Together Chapter Thirteen
One chilly day in the middle of November, Luna is sweeping the stairs outside the shop. The Alley is how it usually is, busy with people running about doing their shopping; none of them paying a bit of attention to their surroundings. Mostly all of the people are dressed warm and some are carrying jars of fire to keep their hands warm. That gives Luna an idea to fill some jars with fire and put them on the steps when she is done. Thinking about what she is going to do when done; she continues her work while humming a random tune.
As she sweeps the wind begins to pick up and rustles more leaves onto the steps, Luna groans and sweeps them off. This repeats a dozen more times and Luna groans again and gives up, there is no use in trying any more. She huffs and sits down on the steps and rests her head on her hands. She watches the people walking around the alley minding their own businesses completely oblivious to the girl on the steps watching them. The wind blows her hair around and it blocks her view, she moves it out of her face and looks down at the ground bored. The day has been slow with little to no customers, which means that Angelina has been around since lunch. Luna wonders if she is actually on the Holly Harpies team since she is always with George. When does she actually practice she wonders.
She continues to ponder this and other things for a while, she doesn't have anything better to do. Well, she could go make the fire in the jars for the steps but she doesn't feel like it. So instead she continues what she is doing, nothing. After a while she hears a loud meow. She looks down and sees an orange tabby cat that is looking up at her with large green eyes. The cat is bigger than normal cats, it has large paws and a long tail. The cat meows again, Luna stares at it and smiles. The wind blows and Luna shivers along with the cat. Luna gentles reaches her hand out to the cat for it to sniff. The cat does and Luna pets it between the ears the cat begins to purr. Luna smiles and gets up she then reaches down and picks up the cat. The cat continues to purr as Luna walks into the shop.
Inside she takes the cat over to the counter and sets it down. She looks over the cat and sees that it is dirty and underfed. She goes to where she keeps her lunch and takes out the rest of her tuna sandwich, she then goes back to the cat and sets the sand which down in front of the cat. The cat smells the sandwich and then begins to eat the tuna. While the cat eats Luna goes and gets some water for it. She puts the water down next to the sandwich. She sits and watches the cat while it eats, she notices that the cat is a boy.
Once the cat is done eating she cleans him up and then sets him back down on the counter, she then goes and restocks the shelves. As she works the cat follows her around the shop rubbing against her legs every time she stops to but something on the shelves. She stops in the middle of putting away some potions and of course the cat again begins to rub against her. She looks down at him and he looks up at her with his large green eyes seeming to ask her to pet him. So Luna sits down on the floor and begins to pet the cat, the cat crawls onto her lap and begins to purr. She wonders if the cat as a name.
"What's your name little fella?" she asks. The cat looks up at her and tilts its head to the side as if he is thinking. Luna chuckles. "You sure are cute." She tells him and goes back to petting him. With nothing else to do, since she was only really restocking because of how slow the shop has been, she starts to tell the cat about her life. Starting from the very beginning and ending with her whole problem with George.
A half hour later Luna and the cat are still on the floor, Luna talking and the cat listening. Luna finishes her life story and sighs. "I really would like to know your name. Maybe I can guess it." Luna ponders out loud. "If I guess right give me a sign." She tells him. The cat blinks in responds. "Is it Carl?" The cat does nothing. "How about Bill?" Nothing again. She then goes through a dozen other names and the cat just continues to stare at her.
Crestfallen she is about to give up, however the cat crawls off her lap and goes over to one of the shelves. The cat stretches up and puts its front paws on the second shelf from the bottom. The cat then looks at Luna and then back at the shelf, then back at Lune and then back to the shelf. Luna gets the point and gets up and goes over to him. The shelf that the cat is showing her is a shelf with the felix felicis potion on it. The shop doesn't usually carry the potion often and when they do it is in small doses.
The cat looks at her again and Luna continues to look at the shelf wondering what the cat is trying to tell her. She has a hunch but is not sure. "Are you trying to tell me your name?" she asks. The cat meows in reply to her question; she takes that as a yes. "Is you name Felix?" the cat meows again and puts its paws back on the ground. The cat, Felix, comes back over to her and begins to rub his face on her legs. Luna smiles glad that she finally knows his name. "You are one smart cat." She says as she leans down and picks him up. She begins to walk back to the back of the shop wondering if George would mind having a shop cat. "Cats are great at keeping hobwanglers away." She says out loud going in to the back room to take inventory. She will ask him later, for now she will just keep Felix out of the way and finish her work.
Luna smiles feeling like things are going to be a little better with Felix around. She then begins to count the items while humming to herself, while Felix follows her around content to be somewhere warm.