Hi little Darcy's! Here's another chapter of this one, there's no particular order of
events to speak of, most of these are stand alone's but i'm thinking of making it a full fledged story. Someone did mention running it along with TWW but truth be told, TWW I think is reaching a natural conclusion but am willing to hear ideas for a new Rogan fic! Let me know in the reviews. Shout out to Elli-Wyatt for the idea for this chapter!
Despite tales spreading about her time being a cage fighting kidnap victim, Lola always did her very best to avoid confrontation. Most people were fond of the little feral, she was sweet-tempered and had a sunny smile for those willing to take their time in conversation with her.
Still, when you become Victor Creed's frail people, will talk. To gossip in close quarters was a natural human inclination and people did exactly that about the teen and her chosen mate. There was speculation as to what exactly the relationship was, some said Creed saw her as his daughter while others thought of him as a sugar daddy. There were whispers of sordid relations, questions as to why Lola remained unmarked, even talk of her being a sex slave to the older feral's every whim.
However, these were still high-schoolers and so there were going to be jerks who gave her a rough time. Lola knew that and did her best to avoid them. But sometimes they just had to push.
This was one of those times. She just wanted to study. Had her books piled neatly and was busily taking notes when along came Jinx and Flame. Secretly, she thought it fitting the pair dated because nobody else would be self-centered enough to keep up. With them was the usual crowd,
Leslie and Argo and Will and Tara and even Twitch which was surprising since they made fun of him most of the time.
"Heeeeey Lola. So glad we found you! We need another person for practice!"
"Practice?"
"Yeah. Remember the midterm in gym is thursday so we were hoping to get in some extra practice. And since you've actually had real fight experience and all, you're the perfect one to practice with! Plus after maybe we could all grab a snack or something."
Lola's senses were still developing and so Jinx's scent was genuine enough. And they'd never actually wanted to hang out.. Argo and twitch were nice, she wouldn't mind spending more time with them. After thinking it over she nodded.
"Okay. Victor taught me a few things too, maybe I could show you."
"Oh that would be so great. You're so sweet Lola, no wonder he spends so much time with you."
"Um.. I guess so."
Flame leered at her and began to play with one of his fireballs.
"Bet that's not the only reason."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Jinx nudged him.
"He's just being weird. Say.. could I ask you something?"
"Sure, I guess." She stood up, starting to recognize there was an ulterior motive.
"When you got taken.. what exactly did they do to you? "
"Yeah," Tara piped in, "You never talk about it."
"Maybe it's bad memories." Twitch said, trying to help Lola out. She smiled gratefully and then glared when Flame shoved him.
"Shut up twitch. Did you get experimented on?"
"I thought we were going to practice."
"Sure." The fireball he'd been tossing around was suddenly flung in her direction, just missing her and instead hitting her beloved books.
"Hey! My books!"
"Now see what you did Flame? Leslie help her out." Jinx ordered.
"You got it!" She replied, grinning as she swamped the flaming literature with water.
"No, my notes, stop it-"
"We're just practicing. Can't you stop us? Maybe they took you for your skill." Jinx taunted, morphing into a carbon copy of Lola. Flame grinned and whistled.
"No way, she can't fight. But from this angle.. maybe her looks?" Jinx/Lola twirled. " I'm so innocent, bet they wanted to corrupt me."
The real Lola's eyes began to fill, why did they always have to pick on her? Twitch and Argo noticed the near tears and tried to put an end to the shenanigans.
"Come on guys, you made your point."
"Yeah, and that's kinda mean. That was really tough for her."Argo threw in, moving to help and try to save the mostly ruined notes. Leslie held her back with a wall of water and gave the papers another dousing.
"Her daddy came along and saved her, how hard could it have been?" Tara smirked.
"Daddy? Don't you mean master? She's just a cat after all, maybe he keeps her as a little pet. Here kitty kitty kitty…" Flame threw another fireball, broiling her clothes.
"Please stop. Please, just leave me alone please.." She clutched the tattered remains of her clothes to her chest, trying to force down memories of being hunted back at the fight club with that same taunt.
"Come on kitty, we just wanna play." Jinx answered, whining in Lola's own voice.
"Flame stop, you could really hurt her!" Twitch went to her side, taking off his hoodie to cover her up. "Unless you wanna be toasted back up." Flame ordered. Twitch hesitated but shook his head.
"Yeah leave her alone!" Argo yelled, still trying to get through the water.
"Let's see if kitty likes water. Leslie? Wanna play pretty kitty?" Jinx asked.
No one answered.
"Leslie that's your cue. Come on already!" Jinx demanded just as a scream pierced the air. The wall of water dropped and there was Leslie, lying on the ground and clutching her leg with The Sabretooth grinning over her.
"Hi there. Kitty wants to play."
Tara tried to run while Argo was finally able to get to Lola's side and heal the light burns on her back. Her running was a rookie mistake, Sabretooth loved a good chase and Victor Creed loved catching his prey. He let her get so far as the edge of the gardens before racing after and launching himself through the air. With the precision only a cat could manage he landed square on her back and brought the girl down, smiling at her terrified screams. She too received careful claw marks, cuts on her arms that would most definitely require stitches.
A short sprint and another jump later and Victor was back, licking away Lola's tears comfortingly. Jinx was shaking, paralysed with fear and no longer wearing Lola's form. When Flame began to back up, Victor glanced at him.
"Run and I'll kill you. Scream for help, I'll drink your blood after I kill you."
The teen froze in place while Argo explained what happened and Victor took his shirt off and put it on Lola.
"You alright Cat?"
"My.. my notes, they're ruined, all my notes-"
"Shhh. It's okay. These two little asswipes are going to fix it."
Again he looked up and met the eyes of the adolescents.
"They're going to re-do every page of notes ruined. And those notes will be so good you'll
ace every midterm this semester. Won't she?"
"Yes!"
"Yes sir!"
"Good. Because if those notes aren't re-done I'm going to track them down. And I'll make sure our shapeshifter here uses as many forms as I require to get off before I kill her. And as for the flamer well… been awhile since I got creative." Again he smiled, fangs showing as he calmly licked the blood off his claws. "Mmm.. little bitter. I've had better." Jinx paled and actually threw up while Flame looked about ready to pass out.
"One more thing."
"Yes sir?" They asked in frightened unison.
"Leave. My. Girl. Alone. Now clean this shit up and get out of my sight."
They did as commanded, scurrying about, salvaging what they could and preparing to throw away what they could not. With promises of replacing every damaged item and stammered apologies they were gone in a flash.
"I'm sorry I didn't try to stop em sooner." Twitch told a still quiet Lola.
"Yeah me too. They're idiots, I don't even know why we hung out with them." Argo added,
finishing up the healing. Lola offered a watery smile.
"You guys still tried to help me though. And twitch you were even gonna get burned but didn't leave me. Thanks."
"Anytime. Hey, do you wanna go see a movie this weekend?" Argo asked. Twitch lit up.
"Yeah, you gotta come! Miss Storm said she would take us into town and even give us money to get lunch first."
Lola hesitated until Victor nodded.
"It sounds like fun Cat. Plus, free food."
She smiled at him and nodded herself.
"Yeah. Yeah, okay!"
"Great! Well, see you." Argo elbowed twitch and both headed off to give the ferals some privacy.
"I wish you wouldn't say things that way." Lola mumbled, cuddling against Victor's chest.
"Had to make em understand baby girl. This way, they leave you alone."
"I know. But now they're gonna bug you about makin those jerks bleed."
He chuckled and kissed her head.
"That's your only issue with the situation?"
"Well yeah. You saved me after all." She looked up at him with an adoring smile. "My own knight in shining armour." He purred and nuzzled her cheek, purring louder when she giggled and cupped his face.
"That tickles, you need a shave!"
"A man has hair Cat. Gotta get used to it." He rubbed his stubble harder against her neck until she laughed.
"Noooo it's so scratchy, stop."
"Make me."
She grinned and pressed a kiss to his neck pleased as punch when he froze.
"Good boy."
"I'm a man."
"Yes you are." She cooed and lapped with her tongue the spot she had kissed. He let out a strangled moan and spent the next twenty minutes alternating between trying to breathe evenly through his mouth and enjoying his little mate's generous impromptu grooming. It seemed bullying or not, Cat would survive.
Victor just wasn't sure he would.