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Of Nightmares and Catnip

Rene jolted awake, practically sitting up just by the sheer force of how bad he jumped. The small teen was covered in a thin layer of sweat, his breathing labored. Not only did his chest hurt, but his head ached. The teen felt like he was gonna be sick. What was all that? What was any of that. Freckled hands flew over his body, pulling up his shirt as he checked for a stab wound that wasn't there. When his finger tips found no evidence of the jagged scar that was suppose to be, he let out a shaky sigh as he slowly began to relax. That was until he remembered what came after the stab wound.

He sprang from his bed, startling his cat in the process as he scrambled to the bathroom. Light brought the room to life as he slammed his hand on the switch. The boy stared at his reflection. Dark hair, pale skin, freckles that had just seen to come out of nowhere from a summer in the sun. There were no big fuzzy ears on his head, no long furry tail that sprouted from his lower back. Dark Gray eyes hadn't lightened, hadn't adapted a shade of green. His hands, normal hands. They weren't claws. He turned them over a few times, not believing that they weren't elongated, and that his nails didn't come to a point.

The teen took a few steps backwards till his back connected with the wall, where he promptly slid down it, head dropping on to his knees. He could remember losing his parents... his sisters. One minute Paris and Chris were there, the next they weren't. They were all gone. And the worst of it was Mikhail. He'd been corrupted. Rene remembered the attack on the camp, and running like the coward he was. He ran straight to the one person who had always been there. The pair had fought, and then Rene asked Promethus to kill him. And when the senshi didn't comply, Alexandria ran himself through with the shattered remains of his own weapon. And then.... Rene laughed brokenly.

He had been corrupted too.

Not only that, but Promethus had called a General Queen in an attempt to keep him from dying. That General Queen, Sakuradite - Rene wasn't sure how he had remembered that of all things, considering he was dying one moment and screaming in pain the next. Sakuradite had turned him into a youma. A half youma, half human thing. The Alexandria he had seen, had adopted the features of a Snow Leopard. His mind had completely shattered at that point. He wasn't Alexandria anymore at that point. Rene was dead. What he saw was a giant house cat with the ability to talk.

And it terrified him to think that could be real. That it could happen again.

Slowly, Rene picked himself off the floor and staggered back to his room where he fumbled about for his phone. He flipped through names until he found the one he wanted. It was late, he knew that. But Mikhail always answered. So when the phone clicked and he was met with a sleepy silence on the end Rene let out a sob he hadn't realized he'd been holding.

"I need you."

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