Chapter 7

"I won't do it."

"What do you mean, you won't do it?"

"Just like how it sounds." Katrina was speaking with the Chameleon. "I won't break her heart. If I did, she would never be the same again. I won't do it."

"But what about your home city. Don't you want to save them?"

"I'll stop you no matter what you do, but Kitty Katswell means a lot to me and I won't jeopardize my relationship with her just so you can see her cry again."

"Are you sure?" Chameleon asked.

"Yes, I'm sure."

"Then you will feel my wrath!" Jumping at Katrina, Chameleon pushed her right into the waiting claw of a machine that put a collar around her neck. "Now, you will do as I say or your home city is destroyed and Kitty Katswell is too." Chameleon laughed as Katrina struggled to get the collar off.

"I'll never do anything you say." She screamed, pulling and clawing at the collar.

"Oh yes you will. Especially with the Electro Collar on. Haha!"

"Electro Collar?" Katrina asked fearfully. There was a moment and then the collar zapped her.

"Ouch!" Katrina touched the collar and felt the tears come to her eyes.

"Aw, is the Kitty going to cry?" Chameleon giggled and sent Katrina away.

"What am I going to do?" Katrina sobbed when she got home. "Kitty loves me and I love Kitty. I can't let her down like this." Sniffing, Katrina slowly got ready to go to work.

"Hello, Kat!" Kitty meowed in welcome, greeting her girlfriend.

"Whatever." Katrina stalked passed and flopped into her desk chair heavily.

Kitty's face fell at that. "What's wrong?" she asked in a small voice.

"Nothing of your concern, I'm just having a bad day is all."

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that."

Kitty sat at her desk and glanced across at Katrina, who was staring at the ceiling.

"Kat?" Katrina glanced at Kitty and Kitty's heart dropped to see cold eyes staring back at her. "Did I do something wrong?"

"No, but I did."

"What happened?"

"I-." Katrina broke off as she winced in pain. "I-." Another pained look. "I can't tell you."

Kitty's eyes filled with tears and she quickly put her head down to cover it up, but Katrina saw them and she too felt the tears. We tell each other everything Kitty thought sadly. But now we make love and she wants to keep secrets. I should have known this would happen if I opened my heart to anyone else. Kitty soon couldn't take it anymore and she rushed to the Cat's room.

Katrina watched her go with sorrowful eyes and hated herself. I know I shouldn't act cold to her, but it's the only way I can keep her from the truth. That day, Katrina let Dudley and Kitty go on the mission's by their self. She didn't want to jeopardize the mission with this collar around her neck.

But things got complicated when the Chameleon began talking to her a few days later. "I want you to hack into TUFF's security system and make all of the agents think that they need to go stop a crime spree so that I can infiltrate the building and destroy it."

"I can't do that!"

"You will do that for me."

"No I won't!"

"Yes you will."

"No I won't," A sharp pain made Katrina cry out and clutch at her neck.

"You WILL do as I say!" Katrina wiped the tears of pain away and nodded like a dog that had been given a command. "Good Kitty."

"Where did Katrina go?" Kitty asked.

"I don't know, but I hope she didn't get herself into trouble." Dudley threw the paper airplane and it stopped in front of the chief.

Suddenly, the crime alarms rang. "All Agents Are Needed. All Agents Are Needed." The system repeated. All of the agents rushed out and Kitty and Dudley were the only two left.

"What's the matter Kitty?" Dudley asked.

"Dudley, you go with the other agents, I have to check something out."

"I hope it's a new ball. See you there."

Kitty marched to the security console and gasped in both shock and horror to see Katrina sitting at the desk talking to the Chameleon. "…agents are gone, Master."

"Excellent, now, deactivate the security system so I can get in."

Katrina's finger hovered over the button, but she seemed to be fighting the impulse to push it. "No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"NO!"

"YES!"

Katrina fell to the floor, writhing in agony for a second and slowly stood back up. Her eyes were lifeless again. "Yes, Master." Once again her finger hovered over the button. "Push it!" Chameleon ordered.

This time, there was no fight as Katrina slammed her paw on the button.

"No!" Kitty screamed, rushing forward and enabling security again.

"Kitty?"

Kitty rounded on Katrina and pushed her away. "Don't touch me!" Kitty spat, her fur puffing out and her claws sliding into sight. "I hate you!" she screamed, running back out to the main area.

"Kitty, please!" Katrina began running after her, but a pain in her neck made her fall to her knees. Nevertheless, while the electricity shocked her, she continued to crawl after Kitty. Not seeing her in the main area, Katrina began looking all around for her. "Kitty?" she called. "Kitty, please listen to me."

"Why?"

Katrina turned to find Kitty right behind her. Receiving a punch to the nose, Katrina staggered back. "Because I had no choice!"

"What do you mean you had no choice?" Katrina gasped at a side-kick to her stomach.

"Well, it certainly wasn't voluntary!" she said, still trying to reason with her girlfriend.

Kitty punched her several more times, but stopped when she realized Katrina wasn't fighting back. "Why aren't you fighting me?" Katrina shook her head. "Answer me!"

Katrina's eyes continued to be sad as she kept her snout shut. Kitty growled. "Fine!" She threw Katrina against the wall and stormed out, calling to the other agents that it had been a false alarm.

Katrina slowly picked herself back up and made her way to the Cat's room. Washing her face, the white cat looked at herself.

"Look at you," her reflection said tauntingly. "You're in a real mess, aren't you? Well, it is your fault. If you hadn't let that dog do what he did to you back in Baconsfield, you wouldn't be in this predicament now. But you just had to fall for the Agent didn't you?"

"Shut up," Katrina growled lowly, glaring at the reflection.

"Why? You broke her heart, not me."

"Shut… up."

"Now she'll never forgive you. I certainly wouldn't."

"SHUT UP!" Katrina punched the glass to shards and stared at her hands, the hands that had beaten so many villains, that had thrown the ball with Dudley, that had caressed every inch of Kitty's wonderful body, that should be throttling the Chameleon for what he's done.

"I'm a monster. I don't deserve to have Kitty touch me or even think of me. I shouldn't be here."

Gritting her teeth at the pain in her throat, Katrina strode out of the restroom and over to her desk. Packing her things, ever so slowly, she held the picture she had of her, Kitty, and Dudley in a hug together and in the corner of that one was a picture of her and Kitty with their tails as they touched noses. She gently placed it in the box and left her resignation letter on her desk. Holding her chin high, Katrina Kitten left TUFF.