#Pulchinella (Lies of P)

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Wandering Thoughts (Fanfic)

A new chapter of my Lies of p Fanfic series (´ ω `♡)

Things were going better each day, the bond between father and son was growing closer, Geppetto was trying his best to be the father that Pinocchio deserved.

He taught him about more things, taught him about how to socialize better with people, taught him about math, it was boring but basic math is essential to daily life, and it's not as if his father was teaching calculous; Pinocchio might have been good at reading but not so much at writing, his grammar was okay but his handwriting was atrocious.

A bit of history a bit of geography.

Venigni tried to teach him about his weird… invention things, sure, he knew the encryption device but he did the work and Pinocchio just read the results. Out of the many strange things Venigni was eager to teach him, he mostly understood some stuff about architecture, the rest… well he just nodded along to make him happy.

Although he had learned plenty about using weapons, he still wanted to know more, besides, it made Eugénie very happy to teach him, he was surprised about how so much more could be learned.

Lady Antonia gave him piano lessons, those moments when they played music together, it made him feel joyful, and lucky to be by her side, and Lady Antonia felt much the same.

He could tell she was happier now, he also noticed people were no longer being rude to Polendina and Pulchinella, he talked with them sometimes. He wanted to know if Polendina ever confessed his feelings to Lady Antonia, but that would be really awkward, Polendina had lots of mixed feelings about it the last time they spoke, and he thought that if he did, he would sure tell him about it and how things went.

One day he found himself at Hotel Krat, before leaving he searched for the cat that had always been there, earning his trust was something Pinocchio was proud of, he looked around to pet the kitty, he found the creature on top of some books in a desk.

As he carried and petted it, he noticed the title of the book stacked on top.

“Biology and Anatomy: Chapter I”

He hadn’t learned anything about that yet.

After returning home, he decided to ask his father about it.

“Father, am I going to learn about Biology and Anatomy?”

Geppetto was working, writing about some observations, now that puppets were considered to be accepted, he was planning on helping build more, these puppets no longer had Ergo, therefore their construction was more tricky, but he couldn’t let what happened before happen again, Ergo collecting was a mistake that shouldn´t be repeated, especially with how Ergo is collected.

Geppetto suddenly paused, with a few seconds of silence, that was odd.

“Why yes… I’m just going to teach it to you later”

“Oh, okay, later when?”

“Right now I’m pretty busy with this project so probably later, plus there are other… important things to learn so don’t worry about it”

He decided to drop the subject, he decided to go outside and sit by a big pinecone tree that was next to the house, twilight was just about to start and he decided to gaze at the sky. Yet he couldn’t quite shake a few questions on his mind.

“Gemini do you know anything about anatomy or biology?”

Gemini lay on the ground next to him in his cage. “Not much buddy, I guess I know that women and men are sorta different, but not too different, I don’t know how bones work, or organs work or how it works in general actually just that things are there”

Well, I have a heart, not like the human heart but I have one. “Why was father acting so weird about it?”

“I don’t know, I guess it could be embarrassing.”

“Embarrassing? Why?”

“Pinocchio maybe it's not the best for me to say, Master Geppetto is the one that actually knows about it”

Both of them just keep looking at the sky. Pinocchio’s tough wandering in his mind.

Men and women are different… kids must be kind of different too, more different, babies don’t look like older kids, and older kids don’t look like teens.

He noticed women’s chests were bigger than men's.

Men tended to be taller, and he heard that was attractive, taller women must be scary because he overheard a conversation with hotel guests about some tall woman stepping on others.

“Hello, earth to puppet boy? Can you listen to me?”

He quickly stopped gazing at the sky, to his surprise, the Red Fox and the Black Cat were in front of him.

“We’ve come to see you old friend, how have things been? no longer in constant danger and all.” The black Cat said.

“Great we’ve been great” Gemini answered, some hostility in his tone, he clearly didn’t like the duo, and he couldn’t understand how Pinocchio was still friends with them, but that boy was still too trusting.

“Glad to hear, glad to hear, we are in a big debt to you after all, you restored my brother’s sight and you have helped us out in more ways than that” the Red Fox always had an elegance in her words.

“I just wanted to help, it was nothing!” Pinocchio grinned happily, Gemini started to see that without all that bloodshed and monsters, he was way more cheerful and calm than before.

“Maybe it was nothing to you, but it has meant the world to us, we have come to give you a much-deserved reward.” The Red Fox pulled out a tiny wrapped box, with a red ribbon on top.

Pinocchio couldn’t wait, and unwrapped it at once, inside, there was a keychain, a felted red fox, next to a black cat, both stuck together by their hands, they both seemed to be connected by some sort of magnet, as when you separated them, they went back to each other.

“Not much, not something spectacular, but you seem like the type to like this stuff, we figured we could give you something to remember us by” The Black cat got closer to Pinocchio and patted his head.

Gemini could tell it was condescending but Pinocchio couldn’t. How could he be so competent and reliable on his own but when it came to them would always fall for their dumb tricks?

“What was on your mind that you couldn’t tell we were next to you puppet boy?” The Red Fox was curious, their detailed attire and the distinctive mask were something most could not ignore.

“Just thinking about Biology”

“Ah biology, you must be eager to learn about that sort of stuff” The Black cat spoke, and then he had an idea.

He said something to Pinocchio, something secret.

“You should ask your father about that, I bet he would be eager to tell you!” The Black cat smiled.

“Well it is getting late, and we should go, goodbye boy, perhaps our paths might cross again” The Red Fox knew it was time to go, although she would have liked to stay a little more, she saw that from the house, Geppetto was approaching them and he certainly wasn’t fond of them, she could not blame him if she hated her and her brother.

As they both left, she gave a small punch at the back of her dear brother’s head. “Ow, what was that for?!”.

“Brother you are very rude you know that?”

Geppetto approached his son and Gemini.

“Are you alright? Those Stalkers, they didn’t hurt you, or threaten you? Or did anything bad at all?”

“No, of course, not, they are like sort of my friends”

“Sort of?”

“Well they did kidnapped you”

“And they called you a dumbass”

Thank you, Gemini for the lovely reminder. You are gonna go to the clock again, Pinocchio schemed on his mind.

“But they aren’t evil, they even gave me this cute gift”

“Please, be careful around them, I understand why in tough times, people make harmful decisions, and I can’t control who you speak to and your friends, but just… just don’t let them be mean to you again, it’s okay to walk away from friendships”

“Yes Father”

Back home, Geppetto served himself something to drink, suddenly Pinocchio remembered what he had been told.

“Father, where do babies come from?”

Geppetto chocked on his drink.