AN: I wrote this on tumblr a while back, but thought I'd bring it here! I hope you enjoy it~


Sebastian hated cats.

He absolutely hated them. Any time he saw one in the street, no matter how late he was running, or how dark it was, Sebastian would turn around and walk the opposite way. He didn't want one walking up to him and jumping on him or whatever the hell it was cats did. They just.. They creeped the living hell out of Sebastian. Their eyes, their ears, their unpredictable personalities, how they'd stalk you, the arching of their backs. Sebastian just hated them. They were so unsettling, and he wanted nothing to do with them.

So, it was obvious that Sebastian wasn't at all happy when he heard that his parents had bought him a cat when they moved over to America.

"Remind me why you got me one of those again?" Sebastian drawled on the way back home after his first day at Dalton.

"Because we want to teach you some responsibility," His mother said in a tone that made it obvious that she'd rehearsed that exact response. "Hey, you're lucky we did this!" She half-snapped as Sebastian gave a "psh" noise, "Most parents wouldn't be so willing to give their child a pet! Be grateful!"

"Yeah, most parents give their child a dog." Sebastian muttered with a roll of his eyes "I don't see why you had to get me a minion of the Anti-Christ for some stupid parental lesson in responsibility..."

"Okay, I'll be honest," his father said, looking over his shoulder from the driver's seat, "We were worried that because of your... forward personality -"

"What the hell is that supposed to mean!?" Sebastian snapped.

"Let your father finish Sebastian!"

"We were worried that you wouldn't make any friends – people aren't as nice here as they were in Paris – so we got you the cat instead."

"Again, a dog would've been better," Sebastian frowned, "I hate cats."

"You'll love this one, I promise," Mrs. Smythe gushed. "Their last owners said he's a very beautiful cat, and well behaved. He's also incredibly affectionate -"

"So, basically, I'm never going to be left alone, will I?"

"Sebastian, how about you actually spend time with the thing then make any judgments?" Mr. Smythe said, sighing heavily "Look, we'll have the cat for a month, and if you don't like it, we'll put it up for adoption. If it doesn't work out, we'll buy you a dog instead, deal?"

Sebastian's face immediately lit up at the mention of a dog.
"Deal!" he said, enthusiastically. As much as Sebastian despised cats, he was willing to put up with one of them for a short while. Sebastian knew there was no way in hell that cat was going to be as lovely as its last owners were making out. It probably was actually the Anti-Christ and they just wanted to get rid of the thing as quickly as possible.

"Where the hell is the little demon?" Sebastian asked when they arrived back home.

"His previous owners said they'd put him down in your room." Mrs. Smythe said as she hung up her jacket, not looking over at him.

"You let it in my room unsupervised!?" said Sebastian, completely aghast. "My room is going to be ruined now!"

"Sebastian, shut up and just check on the thing," his father said exasperatedly "Spend a while with it, then come back up."

Grumbling to himself, Sebastian dragged his feet as he walked upstairs to his room. School hadn't actually been bad, but now? It was the day from hell and some fuzzball creature was going to ruin that.

His stomach fell when he entered his bedroom. There was no sign of a cat. "Brilliant," Sebastian thought, sighing. "It's probably fucking up everything under my bed or something."

Speaking of his bed, it was at that moment that Sebastian saw a long, fluffy brown tail poking out from his sheets. Growling a little, Sebastian stormed over to his bed and ripped back the covers.

"Alright, get the hell out of my bed, now!" He snapped, before yelling and almost falling over in shock. Sebastian was expecting some fat, overly furry brown cat, and have his sheets completely covered in fur. Instead, there was a thin, pale boy around his age, clad in loosely fitted clothes. His eyes were incredibly wide and bright blue, but this wasn't what Sebastian noticed. What he noticed was the fluffy brown tail that was attached to the boy that was previously seen from under the covers and brown ears that were flattened against his head; Sebastian almost didn't see the ears as they were mixing in amongst his hair. He looked almost as shocked to see Sebastian as Sebastian was to see him. Or.. What he was.

"M-Mum!" Sebastian yelled, charging down the stairs, nearly tripping over his own feet, "Mum!"

"Why on earth are you shouting?" His mother said, emerging from the kitchen just as Sebastian made it to the foot of the stairs in the hall "I'm trying to make dinner."

"That is not a fucking cat in my room!" He yelled.

"I can assure you that it is a cat. His last owners dropped over. And he's definitely a cat."

"I've never seen a cat that looks like that." Sebastian snarked, folding his arms. "If you go upstairs right now, you'll know that it's not a cat,"

"Oh, is it one of those Sphynx cats?" His mother asked frowning "They are cats Sebastian, even if they don't have fur."

"That's not the problem!" Sebastian yelled, before his mother cut him off.

"Then what is the problem!?"

"The problem is that it's more human than cat!"

"What..?" His mother said, her face turning pale.

"It was in my bed, and I saw it's tail. I was trying to get it out of my bed, and when I pulled back the covers, there was a boy. And he had cat ears and a tail and -"

"You mean.. It's a hybrid?" His father asked, finally coming out of the lounge.

"A hybrid?" Sebastian asked, furrowing his brow in confusion.

"Part animal, part human." His father explained, "They're incredibly rare."

"How did you not know this?" Sebastian asked, frowning. "Didn't you bother to check it out before you bought it?"

"No, because we were still in France and it was over the phone," His mother said, "We thought they'd tell us if it was a hybrid, so I just assumed that it was going to be a normal cat..."

Sebastian raised his eyebrows "Was it not in its medical bills?"

"It... Must have been. I must have over looked it." His mother said quietly, looking at her feet.

Sebastian looked at her in disbelief, trying to think of something to say, when his thoughts were broken by hearing something moving on the stairs.

"E-excuse me...?" A high, terrified voice said from the halfway point on the stairs. Sebastian turned around and frowned when seeing the hybrid, his tail swishing worriedly, his eyes as wide as before. The only thing that was really any different from when Sebastian found him was the fact that his ears were pointed high; they were clearly visible now. "Am... Am I allowed to come downstairs?"