I had great fun writing about laptops from a newbie's point of view, hope you enjoy reading it and fondly remember your first computer experiences. I don't own any of the mentioned fics or computer features, or solitare.
Midday the next day
'Danger! Danger!' called out Coricopat finishing off with a high keening noise
'Danger is coming to the junkyard!' wailed Tantomile flopping dramatically onto her side.
The twins carried out their appearance of "seeing a vision". Their bodies withered and twisted on the ground into peculiar pretzel like shapes, all time "prophesying the junkyard's doom. Coricopat even did a circuit of the clearing slithering on his back with his paws waving in the air. Soon enough all the Jellicles were gathered around the twins, listening in horror to their predictions. The rest of the junkyard was deserted.
When he was sure that no one was around Mistoffelees appeared in front of his den and waited for Macavity. Soon enough he emerged holding a grey colored box with a picture of an apple on the front.
'Here you go Misto' he muttered 'have fun with your new box'
'It's a laptop actually'
'Eh?'
'I remembered last night that my humans called the box a laptop' explained Misto
'Laptop then… well goodbye then Misto' Macavity turned as is to leave but paused. 'Erm, how's Demeter going?'
'Your sister's fine Macavity, she's been teaching me and some of the other cats to tap dance' said Misto
'Ah… I see… thank you Misto' Macavity smiled softly and began walking off.
Mistoffelees hesitated before calling out to him 'Macavity!'
'What?' he asked. Misto sneezed before replying.
'Do you know any good sleeping spells?'
'Try page 375 of your spell book Mistoffelees' Macavity instructed before slinking into the shadows.
MOSTOFFELEES'S POV
Poofing back into my den with the laptop I gingerly set it on the floor and opened it like I had seen my humans do. A blank screen stared at me. I tried pressing a few of the buttons experimentally, Nothing happened. Leaning forward I sniffed the screen, it smelt weird, it wasn't any scent I could put a name too.
'Well then' I muttered 'let's see how this thing works'
Two hours later and I still couldn't get the blasted computer to turn on.
I had tried everything. Pressing all the buttons, pressing the buttons in different combinations, frowning at it, shaking it, swearing at it (not too loudly in case Jelly heard) all the other things I remember my humans doing when they were having trouble with the laptop.
And it still wouldn't work!
Exhausted and frustrated my control over my magic started to waver and my coat began to sparkle with the scent of bitter peppermint. Small bolts of electricity jumped out of my paws and one hit the laptop. It crackled sharply to life causing me to jump. Looking round guiltily and hoping that no one else had smelled my magic I watched as the laptop started loading and sorting itself out.
Once it had finished loading I cautiously started pressing the keys, nothing happened. I traced my claws over the little box that was indented in the laptop like I had seen my humans doing. My tail twitched excitedly, the arrow thing on the screen was moving! I was moving it!
After giving myself a congratulatory purr I made the arrow hover over some of the objects on the screen. There was one that said My Computer but when I clicked on it, it opened up an empty box, the same went for My Documents and Recycle Bin. I then got lucky with Games,several icons showed up one which to my delight I recognised.
'I can play solitaire on this?' I wondered
After quite a few games of solitaire I went back to the original page. There was one last thing I hadn't tried yet called Internet I clicked on it. After a few minutes of humming a new page came up on the screen with the word Google written in big colourful letters. I remembered that this was something called a "search engine". With trembling paws I typed in Cats Fanfiction and pressed Google Search.
The first thing that came up looked promising it was called Cats FanFiction Archive, clicking on it I smiled as I hit the jackpot.
I had found Cats Fanfiction.
Curious I selected Mistoffelees/Quaxo on the character selection button. Quite a few stories came up and I selected one at random. Reading the story I froze for a few minutes before stuffing a pillow in my face to smother my laughter.
'hahaha they mated me with Tugger! Oh my, oh wait till I show this to Bombalurina. She'd murder me! Wiping tears from my eyes I selected another story and read.
It was a story where Jemima and I met and eventually fell in love. The author managed to describe Jemima's sweet face to the exact detail, and beautifully illustrated her playful bouncy nature. My cheeks turned slightly pink and I returned to the main page to read a rather cheesy fic about Munkustrap and Demeter.
I continued reading fics till I looked at the time at the bottom of the screen 'Great Bast I've been on this for nearly five hours!' I knew that soon I'd have to turn the laptop off and go to sleep. But I still felt wide awake. Had it really been five hours? It felt like so much less.
Scrolling down to the bottom of the page I found that the author had posted a link to a place called YouTube. My mouse hovered over the link.
'A few more minutes can't hurt' I clicked on the link.
And so continues Misto's exploration into the great wide world of cyberspace!
I just wish to say that this is in no way going against the Tugger/Misto pairing (I'm actually quite fond of it myself) but I thought that this Misto might find it rather funny.
This doesn't go against the Deme/Munk pairing either. But you've got to admit their whole he saves her from Macavity thing does get a bit repeditive.
Yes our Misto has a small crush on Jemima, I'm not telling you if he does anything about it though, that would spoil the story now wouldn't it?
