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Razor and T-Bone looked at each other before Razor said, "Care to tell me what was with the lip lock up there?"
T-Bone replied, "I just could not help myself. She looked like a Goddess, and those green eyes just did me in."
Razor rolled his eyes and said, "Well, if you are going to keep acting like that around her, we are going to have a serious problem maintaining our secret identities. If Feral found out who we are, he would have our cans in the slammer faster than the Turbo-Kat can fly."
T-Bone replied, "I know, but aren't we both at the stage in our lives when we want to be with someone special to spend the rest of our lives with? And I am not talking battle buddies here. I feel real good around her, and I really want to keep it, SWAT or not."
"I know. One day I hope to find a she-cat that will make me feel that way too, and I am happy that you have. Just remember, it was T-Bone that was kissing her, and not Chance. How is she going to react when it is not her 'Big Time Hero'asking her out? Think about it real hard, buddy."
T-Bone, not knowing how to respond to this, placed his arm around Razor's shoulders and said, "We had better get changed back into our other lives. I still have Callie's car and the truck a block over that have to be brought back to the yard."
With that, the duo duckedback into the alley, changed out of their SWAT Kat uniforms, and back to their lives as mechanics.
At Enforcer headquarters, Felina and Callie arrived at the weapons room. Felina pickedup more ammunition for her regulation weapon, as well as a sharp shooter's rifle and a shot gun that could blow a hole in an armored car, along with several packages of ammunition for each.
"You have enough fire power there for a small Army. It's only me that you are protecting. Why do you need all of that?" Callie asked.
Felina responded, "If Dark Kat is after you, there's no such thing as too muchof anything that can bring him down. Besides, do you really want to leave your life to the Bone Heads that my uncle hires? They are good, but they are young and easily distracted by a she-cat. What is mostly in our building? Young, available, and good looking she-cats. They will be absolutely useless once the residents start wandering around during the day."
Callie looked at Felina questioningly, since these were her own comrades that she was talking about.
"Don't get me wrong, Callie. Ina fight, I would not want any other catsbacking me up. Besides, you have the best Enforcer on the squad right here. What could possibly go wrong?" Felina winked when she was done speaking.
Callie chuckled at that, feeling a little more at ease.
The two left the weapons room and went to the assignment desk where Felina asked the desk sergeant who was on the protective custody assignments. Approving of the assigned officers, the two left the desk and walked out of headquarters.
Dark Kat arrived back at his lair after making his way throughthe sewers of the city, trying to get away from the commotion that he caused at City Hall.
"Damn those infernal SWAT Kats. Theyare always showing up and ruining my plans. Especially that T-Bone. If I can get him out of the way, the other will fall. Now how to do it?" Dark Kat thought to himself.
He proceeded to go through all the files that he had on the vigilantes to find some weak spot. He already knew that T-Bone had a soft spot for the Deputy Mayor, but she was probably under lock and key in some heavily guarded building, so going after her wasout.
Then he read something in passing. He ignored it at first, but then he went back to it.
"Hmm, it seems that T-Bone and Turmoil had a fling while she held the skies of the city hostage. This could be very useful."
He cameup with a plan to break Turmoil out of prison and use her to seduce T-Bone into joining her in some half-baked plan. "This might work. Going after the heart instead of the head." Dark Kat thought while rubbing his chin.
"Creeplings, go break Turmoil out of Mega Kat Maximum Security Prison and bring her here by any means necessary!" Dark Kat yelled at the Creeplings.
Several of them left with a few bombs and other means of destruction.
Dark Kat said, "This will work out well. T-Bone will not see this coming." When he was done speaking, he laughed maniacally.
Back at the Salvage yard, the two mechanics were digging into the problem with Callie's car. They managed to get it started and heard a banging sound that Callie hadn't told Chance about, but they were not able to locate the problem yet.
"Let me give it some gas. If I rev it up, the issue might reveal itself. "Chance said loudly over the malfunctioning engine.
Jake replied, "Just take it easy. Wedon't want to launch a rod through the block and have to replace the whole thing."
Chance listened to Jake, sort of, and slowly increased the speed of the engine. As he was doing that, Jake was listening real close to the valve train when he heard something amiss and yelled at Chance, "Shut it down. I found the problem!"
Chance, not hearing him completely, floored it and the engine revved as fast as it could. It only lasted for a very short period of time before one of the valve springs broke free from inside the engine and decided it wanted to see the light of day. So it punched its way through the top of the engine, almost hitting Jake in the face and implanting itself into the wall of the garage with a very loud bang.
Hearing that, Chance shut off the engine and said, "What the heck was that?"
"That was a valve spring that almost took me out! I told you to take it easy! Now we have to re-do the entire valve train, and possibly re-build the lower end of this engine! Thanks a lot!" Jake yelled back at Chance.
Chance's ears drooped, and he told Jakethat he was sorry, before taking a look at the two inch hole in the engine where the spring had escaped.
"I guess I will call Callie and tell her the news since it was sort of my fault." Chance said.
Jake answered back, "Sort of?"
Back at Callie's and Felina's apartment building, the two needed to decide which apartment Callie's Protective custody was going to be in. Felina opened her apartment first, and saw a mountain of pizza boxes and clothes scattered everywhere. There was a funky smell that she did not quite remember when she left that morning. So she quickly closed the door and said, "We are staying at your place."
Callie looked at her questioningly, but decided that it would be better for her to be someplace that she was familiar with.
The two went to the end of the hall, and Callie opened the door to her apartment.
She said, "Welcome to my little hole in the wall."
Felina did a sweep of the apartment to get the layout and to see what the points of entry were from the outside. She decided that the balcony should probably be off limits, since someone could easily attempt to make a grab at Callie from the roof. Callie was not going to be happy about that, since she loved being on the balcony at night and reading one of her favorite romance novels.
"Well, did my apartment pass inspection?" Callie asked Felina.
Felina replied, "We should be relatively safe here. Only one point of entry besides the front door. You are going to have to stay off of the balcony. At least for a while."
Felina had guessed to vent at her that the balcony was the reason that she had leased the place. Itwas the only place that she could let go and relax, and feel the warm breeze of the city.
"That is not going to happen! We will have to work out a compromise on that. "Callie said to Felina.
Felina's phone rang, breaking the tension between the two.
"Hello uncle. Yes,Callie is safe. Yes,I did a sweep of the apartment. No uncle, she is not staying at my place. Goodbye, uncle. "Felina said into the phone before pushing the end button.
"That was a pretty one-sided conversation. "Callie said.
Felina replied, "Standard questions from the Commander. They deserved simple answers."
"So, what is so wrong with your place that we could not stay there?" Callie asked.
"Nothing a Hazardous Materials team couldn't fix. I really need to clean that place. It is almost not safe to live in."Felina said.
Realizing that it was now starting to get late, the two decided that dinner was in order.
Callie said to Felina, "What do you want to have for dinner? After today, I really don't feel like cooking anything, so it's your choice. The drawer with the take-out menus is right next to the fridge. Pick out something that you like, and order it for two. I am going to change out of this getup."
She left the living room and proceeded to the bedroom to change.
Felina opened the menu drawer and took out the large stack on menus.
"She must eat a lot of take-out. "Felina thought to herself.
Felina came across a Fish Burger joint that delivered and called in an order.
While Felina ordered, Callie changed into a pink set of sweats and looked out the window at the seemingly peaceful city. She sighed and thought to herself, "This place used to be nice and quiet. How did it get this bad?" She left the bedroom to rejoin Felina in the living room.
They both set up the spare bedroom that had once been her home office, for Felina. When that was done, the doorbell rang, signaling that the food had arrived.
They both went to the door to get the food from the delivery cat, but Felina held Callie back and pulled out her pistol before opening the door.
She opened the door cautiously with one paw, keeping the other on the pistol, and asked the delivery cat for his ID while having the pistol trained on him.
The poor delivery cat didn't know what to think, since he had been to this apartment several times in the past, and had been greeted by a gorgeous, blonde she-cat. This time, he had a gun pointed at him by a feisty brunette that was not bad looking, either, while he retrieved his ID from his pocket. But right now, the pistol aimed at him was his main concern.
He handed his ID over to Felina, who looked it over and thenover it and the obviously terrified cat, then lowered her pistol. Felina said to the cat, "Sorry, can't be too careful. Here you go, and thank you." She also gave him a generous tip. Then she closed and locked the door.
"I hope you were not too hard on him? He is a very nice young tom. Very polite." Callie said.
"Not more than normal. I think I did give him a real good scare, though. I made up for it by tipping real well." Felina said.
They both sat around the kitchen table and ate in relative silence.
Callie had made herself a hard drink, while Felina had to settle on diet soda since she was technically on duty.
To break the silence, Felina asked Callie, "So, when is the wedding?"
Callie almost choked on that and replied, "What wedding!?"
"Come on, you are telling me that there is NOTHING going on between you and T-Bone? After seeing that heavy duty kiss that you both were obviously enjoying, I find that hard to believe." Felinasaid.
Callie could not believe what she was hearing. Yes, she had been kissed by T-Bone, and yes, she had kissed him back, but could he have real feelings for her?
Callie replied, "I don't know. He has saved my tail more times that I can count, and he does flirt with me a lot, but is there more to it? I really can't say. I do know he spends an awful long time looking into my eyes and atmy backside. I thought it was just typical Macho-Tom syndrome."
"Face it Callie, he has it bad for you, and you had better realize it. The REAL question is, did you enjoy it?"
Callie looked down at her plate and thought real hard, with her busy schedule and T-Bone being who he was,and not knowing anything but the mask and nothing about the tom behind it. Could there be something more?
Callie finally answered, almost in a whisper, "Yes."
End of Chapter.
Hi all,
Thank You for those that reviewed. I take all of the comments to heart.
Trekker77, I re-read the first two chapters and yes there are spacing errors that I had not intended. FanFiction blender at work. I will be more diligent about re-reading the chapter before publishing. Thanks for pointing it out.