Under the Same Roof
Chapter One: Not My Idea
_At the Garage_
Chance and Jake were down in the hangar. Jake was working on the TurboKat while Chance was setting at the desk going over the new plans for the TurboKat. Jake walked over to him and placed his paw on Chance's shoulder and looked at the plans.
"They look good Chance." Jake told him. Chance looked up at him and smiled.
"Yea they do, don't they." Chance answered him.
Just then an alarm went off inside the hangar. Jake and Chance looked at each other and ran over to the latter and climbed up. The alarm had met that someone was pulling into the salvage yard. Chance and Jake walked into the garage before the two kats got out of the car. Chance looked at the car and wonder who would be here at this time of night. Then it hit him the car was the Commander's Sedan and the other kat that was in there with him was the Lieutenant. Jake looked over to Chance with wide eyes.
"What is he doing here?" Jake asked Chance.
"I don't know, but the Lieutenant is with him. So this might not be good." Chance told him.
Just then Feral and Felina got out of Feral's Sedan and walked over to them. Feral looked at the two toms and frowned at them. Chance looked at Felina who smiled at him. Chance smiled back at the Lieutenant.
"What can we do for you Commander?" Jake asked him.
"Well it's not for me it's for my niece. Felina will be staying her with you." Feral told them.
"Is someone after you?!" Chance asked her. Feral looked at him and Jake did the same. Felina looked at him and smiled again. 'Wow he sounds so concerned about me.'
"No. No one is after me. It's a new thing. Someone has to come and stay for about two or three weeks here to see if everything is running smoothly. Uncle was going to do it, but I needed a little break. So I told him that I would do it." Felina explained. Chance let out a breath that he was holding. Jake looked at him and then at Feral.
"Yes she will be staying here for three weeks." Feral informed the two toms.
"Uncle I don't have to stay that long. I'm sure it will only take a few days." Felina looked at her uncle. Feral turned to look at her.
"No Felina. You have to stay here the whole three weeks or it's my ass on the line." Feral told her. Felina looked at him with a yea right kind of look.
"Don't worry Commander. She will be fine here with us." Jake spoke up.
"Fine, Felina let's get your things out of the car." Feral and Felina walked to the back of the car and Feral opened the truck. Jake and Chance looked at each other.
"What are we going to do if the Callie calls us?" Chance whispered to Jake.
"I don't know... After she is asleep I'll go down and disarm the alarms to where only the ones that will go off are the ones in our pockets." Jake told Chance.
"Ok, but how will we go and save the city with her here?" Chance and Jake looked over to Feral and Felina.
"I don't know it has been quit for a few weeks now, maybe it will still be like that while she is here." Jake told Chance again.
-At Feral's car-
"You know what you have to do Felina." Feral looked at her and handed her her bag.
"Yes. I do. Don't worry Uncle." Felina took her bag and they walked back over to Chance and Jake.
"Well boys where am I going to sleep?" She asked them.
"You can sleep in my room." Chance said to her and took one of her bags.
"No I don't want to throw you out of your own bed." Felina told him. Chance looked at her and smiled.
"Don't worry I'll just sleep here on the couch." Jake looked at him and smiled.
"I have to go now Felina." Feral said to his niece. Felina turned around and hugged him goodbye.
They all watched as Feral got into his car and drove away. The three looked at each other and went inside. Felina followed the two toms up the stairs. Jake went into his room and Chance showed her to his room.
"This is where you will be staying." Chance moved from the door and Felina walked in. The room was neat. Felina could not believe that it would be this neat and clean.
"Thank you for this, but I have to ask you. Why is your room so neat? I mean you are a guy and I just thought."
"Jake is a neat freak. I can't put down a cup without him freaking out on me." Chance laughed. Felina giggled and put one of her bags down on the bed. Chance sat down her other bag on the floor. He was about to walk out when she stopped him.
"You know you can sleep here tonight." Felina looked at Chance.
"No…I'll sleep on the…"
"I feel bad for kicking you out of your own bed and besides I'm tiny I won't take up that must space." Chance looked at Felina with wide eyes. 'Is she for real?' Chance thought to himself.
"Well if you want me to stay…I guess I can." Chance rubbed the back of his neck with his paw. Felina smiled sweetly at him.
Chance help Felina unpack her things. He moved some of his stuff over in his dresser so that she could put her things in it. After that Chance told Felina that he would leave her so that she could get ready for bed. Chance went into the bathroom and got ready for bed. Felina got ready for bed and was setting on the bed in her tank top and her shorts. Felina was waiting for Chance to come back into the room when her cell phone dinged. Felina looked at it and saw that her uncle had texted her. She was texting him back when Chance came back into the room.
"Who are you texting?" He asked her.
"My Uncle. He wanted to know if I was okay. He worries about me all the time." She explained to Chance.
"Oh well I could see why. I mean he really cares about you. In a way you are the only family he has around him all the time." Chance said getting into bed. Felina turned off her phone and got into bed as well. Chance got a little nervous when she moved close to him. Felina smiled at him and said.
"Don't tell me you have never just slept in a bed with a woman before?" Chance looked at her and smiled a small smile.
"Yes but never with someone that can and could kick my ass before." He laughed trying to break that awkward moment.
"You are too cute right now. Just go to sleep." Felina rolled over facing away from Chance. Chance rolled over facing the wall with the window and smiled to himself. 'She thinks I'm cute.' That was Chance's last thought before he went to sleep. Felina looked at the clock before she closed her eyes it said it was 1:30 at night. 'This is going to be easier than I thought' she thought to herself. Felina fell asleep within minutes.
Felina is a light sleeper so when she heard someone walking in the hallway she got up to see who it was. Felina looked at Chance when she got to the door to see if he was still asleep. She was glad to see that he was. Felina opened the door a bit to see who was in the hall. She saw Jake walking down the stairs. 'Hmm I wonder where he is going?' she asked herself. Felina followed Jake down the stairs and tried not to let him see her. She followed him into the living room and saw him pull back a rug. She watched as he lifted a steel door and climbed down. 'Where is he going?' she asked herself again.
Felina waited for Jake to come up but he was down there so long that she got tired of waiting for him. So she went back upstairs and went back into Chance's room. When she opened the door she was happy to see that Chance was still asleep and that he was not awake. Felina got back into bed and laid down and went back to sleep.
-In the Morning-
Felina woke up around nine. She looked over to see if Chance was still in bed with her, but he was not. Felina knew that they had to work today so she paid no mind to it. Felina got up and got dress and went downstairs. She could hear Chance and Jake talking as they worked. She stopped at the doorway to listen in on the conversation.
"Well did you do it last night?" Chance asked Jake. Jake looked up at him and nodded his head.
"Yea I did and was a bitch trying unalarm everything."
'What did he unalarm?" Felina asked herself.
"Well at least it's done. That way if it does go off we will be the anyone's that will know it." Chance said handing Jake a tool.
"Yea, but we still don't know how or who will go out." Jake stated to Chance who looked at him with a knowing kind of look.
"You will stay here with Felina while I go out and save the day." Jake looked at Chance.
"You, and how are you going to do that hmm...with that bow of yours?" Jake asked being a smart ass.
"Yes." Chance answered back.
'How is he going to save the day? Could it be that Uncle was right? That these two are the Swat Kats?' Felina thought to herself. She walked into the room and saw them at working on a car.
"Good morning guys." She said to the two toms hard at work. Chance looked up and smiled at her.
"Morning." Jake said back at her. Jake wondered if she had heard him and Chance talking.
"What time did you get up?" Felina asked Chance as she walked up to him. Chance kind of blushed and turned his head away and answered her.
"Five."
"Wow that is early." Felina didn't think that he would get up before the sunrise.
"He always gets up at that time." Jake added. He looked at Felina and then at Chance. Just then the phone rang. Jake went in to answer it.
"So how did you sleep last night?" Chance asked the young she-kat next to him.
"I slept very well. How about you?"
"I slept pretty good." Chance said while Jake walked back into the room.
"We got to go Chance. That was Callie and she needs us to fix her car." Jake said while getting the keys to the tow truck. Chance rolled his eyes and cleaned his paws with a rag and walked over to the truck and opened the door.
"You coming?" Chance asked Felina.
"No you two go and help Ms. Briggs. I'll stay here just in case the phone rings or someone comes by." Jake looked at Chance with a worried kind of look.
"Ok you do that and we will be back in no time." Chance said while getting into the truck. Jake got in as well. Chance started the truck and backed it up.
"Are you sure that we should leave her alone here?" Jake asked his friend.
"Yea, besides she's not going to do anything but answer the phone and looked after everything while we are gone." Chance stated. The truck moved forward and out the gate to the road.
"That's what I'm worried about, her looking around." Jake said while looking at the window. Chance looked over at him and then back to the road. Jake was right what if she found out their secret.
After the two was out of sight Felina went over the rug and pulled it back. She opened the hatch and went down the ladder. She turned around and turned on the lights.
Felina's eyes with wide she could not believe at what she was looking at. She saw a desk with papers on it and to the right was to lockers. One had an R on it and the other had TB on it. Felina walked down the small set of stairs and over to the lockers. She opened the one that said TB on it. She looked inside and found a G-suit and a mask. Felina smile to herself and put the mask back. She walked around looking at papers that had plans for the Turbokat. Felina looked up and saw the Turbokat and smiled to herself.
"Uncle was right they are the Swat Kat."
-Later that day-
Chance and Jake pulled into the garage. Chance turned the truck off and got out. Jake got out and closed the door. They walked into the waiting area and found Felina watching TV.
"Anything happen while we were gone?" Jake asked her. Felina stood up and said.
"No one called or came over. So what was wrong with Ms. Briggs car?" She asked the two as they sat down. Chance looked up at her and said.
"Some wires came out and it wasn't the hard to fix. What took us so long to get back was the traffic. It's a mad house out there."Chance said while leaning back in his set.
"So what did you do while we were gone?" Jake asked the Lieutenant. Felina stood in the doorway and said.
"Nothing really." She lied to the two toms.