Week 2 - 9/8/08 - UDC3 - AT-AV: All Terrain Attack Cat (AU)
6. Alderaan
Her person kept waving a string around for her, and every time she got ahold of it with her claws, they vied for control of it. It was a game with her person, one they did every day together. Suddenly a noise spooked her and the string was forgotten in favor of a nice, dark place to hide from it. Not the string, but the noise. It had been very loud.
Her person appeared in the space between the bottom of the bed and the floor, peering in at her. "AT-AV? Come on out. It was just a door slamming."
AT-AV decided she didn't like doors that slammed.
7. Yavin IV
Leia smiled as she watched the twins play keep away with AT-AV. The Pitten was older now, but no less agile or alert. It was good to hear sounds of life in the too-still grand audience chamder of the temple. Good to be reminded as she sat here of the other time, joyful and bitter, that this place evoked memories of. Good to not be reminded of that which lay behind her.
A sudden hiss brought her attention back to the twins and AT-AV, who was now bounding away from them to join her on the steps. Leia blinked for a moment, then laughed and scooped up her pet. "Did something you didn't like, hmm?"
AT-AV's only response was a purr.
8. Bespin
Lando was surprised when, on the way back through the city to another landing pad, Leia took a moment to stop at her former shared quarters to retrieve a small... cat? "Is your pet really that important?"
As they began to run again, she nodded. "Yes."
He'd wonder why she had such a strong bond with an animal until AT-AV climbed into his lap and demand he pet her. Then it would make sense why, even on the run from Stormtroopers, such a woman would stop for her pet.
9. Hapes
Confinement was boring, AT-AV observed after the third straight day of being left alone in her person's rooms. Not only was it boring, but her person really seemed to have bad taste in males. This one... AT-AV didn't like him, and definitely didn't like his smell. He smelled like old, really old and rotten, fish. She liked fish, but this was a kind of fish that didn't even smell good. Not at all. What happened to her person's mate, anyway? What was wrong there, and what was her person doing going around with this other person?
Later, when Leia returned, she'd wonder why AT-AV glared at her for an hour.
10. Dagobah
Luke was half-way to Dagobah before he realized that he had a stow-away in his X-Wing. Staring at Leia's pet, now sitting on his lap and staring out at the molted sky of hyperspace, he wondered if maybe he should turn around, head back to the fleet, and postpone his trip to talk to Master Yoda. Would talking to his Jedi Master really help matters? Did he really want the answers?
AT-AV turned her head, looked straight at him, and then put her paws on his flight-suit covered chest. Then she meowed meaningfully. Luke chuckled and pet her on the head.
Then again, maybe he really did need to talk to Yoda after all...
