I'm gonna do my best to update every two days from now on. We'll see how that goes.
"Karkitty! Get up! Get up!" Nepeta jumped up and down on Karkat's bed. Karkat groaned and sat up.
"Nepeta, it's six in the morning on a Saturday, let me sleep!"
"But you said we could get a cat!" Nepeta protested. Karkat groaned and lay back down.
"Ten more minutes." he mumbled. Nepeta grabbed his pillow and started hitting him with it.
"No! I wanna go now!" she yelled.
"Okay! Fine!" Karkat got up and put some clothes on. Nepeta danced around him, singing.
"We're gonna get a cat! We're gonna get a cat!" Karkat sighed and brushed his teeth. He wasn't really that hungry, so he didn't have breakfast. He helped Nepeta tie her shoes and told Kanaya where they were going.
"Alright, Porrim will be visiting later." Kanaya said.
"Again, why?"
"Well, we are going to make baby clothes for her child."
"You don't even know what its gender is." Kanaya shrugged.
"We will make two sets then. She might end up with twins." Karkat laughed.
"I can imagine the look on Kankri's face if that happened." Karkat had actually met Kankri when he came to pick up Porrim. It turns out Kankri had known his dad for a few years.
"Don't forget to buy supplies for the cat." Kanaya reminded them. Karkat nodded as Nepeta dragged him out the door. "And make sure it's house-trained!"
"I'll try!" Karkat said. Terezi would be meeting them at the pet store. Karkat smiled to himself. Terezi had only been home for a week, but already it had felt like she'd never left. And she got along great with Nepeta. When they got to the pet store Terezi was waiting outside.
"Terezi!" Nepeta cried, running up to her. Terezi grinned and held her arms out so that Nepeta could hug her. She stumbled a bit when Nepeta jumped on her, but laughed and hugged her back.
"Hi." Karkat said. Terezi put Nepeta down and kissed Karkat.
"Hi. I'm surprised you're up so early on a Saturday."
"Yeah, I got my own personal alarm clock." Karkat patted Nepeta's head and she giggled.
"Come on! Let's go!" She grabbed Karkat and Terezi's hands and dragged them into the store. They ran to the cat section and were instantly met with choruses of meows and mews. Nepeta pressed her face up against the window and stared at all the cats.
"How many are there?" Terezi asked.
"…Nine." Karkat said after he counted.
"I want that one!" Nepeta said, pointing to the white one with its face pressed up against the window. So Karkat got the lady behind the desk to get the cat out and handed it to Nepeta.
"We need to get supplies for the cat as well." Karkat said. So they got a cat bed, a food dish and water dish, some toys and a tin of catnip and some kitty litter and a box for it. They also got a cat comb and a scratching post. Karkat paid for it all, and then they walked outside where Latula was waiting with her car to carry it all.
"Aw! What a cute cat!" she said, looking at the kitten Nepeta was holding. "What's its name?"
"Her name in Nepkat!" Nepeta said. "Nepkat Pounce!"
"Nepkat?" Karkat asked. Nepeta nodded.
"It's a mix of our names, Karkitty!" She held up the kitten to his face. "The kitten symbolizes our bond of sibling love!"
"Oh, my, god!" Latula exclaimed. "That's so cute, Nepeta!"
"Thank you!" Nepeta said. She turned and looked at Karkat.
"Do you like it?" she asked, purring slightly.
"Yeah." Karkat said. "It's adorable." Nepeta purred and petted the kitten.
"It kinda looks like it has two mouths." Latula commented. Karkat looked at the kitten and realized it kind of did. There was a black mark underneath its mouth that looked like a second mouth.
"That sounds cute." Terezi said. "But are we going to keep standing here, or are we going to get this stuff in the car?"
"Oh, right!" Latula exclaimed. "Put the stuff in the trunk." She opened the trunk and helped put everything inside. Then Karkat, Terezi, Nepeta and Nepkat sat down in the back. Latula drove them to the mansion and helped them carry the stuff inside.
"Welcome back." Kanaya said. "How did it go?"
"This is Nepkat!" Nepeta said, holding up the kitten. Nepkat seemed nervous of the large environment.
"Well, I've shut all doors and windows that don't need to be opened, and I bought cat food because I knew you would forget." Karkat smacked his forehead with his hand. How had he forgotten that?!
"We can put her bed in my room!" Nepeta declared. So they put her bed, scratching post and toys in Nepeta's room. The food dish went in the dining room and the kitty litter in one of the bathrooms (one that nobody used). Then Nepeta put Nepkat down in her room and let the kitten explore her new home.
A few hours later they had learned that Nepkat hadn't been house-trained yet, she loved balls with a little bell inside them and she loved to climb up furniture or people. Karkat, Terezi and Latula laughed so hard when Nepkat climbed up Gary and sat on his bald head and licked his face and he had to look completely unemotional. Karkat wished he could have taken a picture, but he'd been too busy laughing. They got Nepkat to understand where the bathroom was and Kanaya trimmed her claws after seeing the scratches on Gary's head.
Terezi and Latula stayed for supper and Mituna came as well. While they ate and talked Nepeta sat next to Nepkat and watched her eat her food. Eventually Karkat made her sit at the table and eat her supper. They had scallop potatoes and steamed brussel-sprouts. Nepeta liked the scallop potatoes, but not the brussel-sprouts.
"I don't wanna eat them!" she whined.
"Nepeta, you can't go play with Nepkat until you finish eating them." Kanaya said. Nepeta whined and pouted some more but eventually ate them. After supper she played with Nepkat and Karkat and Terezi and Latula. After awhile Karkat announced it was time for bed.
"But I wanna play more!" Nepeta whined.
"It's your bedtime, Nepeta." Karkat said.
"I'm not tired!" Nepeta insisted. Karkat sighed and picked her up. Nepeta squealed and flailed as Karkat put her in bed. Nepkat climbed up onto the bed and licked Nepeta's nose. Nepeta giggled and licked Nepkat's forehead. Karkat put Nepkat in her bed, but she just got up and walked out of the room.
"Goodnight Nepeta." Karkat said, kissing her forehead.
"Goodnight." Nepeta said, closing her eyes. She had lied, she was tired.
You can't say that wasn't cute. You just can't. :)