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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:39 pm
Well, this most certainly was not any fun at all-- that is, sitting all hunched up against an alley wall, clutching a paw to your chest and trying to calm yourself into not hyperventilating. Granted, it was probably entirely his fault for not seeing a giant truck speeding down the road before he tried to cross; regardless, it had been terrifying either way.
Letting out a breath, he lifted his hands into fixing his tousled hair with a slight pout. "Hmph." He'd show that truck next time! (Despite how ridiculously unsuccessful he'd be, considering a truck had to be what, ten times his size?)
Now that he had himself collected, he hopped up onto one of the cardboard boxes (trash from a neighboring store) to peek curiously around the corner. Was it safe? Better check first, this time. ✿
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:52 pm
Bae had had a few different run-ins with trucks. And cars, and bikes, and scooters. It was horrifying every time, and every time the bombay didn't learn s**t from his previous mistakes, mostly because he was too stubborn with himself to admit that it had been his fault for not looking both ways.
The humans had that rule of being outside correct, at least.
Not that he'd ever admit that.
He'd been digging around in said trash before the other cat came into his 'hunting' grounds, and his..uh. Boxes. His boxes. That's right. But in the process of Gabriel jumping atop the cardboard box, Bae was trapped inside. Oops. Patting the walls to see if there was a flimsy part, he whined rather loudly and jumped up to shove his hands against the top of the box, where the other cat was standing, and started barking orders, "Get off my box! Are you trying to kill me?!" As if he'd suffocate in a cardboard box. But it sounded right in his head.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:02 pm
The poor thing had just calmed himself down before something equally as terrifying happened. The box was moving. He stared down at it, dazedly, until the shove underneath him sent him flying backwards. Not so much because of the force, but more that he was throwing himself back in an, "oh my god, the world is actually out to give me" terror that one has when a truck almost flattens you five minutes prior to having a box yell at you.
Doing a rather ungraceful backwards tumble on the ground behind the box as if he were in an action movie (his humans used to love watching those), he pointed accusingly at the cardboard fiend in front of him.
"I'm off, but I'm not afraid!" He declared to what had to be the paranormal entity inside the confines of his previous perch.
Yes, that was why Gabriel had gone semi-acrobatic just then. Because he wasn't afraid. Not at all, not a bit. ✿
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:29 pm
Seeing the top of the box open slightly and let light in, he smiled and listened to the other start yelling--weirdo. Flattening his ears, he wrinkled his nose and poked his head up, using his hands to push at the flap of the box and look all around--then focused his eyes down on the other cat.
So this cat was trying to suffocate him in a box, huh?
His fur puffed up a bit as his cheeks did the same, and he began to wiggle his way out of the box, straddling the edge to stay steady, "You should be afraid!" He snapped back, snorting a little despite himself at how distressed this other cat looked. Definitely a weirdo.
"You were on my box, box...stealer," creative, Bae. Really creative, "What're you doing, anyway?"
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:35 pm
"Well, I'm not!" He stated firmly, once he realized that it was just another cat. Scrambling to get up, he flattened his hair for the second time, pouting a little that he had not only been messed up once that day, but a second time as well. Proceeding to fix his clothes, he eyed the cat on the box, puffing his cheeks out mockingly at him.
"Why is it your box?" Nevermind that the other had obviously found it first, but it wasn't like there was any clear evidence of it belonging to anyone. If it was he wouldn't have-- . . .Well, no, that was a lie. He definitely would have jumped on it anyway.
"Whatever," he said, deciding not to wait for an answer as he shook himself to ruffle out his fur. "It's a stupid looking box, so I don't want it anyway." In other words, he wasn't allowed to touch it, so he was just going to get all huffy about it. "I'll just find a better one." ✿
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:53 pm
"Because it is," another good reason from Bae. He was good at this s**t, obviously. When the other puffed out his cheeks as well, Bae puffed his own out more, tail bristling along the back. Jerk.
"It's not STUPID!" He huffed after the comment, being rather immature about this, wasn't he? Nearly toppling into the box again when he reached down to grab a bundled up piece of paper, he threw it at the other cat quickly, the larger ball of the paper not flying very well, but it did the job. Though the incredible urge to chase it was hard to fight.
"YOU'RE stupid," Bae huffed after a moment, then went back into his box to grumble, as if that was that.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:02 pm
Gabriel 'eeped,' and hopped backwards once, twice, away from the paper ball coming towards him. "I'm not stupid!" he replied, leering at the paper ball as it came to a stop. Tentatively batting at it, a satisfied little smirk spread across his face. Who needed a box when you had a free paper ball? Tch, as far as he was concerned, he now had the better end of the deal.
Which meant the other cat needed to be aware that one, he was not stupid, and two, he didn't care about the stupid box anyway-- for real this time.
"At least not compared to your ugly box. Besides, this is more fun anyway." With no other reason than to, quite frankly, be a douche, he whacked the wadded paper at the side of the box to that it ricocheted off the side with a little thud. "You can play with this." Which meant it was cooler by default, right? ✿
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:21 pm
Bae hmphed as he sat in his box, looking at the different pieces of trash and bits of food he had. Perking his ears when he heard the other cat speak and the paper ball hit the side of his box, he puffed out his cheeks again and looked up at the light over the edge of the box.
"Oh yeah?! Well.." looking around frantically for something more entertaining than the paper ball he'd tossed out, he grabbed the closest thing he could find--one of those little paper-folded stars that the little humans liked to make. Smiling brightly, he climbed up to the edge of the box and held it out with both hands proudly, the shiny silver paper reflecting the sun.
"I have this," why was he one-upping a cat he didn't know? A grumpy cat at that. Still smiling proudly, he wiggled it with one hand and nearly toppled over the edge of the box, squeaking and catching his back claws in the box so he didn't fall. Geez.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:29 pm
Gabriel, who had been about to tumble after the paper ball (because despite his bragging, this thing was pretty fun,) looked up with a wiggle of his rear-end, a disinterested look on his face.
The plan had been to act indifferently regardless of what the other cat had, but goodness was whatever-that-thing-was shiny! The disinterested look on his face quickly disappeared to one that resembled more of fascination.
"Whoa."
Glancing from his wadded up piece of paper to the shinier, much more interesting star. . thing, Gabriel began to inch his way closer to the box. "What is it?" Forgetting whatever pride he'd been trying to protect, he placed his hands on the edges of the box, trying to hoist himself up so that he could get a better look. ✿
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:20 pm
"I donno," he'd suddenly forgotten his previous irritation as the sun caught the silver paper. It was pretty~ And shiny~ And it slid really nicely on the bottom of his box so it was even more fun to play with. Moving to straddle the edge of the box again, he dug his nails in so he didn't topple, but hugged the star to his chest loosely when the other feline came up to get a closer look.
"You can't take it," he huffed suddenly, giving the other a suspicious, "If you take it..." He couldn't come up with a good threat, "...I'll come after you," he warned, as if that was horrifying. Frowning, he squinted in the other's direction and perked his ears a little, then offered it out to the other so he could get a closer look.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:27 pm
"Uh huh," Gabriel replied distractedly, as if only have hearing the threat. After wriggling his way up next to the other, he leaned forward as the star was held out to him, ears flattening on his head. Looking from the strange object back to the green-clad cat, he tentatively batted at the object to get a better understand of what it was.
Perhaps not as entertaining as the ball (because, as he found, batting at this object was far more painful with those batted edges and unlike Bae he had no idea the pleasures of sliding it across a cardboard surface), but certainly far more perplexing.
"So. Who are you?" If he couldn't tell him what the silver thing was, he could at least tell him his name, right? ✿
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:18 pm
Pouting when he batted the star, he brought it back to his chest, looking down when the sun shined off of it. Pursing his lips, he looked back up at the other cat and flicked his tail in slight irritation of the man's brush-off of his threat. Hmph.
"Bae," he said without much thought, though he figured after he should have asked for the other's name first, "What's yours?" He grumped, tossing the star down into the box and watching it bounce and roll a little. He'd play with it later.
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:33 pm
Gabriel was unable to suppress a little whine from emerging from the back of his throat when the star was tossed into the box. Instinct told him to pounce at it, but he didn't really want to get into a fight. Not that he couldn't handle himself! (He probably couldn't, considering he had absolutely no experience, but it wasn't like he'd ever actually admit that.)
Looking back at Bae, he pouted right back at him, mostly out of principle at this point. "Gabriel," he stated, upon being asked, tail flicking. "Is this your home?" By 'this' he meant the box, of course. ✿
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:12 pm
he mumbled a quick 'nice to meet you' though wasn't sure if he meant it. The other cat had been kind of rude, after all...but so had Bae, so he let it go.
When the other motioned to the box, he shrugged a bit and looked back up at him, perking his ears. "Kind of. I move whenever someone remembers to collect the trash from here," he chuckled, kicking his feet and apparently not bothered now by Gabriel. What a way to have a killer instinct.
"Where's your home?"
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:22 pm
Seeming to have forgotten that this cat had been the enemy only a few seconds ago, Gabriel's eyes widened a little, seeming legitimately concerned. "But what happens to all your stuff?" And by stuff he meant the little silver star and wad of paper that had been chucked at him earlier, and. . Whatever else the other had stored down there.
Huffing, he looked right, then left. "My home is. . That way. Or. . ." He hesitated, then pointed the other way. "Maybe that way." Ears flattening on his head again, he shifted awkwardly to let his legs dangle over the edge of the box.
"I have a home, but I can't find my way back to it." He'd gotten himself lost a while ago, but his people would end up finding him, right? ✿
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