"Yeah, I guess we will..."

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"Oh, Ryyn was there too. But he went home instead of coming in." Piper says, still in Richard's arms.
"Let me look at you, Piper. Are you okay? Did they hurt you?" Richard holds Piper at arm length, looking the doe up and down.
"I'm okay. Broken rib from where they kicked me but that's the worst of it. I'll be fine. Is it okay if I sleep at Lucky's place tonight though?"
"Of course. I don't blame you for wanting to be away from here after that. Take care of her, okay, Lucky?"

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"Nawww!" Flynn grins broadly, giving the mouse a thumbs-up. "I feel great! ... Huh... Why am I tied up?"

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"Heh. I'll bet there's one around here. Right, let's get her inside. Kandi, can you grab the other end of the stretcher please? Jim, you just keep hold of that saline bag and keep it up."

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"Koa, it's John. What's going on? Are you okay? I heard shouting and then the call dropped out. Do I need to call the cops?"

Having let Richard lead the way, as was only right, Leslie put down his bag and box and joined in the hug. "Its good tew see yew," he declared. "I towld them about the truk," he added, "howpe it helped."
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"Although he is the proud type," Kilo conceded, "it would take some selling. And the medication had you bouncing on the walls, Flynn m'boy!"

Kinda like a re-enforced cave.
Back in the 1950's they thought there was going to be an atomic war, so they built these shelters deep under ground as protection from the bomb..
You know those sirens that wail when there are tornadoes? they we once use to warn that the bombs were coming.


Right..
hefting the stretcher up

"I could go tell Rynn you want him," Lucky offers.
After hearing Richard he says, "She's usually taking care of me."

Koa shakes his head even though he knows its pointless to do so and says. "No we are ok! Just a little scare and now the nice new neighbors are taking Koussa and me to the vet as well as Oreo!" He said as he leaned forward to see above the dashboard to make sure they dont miss any turns.

The room was a bit tight but Sunny made sure there was room for Kousa and Oreo. Sunny's tail was wagging to and fro.

"Oh this is so awesome! Friends already, I love friends!" His tail was absebtmindedly hitting Oreo as he talked though this was not on purpose.



It wasn't long, with Koa's guidance Chester looked down at Koa as they stopped by a building that looked to be the local vets.

"Looks like this is it. Thanks Koa. I sure hope your brother is okay in there." Chester said as he got out of the car towards the vet office, as Sunny and Luna both hoped out of the car.

"Yeah. You were getting tangled in your... medical... thing. They had to keep you still so you wouldn't get hurt." Flash said as he watched the car pull up out of the window. "And I think we have more people coming in."

Oreo bats and pounces upon the tail like a feline might..



Oreo jumps out of the car, chasing after the other pets, in his bouncing run

Koa smiles and nods to Chester as he made his way out of the car. The corgi takes a moment to bow in thanks and immediately runs towards office. Once inside he reaches up to the counter barely able to press the bell to get the receptionist to the entrance, he was so worried he just continuously rang the bell without stopping.

Kousa however was a bit less worried cause she did hear John say that Flynn was fine. She instead stayed with Oreo, Luna, and Sunny following them inside. "KOa is such a baby sometimes. He knows his broteher is fine, but he still freaks out." She had said as she walked with the other pets

Chester had parked the car and walked inside with the other pets, noting Sunny's excitement.

"Oh boy I can't wait!" Sunny was practically running around Chester in circles, tail wagging much like a fan to and fro. Clearly...Sunny couldn't wait for a check up.



Luna however was under a different mindset. "A place where all good things go to die. I'm so overjoyed...what is it this time? Shots...an exam!? What more do you want from me?"

"It did, definitely." Piper assures the kitten. "Thank you."
"Heh. I think you both care for each other pretty well. You're a good balance for each other." Richard smiles, ruffling Lucky's headfur.

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"Right. We'll take the side door so we don't have to pass people in the lobby." Paul decides, leading the way.
"Er, Senka, you... Might wanna come with us and wash your paws just so people don't get the wrong idea..." the vet nods at the cougar's paws still stained red from when she'd saved Flynn.

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"Yeah. It's your sling, remember, Flynn? To stop you pulling the stitches out." Having been assured that the corgi was safe, John had returned to the room in time to hear Flynn's question.
"Ah... Who... Piper! 's Piper coming? She okay?"
"No, Piper's gone home. She's safe now, remember?"
"Ah. Safe." Flynn nods. He stares at Flash for a few moments before gasping.
"Oh! 'm rude. Sorry!"
"Whatever for?"
"I didn't tell them! Mum 'n' Dad, this's Flash. He helped!" Introductions made, Flynn nods contentedly and relaxes again.
"Heh. Erm, thanks, Flynn. Nice to meet you, Flash?"

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"All right, all right! I'm coming!" calls a voice from out the back. Shortly thereafter a rather frazzled nurse appears.
"Sorry, it's been one heck of a day. What can I do for you?"

"Lukky by name and nachure, eh" Leslie asked the Dog. "An I broht yore book back, Piper," he added, pulling the slightly battered book from his bag.
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Kilo sighed and sat down. "I do hope the rest of the day is quieter," he said.

Flash let out a small laugh. "Nice to meet you too." He said, still standing in the window. He took a look outside and saw Sunny racing around like a puppy. "Heh. He seems fun."

"What? Oh this?" She looked down at her paws, "I mean I could just..." Senka began to bring a paw up to her face, her mouth open, tongue poised to give it a nice lick... before she paused, looking from the vet over to the others mulling around her...

"Alright fine, where's the nearest sink?"

Koa looked up at the receptionist and whined out as he stared up at her. "PLease I need to see my brother!" He said frantically and worried, definitely against what Joohn had said about not worrying. "I need to see if he is ok!"

Koussa looks at Oreo and shakes her head. "No Koa's brother is a Hare." she had said before adding. "Koa was just recently adopted by his brothers family and he's grown quite attached to them. So much so he calls them mom and dad and his brother big brother." She said before looking at Luna. "You dont seem to like the vet do you?"

Luna looked up at the slightly taller husky, before replying back. "Of course I don't like the vet. Why should I?" Luna asked.

Chester looked at the nurse too and after Koa had finished asking about his brother, Chester spoke up. "Yes I am here to have my pets a check up? The labrador is Sunny and my Blue Russian here is Luna." He extended a hand towards his cat but his hand was swattew

Sunny of course was different. He was slightly shorter than the front counter so he had to stand on his tippy paws to look at the nurse. "Are you going to take care of me today?" His shining eyes looked up at the nurse playfully.

"Well, I'm Lucky, by ONE of those things," notes Lucky.


Lucky instinctively flinches at the touch, but slowly accepts the gesture. "Thanks."

The door opened again and a young girl poked her head around the door. It had a Mouse on it. "Sorry about disturbing you," she said, "but someone wanted to tell Flash we were off for the night."
"I said he might like to know," Juniper protested, cringing slightly. "Uh, we're off, Flash," she said, "I won't, uh, see you tomorrow?" She hoped her nervous joke was OK.
"Landed on your feet, Juniper," Kilo asked.
"Oh, hi Kilo," she said. "And yep. This is Nola's owner, Sally."
"Does everyone here have Mice," Sally asked.

"Huh?" Flash turned from the window and looked over at the little girl. "Oh! Hey, Juniper! I'll..." It took a moment for the joke to register. When it did, he snorted. "All right. I'll talk to you tomorrow! I promise." he said, meaning it and hoping to make Juniper feel more comfortable. In his experience, "I'll see you again" or "I'll talk to you later" has a disturbingly high rate of being made impossible to fulfill. At least, among wild mice.

Oreo trots in, and looks up at the big cougaress..
Thar is someone i knows, we went to pet skool together!!
Bounding over and leaping up into Senka's arms..
Hi hi Hi.. you should know where i lives at..!
Sniffing...
Who have you been eating? you smell of blood..

"Oh, thanks." Piper looks at the book for a few minutes before offering it back to the kitten.
"Know what? I don't read it much any more. Why don't you keep it as a reward for helping find me?"

"Told you." Richard winks playfully at Leslie.
"I think you're lucky in more ways than one, Lucky."
"Yeah. You were definitely lucky for Flynn today, for instance. Not to mention for me."

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"This way, Senka." Paul indicates with his head that the lioness should follow the stretcher into the clinic.
"Oh. Hullo, Oreo. What are you doing here?" he asks as he walks, not having time to stop for niceties.
"Okay, put her on the table here." he tells Kandi as another nurse wheels over a stand for Nadia's IV before running out to answer the door buzzer.
"Sink's over there, Senka. Probably use the pink soap rather than the yellow one. The yellow is iodine so it'll stain your fur but the pink is chlorhex and won't stain." the vet suggests, taking some blood samples from the vixen as he talks.

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"Whowuzzat, Kilo?" Flynn slurs once Juniper and Sally have departed.
"I think Flash has a girlfriend!" Joan teases once Juniper is out of earshot.

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"All right, Koa." the nurse says, reading the dog's tag. A quick search in the computer reveals the corgi's details and the nurse soon knows where to send him.
"Okay, Donna, can you take Koa back to Flynn on your way back, please?" Donna, who'd been grabbing some forms to take back to Samantha, agrees.
"Hi, Koa. Come with me. Now, I need you to calm down before you go in, okay? Flynn needs quiet and calm to recover. No excitement, especially since his painkillers might make him react unpredictably to surprises, you understand?" she explains, leading Koa down the corridor and stopping outside Flynn's door.
"He's in here. I'll leave you to it." Donna knocks on the door and opens it slightly in case the little dog can't reach the handle and then hurries back to Samantha and the fox.

In reception, the other nurse is tapping at the computer.
"Okay, do you have an appointment, Mister, uh...?" he asks Luna's and Sunny's owner.

"Hmm," Kilo mused, choosing his words, "oh, that was Juniper. Nadia and I, er, convinced her to leave the silo and try a family. Scratch was..." he paused, emotion catching his voice. "Scratch was alright about it..." He trailed off, hoping they didn't note.
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"It waz wurf it," Leslie said pleasantly. "And sew are you, Piper."

"Chester Briggs. Well I just moved in to town, so I haven't been able to schedule one. I was simply hoping you had a spot available? If you don't have one available I could come back tomorrow." He explained to the nurse, though he waited for the response.

"Where is he going?" Sunny tilted his head wondering where he was going.

Oreo looks over from where is clinging upon the puma..
I was out ridden sheeps, but they kinda got me lost, So they brought me here.. where did they go.. Looking for the pets he came in with.


On the other paw, use the iodine soap, then you can be a pink panther!

Koa was nodding as the technician explained to him the situation and agreed with the not getting Flynn all excited. The small corgi bowed a bit to the technician when she opened the door for him and waited for her to leave before opening the door more to enter the room. "big brother?" He whined out as he poked his head inside the room to see if Flynn was awake at least.

Kousa let Koa go on ahead as to not just abandon Sunny, Luna, and Oreo... Well Oreo seems to have followed Senka to wherever she was going but she at least stayed with sunny and Luna. "Hehe Luna are you aftraid of the Vet at all? The veterinarians exsist to make us feel better."

"Pssh! She is not my girlfriend." He said dismissively. "It's called a crush until the feeling is confirmed to be mutual." he added.

"No..." She said defensively to the big husky.

"I'm actually not scared of the doctors. They're actually rather nice. I have a fear of needles so..." She chuckled nervously.

"Silly am I right? Of all the things to be scared of, right?" She seemed to feel rather embaressed about the admission of her fear.

Sunny looked over at Luna sympathetically as he gave her a playful hug from behind, which seemee to startle Luna for a moment before her tail flailed up more annoyed at the situation.

"Sunny what are you doing?" She asked as she lookef behind her trying to weezle her way out of Sunny's paws.

"You seemed nervous so I decided you needed a hug. Feeling better?"

"More annoyed than embarressed now but...thanks Sunny."

"Well, I'm glad my name can pay off for somebody," sid Lucky, with only a tiny trace of bitterness.

"I fink you're Lucky, lucky," Leslie admitted, "All the fings that hapuned brote yew here. That's lukcky, isn't it?"

"Hmm. Say, Lucky? If you could change your name, what would you make it?" Piper queries. It's something she's never actually thought to ask before and she's genuinely curious.

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"Heh. The way she was looking in the direction of your voice, I think the feeling definitely is mutual, Flash." Joan grins. "Oh, hello, Koa. Come on in."
Flynn's ears swivel at the sound of the new voice.
"Ooh! It's Koa! Come, come, Koa. You you gotta meet Flash! He helped save Piper! Flash this m' brother, Koa. He makes potions with leaves an' science an' stuff like magic! Ooh! I think, I think he's a wizard! Ooh. But it's a secret! You can't tell! Shh!"

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"Wh- Never mind. I'll sort you out later. Kandi, can you put Oreo in the cage there so he's not underfoot, please?" Paul instructs distractedly as he works on the vixen, taking her vitals, checking her oxygen levels and examining every inch of her.

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"Firstly, that is an awesome name! Secondly, I'm really sorry but we're slammed today. We've had three emergency cases come in, two of which have required surgery so we've had to shuffle everything around. I haven't got anything free until Friday, sorry. So that's two days from now."

"Right... use pink not yellow." The mountain lion recited, walking over to the sink and squirting some of the pink stuff on her paws. "My ma always said that yellow things are to be avoided anyways." She mumbled, more to herself than to anyone else before she began to count out the seconds as she scrubbed. A remnant of animal school that had stuck with her.

"Uh..." Lucky had been taken off guard by the question. "Well, I guess I could move one of my other names to the front. Or...I don't know."

Leslie looked over at Lucky. "Sew youre not gowing fore Sonik deth Cabbige," he asked genuinely.

Surrrre just call me Dirty harry..
As she goes over an dislodges the skunk from the puma..
Hey.. Let go of my scruff... I'll spray youz!
Kandi eyes the little squirming skunk..
Go ahead, do it!. I dare you too.. I double dog dare you too..
Oreo blinks in surprise, turning his head away as best he can, to avoid her eyes..
I'm sorry.

Koa walks in smiling as he saw his older brother alright. But his smile was short lived as a expression of confusion covered his face at the mention of him being a wizard and his herbs being magic. "I-I'm not a wizard. Im a herbalist... My herbs can heal and cure things, but not as well as actual chemically, calculated, and produce medicine. I'm kind of like a first responder in a way, I can do only enough to get rid of pain and minor illnesses but not completely." He said going on a bit of a rant before shaking his head, snapping himself out and looking at flash. "H-hello, my name is Koa. I'm his little brother." He finally said slowly reaching forward to shake Flashes hand.

Kous back in the waiting room giggles a bit at Luna's fear and said. "Awww there's nothing to be afraid of, its just a small poke. And if you are good they give you a treat afterwards." She said waging her long fluffy tail a bit at the thought of a treat.

Flash was blushing slightly. "You think so?" he said to Joan. "Should I ask her out, or... Huh?" He turned as the Corgi entered.



Flash zipped up to the Corgi. "Hi! It's nice to meet you!" he said, shaking the hand (or rather placing his grain of sand sized hands on one of Koa's claws and trying to shake that). "I met Flynn earlier today. My friend Deus and I helped him and Kilo find some people. I'm sorry Flynn got hurt, but he seems like he's doing a lot better."

"Are you sure you have absolutely no openings?" Chester asked the nurse wanting to make sure there was were no openings. "What if I payed out of pocket?" He inquired.



"Yeah the treats are the best part right, Kousa?" Said Sunny cheerfully as he let Luna go and started trying to ctoch Kousa's long and oh so fluffy tail. It was ever elusive.

"Thanks guys. I feel a little about going in there now." Her chest was puffed out as she obviously looked ready to go.

"Flynn has been doped, Koa," Kilo said after Flash had introduced himself, "which explains the gabbling. How did you get here, dear boy?"

Glancing behind her as Senka washed her paws, the mountain lion watched the small argument between the Kandi and Oreo. After the quick and decisive victory the large cat snorted, reaching over for a towel to wipe her paws down.
“You learn real quick you can’t win.” She patted the skunk on the shoulder, looking almost sympathetic, almost.