This troubled both Alex and Travis, but they didn't make any moves to help because they already knew that they would be rejected. She pulled some bamboo tubes out and started to open the top, some strange orbs were poured into her hand. She took Three of those and then Two from the other. Both Alex and Travis were looking at her with curiosity and lessoned as she explained what they were. "This is a mixture that will help with pain, and this is One that will help with the fever. No water touches the body, but I do need to drink it when I take it. I will be fine."
Travis said "See. I told you that she would be fine. She is not a Doctor, but she is smarter than any that you have ever and will ever come across."
When Scarlet heard what Travis was saying she had a warm feeling in her chest that was different than the rage that she should have felt. No One sticks up for her and compliments her like that. They only Yell and Insult her, or just try to outright Kill her. With Kitty though things were different. He always had something nice to say to her and about her. He has never looked down on her or treated her like anything less than a treasure.
"This was bad. Like Really Bad, because I can't let anyone close. It was too dangerous to get close to anyone. Everyone always betrayed me, and I have learned that lesson the hard way time and again. It was not worth getting close to anyone only to get hurt in the end. With the pain of having someone try to kill you and having to kill someone that you got attached too. NO NO NO NO NO this could not happen. Kitty was too nice, and I don't like to hurt the Ones that I help. He was to close, and this was dangerous." This was all going through Scarlet's mind when Alex brought her back to reality.
"I don't care if you take those things. You are still hot and need to be cooled off. If that stuff that you took worked, you would not have gotten so hot to start with. Just let me help you by bringing your body temperature back to normal."
The more that Alex spoke the brighter his Energy got. It was shining so bright that Scarlet just couldn't keep her eyes off him.
Noticing this, Travis got angry. She was HIS Female and she trusted him to be in the room with her alone. She was just staring at this Unwanted and he felt the strong surge to kill him and take his Female away. He wanted to keep her to himself and never let anyone take her away from him. But that is not what she would want. So, he could only sit there and except it.
Little Fuzzball noticed that something was wrong with Travis, and he went over and licked his hand to get his attention. Doing that little act brought Travis back to reality with a shock. He was not expecting anything like that to happen and jumped a little scaring the Little Fuzzball enough to make him run back to his Mommy and jump into her lap. Then just look at him causally.
Scarlet was brought back to reality by this action and as she looked at her Pup, she noticed Travis' Energy was raging but quickly becoming worried. As Travis looked at Her then the Pup he said "I'm sorry Little One I didn't mean to Scare you. You just startled me. I won't hurt you or your Mommy I swear it."
With that the Little Fuzzball slowly crawled out of his mother's lap and walked over to him. Looking at him he said "I not scared. I am brave to protect Mommy." Of course, this was in an animal language and Scarlet didn't know exactly what he said to Kitty but she got the best of it. He was a Sweet Pup and he wanted to protect her.
The silence that followed was broken by the sound of Scarlet's stomach making itself known. Travis laughed and said "I made you something to eat when I made Your Pups food. Please come and try it. I tried to make it the same as you and I hope that I did a good job and didn't waste your food. I will hunt something after and replenish your supply. I hope you don't mind I also made enough for the Cobra and myself as well."
He just kept rambling on and-on-and Scarlet said "That's okay. It smells fine and I have a good supply of food, so you don't need to hunt anything." It was so strange that she didn't need to cook but just needed to eat. This had not happened to her in what felt like forever. It felt nice to be taken care of for once. A small smile appeared and disappeared on Scarlet's face. She caught herself and hoped that the others didn't notice.
Travis and Alex were watching her like a hawk and seen the smile come and go as quickly as it appeared. Travis was of course Ecstatic, that he was the One that made her smile and Alex couldn't be Glummer that the Black Tiger was the cause of it. Even though it was a small smile, and it was gone as soon as it appeared. It was still the most beautiful smile that he had ever seen, but he was not the One that made it happen.
Alex didn't know what to do after that as they gathered around the fire and started to eat their meal, he was trying to think of ways to make her smile. Ways to make her accept him as her Male. Growing up because he was a Pale Cream-Colored Cobra with such Weird designs no Snake Female would except him. Add that to the fact that he was an Unwanted no other Female wanted him either. This Little Female is different though. When they First met the look on her face was One that he had Never Received before. The look of Amazement was One that he will Never Forget and Always wants to see. He just didn't know what he did to make her look at him like that, but he wished that he did.
Everyone was silent as they ate. The Little Fuzzball was the only One oblivious walking around and talking with the Two Males. When he addressed One of them, they would reply nicely to him and then return to being quiet. After a while he got bored and went to his Mommy and plopped into her lap and put his warm body against her Lower Abdomen to help her like he did before. Looking up at his Mommy he said, "Why are you hurt Mommy?"
Travis was the First to translate for her and told her what he said to which she replied "It's just something that happens to me from time to time and can't really be helped. It's not for you to worry about it will stop in a few days."
Alex said, "What is the cause of this?"
"It's just something that happens to Females where I'm from and can be quite inconvenient at times." Scarlet could not believe that she was having a conversation about her period with Males again. When will this torture end? After the Dinner was done there was just an awkward silence between all the adults. Scarlet said "Everyone outside and wait for me to call you back in." Without a word the Two Males and the Little Fuzzball walked out of the cave wondering what she was going to do.
When she was done changing her Cotton Strip with her face heated up so bad from embarrassment Scarlet said "Alright you can come in now. I'm going to get some rest and you both can stay the night, but you need to stay on the other side of the cave. Also, keep your voice down if you are going to talk. My head is still aching because of you both arguing earlier." Grabbing her Pup, she got onto her bed and tried to sleep.
Alex and Travis didn't know what to do except go to the other side of the cave and lay down. Keeping his voice down Alex said "Do you really think that she is okay? I have never heard of a Female bleeding from there before. Not unless she was injured. Her face was so red when we came back in."
Travis said "She is not your Female to worry about, but she will be fine. When I first found her, she was bleeding and she told me about it being normal for her. You are free to leave at any time and stay away from her."
Alex got mad but kept it in, only replying with "She is not your Female either and why are you following her? She doesn't want you and it doesn't look like she ever will? You should just leave her alone and move on to find another Female."
Before Travis could say anything, Scarlet said "You both will be leaving tomorrow, and I don't want to see either of you again. So, you BOTH should just move on. And chill out with the Negative Energy it making my stomach feel sick and my headache worse." Then turned over and put her back to them.
They both just looked at each other and took a deep breath, laying down to sleep.