Stoled

The Cats of Lin strike. 
Date/Timing: Anytime, really
Setting: Hong Kong Shatterdome
Notes: inspired by cakesize:
:things my cat has stolen from me:
:-every single bra i own, multiple times
:-a perogie
:-fries
:-a chip
:-hair ties, at any time, at all costs
:-dental floss, right out of the garbage can
:-a plastic fork
Logan returns to his room to find a sparkly pink bra on his bed and with a kitten curled up in each cup, which considering Andrea is as flat-chested as they come, would be impressive except for the fact Logan will now have to burn his bed. 
"For goodness sake," mutters Andrea, slipping by, grabbing her underwear—
The kittens protest loudly. 
"Aw, sorry, guys." Andrea scoops out each one, clips on her bra, and hurries back to her room. 
. 
Jackson sets a plate of pierogies on the table with his latest book. He cuts each dumpling in half—
The kettle shrieks. 
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Jackson drags himself around, grumps back to the counter, serves himself a cup of tea. 
A clatter. 
Jackson frowns, returns to the table—
His fork lies beside his plate. 
"Oookay." Jackson picks it up, takes a sip of tea, sits—
"MRAU!"
Jackson falls—
Tea flies.
—to the side—
A grey blur shoots off his chair and out the suite door. 
"Fuck," Jackson mutters, pushing tea from his eyes. 
Tea drips. 
He squints at the door, closes and opens his eyes, feels his way back to the table, closes and opens his eyes again—
His plate seems somewhat emptier. 
Jackson squints at the door again. 
Tea drips. 
"Did that hairball steal one of my pierogies?" 
AGNIS replies, ""One of Ranger Lin Feng's cats has, in fact, absconded with part of your snack.""
"Crazy cats," Jackson sighs, sitting down—
In a puddle of tea. 
.
"French fry night!" cheers Jamie, plunking down beside Juliet. 
She grunts. 
A cat leaps up beside /him. 
"What's up?" Jamie grins. "Shipping going poorly?"
Juliet picks at her carrots. "You'll see."
Rustling. 
Jamie attends—
Cat, french fry in its mouth, freezes. 
"And what do you think you're doing?" 
Cat retreaaaaats—
"That's /my fry, furball—"
Cat snaps up the french fry, disappears under the table. 
And then Jamie notices the lack of fries on Juliet's tray. 
She sighs. "Fuzzy ate them." 
.
Jackson tucks himself into the shower, turns the water on all the way to hot, and basks. 
"Maaf," says a cat. 
Jackson peers down at his feet. 
Cat wiggles its butt, one of Andrea's bras held in its mouth. 
"Do I leave you in here so you don't get water everywhere or do I dump you with Ray?" 
"Maaf," says the cat. 
Bathroom door slams, shower door yanks open—
Cold air!
"Sorry," says Andrea. 
"'s fine," squeaks Jackson. 
Andrea orders, "Give."
"Maaf." 
Jackson nudges Cat with his toe—
"MAF!" 
"FUCK!" 
.
"Want a blanket or something?" asks Juliet, setting down a bowl of chips on the coffee table. 
"That'd be great," Andrea tucks her legs close. "Thanks."
"One sec!" Juliet skips off to Andrea's room—
/CRUNCH
She looks back. 
Andrea's peering into the chip bowl. 
"Do I want to know?" 
"It's cute?" 
Juliet returns—
Very happy cat twisting around in the chips. 
Juliet giggles, "You're going to make such a mess." 
"Maaaaau," coos the cat. 
"Good thing /they're pest control," grins Andrea.
.
Juliet lets herself into Andrea's room—frowns. "Uh, Ray?"
Andrea doesn't move, even though she's holding her hairbrush in mid-air. "Don't. Say. Anything." 
Cat growls.
"But there's a cat gargoyling on your head." Tilts her head. "Gargoyling on the back of your head?"
"I know." 
Cat tugs at something. 
"Are you okay?"
"There's a cat on the back of my head—"
/SNAP—
"MRAU!"
Juliet now has a cat holding a broken hair elastic in her arms. 
.
Logan sags onto the couch. 
The sound of a cat leaping onto the back, padding along, and then a warm weight settles across his shoulders. 
Logan sighs, sinks in. 
A black and purple tank top-y thing drops into his lap. 
Andrea, in her gym shorts, strides into the sitting room, snatches up what is apparently a sports bra—
Logan disowns himself. His body. Scuttles—
Cat grumps.
—out of anything that may have come into contact with it and kicks them far, far away. 
. 
Jamie tosses up his toothbrush, helps himself to the sink. A couple short minutes later, he switches to dental floss, and within a minute his pearly whites are even pearlier. 
Scratching in the hall. 
Jamie whistles to himself, tosses the floss in the garbage, and wets his facecloth.
Two cats burst into the washroom, tear around his legs, scale the shower, leap off the toilet paper and lid—
The first cat flails on the roll—
The second cat bounce off the bin—skids to a halt, snags the dental floss, skedaddles from the room. 
A dull rattle and a squawk and the cat's on the floor in a mountain of tissue and's out the door and the tissue, somehow, isn't tearing. 
"They just TPd my room." 
.
A few mornings later, at breakfast, Juliet asks, "What happened to the cutlery?" 
"Dishwasher's on the fritz," reports Andrea. 
A cat makes its way along the tabletop. 
"You're not getting my fries today," warns Juliet. 
Cat struts along. 
"One of ‘em stole your fries, too?" 
"Yeep." Juliet takes up her fork. "Not today, though." 
So the cat twists, pulls her fork from her hand, and steals it away without breaking pace. 
Jackson yawns, digs his PJs from the drawer—
A cat and two bras stare up at him. 
Jackson blinks. 
Cat yawns. 
Jackson takes a deep breath, carefully gathers up the cat—
Cat oozes in his arms.
—exhales, frees a hand, snatches up Andrea's underwear, and gets himself to her room as smoothly as he can. 
"Yea?" she greets. 
"Undie delivery! Does that rhyme?" 
Andrea drops her head back with a groan. 
Jackson gets her underwear into the vicinity of her hand. 
"Thanks," she sighs, taking them. 
"You're very welcome! I'm going to go put hairball somewhere not near your underwear drawer, hopefully without getting maimed." 
"Good luck," grumbles Andrea. "Night."
"Good night!"
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