Unexpected

Chapter 4: The Concept Of Love

Back at the Lookout, Rocky is in the midst of looking around his truck. Since he's had a bunch of free time due to not being needed much for missions lately, he's had plenty of time to learn about blacksmithing, and even searching around the dump for anything. The dump he goes to always gives him at least 300-500 pounds worth of anything. The stuff given to him is covered in an oddly clean white sheet. Curious, Rocky pulls the sheet off and he found 18 huge chunks of real obsidian. Pondering this, he looks at the chunks of Obsidian.

At least until his eyes wander and land on black scrap leather from an old project. He's known how to work with leather for years. With his skills and steady paws, he's able to craft two collars in just under 10 minutes. One collar for Marshall and one for himself. He then grabs a specific kind of paint from under his work bench and starts to paint the collars. However, Rocky hears a knock at the door. The knock causes Rocky to hide the collars and paints before he answers the door. He takes around 5-6 minutes to put everything away and reach the door because their pup houses look small but are actually very spacious. It's a good thing too 'cause he opens his pup house door and sees Chase.

"O-oh hey Chase!" Rocky says with a nervous chuckle and shuffles his front paws nervously. "Wha-What brings you here?" "Hey Rocky", Chase says as he's about to keep speaking. The problem is that when he looks Rocky in the face, the German Shepherd becomes very concerned. "Are you feeling okay my friend? You're sweating a lot and you look nervous about something," The german shepherd inquires, looking very worried. "Oh yeah yeah...yeah yeah!" Rocky says, responding in a dismissive tone. "I'm fine! I was just uh...sorting the stuff in my truck to make it look nicer," The mix breed says as he smiles with a little bit of sweat running down his face. Chase looks at the mixed breed with uncertainty, but just brushes it off to not cause any trouble. "Hehe glad to hear it my friend. Well, I just came to check on you cause I saw something strange before I went out for my walk," The shepherd recounts as he looks behind him at the row of bushes near the bridge.

Rocky mentally sighs in relief as he realizes that Chase hasn't discovered their relationship. However, he raises an eyebrow to what Chase says. "Something suspicious going on?" The mix breed asks as more sweat runs down his face. Chase turns back to look at Rocky and confirms the pup's concern. However, he sees the sweat running down the mix breeds face, looks at the couch in Rocky's puphouse, and ponders. "Mhm, before I tell you though, you look like you need to relax. Go sit on your couch and I'll grab you your favorite fan plus a bowl of water," Chase suggests as he's very concerned for the mix breeds health.

Rocky nods, lets Chase inside, goes over to the couch in his puphouse, and lays down. The shepherd smiles as he enters the puphouse and goes over to over to a table that has 3-4 pup bowls on it. He takes one of them off the table and looks around for anywhere there could be a water source. After for only a minute of looking he sees a bathroom and smiles. He walks over to it and peaks his head inside.

What he sees in there makes his jaw drop. Everything is a bright green accented by black and light gray tones. It makes the room very inviting and comforting. Inside is double wide sink, meaning there's two faucets, an eagle claw bathtub, a toilet made for pups which has an official Rocky logo on it and makes Chase chuckle. That logo exists on all the things in the bathroom, including some strange tube in the back of the bathroom. It stands at 12 feet tall, 10 feet wide, and has a dual sided panel on it and something attached the ceiling.

He just shrugs that off before walking over to the sink. "This is definitely Rocky's style," Chase says in head as he giggles as he looks at how the faucet of the sink has two buttons, one button that you can push for hot water, one that you can push for cold. He presses the button for cold water and notices a scanner on the top of the faucet. Chase places his paw a few centimeters above the scanner. The pup watches at the faucet's scanner shines a red light across his paw a few times in the matter of seconds and activates. He's stunned by this, but shrugs it off knowing that Rocky is just a pure genius, places the empty bowl into the sink, and fills it full of water.