Bester and Boxes
No one in the Varia likes to mention it, but everyone knows that Xanxus spoils Bester silly. He practically dotes on the liger and keeps the liger out as much as possible. The liger even sleeps with him sometimes, taking up his share of the bed and terrifying anyone sent in to wake Xanxus up; as if they didn't have enough reasons to dread entering Xanxus' bedroom to wake the Boss up.
So the Varia has gotten used to Bester laying around in Xanxus' office giving judging cat looks from behind Xanxus desk, leaving shed fur on the furniture and wandering the halls to find that spot of morning sunshine in the library.
The Varia has also gotten used to Bester demanding to be let in and out of the castle, playfully pouncing on the recruits and shamelessly begging the cooks and Lussuria for meat. There's the occasional roar that makes people jump, but those are rarer than people think.
So of course it's Fran that decides Bester needs his own cardboard box. Finding a large enough box is troublesome because Bester is a full-sized animal; he's not going to be able to fit in a small cardboard box. Fran manages to obtain several large cardboard boxes and even a box that once housed a refrigerator.
Bel comes upon Fran then, as Fran assembles a castle of cardboard.
"Froggy, whatever are you doing?"
"I'm making a cardboard castle for Bester. Box animals take after their masters, so I don't see that tiger-wannabe settling for a mere cardboard box."
Bel stays silent for a moment, and then he starts critiquing Fran's work. The towers need work and there's not even a blanket in the cardboard castle. These 'mistakes' are rectified at knife-point and then the two of them have a glorious cardboard castle. Now they just have to find the liger in question.
As the two of them argue their way out, Bester noses his way into the room in question.
He sniffs at the cardboard castle and the unused boxes, winding his way around on silent paws as he investigates every nook and cranny of the new thing. He notices that there's a piece that moves if his nose touches it, so he takes a paw to it.
Down goes a cardboard tower.
Bester is curious about if the rest will do such a thing and so decides to destroy the castle in the fastest way possible; he roars. The castle is no more.
Later, when Bel and Fran find the liger, Bester is in a slightly too small box for his bulk with the blanket under him and there's another box folded against the wall behind him.
"Fran, you're an idiot. It's obvious we should have built a throne."
Not beta'd, but still adorable.