I had a dream that I was Hakuba and one of my cats was Conan and he curled up next to me this morning, pouting.
\u2018What\u2019s the matter?\u2019 I asked, hesitantly petting \u2018cause let\u2019s be honest, my cat is not but my Conan (askconan) is kind of a jerk.
He nodded his head toward one of my other cats- the extrovert of the bunch- and said \u2018that bastard thief won\u2019t stop calling me a shorty.\u2019
\u2018To be fair you are fairly short, Conan.\u2019
He glared for another moment, then sighed. \u2018Help me come up with insults to call him.\u2019
\u2018What do you have so far?\u2019 (If you recall, the best he could come up with for Koji was \u2018scarecrow,\u2019 and that was after calling him \u2018stupid face\u2019 for like a month.)
\u2018Tall hat guy,\u2019 was his reply.
\u2018\u2026I don\u2019t think this is going to help your situation in any way.\u2019
\u2018Oi.\u2019 Defensive snort, pout. Snuggled a little closer. \u2018What can you come up with?\u2019
\u2018I make it my policy not to insult Kaitos.\u2019
\u2018That\u2019s dumb.\u2019
I shrugged.
He looked unconvinced.
I shrugged again.
Kaitou!cat then approached, eyes beady, dangerous. He had that wicked grin of someone juuuust about ready to cause trouble.
Conan froze. Tense. Waiting.<\/p>\n
Kaitou got closer, movements so slow and subtle that it seemed that he was gliding into position. Then he stopped. Crouched. His eyes narrowed in concentration while Conan backed up against me, likewise tense. I felt a sort of dread but for my curiosity could not look away.<\/span><\/p>\n The tension was electric. Anxious.\u00a0<\/p>\n Kaitou drifted just a tiny bit closer- a false move if anything, then stilled, holding position. This action, though, however small, tensed the smaller cat’s shoulders with so much anxiety that he all but flipped himself over, springing from the bed with a flurry of fur and hissing.<\/p>\n Behind the pounding of claws tearing against carpet in retreat, Conan yowled his parting insult of ‘STUPID… BASTARD… TALL HAT.. GUY!’\u00a0<\/p>\n This left Kaitou to sit up, nonchalant and casual as he pleased, regarding the bed for only a moment before jumping up and taking Conan’s place at my side.\u00a0Once curled, he closed his eyes and sighed, letting the purrs roll from his chest in satisfied amusement. ‘Ah, so warm,’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I resumed petting and, subsequently, drifted back to sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a dream that I was Hakuba and one of my cats was Conan and he curled up next to me this morning, pouting. \u2018What\u2019s the matter?\u2019 I asked, hesitantly petting \u2018cause let\u2019s be honest, my cat is not but my Conan (askconan) is kind of a jerk. He nodded his head toward one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4628,2418,4625,4626,4627,3,823,5],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-is-to-make-up-for-not-having-a-super-depressing-angst-story-to-post-this-morning-lol","tag-askconan","tag-cat","tag-conan-cat","tag-kaitou-cat","tag-mun","tag-muse","tag-out-of-crumpets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}