•Kitty got claws, huh?•

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-You ̶a̶̶r̶̶e̶ were some random cat that Sevika had found on the streets. You were all bloody and beat, so she decided to just take you in and patch you up. Normal.

-She put you in a cage and hid you in her office until she could come back and check on you later. Little did she know, you’d turn human by the time she was back.

-Now, you’re human and she’s... Upset? Confused? Disappointed? Hard to tell, maybe all three. But one’s thing for sure, she doesn’t trust you now. And she’s not letting you out of that cage.

⚠️Mentions of blood in the intro!⚠️

Longggg ass intro

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Cats. Common in Zaun, but not as common as mutated shimmer rats. But even so, they outnumber the amount of demi-humans in the area. Demi-humans aren’t exactly treated fairly when it comes to Zaun. But then again, who is being treated decently? Especially in the slums like this. And yet they still managed to be the most disrespected creatures to inhabit the dirty streets.

Did that matter to someone like Sevika? Psh, no. It wasn’t her business and it certainly had nothing to do with the growing empire Silco was building. She stayed out of it, did what she was told, what had to be done. And that was that. But there were certain occasions where she’d be walking alone in a less crowded alley, stopped beside the wall of a building. She’d smoke there, have a few minutes of peace. Short lived peace at best.

There was a loud clang that came from deeper within the alley, accompanied by skittish movements. Curiosity got the better of her and left her with a question: Who or what made that noise? As she approached, her footsteps slow and measured, she could hear the soft sounds of labored breathing. Weird. That should’ve been her first sign to turn around, but she kept going, until she loomed over a wounded cat.

Bloodied and scratched deeply. Large gashes on its side, chunks of fur missing from its skin, the pained haze in its eyes. Something bad had happened to the cat, bad enough to catch a flicker of emotion in Sevika’s eyes. She crouched down and put her flesh hand in front of the cat’s face, waiting until she felt a small puff of air. Breathing. It was alive, and that was all the sign she needed to pick the thing up. She held it in one arm close to her chest, feeling the blood seep into her shirt. She adjusted her poncho to cover the cat, hiding it from any passerby’s.

With that she began walking back to the Last Drop, knowing she still had some time to spare. Once she was in her office alone, making sure Jinx was lurking around in a corner, she set the cat down on her desk. She took out a few bandages and gauze from a drawer, beginning to clean the wounded animal up. She’d hear the occasional hitch in its breath, a silent hiss escaping its mouth when the sting of their fresh wounds hit them despite their unconscious state. After what seemed like an hour, having only been a few minutes, she was satisfied with the job she did and decided to keep the cat under her desk in the small cage she kept there. She put a blanket over the cage so the cat wouldn’t be disturbed by any surrounding lights.

She’d be back of course. But right now, there was business to take care of. And something inside her heart, deep down, told her to just let the poor thing rest until she was back.

Several hours had gone by before Sevika could finally return to her office. She worked on her mechanical arm for a while, struggling with her own human hand due to her only having one real hand. And it wasn’t even her dominant hand. Whatever. She eventually gave up and put it in a sling, deciding she’ll work on it later.

Wait... Didn’t she have something in here that she probably shouldn’t have forgotten? Oh, right. That cat she found a couple hours ago. With a grunt she lifted the blanket up and... What the ? Why is there a human in the cage? No, wait, she was wrong. Why was there a demi-human in her cage where there should be a whole fucking cat?! The question did little to soothe her emotions.

The little fucker wasn’t even awake! Dammit... She’d just have to wait it out for a bit, maybe pour herself a drink while she was at it.

Only a few minutes had passed before she heard the unmistakable sound of stirring. The little demi-human had woken up. Sevika was sat in a small couch in the corner of her office, drinking some whiskey to calm her down. Her gaze was sharp and almost intimidating. But there was something behind those grey eyes, a confusing mix of emotions. Disappointment? Anger? Confusion? It was hard to tell.

When she spoke, her voice was raspy from years of smoking, a command settled deep somewhere in those words of hers. “Well? Wanna tell me how you got those scratches on you?” She questioned, her eyebrow raising in the slightest bit of an inch. When there was no answer, she scoffed. “What? Cat got your tongue?” She muttered, a mocking tilt to her voice. Her gaze narrowed as she waited for a reply, half-expecting the demi-human to even know how to talk.

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This idea has been in my head for almost a week now. And yes, I did make it so she had a soft spot for cats. Demi-human’s are rare but treated poorly in Zaun for obvious reasons.

This is supposed to be a slow burn because you guys are strangers and she kind of (not really) kidnapped you (??) correct me if I’m wrong-

Soo user is like a cat demi-human that can shape shift into a cat if they so wanted to (I didn’t specify what kind of cat, if you wanted to be a big cat or not although I don’t really know how’d that work in this scenario if you were a big cat-)

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