Title: Kitty Cat's Great Adventure
Author: Caz251
Summary: Kitty Cat has an adventure of his own when Wednesday takes him with her to the Hub.
Characters: Wednesday, Kitty Cat, Owen, Jack, Toshiko, Ianto, Andy and Gwen.
Spoilers: Spoilers for Torchwood and The Addams Family.
Warnings: General weirdness
Disclaimer: I don't own either the Addams Family or Torchwood, no matter how hard I wish it were so.
AN: Firstly an apology. I was supposed to start posting this last Friday, but things came up and I spent the day working and packing. I left straight from work on Saturday and drove to London only to drive back and go straight to work on Monday. Unfortunately I had no internet access and couldn't post. I was working Monday to Thursday and when I went to post this on Friday I realised that there were parts of it missing and that I would need to rewrite them. I did that yesterdat, but I have been having pc problems (we think it was the graphics card and it is now fixed, we hope).Chapter One
Kitty Cat walked alongside his human, they were going to visit her mate and the knowledgeable one, and he knew that he wasn't going to get to have any fun. The knowledgeable one always seemed to know when he was up to mischief and never let him get away with it. Maybe he could just sneak about a bit and find someone or something to play with that the man wouldn't mind, or maybe the man would have more steak for him. The man had a lot of knowledge, he knew everything, including where to buy the best steak that Kitty Cat had ever eaten. With that in mind he bounded after his Mistress, hoping to reach her cousin quicker, the treats the man may have running through his mind.
They entered a small shack and he bounded straight over to the man who was sat behind the desk working on some papers, he made sure to get the man's attention biting at his arm that was resting on the chair. Not a proper bite, more like a nip to say hello. He would have pounced on him, but it was much harder with his chair as close to the desk as it was. Grateful not to have been ignored, he let out a purr as the man started to scratch at his head and his ears in greeting while he spoke with his Wednesday. It wasn't long before the man stood and locked the entrance they had just come in from and ushered them through another door that appeared in the wall.
He bounded down the short corridor ahead of them before stopping at the metal door, waiting for his humans to open it, and trotting forward as it opened. He didn't like the feeling of being in a metal box much, but he was sure that his Wednesday would keep him safe, luckily the trip in the box wasn't too long less than a minute he'd say. After the box was a round door, and through that was his Mistress' mate and Tharmus' man. As he walked proudly through the door, he was met by the smell of her and the unknown. He could smell Tharmus' mate, and his Mistress', Aluka's toy and someone new. He let out a small whine towards his Mistress and she quickly corrected the oversight, taking him straight to the new smell to introduce him.
The petite woman was Toshiko, Tharmus' friend, and she seemed nice to him. She looked a bit bemused at him as he sniffed at her before he snorted and nodded his head in approval. She seemed to be okay to him, he couldn't smell any danger from him, and she smiled at his antics. Tharmus and his mate just looked at him with an indulgent look, and Aluka's toy wasn't actually there. He wondered at why he could smell her if she wasn't there, but ignored it in favour of meeting his Mistress' mate for the first time. He bounded off in the direction of the smell he had come to associate with the letters that his Mistress had received, and ended up in a sterile place with a small rat looking man staring back at him calculatingly.
He could tell that the man wasn't afraid of him, something that was definitely needed if they were going to learn to coexist with each other. The man looked at him, apparently weighing up his thoughts before he spoke. "You must be Kitty Cat, I have heard so much about you. I'm Owen, I hope we can be friends." The man said as he held out a hand to the lion.
Kitty Cat stared at the hand for a moment, unsure whether or not accept the gesture from the other man, but he knew that Wednesday really liked him, and that the rest of the family seemed to approve of him. Kitty Cat let out a small growl at the man, just a friendly warning, he didn't want the man to think that they were going to be best friends without any warning. Kitty Cat would be his friend as long as he didn't hurt his Wednesday, and raised his front paw, touching it to the man's hand to show his agreement with the man's statement.
He could tell that the man seemed to understand his warning at the small smirk that crossed his mouth and the nod of approval of Kitty Cat's actions, before he removed his hand from where it was touching Kitty Cat's paw, holding it out for Kitty Cat to sniff at to get used to his scent before reaching out to scratch at his ears. Now Kitty Cat wouldn't say that he was a push over, but he was sure that if the man carried on with his ministrations regularly that the two of them would have no problems with each other.
He let out another small noise of approval, not a purr, he didn't know the man well enough for that before leaving the room making his way back to his mistress and informing her of his approval of her mate before going and taking up residence on the couch that he had seen when he entered the room. Wednesday took his actions as an invitation to leave and visit her mate and everyone went back to their previous tasks.
Lying out on the couch Kitty Cat took the time to work out why he could smell Aluka's toy when she wasn't there before realising that the scent was fainter than it had been when he arrived. The woman must have just left before he had arrived for him to have been able to smell her as he had, but that meant that there was another way in and out of the place as she hadn't passed them. Kitty Cat vowed to himself to explore and find the other exit but decided to make himself out to be as good and placid as he could before he started his task, it would help divert suspicion.
The alarm on the circular door distracted Kitty Cat from his musings and he turned towards it noticing that it was Aluka's toy coming back with bags of food, according to his nose, but there was nothing in them that he would like. He waited until everyone was focused on the woman before making his way to the still open door and slipping through it. He retraced his steps back along the corridor and to the box, eyeing it apprehensively, he didn't really want to go in it alone, but it hadn't taken long the last time. As the door opened his mind was made up for him and he got into the box, the door shutting behind him and the box moving immediately. Getting out of the box was one of the best things that he had done all day.
He sniffed his way back to the piece of wall that moved before looking for a latch or something that he knew must be there for it to open. A little red button on the wall was pressed with his nose, and the wall moved allowing him out and he heard the door unlatched. He bounded over to it and leant up to open it with his front paws and make a break for freedom. He was going to find his way back into the hub, he thought they called it that anyway, using the other entrance.
Shivering a bit as he got outside he steeled himself against the cold and began to walk in search of the other entrance. He bounded around enjoying being somewhere other than the manor. The manor was nice of course, but he hadn't had a chance to explore elsewhere yet, so this was a rare treat. He and Wednesday had come by car and had been dropped at the little shack by Lurch, so he hadn't seen much of the scenery, but he would change that now.
Running around the area he didn't really notice the people that were moving out of his way with screams and shrieks, the noise not even registering as he tried to take everything in. He carried on his way soon ending up on a big stretch of pavement with a water feature like the one in the hub. That was it, he decided, that must be the other entrance, a water slide, he let out a small whine at the thought. Deciding not to return straight away he began to explore the area he was in, he wanted to see the type of humans that they kept around there. It was then that he noticed a lack of humans in his vicinity, he watched for a moment as they all moved quickly away from where he was. Kitty Cat huffed to himself at their rudeness, they could have at least said hello before leaving. A loud noise caught his attention and soon there were a few cars around the area with men and women getting out of them with plastic shields of all things.
It was then that he noticed that Andronenkos was one of them, and he let out a small growl of triumph, Andronenkos had brought him some friends to play with. They didn't seem to be willing to come to him though so Kitty Cat started moving towards them, his tongue hanging out a bit at the thought of what games they would play.