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Benevolence

Souda was on his way back from a mechanic job he'd been called out to do, just a simple engine job on a car nothing too difficult.

His idea of become a free-lance mechanic was a stroke of genius in his opinion. He'd made enough money to get his own flat away from his father, and people where hearing about how good he was and hiring him like crazy!

It was quite late when he was walking back from this particular job, it had taken slightly longer to fix than he had anticipated- mostly because the lady who wanted her car fixed kept offering him cans of Pepsi, how could he say no?

Souda wasn't the biggest fan of the dark so he was in a bit of a hurry to get home.

But he stopped dead in his tracks when he heard a strangled screaming noise coming from down an alleyway.

It didn't sound human, but it certainly did sound frightened, and the pink haired mechanic couldn't just leave whatever it was in a state of fear- he knew all too well what it was like to be afraid.

He tugged his beanie down a little bit further and took a deep breath; he went down the alley and turned the corner.

The scene his eyes had been met with wasn't quite what he was expecting.

A gang of about six cats cornering one thin and week looking cat (in fact it looked so small it could have been a kitten).

Souda gulped, he knew how violent cats could be sometimes.

Backing round the corner slightly Souda took his shoe off, "Man, I hope my aim is good..." he whispered under his breath before lobbing his shoe at the gang of cats.

Souda thanked his lucky stars that his plan had worked and the cats had dispersed.

He hopped over to go and collect his shoe which had saved the day, when he noticed the small cat that had been cornered was still there, shivering slightly.

Souda popped his shoe back on then knelt down to the cat.

"Hey there little Guy." he stated softly- slowly reaching out a hand to it.

"This is what you're supposed to do right?" he thought to himself "let the cat get your scent or somethin'..."

The cat looked at Souda's hand then to Souda.

It hesitantly moved forward and sniffed his hand.

Souda moved his hand up gently and petted the cats head as lightly as he could, the cat was so small he was worried he could hurt it "wonder why those mean cats were after you..." Souda said to himself. The cat gave a quiet meow in a reply of sorts and began to purr, enjoying the mechanics touch.

"Oh man, you're cute aren't ya?" Souda smiled, glad the cat liked him. But what was he supposed to do now? He couldn't just leave it here; the gang of cats would surly come back with a vengeance.

He sighed when he realised the only thing he could do was take the cat home with him.

Moving carefully, Souda lifted the cat up and in to his arms- the cat made no movement to reject to this, it actually purred more against Souda's body heat.

Souda didn't live too far from the alleyway, so by walking quickly he made it home in about 2 minutes.

Whist he made his way up the stars to his flat he looked down at the cat cradled in his arms. He could see it a lot better now, before the only light he had was a dim street light or two, but in the lighting on the stairs it was much clearer how in need of care this poor cat was.

It was thin (that much was obvious from the start) It had a few scratches on its body which had not been treated correctly and lastly it's fur was very discoloured, perhaps this was because of the malnourishment it had gone through?