Fan Fiction ❯ Meet The Friends ❯ Epesode 6: Terrin's cat ( Chapter 6 )

On such a cloudy day, one might think it would rain or something. Therefore, one might think that it's crazy to walk home all the way from across town.

Terrin, who was feeling a bit hyper that day, decided to walk home instead of catching the bus like he usually did. He didn't mind the rain if it were to come. Unlike the other sphinx he knew, he didn't care if he got wet. Everyone told him that he was kind of strange anyway.

He walked down a long, abandoned street. Condemned buildings and old apartments lined it like a maze. Since there wasn't any sunlight, the scene only appeared in three different colors. Black, gray and white. Terrin felt oddly conformable in this setting. It reminded him of some of the pictures his coworkers took just for fun. He'd do the same if he had a camera.

The dull asphalt began to get darker and darker with little wet speckles. Terrin decided to shorten his walk in the rain by cutting through an ally-way. He pulled up the large caller of his long black trench coat, that had a picture of a face on the back with little X's in its eyes, to keep the rain from going down the back of his neck and giving him the chills. He had about ten more of them in his closet. Each with a different face on them. Everything was quiet, making him wish he had a pair of headphones or something he could listen to some music on. After a while, he started to slap his knees to some kind of beat and was singing to himself.

The ally he was walking down seemed tight and enclosed like the buildings that lined it were moving closer and closer together. There wasn't as much trash in this one than the other's he'd seen. Only a few empty tin trash cans and newspapers that had been blown into it by current winds.

Terrin was at the main course of his song when he heard the crashing of a garbage can falling over. He turned and looked around at what caused the noise. He froze when his eyes were laid upon a little black cat.

It was large and had short hair like most ally cats he'd seen. They'd normally hiss and run away as soon as they came in contact with someone. This one, however, was crouched low with its tail under its belly and shivering. Its large yellow eyes looked sad as if it were pleading for help.

Terrin felt a jolt of sympathy. He crouched down and held out his hand.

"Come on." he said as he coaxed it with his hand.

The cat stared at him for a moment. Then slowly, it crept toward him.

Terrin lightly pet it's soaked head once it got close enough.

The cat arched its back and began to purr. It then climbed up onto its knee and rubbed its head on his chest.

Terrin smiled and lifted the cat in his arms as he stood up. Making up his mind, he headed home, with the soaked and happy cat held tightly in his arms.

"I hate rain…" Esthenia hissed as she stared out the window.

"What's wrong?" Pagasis grinned from the couch. "Don't like getting your hair wet?"

"Zip it." Esthenia sighed as she backed away from the window.

"How is it that you can stand to take a shower and swim," Pagasis said. "But you can't get a little wet other than that?"

"She could if she wanted to!"

Pagasis and Esthenia looked over to the kitchen to see Tsuniker standing there. They were starting to get used to the fact that there was a hole in one of the closets in the kitchen that led to Tsuni's and Zera's room next door.

"Hey…" Pagasis said with a small wave.

"I wish you'd at least knock." Esthenia said as Tsuniker sat down next to Pagasis.

"But what about the element of surprise?" Tsuni asked.

"Do so when I have hiccups then…"

"Does scaring someone really cure hiccups?" Tsuni asked.

"Esthenia has them just about every morning until she looks in the mirror…"

"Okay!" Esthenia exclaimed as she turned from the window and faced the other person who just crawled in and made the remark. "Can someone PLEASE board that thing up?"

"I'll just have Dracos smash it with his skull until it opens again." Torrik said coolly as he sat down on the small recliner.

"I was talking about your mouth…"

"What were you doing in Tsuni's room?" Pagasis asked him with a raised eyebrow.

"Wouldn't YOU like to know…"

"I take it Dracos is sleeping again." Esthenia sighed as she turned to the window again. "If he's not awake, then you come annoy us instead."

"Absolutely…"

"No…" Tsuni said. "He's not asleep. He's gone."

"Really?" Pagasis asked. "On a Sunday?"

Tsuni nodded.

"He's seeing Sheirow…"

"He's what?" Esthenia's eyes left the window again.

"He's seeing the shrink…" Torrik sighed. "Does he have to tell you twice?"

"Why?"

"He wanted to know the meaning of a nightmare that he had."

"Oh-kay."

"He also mentioned something about you and your bed hair…"

"Ugh!"

"Hello?"

Everyone looked as Umie walked in.

"Sorry…" she said as she pointed to the kitchen over her shoulder. "I figured since the door was probably locked, then the hole would be open."

"The hole is always open." Tsuni grinned. "Just let me know when you're ready."

Umie clenched her fists and went over to pummel him when Pagasis held out his arm. She just glared at him for a moment then backed away.

"Sorry…" Pagasis smiled. "I don't want to get any blood on the carpet…"

"So," Esthenia sighed. "I guess everyone isn't doing anything today except for Sheirow."

"Zera's working too." Tsuni said with a disappointed tone. "Something about `Sunday suckers'."

Pagasis cringed.

"What about Mupo?" Esthenia asked, realizing it was oddly quiet.

"She went with Dracos."

"Oh…"

"What about Terrin?" Pagasis asked as he looked at Umie.

"What are you looking at me for?" she hissed.

"Because you monitor his every move…" Torrik said as he looked out the window too.

Esthenia looked at him for a moment. Then looked back down at the darkened street. She then noticed someone walking up to the front doors.

"There he is!" she said as she pointed down at him.

Tsuni, Pagasis, and Umie appeared over her shoulders.

"That's him all right…" Pagasis said. He then narrowed his eyes. "What's he got?"

They all looked at Umie again, and realized that she was nowhere in the room.

"What can I say…" Torrik said as he was looking toward the door. "A watchdog has her duties…"

"Uh, huh…" Sheirow said as he jotted a few things on his notepad. "So, you say that you ate spicy tortilla chips before you went to sleep?"

Dracos just stared up at the ceiling from his lying position on the couch in Sheirow's office. He nodded.

"So, what happened in your dream?"

"Nightmare…"

"Whatever… Bad dream."

"Nightmare."

"Okay!"

"Anyway, I was walking down a hallway."

"Did this hallway look familiar to you?" Sheirow asked as he wrote.

"Somewhat…" Dracos said thoughtfully. "Kind of like the one in the apartment you know…"

"Yes, I see. Continue."

"Right, so I'm walking right?" Dracos said as he did a walking motion with his arms. "I go into a room, and it's my apartment room. Now this part just creeps me out… Torrik is in the kitchen right? And he's… he's baking a chocolate cake!!"

"Oh dear god…"

"Woo…" Umie said as she appeared right in front of Terrin out of the elevator.

"Jeezus!!" Terrin exclaimed as he leapt backward.

"Right here!"

They leapt out of the way as someone fell from the ceiling.

"What the hell?" Terrin asked perplexed as he stared down at the person who was lying face down on the floor.

Umie looked up at the ceiling. She was confused because she didn't see any holes or ducts he would have come through.

"Woa!" he exclaimed as he lifted his head and sat up. He shook his head, making his long, spiky brown hair fly around. He had a red mark on his forehead and was wearing a tee-shirt that said; "Jesus, Mary, and Noah are my homies" on it. He just looked up at the two with a smile. "I don't want to try that again!"

"Where the heck did you come from?" Umie asked.

"Well, I was trying something…" he shrugged. "Then suddenly, I ended up here!"

"What the heck happened?" Tsuniker exclaimed as he bolted out of the elevator. He was followed by Torrik and Esthenia, who was wobbling a bit from the elevator ride. "One moment we were talking… Then the next, there was a THUD and my China cup fell on the floor with a devastating… CRASH!!"

"Yo!" Heizus waved to Torrik. "There's my dawg… Looking better than ever I see."

"You're not looking so bad yourself." Torrik nodded.

"So," Umie said as she leaned toward Terrin. "What cha got?"

Everyone leaned in to see as Terrin lifted the side of his coat and revealed the soaking wet cat cradled in his arm.

"Aww…" Esthenia awed excitedly. "A kitty!"

"Wooo…" Tsuniker clapped. "A pussy!"

Torrik's ears just pressed back for a moment.

Umie just smiled.

"Cute." she said as she pet it on the head.

The little black cat mewed then moved its head into Terrin's underarm.

"She's a bit shy…" he said.

"How do you know it's a she?" Umie asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Uhh…"

"How do you think?" Heizeus said as he appeared in between them. "He raped her!"

"Eh?"

"Oh god…" Pagasis said as he stepped from the elevator. "Not him again…"

"That's Mr. God to you." Heizeus said as he pointed at him.

"Sure."

"He's got a kitty." Umie said as Pagasis appeared next to her and looked at the little shivering mass of black fur hidden under Terrin's arm.

"No…" Pagasis grinned. "I thought that was your armpit hairs."

"Funny…" Terrin smirked.

"Where have you been?" Esthenia asked Pagasis. "I thought you were right behind us…"

"I was until I got a phone call from Mupo just after you left." he said.

"Really?" Esthenia cocked her head to the side. "What about?"

"It's about Sheirow and Draco's session." he said. "Dracos is driving him nuts!"

"I wanna drive some nuts!" Heizeus said.

Torrik just chuckled.

"I suppose he wanted me to come pick him up?"

"Bingo." Pagasis said as he pointed his finger at him. "Apparently, Dracos keeps falling asleep in the couch every time he stops talking."

"Well yeah…" Torrik said as he shrugged. "That's all he does is talk and sleep. Then there's that occasional method called taking a piss, but that could be rare to capture on film…"

"You film him talking and sleeping?" Esthenia asked.

"No." Torrik said as he headed for the elevator. "I film him talking in his sleep because he talks about you and Umie making out… Future reference you understand…"

Umie made it to the elevator just as the doors slid shut. She slammed it with her fist. Then looked at everyone else with wild eyes.

"Anyone have a battering ram and some cable cutters?" she asked.

Terrin just stroked the cat lightly on the head.

"And then… You were driving…" Dracos continued as he pointed at Sheirow.

"Oh dear god…" Mupo sighed from behind the desk.

"Okay…" Sheirow said as he jotted things down. "What happened while I was driving?"

"You crashed." Dracos said as he looked out the window.

"I crashed?"

Dracos nodded.

"You crashed right into Paggy's apartment." Dracos said. Then he smiled. "And Esthenia had just gotten out of the shower..."

"I wasn't knocked out was I?"

"Nope."

"Wouldn't that be somewhat of a dream?"

"Absolutely."

Mupo loudly cleared her throat.

Sheirow glanced over his shoulder at her for a moment. He then cleared his throat too.

"Okay…" he said to Dracos. "Then what happened?… Dracos?"

Sheirow was answered by a light snoring.

"So, what are you going to name her?" Pagasis asked as he opened the refrigerator.

"I don't know." Terrin said as he sat down on the couch with a bundle of towels in his arms.

"How about fluffy?" Tsuni suggested. "Or Mrs. Bigglesworth?"

"Uh… No."

"How about Ringo?" Umie asked as she sat next to Terrin.

"That's a good one." Pagasis said as he pulled out an apple and leaned on the kitchen counter.

Terrin shook his head.

Esthenia had their backs to them and was staring out the window once more. She watched as Torrik pulled away from the curb in the black Dodge truck.

"Got any suggestions?" Terrin asked her.

"…"

"Hello?"

Esthenia turned her head and stared at him.

"Uh, yeah? Are you talking to me?" she asked.

"Yeah. Can you think of anything?"

"I'm no good with names…"

"Try us." Pagasis said as he took a huge bite, taking the whole side of the apple off, including the core.

"How about… Gina?"

"That's my mother's name!" Terrin hissed. "Hell no!"

"Well…" Tsuniker said thoughtfully. "That is a good looking cat."

"Really Terrin." Pagasis said after swallowing. "That cat of yours is sexy. I mean, just look at those legs!"

"Will you all shut up!"

Esthenia smiled and turned back to the window. She was proud of the havoc she just caused.

"Then name it after Umie." Pagasis said.

Umie glared at him and Pagasis chuckled.

"Well, if you say the cat's hot then that's not a bad idea…" Terrin said.

Umie leaned over and punched him on the knee.

"Ow…" Terrin groaned. He then looked at the bundle in his arms and at the black face staring up at him. "You hear that… You're nothing but Trouble…"

"There you go…" Esthenia said, not taking her eyes away from the street.

"Yeah!" Tsuniker said as he clapped his hands together. "That used to be my co-workers stripper name!"

Terrin looked at him for a moment.

"Okay, maybe it wasn't…" Tsuniker shrugged.

"I like it." Umie said.

"Fine then…" Terrin said. "Her name will be Trouble."

"You know what will be funny?" Umie asked as she pointed at Pagasis, who just put the rest of the apple in his mouth. "If he laughed right now."

Pagasis just shook his head as he chewed. His eyes were big.

"That would be funny." Esthenia said as she turned away from the window.

"Imagine what would happen…" Umie said as she did a slight bounce. "He'd be like ha ha ha, then pooo…"

Pagasis snorted and a single apple seed was launched from his nose.

Umie ducked and Terrin jumped up from the couch with his hands on his face, making the poor cat leap onto Umie's lap.

"Ahhh! My eye!!"

"You're nothing but trouble!" Torrik said as he entered the building.

"Oh, had enough eh?" Heizeus said as he leaned over his shoulder, then to the other. He had followed Torrik by hiding in the bed of his truck.

"Sure."

"Do you gentleman need something?" the secretary asked as they walked up to the front desk.

"Yeah." Torrik said. "We're here to pick up someone."

"Who?"

"His name is Dracos." Torrik replied. "He's with Sheirow."

"Oh, right." the secretary said. "We're expecting you then. And who's this?"

Torrik looked over his shoulder and watched as Heizeus licked a mirror by the entryway and muttered, "I'm so pretty…"

"Yeah… He's just following me." Torrik said with a slight grin. "I forgot his leash today."

"Where was I?" Dracos asked as he woke up for the fourth time.

"You were on the part when the Aliens dropped you back off at your house." Sheirow said with little enthusiasm.

"Oh right." Dracos said. "And then, Terrin walked up to me with a muffin and said, `my name is George W. Bush, and I approve of this muffin.' In a southern accent."

"Uh-huh."

"Someone, please save me!" Mupo groaned as she flopped her head down on the desk with a dull thudding. "Please God…"

"I'M HERE!!"

The door flung open and there stood the twins of Chaos.

"Bout friggin time!" Mupo squealed as she quickly picked her head back up.

"You!" Torrik said as he pointed at Dracos. "You've commended the crime of 0612!"

"The crime of interrogating and talking innocent people to death." Heizeus continued. "Now you'll suffer the consequences!"

"Taste tape foe!"

Dracos froze as a piece of duct tape flew from nowhere and stuck to his mouth. He sat up and looked at them like they were both nuts. He then attempted to peel the tape off.

"He's resisting!" Torrik pointed. "We have no choice but to release the dogs! Sic em!"

Heizeus let out a growl as he pounced on Dracos and pinned him to the floor.

Torrik calmly kneeled by his struggling friend as Heizeus started taping his wrists together.

"I'll read em his rights." he said. "You're under arrest by the federal law of our dingy apartment and you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say, if you can say, will be held against you in Tsuniker's bedroom and Umie as she knees you in the genitals."

Heizeus lifted Dracos to his feet.

"Scum-bag." he said. "What do you have to say for yourself you shrink molesting evil-doer?"

Dracos just started to thrash around a little until Heizeus threatened to kiss him. He then moved quietly out the door while being led by Heizeus.

Torrik headed for the door. He turned to Sheirow and Mupo, who stood there shocked. He bowed.

"Sorry for the trouble." he said. "We'll make sure both of you will be under witness protection. Thank you for your time." He closed the door behind him as he walked out.

"What the hell was that?" Mupo asked after a long period of silence.

Sheirow just shook his head. He then jotted something down on his note pad.

"What are you writing?" Mupo asked as she appeared over his shoulder. She could see only one word and a very detailed doodle on the paper. "That's what you were doing the whole time?"

"Nope." Sheirow shook his head. He than pointed to the only word on the paper. "See that? It says he's nuts."

"Ah."

"What's going on now?" Sheirow wondered out loud as he stood up and walked over to the window. He could hear a slight stirring in the street below.

Mupo followed him over and watched as Torrik and Heizeus picked Dracos up by the shoulders and feet. They rocked him back and fourth then launched him into the bed of the truck with a loud thud.

"I love justice." Torrik grinned as he brushed off his hands and climbed into the truck.

Mupo and Sheirow then watched in shock as they drove away. They could see the sad, yet very frightened expression on Dracos' face as it faded in the distance.

"There'll be no living with them after this…" Sheirow sighed.