Chapter 9: Losing The Way
Juarez runs out the entrance of the base, still carrying Silvy over his shoulder. He is surprised about how easy that it had been to save her once they are both outside the base and in the bushes. Something just wasn't right about it. Why hadn't they been followed out by guards? Where had all the guards been at? Why weren't they coming for her now?...Why weren't they coming for him now? Something is just not right about all of this and it kind of puts Juarez's nerves on edge. He sets Silvy carefully down in the bush and looks around for any guards. He still surprisingly sees none.
Silvy wakes up slowly and looks for a moment silently in Juarez's direction. She sees that she is in the bushes outside of her cell. She wonders for a brief moment how she has gotten here, before looking back at Juarez with wide eyes. "Are you real?" She asks him while she backs away a little. "Really real? Really?"
Juarez looks at Silvy with a raised nonexistent eyebrow. "No. I am a figment of your wild and delirious mind." He says sarcastically before rolling his eyes. "Of course I am real!" He says. "How else do you think you got out of that cell? Magical little fairies? Snow-cones, I don't think so, chica."
Silvy backs away even further. "Please tell me you're lying! Please!" She almost begs him, feeling just as panicked as earlier. Her flipper grabs the feathers on her other one and she start to pull on them. "You can't be here! You'll be toast! My dad will kill you!" She says panicked, before realizing what she has said and closing her beak with her flippers.
Juarez looks at her a bit curiously. "And why would tu padre* do such a—" he stops mid sentence. There were several reasons any father would want to kill him. First of all, he is an attempted murderer and a criminal. Second of all, he is Juarez. He isn't the type of guy that any father in his right mind would want his daughter to be with...Or even within a two mile radius of. "Um, who exactly is tu padre, señorita?"
"My father..." Silvy begins silently before taking a deep breath and evading Juarez's gaze. "My father is Bob... Or you might know him better as General Garrison..." She says really silently as she gets very interested in her flippers. She starts pulling out some feathers of her flipper.
"General Bob?" Juarez makes a face. 'Darn!' He thinks. 'The one time I find a señorita that doesn't seem to hate me, she just has to be the daughter of one of the penguins who put me behind bars in the first place! This really is not mi día*...' Juarez fakes a smile. "That's great. I'm sure he's a muy bueno padre." He says and then sits there quietly for a few moments before noticing how Silvy is pulling on her feathers. "Señorita, plucking the feathers off your flippers is not very bueno for your flippers..." He kind of murmurs.
Silvy stops pulling her feathers for a second to look at Juarez. She had seen his face and felt the tension in his body when he heard her father's name. "Well... If it bothers you this much... What about I get you out of here and we say goodbye?" She says silently and her eyes fill themselves with tears. 'See, all guys are exactly the same... One point they don't like about you, one flaw, one word and they will drop you like a stone. Love is not worth what it costs.' Silvy tells herself and she gets her left flipper again to pull on her feathers.
Juarez just looks at Silvy for a moment. "Well, señorita, I thought you were a little loca, but not that loca." He says. "Do you think I just waddled into a prison base to rescue you to just leave you here after hearing that tu padre is one of the main penguins who wants to put me behind bars? Nah, that thought isn't just loco, but ridículo* also!" He says and looks at her with a grin. "I don't really care who tu padre is, chica. Tu padre is not you...Which is bueno...Because if he was...That would just be awkward." He laughs a little at the thought.
With a surprised look, Silvy stares at Juarez for a couple of minutes. "Really?" She asks with a slightly shivering voice. "You aren't dumping me because of my father?" She says silently and she stops pulling her feathers. She then suddenly flings herself around Juarez's neck and hugs him very, very tightly and besides that, she gives him a kiss on his cheek too.
"Euhm, sí, really." Juarez kind of mumbles slowly. He still is not used to getting all the hugs and kisses that Silvy seems to enjoy giving. He cautiously and a bit nervously puts his flippers around Silvy and gives her a small hug back. He silently wonders for a brief moment if he is doing the hug right or not.
Silvy breaks the hug with a smile and then she gets Juarez's flipper and drags him a bit roughly out of the bushes. "We really ought to get a move on!" She says as she starts to drag him away from Base Q towards the parking lot. "Their lunch breaks won't last any longer."
"Lunch breaks?!" Juarez exclaims. "So that's why it was so facíl to get you out of there!" He says and follows after Silvy to the parking lot.
"Yes, lunch breaks. What were you thinking, that they were too scared for the great and almighty Juarez?" She says with a laugh. She stops right in front of a shiny black car and she starts untying her bow.
"Sí...Wait, scared?" Juarez says with a small chuckle and looks at Silvy. "No, I know better than that. They were probably silently thanking you for breaking me out." He then notices that Silvy is untying her bow and watches her curiously. Juarez also looks at the car. It looks new. "Nice car..."
Silvy nods. "Yup... It is my dad's new car. I think he bought him... A week ago?" Silvy says thinking as she gets a key out of her bow. "I wrecked his last new one." She says with a happy sounding voice as she unlocks the car. "But, if we're honest... My dad should hang on more tightly to his keys if he didn't want me to 'borrow' his car." She says laughing. "Your ride is here, sir." She opens the car door to the passenger's seat for Juarez with a mock bow.
Juarez grins and gets into the car. 'Great...She's going to drive again...' He thinks, though. Juarez pulls out a pair of black sunglasses from out of nowhere and puts them on. "So, where are we going now, señorita?" He asks as he looks over the top of his shades at Silvy as she gets into the car on the driver's side.
Silvy roughly gets the car out of its parking spot and drives it quickly from the parking place. Her father storms out of the base looking really angrily in the direction of the distancing car. "Don't you dare to wreck this one, young lady!" He calls behind Silvy. She just laughs and looks at Juarez. "He never learns it... It goes this way all the time." She says with a laugh. "Well... We never completed our last revenge... Why not try it again?" She answers Juarez's question. "There is not much more we can lose anyway." She says with a laugh as she scrapes the sides of the expensive black car against the sides of the rapid closing fence of base Q.
He ponders this suggestion for a moment and then nods. "Sure, we could try some revenge on Rachela and amigas again." Juarez says. He flinches a little as the side scrapes the fence. That had not sounded good for this car, and Juarez feels a bit sorry for the car. He thinks that no car deserves such poor driving.
Silvy nods happily and pushes the gas a little more to the floor of the car. She speeds it up and then drifts through a turn. Juarez meanwhile grabs onto his seat and bites his tongue a little. He can't believe he is letting this crazy chick drive him again. Silvy, as oblivious to Juarez as she possibly could be, decides to have some more fun with the car. She takes some 'fun' roads and turns in a high speed. She enjoys it pretty well... The car on the other hand earns several more scrapes.
Juarez watches out the poor car's window. He looks for a street-sign or something, anything to tell where they are. He can't see any. Juarez looks curiously at Silvy. "Um, chica...Do you know where we are?" He asks.
Silvy looks at Juarez for a couple of minutes before stopping the car. "Where we are..." She repeats slowly and looks around too. "Actually, I have no clue at all." She says before jumping out of the car and getting a map out. She looks around for any landmarks, but doesn't see anything more than an old abandoned wooden cabin.
Juarez also gets out of the car and looks around. "Soooo...We're lost?" He kind of asks and looks at Silvy curiously.
With a small nod, Silvy confirms Juarez's statement. "Kind of, yup." She says. "I guess I missed one of our turns. Or maybe more..." She says, still looking around and seeing the sun coming down. "Anyway, there is no sense in trying to find the road when it is getting dark." She says and grabs Juarez's flipper after locking the car. She then drags him to the old wooden cabin. "I guess we need dinner." She looks lovingly at Juarez as she says that. "By candlelight would be totally perfect..." She adds dreamily.
Juarez nods as he wonders about where they are. He barely listens to Silvy as she talks. He barely notices her say something about dinner and looks at her. "Huh?" He asks confused.
Silvy pushes a basket into Juarez's flippers. "Can you go get some fishes while I make it good and warm enough to stay here tonight?" She asks him softly. She looks around some then and sees a fireplace with still a couple of pieces of wood laying in it. She smiles at their luck. "Looks like roasted fish for dinner." She mutters contently to herself.
"Oh...Sure..." Juarez says and nods. He takes the basket outside with him out the backdoor of the cabin. Juarez looks around for a moment before seeing a stream and waddling over to it. He then sets the basket down and starts taking off all of his knife-sheaths and his one gun-holster and sets them in a neat little pile nearby before diving into the stream.
Silvy happily gets out a lighter and starts making happily a fire in the fireplace. She happily whistles a song as she does so and then she looks around for a couple of chairs. She finds a couple of them at a table, and decides to pull a pair over to the fire. She then goes to look for some blankets, because she figures that they would rather sleep at the fire than in the car. She finds a couple of dusty old and somewhat filthy blankets in an old mahogany dresser. She takes them outside and starts clopping them until they are less dusty and even less filthy. She takes them back inside and lays them carefully in front of the fire. She then looks around and finds a small sink with still running water in the old kitchen. She gets some water in an old pan after cleaning that too and takes it back to the fire. She figures that she had better cook the water before they use it.
Juarez swims around in the stream after fish. He sees a couple large fish and swims after them. He catches one of the big ones in his beak and surfaces with it. He shakes a bit of water off of himself and then drops the fish in the basket before diving back in again after the other big fish.
Silvy looks at the flames and the pan on them. She once so often glances at the back door. She wonders when Juarez would finally loosen up some, when he would finally kiss her... Or at least hug her. She quickly shakes the thought away. "He'll come through when he is ready." She silently tells herself, though it sounded a bit unsure. 'What if he never comes around?' Her thoughts add immediately.
Juarez catches the other big fish and gets it into the basket. He then gets out of the stream and shakes the water all off of him.
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Translations:
*Tu padre : your father
*Mi día : my day
*Ridículo : ridiculous
Juarez runs out the entrance of the base, still carrying Silvy over his shoulder. He is surprised about how easy that it had been to save her once they are both outside the base and in the bushes. Something just wasn't right about it. Why hadn't they been followed out by guards? Where had all the guards been at? Why weren't they coming for her now?...Why weren't they coming for him now? Something is just not right about all of this and it kind of puts Juarez's nerves on edge. He sets Silvy carefully down in the bush and looks around for any guards. He still surprisingly sees none.
Silvy wakes up slowly and looks for a moment silently in Juarez's direction. She sees that she is in the bushes outside of her cell. She wonders for a brief moment how she has gotten here, before looking back at Juarez with wide eyes. "Are you real?" She asks him while she backs away a little. "Really real? Really?"
Juarez looks at Silvy with a raised nonexistent eyebrow. "No. I am a figment of your wild and delirious mind." He says sarcastically before rolling his eyes. "Of course I am real!" He says. "How else do you think you got out of that cell? Magical little fairies? Snow-cones, I don't think so, chica."
Silvy backs away even further. "Please tell me you're lying! Please!" She almost begs him, feeling just as panicked as earlier. Her flipper grabs the feathers on her other one and she start to pull on them. "You can't be here! You'll be toast! My dad will kill you!" She says panicked, before realizing what she has said and closing her beak with her flippers.
Juarez looks at her a bit curiously. "And why would tu padre* do such a—" he stops mid sentence. There were several reasons any father would want to kill him. First of all, he is an attempted murderer and a criminal. Second of all, he is Juarez. He isn't the type of guy that any father in his right mind would want his daughter to be with...Or even within a two mile radius of. "Um, who exactly is tu padre, señorita?"
"My father..." Silvy begins silently before taking a deep breath and evading Juarez's gaze. "My father is Bob... Or you might know him better as General Garrison..." She says really silently as she gets very interested in her flippers. She starts pulling out some feathers of her flipper.
"General Bob?" Juarez makes a face. 'Darn!' He thinks. 'The one time I find a señorita that doesn't seem to hate me, she just has to be the daughter of one of the penguins who put me behind bars in the first place! This really is not mi día*...' Juarez fakes a smile. "That's great. I'm sure he's a muy bueno padre." He says and then sits there quietly for a few moments before noticing how Silvy is pulling on her feathers. "Señorita, plucking the feathers off your flippers is not very bueno for your flippers..." He kind of murmurs.
Silvy stops pulling her feathers for a second to look at Juarez. She had seen his face and felt the tension in his body when he heard her father's name. "Well... If it bothers you this much... What about I get you out of here and we say goodbye?" She says silently and her eyes fill themselves with tears. 'See, all guys are exactly the same... One point they don't like about you, one flaw, one word and they will drop you like a stone. Love is not worth what it costs.' Silvy tells herself and she gets her left flipper again to pull on her feathers.
Juarez just looks at Silvy for a moment. "Well, señorita, I thought you were a little loca, but not that loca." He says. "Do you think I just waddled into a prison base to rescue you to just leave you here after hearing that tu padre is one of the main penguins who wants to put me behind bars? Nah, that thought isn't just loco, but ridículo* also!" He says and looks at her with a grin. "I don't really care who tu padre is, chica. Tu padre is not you...Which is bueno...Because if he was...That would just be awkward." He laughs a little at the thought.
With a surprised look, Silvy stares at Juarez for a couple of minutes. "Really?" She asks with a slightly shivering voice. "You aren't dumping me because of my father?" She says silently and she stops pulling her feathers. She then suddenly flings herself around Juarez's neck and hugs him very, very tightly and besides that, she gives him a kiss on his cheek too.
"Euhm, sí, really." Juarez kind of mumbles slowly. He still is not used to getting all the hugs and kisses that Silvy seems to enjoy giving. He cautiously and a bit nervously puts his flippers around Silvy and gives her a small hug back. He silently wonders for a brief moment if he is doing the hug right or not.
Silvy breaks the hug with a smile and then she gets Juarez's flipper and drags him a bit roughly out of the bushes. "We really ought to get a move on!" She says as she starts to drag him away from Base Q towards the parking lot. "Their lunch breaks won't last any longer."
"Lunch breaks?!" Juarez exclaims. "So that's why it was so facíl to get you out of there!" He says and follows after Silvy to the parking lot.
"Yes, lunch breaks. What were you thinking, that they were too scared for the great and almighty Juarez?" She says with a laugh. She stops right in front of a shiny black car and she starts untying her bow.
"Sí...Wait, scared?" Juarez says with a small chuckle and looks at Silvy. "No, I know better than that. They were probably silently thanking you for breaking me out." He then notices that Silvy is untying her bow and watches her curiously. Juarez also looks at the car. It looks new. "Nice car..."
Silvy nods. "Yup... It is my dad's new car. I think he bought him... A week ago?" Silvy says thinking as she gets a key out of her bow. "I wrecked his last new one." She says with a happy sounding voice as she unlocks the car. "But, if we're honest... My dad should hang on more tightly to his keys if he didn't want me to 'borrow' his car." She says laughing. "Your ride is here, sir." She opens the car door to the passenger's seat for Juarez with a mock bow.
Juarez grins and gets into the car. 'Great...She's going to drive again...' He thinks, though. Juarez pulls out a pair of black sunglasses from out of nowhere and puts them on. "So, where are we going now, señorita?" He asks as he looks over the top of his shades at Silvy as she gets into the car on the driver's side.
Silvy roughly gets the car out of its parking spot and drives it quickly from the parking place. Her father storms out of the base looking really angrily in the direction of the distancing car. "Don't you dare to wreck this one, young lady!" He calls behind Silvy. She just laughs and looks at Juarez. "He never learns it... It goes this way all the time." She says with a laugh. "Well... We never completed our last revenge... Why not try it again?" She answers Juarez's question. "There is not much more we can lose anyway." She says with a laugh as she scrapes the sides of the expensive black car against the sides of the rapid closing fence of base Q.
He ponders this suggestion for a moment and then nods. "Sure, we could try some revenge on Rachela and amigas again." Juarez says. He flinches a little as the side scrapes the fence. That had not sounded good for this car, and Juarez feels a bit sorry for the car. He thinks that no car deserves such poor driving.
Silvy nods happily and pushes the gas a little more to the floor of the car. She speeds it up and then drifts through a turn. Juarez meanwhile grabs onto his seat and bites his tongue a little. He can't believe he is letting this crazy chick drive him again. Silvy, as oblivious to Juarez as she possibly could be, decides to have some more fun with the car. She takes some 'fun' roads and turns in a high speed. She enjoys it pretty well... The car on the other hand earns several more scrapes.
Juarez watches out the poor car's window. He looks for a street-sign or something, anything to tell where they are. He can't see any. Juarez looks curiously at Silvy. "Um, chica...Do you know where we are?" He asks.
Silvy looks at Juarez for a couple of minutes before stopping the car. "Where we are..." She repeats slowly and looks around too. "Actually, I have no clue at all." She says before jumping out of the car and getting a map out. She looks around for any landmarks, but doesn't see anything more than an old abandoned wooden cabin.
Juarez also gets out of the car and looks around. "Soooo...We're lost?" He kind of asks and looks at Silvy curiously.
With a small nod, Silvy confirms Juarez's statement. "Kind of, yup." She says. "I guess I missed one of our turns. Or maybe more..." She says, still looking around and seeing the sun coming down. "Anyway, there is no sense in trying to find the road when it is getting dark." She says and grabs Juarez's flipper after locking the car. She then drags him to the old wooden cabin. "I guess we need dinner." She looks lovingly at Juarez as she says that. "By candlelight would be totally perfect..." She adds dreamily.
Juarez nods as he wonders about where they are. He barely listens to Silvy as she talks. He barely notices her say something about dinner and looks at her. "Huh?" He asks confused.
Silvy pushes a basket into Juarez's flippers. "Can you go get some fishes while I make it good and warm enough to stay here tonight?" She asks him softly. She looks around some then and sees a fireplace with still a couple of pieces of wood laying in it. She smiles at their luck. "Looks like roasted fish for dinner." She mutters contently to herself.
"Oh...Sure..." Juarez says and nods. He takes the basket outside with him out the backdoor of the cabin. Juarez looks around for a moment before seeing a stream and waddling over to it. He then sets the basket down and starts taking off all of his knife-sheaths and his one gun-holster and sets them in a neat little pile nearby before diving into the stream.
Silvy happily gets out a lighter and starts making happily a fire in the fireplace. She happily whistles a song as she does so and then she looks around for a couple of chairs. She finds a couple of them at a table, and decides to pull a pair over to the fire. She then goes to look for some blankets, because she figures that they would rather sleep at the fire than in the car. She finds a couple of dusty old and somewhat filthy blankets in an old mahogany dresser. She takes them outside and starts clopping them until they are less dusty and even less filthy. She takes them back inside and lays them carefully in front of the fire. She then looks around and finds a small sink with still running water in the old kitchen. She gets some water in an old pan after cleaning that too and takes it back to the fire. She figures that she had better cook the water before they use it.
Juarez swims around in the stream after fish. He sees a couple large fish and swims after them. He catches one of the big ones in his beak and surfaces with it. He shakes a bit of water off of himself and then drops the fish in the basket before diving back in again after the other big fish.
Silvy looks at the flames and the pan on them. She once so often glances at the back door. She wonders when Juarez would finally loosen up some, when he would finally kiss her... Or at least hug her. She quickly shakes the thought away. "He'll come through when he is ready." She silently tells herself, though it sounded a bit unsure. 'What if he never comes around?' Her thoughts add immediately.
Juarez catches the other big fish and gets it into the basket. He then gets out of the stream and shakes the water all off of him.
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Translations:
*Tu padre : your father
*Mi día : my day
*Ridículo : ridiculous
