HAT: Well... I forgot that I posted this story and to write on it... sorry it took so long... um... I blame Skimble!
Skimble: WTFBBQ?!
Disclaimer: I don't own CATS T-T... But I do own the Ocs and plot (=^-^=)
The young calico opens his blue-gray eyes to see nothing but darkness. He eases himself up, paw upward and touching wood. He feels his breath quicken and his heart being clenched by fear as his fisted paws pound on the wood. The tom-kit's hyperventilating as he tries his best to escape. He wants his older brother, he wants to breathe cool air instead of the hot air that's around him. Hot tears pour down his face and he mewls for help from anyone, but he can't hear anyone recognizing his desperate cry for help.
Am I gonna die in here? he wonders, his cries for help turning into sobs.
He finally stops pounding on it and lies down, giving into despair. He's never getting out, he's going to die in here and someone, whether cat or human, is going to find him dead inside. He sobs, using up what little air he has left and then he feels his head swim before he hears a crack. His blue-gray eyes lift and suddenly light and fresh air flood into the crate and he sits up and gasps for air before looking up and seeing a large yellow-orange she-cat with wide blue eyes and a white chest and front paws wearing a vest.
"A kitten?" she murmurs with a light accent that he can't place.
"W-who're you?"
Her eyebrows shoot up. "Irish kit... what're you doing in here by yourself?"
He sniffles. "My big brother told me to stay here... I followed him and I saw him getting beat by two cats that were chasing us and then I came back to the box and then I woke up and it was dark and I was scared and then you saved me... thank you, miss..."
"Sashimi," she replies. "And what's your name young tom?"
"L-Lyon," he stutters.
"Nice to meet you, Mister Lyon," she says with a slight bow of the head. "How about you come with me? I know I'm a stranger, but it goes against everything in me to leave a kit alone in the train station."
He observes her for a moment, wondering what his big brother would say about this. "O-okay..."
She holds out a paw and he observes it for a moment before hesitantly taking hold of it. She leads him onto a train and he looks around curiously, doing something his brother always does. He manages to find a few exits and then he jumps when a few humans reach down and pet him, especially when human kits roughly pet him and squeal. He presses against the queen he just met and earns a chuckle from her. He doesn't know what's so amusing, but he doesn't question anything at the moment.
Tyger, how're you? Are you still alive? Are you looking for me? Lyon can't help thinking. Tears immediately spring into his eyes at the thought of his brother's limp body and he turns his head away from Sashimi so she won't see, but he knows that it's useless when she comes to a stop.
"What's the matter?" she asks.
He's afraid to speak because he knows tears will make sure she knows he's crying, but he can't just stay silent. "N-nothing."
"You can tell me."
Her whisper makes his shoulders sag and he looks up at her with tears having a race to get to his chin to fall to the ground. "I keep seeing my brother... he wasn't moving..."
Her eyes soften and she gives him a big hug. "It's going to be alright," she assures.
At first he doesn't know what to do, but his bottom lip trembles and he buries his face in her shoulder and lets out a soul wrenching sob, his grief even being heard and understood by the humans. He wants his brother so he won't have to miss him, so he won't have a reason to feel a clawed paw squeeze his chest and hot tears cool by the time they reach his tears and feel like ice on his chin before it drips down onto the she-cat's fur. Tyger was his entire world, he was the only thing that he knew... now what's he supposed to do?
HAT: Man, I'm so upset for killing Tyger now...
Tyger: *glares at me* Really? You're upset about killing me after you did it! That means so much to me.
HAT: Don't use that sarcastic tone with me. You're just lucky that I regret it at all!
Tyger: Uh-huh...
HAT: Will you please say it, Ty?
Tyger: Don't call me that.
HAT: -_- Fine... will you say it anyway?
Tyger: I dunno.
HAT: Quit being a badass and get on with it!
Tyger: *narrows eyes at HAT* Review, I guess.
HAT: Thank you... dang why'd I make you like this?
Tyger: *shrugs and walks off*