Meow

Disclaimer: Don't own anything except Serenity Anderson

A/N: Hello all! Hope I didn't make you all wait too long…

VelvetShadow, lol! Thanks for loving it! Here's an update!
Hatorisgirl, Well, I love, love, love that you love, love, love this! Lol
lt. commander richie, LOL! Terr + Serr + Twirp unforgettable!
Ratdogtwo, I'll try to keep up the good work! Thanks!
CATgrl, Hey, I wouldn't think of seeing a hot guy in boxers' bad either! And as for fluff I foresee some in the future!
Galaxya, AH, Thanks for bring that to my attention, I hadn't realized that I had jumped ahead a little bit. I had been working on a later chap and went back to fix chap12 up and added that by mistake. I fixed it now, So BIG THANKS!
Kyoko Kasshu Minamino, Oh, oh, here's the next chap; can I still get a copy of that pic? ;)

Anyway, I just want to say that there had been a small mistake in the last chapter but I fixed it, so if you want to just skim it the corrections were at the end of the chap. Well, here's the next chap, a little more non confrontation fun at the movies…wait, did I say fun? ;) Enjoy!

Let me know what you think, and Have A Nice Day!

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As soon as the door shut behind them Serenity definitely felt weird. Should she offer to just let the two boys go alone? Or would that offend Matt? She bit her lip as they started to make their way out of the building and onto the streets.

"Meow."

All eyes turned to the noise and there she was, Bastet, looking beautiful, standing gracefully…on a garbage can. Serenity smiled brightly and made her way over to her, Matt right at her heels.

"Hello Baby," she cooed to the cat stroking her velvety head. She purred loudly and Matt began stroking her too. Serenity picked her up and crouched down so Matt could have easier access to the purring ball of fur.

"Bastet," the little boy said check to make sure he was right. Serenity nodded her head and smiled. The cat loved the attention.

A shadow fell over the two. The cat in her arms stopped purring and looked up at Terry. Serenity frowned when she saw a frown on Terry's face.

"Oh, are you allergic to cats or something?" she stated sounding apologetic, shifting the cat closer to her.

Terry seemed to be in a trance for a moment before snapping out of it.

"No, no I'm not allergic to cats," he took a step closer before stuffing his hands in his pockets.

Serenity looked at him with a gentle smile and once again he found that she was a pretty girl. All her bruises were long gone and she seemed to look a lot better. Although he had to admit that he never really looked at her before the incident…

"She won't bite you, she loves attention," a sparkle came to her eyes, "but be careful she does have claws!" She turned to the cat, "Don't you kitty?"

Terry narrowed his eyes but turned his face back to neutral. As soon as he saw that cat the suspicion in him rose. The Batman part of him came out and began taking note of everything. The cat was dark, like Miss Kitty. Plus the way the cat seemed to look at him, almost like she knew he was Batman. Sometime inside of him froze, could the cat smell that they had the same smell?

Was Serenity Catwoman? Could she even be Catwoman? Or was it just a coincidence?

…

He mental shook himself; he was being paranoid.

He looked up at saw she was looking at him, her smile slowly disappearing. He felt a pull in his gut; she was too gentle to be Catwoman, and she was just trying to be nice. The cat was just a coincidence…that's all.

Besides, what were the chances that SHE was Catwoman? He brushed the thought to the back of his mind.

Hesitantly Terry pulled one hand out of his pocket and held it out towards the cat. Slowly Bastet picked her head up and sniffed his hand. Just like he had feared the cat pulled away and looked up at him her gold eyes locking on him, almost piercing him in his place.

But to his great relief the cat started purring and then rubbed her head against his hand. Terry forced a smile as he tried to get his heartbeat back in control.

Paranoid, his mind chanted at him, paranoid, paranoid, paranoid…

"Alright Bastet, go on with your wanderings and have fun," Serenity stated putting the cat back down on the ground and walking away. Terry made a mental note that the name of the cat was Bastet as he called after her, "won't she get lost just wandering around?"

Serenity turned around and for a moment he couldn't move. In that moment, the way the light shone down on her, highlighting streaks of her hair she was beautiful. The blond and browns seemed to shimmer in the light and the blue of her eyes seemed so clear. Her face seemed to glow softly and an odd looked entered her eyes as she gazed at him.

"Not all those who wander are lost," she said softly.

The air around them seemed almost to pause-

"Let's go to the movie, I can't wait!" Matt exclaimed rushing forward.

The moment passed.

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The walk to the movies had been awkward at first and it didn't really get better as it went along. Matt himself was ecstatic. He talked to Serenity nonstop and liked to be the center of attention between the three of them, which was fine by her. She kept thinking thoughts she shouldn't have been about a guy that was only two feet away from her.

At one point when they were getting closer to the theater Matt grabbed her hand.

Terry tried to hide the surprise in his eyes at the action. Matt didn't like to hold hands with anybody anymore. He had stated he was a big boy and didn't need to.

Serenity saw the surprise on his face and gave him a sheepish smile before leaning over discreetly and whispering in his ear.

"I'm a girl," she said quietly, both trying to ignore each others close proximity, they were only a hair away from each other, "that makes it okay to hold hands." She pulled back with a grin trying to hide the blush in her cheeks.

"So what are we seeing?"

"Revenge of the Vampire!" Matt exclaimed tugging on her hand.

"No," Terry said with a frown and Matt in turn frowned, mimicking his older brother. For that moment Serenity could clearly see the resemblance between the two. They looked like spitting images of each other frowning and pouting. Matt would definitely be a looker when he grew up, Serenity thought to herself.

"You said you'd take me!" Matt whined dropping her hand to place on his hip.

"You're too young for that movie, it'll give you nightmares!" Terry said sensibly shaking his head 'no'. Serenity watched, eyes going back and forth between the two like a tennis match, as they continued to argue.

"Twerp, No." Terry finally said with a hard tone in his voice. Matt frowned and crossed his arms over his chest. Serenity felt oddly out of place, again, between the two brothers and didn't know what to do. If Terry felt that Matt was too young who was she to disagree? But if he had promised Matt then he shouldn't break his promise.

Serenity snuck a peek at Matt and saw him sniffling slightly. She remembered how he had told her he was going to tell his friends all about seeing the movie with his brother Monday at school. She bit her lip before bending down and putting a comforting arm around Matt.

"C'mon Terry," she said lightly and putting on a puppy face.

"Matt's a big boy, right Matt?" she asked and Matt immediately began to agree with her and nodding his head.

Terry just frowned even more. Now Serenity was arguing against him? She didn't think he knew what was good for his own brother? Who did she think she was?

"How about we go to see the Vampire Revenge one, But," she stated looking down into Matt's eyes, "If Terry thinks it gets too scary we have to leave, no questions or complaints."

She stroked Matt's dark hair before looking back at Terry, her eyes slightly pleading, "This way, you both can get what you want. Matt can see the movie, even if it's only for a short while and Terry can decide if it's too scary or not firsthand."

Both guys were silent. Terry raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything. He knew that Matt would never agree to anything like that. Anything where Terry had the power to choose and Matt wouldn't agree. But he himself hated to admit it but it sounded fair. It wasn't that he didn't want to see the movie; it was just he didn't want Matt to get nightmares. He was trying to look out for his little brother…

Serenity should have just shut up. She shouldn't have opened her mouth, and she shouldn't have been there right now. She should have just trained by herself this morning, not even left the apartment. Whenever she associated with people something bad always happened.

She was about to open her mouth but Matt beat her to it.

"Okay Serena," he said quietly before looking up, "I don't like it, but…okay."

Matt let out a defeated sigh. There went his plans to put popcorn in Terry's hair and spilling soda on Terry's lap to make it look like he peed on himself. He had it all planned out too, wait until the movie was ending and he had just the right amount of soda left…trip at just the right time and BAM…Terry gets to walk around with wet pants for the rest of the time at the movies without punishing him…

Terry was stunned.

"Is that okay with you Terry?" Serenity questioned turning to look at him.

He was still stunned. He shook his head to clear the cobwebs. If Matt agreed to behave, than he guessed it would be okay. He looked at Serenity and saw that she and his brother were watching him.

"Alright," he stated shaking his head, "let's go."

When he turned around though he missed the wink that Serenity gave Matt.

The movie went by quickly. The three hadn't left and stayed for the entire movie. Matt was pretty good throughout the whole movie but had Serenity and Terry's hand in death grips the whole time.

Terry had to admit that Matt had handled the movie better than he thought he would have. The two boys had laughed when Serenity had jumped when the Vampire had popped out of a closet, but she got her revenge when the boys jumped when the Vampire had made a surprise visit to some guys while in the bathroom.

They were exiting the movie theater when the trio stopped, that was when Terry noticed that Matt and Serenity were acting funny.

"What?" he questioned and both looked at him with confused expressions, but Serenity's was better than Matt's…something was up.

He was about to brush the thought away when he noticed people snickering and giving him an odd look as they walked by him. His brows furred slightly, what was going on?

He turned back to the duo and saw them trying to keep a straight face…and failing. Oh no, what did they do?

"What is-"

"Excuse me sir, you have something on your butt," A woman with a small child standing next to her cut him off. The little child was giggling loudly but trying to smother it with both of his small hands clamped over his mouth. Then her words penetrated into his brain,

Something on his butt?

Terry narrowed his eyes before twisting around, slowly, cautiously, to see his backside…

There was crushed popcorn stuck on his butt. And not just a little bit…all over.

He heard some sniggers and whipped around to look at the guilty party. Matt was clutching Serenity's hand and both were now laughing openly. They had put popcorn on his seat for him to sit on! He felt his lip twitch and wasn't sure if it was from amusement, anger, or embarrassment.

Hastily Terry started to brush off his, a-hem, backside of the popcorn that had been crushed on before turning the glare on his younger counterpart.

"Matt," he growled lowly. He felt himself blush as people kept walking by and casting him a quick glance. Luckily, it wasn't anybody he knew.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry," Matt laughed pulling on Serenity's hand involuntarily. He and Serenity had put some popcorn on his seat before Terry had sat down. It had been Serenity's job to distract him while Matt put the popcorn down, and it had worked surprisingly well.

Serenity couldn't stop the giggle from erupting from her lips; the look on his face when the woman had come up to him was priceless. Slowly she got control of herself and noticed that Terry was blushing and swiping at his backside, only getting half of the popcorn off.

Without thought she let go of Matt's hand, walked behind Terry and began brushing off the remaining popcorn. Terry froze as soon as he felt her small hands swatting the popcorn from his backside.

"I have to go to the bathroom," Matt exclaimed suddenly jumping from one foot to the other in an attempt to hold his bladder. Serenity noticed the way that Terry had frozen when she started helping him out and stepped away from him casually. She turned to face Matt with a grin.

"Will you boys be alright going in there all by yourself? Or do you need me to protect you?" She teased them with a smile.

"I'll protect Terry!" Matt exclaimed putting his hands on his hips like a superhero.

"That's very sweet of you, protecting your brother like that," Serenity said touching his chin lightly. She tried to ignore the mushy, sinking feeling that was entering her stomach. John had protected her until he died.

She shook her head before plastering on a smile, "I'll run to the girls room too," she said before turning and doing just that.

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She stared at the mirror in the bathroom and took deep breaths. She did not just touch his butt with his little brother present. Deep breath; but what a nice butt…AHH-dirty thoughts! She should not be focusing on how his posterior was as hard as granite when she was going to be facing him in a few seconds! She splashed a little bit of water on her face before wiping off her hands. After a couple more minutes of pep talk she decided she was as ready as she was ever going to be.

When she exited the bathroom a few moments later she walked into a site she definitely wasn't expecting.

Terry and Matt were there waiting, but not alone. Dana and Chelsea were there also. Serenity froze, unsure of what to do. Should she go over? She didn't speak to those girls normally. Her decision was made for her when somebody stepped up to her.

Nelson.

She rolled her eyes at him, of all the times he was going to try and talk to her.

"What?" she said, not harshly but not kindly. He only smiled which was never a good sign.

"Hello Serenity," he stated happily. He looked her over and his eyes landed on her chest, typical male. She wasn't wearing a baggy shirt, or sweatshirt like normal so her chest was more visible than usual.

"My eyes are up here," she snapped at him crossing her arms over her chest.

"You know Serenity," he stated completely ignoring what she said, "you're looking good today," he said with what she thought was supposed to be his charming grin. It wasn't working. At all.

"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind," she replied scathingly starting to walk away. She was halted when a hand grabbed her arm. She shut her eyes and let out a slow deep breath, counting backwards from 20. She would not break this guy in front of everybody. A small smile graced her lips; maybe she would just steal something from him later…

"We weren't done talking yet," he said still smiling.

"HEY!" a voice spoke up and the two turned to the new speaker.

Matt.

Serenity felt a migraine coming on, a big one. She focused on Matt and gave him a reassuring smile.

"What's up Matt? Ready to go?" she questioned trying to keep the boy from getting involved. Matt was still eyeing Nelson holding her arm.

"You okay Serena?" Matt questioned sounding way older than a nine year old.

"She's fine squirt, now run along," Nelson stated dismissively waving away the kid with his other hand. Matt didn't move. He didn't like the way he had called him squirt, while Terry called him twerp and stuff like it, he didn't really mean it. He didn't like the way this guy was talking to him or Serena. Should he get Terry? He didn't want to leave Serena alone though…

"Why don't you go wait with your brother little man, I'll be right over," She stated. Terry and the other females had yet to notice that Matt wasn't with them. Nice job Terry, she thought sarcasticallyIf she could just get Matt to go back to his brother than she could avoid a scene.

It would seem fate was against her today.

"I want to wait with you, there talking about stupid stuff," he said coming to stand next to Serenity. Nelson had yet to remove his grip from her arm.

"Look kid," Nelson said loosing his patience. He dropped Serenity's arm, bent down into the boys face and touched his shoulder, "Why don't you go run along and- UGH-"

His sentence was cut short when he found himself face floor on the movie theater floor. His arm was painfully twisted behind his back and he felt a knee digging into his spine.

He groaned loudly when he felt more pressure being put on him.

"Listen," a voice hissed into his ear, "you can try and talk to me, that's fine, you can blatantly stare at my chest even though I want to claw your eyes from their sockets, that's fine, but if you ever lay a hand on him, again, I will tear your arm from your body and beat you with it."

Nelson had never heard or seen Serenity so pissed off before; actually he had never seen her pissed off period. For a moment he couldn't hear anything other than the blood pounding in his ears. Who knew that this girl could have pinned him? For some reason that made her seem that much more attractive to him, oh it wasn't a turn off in the slightest…a dominate female who could take care of herself. He wasn't enraged like he thought he should be, he was intrigued, what else could she do?

Serenity ignored all the stares she was receiving. She really didn't care at that moment. He had crossed a line that he shouldn't have and she had to put him back in his place. She picked her head up and tossed some hair that had fallen into her face over her shoulder before bending down to him again.

So much for ignoring a scene, she thought grumpily.

"Do I make myself absolutely clear?" she stated and now her voice sounded silky and dangerously low. He nodded his head but she pulled on his hair making him arch slightly in an agonizing angle.

"I can't hear you," she snapped and he groaned slightly from the pain coming from his arm, back and neck.

"Yeah, yeah I understand," he stated and was all to happy when she let him go.

When he finally managed to get to his feet again he met her eyes, blue ice that he felt to his core. She took the little kids hand and began waking away only to stop a few feet away and turning back to him.

"Oh," she stated and her head tilted to the side, "If you even touch me again, without my permission, I'll render you sterile and make sure you can never sire children," she smiled brightly, "ever…Have a nice day."

With that she turned and began walking over to Terry and the girls who were watching in stunned silence.

"Hey ladies," she said cheerily before turning to Terry.

"I've had enough jackas-" her eyes flew to Matt who was looking up at her with a wide-eyed look, "-jerk for one day, I'm gonna head back," she stated looking at Terry.

"Can I come with you?" Matt stated looking up at Serenity in awe to which she shrugged and looked at Terry with a smile.

"Is it cool if he comes with me?" Terry managed to close his mouth and look down at Matt but it only lasted a few seconds before they flicked back to Serenity.

"Ugh, sure yeah, that's okay," he answered back finally getting his mouth and brain to work together. She smiled a dazzling smile that looked vaguely familiar before placing a hand on his chest, leaning up and kissing his cheek. Serenity almost purred when she felt the hard muscle under her fingertips but was able to hold it in. Terry felt his stomach tingle slightly when her soft lips can into contact with his cheek and fought down a blush.

"Thanks for the movie, have a nice day everyone!" she chirped before turning to Matt wide smile firmly in place.

"'Kay, let's go little man."

The two began walking away, hand in hand.

"That was so totally SHWAY!" Matt's voice drifted off as they moved further away. "Can you teach me how-" his questions and rattling talking disappeared as they vanished from sight.

Laughter filled the air, and the room returned to normal. The three students all looked at each other in amazement over the thing they had just witnessed.

"What just happened?" Chelsea asked looking at the retreating form of the duo.

"I have no clue," Dana replied with raised eyebrows. "But that was kind of cool," she added on with a small grin. Of course the part where Serenity had just kissed her Terry, WASN'T cool… okay, so maybe he wasn't her Terry still, but if he could get his act together maybe she would give him another shot but not if SHE, Serenity, was hanging around him…

Terry couldn't share that grin, nor feel anything besides a sinking feeling in his gut. A conclusion was starting to form itself in his head and he didn't know what to think about it.

Serenity had defended herself against somebody almost twice her size, and without breaking a sweat. The cat, the self-defense, things were starting to add up and right in front of his eyes. No matter how much he told himself that it was ridiculous, something in his gut wouldn't let it be dismissed so easily.

Out of the corner of his eyes he saw a smile cross over Nelson's face. That couldn't be good; Terry didn't like the gleam in his eyes. Nelson shook his head and rubbed his arm before walking into the bathroom.

Terry forced a smile onto his face all the while thinking that he had to talk to Wayne.

"Yeah," he spoke up trying to sound more convincing. His gaze lingered on where Serenity and his brother had just left,

"That was cool."