The Softest Kind Of Touch
Chapter 3: Doctor Vince and Bumblebee
A/N: New chapter is finally up! Sorry for the wait, I've been really busy lately. Tilted words are the mutants talking in there own language of chirps, mews, blubbering, hissing, etc. Please enjoy the chapter!
Red and Rachel grunted as they dragged a very unhappy cat boy out of Red's messy apartment. At first it had seemed like Robin would go without question and be fine with it, but as soon as Red actually said 'doctor', well... the mutant flipped his shit. It was taking everything the two humans had to drag Robin out of the Alex's room as he clung onto anything in sight, but life got the better of him and caused him to slip at one point, leading him to be placed in a cat carrier. Both Rachel and Alex were covered in small cuts that had come from the mutant, but Robin had held a lot back so that they wouldn't bleed.
"Just relax, Robin. It'll be like Adventure Time." Red tried to reason, Robin immediately perked up.
He tilted his head to the side in absolute curiosity. "vensure lime?" He asked.
"Yep, its like I'm Finn and your Jake!" Alex said, ignoring Rachel's 'WTF' look.
Robin's whole body seemed to lift with added happiness at the idea of being like the people from his favorite TV show. "vensure lime! vensure lime!" He cheered.
Eventually it seemed that both teens were ready to kill the mutants as Starfire and Garfield joined in with his chant, even if they'd never watched the show. Finally, Rachel's old pickup truck halted and the group exited the vehicle to take a look at the massive vets building that specifically worked with all animals.
"So... how do you know this Vince guy again?" Red asked as he grabbed Robin's cat carrier.
Rachel smirked. "We were in three classes together in High school, he was the head football player."
"I'm not trusting some-" Red yelled, but was interrupted by Rachel.
"He's a nice guy, Red. Don't worry, he isn't like those bullies at your school." Rachel said in an oddly sweet voice that she usually only used for her mutants.
Robin glared at the concrete with utter disgust on his face. "I pate homons." He mumbled angrily.
"Oh come on, aren't I cool?" Red asked the mutant, who scoffed at him and curled into a fluffy ball. "I personally don't feel that its wrong that I think your adorable like that."
Robin glared at the teen. "Fuck ou."
With that, the group walked into the newish looking vets office to see a man with a puking dog on his lap and a crying woman with a bleeding cat in a cat carrier. The mutants drew back and hissed a few times as they passed by to sit in the waiting room as well, Rachel kept Starfire on her lap for safe keeping while Garfield clung to her hoodie like a koala. Robin stared at the puking dog and growled, the dog barked at the boy and caused him to hide in Red's jacket. Red chuckled and held onto the jacket securely before a nurse came out in a doctors coat.
"Mr. Knight?" She asked hesitantly.
Red nodded and carried Robin to the doctoring room, placing him on the examination table, mutant cried out angrily at this and tried to jump back into Red's arms but was told to stay put. He growled, but froze on the spot as a tall, bulky African American man walked into the room and approached Red with an out stretched hand.
The man smiled warmly. "Hello Alexander. I've been informed that this is your first mutant, correct?"
"Uh... yeah, I'm usually just called Alex though." Red admitted, he couldn't stop a few flashbacks of being beat up in high school and junior high from popping back up into his mind.
Vince smiled at the red headed teenager in front of him, who looked only a few years younger then himself. "Its great to meet you, and this must be Robin, am I correct?"
Red nodded, Robin was about to growl when Vince held out his hand to the kitten, who sniffed it curiously and meowed happily after a few minutes. "Whats with that?" Alex asked Vince.
"Oh, that? Mutant, and all animals for that matter, will commonly smell each other to determine if the other is safe or hostile, naturally, you need to try and not show fear or anger and just hold out your hand so they can smell your scent. Personally, I'm glad he got past the smell of rabbit and didn't bite me." Vince explained, chuckling a bit at the end.
Robin purred softly as he let Vince check his heart beat and lift up the large hoodie that had been put on him by Red for the time being. It was strange really, how relaxed the kitten was one minute, then terrified the next, it worried Red greatly. Mostly it was because the boy was such a nice little guy, it wasn't his fault he was covered in scars and bruises (Hopefully), after all, he's still just a baby in reality. Alex didn't see it at first, but looking at how the boy fingered the heart beat reader thingy (Red had no idea what was called), he realized how much he looked like a normal human being, you know, if it weren't for the giant cat ears and matching tail.
Alex coughed as he stood to the side, keeping his sunglasses covering his eyes yet watching Robin at the same time. "So, doc, how big is Rob here gonna get?"
"If he keeps growing like this, he'll be around Rachel's height in adulthood, mutants grow as tall as human adults if not more, depending on there breed." Vince explained to Red, who nodded in acceptance to the new information, but he could see that Alex was absolutely stunned by it none the less.
"Wait, so where do mutants even COME from? Are they aliens or monsters or..." Red asked, a little confused.
Vince sighed. "It was in 1910, Albert Einstein discovered a new type of chemical, it was accidentally mixed with the DNA of a human and created a mutant. But after a dozen were created, they were taken by the mafia and used as fighting animals, however, some mutants escaped and went to humans for help. Humans then forced the mutants to make a choice, either be put into a ring a win your freedom, or live your lives as pets. Some mutants dared to fight for there rights from behind closed cages while some decided that the risks were to great and became pets instead. Its rare, but sometimes you might see mutants just walking around on there own as independent creatures, but, there's still the risk of being kidnapped by gangs and used as a monster in the rings. Let this be a warning, never leave your pet by himself without someone watching him outside, there are always people trying to take mutants under owners noses." He explained, Red was shocked yet impressed with how much Vince knew.
"Did... did Robin come from a ring? He has those... scars." Red asked fearfully, he rarely let it show when he was scared, but he was.
Vince shook his head. "No... this is worse... probably an abusive owner."
Red nodded before petting Robin's head in reassurance. "Do you have a mutant too?" He finally asked, it had been on his mind for awhile.
"Yes actually, his name is Garth, he's a rarer Atlantian breed of mutant. My assistant also owns a mutant, he's an orange cat around Starfire's age named Roy, or Speedy as his nickname." Vince said, as if on cue, a tiny little boy that looks around five walked in and grabbed Vince's hand.
Red nodded and placed Robin on the ground, who immediately took a step back, after a few minutes, the two slowly started to become curious of each other and smell each others scents. As soon as they figured that they were good smells, they started to play fight and chatter in small mews and blubbering like noises that must've been from Garth. Robin jumped up onto the table as an orange male cat mutant walked in looking the same age as Garth, he took one look at Robin and made small mews at the kitten for a few minutes, Robin hopped down from his perch and sniffed the invading mutant and decided that he was okay, the two took off after each other in an innocent play fight. The assistant from earlier walked back in and picked the orange cat mutant up, much to his and his friends sadness.
The nurse sighed. "I'm so sorry, Roy keeps disappearing on me when I turn my back on him. He probably smelled your mutant, sir. Sorry, right Roy?"
"Sorry." Roy grumbled angrily.
Robin jumped up onto the table again along with Garth (He slipped a few times) and stared at Roy curiously. "So Roy, we still hanging out at dads place later?" Garth asked Roy.
"You know it. As soon as moms done with work I'll go." Roy responded with a smirk.
Robin tilted his head to the side and stared at the two strange animals. "Hey, why do you call your masters your dads or moms?"
"We don't know. We just kinda do, why do you call your dad master? Have you even said that to his face?" Roy asked Robin curiously.
Robin shook his head, causing his ears to shake as well with the action. He hissed as Red picked him back up and agreed that they should all meet up with Rachel and her pets included sometime to talk and socialize there own mutants. Roy waved goodbye with Garth as Robin waved back while being carried out of the room, Robin didn't want to go, but he feared saying no to his new master, he didn't want to go through anything like what Slade did ever again.
Red smiled at Robin. "Come on Robbie, lets get some ice cream or something."
Robin nodded happily, some ice cream might do him some good after that exhausting vets trip.
A/N: So... did you like it? I'll update again soon (Hopefully). Please R&R!
~Supercasey.