AN: I've decided to work on this thing again after who-knows-many months. After months of writing fanfics, I'm now going to quite descriptive in this story, so from this point each chapter will be dramatically larger. If you don't want to blind yourself with a hot ironed fork, then don't read this.
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We were walking for a very long time. I couldn't really tell, since the whole time I was nearly high with content as Equius kept scratching behind my ear. I could tell that he had a lot of experiences with cats. I wondered what he's relationship with Nepeta was like, and my shipping instincts told me "moirails", which I was fine with.
The next thing I knew, I was inside a huge building. Actually, it was more of a castle, now that I think about it. It was rather impressive, but it was still smaller than mine's none the less. When we walked through the door, he stopped scratching me and let down on the hard, cold, ground.
I meowed and looked at him, wanting more attention from this hand. But not in the dirty way, you know.
He looked down at me and smiled reassuringly. "I have to work for a while, but do make yourself at home until I get Nepeta here." With that, he walked off, leaving me alone in this castle.
I just stood there, unsure of what to do. Should I escape? Should I change into another animal and make my way out?
A sudden fantasy went into my mind, where I changed myself into not my original form but a beautiful troll with a luscious dress, her long hair flowing beyond her shoulders like a waterfall of golden locks. It would be just like that one human fairy tale, where a beautiful swan turned into a more beautiful princess. I wanted it so badly, to see Equius's expression surprised expression to find this beautiful maiden inside his castle. Then it will change into passion and love, and he will walk over to me and pull me into his arms…
I wanted it. I wanted those typical happy endings with a handsome prince to sweep me away from my problems, but I knew I couldn't. I afraid that instead of love and passion, he will be disgusted and horrified at my partially mutated blood, and he will send me off to get beheaded for daring to exist in this accursed society..
It was that, or I was hesitant to initiate this action in front of him. I don't know, it felt like he wasn't the right one. My thoughts drifted back to Karkat, and guilt seized me when those thoughts turned into Nepeta.
Poor, poor Nepeta.
I crawled up on one of the couches Equius had in this room. It was very soft and comfortable, so I laid down on it with a satisfied meow. Resting my head on my paws, my eyes closed shut and I started taking a cat nap.
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A hand scooped me up, waking me from my catnap, and I was meowing with annoyance.
"My apologies, little cat," Equius said as he scratched me behind my ears to calm me down. "I had to wake you up, as Nepeta will be arriving soon."
Then, there a light knocking at the door. "Speak of the devil," He said as he went over to answer it.
Nepeta was at the doorway, looking so cute in her long green coat and blue cat hat.
"Hi Equius!" She greeted as she made a happy smile with those kitty shaped lips.
"Hello Nepeta," He greeted back, he himself making a small smile at her.
Oh my god, they are just too cute. They should just kiss right now.
"So is that the cat you mentioned?" Nepeta asked as she looked at me. I meowed at her, in which she made a giggle and petted my head.
"Yes, yes it is." Equius answered. "I found it in the woods. It baffles me how such a small, innocent creature could be found there."
"I don't know, Equius. I don't know." When he wasn't looking, she made a wink at me. She knew who I was! A flutter of pride filled me, and I just wanted to tell her how lucky I felt to have such a reliable moirail.
"Well any who, I'm sorry to ask this much of your service, but will you do me the favor and take care of it for me?" Aww, he actually looked downcast. "I'm too terribly busy to take care of it myself."
"Sure, no purrblem!" She reached over and scooped me into her arms. I meowed and nuzzled my head against her warm chest, all while purring happily.
"Well, would you look at that." Equius said. "It already is quite fond of you. You certainly do have a way with cats, don't you Nepeta?"
"Naturally." She said, and it reminded me of those snooty cheerleaders one of my human friends bitches about, where they talk haughtily with pride. Except Nepeta did it in more friendly, cute manner, of course.
"Well, goodbye then, Nepeta. I must go." He took one look at me, and even though he was wearing those dark, cracked, sunglasses it made my heart quiver with longing. "Farewell, little cat."
With that, Nepeta walked away as Equius closed the door behind. She was walking for a few minutes, down a rocky road with the sky all bloody red, until she was sure that we were out of ear and eye sight. She then set me down on the ground.
"Okay, you can change back now, Maryanne." She told me.
Eager to escape this body (because you can not BELIEVE how many rats I wanted to chase, much to my disgust) I hastily changed back into my regular form. After that, I pulled Nepeta towards me for a tight hug, as I was so happy to see her.
"I missed you so much!" I said. I heard her make a muffled noise, in which I remembered that she was shorter than me. In fact, she only reached up my big bosoms, which at the moment was being squished against her round face and probably suffocating her. Oops.
"Sorry, sorry," I said as I pulled away just enough for her to breathe. To make her feel better, I changed my height to match her own. I also subtly made my breasts just a little smaller, because Nepeta had really small breasts and I didn't want to make her feel bad about it.
"It's okay," She said. She made a big smile at me and squeezed me into another hug, which this time was much more comfortable and less awkward. After that, she grabbed my shoulders and pulled me away at arm's length all while giving me a stern face. "You almost got caught!" She scolded me.
I turned my head away from her as I scratched my cheek with embarrassment. "Sorry. I really wasn't expecting to get caught by a net. What was he even going in the woods with a net in the first place? Plus, you know how good it feels to get scratched behind the ears."
"Yeah, it feels really good." She said, and for a moment her face melted into obvious pleasure. "Oh, Equius tends to catch live specimens so that he could study them."
"Is that what he does? Study?" I asked, intrigued.
"Yeah. He wants to be good at studying live things that he could improve on his robotic work."
"He makes robots?" I asked her, shocked.
"Yeah!" Nepeta said, her eyes getting wide with excitement. "He's suuuuper smart!"
Agh, why is Equius getting more attractive? It wasn't fair. I wanted to change the subject, so I asked her, "So how's your missing man crush?"
She made a really big grin, so I could tell that I was going to hear some good news. "He came back!" She said.
"Wow!" I said, trying to act surprised. "Where was he?"
"Apurrently, he said that he was at the woods. He drowned in the river, but then he said that he got saved by a beautyifful troll!" She said, as if she was retelling a romantic fairytale. I was baffled that Karkat thought I was beautiful. He must had hit his head too hard on the river bank. I was thinking about, and I was certain about it, but then I was suddenly distracted by Nepeta's next words: "I think he's in love."
I stared at her, 100 percent - no, 1000 purrcent - surprised to hear this. I could see her face fall like a little angel falling out of the sky and plummeting towards the hard ground. I had a feeling that she doesn't think Karkat's in love with her.
"And I don't think it's me…" She said, voice getting quiet. "I mean, I always thought that it might be Terezi, but now I have to compete with another beautyifful troll? Why do I even bother?"
Terezi was some other bitch that Karkat apparently had a thing for. It's moments like this that I wished my Maid of Love powers would activate and give my sad moirial a chance at love.
Tears were rolling out of her eyes, all thick and olive tinted. It was tugging at my heartstrings so hard that I was practically gasping for air. I pulled her close to my arms and buried my head into the crook of her neck, wanting to badly heal her broken heart with my magical hair powers.
"I'm so sorry," I said, my own eyes getting wet with that disgusting dark pint with a slight hint of red blood tinted tears. "I'm so sorry, Nepeta."
"It's not your fault," Nepeta sobbed, hugging me back tightly.
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is," I urged her. This time, it was I who pulled her at arm's lengths and giving her a stern face. "It's me. I am the 'beautyifful' troll that Karkat is in love with."
Nepeta stared at. At first a look of surprised was on her face. Then confusion. Then anger. Then confusion. "How…?"
"I don't know how it happened, okay? I was just walking through my forest when I found it. I healed him, and he woke up, and he just kissed me, and I left after that I swear!"
Nepeta stared at me some more, as if she was trying to figure out whether or not I was lying.
"Do you love him?" She asked me out of nowhere.
"What?"
"Do you love him?" She asked again.
It was my turn to stare at her. Did I really love Karkat? I barely knew the guy, and yet I felt so attached to him as if we were star-crossed lovers. And clearly, he felt the same way. I knew I had to be honest.
"I do."
Just for a moment, a wave of pain washed over her like a tsunami. Her cute face was all pinched up as if she had just eaten something so sour that it made her tongue bleed, only the blood was rolling out of her eyes as olive tinted tears.
"We can't be moirails any more…" She said. Then she looked suddenly angry, and it was surprising to see such an adorable face look scary as hell. "We're love enemies now." And a small, vicious smile grew on her lips.
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To be Continued