She's perfect. I think we should call her Ellie, little Ellie. Manny tells her. I was thinking something more like Peaches. Ellie tells him. Peaches? He questions. Yeah, why not she's sweet, and round and covered in fur. Peaches, yeah I like Peaches. Now, this won't make any sense because there's nothing any shade of green about her but.... But what? But I want her middle name to be Jade. It's just you know a name that means a lot to me. She honestly states.
I think the only time I ever heard that name was when Farrah told us her name was Jade when we first met them, but now I know it was because for whatever reason Diego had no idea it was her and wanted to know from an unbiased POV by pretending to be someone else up until he figured it out. Yes, and I've learned all that I can possibly learn about her, if I had a best friend in our little family group it would be Farrah. She's the only other girl in the group except our daughter now.
Ellie you don't have to do that. I whisper to her. I know but I'm going to I haven't grown up with much of anybody in my life or knowing where I belong and for the most part it was always myself and Crash and Eddie and always thinking I was a possum, and then I met you and you were the only other girl in the group. We know what it feels like to lose our family. To feel sad about something and to long for it back. Sweetheart you're never gonna get that back but if you'll let us be whether we look the same or different we're all family here.
You told me your story, and that you were surrounded by all the guys after your parents were murdered, that it took the toll on you both in two very different ways, Diego appeared to become more ruthless then he ever was and that you thought his heart had turned dark that he didn't care about you anymore, that he didn't want anything to do with you at least that's how you made it sound when we've talked and we're all your family now and we all love you.
You mean so much to me sweetie pie and for a killer you're a sweetheart, I want you to be the G-Dmother to my daughter to be the cool protective fun aunt figure in her life to be like her best friend the same way that you are mine and I don't care what my husband says. From what I could tell in your story was that you liked having the baby human around so that you had the chance to take care of something that on the inside you know that you wanted to feel the way your parents loved you or that even if not verbally or not in clarity that the way your brother feels about you and took care of you when you were this small.
Baby girl listen to me guys are NOT very good at showing their emotional side they don't talk about emotions or feelings, and when they do it doesn't go well. Especially talking about it with other males. Which we've experienced in the beginning of all of this, and had that dinosaur not tried to take you with her or taken Sid he would've never followed us down here you would've in a heartbeat maybe if it weren't for all the love you have for your brother, that he is the only blood family you have left.
The pack was nothing like a family it was a kill or be killed. I reminded her, but a pack never turns on each other they'll turn on the master but never each other. But we were supposed to be like a family but really it was more like a cult that once you reached a certain age you basically transferred over to the pack like as if the rest of your real family didn't matter at that point anymore that it was like getting married to humans when you get married the father gives the daughter away to someone new, but in our case it was more of a rite of passage, you had to prove yourself.
It's like when a man is of age to join the army they go and fight when they get called, and I was like the Mulan of the group only that they more or less accepted me into the group after our parent's death that they kept my brother away from me and it hurt, but I was never allowed to show it. We've been taught that otherwise emotions and feelings are weakness and having to push that away was hard.
Thank you Ellie I will treat her and take care of her as if she were my own. I know you will she says hugging me with her trunk as Diego swipes his eye. I saw that tough guy she turns to him with Peaches turning back to him. No, no that last dino cut my eye with it's claw.... I must've been your imagination Ellie I shake my head Diego doesn't show emotion or feelings, I'm telling you that was nothing I cut him off before he could finish defending himself.
Alright so I'm not made of stone he tells her. That's not what your sister sees. From what she told me was that you said you were gonna take down the mask and show real feeling and emotions again. She's being ridiculous darn her.... I protected her from Soto and the guys when they attacked us, when we turned our backs on the pack to be with the heard, she's turned me into a house cat by how playful and cub like she is and how I "fear" she will always be he laughs.
Fear is an emotion being afraid of the water because of an early on event in our childhood afraid to lose her, worried when she passed out from lack of sleep, or running or way into the fire, or missing her when she left clobbering the pack when they tried to tell me she wasn't coming back and to forget about her. Being overprotective of her and sweet with her during the summer that we met you guys during the time of the Meltdown you saw us we were sweet with each other, she's my best friend.
I remember when she was born. That was one part that I caught, cause it struck me as rather odd. How? How can you say that? I don't remember that how can you? Of course you can't he chuckled you were being born. But Diego literally I don't remember anything up till the moment that I was a cub and you were looming over me as I slept telling me that mom wanted to give me a bath and that I was so small that you could pick me up with your teeth.
I still remember parts of my old life before doing the spell to make me be this way, that my human parents were abusive and drunk and on drugs all the time that I was picked on and bullied and called a freak at school and then entering the portal as I shrunk to cub size. That's what I remember. I don't even remember nearly drowning when I was a cub how can you remember things that I don't, but that I should?
Because that life doesn't exist anymore Farrah, he says shaking his head. What was it that your spell said? That all memories would be replaced as if I was always part of your life. And if there was a spell ever cast on me I don't remember any of it. If I break 4th wall then the memories I would remember would be our double gangers that you created from basically out of thin air creatures only you can see when you were human. And if you were to go back to your human form those memories won't go away my other form our other forms you created will remember those things, and so will you.
And somewhere in your mind you have those memories. That if you didn't talk about that other past you would remember those things, and you need to forget about that life. Because in this one you have had and do you have people that care about and that have loved you. And blood related on not Ellie is right about everything.
Could you say it, could you say the words and genuinely mean them? And not just say them because we're family and that's what family is supposed to say to each other because anyone can fake it, anyone can just tell someone something that they long to hear. To love someone means that it should be unconditional that you aren't gonna try to change them, parents both human and animal tell their children that they love them and then try and morph them to be the carbon copy of them to teach them how to be the perfect son/daughter. How can people say those words then expect their loved one to changed, brother/sister son/daughter/ or bf/gf?!
I.... Incoming! We hear Sid say. As he get drops in by the flying dinosaur and Crash, Eddie and Buck. Sid is happy to see that everyone is ok and that her daughter looks just like Ellie. And with great relief, Diego genuinely tells him that he missed him, and Sid wishes that his "kids" could've been here too so that they could all had been friends.
Buck says he's forgotten what it was like to have a family and then he brings us back to the beginning and that he wants to take us home. But that's when we discover when we reach the cave that we're not alone. That's when we meet Rudy, the beast of all beats the enemy of Buck's that we had yet to meet but have heard a great deal of running through the "forest." We all begin fighting Rudy but when mama dinosaur and her kids come back he gets knocked over, and now that he's gone Buck doesn't what he's gonna do now.
Come with us. Up there? That's funny I've spent all my time being down here it feels like up to me, I don't remember what it's like being up there I don't think I'd fit in up there. So? Look at us do we look like a normal herd to you? We're like a family. You must realize just how ironic that sounds coming from you Diego! I scold. She's gonna be the death of me he shakes his head as I start off.
We start making our way back until Rudy's cry is heard again, that's our cue come on Peaches. Come on everyone let's get a move on. Soon it's just Buck and Diego the rest of us have exited back to the top. He's alive? Buck? Diego stops him. When Buck says he has to go and that this world should really stay down here he tells Diego to take good care of us. And be genuine with your sister, she loves you, you know. I know it's a hard word to think about when a brother or a sister use it that it's one of those cliché things that only happens in the movies really and with lovers but there's something truly special about a loved one's love, a parent or a sibling or a friend that you love like family.
How many times are you willing to lose her to put her in danger or to see her unhappy before she understands? This is my adventure, you belong up there. This world belongs up there. She ran away once didn't she? And it sounds like she keeps running away. It's the only thing she knows how to do. Cause it's something that I did. Why? Think about it and then hold onto it, she doesn't need an explanation just something genuine when it comes to family love.
You're right Buck. Rule #1 always listen to Buck. We'll miss you. And same to you guys too. Now off you go. Buck cuts the entrance to the rest of that world. Ellie, Peaches and I have wondered off to play with Peaches in the once again falling snow, our world once again looks more or less like an ice age nothing melting, but nothing completely frozen over like in a proper ice age era.
Where's Buck? Crash and Eddie ask, then they ask if he'll be ok. But it's Rudy they should be worried about that nothing can kill Buck ever. Look I know this whole baby thing isn't for you Manny starts but whatever you decide to do.... Manny I'm not leaving buddy. But-but I had this whole speech prepared. How can I show you I'm strong and sensitive, noble yet caring? And then with a playful punch like Manny said one little slug a good "punch" om the shoulder was like 6 weeks or whatever or therapy for guys, which is stupid but apparently works. Look life of adventure right here.
But listen right now I'm gonna go chase after my sister and make her forgive me, prove to her that I'm staying and like Ellie said and Buck said that I needed to make sure she knew I was being genuine with my love. While we were all playing in the snow, and I giggling away being distracted always seems to be good way to get things out of the way. I walked away so that Ellie could play with her daughter, and now that I was alone....
Pinned ya! I rolled my eyes. I was suddenly pinned again. I tossed him off of me as we played around. Until he pinned me again. Pinned ya again! *Ug* you win now let me up. You're life of adventure is that way. I scold I nudging my head in some random direction until I feel a wet slimly feeling kiss my cheek. You are gonna be the death of me, and I can't keep chasing you. I could tell you I genuinely care about you but I know if I said that you'd push me off and run away again, but listen and listen good. Lover, son/daughter/ a friend that you love like family/ or brother/sister labels don't matter.... I can genuinely promise you that I love little sister. And you know I always keep my promises.
Do you know how much it hurts to for me to see you think that I don't love you, I lost you once and I'm not gonna lose you again. Blood wise you're all the family I have left, and me you. You are my adventure, and somehow you've turned this deadly assassin into a playful loving house cat. He caresses me as he purrs up against me. I love you too. I purr up against him as I nudge him off of me getting unpinned. And I'm not going anywhere I shake my head. Just as long as you aren't either. Never!
We turn towards Ellie when Peaches catches a snowflake in her trunk and she shivers sneezing. As I walk over and nudge up against her. That's right Sweetheart Ellie leans forward hugging her with her trunk. Welcome to ice age. We are forever your family and we will all always love you. I finish purring up against her as Ellie wraps her trunk around me and Peaches bats her hand at me as if she were a human trying to pet me. I kneel my head down so that she "pet" me. You are gonna be a great aunt and best friend to her. And you are gonna be a wonderful mother Ellie.
