Hey guys! I'm on time for once! I even changed the story picture! I AM IN A GOOD MOOD.

Summary: Ruby considers herself as more of a dog person.

"See you two later!" Ruby yelled out the car window as Finn and Amelia walked into their school.

Ruby loved her kids with all her heart, but honestly, she was relieved that the kids had started school again. It gave her a few hours to herself, with Liam at work, to talk a walk in the park or read a book with a cup of tea or coffee. Every now and then she and Vida would visit the mall, or Ruby and Zu would go out for a midday brunch.

So as Ruby drove back to her home, in quite the jovial mood, she hummed the tune to the song on the radio and looked forward to the afternoon to follow.

Ruby closed the front door, she let out a sigh of relief and threw her bag and keys on the floor next to the door.

She tread over into the white-tiled kitchen, filling the black tea caddy and setting it on the stove to boil. When she went to retrieve the milk from the fridge, a flash of black caught in her periphery, streaking across the floor in the next room. Milk forgotten, Ruby shut the refrigerator door with a small clink and padded into the next room, looking around. Nothing was found, and the tea caddy was whistling, so Ruby shrugged and dismissed it as a trick of the eye.

Pouring the tea into a green mug, Ruby plopped a dollop of milk into the mug, watching the milk billow out and curl up, before setting the mug aside on the table to cool off. She climbed the stairs into the room she and Liam shared to grab a book, wanting to get in some late-morning reading. Halfway down the stairs, a crash was heard from the kitchen.

Ruby tucked the book under her arm and descended down the stairs as quietly as possible, shifting minutely into a defensive stance. She kept close to the wall, and kept her muscles tense and ready to spring into action.

Moving into the kitchen, her favorite green mug had shattered onto the tile, and tea splattered everything within a two foot radius. Ruby continued on, circling around into the dining room. The door had been left wide open, a light autumn breeze floating in, and Ruby mentally berated Liam. She slid the deck door shut, and cautiously began to enter the living room, the last room on the floor.

Ready for a fight, Ruby sprung into the room, hoping to surprise the intruder and therefore gain the upper hand.

She was not expecting what she saw in the room.

Lounging on couch, was a black and white cat, completely spread out across Ruby's favorite reading spot and looking straight at Ruby.

Ruby dropped her defensive posture and looked at the cat with a deep sigh.

Ruby considered herself a dog person. She loved Scout with all her heart, and (although she would never admit it,) cried inconsolably through the night. All the cats she had ever met or came in contact with either hissed at her or scratched her. Or both.

Leaving the living room, she retrieved a broom and dustpan, carefully sweeping up all the bits and pieces of mug littered on the floor. Then, she wiped up all the tea, and tossed the towel in the sink, and walked back to the living room, book in hand. The cat was i/still/i there, now purring quietly as it rubbed itself all over the couch.

Ruby sighed.

"You cause quite the mess, Mister," Ruby told the cat. "Shoo, shoo now. Get, get, go away." Ruby tried to shoo the cat away, but the cat merely purred louder and buried itself deeper into the couch.

Seeing that she was getting nowhere with this, Ruby sat at the far end of the couch, deciding she mine as well read some. The cat wasn't really bothering her, and didn't seem like it had rabies, so her mine as well leave it be.

As Ruby became deeply engrossed in her book, she followed the characters in the book, the outside world lost to her.

Suddenly, a warm body was pressed against her leg, and Ruby nearly jumped out of her skin. The cat circled itself in her lap a couple times, before plopping onto her lap altogether. The brunette attempted to push the cat off her lap, but was met only by paws pushing off her hands. Ruby sneezed. She observed that the cat was mostly black, save for a patch on his chest, one between his nose and mouth, and the fur around his right eye formed a white circle. Otherwise, a bowtie, mustache, and monocle.

"Mr. Fancypants, I think it's time you get off my lap." Ruby sneezed again. "I think I'm allergic to you, Fancypants."

Ruby stood up suddenly, the cat yelping and jumping off her lap. "Sorry Fancypants, just need some allergy meds."

Retrieving her bag by the door, Ruby took out a little packet with a allergy pill inside, and popped in her mouth. The black cat had followed her and rubbed itself against Ruby's ankles as she walked, proceeding to cause her to stumble a few times.

The cat followed her back to the couch, where she resumed her spot (and the cat his) on the cushions. They stayed like that until Ruby had to go and pick up Amelia and Finn. When they got home, the cat was waiting for them by the door.

"Ruby, we can't just leave him on the streets! He's just a kitten!"

"Liam, I'm allergic to cats!"

"I already left a box of kittens on the side of the road once, I'm definitely going to hell if I kick this cat into the cruel, unforgiving streets of this world."

Ruby and Liam had been trying to figure out to do with the cat, who was playing with Amelia and Finn.

"What are we going to do, keep him?" Ruby asked.

Liam was silent for a moment, trying to come up with a plan. After a few moments of thinking, Liam piped up again. "Got it!"

Ruby raised an eyebrow.

"Remember how Zu said she wanted a cat?"

Ruby sighed. "Call them up."

"C'mon kitty, let's go home." Zu cooed as she scooped the cat up. Quinn trailed behind her, saying a quick goodbye before following Zu out the door.

"Mom, we should've kept it!" Amelia whined. "He was sooo cute!"

"Enough Amelia," Ruby said firmly. "time for you two to go to bed."

"Fiiinneeee." The two twins groaned.

The kids' footsteps clomped up the stairs, the two arguing about what they should have named the cat.

"What did Zu name the cat?" Ruby asked Liam, brewing the a second cup of tea.

"Sir Bumbleberry."

"That's...surprisingly appropriate."

AN: I honestly don't know where this came from.