Infected
Chapter 23: Trust
I woke up to the sound of groaning. I quickly snapped out of my drowsiness and faced the orange and white cat. The baby started making whimpers as it started to cry. "Oh no." I thought as I was about to pick up the baby and comfort it, until the orange and white cat got up and scratched me across my face. I screamed. "Get away from my brother, you monster!" she screamed, opening her eyes. Her eyes are golden yellow and she hissed at me like an angry cat. I placed my hand on my left cheek and cried, "Calm down! I wasn't going to hurt hi-" I gasped as I dodged an incoming chair hurling towards my face. "I SAID STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM HIM!" She yelled. The baby kitten started crying as I fully saw the baby kitten. He's an orange kitten with bright green eyes. He has a cut across his torso. He was crying loudly. The orange cat continued to hiss at me. "H-hey! Your brother is cry-" I said to her. "GET AWAY FROM US!" She yelled, lunging at me. She scratched my torso and bit my shoulder. I screamed and shivered as I felt her teeth sinking into my fur.
*Silence*
"H-hey...calm down...no one's going to hurt you...I promise..."
I said, as gently and calmly as I could. The orange and white cat opened her eyes and they turned green. She started shivered in my lap and whimpered. "I-I..I...sowwy..." she said into my shoulder. "It's okay just-Aahh! Stop biting me." I said in pain. The orange cat slowly released my shoulder and looked deeply into my eyes. Her baby brother stopped crying and started to release hiccups. "L-listen...I need you to trust me," I said, pushing the cat off of me. "Your brother...he's scratched. He may get infected. We gotta fix him." "P-promise me you won't hurt him?" she replied, whimpering. I gave her my confident smile and said, "Wasn't planning to." The orange cat got off of me and I walked to her hiccupping baby brother. Luckily, I still have bandages I found when we first escaped the Scissor guy's prison. I took some and wrapped it around the orange kitten's torso. I used my teeth to cut the bandages and finished. "Finished." I said to her. The orange cat stared at me. She then burst into tears. "I-I-I don't know what to say! Thank you so much! I'm really sorry for attacking you! I got scared! I got angry! I got-" she apologized. "It's okay-OW!" I said, feeling my shoulder sting. I took out the bandages and wrapped my shoulder wound. "I'm sorry, I scratched you." the cat said again. "It's fine...what's your name?" I asked her. "Flare." she answered. "I'm cain." I replied, smiling. Flare smiled back, but faded as she started to struggle to stand up. "Hey? Are you-WHOA!" I asked, and suddenly held out my arms as she fell into them. I heard a growl from her stomach. "That's right...she collapsed from hunger." I thought as I placed her back on bed. I sighed, rubbing my bloody cheeks. Then, I heard Flare mumble,
"C-cain...I...I trust cain..."
With that, she fell asleep. I found myself smiling as I placed blankets on Flare and her baby brother. My eyes widen as I remembered to tell leo what happened just now.
"Damn it."
It feels great to be back! Sorry if I hadn't published any chapters in a while. My laptop was acting up and my mom won't leave me alone about studying for my exam I have tomorrow. Thx for reading and don't forget to review! :D