3rd Floor Common Room, Friday Evening

[apocalypsehow]

So, his brother was currently a cat. And said cat was now in Five's care as Annie went to a party or something. He hadn't really cared too much.

Until he realized that was supposed to actually look after cat!Diego.

Then he was wondering if he should call her to come back early because he now had claw marks all over his hands and arms from the furry little monster. "Fine, stay under the couch for all I care," he hissed at the lowly growling form jammed up under there.

Ah, yes. Brotherly love at it's finest.

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[sexy_giraffe]

Tahani came swanning into the room in a fabulous maxidress and adorable sandals, heading for the fridge for her cooling cucumber eye facial. She was just the tiniest bit puffy and that would never do for the week in Ibiza she had planned starting tomorrow.

"Five," she said cooly.

[apocalypsehow]

"Tahani," he replied, just as cool. Diego made a yowling noise from under the couch that totally killed his very serious murder aura.

[sexy_giraffe]

"You got a cat? Should you have cat?"

She got a good look at his hands. "It seems to hate you."

[apocalypsehow]

"It's my brother, so you're not far off." Look at the emotional honesty! It won't last.

[sexy_giraffe]

Tahani blinked. "Your brother," she repeated slowly. "In a Gwyneth Paltrow 'we are all connected in the universe' way that generally involves a lot of meditation and pot?"

[apocalypsehow]

"No, that would be Klaus," Five replied dryly. "In the, this place apparently causes people to turn into animals and he's ill-tempered even as a human, let alone a cat sort of way."

[sexy_giraffe]

"Well," Tahani said helpfully, "you are watching him."

Oh, that wasn't all that helpful after all.

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"I'm doing fine at it." Diego was hiding under the couch, but go off, I guess.

[sexy_giraffe]

"This is what you think is fine," Tahani said judgmentally.

[apocalypsehow]

HEY. HE DIDN'T NEED JUDGEMENT HERE. HE NEEDED BAND-AIDS.

"Diego is difficult as a person, I don't see how it would be any different as a cat."

[sexy_giraffe]

She didn't have pockets in her dress, Five. Pockets were out, okay. "Are you certain it's Diego who's the difficult person?" she asked archly.

[apocalypsehow]

Well, that seemed dumb. Pockets were great.

"Yes," Five replied. "Clearly you don't understand how idiotic siblings are."

[sexy_giraffe]

They ruined the line. Or something.

"Oh, no, I completely understand that part," Tahani said. "My sister is a nightmare."

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle had come in looking for a snack and sighed, just a little, when she spotted Five already occupying the room.

"Hello, Five."

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Excuse you! He was innocently trying to drag his idiot brother out from under the couch!

"Belle." He had so many people he was like this with. It must be his charming personality.

Diego growled a little bit.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Who let you get a cat? And why?"

Surely other more suitable homes could have been found for that poor kitten!

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"I didn't get a cat," Five insisted, pointing an accusatory finger at the couch. "A cat was forced upon me because my brother apparently had to go and turn into one because of this place."

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Oh no, not the hot apparently older but actually younger brother!

"Oh, your poor brother." Because he was a cat or because he was with Five? Yes. Both.

[apocalypsehow]

"You haven't had to deal with him all evening," Five shot back. Which was, of course, when Diego the cat emerged to look adorable and not like the hell beast he'd been.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Oh but he's darling," Belle cooed.

And if he'd been attacking Five for no good reason, well, everyone could understand that impulse, couldn't they?

[apocalypsehow]

RUDE.

"He's a hell beast," Five said. Which meant Diego had to rub his little kitty head on Five's leg and purr a little.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Oh, obviously," Belle said, rolling her eyes. "Such a beast. Those purrs are terrifying."

[apocalypsehow]

"He has clawed me so many times!" Five insisted, voice doing that one teenage vocal fry thing that made him less threatening in an adorable way.

Which he, of course, hated.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"What were you doing when he scratched you?" Belle asked. Because Five must have been doing something. That was how this worked. Five was always doing something.

Occasionally adorable somethings but that was a thought she would never allow in her head how dare you.

[apocalypsehow]

"I was doing nothing!" Okay, so half those scratches were trying to drag Diego out from beneath the couch. But whatever. And the other half had involved a spooked cat in his lap.