orange juice or red rum

the guard appears

Tok..tok...tok..tok

Rain pulled his hood over his skull as the rain poured down the stone bricked street. Some bricks where lifted and others where mossy or cracked. He looked at his phone with a small keychain hanging from the head phone plug spelling out void in bold letters that melted a bit. He looks over the bright light the shown in the night skin and droplets land on the screen every now and then. The soft sound of the rain was alluring and peaceful. He stood under the street lamp and waited for the cross walk sign to tell him he could walk across. Though no cars or people where out this late. He walked across and  played out in his head the groups next picnic outing. He had went today to scope out some nice new sceneries for he and his flatmates to enjoy.

Yes he lived with his friends Geno, cotton, and original. Original paid the bills yet original and Geno both work. Cotton stays inside his room all day and rain visits his brother.  He got pulled from his thoughts before glances around, he was sure he heard something. He heard that sound of metal scrapping thick plastic and loud shrieks. He quickly ran into an ally way and glanced around before seeing a bundle of barbed wire shift. He walked over gently before looking down at a plastic bag and used his boot to step on the wires and his jacket sleeve to carefully touch it before getting out the trash bag and hearing an abundance of squeaks from the small...its not a trash bag...its a dog dropping pick up bag to be exact. He untied it and glanced down before quickly closing it and hurrying home.

Thankfully it was just down a few blocks and up a few fleets of stairs which he could have used the elevator but he had to hurry. He opened the flat's door and looked at cotton, original and geno playing a deck of cards while munching on pizza. It was most likely just them being too lazy or tired to cook. Rain made quick strides to the table and set down the bag catching their attention. "What's in the bag?" Geno sat up and set down his deck of cards face down so he would loose. Of course the others did the same as rain unwrapped the bag and scooped up a small skeletal body and set it down. Rain's fingers were dripping bone marrow and blood. He looked down at the bitty as everyone's attention was drawn to it. It was one of the well known dangerous type bittys the Rufus bitty most likely thrown out by his owner. "..he is your problem now rain" original got up. "You found him your his owner" rain sighs and nods. As expected but he didn't mind, he left to the sink to clean off the bitty, peeling off the soaked fabric and running it under the warm water from the sink and bringing it back to the table to look over the wounds.

The Rufus bitty had a cracked spine, four fangs missing, his tail cracked and one of the legs where cracked just slightly. The bitty was awake but watching them all while staying still, planning their untimely demise. Cotton reached over to lift him up but flinched back after Rufus let out a small growl.  He glared at cotton before trying to bite at the others though trying not to move. Rain lifted him up and held his maw shut. "You can't do anything calm down"

Rufus let out an angry wheeze before letting them do whatever. An hour passed and Rufus was now in rain's room in a small box from Cotton's room that was about the size of a eating box. He was laying on a rag with another rag ontop of him and a ketchup bag for the pillow. In his tiny hands was a locket of his past owner and despite the other's attempts they couldn't get it away without lodging the tiny fragile arms from their socket. He starts falling asleep, the blackness eating away until he is surrounded by darkness.

He wakes up feeling a few hands pick him up and he looks around tiredly before angrily squeaking at rain. Rain sighs and sets him down before pulling on a roll of bitty bandages and wrapping what he could before getting some pliers and forcing gold teeth into the maw which of course Rufus raises all hell about it and messes rain up half the time taking about 45 minutes to put in just two. Rain eventually does get them in. Once he finishes wrapping the wounds and forcing Rufus down and snapping the broken tail in place he fights the bitty in putting on clothing. He got Rufus a short sleeve loose shirt and socks so his clawed feet don't get caught in the carpet wool.

Rain let Rufus grab onto his finger and helped him try to walk which he limped but he could walk but he wiggled around as he did with his weak spine. Rain picked him up and set him down before walking out the room and standing there before seeing Rufus jump and hurry over, bobbling around after him and makes a loud angry squeak up at him. Rain chuckles a bit before walking and stopping waiting for Rufus to bobble over and yell at him. Rain smiles brightly before getting breakfast ready for him and Rufus as everyone already had their own.