Here kitty kitty kitty.... [Closed]

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Who: Liam B. Benedict and Ariel Boisvert
What: Ariel is moving into Liam's family's condo, in exchange for taking care of the four cats that his uncle left behind.
Where: Locke City, The O’Reynne estate, Ariel's car, and the O’Reynne condo.
When: Sunday May 4th


By some miracle Liam managed to get Lumberjack into his bedroom. The long haired corgi was scratching at the door from the other side, and though he knew that the dog was probably destroying the door and some other furniture in there, he tries not to pay attention... it was time to wrangle up some cats.

He's already got their carriers out, doors open and ready to go. Now it was time to prepare for battle - oven mitts were essential to this task, and Liam's hard hat that he used occasionally at work was already on his head, pinching the new tips of his ears. A small box of cat treats was his weapon, and was being used as a lure. He shakes it to let them here the noise.

"Naaaya, come here girl... I have treats! Cassie, I have your favorite!"

He starts whistling for them, like he does to get Jack's attention. Unfortunately these are cats, not dogs.

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It was at that moment that Ariel knocked at the door to the house. She was a little late in arriving and was in a rush now because after going to the condo, she'd be meeting Killian for Archery out at the stables around lunch.

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He had almost - almost gotten Naya into a crate, but at the knocking sound, the cat got excited and flipped out on him, leaving a long scratch mark on his arm. Liam hissed in pain, then headed over to open the door, one hand still gloved with an oven mitt.

"Hey, Ariel."

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Ariel stifles a yawn. She'd come here without getting coffee first, "Hi Li-- What are you wearing?" She couldn't help stare at his ridiculous get up. It actually takes her a few seconds to process what she is looking at. "Why are you wearing a hard hat?"

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For a moment he stands there, then he looks down at his potholders and takes off his hard hat, to try to save some of his pride. He winces a little as he forgets out the tips of his ears and the hardhat pinches them.

"I told you they don't like me."

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"...Maybe its because you're going in like a conquering tyrant? If I were a cat, I'd be afraid of you too. Pretty sure you need to speak softly to them. Here let me try. Do you have some treats?"

She hoped talking nicely to them would wok better than chasing them with oven mitts.

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"Be my guest, c'mon in."

The place is huge, if you couldn't tell from the outside. Pretty fancy... except that Liam hasn't cleaned the place since he was left alone with it. There's a few sets of shoes kicked off to the side in no particular order, and jackets and sweatshirts piled up on the staircase bannister.

Liam leads her inside to the kitchen where the crates were standing side by side on the counter, and piles of dirty dishes were in the sink. He hands her the cat treats.

"Um... good luck."

He goes off to the side to dab at his scratch wound with a paper towel.

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Consider Ariel impressed. The scale of the place alone is massive. The mess Liam left behind however isn't and she finds herself side-eyeing his dishes. "Wow did your maid quit or something?" It's pretty clear why she expected him to have one, given the poshness of the place.

Taking the treats, she stands in the kitchen rattling the bag to see if there are any takers. When that fails to get a response, she turns to Liam with another idea."Got any tuna?"

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"What?" At first Liam's confused about the question about the maid, then he's slightly embarrassed and rubs the back of his head as he chuckles slightly. "Uh, no, that's... we don't have one."

Time to change the subject.

"Okay, tuna? I keep some for the cats, yeah."

And he actually does, because despite what he feeds himself, he knows that cats and dogs really needed meat in their diet. It was only natural. It is, however, a special and expensive brand of tuna that claimed to be more environmentally sound.

Liam hands her the can, which thankfully had a tab to open with, so he wouldn't have to go find the can opener.

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She just sort of glances from the dishes back to him. "Oh-kay then." Rather than say anything else, and before it could get too awkward, she just goes over to the cat's bowls, or what she at least assumes is the cat bowls and clinks the tuna against it. "Here kitty kitty kitties." As she calls, she cracks open the tuna and then clacks it against a dish again.

"Come get num nums!" Boy does she feel like an idiot talking like this. Well on her way to being a crazy cat lady.

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Liam snorts in amusement at her baby talk, then stares in amazement at cats come running from different directions to sit around the food dishes. One of them even rubs against Ariel's leg.

"Okay, that's... special. I had treats and I swear they didn't give a shit."

Now that they were close, Liam figures maybe he can try to pick one up now. He reaches for Naya and quickly grabs her. Unfortunately that means he's getting hissed at and punched in the face by her black paws and sharp claws. He drops her and holds an oven mitt to his cheek.

"Sonnoffa...!"

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Ariel is just as surprised as he is when cats come out of the woodwork to be fed some tuna. Especially when one of the cats starts rubbing against her leg. Although she really didn't know a thing about cat breeds, it looked like it was a siamese maybe. But then so did the other cat looking at her, but this one had white paws.

"If you make one crack about being a magical princess I swear I will throw this can at you."

And then he gets smacked by the black cat. "Oh hey, you okay, did it get you?"

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Liam takes away the oven mitt and looks at it. There was only a trace amount of blood, but there was now a thin line running form his eyebrow to midway down his cheek.

"Yeah, but it's not bad. Sucks that it's my face though."

He takes a look at the cats eating tuna, and then back at Ariel.

"I don't think I have the right to make any jokes right now when you've obviously got more of a handle on this than me. I'll just...get their things."

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While the cats are eating, Ariel pets a few of them, making soft clicking noises at them as she gets them used to her. The friendliest of the cats (Marcelline) she even manages to pick up and hold while petting her. Then before the cat could protest too strongly, she shoves it a little unceremoniously into the nearest cat carrier and closes the door before she could escape. "Sorry baby, don't worry, you won't be in there long!"
One down, three to go, only the other cats were looking at her pretty warily now. Twitching their tails. It was then that the big male coon appeared. At least she had seen one like it before

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It takes a little while before Liam comes back with two of the litter boxes (thankfully cleaned) a bag of kitty litter and a few cat toys.

Liam checks out Marcelline in the carrier. "Holy crap how did you get her in there?"

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Ariel can't resist being a bit of a smart ass, so she waggles her fingers at him with a small grin. "Maaaagic pooooweerrrrs!"

The other cats wee not going to be so easy. They were skittish now so it was going to take a lot more work to catch them.

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Liam gives Ariel a sour look at her comment, but it's brief, before he's reluctantly smiling.

"Yeah, well, use your magic three more times and we'll be in business. There's two more litter boxes I have to get. There's another after that, but I left it since they might have had to use it today."

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Now its her turn to give him a sour look back. It had been hard enough to catch one cat. But she started petting them and eventually the black cat Naya and the siamese Cassandra ended up crated. She had a few scratches on her arms and hands for her efforts.

Now all that remained was getting the Maine coon into a cat cage.. and she was not looking forwards to that. It was time to make LIam help her again.

"So Liam..."

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He's looking at Khan, and the cat is just staring at him, as if he was daring him to even try touching him.

"Uh, yeah?"

Please don't tell him you want him to help...

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"I think we're going to have to work together to catch him. At least there isn't many places he can run and hide right? We just need to corner him."

Easier said than done. but at least he was in the kitchen, right? That meant he didn't have as many places to go, right?

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"You'd be surprised how many places they can hide up in here."

It was also a large kitchen, which matched the size of the place. Liam takes a moment to think.

"Um... let's try there under the table?"

He starts moving a few chairs.

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"You want to corner a cat under the table?" She glances at the cat and then the table. Somehow she doesn't think that is going to work out too well. While he is moving chairs out, she is trying to get Khan to trust her and come over to her. So far it isn't working too well. He seems pretty interested in ignoring her.

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"Well what do you suggest then? I'm out of ideas."

He hated to admit it, but cats and he didn't get along. Liam was really a dog person. He supposed that there was no use trying to deny it, though, when he's got oven mitts on.

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"I want to corner the cat, but not freak it out too much. That's how you get scratched." At least that's one of the ways you get scratched. In the meantime, she starts to toss treats to Khan and inching closer to him as she does.

"Isn't that right kitty kitty? Don't wanna scare you." Again with the silly voice, and again with feeling like a complete idiot.

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"Yeah I'll just be back here I'm going to screw this up."

Consider yourself lucky Ariel, it wasn't often that he outright admit having a flaw.

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She just glaces back at him mildly annoyed. 'If the cat shoots past me, you'll have to try and catch him!"

She is slowly getting closer o Khan, but the cat is starting to show signs of agitation. Tail twitches and scathing looks. Ariel keeps tossing treats so she can inch closer.