Authors note: I know it ain't cannon, but please note that they are the dancestors not the ancestors. Also, yes she is OOC but it's the weekend and I have ceased giving a damn.
Chapter eleven: of cats, ideas, and memory lapses.
You can't believe you let this happen! Not only did you kidnap a human and let Beth slip through your claws but it was you who convinced Aradia to go through with it! You thought that you'd surpurrise the senior agents when you caught her so you didn't tell them and now they're mad at you! So fur some reason Kanaya sent you to keep an eye on her. What really surpurrised you though was that Sollux and the Striders looked like they were helping her!
Your name is Nepeta Leijon and you are watching Beth. She seems to be living in the Human world along with a human and two trolls. It also seems that Dirk is allowing her to stay for some reason. But that would mean going against Fedora. Why would he do something so risky? It doesn't seem like John or Roxy know about her though. Why isn't he even telling his moirail about her? Something weird is going on but you don't know what it is. Then there's that adult indegoblood that you've seen creeping around. You are Nepeta Leijon, and this has to be the most confused you've ever been.
You are currently hiding in some bushes near the humans village and Beths house. You don't see why you shouldn't kill her. You could, easily. She's injured and not even leaving her hive tonight. You could just sneak in and end her with one swipe! So why is she having you watch her? But, that's why she's in charge and not you, you suppose. She must have a reason. So you sit and watch. You see that one human who turned down an invitation to FARA. What was her name? Um... er... Tulip? No. Daisy? Nope. It was some type of human flower. Erm... Rose? Yeah it was Rose! She's walking to Beths little hive. You wonder what she's doing. You watch her enter, then a little while later you watch her leave. Well she knows about Beth. So why doesn't she tell anyone else? Rose has always been a bit differen though.
You watch. And watch. And watch. You figure out just how boring watching is fur the better part of the night. Then you see a small animal and spring after it. You crouch and wait fur it to stop moving, your tail twitching as you watch. There's a noise and the little beast scampers off and you pout a little at the empty space. You sigh and crawl back to your hiding place. It would have been fun to play with the small creature. It's so /boring/ doing nothing but watching nothing! Maybe this is your punishment. To be completely bored fur the rest of the week. It doesn't seem like she'll be coming out of there any time soon though. You decide that you can spare some time to take a look at the others. Spurrsifically those two trolls.
You head over to their little hive cluster. You get distracted a few times and it ends up taking a lot longer than you thought it would. When you finally reach the hives you realize that you don't know which ones they live in. You decide to go into each one to find out. In the first one you go into, there are a lot of yellow colored things. But there are no signs of recent life, so you prowl on to the next one. The next one is... very grey. But there are signs of life, so someone has to be living here! Who could it be? Most trolls decorate with things that match their blood color, so this one must want to keep it secret. Karkitty? But why would he be siding with /them/? Now he's sure to be killed. Siding with them is purractically a death sentence! You sniff around just to be sure. Yeah, that's Karkitty alright. You guess this means you two are enemies now. Sure you two are over now, but that doesn't mean you want to hurt him! You hear footsteps and decide you've spent enough time here. You abscond and go to a hive you picked at random. This one is green and fancy, but the only life here is you. So you leave and head to the one next to it.
This one is... weird. It shows signs of life, but it's almost double what Karkittys showed. So either this one's been living here twice as long or someone else is living here. You're sure that both the trolls came here at the same time, so it must be the other one. But Karkitty's living in a different house, so who'd be living here? You sneak around and try to figure it out. You enter a room and freeze when you hear breathing. You turn and see that human you kidnapped sleeping on a bed. She tries to open her eyes and you decide to abscond into the room across the hall. In there you see a recouprecoon but no troll and a lot of... oh no. Princess Feferi lives here?! This is bad. You escape the house and run back to the passage so you can tell Kanaya and Gamzee about this. You think about how Princess Feferi is living with a human and how every hive you went to had human things it them. You think about how you're going to tell the others about this. You wonder if they already know about it.
You stop right in front of the passage. What were you thinking? You can't go back yet, you need to go to Beth! You must have spaced out or something, you can't remember why you even wanted to go back. Actually, you can't remember anything that happened since when you left the hive cluster. You giggle at yourself and head back to where you're supposed to be right now. You really must have been out of it. You see someone with white hair walking around not too far away, but something tells you that you really need to be at Beths /right now/ so you just shake your head and start running. You manage to get there just in time to see Beths door open. She pops her head out and looks around. Apparently satisfied with what she sees, she walks outside. She looks like she should be in pain. There are bandages covering a lot of her skin and she's walking very slowly and carefully with a pretty big um... Snake! Yeah, a snake following her. You follow behind her too for a while and think about all she must have been through. She somehow finds out that all her friends want to kill her. Then she has to abandon everything she's ever known so she can escape her old friends. Then when she makes a new one you kidnap her and make Beth risk everything to get her back. Now you feel like a huge jerk. Maybe if you just talked to her about it then you two could come up with a better way to keep her a secret than having to kill her. Actually, that's a pretty good idea! You mentally pat yourself on the back for coming up with such a good idea. You catch up to Beth and bounce around to her front. You're about to tell her your idea but she got one of her swords on your throat and the other just over your heart and she's glaring at you like you just killed her matesprit. Okay, maybe this wasn't the best idea after all. You put your hands out to your sides and work your glove/claws off until they hit the ground.
"Nepeta. Tell me why I shouldn't gut you alive this instant and send your remains to Aradia." She says. Okay, she's not kidding around.
"I just came to talk! Do you know why we're hunting you?" You say and put your hands above your head.
"I was told it was to make sure Her Condesce doesn't find out about me and decide to conquer the humans world. Although I have no idea how she'd see me as anything more than a mutant." She says.
"Well, that's because it's happened before. It's the same reason humans and trolls aren't allowed to mate anymore. Her Condesce saw the large population of Omegas and saw how similar they looked to each other. Something like that isn't just a coincidence of mutation. It can't be. So she looked further into it and saw adult trolls raising them instead of lusi. She kept digging and found the humans and this world. There was a horrible war and many died. Then she just stopped. It was like lost interest in it. At least that's what we were told. It happened long before any of this generation was alive. No one wants a relapse, so we killed the rest of the Omegas and made it so there wouldn't be any more. Well, we thought we did but you're here. We don't want Her Condesce to change her mind if she sees you. So we were told to kill you." You say, naturally rolling your r's.
"You've gotta be fucking kidding me." She interrupts you. "You're telling me that your higher ups had not a single idea that was better than "Just kill 'em and be done with it"? True it's the kind of idea I'd come up with, but I thought your little group was supposed to /protect/ sentient creatures." She pauses to sigh. She looks angry. "If Her Condesce has either no idea that this place exists or no intention to come back, then why not just hide all the Omegas here? We can either be gradually accepted into human society or we can remain hidden until whenever. Why not that instead?" She says and pulls her swords away, but only a little bit.
"I have no idea. Yours sounds like a really good idea to me. But I'm just an appurrentice, so I don't get to make many impurrtant decisions. But I can suggest it to our boss! If you can just put your swords down I'll go do that right meow!" You say.
She looks at you like she thinks you're an idiot. Then like she's thinking hard about something. Then like she thinks that she's an idiot. Then she slowly lowers her swords, but doesn't put them away. She doesn't trust you. You can't really blame her. Just think about all the things your group has done to her! She was raised with trolls, that purrobably has something to do with it too. You bend over and pick up your claws, but don't put them back on. You thank her and leave to go tell your boss her idea.
You've always kind of wondered about the head of FARA. Who would willingly let themselves be called "Fedora"? Isn't that a type of hat? Who would want to be a hat? He's usually asleep at this time of night though. You find out deeply he sleeps when you knock on his window to try and wake him up. It looks like you won't be able to tell him directly. You'll just tell one of the human agents and then when he wakes up they'll tell him. But who to tell? Only a senior human agent would be awake right now. You guess you'll just wander around until you run into one of them. So that's what you do! You wander and chase things and climb trees like Terezi showed you. The first human agent you find is Roxy! You're glad it's Roxy, Dirk tends to scare you. Besides, you and Roxy are great friends!
"Roxy!" You shout and pounce on her back.
"Nepeta! Whachu doin' here girly?" She says as she hugs you.
"Roxy, I have serious new for you to tell to Fedora when he wakes up!" You say and let go of her.
"I'm listening." She says.
"Well, how do I put this… We don't have to hunt the Omegas anymore!" You say.
"It sure is a nice idea, but how do you plan on making it happen? It's not like we're just all of the sudden be friends with them or something." She says.
"Actually it's Beth's idea not mine. She said that since Her Condesce apparently forgot about the human world then she can hide here and we won't have to kill her. As long as she doesn't do something that would make us want to kill her. But that's a pretty obvious rule, and I don't think she would do anything that would put her life in any unnecessary danger. So we should be fine on that front." You say.
"… That's… Actually a really good idea. Why didn't we come up with that?" She asks.
You shrug. "Maybe it's because we're all too used to taking orders to think of any of our own." You say.
"Well I'll make sure to tell him about it! Was there anything else you came for?" She says.
"No I don't think so. But do you know how Beth got injured like that?" You ask.
"What are you talking about? The last time I saw her was back when she first slipped out from under us and just disappeared." She says.
"But Beth's living here already! I don't know how but she's been hiding here. Kanaya told me about it. So I decided that I should do something about it and convinced Aradia to kidnap a human that she seemed attached to so that Beth would come to us and we could finally catch her! But it didn't go like I thought it would so now I think I'm being punished by having to watch her. But that got really boring and I… What exactly were we talking about?" You ask. You go on tangents sometimes. It gets annoying and you can never remember what you were doing before that.
"So wait, are you saying that she's been living here ever since she first slipped away from us? But how the hell did she find out about this place?" She asks.
"It wouldn't be the first time someone stumbled upon one of the passages." You say
"I'll have to have a talk with Dirk about this. Thanks for the news Nepeta, but I have and interrogation that won't start itself I need to get to. Later!" She says and starts walking off.
You hope she's not too hard on Dirk, you don't even know what he did. You decide that you should head back to Kanaya and Gamzee and tell them the news. Oh Gamzee will be so happy to know that we won't have to kill her! You know she means a lot to him even if you don't really know why. You stop in front of the passage. This feels really familiar. You shrug it off and go find the others. It's almost be time for the switch, so you should be able to find them all in one place. You prowl around the cluster of tiny one-room hives for a bit until the rest of them show up.
"Gamzee! Guess what! I have great news!" You say.
"Now calm down there kitty gal, where've you even been all night? We couldn't find you anywhere we looked." He said.
"Didn't Kanaya tell you?" You ask.
"Tell them what dear?" She says.
"That you told me to go keep an eye on Beth at her hive. Don't you remember? It was a little while after I told you guys about how my plan to get Beth here turned out. You came up to me and said that I should go keep an eye on her but not to hurt her, then you told me where she was." You say.
"I'm sorry but I'm afraid that I cannot recall that. The only thing I remember happening shortly after what you described was going back to work as usual. I suppose it's possible that I'd forgotten, but then I don't know where Bethany resides so there is no way I could have told you. Are you sure it was me that told you Nepeta?" She says.
"Yes! I'm sure that it was you! There is absolutely no way that it wasn't you. But that's not what's important that I need to tell you. Gamzee we won't have to hunt Beth anymore!" You say.
750 "Really? How'd you manage that?" Aradia says
You tell the story of what happened. By the end of it everyone looks really confused for some reason, but they also look hopeful! Sure, some parts didn't quite make sense. But you told it exactly how you remember it.
"If he says yes, then he might also let interspecies romances form without punishment." Kanaya says.
"This also means we won't have to try to kill any Omegas anymore! Maybe even let the humans know of our existence if they can successfully integrate her into their society. As long as Her Condesce doesn't find out we'll be fine!" Aradia says
You smile. You're glad you talked to Beth and then told Roxy to tell Fedora her idea. If it wasn't for that then none of this would have happened. But then you don't actually know what he'll say. You hope he says yes. You think he'll see the logic in her idea. He's a very sensible man after all. But what it all comes down to is that you really just don't know.
You're all happy before Kanaya says something about it not being final and we all still have work to do. Your shift is over, so you head over to your little hive.
You can't wait for morning to come.