You Are Not Ape

Chapter 4

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"Koba ... did... what?"

Caesar stared at his oldest friend. He could barely believe what Maurice was telling him. Even after everything, he could barely believe it. But Maurice did not lie.

"It's true, Caesar," Rocket signed, chiming in. "Blue Eyes is up there with Mary and the human baby right now."

"What baby?

As Caesar's head was still reeling a little from this news, Cornelia, with her and Caesar's youngest son clinging to her pelt, came up to join them.

Caesar took a deep breath, and turned to his wife.

"Maurice says that Koba took a newborn human baby from its dead Mother and gave her to Mary...as a pet."

Cornelia growled, her fur bristling in anger.

"I...know," Caesar spoke softly, putting an arm about his wife.

"Take us to them," he told Maurice.

The baby began to whine, insistently. Mary frowned.

"She has to be hungry. Here, hold her while I go get her milk?"

"What? No! Mary, I-" Blue eyes tried to protest, But Mary had already gently pushed the baby at him.

"Here, hold her head like this. Be careful of that soft spot. I'll be back."

Blue Eyes sat stiff and rigid on the human bed. He was more nervous than he had ever been in his life as he cradled this tiny fragile creature in his arms. He heard Mary rummaging around in another room, and just hoped she would not be too long.

A soft sound from the doorway made Blue Eyes look up. He met his Mother's amazed eyes. Cornelia beamed with pride at her oldest boy.

The young ape watched as his Mother entered the room, followed closely by his Father and Maurice. The apes all clustered around the human bed.

:Where ... is Mary?" Caesar asked quietly.

Automatically, Blue Eyes tried to sign, but he couldn't and hold the baby at the same time.

Getting milk...for her," he replied, glancing down at the baby.

"What .. is her name?" Cornelia asked.

"She doesn't have one yet." Mary had come back in to the room. Avoiding looking straight at Caesar, she directed her comments to Cornelia, instead.

"Her mother died before she could name her."

Mary relieved Blue Eyes of his burden, sat down on the bed next to him, and began carefully feeding the baby from a bottle.

"This is the last," Mary said worriedly. "Then there is no more milk for her." The young ape girl glanced pleadingly at Cornelia.

"Aunt Cornelia, could you ask one of our females if... if they could feed her, please?"

Mary's face fell as Cornelia firmly shook her head. Caesar started to step in, but Cornelia held up a hand, asking her husband to wait. She sat down on the bed and put an arm about Mary.

"I won't ask another female. I will feed her myself, if that is alright with you, Dear."

"Your...yourself?" Mary repeated, stunned.

Cornelia laughed gently. "Don't look so surprised. I have plenty for both my little one and this little one, too. I've done this before. I fed you and Blue Eyes at about the same time."

Mary and Blue Eyes glanced at Cornelia, shared a startled look between themselves. Then, they both blushed."

"She should have a name," Cornelia started to say as she gently stroked the human babies head. But a commotion down below caught everyone's attention.

"Rocket, stay here with them," Caesar signed as he and Maurice went to see what was going wrong now.

As Caesar and Maurice ran from the building, a piercing human scream cut through the air.

"CAESAR! They're coming!"

A/N:

Thanks to Weezy815 for all her great Ape inspirations. Please check out her fics on this site.

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