Another Oneshot, because they're my favorite. To write, and, most of the time, to read. Hopefully you feel the same way.

What you had to understand about Crookshanks was that he was old. He had been around the block. He had seen a few things.

But this…

This was something altogether different and more than a little weird.

To begin with, the rat wasn't a rat. It didn't look or smell or even taste like a proper rat. It was obviously human. It reeked of human.

Well, that was weird enough.

But fine. He could deal with that. He wouldn't claim that it didn't make him uneasy, but he could deal. Sure.

Enter the man on the train. The man who was surely human, but was also just as obviously a wolf. Wolf was all over him, it was in his blood, and this threw Crookshanks off a bit. He had seen all sorts of fascinating creatures, he had been to Argentina and back in a rowboat, but humans had always, always been humans.

This human was a wolf, which was surprising.

But he didn't let it get to him. He was, after all, Crookshanks, a cat to be reckoned with. If there was one cat who wouldn't be bothered by a rat who was human and a human who was a wolf, it was him. So he didn't let himself be bothered.

Great. Fine. Excellent plan.

And it was all working out really fabulously until he came across the dog which was not a dog. It was, that's right, human.

Crookshanks was getting just a little bit irritated by all this. Really, enough was enough. And, he decided, he was going to tell the dog so.

The dog got to him first. It asked Crookshanks if he had seen the rat, because he, the dog, needed to kill it.

Now, the dog was obviously not quite sane, but Crookshanks knew what happened when humans killed each other, and he tried to reason with it.

You, he told the dog gravely, are human.

The dog answered that he knew that, but the thing was, he really needed to kill this rat, so could Crookshanks help him or what?

The rat, Crookshanks explained patiently, is also human.

The dog was excited. Yes! he said. Yes, that was the right rat, and if Crookshanks could just tell him where it was - !

If you kill the rat, they will put you in prison, Crookshanks pointed out.

The dog said that he had been put in prison for not killing the rat, so maybe if he killed it they would stop trying to put him there.

Crookshanks gave up trying to reason with the dog.

But something was definitely up, and Crookshanks meant to keep an eye out for trouble.

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-Rosa