Behind The Red Mask [Shaunzer / Shaun x Bitzer]

6.Consequences

Sorry I keep updating this instead of my other shaunzer fic on ao3 ;; I want to focus on art this year and I need to get some fics out of the way gdfgx

This chapter focuses a lot on Shaun too but next one is all about Bitzer babeyy

oOo

The sixth day of that week was the worst for the hero so far.

Shaun had started fine by getting back to the red attire as soon as he woke up that morning, was able to fly around and catch the pigs trash-made bullets to shoot them back with perfect ease. The usual.

That was it, until Super Sheep noticed a certain blond dog standing on the field, shielding the flock from any leftover attacks but still looking up at the show, at the sheep in the sky, with a shine of pure awe and admiration in his eyes.

That mere sight, that reminder of all the thoughts he had been trying to ignore since yesterday, got Shaun distracted enough to not notice where he was flying towards.

Ina moment his view got surrounded by leaves and branches as he crashed face first against the top of a tree.

What followed was sort of blurry, but Shaun could recall gasps, various sheep standing around his sore body, and very very distantly, the voice of Bitzer scolding the life out of the pigs.

Minutes later the hero found himself resting over the stone fence, now conscious enough to notice Bitzer shooing away the flock('to give Super Sheep room to breathe', he kept saying). Some sheep rolle dtheir eyes at the dog for hogging the hero, while others moved their brows teasingly at knowing the real reason. Once more, Shaun saw that blushing face and his lips drew into a thin line.

He shouldn't be there. Shouldn't keep Bitzer's hopes up like that.

That was the conclusion Shaun had arrived to the previous night, staying past his bed time and under the dim light of the lamp while all the saga of the superheroin comics was scattered all over his bed.

From the outside, it just looked like the young sheep had also been dragged to the hero's obsession that got Timmy to draw so many Super Sheeps. The real reason was way more than that, Shaun was in a serious investigation, trying to absorb one and every moment  the superhero and the guard interacted in the stories.

He had looked for similarities, things he had mimicked, to see if maybe the characters had ended in the same spot as him. Shaun just  wantedto see what they would do about it, what he should do about it.

The results were not as specific as he had expected. The characters were best friends in civil form. They bickered, joked, laughed, and that had slowly translated to their hero-guard identities even if their start was rough. Romance had never really been part of the story, except for some schemes where they had to pretend to be a couple at a dinner. Even then, now that Shaun considered it, the characters had such a special bond it looked like everything was settled to evolve into more if the story took that direction.

Shaun still remembered how worried he looked seeing himself and Bitzer in those pages. Because the series was based on status quo, he would never find something similar to what he needed. Worst of all, no matter how he tried, this really wasn't a situation where the sheep could be told what he was supposed to do. He had to decide based on what he wanted.

But this wasn't Shaun's problem only. It involved Bitzer, and Bitzer liked the sheep in a red cape who went around saving everyone, not Shaun, the sheep who broke fences to later fix them.

The hero felt his heart race at what his mind just implied. Of course he would have to reject Bitzer even if the sheep he liked was Shaun! It wasn't to be mean, but they just weren't- Bitzer himself had said that-