Kyle and Catseye, morning antics

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Kyle is the target of a morning Flying Cat Death From Above, and is threatened with a thwrapping for being Dumb. Instead, he diverts the subject to trying to inflict Catseye on Garrison and going for a run.



Her prey had been Spotted. He was jogging, approaching fast. It was still early and Catseye had been out hunting some nice plump mousies for a before-breakfast meal before she would eat human breakfast in the kitchen with the other students. But as she'd been trotting back to the mansion she heard movement on the trail behind her. Prey! She'd shot up into the nearest tree and when she determined that it was Kyle, the cat smiled a very un-cat-like smile. Calculating his speed and her distance from him, Catseye let out a war-cry yowl and pounced. Flying Cat Death From Above!

To Kyle's credit, despite the iPod earbuds in his ear, he managed to hear Catseye just before she landed on him. Unfortunately, it was just before and all he had time to do was cover his face as the purple cat landed on his shoulders, and break his fall as he was pushed off balance. With one arm still over his eyes, he groaned, not bothering to get up. "I'd ask if that was totally like, necessary but it's you, so I'm guessing it was."

Catseye shifted to human and laughed deviously from her spot on Kyle's lap. "Is WarmSnugglyFriend still too growly to play Chase with Catseye?"

"I haven't growled at anyone in ... " He paused to try to remember when the last time he'd actually growled at someone was. Garrison didn't count, those were growls of "ow Ow pain Pain pain". "in days. At least." He'd been very far away from Laurie when they had their fight on the journals, so there was no actual growling at her. Even if there had been growling.

"Not actual growling," she clarified, moving slightly to make herself more comfortable in Kyle's lap. "But WarmSnugglyFriend is not happy. Catseye can tell something is Not Right." She gave Kyle a concerned look. "Does WarmSnugglyFriend not like college?"

"Nah. College is fine." For all of the handful of classes he'd had in the first week. But so far nothing looked like it would be half as scary as he thought. "It's just, you know, stuff." He was -not- thinking about the catgirl in his lap. That way turned towards thinking about the catgirl in other places and that was just No. Very. Bad. Idea. "It's been kind of a crappy summer, and I spent some of it with my head up my ass being an idiot."

She knew he wasn't speaking literally, so Catseye refrained from commenting about Kyle's head up his ass. She did, however, bestow upon him a Look. "Catseye thinks it is a Very Good Thing that she has come back because now Catseye can keep ManyBoys from doing some Idiot things." Of course, it would be impossible, even for someone of her abilities, to keep Forge, Kyle, Jay, Marius, and the others completely out of trouble, especially due to the fact that there were too many of them for her to watch every one of them every hour of every day (taking into account the fact that she had classes and they were scattered around at colleges), but she would begin by dealing out some well-deserved thwappings and do the best she could from there. "What Idiot things has WarmSnugglyFriend been doing?" she asked suspiciously, raising her hand in expectation of dealing Kyle a thwapp.

"Not with the swatting!" Kyle protested. "I still gotta shave today and shaving clawed face is not fun!" Somewhat resigned to his fate, he watched Catseye's hand warily. "And nothing that needs being hit over. Mostly just being stupid by not shutting my stupid mouth up when I know better. And being a Whiny McWhinerstien."

His answers made Catseye lower her hand and swish her tail. "Okay. No swatting or thwapping. Catseye knows that WarmSnugglyFriend is a BigMouth. Usually Catseye likes this about WarmSnugglyFriend. Except WarmSnugglyFriend should not be a Whiny McWhinerstien because only SillyKittens whine instead of finding ways to make themselves happy." In her mind, whiners were people who couldn't fend for themselves and wanted to blame their troubles on other things instead of standing up for themselves. "WarmSnugglyFriend is only allowed to whine when something happens to his lovely fur," she amended after thinking about it for a moment. Wet or singed or smelly or colour-altered fur was an entirely different kettle of fish, and most certainly worthy of whining.

"Hair." Kyle absently corrected. Which reminded him that he probably needed to get his cut, because it had been... a while. Or maybe more than a while. It was starting to get caught in his uniform jacket, and that was annoying. "Garrison punted the stupid out of me, it's all good." He made a face remembering his aching ribs the evening after, and scratched his head with the hand that he wasn't leaning on. "Have you met Garrison? Um. Totally normal, has a beard, is like, more Canadian than the entire rest of Canada?" And the only cop that Kyle had met so far that didn't make him want to bite things.

Stroking Kyle's hair reverently, Catseye nodded. "Hair. Catseye has not met PuntingMan," she said with a shake of her head. But anyone who could punt the stupid out of Kyle was definitely someone she wanted to meet. "Is PuntingMan a teacher at the school?"

"Sorta. He's.. um, a Canadian policeman, and he subs in for some classes, and he's on the X-Men." Kyle continued to scratch his head. "And I think he works for the FBI or something, because he's here and not in Canada. I don't get how that works exactly though. It's like some kind of exchange student thing, except he's not a student, so exchange ... cop... program." Kyle didn't sound sure at all. "He's cool, but the dude punches like some kinda tank."

"Catseye will stay away from PuntingMan's punches," she informed Kyle assuredly. "Now that WarmSnugglyFriend has no more stupid in him does WarmSnugglyFriend want to play Chase? Or CaptureShinyBitsBoy'sShoe?"

"If I chase Forge's shoe, he'll tase me, and I don't want that." Kyle worked an arm around to get to the phone in his jeans pocket, looking at it briefly. "I have to go to class in a couple hours, but not for a while, so as long as I have time to shower, sure, what the hell."