Kitten Troubles, a story of the Aunt Family for the August Giraffe Call

[aldersprig]

For dahob's prompt

After Charming, Kitten Switch, and Boy Trouble

Aunt Family have a landing page here.

Beryl didn't worry when Radar wandered off. He was a cat, for one, a tom cat (who would dare get a magical cat neutered? Besides, he knew better than to mark in the house), and he was a magical being on top of that.

When he'd been gone for a week, she started to get a bit concerned, and, although her necklace berated her for it, she started to miss him, too.

::He'll be back when he's ready,:: necklace-Joseph reassured her. ::He'll come slinking back and slide into your life like he'd never left, like that boy.::

"Enough about the boy." She wanted to glare at the necklace, but what good would that do. "Radar..."

"I have a problem." Never was her cat's ability to talk without moving his mouth more clear; he walked in with a kitten scruffed in his mouth, a siamese-looking kitten who was mewling unhappily. Behind him, a black cat Beryl recognized from Crazy Aunt Beatrix's collection followed, yowling angrily at him.

"You stole a kitten?"

::I told you he was no good.::

"I did not steal her. I fathered her. And she has been getting in no end of trouble."

"You're a tom cat, isn't that what you do?" She ignored Joseph's inveigling, letting it fade to the buzzing of bees in her mind. The mother cat was harder to ignore. "Can you let her have her kitten back?"

"It's too late for that." This was a new voice, a lavender-and-tea voice, young, female, and very prissy. The kitten in Radar's mouth was staring at her. "I'm here now."

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Kind of like AG, but with cats :)

[aldersprig]

Less predatory ;-D

[kailing]

More kitten tales!

[aldersprig]

My new kitlings may be coloring my writing a bit...

[kailing]

I thought mayhaps, but Im all for it =D

[aldersprig]

Glad! :-D

[thnidu]

::Meanwhile, I try and I try, but my Man just refuses to – or can't – hear me!::

[aldersprig]

mmm?

[thnidu]

I think the queen of the house here was expressing frustration at the fact that, while some humans in the story can hear the cats there, I don't hear what she, obviously more intelligent than I, is saying to me!

[aldersprig]

Aaaah! :-D

Mine just bite me until they get what they want ;-)