So We Meet Again... (Dots)

Vespyr screamed and gasped at the sudden commotion whirling around her. It was dark and she couldn't see what exactly was happening, but the hands that held her down had released her and something wet landed on her face. She reached up with a shaky hand, her heart beating painfully fast, to feel what it was and she smelled blood on her fingers. She looked up with wide eyes to see the men who were holding her down flying through the air, one of them headless. Whoever had come along was showing them no mercy... in all the raucous screaming and howling, she heard a word that made her blood run ice cold with fear and anger. Anubis.

Dots had found her again. And this time, he looked angry... She hadn't seen him angry before, and it scared her. She felt the searing urge to run for her life, but suddenly the strange man was down on one knee before her and he was offering something...

Vespyr gasped when her eyes beheld the little gift-- a very small and very tattered looking kitten, obviously horribly abused, sitting in his palm. It was so small, so precious, and so... adorable. It mewled pitifully and that sound made Vespyr's heart ache. It was so frightened... She scooped it up in her palm with a small cry, moving a finger over its precious little ears. It purred and suckled her thumb, and Vespyr bit her lip and her face became soft and gentle. She murmered at it and looked it over, noticing it had one eye and its tail was badly broken and bent.

"You poor... oh, you dear little... thing... What happened to you... you're so.. Oh you poor.. poor thing..." she ran a finger down the kitten's thin body, cooing softly. She had a way with cats. "Fleeshy..." she murmered.

Her violet eyes went from the little scrap up to Dots, bringing her attention from her new friend to her new enemy. She contemplated his offer for dinner, noting that he had saved her life agin and given her a most perfect gift... But she also noted that his intentions were probably to do no more than keep her trapped like his little pet... because he 'loved' her... That fool. But Vespyr was indeed suffering extreme hunger, she hadn't eaten since the day after she left the mansion when she stopped by the cafe for the last time.

"Sure, but... No tricks... And I'm not promising anything... Just dinner. Dinner and nothing else." she growled, bringing the kitten close to her chest instinctively. "And thanks... for the.. cat..." she mumbled, her words of thanks nearly inaudible.

Vespyr grimaced as Dots put the piece of skin in her ramen. She opened her mouth to protest, but he had now begun sewing more skin onto his jacket. Wierd... She thought perhaps it was best she didn't question... whatever it was he was doing. With a sigh, Vespyr picked the meat out her bowl with her long, bony fingers, and held it in the air for a moment, unsure of what to do with it. She wasn't eating it, thats for sure. She didn't eat humans. They were disgusting, sweaty, stupid...

Vespyr placed the strip into Dots' bowl, not wanting to... put it to... waste. Then she started to eat her ramen, enjoying the salty mixture of blood and broth... and was reminded of last week yet again, when she herself had been the piece of meat in the bowl of soup. Suddenly losing her appetite, she sighed and put down the bowl.

Petting the small kitten, which was now asleep in her lap, she wondered how old he was. She also wondered when the last time he had eaten had been, and wondered if he would like some meat to nibble on. Normally she would have fed it milk, but seeing as she had none, she tore off a bit of the meat and tried to keep a straight face as she put it in her mouth. It didn't taste as bad as she expected, but she chewed until it was pulpy and spat it out into the palm of her hand, offering it to her little friend silently. She looked down at the poor one-eyed thing, thinking it was the cutest thing she had ever seen, and silently swore to look after him. He was, after all, her only friend now that she had said goodbye to her other Cats. She missed her Cats... she smiled a little as Fleesh gladly nibbled at the chewed meat, mewling happily. He seemed to have forgotten all his trauma. Vespyr wished she could do the same.

Vespyr's scrap of a maternal instinct took over when Deta pulled the bottle of milk from his jacket, and she gently took it from his hand without a word and nestled Fleesh closer to her, smiling a little as the kitten enjoyed its meal. She moved her finger up and down the kitten's little body, lulling it into a deep sleep.

Setting the remainder of the blood-milk concoction down on the pavement, she sighed and her mind returned to the situation at hand. Now that Dots had found her, he was probably going to haul her back to his horrorhouse of a mansion whether she liked it or not. And there was no use in running away, she'd never be able to fight him, at least not with her shoulder still busted up like this. ...No. She was going to have to confront his desires in some way or another.

"So... I'm guessing you're still in love with me, that's why you're here?" she said coldly, spitting out the word love like it was the name of all her troubles. In a away, it sort of was. It was love that concieved her miserable excuse for an existance in the first place, love that mocked her every day of her life, and now love that had her in this enfuriating predicament. With a growl of frustration, she kept from glaring at Dots by looking tenderly at Fleesh, who was now asleep in her hand. She gently tucked the little curled ball of fur into her warm, safe trenchcoat pocket and folded her hands with her index fingers together and resting on her lips, with her thumbs supporting her chin, and her elbows propped up on her thighs.

Vespyr saw the little motion but didn't feel an ounce of guilt, and just kept glaring the cannibal down with her hands still folded and her fingers still laying across her lips. Her bright violet eyes weren't angry, though she felt very much so, they were almost staring him down in a 'I-can't-believe-you-think-you-love-me' sort of look. She almost didn't believe him. From lessons learned out on the streets and witnessing the Idiotic Delusional Lives of Others, it seemed almost too good to be true. Although for Vespyr, it wasn't too good, it was too bad. She wasn't thrilled at all like any of those other teens at the highschool might have been... No, she was not enthusiastic in the least bit.

With a sigh, Vespyr contemplated going back to the mansion. She had to admit she liked the idea of having a place to crash instead of wandering about in the streets, although she probably would have ended up sleeping on the roof anyhow... But then again there was Dots there and his damn little dog... She hated that dog with all of her gut. She felt like kicking it down the 17 million flights of stairs and watching all its bones break and hearing it yelp in pain. She would laugh. "Not so cocky anymore, little runt..." she would say, cackling. (not noticing that she also said this aloud) But the dog wasn't the biggest of her troubles, and that would be Dots... If she went back there with him there would be no doubt he'd attempt to woo her until the point where she would either rake her claws across his face or just end up leaving again... In that case he probably would have all the doors and windows boarded up again, but she would still find a way out.

Another thought rang in her mind as she felt a little movement in her pocket was Fleesh; surely he wouldnt survive long out on the streets with her, not when he was this young and unstable. No, she would have to keep him safe until he was at least old enough for her to begin teaching him the ways of the world...

It was strange that Vespyr was already thinking of these things. Normally she had looked up to and almost feared the Cats but now she felt like she had the Duty to take care of Fleesh like he was a kit of her own. (She's truly a cat at heart, doesn't it seem?)

With a sigh, regretting what she would say even before she said it, Vespyr pointed at Dots accusingly, and said "I will come with you on one condition and for one reason only; Fleesh is too little to be living out here with me the way I do, and I want him growing up healthy. And you must promise me that you are going to leave me alone and drop all this love bullshit, because its driving me fucking crazy. Got it Dots?"