Can't Hug Every Cat
Characters: Elfman/Evergreen
Genre: Romance/Humor, K+
Summary: People find love in the weirdest places, really.
Can't Hug Every Cat
Working in that pet shop was supposed to be only a boring temporary summer job and Evergreen was counting the days until it was finally over.
But then, a strange thing happened.
Tall and muscular were not words that accurately described the man that had just entered the store. The guy was huge, like, gorilla-huge and sort of intimidating. She stopped fanning herself and straightened her posture behind the counter, ready to check if there was any truck tires available for his sanguinary pit bull to destroy.
Instead, the man approached her with a warm smile and asked for ten cat collars.
"Ten cat collars." She repeated mostly to reassure herself she hadn't suddenly hit her head and was now hallucinating.
"That's right." He nodded.
"Huh." She replied dumbly while putting her fan down. "Ok, hum… what kind of cats do you have?"
The man looked directly in her eyes and answered her question in a serious tone. "They're all supermodels."
She suppressed a huff. Really, was she on drugs or something?
Evergreen discreetly scanned his figure. He was kind of handsome and dressed in some nicely cut suit – yet a bit disheveled, but it didn't seem to bother him. Nothing in him screamed 'lunatic' or 'crazy cat lady', though.
Intriguing.
"Ok." She hesitantly mumbled. "Well, please follow me, mister…"
"Elfman."
"Elfman." She tested the word, finding its sound very pleasant. "We have some really fancy models up here…"
The guy – Elfman, that is – spent nearly an hour chatting with her about how incredibly mad he was with the council because they were doing nothing to stop some people in the neighborhood from trapping cats to use as dog baits and how urgent was his need to protect his beloved balls of fur.
Evergreen listened intently to everything he had to say, which only made her curiosity raise. He clearly loved his cats to no extent and didn't seem to think ten was really that big of an amount of cats to have, looking more than happy to throw some good cash to buy stuff for his cats.
His concern was kind of cute, if she thought about it.
When he finally took off, she couldn't help but sigh deeply, the man of the ten cats never really leaving her mind.
.
Working in that pet shop was supposed to be only a boring temporary summer job, but Evergreen was begging for his boss to let her stay at least until the guy showed up once again. The reason she stated for such a thing was quite simple.
She might be in love.