AN: This is my first Ambreigns story and it has been running around in my head as a little plot bunny until I finally couldn't ignore it. I hope you enjoy reading it! Let me know if I should continue or if I should squish it before it starts running wild.
It wasn't that I had wanted it this way. It was more of things ended up this way. They always did. I would think things were turning around and life was picking up, and then BOOM! Something or someone would swoop in and make everything fall backwards and take me back to the place I was before.
I never thought I would end up on the streets. People never really notice a hybrid on the streets anymore. Ever since the geneticists and activists started getting unclaimed hybrids more freedom and intelligence, most people thought unclaimed hybrids belonged on the streets to die. A lot of people realized once we grew into full grown adults that they didn't want an adult hybrid living in their house, so they let them go to live their own lives.
What those people didn't realize is that we don't have the same ability or opportunities as normal humans do. Those hybrids were treated like pets until they were kicked out. They don't know how to do anything else and every time one of them tries to get help, they are turned away because they are a hybrid. Which lead to a lot of them getting picked up by crooked pet shops all over the country and by pimps to get used as sex slaves.
Fortunately, well maybe not, I have never had a master. I was trained to be a pet, but no one had bought me. All the humans wanted pets that were pure breed and looked pure bred. Being a half canine and half feline human- hybrid never brought more than aww's and ooo's at my cage door before the people moved on to other pets.
That was until someone burnt down the pet shop I was in. I heard that it was a protest against the hybrid industry and that they hadn't expected for there to be any pets inside, but that wasn't the case. The owners had taken all of the other pets to an event that night and left me behind.
"Why take a pet that can't even get a buyer when they come to the store looking for one? She's as useless as they come. It will do her some good to leave her alone for a while."
That was the last thing I heard from the store owners. Luckily, I was able to escape from the building before the fire got really bad but, as said before, humans only give so much attention to unclaimed hybrids. Well, this is where my story begins, the night of the fire is where my life changed. For the best or the worst I can't decide but it changed none the less.