The Past and The Present

Epilogue Part 2

Hi all. sorry to keep you waiting but there are a few complications at home and I have little time to myself. Please leave reviews and criticisms are welcome.

"What in the world is going on out here?" reprimanded an old owl as she walked out of her nest in a fit of anger. She approached the boys in a fit of anger over her disrupted sleep, "I thought I..." She stopped as her gaze fell upon Tod, Copper and Chief, who were watching her with hard stares. Her eyes widened as her fears were realized. 

Tod, a fox, and two hunting dogs were standing side by side without a hint of discomfort. She had seen the way Copper savagely chased him and Vixey but she had also seen what happened to Chief. All this, however, was overruled by Copper's heroic gesture of saving the fox from Amos Slade. 

"Hiya, Big Mama," Said Tod with a small smile on his face. He was happy to see the old owl and visa versa. Big Mama flew down and landed on the fence. 

"Goodmornin', Tod. I see you have got yourself a new friend," she said as she pointed over to the wolfhound.

"Yeah, things have started to calm down enough for us to forgive and forget. How yea been? Haven't seen yea around in a while," curiously asked Tod. 

Big Mama needed to think carefully for the right words to use, "I had to go and help out a friend of mine. How are you?" asked the owl, trying to catch up on what she had missed. 

"I'm good. My legs are better now so I can't really complain," was the fox's reply. Big Mama raised her eyebrow in confusion. 

Dinky couldn't help but blurt out, "What do yea mean 'better now'? did yea have cramps or something?" The spotlight had now shifted to Tod as he felt the weight of heavy gazes falling on him. Copper and Chief knew that the topic would still be a bit raw for his liking.

When copper and Chief tried to intervene,They were cut short by the foxes hoarse voice. Big mama started to think hard about the words that came out of its mouth before he continued, "Big mama, Don't freak out when I tell you. Um... I kind of had a stroke about a month and a half ago and I was almost fox down." 

The old are covered a beak with a wing. She then interrupted his explanation, "Uh hu... And I don't suppose you got your surprise about 2 weeks ago did you?" Tod was surprised by the question. He wasn't 100% sure if what he was hearing he was believing.

"Wait, how did you know?" Today asked, Baffled by knowledge.

 Big mama giggle before saying, "Your welcome." At that moment, Rose walked out of the house and was met by a wall of gazes.

Hello, Big Mama," Rose said softly as she approached the tree and found a spot between Tod and Chief. 

"Why, hello there, Rose. I suspect you've found yourself a new home. What's it like having a son again?" Big Mama asked the vixen. 

She moved over to her son before nuzzling him and saying, "It's as if we never parted. I guess you were right when you said 'love never forgets." The moment could not have been unpredictable, until she moved over to Chief, who was unaware of the advance. Rose soon reached the wolfhound and started rubbing against him as she continued, "And it seems to have its perks." Although he had fur covering his cheeks, his face was visibly becoming red. Tod had heard Vixey and his mother talking on various occasions about this, so he wasn't all that shocked. He then turned to see who was more in shock, Big Mama or Copper, but rather predictably, the bloodhound was the most dumbfounded.

"Whoa, whoa. Time out!" Dinky blurted out as she covered his eyes. 

"This just became awkward," Copper was the next to react as an air of unusual love covered the group. It was unusual for a fox and a hunting dog to become best friends, let alone have feelings for one another. They knew that it was... wrong, for a lack of better words, bet they didn't care. They only wanted each other. The past is the past and cannot be reversed, but they were only interested in the present. They looked into one another's eyes, only love and trust could be found. 

"Oh my, I hope you two know what your gettin' into," Big Mama said to try and stop them from becoming to physical in front of everyone. 

"We know, we just don't care about others judging us." replied Rose, Chief blushing too much to utter a word. Looking over to her son, she couldn't help but notice how anxious he was.