For < a href="http://rochan01.livejournal.com/">rochan01- a Discworld story. I went with the Heero is Greebo storyline. Lots of refs to the Sir's marvelous world. For those that aren't familiar- Hogswatchnight means a fat man in a red suit comes around with presents- or meat- in a sleigh pulled by boars. (And one year Death had to stand in for him- in the book The Hogfather. Death talks LIKE THIS by the way. The book is awesome, and so it the movie.)
Discworld/GW Drabble 2
The branches above his head rattled and Heero hissed. The rattling stopped as if whatever was up there realized that Heero could climb the damn tree if he wanted.
Part of him wanted to. He wanted to climb the tree and make that thing up there sorry that he'd bothered Heero. It did have a delicious sort of bacony type smell and he was hungry...
But it was late, and Duo was more than likely home by now and Duo would have fish. Fish and Duo were more tempting than the whateveritwas up in the tree. Plus he really didn't feel like chasing anything else tonight.
Except maybe Duo.
Oh he never out and out chased Duo. After all, Duo was the one who fed him and all since Nona was gone. It was more like he stalked Duo.
And stalking Duo was so much fun.
Waiting for Duo to come home tired from the market, or hiding out in the woods and following him, or letting Duo fall asleep just enough or waiting for him to be involved in a task- fishing or cooking or mending or gardening... anything that put Duo just so slightly off his guard- and then Heero would pounce on him.
Duo liked it, he knew that Duo liked it; no matter how many times Duo scolded him for it afterwards.
He liked it too. Liked it a lot. That's what he'd been doing when the bacony smelling thing had tried to charge him. He'd been waiting by the road, waiting to pounce on Duo when he came back.
Heero didn't like being interrupted in his stalking.
Now there was a whimpering sound over his head. Heero considered it for a moment. Maybe Duo would like whatever the bacony smelling thing was? Maybe he would think it was tasty too?
It started to snow.
Heero sneezed. He didn't mind snow. Actually it was quite fun to chase things in the snow because they tended to slide and sometimes he could play bat-them-with-his-paw and that was always fun.
But it was cold and wet- and going home meant a warm fire and Duo.
And maybe pouncing.
That decided him. He took off towards home leaving the bacony smelling thing in the tree. If it was still there in the morning, then he could come back and climb the tree.
He squeezed in through the little door Duo had made for him and found his human curled up in bed. His skin was a little too warm to the touch and he didn't seem to realize Heero had come home. He smelled...odd...
Heero sniffed him worriedly, licking Duo's cheek and nudging him with his nose. Duo hadn't looked sick earlier... was he sick?
There was a rattle by the fireplace and a voice said: DAMN IT. DIDN'T REALIZE THE FIRE WAS LIT.
Heero looked at the figure standing by the fireplace in a red robe- and noted the blue glowing eyes. He arched his back and hissed.
RELAX, UH- HO HO HO?
Heero hissed again, unconvinced.
COME ON. NICE KITTY- USUALLY CATS LIKE ME- OH, the voice paused for a moment. I SEE, YOU AREN'T REALLY A CAT ARE YOU? YOU'RE A FIEND FROM HELL.
Heero, fed up at this point, performed his trick and stood up. "Not Hogfather," he hissed and the figure blinked at him.
THAT'S AN INTERESTING TRICK. LOOK, THE REAL HOGFATHER IS SORT OF BUSY. I'M JUST STANDING IN. I'M NOT HERE FOR THAT GUY BEHIND YOU. OKAY?
Heero was still not sure, but the visitor did have the red robe- and he really wasn't sure if he could chase it up a tree.
LOOK, I EVEN BROUGHT SAUSAGES.
Well, in that case... Heero sat down on the edge of Duo's bed.
THANKS. SAY, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN A BOAR AROUND HERE, HAVE YOU? I'M MISSING ONE OF MINE.
Heero considered that for a moment. "Smells like bacon?"
PROBABLY.
"Up a tree."
UP A TREE?
"Chased it."
I'M SURE YOU DID. WELL THEN, I WILL BE ON MY WAY. I'LL LEAVE THE SAUSAGES- WANT ANYTHING ELSE? CATNIP? PANTS? NO? WELL THEN- HO HO HO AND ALL THAT.
A moment later and Heero was alone with Duo again. Huffing silently to himself, he curled up next to his human, sniffing him again.
"Heero?" Duo blinked sleepily up at him. "What are you doing like that?"
Now Heero recognized the smell on Duo. Mostly apples with something that made his nose tingle. Nona had smelled like that too on occasion. Duo wasn't sick after all.
Which meant that this was a perfect time for pouncing.
OWARI
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