Day 9: Favourite Halloween Animal (Seth/Kate, future)
"I'm still kind of buzzed. What about you?" Kate asked, as she leaned against the car door.
"Well, I'm not interested in going to sleep early, if that's what you mean," Seth answered, smirking.
With any other woman, he would find it frustrating or even annoying that she couldn't just come out and say that she wanted to fuck. With Kate, he found it – God help him – downright adorable. He had to get Kate wasted on tequila or lots of foreplay to get his lover to lose the mien of the preacher's daughter and unleash her inner vixen... but damn, it was so worth it. Last time he'd managed it, they broke the fucking bed!
But all thoughts of getting Kate naked vanished, when a subtle, indistinguishable scrape reached both their ears. Seth reached for his revolver (now loaded with dum-dums), and Kate's hand flashed to the stake in the back of her jeans waistband. They'd never been followed back to their home base after a job before, and the very thought kicked them both into high gear.
Then a soft thump made them both look at the hood of the car, and Seth was literally an instant away from pulling the trigger, when he sensed Kate relaxing again.
From the hood of the car, emerald eyes locked onto Seth's and held, initiating a brief contest of wills. Seth lost with good grace, and gave a respectful nod to a fellow hunter in the night, before he let his grin out.
His opponent gave a regal nod in acknowledgement, and turned to Kate.
Kate surrendered without even putting up a fight - she reached out her hand, cooing, and the black cat allowed her to scratch behind it's ears, nudging it's head against her palm to encourage her.
For some reason, it didn't surprise Seth at all when the cat followed them inside. He was just grateful that when the cat jumped up into the room's sole chair, it pointedly turned away from the bed.
(Actually, the Raven is my equal favourite with the black cat (probably because of 'Forever Knight'), but I've already used it.
Given how Poe the Cat – yes, he's already named himself – seems to have chosen to join Seth and Kate on their travels, I can say it's very likely that he's going to be showing up again.)