Zombie Judal loses something to one of the cats and ropes his necromancer boyfriend, Hakuryuu, into helping him find it.

"Damn it Archimedes!" Judal screeches, running after the cat. For being nothing but a fucking skeleton, he sure moves fast. He hears the skittering of paws around the corner and Judal jumps after him, trying to catch up.

He nearly catches Archimedes in the hallway, only to slip on the rug and fall on his ass. "Fuck!" he screams, and Archimedes dashes off again. Stupid fucking cat and his love of toes, this is the third time this month.

Ugh. Judal starts to get up when the front door opens in his face, and he shrieks.

"What the- Judal?" Hakuryuu exclaims, looking down at him.

"Who else do you think it is?" he snaps, rubbing his head.

"What are you doing on the floor, in front of the door?" he asks.

Judal sits up enough to let Hakuryuu in, and grumpily answers. "I fell while chasing Archimedes, alright?"

Hakuryuu carefully steps around and puts his bag down, before offering Judal a hand up. "Why were you chasing him?"

"Stupid cat got one of my toes again," he says, gesturing at his foot.

Hakuryuu sighs heavily. "Again?"

Judal whines and shoves at Hakuryuu's shoulder. "Ugh, I don't even remember that I'm a shambling undead monstrosity most of the time and then Archimedes decides nope, time to make off with part of my body! I don't know why he likes them so much!"

"He's a cat," Hakuryuu says, shrugging. "Any idea where he went?"

"Upstairs, maybe? I don't know. Shit, I'm so glad I don't feel pain for the most part. You hit me pretty hard with that door."

"I am sorry about that, but I didn't expect you to be laying in front of it," he says. "I'm going to look for your toe, and then patch you up. I'll look over your head while I do, alright?"

Judal nods and wanders over to the couch to sit down, before pulling out his phone to mess around with it. He can hear Hakuryuu moving around upstairs and calling for Archimedes, and he settles deeper into the soft cushions.

There's a croaky meow, and a cat jumps into Judal's lap. "Aw, Belphagor, come to cheer me up?" he asks, skritching under what's left of his chin. "Yeah, you are. Why do you gotta be so snuggly when you almost lose hunks of skin any time you get pet?"

Belphagor just purrs in response, and Judal idly pets him while he waits for Hakuryuu to come back, hopefully successfully. The house isn't that big, but Archimedes is unfortunately good at hiding things.

Hakuryuu eventually returns looking disappointed. "I can't find him or your toe, I'm sorry. I'm going to do a run of this floor now."

Judal shrugs. "I can be without a toe. Remember when he hid one for a week? It was gross by the time we got to it!" he says, laughing. When Hakuryuu doesn't smile, he realizes that yeah, apparently they do have to find it now. "Do you want help?"

"If you'd like. But we really do need to find it, Judal, it's a delicate appendage…"

He hops up and Belphagor whines before stalking off, tail held high. "Nah, I'm up to it now. Let's go!"

Hakuryuu is on his knees with a flashlight, looking under the kitchen cabinets. "I don't think it's down here," he says, but Judal jabs a finger to the left of where Hakuryuu is looking.

"I think I saw something," he says. "Look, like over there. That corner."

"That's a pile of dust. Ugh, I really need to clean under here."

"No, next to the pile of dust. Babe, that my toe."

"I think I know what your toes look like."

"Yeah well, so do I!"

"You don't have to reattach them all the time! And that's just more dust," Hakuryuu says, shining the flashlight over it. "See?"

He groans. "I'm never going to have a toe again."