“What’s going on?” Isabella looks up at her boyfriend, tears still in her eyes.
Phineas sits down next to her gently, and she starts talking, so quiet that Phineas can barely hear her. “Pinky… he volunteered to be assigned to Zon Joshsyn as her third nemesis assignment. He vanished, and Perry just told me that they’ve heard that she had a lava pit at that time.” She starts sobbing again, and Perry’s eyes flash with hatred. He puts his hand on Isabella’s knee comfortingly.
“Krrrr.” It’s so sad, the way he chatters, that Phineas looks at him. The anger in his eyes is giving way to grief, then determination.
“No, Perry!” Phineas can tell what the platypus wants to do, and he doesn’t like it.
Perry looks at him, the determination in his eyes fading to frustration. “Krrr.” I can’t anyway, Phineas… I promised Pinky that if something ever happened to him, I would take care of Isabella.
“Perry, I really don’t speak platypus.” Phineas hugs Isabella. “Izzy… I don’t know what it’s like to have your pet die on a mission, to never know for sure… but I’m here for you.” Perry looks down at the floor sadly. He pulls out a notepad.
“Actually, Bucky was one of the founding agents of O.W.C.A. He was my mentor… he died on the way back from a dangerous mission in a thunderstorm. I couldn’t save him. I’m sorry.” Phineas feels Perry place the notepad on his knee. He looks down and reads the note.*
“Is that why you don’t like thunderstorms?” Perry nods. Phineas rubs his head affectionately.
Isabella sighs. Perry looks at her, and his eyes widen suddenly. He flinches as he puts in his translator. “I forgot… Pinky left you a whole bunch of stuff back at the agency. I didn’t want to give up on him by giving it to you right away, so I told Mono-gram to wait.” He almost said Monobrow, but stopped himself just in time.
“What?” Isabella stares at Perry.
He grins sheepishly back at her. “Every agent that lives with a family puts aside a portion of earnings, and buys presents every birthday and Christmas and saves them for when their owners are old enough to know, or when he or she dies. Speaking of which, I have presents and stuff for you guys too.”
(*I wrote a one shot about this. It’s in the Out Of Context list down below.)
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