Kitty Love

A/N: Hello! This, the short third installment of Embarrassed, is a chapter about Daine and Numair. Numair finishes one of his experiments and is in the mood to spend some time with his lover…

"Daine? Love? I finished my experiment. I wanted to talk to you." The mage Numair called through the small apartment-like dorm they shared at the palace.

Daine did not answer. Numair came into the main room of the apartment to find Kitten the dragonet and a brown tabby cat. "Daine? Is that you? I wanted to talk to you." The cat looked up at Numair with lamp-like eyes. "Kitten, can I talk to Daine? Alone." Numair asked the dragonet, knowing full well she could understand him.

Kitten trilled and shook her head. "Go on, go away for a little while." Numair said gesturing towards the door as he sat down on the couch.

Kitten squeaked angrily at Numair and pulled that cat away from Numair. "Don't be selfish, you've spent all day with her. Daine, please tell her to go." Numair said looking at the cat in Kitten's arms.

The cat only stared back at Numair. "Daine? Okay, I'll get her to go myself." Numair said standing up.

He managed to get Kitten up off the couch and pushed her towards the door. Kitten shrieked indignantly and snapped at Numair. When Numair pulled his hands away, Kitten stalked out of the apartment, grumbling as the door slammed shut behind her. "There. Now we can be alone." Numair sat down on the couch and pulled the tabby into his lap. "I finished my experiment and I thought we could spend some quality time together. We could go out to dinner and then come back here and go to bed early."

The cat in his lap only looked up at him. "No? I have a bottle of wine around here somewhere… a toast to us?" The cat still simply looked at him. "Well, I'm trying! What if you just change back now and tell me what you'd like to do… we are on the couch, but I don't suppose it matters where we are, does it?" Numair stoked the cat, and she purred, smiling a cat smile up at him.

Suddenly, Daine walked through the front door, much to Numair's surprise. "Why was Kitten outside and why's she so mad?" Daine asked.



Numair could only look from Daine to the cat and back again making strangled noises. "Are you alright? Oh, I see Trina's made herself at home." Daine said, gesturing towards the tabby in Numair's lap.

"Trina?" Numair managed.

"Yes, a palace cat, she has a nasty bite from a rat." Daine said, coming over and picking Trina up. "She seems to like you." Daine looked at the cat and then suddenly looked rather puzzled. "She asked me to tell you that you're nice enough as humans go, but she's not interested. What's she talking about?" Daine asked, looking up at Numair.

Daine was surprised to see that Numair was red as beet. "What's the matter?" She asked, concerned.

"Hot… I have… experiment… um… right." Numair leaped off the couch and dashed into his work room.

Daine looked down at Kitten with a questioning look and Kitten made a noise that could only be interpreted as a giggle. "What in the world did I miss?" She asked.

A/N: lol, okay, you had to see that coming! Hope you enjoyed!