A Game of Cat and Fox

by SpartaofGreece

What would happen if Nicole Watterson...never was? What would that entail? This fanfiction explores that question in further detail... (The character of Jake the Fox is my OC, but the artwork of him belongs to ScottTheFox94 on Twitter)

3. Chapter 3

h2 id="story-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 36px; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid #eeeeee; padding-bottom: 12px; outline: 0px;"When Two Paths Meet/h2
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9ac0b944a9977371c6e7df850d95a7c8"Alyssa extended her paw towards the blue feline, as she gave a smile to Nicole./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="fd0279b6c5df3b3198803eeb379433ec""Youem style="box-sizing: border-box;" really /emhave just woken up from a slumber haven't you? I just said I was your guardian angel! I've been with you every step of the way, sister! And I mean span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"EVERY /spanstep of the way! Well...except private moments in the washroom or bedroom...because, well...we're angels, we have standards and respect for our assigned persons...and plus, I don't need to see what happens after you had Mexican food...em style="box-sizing: border-box;"ewwww/em."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="b739047c474bff825eb70115f1006072"Nicole held her arm and looked out towards the park lake, thinking back to the supposed last moments of her last life./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5628449d2db2c956d301073b649ac4ae"Nicole's facial expression now shifted to silent anger, as she was quickly becoming a tad annoyed at her supposed "Guardian Angel's" games and riddles./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e6214dff4bfb3b7b7a35f17719e62121"Nicole quickly stopped and turned around, pointing one of her claws in the face of the leopard./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="aad44c3f073319cca0dd10a25ae13863""That's a misconception many have of perdition and hell, eternal torture, suffering, yada, yada, yada...but it's really much like the same as purgatory or heaven."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7e22070b7b7b96a25213e7dfeafafc88"Nicole lifted an eyebrow, confused at the concept she was just provided by her "Guardian Angel"./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="76e3030c7c4c3f9f706ec2510d24eb32""Well, now I will pose a question to you Nicky! What do you believe happens when you place a bunch of people with violent and murderous tendencies in the same realm?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="50935773a47ee5614f3a19355136c10a""WOW! So...I can conjure objects and items from the snap of my fingers...just simply by using my brain?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="b616ddb5346b6a74692dc87aef39c9fe""I had a feeling you were going to ask that! Of course! You can volunteer to obtain more magic at any of the job offerings that are posted throughout New Haven, or Purgatory. But you are given an allowance which covers your shelter, food, basic utilities, internet and entertainment...basically all you'd ever need! Buuuuuut, the volunteer jobs can help you save for a vacation to travel, or to simply refine your tastes if you want something more lavish, like a new home, new exquisite clothes, etc...although, as your guardian angel, I will say to not allow greed to consume you...frivolous lust for materialism is not exactly smiled upon by the boss..."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="24ea7b971ec8443d731440425cb8389a"As the two felines were conversing as they walked, Alyssa accidentally bumped shoulders with a male cheetah./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4bb3fd3cfbd5a984ac482f9904b73b72""It's been a while! How have you been?! My goodness you've grown so much too! You were only a little kit the last time I saw you!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3268cbac7fba2bf93504566b7b806553"Eddie smiled as Alyssa spoke, before adjusting his grey hoodie collar./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a48526c5b517b10ad6b6229fa6565f6f""Oh my goodness! Congratulations to you both!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3ed8d7683c4edad72e84adee68f01d3a""My name is Jennifer, it's a pleasure to meet you Alyssa!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="03270917272fcc1d4827f50e2c1e9258""I'm so happy for you girl! Eddie was one of the kindest and purest souls we ever had enter purgatory, and I'm so glad your hearts both met each other!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2ca8fbeba8a6af85bdb02b1f69a6e2d0""My recovery should be in a month on Earth, or three months as Alyssa explained to me; as my guardian angel."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="bcf5f9d0fa1ed799a8429c01a5cd9cb7"Jennifer quickly stepped in to reassure Nicole before she could complete her sentence./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="a3248cf5551b18fffb2d54bde982ea25""em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Hey.../emIt's okay Nicky! Can I call you Nicky? It sounds like it fits you well!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="20d0f04faf9f51965b23a99afcb28c6a""It's fine, it's a common nickname I had back in my old world."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="da3fed1e97d60672498aea8c6bc1f4bb"Jennifer smiled with her jubilant tone, as Nicole chuckled./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="c08faa197f2496cf3ac51119706d101d""Yeah...there are a nice few places that are beautiful in our world on Earth. You're also right about it being more stressful and less convenient than your world...it's aspan style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;" LOT /spanof stress if I am completely honest..."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="47e8f45baf7a353cc0270cc17696f3dc""Ha! I knew that Earth girl was full of crap at the party we went to! She was trying to paint the perfect picture of what her time was like down there, and I knew she was bluffing! Nicole just confirmed it!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="2eae65feb9b5efd79bd2598b8b22516a"Jennifer had a pompous boom to her voice on the sidewalk, as Alyssa chuckled./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="64ee7a7a403180025583d691bfae0e0d""Jen, I can tell you're already a pretty fun and cool gal to be around!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6d3a31f5ba9a41b2a92a2441b3d845a6"Jennifer smiled with a friendly demeanor, dropping her smug attitude about besting the Earth girl at the party in the past./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="5e8d4f174cbe2c78aa5c4afc0552f094""Why, thanks Alyssa! My brother has some quarrels and objections to my behavior sometimes...but I do keep a good balance between being moral and having fun!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3b1e2752f773baa6ddb5e0fea498a551"Eddie joined in the conversation as well from hearing this./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="268f35ed2335a740b77bc1263ec0540b""Yeah, well he's busy at the library right now with his voluntary archivist position, isn't he Eddie?!"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8a7f3773f2e4984ccfbd2c869263a965"Jennifer said with a snarky tone, as Alyssa had an almost "Eureka!" expression come over her./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="63856a2ca074d2bd144c212242df932e""Excuse me for interrupting the fun here, but did you say your brother worked at the New Haven library?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="fceab07cc2b8e714e960851515fa5524"Jennifer stopped laughing alongside Eddie, as she turned back to the two feline ladies./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6ef5e32fac7738681f276a41d6ed223c""Yes? Why do you ask, Alyssa?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="3854d7404821e5ba243dc78bd69ae5cc""Well, I was just contemplating on how to teach Nicole here how she can become better acquainted with her surroundings! Could your brother possibly help assist her at one of the computers tomorrow?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="8af9cc4d06fdbc2ae49e6b081e830711"Jennifer looked to Eddie, who simply shrugged his shoulders./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="71c8d4ee12c2ead758032c3d710f4e51""Alriiiiight, whatever you saaaay! Have fun you two! It was nice catching up!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="32e522c597b111b791846cfdabc4842a""Yeah...but Eddie was always a case when he was a kid...always rambunctious..."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="751f85bf8b601fb95865a9d210295737""Jen? Is everything alright? You didn't get hurt at Eddie's place did you?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="4e91a38d07e4cca95d9bf2deb70ab111""Wha-what do you need, sis?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e6b3200d16469b881414ddadb38dae2e"Jake nodded./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="e9b31a4ec8bc5e041bba4c8ae3815251"Jennifer let out a hardy laugh./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="ae9a1cf21508e3335f4561a3f464eb61""em style="box-sizing: border-box;"You'll do it?! Thank you span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"SO /spanmuch Jake! I knew I could count on my older brother! Love you!/em"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="cf212c69111377b236069ef9aca64ee2"Before Jake could utter another word after being abruptly interrupted, the line went dead./p
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