GS Note: I'm beginning to feel loved! Thank you to Hex, Silent Shinigami, Kobura Doragon, Jordan, Nightwings and neko-heero. May you all be repeat reviewers, lol! I did say there was going to be my own twist, and Trowa is proof of that! Don't worry though, it's not gonna affect her relationship with Kitty-Quat!

Chapter 3

Duo's ears went flat and her tail puffed as the woman smiled cheerfully at the two cats. Trowa looked up at her Mistress with calm, green eyes. Noin smiled as she ignored the spitting Duo and opened Trowa's cage and picked up the grey striped cat.

"Well, how is everyone today?" the woman smiled and stroked the grey cat's head. Trowa sat content in her arms. "You are ok, Tro, I'll put you back with the other kitties so you can have some fun."

Duo watched, still in attack mode until the woman left with Trowa and she was left alone in the bright room. Slowly she relaxed and lay back down in the cage. She was still nervous and jumpy, her tail puffing and twitching at every move in the room. It was too bright, her eye s hurt. She was thirsty and her leg itches. He leaned over and tried to scratch at the white plaster on it. She slumped back down when it didn't work.

A cat entered the open door and Duo almost didn't notice him. It was that same cat from the night before. Heero. He sat on the floor facing her cage. She looked down at him.

"What are you lookin' at?" she sneered, in pain and anger at being caged. Heero met her violet gaze with a blue one.

"I was wondering if you were alright," he said plainly. "Tranquillisers have some side effects. I don't have them anymore."

"I'm fine," Duo snapped then felt bad. "Thanks," she added quietly. "I know it wasn't your fault that human got us. I am going to get out of here though."

"How? You're hurt."

"Don't worry about that!" Duo snapped. "I have to get out!"

"If you behave, she'll let you leave that cage," Heero said quietly and didn't waver his eyes from hers.

"I have to get out of this building. My- I just have to go. It's none of your business anyway!"

Heero was about to reply when the woman walked back in. Heero scuttled under the examination table as she busied her self by wiping down the room clean. She didn't even notice him. Duo immedently went back on guard. Finally the woman sighed and stopped. She turned to Duo and said in a serious voice.

"This can't keep on happening," she warned. "I have to let you out sometime. You have no idea what you are, do you?"

Duo glared at her and hissed. Noin glared. "Look Miss Cat, you aren't leaving here anytime soon. I'm sorry if I'm reluctant to ship you back out to the streets when you can have a much better life here."

After that, Noin turned and left, making sure to turn off the lights so only the hall one shone in as she closed the door. Duo's eyes quickly adjusted to the darkened room as Heero scuttled back out from under the table. He jumped into Trowa's empty cage and sat on the other side of the bars, watching Duo lying helplessly in her own cage.

"So," she said after a few minutes of being started at by his colbat blue eyes. "What's your story?"

He cocked his head. "My story?"

"Yea, how did you end up here?"

Heero lay down in his open cage and got comfortable as Duo waited patiently. He shuffled around, obviously wasting time. He stopped moving and sat in silence again until Duo broke it.

"So, are you going to?"

"Make me a promise," Heero replied, not answering the question. "That one day you will tell me your story."

This time Duo paused in thought. Then she slowly nodded. Heero seemed satisfied with that and started to speak in a calm, matter-of-fact tone.

"I was born in Japan, a long ways from here. My mother was a Havana Brown, so was my father, and my father's father, and my father's father's father. It goes on. But my entire lineage has been champions since the first time our breed was recognised. When I was a few months old, I was bought by a woman, the collector that used to own this house. We called her the Lady. She's died since and left her entire fortune to one of her other cats, Treize. She came to take care of us after the Lady died. But before all of that, the Lady used to bring me to shows. I liked them well enough, that's for sure, but after a while I started to find them boring and tried to escape during the final judging.

"Needless to say, it didn't work. I was caught brought back and that was it. I was punished, the Lady locked me up in that room you met me in. I was fed in there and toys were brought in so I could exercise. I did learn how to escape of course, but that was after She moved in. She just figured I was temperamental and she leaves me in there. I like it that way, there was no kids to poke you or dogs to snap at you. But I must admit, I was glad when you stopped by."

Duo waited for him to continue but was disappointed when he didn't.

"That's it?" she asked, still wanting to know more about this cat. "Nothing else?"

"I'm sorry if I disappointed you," he stood up, not rude or hurt by her remark, just resigned to the fact that he bored her. "I'll be going now."

Duo watched him go, to put out to bother to call him back. She casually poked the white plaster cast with her nose as she pondered what Heero had said. Where was the bloodshed, the disappearances and the killings she had heard about from the other cats? Was that all true? If not, then why was she here? Why else did humans kidnap cats?

GS Note: I have to add something about those Toronto teens that skinned a cat alive and taped it. It was sick and totally wrong. I can't believe the mild sentence they got! To all you cats reading out there, remember that those guys are freaks and very few humans are actually like that! Jeez, that just makes be sick! I had to go kitten body hunting a few days ago when the barn kittens started to get lost in stalls and just seeing them almost made me throw up. This story is dedicated to my one, big, fat kitty, Dooley! I love him so mcuhand I just can't help but mention my own lap warmer! If anything like that happened to him I would go out and shoot those guys myself!