"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
Blair stared intently at the thing on the wall, hat perched jauntily on her head and tail twitching slightly. It was right there, she could see it, she was GOING to catch it this time.
Pounce.
(Thunk.)
Rubbing her aching skull with one paw, Blair sighed. She'd been hunting that dot all afternoon, it seemed like, with no success. No matter how many times she pounced on it or scrabbled to pin it beneath her paws, it always slipped right out of her reach. She'd almost had it that time, though. It had skittered away between her toes before she could properly trap it down - damn that small, green spot of light! Contemplating whether or not to pounce on it again, she tilted her small head to the side to get a better angle on the thing. Right as she was preparing to leap once again, the light went out! Mewling soulfully, she paced around the room to find her kittens sitting on the couch. Maka hurriedly tucked away a small silver device, but Blair discounted it as unimportant. There was a serious matter to attend to!
"Maka-chan, have you noticed any green dots around lately?"
Maka smiled the kind of smile that meant she was biting back laughter. "Um, no. Can't say I have. Why?"
"Bu-tan thinks her kittens might have an infestation," she said, nodding sagely as she delivered this important and potentially devastating piece of news. She'd only ever seen one dot at a time, but it was no guarantee of safety from them – especially since it stubbornly refused to be caught.
"An infestation of… dots?" asked her scythe-boy. His laconic demeanor didn't let her read as much emotion as she could from Maka, but he seemed to be on the verge of laughter as well. She pinned her ears back in irritation and hissed. This wasn't a laughing matter at all!
"Soul-kuuuun, this is serious!" she mewed, a note of irritation creeping into her voice. "What if they're dangerous? I haven't been able to catch a single one!"
Hearing a giggle erupt from behind her, Blair whipped her head around to find Maka valiantly attempting to restrain laughter. The magical cat puffed up in frustration, sheathing and unsheathing her claws. Not that she would ever seriously hurt her kittens, but they just weren't listening to her!
"Fine! If you won't take Bu-tan's warning seriously, then you can deal with it on your own!" Summoning every scrap of dignity she could muster (and being a cat, that was quite a large amount), Blair flounced out of the apartment's open window.
Soul and Maka looked at each other for exactly three seconds after Blair's departure before bursting into uproarious laughter.
"I – ahahaha – I honestly didn't think it would work on Blair!" Soul crowed, shaking with mirth.
"An infestation of dots, though? We only have the one laser pointer!"
He tilted his head to the side, contemplating her query. Then he shrugged. "Cats are weird. Who knows what she was thinking about, really?"
"That's true," Maka conceded. A wicked grin curled up the corners of her mouth as she continued, and Soul leaned forward intently. Whenever his meister used her gigantic nerd brain for evil, something truly epic always came of it.
"If she thinks it's an infestation with just the one, how do you think Blair would deal with two of them at once?" she said, eyebrow arching up like a vaudeville villain's.
"The damn cat would probably have a heart attack," he snorted, before a light of mischief flickered in his eyes. "Let's do it."
Humming a jaunty little ditty, Blair padded happily around the apartment. No strange dots had been seen, she'd eaten a very nice fish last night (the extremely-resilient-to-death-by-nosebleed fish shop guy truly was a treasure), and all was well with the world.
Or so she had thought. The dot was back, and this time there was a red one, too!
Dropping into a hunter's crouch, Blair eyed the open stretch of wall and the two flickering dots that adorned it. She was going to get these dots if it killed her!
Leaping up and batting furiously at the wall, Blair's struggle to catch the dots continued. Maybe if she showed one to Soul or Maka, they'd believe her about the infestation! Snarling slightly, her flurry of activity continued with renewed vigor.
Across the room, the two human residents of the apartment hid behind the couch. Maka was wielding a green laser pointer, Soul a red one, and both were shaking with silent laughter as their cat continued to flail.