Death and the Rat

"script"(?)

Death is enjoying a sandwich

Death sees Rat

Death sees that Rat is Triple-Expired

Rat sweats nervously from her look

Death puts down sandwich, pulls staff out slowly

There is a standstill

...

....

Rat runs and Death sprints with staff

Staff hits R

Time stops

Rat: ".... holy shit. Hooooly shit."

Rewind

Rat runs and Death sprints with staff

Staff misses Rat

Death looses sight of Rat

Camera focuses on Rat behind a vase

Rat peeks around it, looks at Death

Death turns to vase, Rat darts back behind it

Death approaches, Heart is pounding, Rat shushes Heart and Heart silently protests that they cANT "ShUSh"-

Death moves vase and grabs R

Time stops

Rewind

Death moves vase, Rat dodges hand and bites it

Death shakes hand and gets more annoyed, Rat bolts

Death chases

Rat dodges staff again, again, but not the thir

Time stops

Heart: "Steve!! Wait, I have a good idea!"

Rat: "Yeah??? Go ahead, shoot, I'll take anything because I'm running on pure adrenaline and no brain cells."

Heart: "Go backwards right before they jab at you a third time!"

Rat: "..."

Rat: "... Oh that's good."

Rewind

Rat dodges staff again, again, and stops, bolts the other way the third time

Death misses and trips from trying to go back too quick, falls and curses

Something is up with this Rat, why can't it die? Why does it know exactly what to do?!

Death: "Okay. tHAT'S IT!"

Death springs up and charges at Rat

Death: "You're going to die please!"

Rat stops and Death stops in front of him, jabs, Rat grabs onto staff

Death, smiling wide: "Ha!"

Death thrusts staff at wall long-ways, Rat jumps, staff cracks wall, Rat lands on mask

Death grabs for him and gets a hold of the mask, Rat's on a big black feather in the back

Death: "Okay-- rats are smart, I get it now,"

Rat jumps between the feathers as she reaches

Death: "But I didn't" -- reach -- "KNOW" -- turn -- "you could be smartasses-"

Death bends over, and the feather with Rat bends in front of her

Rat's hanging from it by his front paws

They stare at eachother.

Death: "Hey."

Death: "So."

Death: "... You have a hole in you."

...

Rat nods

Death: "I can literally see your heart, that's magic, that rat's don't have naturally."

Heart waves tentatively.

Heart looks up at Rat, worried

Rat narrows eyes at Death.

Death: "Hear me out -- how many years have you been alive?"

Rat thinks.

He uses one 'hand' to hold up four claws and shrugs.

Death: "That's already a long time for rats! I bet you've seen a lot, and made a lot of rat friends! You've lived a full life being smart and not dying. Soooooo,"

Rat's ears flatten, he glares

Death gr

Time stops

Rewind

Death: "That's already a long time for rats! I bet you've seen a lot, and made a lo" -- Rat lets go -- "A-HA" Death gr

Time Stops

Rat breathes heavily

Rat: "What. Was that."

Heart: "It looks like she's onto us.."

Rat: "Then enough playing around! We need to get out of here and away from this..."

Heart: "Lady?"

Rat: "Sure."

Rewind

Death: "That's already a long time for rats! I bet y-GOT Y-"

Time stops

Rewind

Death: "That's already a l-THER-"

Time stops

Rewind

Death: "That's already a long time for ra- D-"

Time Stops

Rat: "..."

Rat: "Hm..."

Heart: "... Do you have an idea?"

Rat: "No."

Rat: "I don't."

Rat: "... But I want to get back home."

Rat looks at Death.

The eye-holes in her mask are so shaded and dark they still manage to penetrate into him and Heart, even when stuck in time.

Rat: "Let me know if you think of something."

Heart: ".. Alright Steve."

They both try to think of something.

Heart: "Hey. What if you tried falling so your head's facing down and your tail's facing up?"

Rat: "So she grabs the my tail instead?"

Heart: "Yeah! And then you can still move for a second!"

Rat: "A second..."

Rat: "Okay. Take: who's fucking keeping count anymore."

Rewind

Death: "Th- THERE! oh- SH-"

Rat bites the hand clamped around his tail and lands on the ground

Rat bolts for a window and climbs out

Death: "No wAIT-!"

Death rushes, grabs for him, misses as Rat's making his way down

Rat makes it into the forest

It'll still be a chore to get through, but it's better than dealing with Death. He'll need to find that train he slipped onto again. For this moment, he'll just enjoy Heart's hug and cheering over the relief that he made it