A/N: I won't bore you with excuses, I had writers block and have done nothing but Tumblr for a very long time. But here it is finally. I want to start working on the next chapter very soon, also my exams start next week, so it'll either be no updates, or one or two to relieve stress. Then I have break for a while, so I hopefully will write during that.
As always, I own nothing, and reviews are the light of my life!
Saturday morning I woke up to the sun streaming light directly into my eyes. Groaning, I pulled the covers over my head, trying to block out the beams. My fidgeting must have alerted Vriska, because she immediately started grumbling about being woken up. Once settled again, I was happy to give myself back to sleep, but was interrupted by a loud knocking at my door.
"Kan, there's someone at the door." Vriska mumbled into her pillow.
"Ignore them, they'll go away." I grumbled back. Sadly the knocking only got louder and more frequent.
"Kanaya..." Vriska whined, clearly not enjoying her wake up call.
"Fine." I pushed myself out of bed and made my way to the door. I opened the door to see Nepeta and Terezi standing there, Terezi looking bored, a pair of red-framed sunglasses on her face, and Nepeta smiling brightly at me, a knit cat beanie on her head. "Hi."
"Hi Kanaya! How are you today?" Nepeta asked brightly.
"Still half-asleep." I answered honestly.
"You look like a mess, don't you?" Terezi snickered, tapping my shin with her cane.
"You woke me up, what did you expect?" I knocked the offending object away from my leg.
"But it's one in the afternoon." Nepeta cocked her head to the side in confusion, causing one of the cat ears to flop down, causing it to actually look as if Nepeta had cat ears on her head.
"Yes, on a Saturday. People sleep in on the weekends." I informed her, trying not to laugh at my weird thoughts.
"Crazy college Friday night last night?" Terezi asked with a mocking grin.
"Kind of." In all honesty, Vriska had insisted that we find a party, claiming that I needed to show her a real college night, and that I only had a year left to go crazy before the real world kicked in.
"Right." Terezi said, and I could tell she didn't believe me for a second.
"Kan, who is it, and why aren't they gone yet?" Vriska called as she walked out of the bedroom, still rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"Vriska!" Nepeta called, stepping past me into the house to give the still half-asleep girl a hug.
"Hey Nepeta. What's up?" She chuckled as she lightly hugged the shorter girl back. Luckily, Vriska had become used to Nepeta's unusual behaviors and affectionate nature.
"We should probably cut to the chase." Terezi stepped into the apartment as well, leaning up against the closet wall with her arms crossed over her chest.
"Right! We came over to see if you guys wanted to go get some lunch." Nepeta let go of Vriska and asked us.
"Also." Terezi prompted, sounding a little annoyed.
"Right. Also I have a favor to ask." She stated.
"What would that be?" I asked, running a hand through my hair to try and tame it a bit. You would think short hair would be easy to manage, but I got bedhead like a mad woman.
"Well, I found a pregnant cat outside a few weeks ago, and I need to find homes for the kittens, so I was wondering if you'd help me try and find them homes today." She asked.
"Yeah, because the last thing we need is more cats in our apartment." Terezi said with a small shudder.
"We only have two. And you wonder why Pounce de Leon and Felix don't like you very much." Nepeta chided her roommate.
"Whatever." Terezi brushed the statement off.
"Not to interrupt or anything, but we'd be happy to help." Vriska piped in.
"We would?" I asked, her agreement surprising me a bit.
"Of course. We'd be terrible people if we didn't help a bunch of kittens." Vriska informed me.
"You're totally making up for the fact that you couldn't have a pet at your last apartment, aren't you?" I asked.
"A little. Now, we need to get changed." Vriska told our two house guests, motioning to our pajamas. "Just give us a second." Internally shrugging, I began following Vriska into the bedroom.
"Try not to jump each other back there, we would like to have lunch in the near future!" Terezi snickered as we walked to the bedroom.
"Don't make me regret telling you about us Terezi." I grumbled, looking over my shoulder at her.
"Right, right. I should be honored that you came out to us first and all that. Doesn't mean I wont tease you two." Terezi brushed me off, crossing her arms once more.
"Kan, come on, I'm hungry." Vriska tugged on my wrist, pulling me towards the bedroom.
"Why is everyone teaming up on me?" I groaned, allowing myself to be led to the other room.
Four hours and five kittens later, Nepeta, Terezi, Vriska, and I were sitting outside our apartment building, Vriska holding a box containing one small kitten.
"What are you going to do with this one?" Vriska asked Nepeta, absentmindedly stroking the mewling kitten.
"I don't know. I could try getting someone to adopt her tomorrow I guess." Nepeta told us, sighing deeply. Vriska looked back at the little kitten in the box, then to me, then back to the kitten. Her eyes suddenly brightened, and she lifted the kitten out of the box, cradling the tiny creature in her arms.
"She's really cute, huh Kanaya." She bumped my arm, prompting me to look at the cat.
"I guess." I answered, nervous where this was going.
"It's a shame she didn't get a home today."
"Yes, but maybe she'll get one the next time we try."
"We don't know that for sure. And Terezi sure doesn't want another fuzzy creature running around her place." Vriska said, eyes wide and innocent.
"Oh no. Don't even-"
"Why can't we keep her? Please." Vriska asked, holding the tiny fuzz ball in front of her face, so that I was assaulted by two pairs of wide eyes. "Look how cute she is!" Vriska laid the cat in my arms, forcing me to hold the thing so I wouldn't drop her.
I looked down at the cat, and two wide green eyes looked back up to me. The kitten was cute, all black, with folded ears, long bushy fur, and the tips of two fangs peeking out of its mouth. She suddenly broke into a huge yawn, exposing tiny sharp teeth, before cuddling her face into my chest and purring like an engine. Against my will a small smile tugged at my mouth, and I couldn't help but admit that the little girl was already growing on me.
"Whipped." Terezi commented from beside me.
"Oh shut up." I half-heartedly chastised her.
"Does that mean we're keeping her?" Vriska grabbed my arm, bouncing up and down.
"I'm going to regret this…" I grumbled, handing Vriska the kitten. "Nepeta, would it be okay if we kept this one?"
"Really?" The shorter girl asked, eyes sparkling. I nodded, and she let out a small squeal of excitement. "Of course!"
"We'll need to run to the pet store to get her some things. She also needs a name." I told my girlfriend, getting up and offering her a hand. She took it, then kissed me hard on the lips.
"Thank you so much!" She said with a sparkle in her eyes.
"Someone's gettin' some tonight." Terezi commented, standing up as well.
"Oh, shut up!" I groaned.
"Well, if you don't want to, then fine." Vriska threw over her shoulder as she sauntered to the car.
"That's not what I said!" I quickly called out, pointedly ignoring Terezi's cackling. "Thank you Nepeta." I gave her a quick hug.
"No, thank you! And trust me, you'll love the little kitty. They're such good pets, low maintenance too."
"Low maintenance sounds good to me." I called over my shoulder as I walked to the car.
"I was thinking Alice."
"Huh?" I turned to Vriska once I had parked the car right outside of PetSmart.
"Her name. Alice." Vriska clarified.
"Any particular reason?"
"Well, she has little fangs, hair that just kind of sticks up at every angle, and green eyes. She kind of reminds me of you, and you kind of remind me of Alice from those crappy fake-vampire movies you make me watch." She explained, scratching the kitten under her chin.
"You mean from Twilight? I remind you of Alice from Twilight?" I asked.
"Yep, only a lot less pale. And maybe a little but taller." Vriska chuckled.
"Gee, thanks." I said as I got out of the car.
"Don't mention it." Vriska laughed as we walked into the store.
I grabbed a cart, and walked to the cat section, grabbing all the things that Nepeta told me to get. Once I had everything we walked over to the collars.
"So what collar do you want little Alice to wear?" I asked, looking at the wall of collars.
"You like the name?" Vriska asked.
"It fits." I simply said, wrapping an arm around Vriska's waist. Alice looked up at me and mewed. "See, even she agrees." Vriska chuckled and looked over the collars.
"How about this one?" She showed me a collar that was blue and green striped.
"I think it's perfect." I grabbed the small band of fabric, taking it off the cardboard backing, and snapping it around Alice's tiny neck. She shook a little, causing the tiny bell to jingle. I giggled and threw the cardboard into the cart and headed to the checkout. Once we had paid we made a small silver tag with Alice's name, my phone number, and our address, just in case she got out.
"Time to go home Ali-cat." Vriska nuzzled the kitten.
"Really?" I couldn't help but laugh at the nickname.
"Don't judge." Vriska bumped me, walking to the car. I quickly caught up to her, hugging her from behind and ruffling Alice's fur.
"I think it is adorable." I assured her, kissing her neck quickly before I started unloading the bags into the car.
"Good answer."
A week had passed, and little Alice settled into the apartment very well, and Vriska seemed to really enjoy looking out for her. A week turned into two, then three, and before I knew it, Vriska was dropping me off on campus, and then headed off to her court date. I took a deep breath and headed to my psychology final, trying not to think of her.
Three hours, and an extremely sore hand later, I was standing outside the English building, waiting for Nepeta. Her exam ended a little after mine, and then Terezi's ended an hour later, so we were going to get some coffee to wait for the blind girl's exam to be over, and then we were going to head home.
"Hey Kanaya!" I heard Nepeta call out from the stairs of the building.
"Hello Nepeta. How was your final?" I asked as we began walking.
"Not bad. You know how I love writing! How about you?" She asked.
"I think it went well. Psychology and all." I smiled and shifted my bag to my other shoulder.
"Oh right. So how's Vriska today? Is she nervous at all?"
"I don't know. She says she isn't, but she was pacing a lot this morning, and she kept picking up Alice, putting her down, then picking her up again. Those are nervous patterns."
"Kan." Nepeta stopped my rambling. "Don't psychoanalyze her."
"That's not psychoanalysis…"
"Kanaya." Nepeta's voice took on a warning tone.
"Right, sorry."
"Anyway, you'll see when she gets home." Nepeta reassured me.
"Thanks."
"No problem, now let's go and get that coffee!" Nepeta yelled, grabbing my hand, and took off running.
Vriska got home a few hours after I did. I was sitting on the couch reading a book with Alice curled up beside me when I heard the front door open. Vriska walked into the living room looking exhausted, prompting me to quickly close my book and sit up straight. She plopped down on the couch, causing Alice to bounce and jump off the couch with a little cat huff, walking away with her head and tail high in the air.
"Hi." I greeted her, wrapping my arms around her.
"Hey." She returned the hug, leaning into me.
"So how did it go?" I prompted.
"I don't know how to answer that. Good I guess, because there weren't any problems. Aradia confessed and she would have been sentenced to 20 years because I suffered 'some physical and psychological harm' and it was her first offence, but she pleaded legally insane. So she is going to be locked up in a mental hospital instead."
"Only some harm?" I asked, wondering why it wasn't considered more severe.
"I didn't seem to have any major psychological scars, and I really only lost an eye since I got a new arm." She answered, raising her left arm to prove a point.
"That's bullshit." I grumbled.
"It's fine. She's gone, and that's all that matters, right?" Vriska looked up at me.
"Yeah, she won't touch you ever again. I'll make sure of that." I growled out, a little surprised at my own reaction.
"My hero." Vriska chuckled, snuggling more securely against my side.
"I think we should head to bed early tonight, what about you? It's been a long day for both of us." I ran my hand through her hair, which I was making sure that she brushed thoroughly every day.
"Sounds good to me." She sighed, getting up and holding her hand out to me.
Yes, I would make sure that that psycho bitch would never touch Vriska again. She meant too much to me, we had finally started our life together, and I sure as hell wouldn't lose her without a fight.
