I'll Be Damned: A Fiction, Part 3

[chochiyo_sama]

The earlier stuff is here:  http://chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com/318649.html?mode=reply

Cats are unique beings--independent and stubborn with long, long memories.  And even though some people say that loyalty is the forte of the canine species, my feline companions apparently saw my misery and self-reproach as evidence that I was still the human who had been feeding them and cleaning their litter boxes and buying them catnip mice for most of their lives.   Lucy Lu squirmed in my hands and crawled up to my shoulder to lick the tears from my face and rub her tiny muzzle against my cheek.  The other two slinked forward and sniffed me.  The big black tom hissed and retreated, but he did not strike out at me again.

So this is my life now, I thought.  I wondered if I could even go to work.  I laughed mirthlessly.  I'll have to get a night job.

The thirst was coming onto me again.  Maddening thirst.  As if a depraved alien intelligence had invaded my mind, screaming in my head:  I must feed.  I MUST feed.

I set Lucy Lu on the floor and rolled her jingle ball across the room.  I watched as she pounced on it and batted it around the room.

I had to be away from these creatures whose hearts pumped warm blood through their veins.  These creatures that i loved.  Lest my thirst overwhelmed me and I devoured them.

i had to think. 

Grabbing my overcoat from the hook at the top of the stairs, I stepped out into the dismal night.  The sky was overcast and the air was thick with fog.  How appropriate, I thought.  My life appears to have transformed into an incredibly trite horror film.  Right down to the the creepy fog.

Comments

Watch it.

[the_godiva]

You better not bite any dogs in this story.

Do you have any local stockyards?

How about the local blood bank? It's been way overdone but an option.

But you can't bite the homeless and stay likeable.

That leaves....really nasty criminals. As long as you kill them and don't make them undead.

Re: Watch it.

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

he will make his first kill soon.

I have it figured out in my head---and the victim deserves it.

mwa ha ha.

Re: Watch it.

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

No canine characters will be sucked in this fiction.

LOL

Excellent.

[the_godiva]

But you know...wolves are traditionally the familiars of vampires.

It might be cool to have a wolf as comic relief. Like a coward wolf that pees uncontrollably when startled or something.

Think about it.