"Except, want to know what I'm wondering Mac?"
He looked up at her at being called this,
"No," he smiled darkly, "enlighten me."
"I don't think a tom would go through all that trouble for a possible one night stand. So I'm obviously something more than that to you" she then leaned in to whisper in his ear
"Aren't I?"
Bombalurina had turned to her drink to take a sip, but she turned back towards Macavity having felt him move closer to her.
"Bombalurina, you're the first queen I've met whom I can't get out of my mind."
She smirked at this, "You flatter me."
He grazed his claw up and down the side of her arm
"I could any tom I want, you know…" She smiled playfully
"And have I just confirmed that for you?" He still focused his attention on lightly touching her collarbone
"Almost. Normally I can get a tom within the first look." She looked up at him with a sense of pride and continued
"But you're the first tom who didn't even look up when I entered the room. I figured I was just another queen…but now…" She stranded off her words
"You were at first, but then after talking to you, I couldn't stop thinking about you. Your voice, your touch, your aura."
Bombalurina stood up and leaned against the bar, Macavity closed in on her,
She shivered realizing they were barely touching, and she could feel his breath on him.
But it quickly ended when Macavity was interrupted by a scrawny looking tom.
The tom seemed intimidated and scared by Macavity, and whispered something inaudible to in Macavity's ear.
The tom quickly scampered away and Macavity turned back to Bombalurina.
She looked at him, trying to hide the disappointment of being interrupted.
"You'll have to excuse me darling, but I've a business deal to take care of."
Bombalurina didn't respond, preparing to leave but he quickly caught her arm
"Don't leave, stay, and I'll find you."
She nodded, walking slowly away so she could retain the last feeling of his touch.
She wandered around the club, realizing it was still full of toms and queens and walked over to the far side of the club and found a door, which she hoped would lead to an unoccupied room.
She entered and smiled, seeing it was empty and put her glass down on a card table in the middle.
She grazed her fingers along the curtains and paintings on the walls and paused by a mirror, framed with a golden painted wood.
Examining herself, she found that her appearance had changed.
She had become more attractive and matured.
She felt her cheekbones and ran her paws down her face to her neck.
She steeped back to view her body.
She felt her waist and moved her hands down her hips and turned around in a circle.
This wasn't teenaged, adolescent Bombalurina.
This was Bombalurina, the red queen, the scarlet beauty.
She smiled and ran her paws through her red hair admiring the handiwork in the paintings
She looked back in the mirror and jumped back
"You won't get my heart by making it jump out of me" She put her paw to her heart and turned around, a little breathless
Macavity laughed a lightly, sitting in a chair at the card table
She slowly walked around the room, hips swaying as she watched him shuffle a deck of cards.
A moment of silence passed, but it was a comfortable silence
It didn't feel distant
"So you're a business man, are you?" She said with a slight laugh
"If that's what you want to call it, then yes." Macavity said, smirking but still focusing on the cards
He continued, "I think you know as well as I do who I am and what I've done"
She paused behind him, gently gliding her claw along his back
"I could care less about what you've done. You're still the mystery I'm slowly solving."
She moved to his side and sat down, meeting him eye to eye
"But I like a good challenge, and so far, I'm doing well figuring you out" She smiled a closed but victorious smile, crossing her legs
He admired her, looking at her while she felt the edges of the cards laying around
She was the first queen he met whom he couldn't resist
The mystery behind her was unbearable
Her choice of words was always a surprise to him
She noticed him staring at her and looked up from the cards
"Have you solved me yet?" She said raising her eyebrow
He smirked and started shuffling the cards again
"Not yet, but I'll let you know my dear," he pulled out a queen of hearts and placed it down on the table
"…I like a challenge too."
"You're a betting man Macavity, lets play a game of gin rummy." She leaned in to him playfully
"The stakes?" He said, interested
"Me." She said simply
No more questions needed to be asked as he dealt the cards
It was a quiet, quick game, not much being said
Macavity put down his last three cards, leaning back and taking a sip of his drink
"You don't look the least bit surprised, Red"
He stood up with his paw out towards her to help her up
"Maybe I wanted you to win." She said, taking his paw as they walked out of the club together, arm in arm.