Fan Fiction ❯ Love for Free ❯ Kittens ( Prologue )

In a cardboard box shoved up to the side of a tall building with the words LOVE FOR FREE painted on one side, a litter of small kittens played with each other, mewled at passing strangers, cried for their mother, stared blankly into the space just in front of the left corner, and all around looked cute.

Passing by, a little boy with raven black hair noticed the kittens and gasped. Running over, he picked up one of the mewling kittens and cuddled it. Walking up behind him, a brown haired teen noticed the mewling ball of fluff in the boy's hands and rolled his eyes. After a quick pleading, the two boys left, a kitten now snuggled in the younger's hands.

And so it went like that for the rest of the day, children and adults picking up the kittens and taking them home until the moon hung high and only two kits remained.

One of them, a soft red and black splotched on a white body with a little bob of a tail and emerald eyes, blinked and came out of her corner-induced trance. Glancing around, she noticed that all but one of her littermates were missing. Getting to her paws, she padded over to the only other kit.

"Where everybuddy gow?" she questioned, stumbling over her own paws and falling after a few steps.

The other, pure white all over her body with only a slight hint of black and red coloring at the very tips of her ears and long tail that would eventually fade, looked at her with impossibly deep blue eyes.

"They all went away. Didn't you notice?"

The calico, who had sat up and was busy scratching at one black ear, little pink tongue poking out of her mouth and eyes closed tight, paused and blinked at her.

"Wha?"

The white shorthair hung her head sadly, giving up. "Never mind," she mumbled before placing her paws on the rim of the box and peering out. "Wonder where everyone went…" she murmured to herself, seeing no more humans passing along the streets.

Suddenly, a shiver ran down her spine and she stiffened. Sticking her pink nose in the air, she sniffed, taking in the heavier air. Sitting in the box, the calico mewled and pressed herself into her sister.

"M'cold," she whined. "An' is gonna rain soon…"

The white one looked at her and smiled reassuringly.

"Don't worry, I'm sure it won't rain for a while ye-"

KRASSHH!!

A flash of light.

And the sky fell.

Immediately getting drenched, the calico looked at her sister.

Looked at the sky.

Looked back to her sister.

"Mebby you shoul' stop talkin'."

The other's ears drooped.

"Yeah, maybe."

Fruitlessly attempting to shake to water from her coat, the shorthair dropped back to the bottom of the box and immediately felt her sister press herself against her.

"Cold," she whined again.

Lightly pawing at the littler one's ear, she tried to give a comforting purr. "Don't worry -"

"I dun like it when you say that."

She smiled and playfully batted the smaller's muzzle. "I'm trying to say, we'll get out of this box and get somewhere dry."

"Where's 'somewhere dry'?"

"… I don't know. Somewhere not here."

Glancing around the box, she looked at her sister. "Here's what I need you to do: when I say so, we'll both run at the wall, k?"

The other nodded vigorously.

"Ok…" she took a few steps back. "And… Now!" Springing forward, she rammed herself into one of the cardboard walls only to bounce back and roll to her sister's feet as she sat there, watching.

"Why didn't you go with me?!"

"You din' say 'so'."

She groaned.

Getting back to her paws, she looked at her sister again. "One more time." She readied herself and so did her sister. "Ok… And… N-So!"

She ran at the wall.

Her sister ran at the wall.

KRSSHHHT!!

The soggy box ripped in half, sending the two kittens to the ground. Blinking in confusion, she looked about and saw her sister at the other end of the ruined box, getting to her paws and padding over.

"You were supposed to go on this side so we could tip the box over."

"You din' tell me."

She groaned again.

"Well… At least we're out of there." She looked at her sister. "Now let's look for 'somewhere dry'."

"Yay!" the little one cheered as they began to trek through the city. "'Somewhere dry'!"

Padding through the city, the kittens managed to find some tipped over trashcans with the lids slightly opened just enough to allow the kittens in but not the rain or too much cold. Bounding inside, the two curled up close together, grooming each other to the best of their abilities without separating from each other.

Curling about each other tighter, the kits were about to fall asleep, the sound of padding pawsteps drifted across their ears. Opening their eyes, they peeked out of the trashcan and noticed a large ginger wirehair pacing down the sidewalk. Standing, they were about to leave their, now cozy, refuge to greet this strange tom, when the sky lit up and thunder rolled.

At the flash and roar, the wirehair twitched like he wanted to jump but couldn't and increased his pace into a fast lope. Stumbling out of the trashcan and back into the rain, the kittens attempted to call for the tom, but over the next clap of thunder and the pounding rain, they could barely hear themselves. So, they did the next thing that came to mind.

They followed him.

Down twisting and turning alleyways the kittens followed, trying as hard as they could not to loose the tom. Finally, he came to pause just outside a large empty warehouse. He looked ready to take a step, but stopped. As he just stood there, the kittens padded forward.

All of a sudden, the ginger tom leapt at them, golden eyes flashing…

First part done.

Macavity: *just sorta there for no real reason* Why must you write this?

Teazer and Angel: *look at him*

Angel: How'd you get here?

Macavity: *shrug*

Angel: … Ah well. And I must write this because it is cute.

Macavity: *makes a face* I don't think it is.

Teazer: *sticks tongue out at him* Oi tink it's cute.

Macavity: *grumbles something*

Angel: *decides to ignore them* Well, this is it for the prologue. I don't own CATS, but the calico is mine and the white one is my oneesan's. Till next time!