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BtrfyFx is entitled to a story ...as well as a better name. :P

Why the entitlement? Well, the character has been drawn several times, and has even known requests and fan art. And, besides, I like the fox. :P

As for his name, well... I've mentioned it before, but to refresh the collective memory, 'BtrfyFx' was the file name of the character's original upload ...which I forgot to amend before submitting it to DeviantArt. So, rather than changing it right away, I decided to let it stand.

I've changed his name to 'Fix'. Why? Because autism (and because I can)! :3

In thinking of Fix's personality, well... He's not a cub, but isn't far from it. He's old enough to be mated. :3
Fix is also kind and gentle ...which befits a fox who dances with butterflies. :3
Because of this, Fix is a bit awkward, socially, and is subject to bullying. Even so, he isn't a coward---he will fight if he needs to.

Anyway, I have here a story for the character. The story is written in script format, because ...well, I dunno---I just wrote it like that. :P

Anyway, story:

(GINGER follows some butterflies to a meadow clearing)

(GINGER discovers FIX, singing and dancing among the butterflies and flowers)

(GINGER finds herself attracted to FIX)

GINGER: "There's something very loving in your voice; do you take requests?"

FIX: "Oh? Thank you. What would you like?"
GINGER: "How about, something in red?"

FIX: "Uh, I don't think I know that one"
GINGER: "Neither do I ...but I'd like to"

FIX: "Oh, my-my-my-my!"
GINGER: *giggles*

(a butterfly lands on GINGER's head)
(FIX collects the butterfly with his finger)

GINGER: "What's with all these butterflies?"

FIX: "I am"

GINGER: "I can see that, silly boy! Are they your friends?"

FIX: "Yes. I don't know what I am to them, but they are very important to me"

GINGER: "Well, now you have me curious"

(FIX thinks a moment)

FIX: "Tell me your name"

GINGER: "Ginger; but that's more of a nickname. I came from a large litter---it sufficed for Mother to keep us counted, so we kits named each other"

GINGER (cont): "What's your name?"
FIX: "Fix; I think because I often find myself in one"

GINGER: "*chuckle* ...Tell me about your butterflies, Fix"
FIX: (sighs)

(GINGER and FIX sit together on a rock; GINGER's tail brushes and comes to rest over FIX'S)

FIX: "All right, then"

NARRATIVE (FIX): "It was the autumn before last...

(FIX notes a fading butterfly atop a small pile of leaves)
(FIX licks his chops before gobbling down the butterfly)

(As FIX turns away, his ears catch a rustling sound coming from the leaf pile)
(FIX investigates, lightly brushing the topmost leaves away with his hand-paw)

(A baby bunny is found under the leaves, barely alive)

FIX: "Oh, dear!"

(FIX gently scoops the baby bunny into his hand-paws; FIX holds the bunny to his chest, as he walks away)

NARRATIVE (FIX): "I brought her to my burrow"

(Scene transitions to inside FIX's burrow, whereat FIX is shown picking fleas from the bunny's fur)

NARRATIVE (cont): "I couldn't be sure of her age; not a newborn, but not far from it"

NARRATIVE (cont): "When I brought her to my burrow, I found she was weakened by fleas"

(FIX, tenderly watering the bunny, via a folded leaf)

"...and nearly starved---dry as the leaves I'd found her under"

"I knew the whereabouts of a rabbit warren, but I dared not return her to the cold air. In fact, though I did all I knew to do, I wasn't sure she'd survive the night"

(Scene shows the baby bunny waking up with FIX)

"...she surprised me with her resilience"

FIX playing with the bunny)

"She was hopping and playing around the very next morning, though it didn't take much fer her to wear herself out"

(FIX, looking the bunny over)

"One curious thing was her eyes were always shut, as if they were sealed. I thought they would open over time, for she was so very young when I found her"

(FIX, with bunny)

"She knew some words, and could talk a little, yet I never heard her say 'Mom', 'Dad' or otherwise mention family.
For that reason, I confess I didn't rush to bring her to the rabbit warren, despite knowing better"

(FIX, making a basket; the bunny is partially hidden by FIX's tail)

"I made a basket to carry her around in, lining it with down and tufts of my fur, to keep her warm"

(FIX, wearing the basket like a backpack; The ears of the little bunny pop through its top, from inside)
(FIX, pawing about for roots/green leaves; FIX, having speared a fish, with a stick)

"And so a routine formed: every day I would carry her along in the basket while I gathered food for the both of us"

(Inside the burrow: the baby bunny, feeling FIX's muzzle with her hand-paws)

"She became ever stronger as the days went by. Even so, her eyes wouldn't open.
Unsighted as she was, she used her paws to feel her around world"

(The baby bunny, feeling her own muzzle; feeling FIX's once more)

BUNNY: "Not same?"

FIX: "No. We're very different"

BUNNY: "What 'different'?"

FIX: "It means I'm a fox and you're a rabbit; you're you, and I'm me"

BUNNY: "'Different'"

FIX: "That's right! I'm a big ol' scruffy-fluffy thing, and you're beautiful and small!""

BUNNY: "What 'boodif'ul'?"

FIX: "(Oh, how to describe it to you) ...It means I like to think about and listen to you, and to know you're close to me and safe"

BUNNY: "Then we're same"

FIX: "How so?"

(The bunny, hugging FIX)

BUNNY: "'Cuz you are boodif'ul, too"

(FIX, playing with the bunny)

"The little rabbit brought such joy to me, and I was her world. I convinced myself that keeping her wasn't selfish or wrong. so far as I was concerned, we were family"

(The bunny asleep on FIX's chest, as he pets her)

"Even so, something told me not to name her, and I had her call me by name"

(FIX with bunny backpack, pawing through snow)

"Winter came"

(FIX, reacting to a loud sound from something near by)

"And with the winter came its usual hardships"

(A mother deer, freaking out as her fawn is shown, choking)

FIX: "What's going on!?"

DOE: "A pinecone! He's choking!"

(FIX reaches into the fawn's mouth; FIX removes the pinecone)

(The doe comforts her fawn; FIX smiles; the baby bunny stirs from inside the basket backpack)

(FIX, having removed the backpack and setting it on the ground; the bunny ears show through the top as FIX speaks)

FIX: "Shh-shh-shh; it's all right; I'm here; it's all right"

DOE: "Is ...that a little rabbit?"
FIX: "Yes"

FAWN: "I wanna see! I wanna see!"

FIX: "Easy now!"

(The baby bunny and the deer face each other)

FIX: "...She doesn't see you"
BUNNY: "Fix?"

(The doe tilts her head, interestedly)

(FIX, comforting the bunny)

DOE: "She's blind?"

FIX: "I don't use that word. Anyway, it's more her eyes are late to open"

DOE: "I believe you care for her, but where are her parents?"
FIX: "Inasmuch as I know, I'm all she has"

(FIX and the bunny, going through forest)

BUNNY: "I hear'd words that weren't yours"
FIX: "That's right; there are other creatures in the world"

BUNNY: "Are bootif'ul?"
FIX: "Heh. In different ways, yes. But not every creature is good"

(Scene cuts to FIX, clawing deep into a tree trunk)

NARRATIVE: "That winter was particularly harsh. I scrapped bark from the trees to keep my rabbit fed. Other creatures were desperate, too"

(Enter three other foxes: RED, SILVER and SMOKE)

REDFOX: "What ya got in the basket, there"
FIX: "What's it to you?"

REDFOX: "C'mon, friend, we know you have a little rabbit in there"
SMOKEFOX: "Yeah! Word travels fast round here!"

(FIX positions himself as if ready to fight)

FIX: "Go away"

REDFOX: "Would you so begrudge your fellow fox such a tiny morsel?"
SMOKEFOX: "We don't like trouble, but we will teach a lesson if we have to"

(The fox trio look up, as something appears suddenly before them)

(A large *buck deer stands behind FIX, staring down at the fox trio)

*no antlers

BUCK: "Is there a problem here?"

REDFOX: "This isn't an affair of yours, Buck"
SMOKEFOX: "Yeah, mind your business!"

BUCK: "The basket fox IS my business; I've come for him"

REDFOX: "We're in the middle of something here"
SMOKEFOX: "Yeah, your friend has something we want"

(BUCK lowers his head to glare at the fox trio, almost looking them at eye level)

BUCK: "I know, and if you take it, I'm gonna want YOU, fox!"

(The fox trio backs off, retreating into the woods)

(BUCK and FIX face each other)

BUCK: "That was my fawn you saved; I wanted to thank you for your kindness"
FIX: "You're most welcome. and I must thank you, for helping me just now"

BUCK: "Right. About your little one---why have you not brought her to the rabbit warren?"

FIX: "..."

BUCK: "This winter has been especially harsh, and will continue as such. Your rabbit is more likely to survive among her own kind; they'll know how to take proper care of her"

FIX: "We're doing fine"

BUCK: "Really? What would you have done had I not appeared just now?
...Listen, I know none of this is my concern, but if you truly love the rabbit, you will return her to her kind"

FIX: "I ...I know. Tomorrow; tomorrow I will"

BUCK: "Your love is patient and kind, and your love protects. But take care that doesn't become proud or self-seeking, at least for her sake"

(Scene cuts to inside the burrow)

FIX: "Remember when I told you there are other creatures in the world?"
BUNNY: "Uh-huh! I um'times hear other words from my bass'et"

FIX: "That's right. I think it would be good for you to know some other creatures. What do you say?"
BUNNY: "Other words scare me"

FIX: "I won't take you to anyone scary. Where you're going, there will be others will love and take care of you"
BUNNY: "More Fix?"

FIX: "Uh, not exactly"
BUNNY: "You say not every cree'dure is good"

FIX: "No; they're not"
BUNNY: "I stay with you, warm and safe"

FIX: "...Go to sleep, now"

(Scene cuts to the morning time, with FIX and his basket backpack, arriving at the rabbit warren)

FIX (thought): "All right; I can do this"

(FIX, waving peaceably to some large, male rabbits keeping watch)

BIGRABBIT: "What's your business, fox?"

FIX: "Oh, come now---you know me; I've *never brought harm to your kind"

*Fix's main source of meat comes in the form of frogs and fish from the water---he doesn't hunt the rabbits.
Because Fix lives near the warren, he is a familiar sight to the rabbits, albeit, they aren't friends.

BIGRABBIT: "Why are you here, Fix?"

(FIX, having placed the basket down; the ears of the baby bunny are shown, but she is afraid to come out)

FIX: "I found someone who belongs with you"

(The rabbits have a look at the baby bunny)

BIGRABBIT2: "You found her?"
FIX: "Yes, around autumn's end. She was barely alive"

BIGRABBIT: "That happens, sometimes"

BIGRABBIT (cont): "Her mother knew this little one, being blind and sick, wouldn't survive this hard winter, so---"

FIX: "She was abandoned?"
BIGRABBIT2: "We don't encourage it, Fix, but it happens sometimes, like we said"

(FIX notices other rabbits from the warren have come out to see what's happening"

FIX: "She isn't sick; she's just really small. Her eyes will open, and---"
BIGRABIT: "She's sick, Fix! ...Believe us"

(FIX puts the basket backpack back on, with the baby bunny still inside)

FIX (to the crowd): "I say she will live, if given care to. Of what opinion is her mother?"

(The crowd of rabbits look at one another)

FIX: "Does no one claim her?"

FIX (cont): "So, you're abandoning her again?"
BIGRABBIT2: "You're upsetting the females, Fix. Go; please!"

BIGRABBIT: "Go back to your burrow, Fix---and take her with you. Now!"

(FIX, walking away; looks back; continues his trek home)

"I was sure my rabbit would heal once winter past ...but we had to survive it first"

(FIX, with his backpack, caught among the fox trio)

REDFOX: "Well, well, looks like our friend's come back around"
SMOKEFOX: "Yeah, and bearing gifts"

SILVERFOX: "No Buck to save you this time, Fix"

FIX: "Why are you so greedy and hateful? Leave us alone, why don't you?"

REDFOX: "Why are you carrying a rabbit around? It's strange and we don't like it!"
SMOKEFOX: "Yeah, it's not good to play with your food"

FIX: "You've no reason to meddle in my affairs"

SILVERFOX: "We're in the midst of winter--it's all we can do to survive, and here you are taunting us with this rabbit!"

FIX: "Is that all? If it's food you want, I've a cache of dried fish in a basket under the big rock. Take it---take it all and leave us be!"

SILVERFOX: "No!"

(SILVERFOX reaches for FIX's backpack; FIX dodges and swipes at SILVERFOX's face with his hand-paw; FIX's claws slash SILVERFOX'S muzzle; some blood drops onto the snow)

(SILVERFOX prepares to attack; REDFOX extends his arm, stopping SILVERFOX)

REDFOX: "No; let it go. If Fix doesn't want to share his rabbit, we shouldn't force him to"

SILVERFOX: "What are you saying!?"
REDFOX: "I'm saying we're not going to eat Fix's rabbit..."

(REDFOX gestures toward FIX)

REDFOX: "Fix will eat his rabbit"
REDFOX (cont): "You needn't share with us, Fix, but we needn't share with you, either.

(REDFOX, glaring at FIX)

REDFOX: "We're gonna take you to your burrow, and keep you there, until you eat that little rabbit"
SMOKEFOX: "Yeah! And we'll take the dry fish, too, since you were so kind to offer"

(The scene cuts to outside FIX's burrow, where the fox trio is shown helping themselves to FIX's food supply; FIX is seen with his head poking from the burrow's entrance)

REDFOX: "This fish is fantastic!"
SMOKEFOX: "Yeah! Too bad you can't have any, Fix!"

(FIX, recoiling into his burrow)

FIX (to self): "Well, then"

(FIX, looking over to the basket, in which the baby bunny is resting)

FIX (thinking): "They've plugged our escape tunnel; I'll have to dig a new one"

BUNNY: "Fix?"
FIX: "Hm?"

BUNNY: "I'm scared"
FIX: "It's all right; I'll dig us out"

(The baby bunny; taking hold of Fix's tail)

BUNNY: "Hold me?"

(FIX, holding the baby bunny; peaceful)

(Scene cuts to the following moring, outside FIX's burrow; REDFOX trades his shift with SMOKEFOX)

REDFOX: "It's about time. Don't let him escape"
SMOKEFOX: "I'm on it"

(Inside the burrow, FIX is digging a new tunnel)

SMOKEFOX (calling down from outside): "Is that digging I hear? Want I should come down and help ya, Fix?"

NARRATIVE (FIX): "A few days had gone by. I had nothing to eat, and the day before, I'd fed my rabbit the last of the roots that'd grown through the ceiling of my burrow"

(FIX, shown with the rabbit resting on his chest)

BUNNY: "Hungry"
FIX: "I know"

BUNNY: "Cold"
FIX: "Me, too"

BUNNY: "Will end?"
FIX: "Yes, and when it does, we'll never be cold or hungry again"

BUNNY: "No more bad?"
FIX: "No more ever. One day, you'll wake up to springtime; you'll feel the warm sunshine and cool breezes, and there'll be plants and flowers everywhere, just for you!"

BUNNY: "Will I see it?"
FIX: "Yeah! You'll see me, of course, and you'll see all the colors of the land!"

BUNNY: "What's a color?"
FIX: "You remember what 'beautiful' is, and that you feel it with your heart. Well, color is 'beautiful' for your eyes"

BUNNY: "Do we have a color?"
FIX: "We have several colors, as have many things in the world: the grass, the sky, the flowers and the butterflies"

BUNNY: "Btr'fy?"

FIX: "A little insect with wings of many colors. They can fly---they aren't stuck to the ground, so they can go anywhere they want. In fact, a butterfly led me to you"

BUNNY: "Where is btr'fy?"

(FIX smiles sheepishly, to himself)

FIX: "Go to sleep now"
BUNNY: "I hurt"

(A tear rolls from the baby bunny's eye)

FIX: "Me, too"

(FIX places the baby bunny to her basket; FIX ascends to the mouth of his burrow, whereat REDFOX is seen watching for him)

REDFOX: "Getting hungry, Fix?"

FIX: "You've had your fun; she'll die if I can't bring her food"

REDFOX: "It will die because you're a fox. You can't raise that rabbit, Fix. It's unnatural; how can you devote yourself to it?"

FIX: "You really are clueless..."

FIX: "You will mate next spring, and father your first kits. I promise, then, you'll remember what you've done here to me and mine, with understanding---and much regret, I swear it!"

FIX (cont): "This isn't about hunting and survival---what you're doing here is cruel and unfair. If we die here, and our souls turn to God for justice, what do you suppose God will demand from you? And how will He collect it?"

(FIX recoils into his burrow; REDFOX is dumbstruck)

(Scene cuts to FIX, asleep in his burrow---the bunny basket is beside him, with his tail somewhat around it)

BUCK (from outside): "Fix? Fix?"

(FIX, waking up)

BUCK (cont): "It's me: Buck"

(FIX, from the chest up, from the mouth of his burrow; outside stand BUCK and several male rabbits, one of which is carrying a fish)

BIGRABBIT2: "We're so sorry, Fix... Is-is she alive, yet?"

FIX: "Yes. Why're---"

BIGRABBIT2: "We were wrong, Fix; we've come for her, to care for so long as she lives"
BIGRABBIT3: "Please forgive us and let us help you, yes?"

(FIX, wearing the basket backpack, walking through the woods with Buck and the rabbits)

(Scene cuts to inside the rabbit warren, wherein the baby bunny is being fed by a female rabbit; FIX is present, along with BIGRABBIT2)

FIX: "Why the change of heart?"

BIGRABBIT2: "After you left, we asked around to find out who mother'd her. None of the does came forward, though all agreed it was horrible that the little one had not died right away---that you...)

(BIGRABBIT2 makes a knowing gesture to FIX)

FIX: "Didn't kill her"
BIGRABBIT2: "Bluntly, yes, but more so, that you were caring for and loving her. Sparing more words, you've shamed us ...but in a good way"

FEMALERABBIT (to FIX): "She has quite an appetite!"
FIX: "That she has"

FEMALERABBIT: "But she really is sick, Fix. Getting her through winter will be a test"
FIX: "How is she sick?"

FEMALERABBIT: "It's her insides; she lacks vitality. All we can do is try to love her"

FIX: "I don't need to try"
BIGRABBIT2: "We know, Fix, but you can't stay here; you'll need to leave her here with us"

FIX: "...She's not been without me before"
FEMALERABBIT: "We got this, Fix---don't worry"

(The female rabbits take the baby bunny away)

FIX: "When her eyes open, you'll call for me?"
BIGRABBIT2: "Yes; you have my word"

(Outside the burrow)

BUCK: "How do you feel?"
FIX: "Sick, yet relieved all the same"

(FIX and BUCK, walking together through the woods; FIX wears the empty backpack)

FIX: "...Was it Red?"
BUCK: "Yes. He found me and told me what he'd done, as I and the rabbits were on our way to you, in fact"

FIX: "I see; good"
BUCK: "The fox boys shan't bother you again"

(FIX and BUCK, having arrived at FIX's burrow)

BUCK: "You have a good heart, Fix. I would be honored to call you my friend"
FIX: "I'll endeavor to be worthy of that

(FIX thinks a moment)

FIX: "...Did I do the right thing?"

BUCK: "I believe that which we do for or against the smallest and weakest among us, we in turn do for the whole"

BUCK (cont): "You gave compassion to a helpless life you found on the forest floor---in no way is that bad thing. Certainly, the rabbits will grow from it"

FIX: "Thanks"

NARRATIVE: "And so I toughed out the winter as best I could. On my mind, always, were thoughts of my little rabbit, coupled with the anticipation of spring, where-when I hoped to see her again"

"When spring finally came, I observed my friend the rabbit guard, coming forth. The sight of him filled my heart with gladness and fear both"

(FIX, nervous)

FIX: "Have... Is..."
BIGRABBIT2 (smiling): "She's waiting to see you, Fix, in the meadow now. Come!"

(Sequential: the bunny in profile, *smiling amid the flowers; A gentle breeze blows from behind her, pushing her ears slightly forward; The breeze stops, and her ears return to their original position)

*her eyes are closed; they never opened

FIX: "Guess who!"

(The bunny feels Fix's muzzle)

(FIX and the bunny hug; FIX has a tear in his eye)

NARRATIVE: "Her eyes had not opened, and she was so very small, yet---I hurt for her, in retrospect, but the joy I felt in that moment overtook all other feelings"

(Scenes of FIX and the bunny, playing together in the meadow)

(FIX and the bunny, resting together under a tree)

BUNNY: "Fix, what is my name?"
FIX: "Oh? ...What name would you like?"

BUNNY: "Something that's beautiful, to you"
FIX: "...I would call you 'Blossom', for the flower is beautiful.

BLOSSOM: "And butterflies like to land on them"
FIX: "'Btr'fy!"
BLOSSOM: "Ha-ha! Yeah!"
BLOSSOM: "...I like my name"

(BLOSSOM, showing signs of fatigue)

BLOSSOM: "I'm tired, Fix"

(FIX and BLOSSOM sit under the tree; FIX petting her under her ears)

BLOSSOM: "I think just about every mom in the warren adopted me; I didn't go without anything"

FIX: "I knew you'd be looked after, though I'm glad to hear it from you"

(FIX thinks a moment)

FIX: "I hope you know I didn't abandon you, Blossom. I wasn't able to---"
BLOSSOM: "I cried for want of you, but I never felt abandoned. Only that something was wrong. It was explained to me, when I could understand"

BLOSSOM (cont): "Besides, you left me something to remember you by"
FIX: "What's that?"

BLOSSOM: "You gave me eyes. Not the kind that can see physical objects, as such, but the kind that can distinguish real love and concern from the other---like the kind shown by those fussy moms!"

FIX (smiling): "Heh! What's with all this sentimental stuff, hm?"

(FIX and BLOSSOM, rubbing noses)

BLOSSOM: "I want you to know I love you"
FIX: "And I, you"

(The two continue to sit quietly under the tree; A butterfly lands on the tip of BLOSSOM's ear)

BLOSSOM: "It's like you said: one day I'll wake up to springtime, and we'll be together in the meadow"
FIX: You remembered that?"

BLOSSOM: "Mhm ...and I do *see it, Fix"
FIX: "What do you see?"

*her eyes remained closed

(BLOSSOM is still for a moment)

BLOSSOM: "...I see the colors"

(The butterfly flitters away)

NARRATIVE: "I didn't look; I knew she was gone. I just sat there a while, going over our time together in my mind"

(The scene returns to the present day, with FIX and GINGER)

FIX: "I think these butterflies have always been here, I just seem to notice them more ...and considering my color, the butterflies probably mistake me for a poppy"

(GINGER, looking coyly at FIX)

FIX: "What are you thinking about?"
GINGER: "I think... I think you're the type a lady fox would love to spend her life with"

GINGER (cont): "...But I wouldn't be so lucky"
FIX: "Why do you think in this way?"

GINGER: "You know what they say about something that seems too good to be true. I don't even know you, but I feel if we were together, I could trust you with my life"

GINGER (cont): "I don't think I'd have rescued little Blossom, and yet, I'm a vixen who wants to raise kits! I don't deserve them, especially yours!"

FIX: "Hey! Don't say that! We're both young yet---we don't know our full potential or who we really are yet. We're obliged to make mistakes, to learn from them, and grow from the accounts and stories of others"

FIX: "Don't be so hard on yourself; we've both got a long way to go"

(FIX and GINGER hug)

GINGER: "Be my friend, Fix?"
FIX: "Yes"

-END

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Published: 4 years, 11 months ago

Rating: General

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