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#####Two weeks had passed since the birth of Amaranth and Kable, and Vigilante had been keeping himself busy. He wanted to go visit his friend and her children, but he feared that their father, who had seemed so irritated with him when he had been helping Ayita through the process, would not appreciate his presence. Leroy did not scare him in the least, and under normal circumstances, he would have gladly ignored any problems Leroy had with him. However, things were different now. The house had two very young lives within, and he did not want the tensions between Leroy and himself to reach Ayita once more. She did not deserve dealing with the black and white male's apparent problems with the brown mutt, and because he did not trust Leroy to happily accept him, he had allowed some time to pass so as to not stress his friend at all. She was already dealing with enough things, and stress did not need to be added to that.
#####He believed that two weeks was certainly enough time for Leroy to get over his issues, so Vigilante trotted swiftly in the direction of their home, hoping that Ayita would be nearby. Just as he had done when his sister had become a new mother, he had spent the morning hunting, finding the largest rabbit he thought he would find in the area. It had been an easy catch for him, and to even it out, he had also found a smaller one. Both hung from his jaws now, a gift for Ayita (and subsequently the puppies), and also Leroy, if he was home and if he would not take offense to someone else providing for the woman. If not, both rabbits would be for her, and if she only chose to eat one, then the second could easily be stored for later for a few days. It probably would not go uneaten, as she was now providing for herself and the two pups she had birthed. Truthfully, he was also proud that he had decided to hunt for her. She was his close friend, and he had told her that he would help her with anything, including food and nutritional needs.
#####It was mildly disappointing that he could not immediately see Ayita or the puppies outside, but it was not surprising. The temperatures were beginning to fall from when he had first arrived in the area, yet another sign of the changing seasons. Approaching the door, he gently placed the two rabbits on the ground in front of his feet. "Ayita, are you home? I thought I might come and visit, and I brought you dinner," he added as an afterthought. He knew he did not need a bribe to visit his friend, but he wanted to surprise her with the rabbits anyway. He could not tell if anyone was home, but he hoped that she was inside with her children. At the very least, he would settle for Leroy answering the door so that he could give him the rabbits for Ayita. Either way, they would be given to her in some way, even if he had to leave them inside the door for her to find when she returned home. He could tell her another time, then, that he had brought them.