Cecily Behind the Wheel
(July 21, 2013, 11:35am: Des Moines, IA)After dressing and packing, the young couple met the two adults by the string of vehicles. The badger and Liger were both bent over the hood of the old jeep looking at a map as they approached. Lilly turned to them as she heard the shuffles of paws behind her. "New plan again. I am sick of looking at freeways. We're going to crosscountry it for the next three hundred fifty miles. Only thing the old man is whining about is that changes our four hour drive into an eight hour excursion. With stops that puts us at the apartment at about ten pm." She looked between the two teens for a moment, "So... you want boring freeway or scenic country roads?"Holding up the small silver case she had secreted into the hotel last night Daisy smiled at the Liger as she pointed to Cecily and said, " ask her, she's driving today not me."Cecily looked up at her girlfriend suprised, "If I'm driving you have to take the pictures.""Hold on. before anyone does any driving have we seen if everything adjusts right?" Lilly asked."The seat goes up high enough with the spacer in the trunk that she can see clearly," Daisy said as she opened the case, holding it across her paws, " and with these in place she can reach the pedals without any problem at all."The liger looked down at Cecily and asked, "You think you can drive that junk pile attached to the trailer? If you really want we can swap out the Camaro with the deathtrap.""Jesus lilly, get off my car, just because it's not a shitty chevy that doesn't make it a crap heap," the moose said defensively.Daisy felt a shiver run through the tail that was wrapped around her leg as the mouse looked over at the candy apple red classic chained down to the trailer. "Um... Can I... Will Daisy be with me?"Lilly looked over at the moose with a smile, "Rock, Paper, Scissors for who drives the truck?""No,"
Cecily interrupted, "I'm riding with Daisy.""Fine then, Which one do you want to drive?" Lilly asked with a quick glance to the Camaro. "It's all plains from here to Chicago, so no hills or anything big like what you've been driving on, just a lot of... open... long... straight stretches of road with no cops."The small mouse bounced in place as she looked back and forth between the two cars. "I... um..." she started nibbling on her fingers as she contemplated the pros and cons of each sports car, before looking up at Daisy for an answer.Smiling down at the mouse, Daisy said, " which over one you want Sisy, I'm just the photo bug this time, if you're more comfortable driving Lilly's Camaro then go for it, it's your choice sweetcheeks."Cecily pointed at the Camaro as Daisy watched the liger smile broadly. "Ok then, Drop that trailer, and We'll push this beast off it's perch. Detlev, you get in to break once she's free of the trailer." "Vhy not just Drive it off?" The Badger asked a moment before say, "Nevermint." And climbed up into the driver seat of the car as Lilly unchained and rocked it to roll down the ramps.As Daisy and Cecily finished unhooking the trailer from the Charger Lilly looked over at them and said, "The Willie will take the trailer, you pull that thing up here so I can secure it."As Daisy pulled her car up the rams to the trailer and Detlev moved to hooke Daisy's belongings to the old jeep Cecily ran to the driver side of the Camaro and started moving things inside as she stood by the door. As all the vehicles were in their new locations and Lilly secured the Charger to the trailer, Daisy watched as the little mouse took the time adjusting all the mirrors from the driver seat of the Camaro, and wavered her over.Daisy walked over to the passengers side of the Camaro, settling herself in as she asked her girlfriend, "so where's your camera? Gonna need that to take any pictures." The mouse pointed at the backpack in the rear seat and said, "It's in there, but could you pull that mirror in about an inch?"Adjusting the mirror Daisy sat back in the seat as Cecily checked it's new position, "how's that ?"Cecily looked across all the mirrors and touched every vital contol as she said, "Perfect." She looked over at the Moose with a smile and asked, "you ready?""Hold on a sec," the moose responded as she turned to grab the backpack and pull it into her lap, fastening her seat belt as she settled in again, "okay hot stuff, ready when you are."Cecily took a deep breath as she pressed in the brake and clutch and put her paw on the key. She closed her eyes for a moment as if praying before she turned the ignition. As the engine roared to life under the hood the power rumbled through the unibody and sub-frame into the seats as if a stampede of feral horses were just let loose. Slowly the mouse let out her lead breath as she leaned back into the seat for a moment. She opened her eyes and taped a few of the gages causing the needles to jump, before one paw moved to rest on the shifter's knob. She shifted it smoothly into first, the beast rock as she let the clutch out and gave it a little gas, and let it start rolling in line behind the Willie and Daisy's trailer.A squeak came from a small handled two way radio the sat on the dash [Okey Ladies, Here's the rules of the road for this trip. Speed limit in all the towns, Always use your turn signals, and you must be visible to either Detlev or myself. Everything else is fair game, the beast needs to get her pistons pumping, she sat for two weeks while we were on the cruise.]Cecily tilted her head toward the small radio as she looked at Daisy as she said, "Free hands do the talking."Taking the small radio in her paw Daisy looked at the mouse confused for a moment before asking,"okay so what am I supposed to say?"Cecily looked over at her for a moment as the car came to a stop. "She didn't start off with any military educate so, um... just talk, like on the phone I guess.""Understood LIlly, I'll keep an eye on her, but I'm sure you'll let us know if we're pushing it any," the moose answered. "Well that sounded kind of stupid.""It sounded fine to me," the small mouse said as she followed the train of vehicles with trailers as they moved through the town. "So um, you want see how fast it can go when we yout out of town?""Up to you sweet cakes, you're the one driving, just stay in sight of the convoy so we don't have a liger wanting to rip ,my ears off," Daisy answered as she snapped pictures of Des Moine as they passed through."Lilly said that this is a 383 CID performance tuned crate engine. but the added weight of the frame joiners and crossmembers cut into the overall speed," Cecily spoke with a little excitement in her voice, "Lilly opened it up on I-80 for about sixty miles out in the open. it'll still peg out the speedometer.""Frame joiners and crossmembers? With a 383 in it? Okay the joiners I can see, that engine would twist the unibody easy enough. But the cross members sounds a little like overkill to me," the moose said as she looked at the side of her girlfriends head."I don't know," Cecily said, "I don't really know that much about it. You'd have to ask Lilly. Until a few weeks ago I didn't think I would be driving anything. Most of what I know Lilly and Alex told me, and most of that was more about driving then how they work.""That's okay Sisy, not many girls are gear heads. I probably wouldn't be but a guy I dated for a while was and we used to go to Pikes Peak for the races. When I bought the Charger he had it for nearly three months working it over before I even got to drive it. I loved that car when I first saw it, couldn't believe a dealer had on in the orange that I wanted. But it sounds like maybe Lilly and Alex and I will have something to talk about other than my cute, sexy girlfriend all the time," Daisy smiled broadly at the mouse as she blushed slightly at her girlfriends tease.The small mouse shrugged as she said, "They spend more time arguing than talking about cars. Alex likes the latest top of the line with all the options, while Lilly says she would rather have something she doesn't have to dis assemble to change the oil filter. Hank just keeps his truck running.""What's the story with Hank? The guy looks like a hillbilly but seems to be
more crazy than backwards. Does he ever wear anything this isn't overalls?" she asked as she went back to snapping pictures as they neared the outer edge of the city."Um... Hank was put out of the army for PTSD after they nearly got blown up. He... um... didn't do well for years after. But he's doing better now. The overalls think I think goes back to his growing up. He said him and his dad were displaced after Hurricane Katrina. He's really from Louisiana. Well, near there anyway. I think thats why he moved out into the mountains after Lilly left Oregon, it was more like where he grew up." Cecily's tone was a little somber as she spoke. "But once I poured out all his alcohol and he stopped drinking, he's doing a lot better. Even Susan thinks so, but she won't tell him that.""Susan? So him and Susan used to be a thing or what?" the moose girl asked, the camera in her paw all but forgotten as she learned a little about the people she would soon be living with."I guess, they don't talk about that much, but she harps on him a lot. I can kind of understand why. She spent the last four years as his only connection to anything off the mountain." The mouse's eyes flashed toward the moose for a moment as the small houses gave way to open fields. Her paw moved to rest on the shifter. A few moments later the small radio sparked to life in Daisy's lap as Lilly's voice came across [Clear.] A smiled rolled across Cecily's muzzle as she heard the single word. Daisy hear the clicking of the blinker as the car moved into the lane for oncoming traffic only seconds before it rocketed forward. The horses of the engine rumbled through their bodies as they listened to the transmission wind out before the swift clicking of the clutch and shifter transferred it into the next gear. The two teens were pressed tightly into the seats as the engine pushed them forward. The mouse continued the pattern the last gears before letting up on the accelerator and letting the beast slow as the caravan shrank to small silhouettes in the mirrors. As the the beast slowed the couped felt a shimmy roll through the car as Cecily said, "That didn't feel right.""Cocking her ear towards the hood of the Camaro, Daisy echoed her statement, "No it didn't feel right at all Sisy, keep it steady a minute," the moose said as she snatched up the small two-way radio in her lap, keying the talk button she asked, "Lilly, did you have any kind of problems with the car when you
parked it before the cruise?"[No. What's happening?] the liger asked, concern clear in her voice.{She shimmied when Sisy got off the accelerator, she's got it steady at 65 atm and it fine. I'm gonna have her punch it just a little and let it drop back down to see if it does it again, maybe I can tell more about where it's coming from if that's okay with you?", the moose said before waiting for the liger's reply.[I would ask if you heard anything odd, but that engine won't let you hear much more than it. Give it a go if she's up for it.] Cecily eased slowly onto the gas as the car accelerated smoothly. She watched from the corner of her eye for any directions from her girlfriend."Okay, hold it there for a second," the moose said as she rolled up her window, laying her head on the dashboard, pressing her ear to it firmly as she looked at her girlfriend. "Okay sweet cheeks, let off of it and be quiet for a second."As the car slowed Daisy felt a hard bump through the dash as the car shimmied for only a short moment while it slowed. As the car returned to the speed limit and Cecily eased onto the accelerator the moose felt the bump again with a metal on metal scraping sound just barely audible under the rumble of the engine."FUCK, pull it over Sisy as quick as you can, this thing is about to throw a piston from the sound of that. Don't get scared just get it to the shoulder as quick as you can," the moose directed her friend as she keyed the radio again. "Lilly, we're pulling over, it sounds like you're about to lose an engine up here."[Shit, don't tell me that. Pop it out of gear and cut the engine. Let it roll, I don't want you guys to have any trouble.]Cecily listened to and slipped the transmission out of gear, wiggling the shifter side to side to be sure. then she gently pressed on the break as she cut off the engine. She glanced over at her passenger for only a moment and asked., "What's wrong with it?""Hard to say without doing some preliminary checks, but
from the scraping and banging, it sounds like either a stretched rod, or a blown piston skirt. Either way the top end is gonna have to come off if she plans on trying to salvage the engine," the moose replied as she looked into her girlfriends eyes an odd blush coming to her cheeks. "Okay, I have to confess, the guy that tweaked my car really was a boyfriend, and we did... you know," she said as the blush deepened a bit more. "But the confession part is that he taught me a lot about cars and engines and how to hype them up without spending boatloads of money in the process. Well more like how to get the most bang for your money really. My... um, my Charger isn't exactly stock anymore. He and I did the work on it together and he paid for a lot of the parts because... well... reasons." Daisy looked over out the passengers side window trying to avoid her lovers eyes, the move pointless since the mouse saw the intense blush in her face with a glance at the window despite Daisy's attempt.As the car finally rolled to a stop on a wide section of the road shoulder, Cecily smiled at her girlfriend and asked, "What's more fun, the car or the reasons he was willing to pay for it? I think I want to hear more details on the reasons, I'll get to drive the car anyway."They sat in a shy awkward silence for a few moments before the sounds of the moving truck's approach brought an end to it. Cecily watched the side mirror as the liger dismounted the truck and approached the car. She rolled down her window only to see Lilly walk to the passenger side and look through the glass at the moose. She tapped on the windows and said, "Go get the Charger off and ready, Will push this back on the trailer and I'll look it over tomorrow after we get to the apartment.""Okay Lilly, I hope I'm wrong about it, but I wouldn't count on it. Jimmy was a bit of a flake, but he knew his shit when it comes to cars. If you need, or want, any help with it I'll be glad to lend a paw on it." As she finished her offer of help Daisy trotted back to the trailer behind the moving truck and began unfastening the chains and binders that held her car in place.Cecily jumped out of the camaro after removing the the extensions and ran to join Daisy at the trailer. "You need any help?" she asked as the moose round the car and set it free from it's bindings. "Um... I want hear more about the boyfriend."Blushing hotly she turned to look at the small mouse, "now why did I just know that was
coming," she said a she giggled happily. "Okay trail mix,, I'll make you a deal, as soon as we get the cars swapped out and we're back on the road... I'll tell you more about the boyfriend, deal?"After the Charger was off the trailer and the group managed to push the camaro back onto it with the jeep, Lilly looked at the two teens and said, "Okay, same rules on my side. The car is Daisy's she has the final say on how you can drive it." She looked over at the moose and added, "before you got you have to pop that hood and show me what's under it and check all the levels just so I'm happy."Daisy smiled to herself a she reached into the drivers side window pulling the hood release lever and pressing the relocated trunk release button beside it. "Do me a favor and grab us a couple of those blue rags on the left side of the truck would you Sisy, so we can check the oil and tranny fluid?" As she passed the small mouse she smiled down at her with a wink as she walked to the front of the vehicle, releasing the safety catch on the hood and raised it. To anyone that knew little about cars and engines everything looked completely normal. Daisy grinned knowing that a gear head, which the liger clearly was, would recognise the sight beneath the Chargers hood instantly. Tightly wedged into the confines of the unassuming sedans engine compartment was not the standard 219 cubic inch V-6 that most people opted for for it's increased mileage. Instead was what at first glance was it's bigger, more powerful 391 cubic inch V8 counterpart. Not a bad upgrade in and of itself which Daisy saw the liger appreciated as she glanced around the cramped space under the hood. Daisy nearly screed as she saw a grin form on the woman's muzzle, growing wider as she took more careful stock of what the moose girl had under the slightly scooped hood that belied the powerplant it held hidden underneath.As Cecily joined them, the blue shop towels in her paw, Daisy pulled out the oil dipstick, wiping it off before replacing it and pulling it out again to check the oil level, holding it out towards the liger for her to verify.Lilly Looked away from the engine and to the dipstick in the moose's paws before she leaned over the engine and said, "I guess i can let you drive this. So who put it together? This isn't common home shop work. There was some TLC put into this."Cecily looked up and said, "A 'boyfriend' did it to... I mean for her." Lilly snickered at the mouse's comment as she said, "Okay, automatic, passable. Ass load of programmable shit. Any predefined profiles or all on the spot adjustments?""Both actually, but most of the predefs will have to be redone once we're at the end of the line. They're all set for high altitude and will be way off, before we left home I set it up for variable altitude to let it take care of itself on the way down. Have it hooked up to a black box to save the changes it makes to use as a base line for the new settings." Finding even a sliver of common ground with the mother of her small lover made the mooses heartbeat rise, they would at least have something in common other than her daughter."After the girl showed her the transmission level and she personally checked the radiator reservoir she looked at the two. " Keep it on the pavement, We still have a long way to go." Then walked toward the U-haul as she wiped her paws with the blue rag.Cecily bounced a little as she sat in the driver seat and looked for how to make the needed adjustments to the mirrors and check her reach to all the controls. "Okay sweet cheeks praw your paws up a minute," the moose said as she crawled into the drivers side floorboard, the pedal extensions in her paws. "I'll get these on while you get the seat adjusted, controls are on the left side, first toggle is tilt angle, middle knob is the four way, up, down, forward, backward. The last toggle is the back angle." She fell silent for a few moments as she snapped the extensions in place, jiggling them firmly to be sure they were locked into place. "Okay sugar, get the seat in the right spot for you while I get in. Oh, yea, the outside mirrors, almost forgot. Power adjustment, controls are here," she said pointing down to the armrest on the drivers door, "just flip the switch for the one you want to adjust." As she closed the door and walked around Cecily made the final adjustments to the seat and mirrors by the time her girlfriend get into the passenger's side seat. "It's a lot like Alex's Corvette, but missing the clutch." She looked over at the moose and asked, "So... um... I don't have to shift? Lilly says that's one of the reasons people don't pay attention to what they are doing, because the car does it all for them." She looked over the
automatic shifter I just step on the break and put it in drive, right?" She asked as she pushed in the break and started the engine."Exactly right Sisy, but the reason so many people don't pay attention to what they're doing isn't because they drive an automatic, it's because they're idiots. Lilly does have a point in a way though. It does make it easier to drive a car without shifting it, but that's not a reason for people to get complacent and not drive the right way. Between you and me though I prefer a straight stick, but to get one I had to wait another four months and I was about to get my license so I wasn't about to wait that long."Cecily smiled as she followed the caravan back on to the road. "Don't Let hank hear that. he might steal it and do the conversion. He threatened to convert Alex's to an automatic once." As they drove Daisy say the mouse reach for the shifter several times before she pulled her paw back. "Okay, no clutch is just weird.""Mmhmm, it takes some getting used to," the moose said as she relaxed into the passengers seat. "Kind of like it does to be in this seat after driving for nearly a year, so if you hear me stomping the floorboard ignore it, it's habit and not me picking on you about your driving okay sweetlips?""Ok," the small mouse replied as she drove and slowly glanced over the the girl before she looked back at the road, "Now... um... what about the boy... that fixed up the car for you?""I haven't forgotten our deal, was just getting comfy first hot lips. Okay where to begin with him... name was Jimmy, well James but he prefered Jimmy. My age give or take a month,"Cecily broke in with a smile and giggle as she asked, "What was he packing, a magnum or a deranger?""Hmmm, not quite a magnum, but oh hell not no deranger sweet lips. Car or not I would have let him fuck Paul if that's all he had," the moose girl said as she burst out laughing."Oh my God did I just say that out loud? Oh wait, I actually told him that once... before he serviced me for the first time," she said as she poked lightly into the mouses side. Okay for real he was... about a 9 incher I guess, not bad in the sack either. He was good with cars but I was happy to let him tune me up too. The things he could do with that tongue of
his," she said as she shivered with the memories of their encounters. As she closed her eyes for a moment she added, "he was no trail mix though. Everything with him was straight up straight, that's why it ended between us. He just couldn't get over the... non standard equipment that came with the package."With a smirk on her muzzle Cecily offered, "Neither can I, It's like getting all the goods in one hot package." The small tail curled over the center console as the dropped into Daisy's lap, "You know what feels great and where all the.... mmmmm... sports are. And you have ... ooooo.... aahhh... um..." She trailed of trying to figure out how to phrase what she wanted to say. " And you're so soft and cuddly also. I'm glad he walked away from the best prize in the game. Now I get you all to myself.""I'm not so sure about the best prize part, I think I got a better prize than you did Sisy, I got a friend, and a lover, that doesn't see me as a freak." The moose herm said as she gripped the end of her lovers tail in her paw, brushing the tuft of fur at the tip over her cheek. "Now look who's not paying as much attention to what she's doing at the wheel, and I don't think it has anything to do with the car being an automatic does it?""My eyes are on the road, paws at two and ten. I'm maintaining my speed and distance inline with the trailer in front of me. And there is a long line of nothing the the rearview." She twitched her tail in the moose's paw as she added, "But if you do what I think you want to with that I might get distracted by the sounds in that seat.""I'm more worried about the distraction going on in your head at the moment girlfriend. Because your mind is exactly where this tail wants to be, in my panties and up my cunny. Sorry sweet cheeks, same rule as for the cell phone, not while you're driving... or while I am either. You and this," she trailed off a moment as she quickly stuffed the end of the mouse's tail in her mouth, giving it a few soft sucks before releasing it again, "wondrous tail could get us both into a lot of trouble. Besides, I'd much rather wait until you can enjoy it with me, you get the most adorable look on your face when you cum."The mouse glanced at her girlfriend as she scanned the mirrors. 'Well, Miss D.J., what do you have to listen to so I don't get distracted by the enchanting voice in the other seat?""In the car? That's easy, about anything you could want to listen to, XM radio, remote's above your head on the sun visor." As she spoke she reached over and retrieved the small remote for the in dash sound system, pressing the on and seek buttons at the same time. The satellite based receiver quickly finding a top 40 country station. " Nope none of that," Daisy said as she pressed the sek button again. The next station that tuned in was one that her brothers listened to frequently, "HELL TO THE FUCK NO" she nearly screamed as she hit seek again. the next station blasted grunge metal through the speakers as she looked over to her mouse lover and waited for the girls reaction.Without looking away from the road, the small mouse rattled off the band, song, album, and year with a smile on her muzzle. "What else you got?" Pressing the small remote into the mouses small paw she said, "what ever else you find on that thing, all the CDs are packed up with my shit in the trailer. Had them in the house to drown out that classic rock shit Ralph was listening to twenty four seven It got worse once he fell in love with Zoe, they would get on skype and sing to each other for hours."As the moose passed the mouse the remote she she held it up between her and the road to take a quick look at the buttons before hitting the seek button. As she drove she listened to song after song, station after station with what seemed an endless variety of genres and styles, from classical to the heaviest thrash bands. Her eye never left the road other than to scan the rear views. Daisy watched as the mouse drove and listened with a strange little air of contentment as the ever changing music poured into the car from the speakers, as if the sound itself, no matter how hard and pounding, or soft and lulling, was the most calming thing in her girlfriends small world.As the miles of concrete and asphalt slipped away behind them, Daisy's attention often on the calm, almost serene face of her girlfriend, she began to consider the implications of this new discovery about the small mouse that had stolen her heart in an instant. Her girlfriend loved her music, no matter what it was. She considered how she might use this little bit of a peek into what made her lover tick to help her even more with the panic attacks that plagued the girl constantly. It was worth a try, anything that would help her lover was worth a try...(July 21, 2013, 04:26pm: Rock Falls, IL)Daisy jerked with a start, at some point she must have dozed off as the music and the sound of the road had lulled her to dream land. She looked over to the small mouse at the wheel, the girls eyes as bright and cheerful as they had been for most of their drive. A tightness in her midsection gripped her for a moment before she rummaged around in the seat and found the small radio, keying it as she spoke. "Umm, hey lilly. Are we going straight through or stopping to eat?" she asked as her belly growled emptily.[We'll be stopping in Rock Falls shortly for food and gas. Should be about five to ten.] As the liger finished her alert to the upcoming stop, Cecily's stomach growled also. She glanced over at the moose with a smile, "How was your nap?""Lovely, I was dreaming about this really cute, super hot, sexy ass girl I saw on the cruise, and OH MY GOD the things she was doing to my body. DAMMMMNNNN that shit was good," the moose said grinning from ear to ear as she teased her girlfriend. "Just wish to hell I had gotten her number, I really want her to do some of that shit again." After a short pause she looked over to her girlfriend, "maybe you saw her, kind of short, brown fur, long tail that just looked like it could do amazing things to you. Cute, and I mean cute like you just want to eat her up cute. Nice little pair of jugs that were about a mouthful and damn the sexy ass on that girl.. nearly makes me cream my panties just thinking about her naked."With a blush and smile Cecily said, "I'm not sure, I was kind of distracted by the sexiest girl on the ship.""What? And you let her get away and hooked up with me instead? You're crazy girl, you should have grabbed that girl and held on for dear life. Shouldn't ever let a good one get away like that babe, they're too damn hard to find," Daisy said as she leaned over to her lover's ear and softly whispered, "and I know all about that, I just got lucky and found one worth keeping and I'm not about to let her go."Cecily followed the chain of cars into the truck stop near the interstate as the pulled to a stop in the RV/Trailer lot. Lilly walked over to the teens as they got out of the
charger and said, "We're about halfway for the distance we were planning on traveling today. We're going to take the interstate the rest of the way. Thats about two hours to Chicago from here. For now, food, bathrooms and gas. Everyone is on their own for now, I'm going to be in the arcade.""Okay, let's go ahead and gas up first, that way we can hit the bathroom and clean up a little before we eat Sisy?" the moose asked as she stretched her arms and legs out. Cecily looked up at Daisy, "That sounds good. Um... do you want to drive the rest of the way? After we leave here? I need a break from the last four hours.""Sure thing sweet cheeks, come on let's get the car switched back and gassed up so we can eat, I'm a starving moose and you're starting to look like good grazing to me," she teased her girlfriend with a smirk on her muzzle.Cecily blushed as she said, "That will be good, but I don't think we have time for you to graze and us to eat. I'm kind of hungry myself."Together the pair fueled and reset the Charger for the Moose to drive before they entered the small diner to eat. As they passed the WWII jeep they saw the badger stretched out in the center asleep. Cecily giggled as she said, "For an old retired man he can still sleep just about anywhere." "No kidding, I would be so stiff I could barely move if I slept like that. Come on moose treat, lets go get some food, since sweet and sexy mouse is off the menu today I'll have to find something else to nibble on," Daisy said as she held out her paw to her girlfriend. The small mouse taking the offered paw they walked into the diner together heading straight to the bathroom first. Other necessities, and a bit of cleaning up done, they found themselves a booth and looked over the simple menu of the truck stop diner. After the young couple had ordered and received their food The Liger came walking to their table and said, "Chew and swallow, you can worry about tasting it if it comes back up. I need to get the Old man off the road and into a good chair." A worried look crossed Cecily's face as she started shoveling the salad into her maw as fast as she could without choking.Daisy looked to the liger,
then at Sisy as the girl began shoveling down her salad, following suit as she crammed the remainder of her sandwich into her muzzle, softening the crusty bread with a huge gulp of her drink. Chewing as she rose from her seat she nearly dragged Cecily from hers as she wrapped the small mouse in her arms and practically bolted for the door.As the moose and mouse approached the group of vehicles Lilly stopped them again, "Mouse bait, you know how to drive a standard or are you stuck with the idiot shifter?" "If it's got wheels I can drive it, standard, auto, fluid fuckin drive with a push button shifter doesn't matter. What do you need me to do Lilly?" the moose asked seriously."If it's okay with you, I would rather Detlev be in the lighter, safer Charger than the Willy." She looked down at Cecily, and added, "where someone can also be in there with him. I've been pushing this too fast. I forget that he's not the man that was leading us back then. I should have given more time for the drive from the cabin to meet up with your two. I saw that you already took out the extenders or I would ask Sisy to drive it.""Lilly those ar snap ons, not bolt ons, if you want her to drive we can have them and the seat back in place in two minutes, just say the word and it's done," the moose girl said insistently."Do that, I want him to try to relax as much can. You don't mind having Sisy drive with him as the copilot?" She asked as she started to walk toward the old jeep.As she walked beside the liger, Daisy responded, "not one bit, she can handle the charger, she did fine getting here and she'll do fine from here on." Leaning her head back as she turned toward the Charger she looked her girlfriend in the eyes, "sounds like we pushed the general to hard girlfriend, you got this, I got faith in you sweet cheeks. You keep an eye on him and if he starts acting funny at all you grab that radio and scream while you're pulling over and Lilly and I will be on that car like ants on honey.. Now let's get you set for the rest of the drive," she added as she set the mouse on her paws beside the car.As the two readjusted the seat and mirrors the old badger dropped into the passenger seat. "Zis Zing is too low to Zee ground. I am gettink too old for zis chit." He glanced
over at the couple as they worked and asked, "You okay to drive zis zing Squeaker?"Without looking up from watching the moose, Cecily simply replied, "Yes, sir."He then looked over at Daisy. "And you are Okay vith all zis? Lilly is not puchink you around?""No sir, I've ridden with Sisy, and I trust her. I have absolute faith in her driving and in her to take care of you as well," the moose said looking into the older badgers eyes. "But with all due respect sir, it looks like she has been pushing you around a little too much."He looked over at her with a smile as he said, "It is more of me not lettink her puch Hank around. She vas going to goink to make zis trip vith or vithout me. I had the option to just fly out or go vith Susan ant Alex. I chose to do zis. I puched myself. old habits die hard." He put a paw on his chest as he leaned back in the seat. "One Day I vill learn just how old I have gotten.""Well for now, sir, you're going to sit back and relax and let my girlfriend be your driver. I know you'll be in good paws with her." Quickly checking over the extenders and the seat adjustment one last time Daisy looked at the mouse as she said quietly, "I mean it Sisy, anything with him seems even a little bit off, radio, scream, off the road. I'll be right behind you in that jeep every inch of the way.""I will," the small mouse sad as she put her paws on each of the controls to double check her reach.From behind the Moose came a voice, "So changing the marching order on me without checking first? Getting a little ballsy aren't we, mouse bait?""How do you figure Lilly?", the moose girl asked a bit confused by her comment.With a smile she said, "Don't worry about it, I was going to tell you to follow Squeaky anyway." She looked down at the mouse, I want to see headlights in my rear views, if anything is wrong, anything, turn them off before you make any other move.""Roger," Cecily said as she turned on the headlights.Lilly turned to walk back to the moving truck and said, "Okay lets get moving. 2 hour to last stop."Soon the group was back on the road. Daisy followed close behind Cecily as she drove the general to their next destination. The cool night air rushed over Daisy as she drove the toppless jeep.