Cordelia Helena Atherton (liafae) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2010-03-22 10:10:00 |
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Entry tags: | 2009-07-07 |
Now he’s loosing it, she don't care.
Who: Lia and Sean
Where: Camelot Place
When: Late afternoon
What: Lia's going to kill her familiar
The last thing she expected to see when she came back from Starbucks was a black cat in a tree near her building. Never mind that it was her familiar and he was currently refusing to come down. "I swear to God, Alwyn, get your furry butt out of that tree right now," she said, pulling out her cell. After nearly twenty minutes of fighting with the damn cat, she was ready to throw something at him. He'd been wailing about how Cat hated him and was curled up. "Just because I'm having an off few days doesn't mean you get to mock me or throw you're own hissy fit!" She didn't know what else to do and she was now sweaty and at her wits end. "I'm gonna call the fire department and they'll get you down!"
"No! I just want to die up here. Cat hates me." He hissed at her a little, like it was all her fault that her cat didn't like her familiar. Like she had any control over either of them. "She hates me. She scratched me!"
Lia rolled her eyes. "Yeah? What did you do to her?" The cat was silent and she dialed the fire department, explaining the situation to them, telling them it was her familiar and he was refusing to get down and she'd rather not kill the little brat. "There," she said when she hung up. "I now look like an idiot because you won't come out of the tree like a damn cliché. Stupid cat."
"I happen to care deeply for your cat and I hate that she's mad at me." Lia shook her head and looked for the fire truck, choosing to ignore her familiar for now. Oh, he was so dead.
Sean happened to be the one that got saddled with the cat up the tree call. Damn it. He hated having to get up the damn trees just to get a cat who'd go right back up it eventually anyway. Still, it was his civil duty to do as he was told and help the community so he headed over to Camelot place. At least it was something to do and not having to sit around the department when there weren't any fires. Pulling up near the tree where he saw the dark haired woman, he parked the truck and climbed out, heading over to the girl. "Hello, Ma'am. Are you the one with a cat up a tree?" he asked, eyes already going to the tree she was near. Sure enough there was a cat up there. "Guess that answers my question."
The truck pulled up and she looked back at the tree. "I am going to murder you later. Cat is the least of your worries!" Lia turned and watched the fireman get off the truck. She sighed and looked back at the tree. "Yeah, unfortunately that is my stupid familiar stuck up in that tree. I'm sorry to have called but I've been trying to coax him down for a half hour at this point and he's not responding to kindness or threats on his life, however empty thoughts threats may be." Obviously she wasn't about to kill her own familiar, but at least he understood a little more of why she was so anxious to get him out of the tree. It was important. "He keeps going on and on about my cat hating him for some reason but he won't tell me what that reason is." Stupid familiar.
A familiar? Seriously? Sean couldn't help but think that he didn't get paid enough to be helping animals who could actually understand human's demands out of damn trees. "Well, hopefully I can get him out by force." he said, looking back at the woman. "I'm Sean by the way." he told her, offering out a hand. "Your local familiar extracting fireman."
She smiled at him. "I'm Lia. And the brat in the tree is Alwyn. And he's normally better than this, I swear." There was a hiss from the tree and she looked up at him and glared. "Listen, you had your chance and now you had me call the fire department for a familiar on a bender." Her eyes flicked back to Sean, looking a little sheepish. "Sorry, it's been a really long week and it's just barely begun. The last thing I needed was Romeo up there and I've tried everything I can think of to get him out of that tree. Hence my calling you guys. Not sure you guys still took cat in a tree calls, actually." Yes, her stupid familiar had made her call the fire department and, just as in New York, the fire department here appeared to be rather attractive. That, she found interesting, but didn't focus on it. No, her concern was with the black ball of fur in the tree, the one she was going to murder later. Very much so in the figurative sense.
"It's not a problem." Sean told her. As annoying as it was to have to get a damn cat out of a tree, he'd deal with it because today it was his job. At least the tree wasn't a humongous one. He could just use one of the smaller ladders and lean it against the damn thing to go get him. "I'm Sean." he told her as he went to retrieve said ladder and got it situated by the tree, leaning it against the trunk and making sure it was stable. He knew he shouldn't be asking at all, after all, he probably didn't want to know, but Sean opened his big mouth anyway as he started to climb the rungs of the ladder. "So why's he up there anyway?"
"Honestly, no real idea. He keeps talking about something with my cat. Her name is Cat, like Breakfast at Tiffany's?" She watched as he got out a ladder. Lia looked up at him again and she rolled her eyes. "Something about her being mad at him. Personally, I think something might have happened between them but the last thing I need it a kitty soap opera going on in my life right now." She shook her head and crossed her arms. With everything that had been going on, seriously, her familiar just had to through a fit.
"So your cat, Cat, is mad at your familiar for some unknown reason and now he's up a tree because of said unknown reason?" Sean asked as he moved closer to the familiar. "Have you asked him what's wrong? I doubt he's going to tell me, but aren't you his master or whatever. Witch. Elemental. Whatever you are." Not that it was any of his business, but she was obviously one or the other if she had a familiar.
"Believe me, I tried. Maybe cause you're a guy you can get something out of him." Lia just watched, taking a step back. Clearly Alwyn wasn't listening to her. Whatever was going on was drama she didn't need and it would be a lot better if this wasn't going on. The cat shifted back from the firefighter a little.
"She is my master, my elemental, but her cat. I care for that feline. She's wonderful and she's mad at me, furious even." He was talking only to Sean at this point. "She scratched me and do you want to know why? Because she's going to have my kittens. My kittens! The mother of my children hates me!"
"Come on cat, familiar, whatever you want to call yourself. She can't be that mad at you. It's called hormones, seriously. Don't you know anything about women?" he questioned. "That's just the way that they are. Pregnant ones are even worse." At least Sean thought so. All the pregnant women he'd come across had been completely off their nut. "She'll get over it, but sitting in this tree isn't making that happen."
Prganant? Did he just say pregnant? Oh shit. It explained a lot and she stood there, face palming like a champ. Alwyn moved a little closer to the firefighter. "Do you really think so? Lia is going to kill me now, I just know it." Furry little thing had been feeding off the negative energy in the apartment so it was no wonder he was feeling a little emo about the whole thing. Not that he would have ever admitted to that. No, he was just trying to be a good familiar while also figuring out what was going on with her pet.
Lia, if she had known everything that was going through the cat's mind, likely would have understood. It was hard and she was just to hurt from what had happened with Torque to think more logically.
"She's not going to kill you. You're her familiar, if she killed you, she'd go looney toons. I'm sure you're safe." Sean told the cat, motioning for it to come closer. "She's not going to kill you and I'm sure the cat will get over her issues too and everything will be peachy keen. Come on now. Let's get you outta this tree."
He consented to leaving the tree and going for the firefighter's arms. "I think she'd risk looney toons for this." He would if someone had messed with someone he loved. Lia was waiting on the ground, grateful when she saw the cat moving towards Sean. Thank God. She really couldn't handle anything else going on.
"Looney toons enough that would kill her? Yeah, I doubt it." Sean said as he got the cat in his arms and carefully climbed down the ladder. Once on the ground again, he handed over the cat to Lia. "I think he's afraid you're going to be angry with him. Or kill him." Sean told her. "Which I've tried to tell him you're not going to do."
She took Alwyn into her arms and she could tell he was still tense and she immediately started to pet him. "I'm not angry," she murmured. "Nor am I going to kill him." Lia sounded more than a little defeated at the moment. Her own familiar could forge a relationship when she couldn't. Didn't she feel infinitesimally small. "I really appreciate your help. If you didn't have work, I'd say you could come up for something cool to drink. Being stuck up in a tree trying to talk a crazed cat down probably wasn't that easy." She smiled softly at him, Alwyn slowly relaxing.
"I appreciate that." he told her with a little smile. "But you're right, duty calls and I'm sure there's something for me to be doing back at the station. You sure you're alright?" he asked her. He could hear something in the way she spoke that said things weren't exactly peachy for her, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
"Hmm? Oh, yeah, I'm fine. Really." Lying through her teeth she was never good at but she didn't know this man from anyone. Lia doubted he wanted to listen to her problems. Still, she couldn't lie. It bugged her too much. "Not really. The guy I was seeing ended things and reminded me that I don't know many people in town. I've been here long enough that I should have a friend, you know?" Alwyn purred softly, knowing that he wasn't helping much.
"Well that sucks." Sean said, letting out a little breath as he got the ladder situated back on the truck. "Maybe you need to get out more. Do something fun that you like doing and meet people that are worth your time and won't just pop outta your life at the drop of a hat?" He wasn't good at relationship advice, that was for certain. His own relationships as of late were pretty crazy out there and not worth much.
Everybody leaves. She sighed a little, causing her familiar to start purring more. "Got any suggestions?" she asked, watching him work. Lia knew full well that she needed to get out there more, meet more people, despite how much she wanted to stay at home and ignore the world. It was easier that way and she really couldn't do that. Not again.
Once he got the truck situated with the ladder back on it and in place, he turned back to Lia. "I guess it depends on the things that you like to do." he told her. "Join a club or something. Then you've got people who are interested in the same things as you. If you like music, go to concerts close by. If you're into church, you can meet people there, though sometimes those people - God forgive me - are crazy as shit. What do you like to do?" Sean questioned. "Maybe that'll help me come up with something right for you.
She laughed a little. "No, not quite the church goer. Trust me, but the concerts sound good. I like music. Art. Movies. Books. Pretty basic, I suppose." Lia shrugged. "I go to school, UofM. I'm taking a summer class and I'm going there full time in the fall. I want to be a writer." Not that it got her friends, going to school. Being an author.
"Well, that could definitely be a start." he smiled. "You'll be taking classes with tons of people who like writing just as much as you." Sean told the woman. "Start there and just randomly pick a person to say hello to everyday and I can almost guarantee you that you'll bump into at least one or two people that are worth your time. And if that doesn't work," he shrugged. "You can always hang out with me. I'm not much for writing, but hey, I can certainly watch a movie or hang out for some coffee."
For the first time in days, she felt a little better. "Thanks, Sean. Really. It's a really nice offer." Her fingers moved through Alwyn's fur and she gave the firefighter a little more of a smile. "And thank you again. For helping me with this one. I've got to figure out that whole pregnant cat thing, but it'll work out." School would help her get into life here when it started and that was definitely something to look forward to.
"Guess I'll get going then. I'm in the book though if you wanna hang out or something. Sean Young. Not too hard to find." he smiled. Hey, he could always use more friends and she seemed nice enough, even if her familiar was completely out of his mind.
"I think I might just have to do that. Not sure I'm in the book yet, but I'm Lia Atherton. I'm glad we met but I wish it was under more normal circumstances." Alwyn was going to get a serious talking to when she got him upstairs. "I hope the rest of your day is full of easier things."
"Well, weird circumstances or not, it was still nice to meet you." Sean said, offering out his hand to the woman. "Lemme know how that whole making friends thing goes, yeah? I wanna see how bad I suck at giving advice to people."
She shook his hand. "I'll definitely let you know. I'm sure you're not terrible at it." Alwyn reached out a paw towards him. 'I'm sorry for my actions today. It was wrong and I should have known better than to endanger myself and my elemental.' Lia looked down at the cat and gave him a little squeeze. "We'll talk later, mister."
"Great." Sean said with a smile. When the familiar spoke to him, he shook his head a little. "It's alright." he assured the cat. "I'll catch you later. Maybe both of you." he told them. And with a flick of his hand in a wave, he was gone and onto the next issue of the day to deal with.