Summary: Cat-Takeo wants M-21's help with something.

I...could not be bothered separating this into its own post, so third part is getting put here still. XD;

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By Dark Ice Dragon

Part 3

M-21 looked at his shoulder when a weight dropped on it, getting a face full of whiskers. "Hey?" he said, lifting a hand to scratch cat-Takeo behind the ears. It was usually cat-Tao that demanded attention, cat-Takeo content laze in sun spots.

Cat-Takeo purred and then jumped off his shoulder again, landing on the counter before meowing at him.

M-21 watched as cat-Takeo purposely looking at wolf-M-21, who was outside in the garden, then licked himself.

"I don't get it."

Cat-Takeo sighed, then stroked the counter once, twice, three times, then stopped, staring at him.

Three? Cat-Takeo, wolf-M-21... Shit. "Where's your Tao?" He could empathise with feeling wary if he didn't know where Tao was.

Cat-Takeo nodded and leaped onto his shoulder again, wrapping his tail around M-21's neck, the tip resting on his collarbone.

If cat-Tao wasn't around... "He's probably downstairs," M-21 murmured, heading for Frankenstein's lab. Where his Tao was.

Cat-Takeo meowed in what M-21 guessed was agreement.

Tao was humming something when they reached the security room, something M-21 recognised but couldn't place.

At least Tao wasn't typing away, so he must have decided to take a break.

Tao swivelled his chair around, and there was cat-Tao on his lap being stroked. "So we meet again, Mr. Lee," Tao said in English, grinning at him as cat-Tao meowed.

...Right. That was where M-21 had heard that tune before: it was the theme song of that spy movie they'd been watching the previous night.

"We just saw you a couple of hours ago," M-21 said, sighing.

Cat-Takeo jumped off his shoulder, heading for both Taos.

"And this is us, meeting again after our long absence from each other," Tao said, snickering. "Do you wanna join in too?" Tao asked cat-Takeo after he leaped into his lap. "Or are you here to keep us out of trouble?"

"Keep you both out of trouble," M-21 said dryly. While having one Tao was hard enough to keep an eye on, let alone two, at least they also had more eyes to watch them as well.

"Eeeh." Tao ducked his head to nuzzle cat-Takeo. "And scritches. I totally give the best scritches around here, don't I?"

A laugh bubbled out of M-21's throat before he could stop it when both cat-Tao and cat-Takeo shook their heads.

Tao's eyes went wide and his jaw dropped. "Wait, seriously? Who's the better scritcher?"

All he got were meows in reply, and as M-21 left, he heard Tao's wail of, "Tell meeee!"

That should keep him distracted from his work for a little while.

It's Rai. Rai's the best petter, haha.

Prompted by an anon who asked for Tao acting like a Bond villain with kitty-Tao, haha.