So I reblogged this post and said it needed to be a CS fic. @joneskillian then pretty much demanded *I* make it into said fic… so I did. None of this is even remotely beta’d and I am kinda just throwing it out there before I have a chance to second guess the whole thing, so I apologize for any mistakes!
Also shout out to @alexandralyman for coming up with a very hilarious quip used near the end (don’t wanna spoil it, but… she knows what it is!).
Anywho, hope you all enjoy!
It all starts with Emma walking into the guest house she rents from her brother and sister-in-law to find her ten-year-old son Henry playing with the neighborhood’s stray cat.
“What the hell, kid?” She mutters, eyeing the purring creature wearily as she kicks off her heels and chucks her keys on the kitchen counter.
Henry comes rushing up to her, brown eyes wide. “She followed me home from school, mom…” He rests his hands and chin on the counter, blinking up at her all innocent-like. “Can she stay?”
Emma’s immediate instinct is to give him a hard ‘hell no’ and chuck the cat right back outside. But then the scrawny thing comes trotting over, rubbing up against her son’s legs and meowing, her green eyes as wide as her son’s as she looks up at him, and Emma knows it’s already a lost cause.
“Yeah, fine…” She sighs and Henry whoops, reaching down to scoop the cat right up. “But you’re the one who’s telling your uncle and part of the vet bill to make sure this thing,” She points at the cat. “Isn’t infested with diseases is coming out of your allowance, got it?”