FD: Birth of a Wishing Heart

36. Returning Home

Hans approached and looked down at me. He always had more of a wild hog factor than I did. He towered over me, my betrayal heavy in his expression. Had his tusks always been that big? "Gree, I did my best to protect you. I kept you here to protect you, and repaid me by letting a stranger inside! You put us both in danger and then tried to hide their steps which makes me think that this isn't the first time you've done this." His hooves slammed down on my shoulders which made me yelp as my bottom hooves sunk lower onto the ground. "You repeatedly put yourself in danger and revealed our location. You endangered the both of us, and never said a thing!" He growled. His eyes were beginning to become slightly blackened in wild animal rage.

I quickly grabbed Tabitha and held her close. "I didn't mean to put you in danger! I didn't mean to put either of us in danger, he fell in!" I tried to squirm out of his grasp but that only made him angrier as his hooves pushed down harder. I decided to retreat by falling back in bed. I tried to roll away but his knee pushed itself on my stomach to keep me in place. "Hans- you're pushing too hard!"

"He fell in? and you didn't call me? No Gree. I think you've been letting him in longer than that. Why else would you feel the need to wipe his steps before I came as if it were already a routine? Why wouldn't you call me? Why wouldn't you use the whistle?" His knee deepened as I squealed out in pain. The more I tried to be free the deeper it went.

If my brother appreciated anything, it was blunt honesty. Lying would anger him further. "I didn't tell you because I knew you'd get like this! You wouldn't understand! I know Carter well! He's my friend, He'd never hurt me!"

"You know him well?" He questioned. I could almost feel the huffs of his snorts on my face.

"Yes! I do! I've known him for... for a long time." I whimpered out the last part. My honesty had dug a deeper hole. His knee removed itself and I rolled myself free. My stomach churned out in pain. That would leave a bruise.

"A long time? Friends? Gree, are you mad? Delirious? We're wishing hearts! We don't have friends! Humans are selfish and we have endless fuel for their greed! Have my attempts to protect you meant nothing? Or was your friend more important?" I was backed up into a wall. He butted into me and his tusks pierced my arm before he pinned my arm successfully to the wall. "What's the point of protecting you, if you're such a gullible fool that you'd kill us all!" His other tusk went through my other arm.

"Hans! Please you're hurting me! I'm sure we can talk about this when you're calm!" My eyes watered completely fearful. "Please!" I begged.

"And I'm sure you'll blame me for not letting you outside and having you here all alone with no one to talk to. It would be my fault wouldn't it?" He asked reaching up over me to open the door.

"It's not your fault but if I had friends this wouldn't have happened! If Violet were here this wouldn't have happened!" I complained, trying to take the guilt off. "I was lonely!"

"Gree! You're almost an adult and you still don't understand! The world we live in is cruel, life is not some sort of fairytale where everyone has friends and everyone is happy. Life isn't a world of plush rabbits and sunshine! It's one of hard work and survival, and we won't always have people to protect us. I've tried to teach you time again and again but it looks like that's something you'll need to learn for yourself." He pulled himself away from me as I gasped in pain and gripped my arms while they bled. He threw my wig and cloak at me. "Go to your friend."

Was he kicking me out? While I was injured? I couldn't fend for myself! "Hans, it's not like that! I don't know where he lives!" I said catching the wig and cloak but not wanting to put them on.

"I know you don't know! You don't know where he lives. You don't know his family, but he knows everything about us, Doesn't he?" I was quiet. "and what keeps him from lying to you about his family?" My lips parted, I wanted to defend Carter but all I could think of was how he wasn't able to tell me about his wound. He hadn't wanted me to heal him. "Such an idiot!" He spat giving me another blow to my head with his hoof. That was enough to send me down. I felt kicks and yells but I couldn't understand. I turned into a ball as I sobbed. I pleaded. How could Hans be so cruel? Okay, I deceived him for six years. Okay, I put us in danger. Okay... I deserved this...