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Chapter 5
The first morning after their arrival on Angel Island, Bartleby groaned with a pain in his lower back. He and Sonia had spent the night in the sleeping backs they had attached by the zippers, on nothing more than a thick bed of leaves and foliage and the hard stone floor of the cave. He was not used to these conditions. Head Island's luxury hotel had been primitive for him, but this was utterly primordial. He had aches in his back, his shoulders, his legs, everywhere.
"Have to remember, I want this," he thought to himself. "I want to be with her, that means I want this." But boy, did it suck. His arms around her, he felt her starting to wake. Quickly, he plastered a smile on his face as her eyes opened and peered into his. "Good morning."
She smiled and snuggled into his warm arms. "Good morning. Did you sleep well?"
"Like a baby." He lied. "Speaking of which," he looked down at her still flat belly. "Good morning to you too."
"Only a few months, you'll be holding him in your arms to say good morning," she reflected on what awaited them down the road. "Just a few months," She buried her head in his soft chest.
They could have laid there simply cuddling, neither would have minded, but Sonia's pregnant belly reminded her, loudly, that it needed sustenance. She laughed when they heard and felt the noise.
"I guess it's time for breakfast," Bartleby laughed with her as they got up. He couldn't mask a shocked gasp as his back yelled at him for the harsh treatment the night before.
Sonia looked back at him with concern. "Are alright?"
He nodded. "Yeah, I suppose my body needs to adjust to the new bed, that's all dearest."
Sonia realized that he may have lied about sleeping like a baby. "My poor baby," she said placing her hands on his shoulders and back, rubbing gently to work the kinks loose.
The mink grunted as her hand found a particularly knotted spot. "My Sonia, you really are too good to me." He reached back and found her hand, pulling her around to hold her. His lips covered hers.
When they finally left the cave, after putting on clean clothes, Bartleby realized something. "So, what do we eat for breakfast here?"
Sonia smiled at him. He was really out of his element. "We have fruit on the trees and fish in the lake."
Her lover grimaced. "You mean..."
"Yep," she said. "If we wanna eat, we have to get it ourselves." She laughed at his uncertain expression. "I'll teach you, just like my brothers taught me. We can also try hunting and trapping."
Bartleby sighed. "If you think I'll be any good at it, I'll try." The idea of this work thing scared him.
"Ah, I got one," Bartleby shouted, standing up to pull at the drop line.
Sonia knelt to help him. "Not so fast..." She was too late, the line had snapped.
"Darn!" he cursed. "That's 3 times now, Sonia." He looked at the pile of fish she had already caught with relative ease.
"Bartleby, it's okay, you're new at this," she reassured him. "You'll learn. The trick to fishing is to bring it in slow and steady. You want to move with the fish." She baited the hooks they had improvised with her hairpins. "Watch carefully." She lowered the line into the water. Several minutes passed before the line jerked. "Alright, now I pull the line slowly and carefully." When the line came out, there was a nice fat trout at the end. "Now, try it just like that."
Bartleby did the line exactly as Sonia did it. Her hands rest gently on his, helping him to guide the line. She whispered the instructions. They waited until the line jerked again. "Okay, you got one. Now, gently, carefully, slowly..." The fish popped out of the water at the end of the line. "Good job, now grab it by the bottom of the mouth and take out the hook, WAHHH!"
"AH!" Bartleby's cry joined her as the fish thrashed in his inexperienced hand. It leaped out and landed on the ground, flopping around. He ran after it much to her amusement.
The fish flipped and flopped as Bartleby chased after it until it came upon a small red lizard. The lizard regarded the fish and then Bartleby for a few moments before reaching its neck down and picking up the fish.
"Ohhh, give that back!" the nobleman tried to order the creature. "That's our breakfast."
The creature simply cocked his head before turning and starting off the opposite direction. It walked right into Knuckles.
"Give it back, Chomps!" he commanded in a no-nonsense tone, holding out his hand.
Chomps pouted but dropped the fish into his master's hand. He made a grunting noise before blowing a raspberry at Bartleby and stomping off to find something else to eat. Knuckles picked up the fish. "Sorry about that. "Are you having much luck?"
Bartleby held up the fish. "Got one. Sonia is better at this than me."
"It can be challenging for newbies. It just takes practice and a little luck." Knuckles explained. "You'll get the hang of it."
The mink hoped so. He had never done anything like this before. It was jarring that Sonia was so good at it after only several months. Could he possibly learn as fast as she did.
The days passed slowly at the beginning. Bartleby did NOT know what he was doing. The best he could do reliably was catch perhaps one or two fish per session. He couldn't climb trees, he couldn't swim, he had nearly caught himself on fire and burnt the fish beyond recognition. His clothing was getting torn, destroyed, and unbearable. They could wash in the lake and he did that okay but the clothing would be useless soon.
The nights were not getting any easier. He woke up every morning feeling like he hadn't slept a wink. Sonia would lovingly work out the aches as best she could but it just served to remind him that this life was hard.
What hurt the most was that while he didn't seem to be improving at all, that echidna was able to provide everything Sonia needed when he failed. It bothered him that she didn't seem to notice that this Knuckles had a thing for her. She was completely oblivious to the fact that he was flirting with her. Bartleby felt that Knuckles was trying to show himself to be the better man. How long before Sonia began to see it that way? How long before Sonia began to see him as useless as he knew he was? How long before he was left heartbroken out in the cold?
AN: Trouble in paradise? Keep reading and find out.
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