#clyde refusing to acknowledge that it got found familied for roughly 700 words

[chaotic-fandom-hoarder]

Mom said it’s my turn on the writing

Police sirens are not abnormal to Clyde. It has gotten the cops called on it many times, often because someone would see it lurking on rooftops and call the police because they don’t know how else to react.

It’s never a big deal though, all it has to do is run until it’s out of sight and climb a tree or rooftop. It’s faster than most humans after all, and none of them ever look up.

But something’s off this time. It can’t explain why, but there’s something wrong. Something horribly wrong.

Clyde follows the sound of sirens and roaring engines. They usually only go this fast at night when the cops are after Clyde itself, but these ones are clearly not looking for it. These paths are starting to get familiar. The sounds lead it towards a familiar house. The cop cars halt directly outside… Alex’s house.

Oh hell no. Not happening.

Clyde runs, slinking just barely out of sight before jumping the fence and hauling across Alex’s backyard. It finds their bedroom window (the only one with a broken lock, Clyde has used this entrance many times to ask for a sandwich) and throws it open.

Clyde hurtles headfirst into the bedroom and starts shaking Alex, who is still in bed.

“Sandwich Man, wake up! Get up, come on!”

Alex blearily blinks themself awake, with the first thing they see being the six foot tall veldigun who is totally only doing this for practical reasons.

“Wha- Clyde, what’s going on?”

“They’re coming after you! We gotta go, now!”

“They- what?!?”

Someone started pounding at the front door before Alex could ask anything else. Their eyes widened, and they immediately jumped out of bed and beelined for the closet. They hurriedly pulled out a backpack, already looking full.

Clyde opens the window wider so that the human can get through, and Alex slings the bag onto their back.

Clyde slips through, Alex following close behind. They both break into a run, just as Clyde hears the sound of the front door being forced open.

It’s a sprint for their lives, both of them bolting before they get noticed. (Clyde has no stake in this, it’ll be fine either way, why does it even care about a human?- Not important.)

Hop the fence, across this field- there. A small thicket of trees, far enough away from anyone searching for a human. Leading the way, Clyde scrambles up one of the trees like a demented squirrel, tail flicking out to grab Alex by the backpack and pull them up alongside it.

Clyde settles onto a tree branch like a cat on a fencepost. Alex heaves themself up next to it, breathing heavily. They both sit up there, looking down at Alex’s house in the distance.

Or, is it Alex’s anymore? There has to be at least four cop cars out there by now, and Clyde can see the figures of police officers scoping around the outside. They’re probably inside by now too.

Clyde chuckles breathlessly.

“Well! That was something!” Clyde grins, slipping back into the unaffected-veldigun persona. “What did you even do to get them to-“ Clyde trails off, smile slipping away again.

Alex isn’t just breathing hard from the running, they’re shaking slightly, and- is that a tear?

Shit, they’re crying.

“…my fucking house.” Alex wipes their eyes with their sleeve. “I- I didn’t even do anything, and they just…” They exhale, gripping the branch underneath them hard enough that their knuckles are white. “I knew something would happen at some point, but… still!” They say, staring at the house that they’re probably not going to be able to go back to.

Clyde sits next to them, frowning. It lifts up a hand, hesitates, and then very carefully pats them on the back, not touching any skin.

The pair is going to have to get moving soon, and find somewhere further from the house, where the police are less likely to search. They’re going to need to find out what to do next, where to go and if they have anyone else to turn to.

But for now, the human and the veldigun are sitting on a tree branch, watching the red and blue lights below.