Erebus stood in front of Kitty's room and listened for a few seconds before he knocked on the door lightly, worried that he might scare her. The door flung open the next second, which took Erebus by surprise instead.
"Hi!" Kitty gave him a big smile, putting the key in her Jeans' pocket, "I'm ready!"
"Ohh!" Erebus blinked a few times to wake up from being stunned by her bright smile. He was a second away from grabbing her and biting on those delicious lips when--
"We are back! Steaks night!" Menoetius's shouts suddenly rose from behind him, which scared both of the people staring at each other by Kitty's door.
"What's...going...on...?" Menoetius's question broke up as hesitation took over his tongue when he realized something was wrong with Kitty and Erebus.
Metis rubbed her forehead with two fingers, feeling defeated by the stupidity Menoetius was so happily showing.
"..." Erebus turned to look at Menoetius with a resigned look on his face. He should be grateful that Menoetius saved him from sacring Kitty away with the crazy thoughts he was having in his mind, but somehow, he just felt frustrated at Menoetius’s interruption a lot.
"Did I do something wro--" Menoetius couldn't finish the word "wrong" before Metis dragged him away again, saying they would go and get dinner ready.
"What?!! WHYYYY-- " Those were the two words Menoetius managed to made out when being dragged away.
"You showered." Erebus finally came to his senses again and noticed her wet hair, "Sorry I didn't think of it. I should have found you some cloth so you could change."
"Just glad I've got hot water." Kitty made a face, not at all seemed to be bothered, "This is wayyy better than what I had a day ago!"
She didn't flinch or sadden when she mentioned the old life herself, as if her street life was nothing but a fun game. But all of a sudden, her bright smile seemed to have burnt Erebus because he felt pain seeing her putting up a strong face.
Before he loss control again, Erebus took a step back so she could close the door and follow him to the car.
"You know how to drive?" Erebus stopped putting in his safety belt when he noticed Kitty staring at the steering wheel.
"Hmm, only a bit. My mom taught me a bit."
"Not your father?" Erebus rose his brow as he stepped out of the driver's seat, "Do you wanna try?"
"Yeahhh, haha. My father cannot drive. He was a dork who can only write." She laughed as she jumped out of the car and ran to the driver's seat.
Laughing at the word "dork", Erebus settled in the co-pilot’s seat: "I see you have got spirit from your mom."
"And her eyes!" Kitty smiled, "She had the most beautiful eyes, and they were both happy that I didn't get my father's eyes, haha!"
"So what does your mom do?" Feeling safe to talk about her parents, Erebus cannot wait to know more about her life, the sad part, AND all the happiness.
"She was an artist!" Kitty replied with pride in her tone. "She draws the most beautiful scenes that pass before her eyes. I've always wanted to travel to all the places that she put on the canvas."
"Sounds like a cool plan." Erebus said, secretly putting "travel around the world" in his mental notebook named "Things to do with Kitty".
"So what do YOU like to draw?"
"I draw only things I made up in my mind." Kitty smiled at him, and hit hard on the gas.
Erebus was thrown backwards into his seat as the car fly onto the street. But his worry was gone soon after he saw that Kitty actually drives okay, and SLOW, except for the starting part, but soon, he regret his judgement--
"God!" Erebus exclaimed when the car took a very sudden stop in front of the supermarket.
"Sorry!" Kitty apologized with a naught face, "I cannot help it! It only feels right to hit hard when I stop. Don't you like the rush when the car makes a sudden and full stop?" Burst into laughter, they got off the car, ignoring the few shocked passers-by that witnessed the rough stop.
It took them two hours to get everything they needed -- well, Kitty needed. From toothbrush to beddings, her whole life was empty, waiting to be filled.
"These will be taken out from your paycheck." Erebus said with an "evil" smile when he noticed that she slowed down taking stuff and looked hesitating. And as he expected, she cheered up at his words and got back to picking between clothes and styles right away.
Seeing Kitty crashed open the bar's entrance with her shoulder because she was holding onto a huge bag full of cloth and stuff, Menoetius exclaimed in amazement: "I can NOT believe he let you-- Ohh."
Erebus followed Kitty into the empty bar, with both of his hands occupied with two sets of beddings and another two HUGE bags.
"And you are just gonna stand there?" Metis asked without even looking up, keeping her eyes on the magazine she was reading.
"Ohh! Let me help!" Menoetius jumped out from the bar.
"Thanks, but it's okay, I got it. You can go help him." Kitty avoided his hands and ran toward the stairs.
"Don't come up." Those were the few words Erebus left Menoetius before he too, avoided his hands and disappeared onto the stairs.
"What did I do wrong...?" Menoetius turned to Metis with a pitiful face. Metis looked up at him, sighed and shook her head before she dived back to the magazine again.
"The washing machine is right in the middle of the hallway. There was a pit designed for it." Erebus didn't know he could be so nagging before today.
"Thanks!" Kitty nodded and started to pile things up at the corner of the room.
"I can help you clean." Erebus offered. God knows he hires people to clean his room FOR him!
"I cannot ask that of you. I'll take care of them later. I'm hungryyyy." Kitty jumped in front of him with appealing eyes.
"Of course you are, haha." Erebus laughed at himself totally forgetting dinner. He takes care of his body, yes, but it was hard for him to keep every meal on time, too.
"You are in luck today; Metis cooks a mean steak! Don't tell Theia I said this though, she will freak out." Erebus made a face as they went downstairs for dinner.
"I have yet to put their names to faces..." Kitty sighed defeatedly. The past day was a LOT to her.
"Haha, of course. Theia is the cute girl who is always followed by Tartarus." Erebus thought about it for a while, and decided that was Theia's most obvious feature.
"They are THAT close?" Kitty DID notice that Tartarus always was around her, but she didn't think too much on that until now.
"He marked her right after she turned 18. She has yet to mark him, or anyone else of course, but they are in a relationship, trying it out." Erebus took the chance to see what Kitty's reaction would be to this kind of stuff.
"Marked?" Sure enouch, Kitty didn't know what "mark" is.
"Werewolves makes huge decisions relying on instinct more. Our senses are more advanced, comparing to most creatures, human included. So when our body makes a decision, we cannot really fight against it, and we don't really need to. And 'mark', is our body deciding who to be our life mate, once it's sure of its choice." Erebus explained when they made it to the kitchen.
"Wow! You told her?!" Menoetius exclaimed in disbelief. "I thought you-- Ahh!"
Metis forked him right on his hand to stop him from spilling out Erebus's secret, and the room suddenly fell into silence.
Everyone was staring at Kitty nervously.
"What? Was that a secret?!" Kitty asked nervously, thinking Metis looked mad because Erebus told her something she should not know."Kind of. Actually, our very existence needs to remain a secret to human." Erebus continued smoothly with her misunderstanding."I'm sorry... I won't tell anyone!" Kitty stood her hand up as if taking an oath."Haha, I told you BECAUSE I trust you. Don't worry about it." Erebus chuckled at her "oath" and pulled the chair out for her, "Yo
"Morning, sunshine!" Erebus put the cup in his hand down on the table and stood up to greet Kitty when she appeared at the staircase, "How did you sleep?""It was great! I don't remember when was the last time I ever slept so well actually!" Kitty finished the last pair of stairs in a jump."I don't suppose you remember much about last night either?" Erebus laughed."Well, yeahhh..." Kitty made a face, "What happened to the last shot?" She assumed Erebus drank it, but she couldn't remember much after she finished the fourth one."Well, you scared him away, the way you finished his friend." Erebus teased her, smiling."You said it would still be here today!" Kitty protested, feeling as if something was unfinished."We will, we will. You will have your second lesson soon enough. As for now, what do you want to have as breakfast? I'll get you a coffee first." Erebus walked towards the kitchen with Kitty before he made a sudden stop: "Oops...""What?" Kitty looked up at his hesitation."We
"Get some rest, bookworm?" The pure silent world rose a deep voice, a little bit rough.Kitty was so into the book that it took a second to realize she was not on the run with Jean Valjean. She would have remembered she was trying to distance herself from Erebus, the too attractive man that was her poison if it wasn't the tray in front her--"Wow! It smells greattt!" Kitty threw herself to the table, leaving the cozy corner she was curling in.In front of her was a plate of grilled shrimp on fired rice, with several small plates on the side filled with smashed potato, smoked salmon, nuggets, salad, sausage, a poached egg, and a HUGE plate of fruit cuts, AND of course, Erebus's face with a expectant smile on his face, like a dog play up to the new pet kitten in house."Hmmm... I don't think I can finish... ANY of them..." Being a stray cat, Kitty usually doesn't really say no to free food, but even to her this was too much."It's for both of us, you can pick what you like and I'll have
They stayed at the meadow around nine until when Erebus Absolutely had to go to catch his flight.What Erebus didn't see coming, was that after a day spent with Kitty, it was even harder for him to leave her for his mission, instead of the other way around."I'll be back before you know," Erebus said to her when he brought her back to the bar, but he knew he was the one who need these words more than her, "Take a couple days off before I come back. We will finish your lesson when I come home."Kitty flinched a little when she heard the word home. It was a great place that gave her the feeling of safety, a thing that few places had been able to offer her in a long time. But she dared not think she should be so lucky, to share with him his "home". She would rather think herself as a tenant here who owns him big, than the kid she could not afford to be and risk losing another home, again."I will." She just simply answered that request, "Let me know how it goes okay? I want to know."She
Only for one day and she was already used to his accompany!Waking up in her new bed, Kitty realized she had no plan for her day. What did she do yesterday? Well, in short, Erebus.With her first thought after she woke up in her new bed being about Erebus, Kitty got agitated at herself and jumped out of bed.She had to get her life back! Erebus was too far away a dream for her and she cannot risk losing herself in this doomed crush.
Kitty never thought her life would take such a huge turn and crashed into the magical world just like this...She was an orphan wondering on the street not long ago, and now she was here, inside the grotesque store, and being told that she had a witch mom. How could she never know this before?! Could she really be a secret witch that she didn’t even know? But there was never any sign or unexplainable things happened to her before."..." After trying all Kitty could imagine as "summon" but to sing some ancient spells that she had no idea how to say, Kitty gave up summoning her "stone", or well, what the old lady called it, "Phosis"."Maybe it escaped instead..." Kitty looked up at her with a defeated face."Hahaha..." The old lady laughed, "No wonder, no wonder... Of course you cannot summon it. You have never used magic before, right?""No... I didn't even know my mom could, before today." Kitty sit on the chair opposed to the old lady, with tea in a kinda dirty cup held in her hands.
"What... what do you mean?" Kitty backed a step at Themis's sudden accusation."You said you are an orphan, right? What happened to your parents?!" Themis ignored the others' accusation and kept on going."They died in a car accident, not that I own you any explanation." Kitty found her cool that she collects from living on the street. Actually, she was more used to attitude like this from other people than that of Erebus to be honest."You are lying! I have looked into you, and your parents JUST died last month! Of course, not by car accident either!" Themis held up a paper of some sort of records."So you mean I have lived on the street for fun for the last three years?" Kitty asked, feeling her blood getting cold. Not only was she accusing her of being a lair, but of her lying about her parents' death? How dare she?!The shred of warm and home-like of this place evaporated into the air."They are killed, IN their home. The police think it might be a robbery went wrong, but..." Themi
"... what now?" Fell in silence for a few minutes, Themis finally said, reluctant to admit that Metis was right, as always."Now," Metis sighed, "you get back to your investigation on her, just like the Lord's order. Menoetius, you will--""I'll go and check out what Kitty's been doing today." Menoetius took over the sentence and went for the door after.Metis was gonna say "help Themis". Both Metis and Themis knew Menoetius was really upset this time. He had never passed ANY chance to spend time with Themis like this.Appearently, going against Erebus's order was upsetting him a lot, not to mention Themis did that out of her affection on Erebus, when she couldn't see that Menoetius had been there for her all this time."... Whatever with him." Themis forced some words out of herself. She was NOT used to Menoetius being cold to her because he NEVER gets mad at her, and he had always been warm to her no matter how she treated him."You see the world with clear eyes. Reason is your thing