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After the big disaster and Pawbert's attempted murders, after his last maniacal statement where he clarified that he would be a real Lynxlie, they were arrested. Pawbert fell unconscious after the blow to the head that one of the police officers gave him, Gary took charge of taking him away and the rest of the police arrived along with the Paparazzis, everything seemed to be getting better for Gary, Nicky, and Judy. Pawbert slowly woke up dazed, surrounded by the Paparazzis, immobilized by Gary, he started to panic and tried to struggle, but it was useless,he stopped trying not long after, after his mini adrenaline rush upon noticing the scene where he was. He noticed how destroyed he felt, his whole body hurt, his head ached horribly, he felt nauseous, he didn't know if it was from the headache or the anxiety. When more police arrived with the rest of the Lynxlie family, Pawbert couldn't help but shudder when he noticed his father's presence. Gary handed him over, he was going to say something but the press started to overwhelm him with questions, so he could no longer see Pawbert.
Pawbert, on the other hand, was thrown roughly into the back of the police van. After the shove, Pawbert lost his balance when he felt a sharp pain in his leg with which he tried to hold himself up, falling headlong. He couldn't put his hands out to break the fall since he was handcuffed with his hands behind his back,dazed by the fall, he turned to look toward where he heard complaints and curses; it was his father. Pawbert felt a jolt of fear that made him ignore his pain to try to get up as quickly and as best as he could, not in time to prevent his father from seeing him thrown on the floor of the van trying to get back upright,he gave him a quick look full of disgust, but returned to his fury against the police officers who were pushing him and his two other older siblings into the van, while Milton continued and Pawbert took the opportunity to sit weakly on the bench inside, as far away as possible, cornered with his head bowed, he just wanted to disappear, a couple of police officers changed the position of the handcuffs to the front for him,and his family; after Milton's last threat, the van started moving and Milton sat down due to the sudden movement. The twins were stunned by the shock of the situation, Milton was with his arms crossed, mentally trying not to kill Pawbert right there and then
Pawbert tried to hold back his tears as best he could, but even so his eyes were glassy and there were a couple of tears in the corners of his eyes, he couldn't stand the pain in his body, and the tension in the place felt worse than his physical pain, on the bumps and sharp turns, since there were no seatbelts, they had to steady themselves however they could. Pawbert almost fell during a particularly sharp turn, planting his feet to hold himself up, feeling that infernal pain again, letting out a repressed whimper, no one even turned to look at him, talking wasn't an option, but his chest hurt, and he felt a tightness in it , with a painful knot in his throat he wanted to explain to his father everything he had done to try to earn his approval. His voice seemed to come out without permission
"D-Dad?.." - he got scared after his own words, that slipped out on its own and he instantly regretted it, Milton looked at him with rage, and lunged at him. His siblings just watched the scene, without interrupting or saying anything, although they also looked scared by their father's reaction, Milton wrapped his hands around Pawbert's neck, depriving him of air with an aggressive and painful grip.
"It's all your fault! I knew I should have done something about you before, I knew you were going to screw it up someday being the damn idiot that you are, I don't know why I didn't drug you and lock you up at home so you would stop being a disgrace to this family, you never belonged to the family!"
Pawbert listened to his father's words full of fury and venom while he instinctively tried to remove his hands from his neck and get air, he started to cry, whether from the words or the lack of oxygen, he spoke weakly amid his father's outburst, it was obvious that his words were drowned out by his father's shuts
"D-Dad.. p-please, stop.." - Pawbert was starting to see blurry, while he kicked under his father's grip, both on the floor of the van, Pawbert's resistance began to falter, his movements slowing down.
The van stopped abruptly and they opened the van door in the same way, noticing the commotion that was happening, a big, bulky leopard policeman forcibly removed Milton who was on top of Pawbert who was on the verge of unconsciousness and, the moment Milton took his hands off his neck, he took big desperate gasps of air, coughing with ragged breathing and tears in his eyes, his chest hurt with every breath, but the need for oxygen was greater than the pain, he put his hands on his neck which hurt terribly, while he was trying to catch his lost breath, they took his father and siblings down first, they had been relatively kind to leave him for last, although they didn't give him enough time to recover, he was still breathing heavily but the leopard grabbed him by the shirt and lifted him to make him stand up. Pawbert felt weak, he made his best effort to stay on his feet, although his body and legs were noticeably trembling, the leopard gave him a small push forward signaling him to move out of the van, he came out with trembling steps noticing where they were, of course they were going straight to prison, but even so he couldn't help but shudder at actually being there, several large police officers of different species were there to escort them inside the prison.
-"Oh hoho, look who we have here, the Lynxlies, oh dear, I didn't know we would have such special guests today" - the leopard said with fake concern in an act of bragging.
"Wow, Milton right?, I hope you like our facilities" - he said while making Milton walk and giving him a strong pat on the back that echoed in the place. He only made a slight grimace of pain but his fury was more evident - "Hey!, don't touch me, idiot!"-
The leopard merely laughed at this before turning to the twins, starting with Kitty.
“Good afternoon, miss. I'm terribly sorry that we have to ruin your outfit with our humble orange facility uniforms, but I don't think it's that big of a problem, is it?”
Kitty and Cattrick had already recovered from the initial shock of arriving at prison. Kitty had a short fuse and didn't take long to answer.
“Do you actually care?! Cut the crap!”
The leopard let out a mocking grin.
“Oh, I don't know if you're aware, but foul language sounds much more unpleasant coming from a young lady. I'd appreciate it if you refrained from using such obscenities.”
Kitty had dealt with guys like this before. She knew that playing his game would only satisfy him, so she bit her tongue and stayed silent rather than continue the argument.
The leopard then turned to Cattrick, who felt powerless and wanted to defend both his sister and his father. However, he remained silent when the officer stepped closer to him. He looked away with an audible click of his teeth.
The leopard continued,
“It seems you are intelligent after all. I'm glad you know your place. That'll help you with your future problems here. You know when not to get involved, especially when you've already lost the battle.”
He gave him a hard slap on the back, just as he had done to Milton, then walked toward Pawbert, who was standing at the very back, farther away than everyone else.
-"Pawbert, right? The smallest of the Lynxlies, the one who's never talked about at important events. Wow, who would have thought someone so quiet would cause such a ruckus," -said the leopard with annoyance at the end of his tone, he knew perfectly well what this little bastard had done. What bothered him the most was knowing that he had been about to murder two of his fellow officers, and not just anyone, it was the damn Judy Hoppe and Nick Wilde, he put his arm around his shoulders as a friendly gesture, or at least disguised as one, Pawbert let out a small gasp at the intrusion, especially because it was very close to his neck, which was still sore, and he leaned on him dropping a lot of his weight, which only intensified his sharp pain in the leg, he just lowered his gaze and his ears and slouching, without saying a single word
"Bahahaha, come on, why don't you tell us how you made all that mess by yourself? I heard there were 4 animals, you don't look like someone who would do that, but I guess you like to take advantage of animals smaller than you... I'd like you to try it with me" - the leopard pulled him against himself in a kind of forced and strong hug, Pawbert tried to get him off without success, he had no strength left and the guy was much bigger and stronger than him. In his mind he kept repeating to himself that he deserved all that suffering, he knew it was like that, he wouldn't justify himself for his actions, the attempt for approval blinded him, or rather, desensitized him to the atrocious actions he was committing. He would be lying if he said it didn't hurt to leave Gary out in the cold to his fate since he was the closest to a friend he had ever had, although, in his irrational state at the moment he didn't see it fruitful to get carried away by that feeling for a snake he had met 2 days ago, compared to having been with his family his whole life. He came out of his thoughts when he felt the pain in his body again, the rough "hug" squeezed his already sore torso, he felt again that he couldn't breathe well, and he remembered what had just happened with his father, his survival instinct activated out of nowhere and faced with the pain and the memory, he began to writhe more desperately, with small gasps and whimpers, what Pawbert felt as an eternity had only been about 10 seconds, the leopard let go of him abruptly, surprising Pawbert who staggered, and he looked at him for a few seconds terrified. It terrified him to think that this guy would continue like this for his entire stay here, that he deserved this, but even so the idea scared him, the officer just gave one last laugh before continuing to escort them with the rest inside the facility for their process from civilian to inmate.
Once inside, they were put in a relatively large cell but full of other inmates waiting to be processed, they were all very cramped in there, the others were looking at them, some with disgust, others with surprise, with mockery and few with fear. Milton wanted to impose himself from the first moment there, he knew very well that these moments were crucial to determine the treatment they would have there, he had to impose himself. A bobcat was lying in the largest space on the cell bench, and Milton approached - "move aside, my children and I are going to sit" - Milton said with a deep and serious voice, the cat just laughed at this - "or what, grandpa? I don't see your name engraved here, and even if it was, I wouldn't give a shit" - Milton clicked his teeth and did remove him by force, he grabbed him by the shirt and slammed him against the floor, the rest stayed silent when they saw the scene, Milton may be old, but he was indeed strong, Pawbert froze at the scene, with an invisible pain that ran through his body when he heard the thud of the guy against the floor, he could see himself perfectly reflected in his two recent occasions, in the mansion in the reptile zone where he found his furious father, and in the van.
Milton took a seat and next to him the twins, Pawbert remained standing where he was, he knew there was no place for him there. Approximately 10 minutes later they were called and everyone in the cell was separated into groups of 3, males and females, they were taken to different places in their respective group, Pawbert was separated almost completely from his family, if it weren't for the fact that Cattrick was put in his group
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