Second Floor Common Room, Saturday Evening

[myownface]

Okay, so Sparkle had attempted to detach the velcro-cat several times on Thursday, to no avail. And on Friday, he'd been kind of flattered that the little black blob of clingy kitten had stuck around, but kind of concerned all the same. It wasn't as though he knew how to take care of a pet, after all. He'd fed it a can of tuna, gave it some water, and took it outside to do its business a few times, because it wasn't like he owned a litterbox or anything.

When Velcro was still around this morning, he'd relented. Even used some of the money he'd been saving from working at Demon Marcus to get cat supplies that morning, because... well, if it was going to stick around, it was probably a good idea to keep it from crapping in his laundry pile or something.

The thing was, Velcro didn't seem to like the crunchy cat-kibble things that Sparkle had bought. A bit of a piss-off, since he didn't have all that much money in the first place, but hey, that was what common room food was for, at least until he could wean the little guy off of people-food. A rummage through the cupboards, at least, yielded some canned food that the kitten did seem to like.

"Hah! Cats do too eat ham!"

Why did Fandom let Sparkle keep the cat, again?

[OOC: Open common room is open, and all Sparkle threads will be fuelled by the power of chocolate-covered espresso beans. Fear.]

Comments

[richieryan.livejournal.com]

"I thought cats ate tuna," Richie said as he walked in. "Maybe sardines. Anchovies. Not ham."

[myownface]

"Well, Velcro here seems to like it," Sparkle replied, nose in the air and little black cat hanging from the front of his shirt and happily eating ham tidbits from Sparkle's hand. "I mean, it's no wonder cats all have humans to feed them if all they eat is fish. You ever try getting a cat wet to see what happens?"

Sparks might have made that mistake earlier while running some water for Velcro-kitty. The end result as the cat climbed directly up his chest to escape hadn't been pretty.

[richieryan.livejournal.com]

"You named your cat Velcro?" That was different. Of course, Richie had just called the animals that showed up the other day Kitty and Puppy without differentiating. So what did he know.

"I have never put a cat in water on purpose. Or by accident. Why would you do that? They're all pointy."

[myownface]

"I figured it was a pretty apt name," Sparkle replied, maybe a little dryly as he pulled both of his hands away from the kitten and it... continued to hang there, from the front of his shirt. "And I don't know, maybe sometimes cats need to have baths, too? I mean around here when random sunscreen falls from the sky or whatever, you really want your cat licking its ass when it's covered in that crap?"

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Olive and Ally -- she'd finally named the little thing, after the wee beagle had stuck around -- had just been out for a walk and were trudging their way back up to the fourth floor when they passed Sparkle and Velcro.

"Yours stuck, too?" she asked, leaning in the doorway with the leash in her hand and Ally winding her way around Olive's leg.

[myownface]

"Well, it would have had to let go in order to do anything but stick around," Sparkle replied with a grin. "I'm not complaining, except the little shit doesn't like his kibble. So, you're a proud new dog owner, huh?"

It's like Fandom wanted everyone to have adorable things. All cute, all the time.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"I am," Olive said, smiling a little. "This is Ally. Did you name your clingy little friend yet?"

She would enjoy this kitten's name, yes.

[myownface]

"Is there like any other thing I could have possibly named him? He's Velcro."

It had kind of been a no-brainer. And since Sparkle's options had been either 'Velcro' or 'Cat,' he'd gone with the more interesting one.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Common room, people... puppy and kitten. Huh.

"I hope this isn't gonna become a trend," Toby decided. "Otherwise the small fluffy things will soon outnumber the people on the island."

[myownface]

"It just kinda didn't leave after the thing with the two-tone balls the other day," Sparkle shared, doing the mandatory guy-chin-nod at Toby as he entered the room. "Maybe the island is trying to tell us something?"

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"That we are mature, responsible people who can totally be trusted with small animals?" Toby guessed. Or at the very least that last one.

[myownface]

"Man, you just using the words 'mature' and 'responsible' in a sentence that at least partly refers to me kind of makes me want to start laughing until I hurt something," Sparkle shared.

... It was actually pretty much the truth, too.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"I think we're just lucky," Olive noted helpfully, waving. "Most of 'em departed, but...mine stayed, and so did Sparkle's."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"I wonder why," Toby mused. "Were you like, particularly in need of a pet or something?"

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"Aren't we all?" Olive asked. "I miss my dog at home, though, so maybe that's why? I have no idea. But this is Ally, she's apparently living with me and Karolina now."

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi had not become attached to any kitties or puppies on Thursday. She'd fed them, she'd played with them, then she'd shoo'd them out of her room.

"How cuuuuuuute."

Didn't mean she didn't like them, though.

[myownface]

"He's not cute," Sparkle replied, nose in the air. "Velcro is a vicious man-eater. He's demonstrating how proficient he is with his razor death-claws right now, you know."

There was purring.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"So that sound, that's just the motor behind his shredding buzz-saw teeth warming up, is it?" Kenzi asked, holding out a finger for Velcro to investigate. "I am intimidated to my toes. Really."

[myownface]

"Careful about that being intimidated thing," Sparkle snorted. "They can smell fear."

Buzz-saw teeth. He liked the sound of that one.

"Look, he's already checking to see how you'll taste when he devours you, bones and all."

Or licking her fingertips. Same thing.

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"This is Ally," Olive said, as the wee beagle immediately yanked on her leash to hurry over to Kenzi and sniff at her. "She apparently is fascinated by your shoes, sorry."

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi's eyes widened in momentary alarm, then she crouched down, holding out a hand that probably smelled of Velcro to Ally. "She's adorbs! Seriously! But no, shoes are bad for puppies, bad, bad. How about popcorn, maybe?"

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Ally was totally distracted by the cat-smelling hand, thankfully. Oh, puppy attention spans. "Popcorn's technically probably worse, because she'd actually swallow it," Olive mused. "But believe me, if she were the shoe-eating kind, I'd have discovered it already. She's just...you know, a puppy. Let's smell everything, et cetera."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"No little friends for you?" Toby checked, amused.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi smirked at him, and stretched out a toe to poke at his foot. "Hey, you. Nope. Although now I'm really, really tempted. As long as the pet would get its own room."

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

"Pretty sure that's not how it works," Toby snickered. "Especially with a cat. Because basically then they're deigning to let you stay in their room."