Chapter 6: The Cat

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by PattonVirgil123

by PattonVirgil123

Beelzebub woke up abruptly at 3 am in the morning and promptly groaned. Demons had a tendency to wake up random nights at exactly 3 am and then not be able to go back to sleep until the morning. They went down to the living room and saw Gabriel asleep on the couch. He almost looked sweet when he was sleeping.

Almost.

Ze made zemself some coffee and sat down on the stairs being bored. They looked over at Gabriel who was still sound asleep. Suddenly, ze heard what sounded like a cat scratching at the front door. Ze got up, opened the door, and saw a little black cat holding a bottle of Elmers glitter glue in her mouth. Beelzebub picked it up, plopped it down inside, closed the door, and looked at it with a confused look on their face. The cat just smiled with the glitter glue bottle still in her mouth.

"You're a strange little one aren't you?" Beelzebub said. Ze reached out and petted the cats head. "Do you really want to live with a scary demon and an uptight angel who don't get along whatsoever?" The cat just tilted her head as if to say "Of course I do!"

Contrary to popular belief, ethereal and occult beings can't actually hold conversations with animals. Sure they created the damn things and can even turn into them but that doesn't mean they know how to communicate with them. It's like if you built a piano yet had absolutely no idea how to play it; but I digress.

The cat walked around and eventually found a nice spot to lie down and go to sleep. Beelzebub watched over it until they fell back asleep.

Gabriel woke up to a very surprising sight. Beelzebub was asleep on the floor of the living room and next to zem was a little black cat with a glitter glue bottle in her mouth who was batting at Beelzebub's face.

Beelzebub slowly opened their eyes groggily and playfully glared at the cat. Ze then noticed that Gabriel was standing there with a miracled cup of coffee in his hand looking very amused. Beelzebub shot him an actual glare and flipped him off. Satisfied that ze had angered the archangel sufficiently, ze went to the kitchen to make breakfast. The black cat followed.

Gabriel followed them and smugly said, "I see you have a pet now, going soft are you?" Beelzebub stared at Gabriel with a withering glare that would make any mortal start shaking with fear. "One more word and you are getting violently discorporated." Beelzebub snarled.

"You do need to do something about the cat. You can't just keep it here without food or water or-" Gabriel started after a good bout of considering whether losing his corporation was worth teasing Beelzebub more. He decided it wasn't.

"That izzz why I miracled some food and water and all the other stuff we need to take care of her." Beelzebub retorted. The black cat hopped up onto zeir lap.

"We?" Gabriel asked in disbelief. "You're the one who brought it into this house! Besides, it hasn't even looked at me since-" Then, as if on cue, the cat hopped off of Beelzebub's lap, walked over to Gabriel and rubbed up against him. Then, satisfied with her work, she curled up on the couch.

"Awww. She likes you!" Beelzebub mocked Gabriel. "Oh, so I'm not allowed to mock you but you're allowed to mock me?" Gabriel retorted. "Precisely." Beelzebub answered.

The cat (who Beelzebub decided to name Star.) was surprisingly very low maintenance. So low maintenance in fact, that she would go missing then just pop up randomly after a few days. The first time this happened, Beelzebub made the whole house a mess looking for her, only to have her pop out from nowhere to comfort Beelzebub who had slumped down in defeat. Gabriel eventually warmed up to Star (though he would never admit it).

Around the same time, Aziraphale and Crowley started to notice a black cat carrying a bottle of glitter glue in the garden.

Aziraphale had noticed it first. He had been reading a book by the window when he had looked out at the garden. There, amongst the Dracaena trifasciata (more commonly known as "Snake Plants") was a small black cat. Just as he was about to call for Aziraphale he could have sworn that the cat winked at him. Then he blinked, and it was gone.

(A/N: This is mainly filler. The next chapter is gonna be some nice angst tho so don't worry 😉)