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 Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:07 am
Friends.
Wow, Pekee really had a friend in the little pink hybrid. He glanced at her, almost curiously, wandering how she could be born with such a gift. To be blessed with such innocence, such joy.
So, if she could have so much joy, why couldn't he have been give a little? Maybe if he stayed around her long enough, she'd share some of it and he could learn to smile too.
He cleared his throat, eyes darting to the black cheetah's scars. "Sounds like you've had it tough." He replied. "Just so you know, not everyone means you harm. We certainly don't." He glanced at Hidaya. "So since none of us intend to beat up on each other, lets just be friends, okay?" He didn't want to gain any enemies and he decided that it'd be far better to part on good terms.
"Hidaya's right. There's no point worrying about whether someone might kill you or not. Just like there's no point wondering what your purpose in life is." He snorted. "You won't know until you try it and...if it's one thing I've learnt. There's no point spending your life alone. It's miserable." His voice was emotionless, his eyes expressionless, but nevertheless, his words came from the heart.
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:07 am
Had he been completely alone with the white cheetah, Gahiji would probably have sneered at him, maybe even gotten angry with him for speaking like that. It was too uncomfortable - it hit too close to home. And he had practically called Jii 'miserable' to his face.
But the little girl's heart-melting sweetness and obvious innocence made it very, very hard to get really upset. The conflict inside him was almost making his head hurt, and he let out a long groan that ended in a defeated sigh.
"Fine," he sighed. "Okay. All right. I get your point."
He looked up again, unaware of the fact that he - in a brief moment of weakness - displayed a shockingly uncharacteristic sorrowful and pained expression on his face. He had indeed had a tough life. No matter how hard he tried to forget, he could still remember the time when he had been as bright and innocent as this little kid, and he could still remember how much it hurt every time that that innocence was stripped away from him. He'd been let down by too many that he thought were friends, and pushed away from too many places that he would have liked to call home, to be able to truly believe in the pretty things that these two were saying.
Not that he didn't want to believe. He did that, so much that it actually hurt, but life had taught him otherwise.
His face hardened back into its usual slight frown as he forced all these dead and forgotten feelings back into the grave where he had buried them, and let a new determination take their place as he studied Hidaya's smiling, blue eyes. There was obviously no point in trying to convince her of the cleverness - no, neccessity - of a healthy dose of paranoia (and the white guy was just as bad, apparently), so if he really wanted to try to protect that precious innocence in any way, he would have to be paranoid for her.
Maybe... he would stick around here for a little while.
"Okay," he said, tilting his head a bit to the side as he took both of them in with his piercing, red eyes. "Let's be friends. I'm Gahiji." He tried out an awkward little smile and shrugged. "So, now what?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:13 am
A pleased smiled rolled onto her face, eyes closing contently for a moment or two as she basked in the moment of peace and acceptance she and Pekee had been given by their new friend.
She then snapped her blue eyes open and looked at him, a few seconds ago the look of pain and sorrow on his face made her worry, like she would for anyone but as the expression disapeared and was accepted that was just good news to her.
But he asked quite a hard question...what could they do now?
She pouted in thought, lifting a paw to gently lay it on her chin as she let out a thoughtful sound and then smiled as a lightbulb went off in her head.
"We could go fishing!" She said happily, jumping onto her paws from her seated position, her tail twitching happily from side to side as she awaited a reaction from the two older males.
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:09 am
"I'm Pekee'dunia." The white cheetah replied. "But don't waste your breath on it. Call me Pekee if you want." He shrugged dismally, sending an expressionless look at his pink companion. Was it working? Was her joy starting to rub off on him? He had just made a friend, with her help and even though Gahiji wasn't the most cheerful of chaps, Pekee sort of liked him.
They had something in common. They'd both had tough lives, though Pekee's pain had been less physical and more mental. He had been trapped in his own depressed, self-destructive mind.
"Fishing?" He wrinkled his nose. "Do you even know how to fish?" He waved a paw speculatively. "Because I don't."
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:09 am
"Pekee, huh?" Gahiji briefly studied the bright white cheetah, and found to his own relief that a hint of his usual snarkiness came back to him. This guy seemed so much easier to handle than the pink little bundle of positive energy. "Well, if you think my name's too much of a mouthful, you can just call me Jii."
Then the little hybrid cheerfully piped up, and almost startled the black cheetah. "Fishing?" He said, echoing Pekee's sentiment. He knew how to hunt almost any animal (of reasonable size) on the savannah, but he had never been much of a friend with water. It was wet, and heavy to move in. When Pekee questioned the idea, Jii readily agreed with some rethorical questions of his own:
"Yeah, how? And where?"
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