeding? Or..”
“It’s purple”
“It’s a bruise? Can you just let me look?” Spooky asked, reaching for the hem of blurry’s shirt
“NO!” blurry yelled, pulling away from spooky, his eyes sparking in that way they did when he got upset
Spooky scooted back a little “ok, ok. I’m sorry”
Blurry face started to crumble again, letting out a small whine and curling back up
“Blurry-“
“I’m bad, spooky- I’m bad I’m bad I’m bad I’m bad-“ he reached up and started to pull at his own hair
“Blurry.”
And with that blurry body started to morph back until Spooky was staring at the puppy again.
Spooky sighed, reaching for blurry’s blanket. It was a small tattered thing, stained and dirty, but it was blurry’s. It was undeniably blurry’s. He set the blanket on lap and scooped up the small puppy.
“You feel better like this?” He asked softly, petting the puppy’s matted fur
He barked in response, spooky took that as a yes
“That’s ok, it’s ok to be scared you know” spooky countuined “I’m not mad at you, not about any of this”
The puppy nuzzled into his chest
“I think we’ve earned a nap, yeah?”
(This is bad sorry- I was having a time an needed spooky an blur to be soft ok)
sweetie, this is not bad this is *lovely*, it’s so they’re so I’m so aughhhhh !!!!!!