Disclaimer: The SWAT Kats are owned by Hanna Barbera and the Tremblay Brothers. I own the OCs.
Callista is behind David's walls. This doesn't mean that her job as the queen is done, as you will read.
Mark finished putting on his suit. He looked at himself in the mirror as he straightened his back tie before setting his hair in a low ponytail and securing it with a black ribbon.
Lisa watched her husband dress, holding Raphael in her lap. She licked her lips at the way her Mark looked in the starched white shirt and fitted black slacks. "Your father has one of the best tails out there," she said. Then the baby gave her a firm kick, which both Raphael and Lisa felt.
Raphael sensed his mother's discomfort. He placed his tiny paws on her stomach as well as resting his left cheek. He made his body heat up, creating a very soothing warmth that seeped into Lisa.
The unborn kitten calmed down, then Lisa said as she picked up Raphael, "You keep me as warm as your father does, I think I'll let you sleep with me while he's gone."
As Mark turned around to face his family, he said, "I'll be back tonight Lisa." He walked over to his wife and son, sat down on the bed, took his son from her, "Are you trying to take my place, son?" He asked, smiling at Raphael.
Raphael smiled back at his father, cooed in happiness, then said, "Daddy loves mommy."
Mark brought the small kitten to his chest, hugging him tightly, "Yes he does, he loves her very much."
Lisa knew when she watched Mark play with Sarah, he would be an awesome father. Seeing him interacting with their adoptive son solidified what she already knew. "Come to mommy," she said as she extended her arm to take Raphael from Mark.
Raphael buried his face deeper into Mark's chest, closing his eyes, and saying, "Daddy no go."
Mark picked the young kitten up and brought him to his face so he could kiss him. He lowered the kitten back to his lap, then said, "Daddy has to go. But mommy will be here to play with you."
"No want mommy, want daddy," Raphael said, gripping Mark's shirt tighter in his paws.
"Hey now," Mark said, gently removing Raphael from his shirt. He picked up the kitten so he could look his son in the eyes, then said, "I think you hurt mommy's feelings. We both love you very much Raphael, apologize to your mother."
Raphael turned his head to the left to face Lisa, then said, "I sorry."
Lisa reached over and stroked Raphael's hair with the fingers of her right paw, then said, "All is forgiven."
Raphael smiled again, then Lisa took him from Mark's arms. She kissed him, then said, "Come dance with me, my little prince." She stood holding her son in her arms and started dancing.
Mark watched his wife dancing merrily with their son for a few minutes before getting up and leaving their home.
Chance was dressed very similar to Mark. His suit fit him like a glove.
Both Callie and Felina gave him a hot once over with their eyes, then Felina said, "Callie, he cleans up quite well, if I wasn't deeply in love with Jake, I might have to fight you for him." She then smiled and winked at her, letting her know she was kidding, to a point.
Callie on the other hand didn't like her little joke. Between her pregnancy messing with her hormones and the extra weight gain of carrying three kittens, she was not in the mood to be joked with. "Lina, if I didn't know you as well as I do, I would be inclined to use my powers to turn you into a frog! A big, ugly one, covered in warts!"
"Aw, come on Callie," Felina said, throwing her paws over her head. She went over to her best friend, cinched her right arm around Callie's shoulders, then said, "I would never make a move on Chance, knowing how deeply in love you are with him. I could never hurt you like that."
Callie turned her body to the left and embraced her friend, then said, "I know you wouldn't Felina. My hormones are completely out of whack recently. I guess having three girls growing inside of me is throwing me out of balance."
Felina embraced Callie, then said, "Guess I'm lucky I'm only having one. I love you, Callie. You are my best friend, if not my sister. We are going to be inseparable as we figure out Motherhood together."
"I love you too Felina," Callie said.
Jake came down the stairs and saw his fiancée as well as Callie in a tight embrace. He especially noticed their large bellies touching. He smiled, knowing their kittens were going to grow up together and they all were going to be a tightly knit family.
"How come you are not wearing a suit, Jake?" Chance asked after he noticed what his best friend was wearing.
"Mechanics are not required to wear a suit. I wasn't chosen to be part of the security force. While you and Mark get to lounge around in their vehicles, I get to perform the same tasks I do here," Jake responded while walking over to his fiancée.
Chance was about to retort, but they all heard the blare of a car's horn outside of the garage.
"That must be Mark," Chance said before he looked over to Callie and saw her with her paws folded neatly over her large stomach, and looking at the floor. He went over to her, embraced her tightly against him, and said, "I'll miss you, Callie." Then gave her a quick kiss on her forehead.
She grabbed him, and kissed him back, much harder than he kissed her. She pulled back, then asked, "Why do you have to stay there? Can't you come home at night, like Mark is going to?"
"Mark and Lisa have a very young kitten they are caring for. If we were in the same situation, I would be coming home to you every night as well. I don't want to be apart from you any longer than I have to either, Callie. However, if I don't stay there, it might raise a red flag, especially if they find out I'm coming home to you," Chance explained.
Callie withdrew her arms from Chance, turned around so she could not see him leave, then said, "Go."
Chance made a vain attempt to reach for her, but held himself back. He turned around and left the garage, without saying another word.
"I have to go too, Felina," Jake said right before he kissed her left cheek and followed Chance out of the garage.
Felina sniffled, then joined Callie in a tight embrace. They both wept as they contemplated that their future husbands were going to be walking through the gates of hell.
Katerina was dressed in a grey Chef's uniform. Her hair was done up in a tight bun to keep any stray hairs out of the food she was to be preparing. She was waiting for Tina to come down the stairs while holding Gwendyln in her arms.
"Mom, did you leave the Enforcers and become a chef?" The young kitten asked her mother.
"Niet Gwendlyn, Tina and I are going under cover for a few days. But you are going to have fun with all of your aunts. Inna and Elizaveta are on their way to pick you up and take you to their new house," Katerina answered.
"But why do both of you have to go? Can't one of you stay with me while the other one goes under cover?" Gwendlyn asked.
Katerina held her daughter tighter to her body, running the fingers of her left paw through Gwendyln's hair. "We both need to be seen together for the first few days Gwen," she said. "After that, I'm almost positive Tina and I can work something out where one of us will be home with you."
Tina then came downstairs, wearing a pair of coveralls very similar to what Jake was wearing. She saw her daughter in the arms of her mate, visibly upset, which was something that was not allowed. Her right foot hit the main floor of their house and instantly hugged both of them. "Hey, we all talked about this a few nights ago Gwendlyn, you seemed ok with us going away for a few days," Tina said, on the verge of letting her own tears flow.
Gwendlyn let go of Katerina with her right arm and placed kit around Tina's neck. She hugged them both, then said, "That was before I talked to Evelyn. She told me where you are going, and, I'm scared that one or both of you might not be coming home. Please don't go!?" She pleaded.
"Gwen, we have to go," Tina said. "We need to be there to protect our friend Callista from an egotistical tom. You'd like her, she is one of the most amazing cats you will ever meet." She lifted Gwendyln from Katerina's arms, held her tightly to her own frame, then asked, "If your aunts will allow it, would you like to have a sleepover with Sarah and Evelyn?"
Gwendlyn sniffled and looked into her mother's eyes.
Tina gazed back into her daughter's golden orbs, then pulled a trick her father used on her to make her feel better, she tried her best to cross her eyes and stuck her tongue out.
Her maneuver caused the desired affect. Gwendlyn as well as Katerina were both now smiling and on the verge of laughing.
Tina laughed at herself, right along with Katerina and Gwendlyn.
Gwendyln stopped laughing, wiped the tears of happiness from her eyes, then said, "Mom, you are too much like grandpa."
"I am?" Tina asked. After she. Puts her left paw on her hip while holding onto her daughter with the other, she said, "Well then, I'm going to have to hang out more with my mother and be more like her."
"You? Be like mom? I highly doubt you, my ga-Loop-ga, can be a High-Fashioned Lynx as mom is," Katerina said.
"You don't see me wandering around malls, shopping for clothing, makeup, and other frilly things Kat?" Tina asked.
"Mommy, since when are you into doing things like grandma?" Gwendlyn asked.
"Hmm. You're right Gwen," Tina answered. "I was never into that type of stuff. I preferred being with my father, in the garage, working on my bike or the family car."
"Is that why you are dressed like that mommy?" Gwendlyn asked.
"You are just as smart as you are cute Gwen, and yes, I am going to be working alongside your uncle Jake," Tina responded, then tickled her daughter.
Gwendlyn laughed as she was tickled. She was laughing loud enough that no one heard the door open and Elizaveta and Inna entered.
Elizaveta closed the door behind her while Inna instantly went over to the young kitten, easily picked her up out of her adoptive mothers' arms, then asked, "Ready to have a sleepover with your aunts?"
As soon as Gwendlyn was safely in Inna's strong arms, she screamed in delight, "Inna!"
Inna smiled at the young kitten that she was holding, brought her closer to her large frame, cuddled her, then asked, "Have you been doing your exercises as I taught you?"
"I have aunt Inna, but I am still having a hard time doing more than thirty pushups," Gwendlyn answered.
"Inna, what are you teaching your students?" Elizaveta asked, shocked at Gwendlyn's response.
Inna turned her head to the right to face her superior, then answered, "I asked every student if they wanted to be stronger, and they all answered yes. Instead on simply playing with them, I put them all on a strength training regiment that by the end of the year, each one of them will be twice as strong, commander."
"Inna, you didn't tell her the part where you bent a barbell into a 'U' with only using your paws," Gwendlyn said.
"Inna!" Elizaveta said, though her clenched teeth. "You are a Elementary School Gym Teacher! Not a Bodybuilder's Trainer! Your students are supposed to be having fun, not becoming little versions of you!"
Inna turned her whole body to face her commander, looked down at her, then said, "They do have fun! Its not all, lift this, run faster, or make sure you get your chin above the bar. I only do Strength Training twice a week, the other times, I make sure each one of my students gets to run, use the ball courts, or simply play. However, each game or activity I set up, makes my students stretch their minds and increases their flexibility."
"Mommy, my class loves learning from Inna!" Gwendlyn exclaimed. "She not only is making all of stronger, she actually runs and plays with us. Evelyn, Sarah and I love when she joins us for lunch instead of sitting with the teachers."
"You do all of that, Inna?" Katerina asked.
"Da commander," Inna answered. "Why spend my lunch watching Galina and Nadia pick fights with each other, when I could spend it with Gwendyln and her friends?" She kissed Gwendlyn on her left cheek, then said, "Let's go, my sisters and I have loads of fun stuff set up in out home."
"Can you put me down? I want to kiss my mommies before I leave," Gwendlyn asked.
Inna put the kitten down, and as soon as her feet hit the floor, she ran the short distance to Katerina, jumped into her arms, kissed her, then said, "I'm going to miss you mommy, I love you."
Katerina kissed her back, then said, "I love you too, Gwendlyn." She put her daughter down, and once again, Gwendlyn ran to Tina.
Tina was already down on her knees, waiting for her daughter. And as soon as Gwendlyn was close enough, she pulled her daughter into a tight embrace, kissed her, then said, "You be a good girl for your aunts, like you can be anything but good." She then rubbed her right cheek into Gwendyln's left, essentially tickling the young kitten.
Gwendyln started laughing as the dense fur tickled her cheek and she said between bouts of laughter, "That really tickles mommy!"
Hearing her daughter laughing was one of the things Tina loved the most about being a parent. She pulled her face back and looked over to Katerina, as she thought, 'This is the family I always wanted, but never thought I would have.' Tina let go of her daughter, then said, "Go and have fun with your aunts, I'll see you in a few days, I love you."
"I love you too, mommy," Gwendlyn said. She turned around, walked back over to Inna, grasped her left paw with her right, then said, "Be safe mommies." Then left with Inna.
"Don't worry about her, we will watch over her like a hawk. Absolutely nothing bad will happen to her while she is in our care," Elizaveta said then followed her comrade out of the house.
An hour later, Chance and Mark were lined up with several others, waiting to see who would be chosen for the Queen's Security detail. Every one of them wore the same suit with dark sunglasses covering their eyes.
Chance looked up and down the line of toms, then whispered to Mark, "Is all of this really necessary?"
"To David, it is. He only wants the best for the Queen," Mark answered.
Just as Mark finished, David arrived with Darius to inspect the line of new security personnel.
"Splendid! Where did you find such a good bunch of cats in such a short time Darius?" David asked.
"That was the easy part," Darius said. "I simply requested for a few to help protect the queen. I few days later, I had a stack of applications sitting on my desk."
David walked down the line of the applicants and stopped in front of Mark. He looked the large tom, up and down, then said, "I'm quite impressed. These toms and she-cats will be a great addition not only to the queen's safety, but the Society's as well."
"Speaking of the queen," Darius said as soon as his eyes fell on Callista and Helen.
Both females walked down the path, their heads held high, smiles on their faces, each one dressed in long gowns that stopped right above their shoes. Callista's was colored pink with green accents while Helens was maroon colored with deeper red accents.
"Detail, attention!" Darius ordered.
Each perspective member of the force stood at attention, their eyes laser focused ahead of them.
David separated himself from Darius, stopped in front of the queen and Helen, then said, "You both look radiant today." He then kissed the queen's right paw.
Callista wretched as she felt his lips on her skin. She despised him for all he's done over the years but put on a smile for the sake of the mission.
Helen gently placed her left paw on Callista's right shoulder, silently letting her know she didn't have to endure David alone.
David righted himself, then said, "Come, allow me to introduce you to your newly established Security detail." And led the two she-cats to the front of the line.
Callista and Helen admired the toms and she-cats, all standing at attention, and very well dressed. Anyone of them could have fit in with the guards back when Callista was the queen. Callista smiled at each one as she walked past them, giving her approval of Darius' choices for her detail.
As they walked past Mark and Chance, Callista gave each one of them a wink with her right eye. Then continued down the line.
Mark's eyes looked to the right after they past and fell on Callista's shapely form in the gown she was wearing. 'Even though I'm hopelessly in love with Lisa, I still think Callista is one of the hottest she-cats in the world! Ulysses, I hope you know how fortunate you are to have her as your wife.' He thought.
The three of them reached the end of the line, then David turned around to face Callista and Helen. He said, "Your majesty, you must pick two of these fine toms and she-cats to be your personal guards. They will be with you at all times. So, choose wisely."
Callista separated herself from Helen and David and re-examined each cat as she walked back down the line. Everyone of the members of the detail stood a little straighter and taller as the queen approached. She reached out with her mind to each of the cats in front of her to see where their loyalty to David was and what mattered to each one the most. She was pleasantly surprised that most of them wanted David gone and were doing his bidding to keep their families housed and fed. She stopped in front of a raven haired she-cat, peered into her sunglasses covered eyes, then said, "You have two very young kittens at home that need their mother more than I, or David need you. Go home and be the loving and nurturing mother I know you are."
"Your majesty, I need this job to keep a roof over my family's heads," she responded.
"Not any more you don't," Callista said. "Come tomorrow morning, you are to head over to the Community center I recently opened and ask for Al. He will tell you what your new responsibilities are as one of the Patrol officers, and feel free to bring your kittens as well. The center has a beautifully run Day Care facility where they can run, play, and learn. Plus, you can check in on your kittens anytime you want." Callista looked up and down the rest of the line, then said, "The same offer applies to every one of you. I know you have families of your own, that need you more than you possibly could know. I appreciate all of you wanting to protect me. However, your wives, husbands, and kittens need you with them to be the loving father or mother you are."
Most of the detail looked at each other, trying to determine what to do. Then the raven haired she-cat asked, "Is this for real? You are offering all of us positions on your Citizen's Patrol?"
"Yes," Callista responded. "They need cats like you all. Not only to help them, but to guide them. Each one of you have leadership potential, and that is exactly what my patrol needs. My offer still stands, if you want it."
"We accept, your majesty," a tom towards the end of the line stated. He took off his sunglasses, threw them on the ground, then said, "I want to be able to see my beautiful daughter and my wife, not be locked behind these walls."
A she-cat his left repeated his actions, then said, "I want to be there for my son and be the best mother I can be."
A third looked at his partners, then said, "My wife is very pregnant with our first child. I'll be damned if I'm going to miss his or her birth."
"All of you!" David roared. "I gave you jobs when you needed them and this is how you repay me? By leaving when you are needed the most!? The queen needs to be protected."
"And I will be protected, David." Callista said as she sauntered over to where Mark and Chance were standing. "By these two. The rest of you, go home and be with your families." She then linked her arms with Chance's and Mark's and walked towards the center of the courtyard. But before she got too far, she let her right paw slip down to Mark's butt and felt the firm muscle as he walked.
"You know Lisa is not exactly going to like you pawing my backside, Callista," Mark said.
"Sorry Mark," She said. "Ever since I saw you in your other uniform back at the hospital, I wanted to find out myself, exactly how firm that butt of yours is. Now I know." She gave it a firm squeeze, then said, "Lisa is one lucky she-cat."
End of Chapter