(A/N): Time for another chapter of A Rush Of Dog Days! Thank you, once again, to SmileYouLiveLonger for reviewing the last chapter! I don't own Big Time Rush nor do I own the episode Big Time Mansion where the previous chapter, this chapter and the next one are based off of.
Chapter 3: I'm NOT Letting You Shave A Cat!
Carlos, James, Logan and Kendall began cheering as they stared up at the mansion in front of them. Katrina was standing next to them, looking up at the mansion in awe. They all turned to face the van when Mrs. Knight began talking.
"Okay," She began, "I set my phone number in all your speed dials, even yours Katrina. Just dial 'M' for Mommy." Katrina pulled her phone out of her pocket at this and tilted her head in confusion because she had kept her phone in her pocket the entire time. She gave a small smile before putting her phone back in her pocket.
"Mom," Kendall looked embarrassed.
"And," Mrs. Knight reached behind her and pulled out a stack of clothes, "I brought your jammies for you. I even included one of my old ones for Katrina in case her clothes are anything like her backpack."
"Mom," Kendall looked even more embarrassed as he walked up to grab the pajamas. Katrina's cheeks went a little pink, but her smile grew a little.
"Okay, have fun," Mrs. Knight told the five teenagers as Kendall pushed the pajamas into James's arms. As the group started to walk away, Mrs. Knight called out, "Katie, you're not staying. Get out of the duffel bag."
The group stopped and stared as the blue duffel bag on the ground seemed to open on its own before Katie popped out, saying, "Fine."
As she got out so she could climb into the van, Kendall noted to his sister, "Sorry Katie," before he picked up the duffle bag. The boys then rushed for the door, Katrina walking behind them.
Walking into the mansion, she gaped at the inside. Even though she had been in there before, Katrina could never get used to it. All five teenagers threw their stuff by the couch in the corner before wandering around the entrance.
Suddenly, Carlos yelled out, "A helmet rack!" And ran forward to the statue in the middle of the area and placed his helmet on the head of the statue. His friends and Katrina ran forward, chanting no over and over before Logan was able to pull it off.
"Okay guys," Katrina spoke up, causing the boys to look at her, "I don't care what you do as long as you don't break anything. I have to go take care of Gustavo's pets." At that, she ran off up the steps and out of the boys' sights.
They stared up the stairs for a second before Kendall snapped out of it, turning to his friends, "Look. We promised that we'd do this in a responsible manner. Now, we have sixty-four years of experience between us and – Who am I kidding? I'll race you to the media room!" All the boys cheered as they ran out of the room.
"Okay," Katrina was talking to herself. A clipboard was in her hand with a list of the animals that Gustavo owned in the house. As she walked down the hallway, she went over the animals she had already fed. "The fish, frogs, turtles, lizards, snakes, sugar gliders, squirrels, hedgehogs and whatever animals are in Gustavo's moat have been taken care of. Just the ferrets and the cat are left." She walked into a room where there was a cage with two ferrets running around in it. Katrina had a toothy grin on her face as she set the clipboard down and walked up to the cage, poking a finger in.
"And how are Ian and Isabelle today?" They didn't answer her, but she didn't expect them to. They did rub up against her finger and her smile grew when she felt the fur. "Are you two hungry?" She pulled her finger out of the cage. Going up to a nearby cabinet, she opened it and began preparing the ferrets' food. She glanced over at the cage and laughed at their attentiveness.
"Sometimes I wish I could talk to people as easily as I talk to animals," Katrina sighed, "And those boys seem nice, but I don't know. As soon as they become famous, they're gonna leave and then I'll be alone. Again. And then Brandon will be left to pick up the pieces again." Katrina sighed as she looked up from the food preparation. "I hate how much I rely on him. It's really not healthy for either of us." She looked over at the ferrets again and laughed. "You don't care about what I'm saying, do you? You just want your food." She grabbed the food dish and put it in the cage, smiling down at the ferrets as they attacked their food. Turning around, she found Kendall standing in the doorway, watching Katrina.
"What are you doing here?" Katrina asked, her voice shaking, "And how much did you hear?"
"I was passing by on a bathroom break," Kendall responded, "And I heard everything. What do you mean being alone again and who's Brandon?"
"Can you just forget what I said, please?"
"I can't do that. Look. You obviously need some friends that aren't animals. I'm here to listen and not judge. Can you just trust me? What harm could come from it?"
"Fine," Katrina gave in, but didn't say another word. She wasn't looking at him again, keeping her eyes focused on the doorway behind Kendall. He opened his mouth to ask her questions again, but was interrupted by his cell phone ringing.
Kendall turned away as he answered his phone, "Hey Mom. We're still doing fine from the last hour you called. Okay, I love you. Bye." He had rushed through the call, but by the time he hung up and turned around, Katrina had already left the room. "Aw, hockey pucks." Kendall complained before leaving the room and heading back to the media room to meet up with his friends.
The next time Katrina ran into Kendall, he was with his friends and they were in the living room, eating pudding and sitting on Gustavo's couch that he had specifically told them that they weren't supposed to sit on.
"Hey guys," Katrina came up to the boys and they looked up at her from their pudding cups. "Have you seen – Wait a second. Is that pudding?" The boys nodded their heads. "And is that Gustavo's living room fridge that is left open?" They nodded their heads again. "And you're sitting on Gustavo's forty thousand dollar couch?" For a third time, the boys nodded their heads. Katrina stood still for a second, staring at the scene in front of her before snapping out of it, "Gustavo is going to kill you."
"Relax, would you?" James suggested, "We'll be fine."
"Yeah, we'll clean up when we're done," Logan reassured Katrina, "It'll look like we weren't even here."
"Here, have some pudding!" Carlos stuffed a pudding cup and a spoon into Katrina's hands before relaxing back down on the ground with his own pudding cup.
Katrina looked at the pudding cup in her hand before shrugging and mumbling, "What the hell." She opened it, sat down on the ground with her legs crossed and dug in. The boys watched her with smiles on their faces because it was the first time they've seen her have some type of fun.
"And to think," Kendall piped up, "Gustavo didn't trust us." They all laughed a little and Kendall reached over with his spoon to get some of James's pudding. Then, the room suddenly went quiet and all anyone could hear was the plop of the pudding hitting the couch.
All five teenagers stared at the mess on the couch for a second before they jumped up, screaming.
"Gustavo's forty thousand dollar couch!" Carlos exclaimed.
"Get your butts off his couch was rule number three!" Logan reminded them.
"No it wasn't," Kendall insisted and then all four boys looked up to the ceiling with a weird look on their faces leaving Katrina confused. As quickly as they looked up, they looked back at each other. Kendall continued, "Okay, maybe it was."
"Gustavo's gonna kill us," James told the group, "And we're only sixty-four years old."
As Katrina mouthed sixty-four with a confused expression etched on her face, Kendall noted, "Actually, we're older because Katrina's here, which means that we're more than capable of removing a pudding stain from a couch. Logan. Brain. Now."
"Right. Okay, umm," Logan turned around and began spinning his fingers around in a circle by his head as though it would cause gears in his head to move. His friends and Katrina watched and waited for the brilliant boy to come up with something. "Gustavo has a cat, right? And cat litter's main ingredient is bentonite which we all know is a natural absorbent."
Kendall went into planning mode, "Carlos, get the cat litter. James, open the door to air out the smell." When everyone froze for a second, Kendall urged, "Move!" This caused Carlos and James to run off and do their jobs. Kendall leaned down over the couch and tried to get as much pudding off the couch as he could without making it any worse.
"So," Katrina broke the awkward silence, "Have any of you seen Gustavo's cat?" Logan and Kendall looked at her.
"Now is not the time to be thinking about a cat," Kendall told her, turning back to the pudding stain.
Katrina was about to say something when James and Carlos returned, Carlos holding a box of cat litter. Logan took it from him and began spreading it over the stain. Setting the box down, he spoke, "There. Now we just relax and wait." As soon as he said this, an animal jumped up onto the couch causing the boys to jump back in shock and Katrina to be knocked to the ground by them. "Woah, what is that thing?" Logan asked the group.
"It must be his cat," Kendall concluded, a look of revulsion on his face.
"That's a cat?" Carlos chimed in.
At this, Katrina jumped back onto her feet, "Of course he's a cat! What else did you expect?"
Before anyone could answer her, James spoke up, "Just get him off before he-" The cat peed on the couch causing Katrina to cover her mouth in shock and all four boys to finish James's sentence, "Marks his territory."
"Get him off the couch!" Kendall demanded.
"Okay, okay," Carlos stepped forward and picked up the cat. As soon as he did though, he screamed and threw the cat. "Uh-oh."
"WHY WOULD YOU THROW A CAT?" Katrina yelled at Carlos before running out the door after the cat. The boys stared after her for a second before looking back at each other.
"There goes rule number four," Logan sat down on something. Suddenly, a disco ball popped out of the ceiling and music started to play. All four boys screamed, jumped and stared at the disco ball.
"DISCO BALL!" Carlos yelled and pointed.
As Logan tried to fix it, James reminded them all, "Rule number five! If we break anything, we're fired!"
Katrina ran back into the room, "The cat climbed into a small hole and is now somewhere in this house!"
"Everybody just calm down!" Kendall told the group, a plan starting to form in his mind, "All we gotta do is get the stain off the couch, find the cat and raise the disco ball! We can do this! Together!" At this all four boys put their hands in the middle of the circle. They turned their heads to look at Katrina.
"What the hell," Katrina mumbled as she put her hand on top. The five teenagers cheered as they raised their hands into the air.
*Five Minutes Later*
The fire alarm was going off as Kendall extinguished the fire that was in a trash can. Logan ran down the steps and grabbed him, saying, "I can't find the cat!" before running off again.
Katrina came running in from another room and mentioned, "I think I might have heard footsteps in the ventilation system!"
Kendall looked from Katrina to James who was holding two of the three pieces of the statue. Katrina looked over too as James told them, "I think I broke the statue." Suddenly, the fire extinguisher went off again, causing Katrina and Kendall to both jump.
"Well," Kendall began telling them, "The good news is, this can't get any worse, right?" James seemed to agree, but Katrina slapped her forehead as the three of them overheard growling.
Suddenly, Carlos came running in out of another room, yelling, "The alligator's loose! The alligator's loose!"
Katrina went wide-eyed, "Gustavo said NOTHING about an alligator!" She sprinted up the steps and out of sight.
Logan showed up again saying, "Why is there-Why is there an alligator?" And then fainted. James, Kendall and Carlos picked him up and then ran after Katrina up the steps.
"Over here!" Katrina called out to them from a doorway. They quickly filed in and set Logan down on a couch in the room. "Is he okay?"
"He'll be fine," Kendall told her, "It happens a lot." Katrina looked down at the passed out boy with an eyebrow raised.
"You're the one in charge of pets!" James got Katrina's attention, "You do something about this!"
"I didn't know he had an alligator!" Katrina raised her hands in a don't-blame-me manner. "Besides, you're the one who broke the statue and Carlos is the one who let the alligator in here in the first place!" Carlos, James and Katrina began arguing causing Kendall to have to step in between them.
"Focus!" He told them, "We're not going to make Katrina solve everything because we're all in this together. Now, we're going to need some string, a broom, a ladder and some meat. And someone's going to need to wake up Logan."
"I call waking up Logan!" Carlos leaned down to wake up his best friend. Kendall, James and Katrina left the room.
"Okay," Kendall began, "James and I will look around up here for the string, broom and ladder. Katrina, you go downstairs and get some meat out of the kitchen."
"Why?" Katrina asked as James stuck out his tongue at her.
"Because you know the most about animals out of all of us!"
"No, I meant why go downstairs to get the meat? There's a second kitchen up here."
"Gustavo's got a second kitchen?" James and Kendall seemed surprised. Katrina nodded her head.
"And there should be some string, a broom and a ladder in the closet there too."
The boys stared at Katrina for a second before Kendall raised a finger, "To the second kitchen!" Katrina ran down the hall, the boys on her heels.
"How did an alligator get in here?" Kendall asked the group. He was standing on the ladder, holding a broom that had meat hanging from it by a string. The meat was hanging over the alligator which kept trying to snap at it. Carlos was behind Kendall on the ladder and Logan, James and Katrina were hanging back far enough to not get bitten, but close enough that they could keep the alligator in sight.
"I opened the back door to let the smoke out," Carlos began his story, "And it crawled in from Gustavo's moat!"
"HIS MOAT?" James and Logan yelled. Katrina didn't seem surprised.
"Nice alligator," Kendall ignored his friends as he moved the meat closer to the open doorway, "Follow the meat." The alligator grabbed it as it went through the doorway. Logan and James rushed forward and Logan closed the door. All five teenagers cheered before sitting down on the steps. "Now, just to find Gustavo's freaky bald cat so Gustavo doesn't kill us."
"And not pay me," Katrina muttered.
"Call the FBI!" James insisted causing his friends and Katrina to look at him.
"For a missing cat?" Logan spoke up first. When he noticed that James was serious, he continued, "The FBI only works with serious crimes."
"Oh," James stared off into the distance, "That explains a lot." A glaze seemed to go over his eyes for a second before he snapped out of his daze. "I know one of you used all of my Cuda massive hold!"
"Why am I not surprised by this?" Katrina asked rhetorically.
"Focus!" Kendall got the group's attention, "Now, there's only three possible places the cat could be hiding. One, he's roaming the neighborhood. Two, he's hiding up a tree." Kendall was suddenly interrupted by a belch coming from the room they had locked the alligator in. "And that would be three." The teenagers groaned.
"I can fix this!" Carlos yelled out, running from the room.
The group stared at the place where Carlos had disappeared. James broke the silence, "That's a new one."
Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Before any of the teenagers on the steps could get up, Carlos ran past them, "I got it!" The group waited for a second and then Carlos ran back in with an orange cat and a shaver.
"Brilliant!" James insisted as he jumped up and grabbed the cat and shaver out of Carlos's arms and ran into the living room with Carlos on his heels. Kendall sighed, but got up and joined them, leaving both Logan and Katrina sitting on the steps, shocked. They looked at each other before sprinting into the living room to crowd around where James had placed the cat. They all stared at the cat as it meowed.
"You can't shave a cat!" Logan told his friends. Katrina was frozen in shock, watching the cat with her eyes wide and jaw dropped.
"Oh," James piped up, "Would you rather tell Gustavo that we lost his and you know have him replace us and DESTROY MY DREAMS?"
Ignoring James's outburst, Logan turned to Carlos, "Where did you get the cat?"
Carlos shrugged, "I've got a guy."
"Quiet," Kendall told them, "Hold him down steady." James handed Kendall the shaver and Carlos knelt down to hold onto the cat.
"Oh, I can't look," Logan insisted.
"Would you chill?" Kendall responded, "How hard can it be to shave a cat?" He turned on the shaver which seemed to snap Katrina out of her shock.
She jumped in between Kendall and the cat, scolding, "I am NOT letting you shave a cat! Gustavo said that I'm in charge, so I'm telling you not to shave the cat!"
Kendall sighed, "Well, we've already broken all the other rules. Why not this one? James, hold her back." James grabbed Katrina and pulled her away from her spot. He wrapped his arms around her to keep her from getting out of his grip. She hit him as she screamed for him to let her go.
"You might want to hurry up, Kendall," James told him, trying to keep his face from getting hit by Katrina's flailing arms. "She's feisty." Kendall nodded before leaning in with the shaver heading towards the cat. Logan and James, still holding an angry Katrina, seemed to lean in too as the shaver got closer and closer to the cat.
The orange cat rampaged around the house as Kendall, Carlos, Logan, James and Katrina sat on Gustavo's couch in pain.
"I can't believe that cat ate Gustavo's exotic fish," Katrina complained.
"Oh, not the chair!" James piped up.
"Not the silk drapes!" Logan told the cat.
Carlos looked over and watched as the cat wrote 'Cats rule!' on one of Gustavo's paintings, "Where'd he learn to spray paint?"
Kendall summed up everything in two words, "We're doomed."
(A/N): I really don't like splitting episodes up, but by the time I got to over 3,000 words, I realized I had to split it again and this seemed like the perfect place to do it. I should finish up the episode by the next chapter though. We did learn a couple things about Katrina though. What did she mean by being alone again? And who is Brandon? I don't know if I'll put it in the next chapter, but if not, it'll be in the fifth. Reviews will make me write faster! Until the next chapter, happy reading!