That's Why I Love You: A Marshall x Everest Collection

Depression

Everest was kind of two different kind of pups in one.

Hard risk missions at extreme circumstances were a piece of cake for the mountain rescue pup. She can adjust herself for any kind of rescues, from rescuing monkeys from a giant hungry snake, trail lost snowboarders during a snowstorm, to transport animals to a different location because of an active volcano about to erupt. The ideal of a rescue pup.

Saving those in need was the second favorite thing in the world for Everest, taking care of a ski resort with her best human friend, Jake, made of her life in Adventure Bay a dream come true, and even more with her favorite thing in the world, her friends.

One of them, especially.

Maybe because of something in his eyes, something his smile, his kindness and loyalty, or his passion for his job, she didn't know. The only thing she knew was that Marshall was making her loose her mind.

Despite being incredibly clumsy sometimes, Everest found him to be really sweet and big hearted. If she was going to say when she started liking him, it would be the day when Ryder gave her the pup tag that hangs from her neck right now. After the meeting around the fireplace that lasted until 11 pm, pretty late for little pups, the team was invited to spend the night at Jake's Chalet, and once there, all almost immediately went to sleep, except for her. A pup next to her noticed that she couldn't sleep either, and invited her for a night walk, to which she couldn't deny.

It was the same pup that attended her and offered get more marshmallows in the meeting, but she couldn't remember his name. They talked for hours that night, about everything, the deepest things about each other and even the silliest before finally decided to go to sleep. She didn't dare to ask what his name was until they reached the entrance of the cabin, and still it was a little embarrassing. The other pup just laughed quietly before answering: "I'm Marshall."

Days, weeks, months passed and Everest noticed how this close encounter with the Dalmatian pup actually transformed the first impression she had of him and turned it to something more special, . Marshall started to grow closer to her to the point of calling each other best friends, something that made a little jealous their former best friends. Of course, Chase was Marshall's best friend in all aspects of their lives. Since Ryder adopted Marshall when he already had Chase with him, they considered each other as best friends, and even brothers at some point. There was no single aspect of Chase's life that the Dalmatian didn't know about him, from his favorite food to his not-so-best hidden secret, his crush on another member of the team. Which leads us to Everest and Skye.

Skye always wanted another female in to live with them in the Lookout, and even though Everest lived with Jake in the mountains, she was still happy of not being anymore the only girl around. Even if their friendship didn't grew through years of connivance like Chase and Marshall, they trusted in each other just as much, or even more, that them. This fact was confirmed one day when Skye called the Husky pup to talk in he pup house, the day that Everest learned a truth she almost couldn't handle.

It started like any other casual talk, Skye asking something random about the day and then both would head to her pup house or the tower if any of the guys was around. Her attitude wasn't usual though, she seemed quite anxious, she was smiling all the time and there was a special twinkling in her eyes. Something was different on her, good different, but Everest couldn't guess why. Well, she did have some suppositions. She heard from Marshall a couple of times that Skye usually watches him and Chase when they do... anything. It wasn't like the usual 'What are you guys doing?' she just watches them for long periods of times without saying a word.

Maybe she was finally going to give Chase a chance to ask her out. Of course everyone knew that Skye knew about Chase's crush on her, thinking otherwise meant you were blind or you were Chase, but any of them actually knew if she liked him back. Maybe, just maybe, Skye may have find herself liking Chase. Or not.