Getting it Together

A willing Captive

written with @wittlevirgilsanders

TW: Kidnapping, implied puppy death and separation, biting

Sela whined, pawing at Virgil's bedroom door and pacing back and forth.

Something was wrong!

Letting out a bark, she nudges Virgil's hand, hanging loosely off the bed.

"Wake up!" She yaps. Virgil groans, rolling over in bed.

Sela's ears perk up, and she trots over to the window.

Something was wrong, something was wrong!

"Kai!" She barks, "Virgil, wake up!"

"Sela?" Virgil mumbles, squinting to see her in the dark. "Why are you barking? Everything's fine."

"Something's wrong! It's not fine!" Sela nudges his hand again. "Get up, get up!"

Virgil whines, standing and trudging over to the door.

"Do you want to go out?" He asks softly, opening the door.

Sela races down the hallway, out her doggy door, and outside.

A figure.

Standing by a van.

Sela growls, lowering to the ground.

"Stay away from my boy!" She threatens.

"Shh, Sela. It's me!" Patton chirps. "Don't you remember me?"

"Do you remember these!" Sela bares her teeth, jumping towards him and snapping her mouth shut warningly. "Leave!"

"Sela!" Patton gently smacks her nose.

And Sela snaps.

Next thing she knew, Patton's arm was bleeding, and there was a leash around her neck.

And Virgil.

Her boy, her pup, the one she would never stop protecting, standing on the porch.

"Sela?" He says tiredly, staring at the two like a puzzle he couldn't solve. "...Dad?"

"Virgil, stay away from him!" Sela orders.

Patton smiles, holding out his arms. Virgil rushes towards him, his eyes glassy as he allows Patton to pick him up and swing him around.

"I missed you Virgey." Patton hums.

"Missed you too," Virgil says, almost robotically.

Sela snarls, snapping at Patton's leg. Patton ties her leash onto the porch railing, carrying Vigil over to a black van.

He places him inside and drives away, Sela straining to chase after him.

"Kai, Kai!" She yelps, barking madly. "He took him! Have to save my boy!"

Virgil shifted uncomfortably in his seat as the van sped off, looking at Patton in the rearview mirror as his Papa looked back at him with a grin.

"Still my good Virgil." Patton praises.

Virgil shrinks into his hoodie, his bangs falling in front of his eyes as he watched the scenery pass from the window.

Stela howls, straining against the rope binding her to the porch. The rope snaps and she bounds down the street after the van.

Have to stay with Virgil, have to protect Virgil!

Barking loudly, she howls as a few bedroom lights start to turn on. "Help, help! He's taking my boy!"

Virgil sighs quietly as he begins to fall back asleep, his head falling down as he rested against the window.

"Where you going in such a hurry?" Another dog crawls out of his doghouse and starts to run next to Sela.

"He took my boy!" Sela huffs, careening after the van.

"Who cares about kids?" The boy dog scoffs. "They pull on your tail and try to ride on your back."

"I have to protect him! He's my pup!" Sela growls at the dog. "So stay out of it!"

Sela panted as she looked down at the small wriggling puppies softly nuzzling her, and wriggling around.

She had made them.

"Say hello to the world young ones." Sela smiles, nosing at the closest pup. "It's so big and bright, you're going to love it."

"Pa! Rosie had puppies!"

Sela looks up at Hannah, her girl.

Hannah's father Jo walks over, his boots clumping against the wooden barn floor as he peers down into Sela's small pen.

"Hannah, go inside and do your homework." He gruffs out.

"Why, where are you going?" Hannah swings her legs back and forth on her stool, chewing at one of her braids.

"Just go. You got school in the morning." Jo tells her.

Hannah hops down and runs off, and Sela looks down at her pups again proudly. Jo grabs a sack and reaches into the pen, grabbing a pup and placing it inside.

"What are you doing?" Sela yaps, looking up her master.

Jo grabs the six other pups and places them into the sack, getting into his truck and starting it.

She would not lose this pup.

"Patton! Stop!" Sela yaps, barking as Patton stops at a red light.

Running up to his door, she shoves away her pride and sits down, whining up at Patton.

"Aww, hello Sela." Patton giggles, opening the door for the pup.

Sela jumps into the car and barrels into the back, barking and licking Virgil's check.

"Are you okay? Did he hurt you?" Sniffing her boy anxiously, checking him for bruises and cuts.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Sela lays down on Virgil's chest.

He was okay.

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