(A/N – I am SO sorry for not updating on Christmas eve like I promised but my PC was experiencing loads of technical difficulties due to a virus from one of my sister's gaming websites. However, everything is fixed now so even through it's quite late, I am happy to present the Christmas oneshot for "A new way of life".
A new way of life – Christmas
Kat the purple alien feline felt someone shaking her through her sleep as she slept in the cat bed that she and Coop the ghost white cat shared. Knowing what day it was and determined to not spend the day doing human earth rituals, Kat swiped at the person shaking as a warning for them to stop and then shuffled around to get comfortable again. A few minutes later, Kat was awakened from her slumber again but this time by a scent; a scent of... copper.
Kat immediately opened her eyes and sat up right to see her secret crush standing in front of her with a bandage around his nose and a VERY unamused frown on his face. Kat smiled sheepishly before saying "Sorry Coop, merry Christmas." Because of his injury, Coop's response words sounded funny. "All I was doing was trying to get you up for the Christmas presents and you go and attack me; thanks a lot."
Kat looked like she was about to burst because there were tears flowing from her eyes and her cheeks were bright red from holding in air because she was currently using all of her might not to laugh. When Coop noticed her state and said "Kat?" in a questioning way, the purple feline couldn't take it anymore and began laughing hysterically on Millie's carpeted floor. When Coop realised what Kat was laughing at, he frowned at how immature she was being and just said "Come downstairs for your presents when you've calmed down." This only got more laughs out of Kat.
A quarter of an hour later, Kat's laughter finally subsided and she came down the stairs, a smile still on her face. As soon as she walked into the living room, she caught sight of the two Burtenburger humans and the one Burtenburger alien; all sitting silently and unmoving. "What are you guys doing?" Kat asked them. Now returning to their living states of mind, the other three occupants of the room turned to Kat and Burt said "Ah Kat, you're here. Now we can get started." Whilst Burt and Millie collected the presents from under the tree, Kat looked at Coop and mouthed 'You've all been waiting for me?' When Coop nodded, Kat felt guilt well up inside of her; if she had known they were waiting for her, she would've come down a lot earlier.
Before the family could begin to enter the present opening stage of the holiday, the doorbell rang. At first hearing it, all four home members groaned. That feeling of annoyance however, left the girl and white cat when they saw two elderly people walk into the living room. "GRANDMA! GRANDPA!" shouted Millie as she ran up to the pair and embraced them both whilst Coop restrained himself and a look of fear came across his facial features; his grandparents were the only ones who didn't know about his 'situation'.
"Hello, darling Millie!" Grandma replied as she returned the hug to her granddaughter. Whilst the two females had a hugging contest, grandpa looked throughout the whole living room as he searched for his grandson; all he found were the Christmas items and Kat plus another feline on the floor.
"It's good to see you again, dad" Burt said to his father as he re-entered the living room. Grandpa smiled in response before asking his son "Where's Coop, Burt? He's missing out on all the Christmas cheer." At the dreaded question, Burt asked Millie to release grandma from her embrace (which she did) and then asked his parents to follow him out to the hallway.
For a moment, there was silence as Coop, Kat and Millie all awaited a response from the elders. A couple of seconds later, a high pitch feminine scream filled the house and grandpa ran in to the living room; Christmas ornaments in both of his palms. "YOU EVIL CREATURE!" he shouted, directing towards the now quite scared purple feline who was hiding behind the white used-to-be Coop. "YOU PRACTICALLY MADE OUR GRANDSON AN ALIEN! I'M SENDING YOU BACK TO THE DEPTHS OF WHERE YOU CAME!"
Grandpa began throwing all sorts of Christmas ornaments at the felines, trying his best not to hit the ghost white coloured one he knew was his grandson. At the sight, Millie and Burt ran into the room and took the ornaments from grandpa whilst grandma slowly walked towards her husband. "Milton, I know that you are angry about this" she started. "But from what Burt has told us, Coop is doing fine as he is and it was an accident! So, if you have a problem with this then I guess we're going to have to leave and never come back."
Grandpa's entire mood suddenly changed from angry to defeated. Deep down, he knew he disliked his grandson being a different species but he also thought to himself that if Coop was fine then he was alright with it; as long as he was safe. "Alright, I won't do it again" grandpa said to his wife who nodded and said a quiet 'thank you'. Seeing that all was now better, Coop decided to speak up.
"Yeah guys, I'm fine! Really, life has never been better! I get to sleep all day, I barely have any responsibilities and best of all, I don't have to go school anymore!" At the last sentence, an evil smirk made its way to Burt's face and when he nodded at Kat, she gained the same expression. "Son" Burt started. "I forgot to tell you. As soon as the holidays are over, Kat is going to be your new home school teacher! Isn't that great?" he said, saying the last sentence sarcastically.
Coop's smile disappeared and was replaced by a look of fear. "WHAT!?" he practically screamed. "Kat can't teach me! She doesn't know anything about Earth!" Burt stepped forward and stroked his son's fur before replying "Exactly son, she's going to teach you stuff about HER species." As all the humans entered surrounded the tree for the presents, Coop looked back at his secret crush who still had the evil smirk on her face. As the two felines joined the group, Kat whispered to Coop "First lessons the alphabet"; Coop just groaned.
Later on into the day, the presents had been opened and the dinner had been scoffed and all the family were currently watching 'the Grinch' on the Christmas movie channel. Leaning sideways to lick from his saucer of milk, Coop realised it was empty and left for the kitchen to refill it. When he left, Burt and Millie nodded at Kat, who quickly followed the ghost white cat into the kitchen.
When Kat noticed her crush, he was drinking from the actual bottle of milk instead of putting it into a saucer like he was supposed to. Knowing this was a chance for hers, Burt's and Millie's plan to come into action, Kat walked up behind Coop with a knowing smirk on her face. She gently tapped him on his shoulder, causing him to tense up for a second and then slowly turn around to show Kat his milk moustache.
"Now Coop, you know how your father feels about you drinking from the milk bottle" Kat started with a taunting tone. Thinking this was not going to end well, Coop got into a begging position. "Kat, PLEASE don't tell my dad; he'll take away my bed privileges!" Kat's smirk remained so Coop pulled out the big guns. "Alright Kat if I do something for you, will you not tell dad?" Kat's smirk became a smile as she realised the plan was near completion.
"Follow me" was all she said and Coop did just that after putting the milk bottle back into the fridge. The two felines walked into the hallway outside the living room and then under the living room entrance archway. When Kat stopped in her tracks, Coop raised an eyebrow. In response, Kat just pointed up and Coop looked up to see... mistletoe.
Coop laughed to himself quietly before looking at Kat who was again smirking. "I thought this was meant to be some sort of punishment?" he said questioningly. Kat's only reply was her lips on his. Because they were distracted by the Christmas movie, both elders didn't hear the felines making out but it didn't go unnoticed by Burt and Millie, who just smiled at each other.
Boy, did Kat owe them.
(A/N – As I said before, sorry for the REALLY late update but I hope this made you guys happy either way. BTW, I have no idea what grandpa's real name is; I just used Milton for the heck of it and don't say Kat can't kiss, he/she has before in the cartoon.)