Cherry Blossom | TRACOB

Twenty One

//Giants

-April//

by this point i'm adding random music *shrug*

"Joel, Riley, your dads are here!" Phil called, trying to ignore Dan's heartbroken meow at the news. Dan had been enjoying his time with the two kittens, he really did not want them to go back to Jacob and Troye. "Come get ready please."

"I don't want them to leave," Dan whined, tears coming to his brown eyes. "Can they stay a little while longer?"

Phil shook his head, frowning at the hybrid. "You know that they cannot stay any longer, Dan. They need to go see Troye and get ready for their vacation. You did a good job of taking care of them today, though. I'm sure Troye will let you see them again soon."

Dan didn't seem to find any comfort in his owner's words, beginning to pace back and forth as Joel and Riley got ready to go. The fact that the bigger neko was stressed was rubbing off on the other two as well, their cat-like way of thinking growing stronger as Dan crawled back and forth across the floor.

"What's wrong Dan?" Joel asked, looking concerned. He crawled/hobbled over to Dan, holding his broken wrist up to his chest. He was easily learning to work around it, and the medicine that Jacob helped give him every morning made it so it did not hurt as much. The blue eyes kitten nudged Dan with his nose, meowing quietly.

Dan meowed in response, nuzzling the kitten back. Joel rolled over onto his back and giggled as Dan nuzzled his tummy.

Dan's playful actions stopped as soon as he saw Phil walk towards the door, his eyes widening. He signaled for Joel and Riley to follow him, making sure to keep his chirping sounds quiet enough that Troye would not pick them up if he was outside. He hurried towards the stairs, opening the door to the little cupboard that was beneath them. He always squished into there when he was stressed.

He crawled to the back and waited for Joel and Riley to get into the small space before pulling the door shut. "It's cool in here," Joel said, inspecting all the little knickknacks the older one had strewn across the carpeted floor. Riley was less interested in the toys however, and made his way to Dan's lap, curling up and yawning.

"You gotta be quiet, okay?"

"Why?"

"Cause um... We are playing hide and seek?"

"Oh." Joel picked up a toy mouse in his mouth and limped over to lay down beside Dan and his brother, chewing on the toy. They sat in silence for a while before they heard footsteps coming towards the door. Joel and Riley looked at the door with ears pricked forward as Dan's ears folded back and his eyes widened, his bottom lip starting to quiver again. Phil had found them, it was obvious.

The door opened and Dan was surprised to not see black skinny jean clad legs, instead the one who had opened the door was wearing frilly pink socks, a pink skirt that fell to their mid thigh, and had a chocolaty brown tail. Not Phil.

"Daddy!" Joel squealed, dropping the mouse when he saw it was Troye. "You found us! Does that mean he won?" Joel turned to Dan and the older neko just nodded sadly, not looking up at Troye.

"What are you guys doing down here?" Troye asked, getting down onto the floor and looking into the cramped space.

"Dan says we were playing hide and seek, but you found us. Look at all of these toys though! This one is my favourite." Joel picked up the mouse in between his teeth and showed it to Troye, who smiled at him.

"Very nice, Joel." Troye watched Joel play for a while, not missing the fact that Dan looked like he was about to have a breakdown. "Dan, can I talk to you?"

Dan shook his head no, but Troye pulled him towards the door anyways. He told the boys to sit still, which Joel happily nodded to and Riley yawned at.

"Dan, did you just try to kidnap my kittens?"

Dan shook his head. "No, I didn't try to 'kidnap' them. We were uh, playing a game."

"A game that involved hiding and nearly crying when someone found you?"

"No, it wasn't like that. We were just playing hide and seek, Troye."

"With who?"

"Sir."

Troye sighed. "Dan, I'm not mad. I understand where you are coming from, you don't need to lie to me."

"You don't understand though!" Tears started to pour down Dan's face as he spoke, his tail going between his legs. "You can't understand this, Troye! You have a beautiful family, and I know you're pregnant again. You can actually do something for your master, unlike me. I can't bring him kittens like you and Zoe can do. I'm completely useless, I'm waiting for the day Phil sells me! I'm pathetic, all I do is cry over this."

Dan was right; Troye didn't understand where his friend was coming from. That didn't mean that the shorter hybrid did not want to help him, though. "I know you want to have a kitten, Dan. But that's just not how you were born. Lots of other male nekos are like you, Dan. Let's face it, I'm just a mess up. I'm not supposed to be like this. My life will potentially be shorter just because of the way my body works, you don't want that, do you? You need to be here for Phil for as long as you can, that is what he wants out of you."

"That's not true and you know it!" The water works got more intense as Dan spoke. "Lots of breeding males live long lives! There's only a small percentage that don't, and their lives are only a bit shorter than other males!"

"Even so, you know that Phil would never get rid of you just because you can't give him kittens. There are tones pf kittens out there that need to be adopted, Dan. You know that. You wouldn't want them to end up where we did, would you?"

"I don't want to adopt. I want to carry my master's kittens for him, I want to hold them as soon as they're born. I want them to be mine. Mine. Just like Riley and Joel are yours."

Troye didn't really know what to say to change his friend's mind. He sighed, playing with the edge of his skirt. "I'm sorry, Dan. The most I can do is offer for you to watch Joel and Riles more often. They love you a lot. You would make a great dad."

Dan wiped his eyes with a nod. "I really, really want to be a good dad like you, Troye." He looked to Joel and Riley who were playing under the stairs. "God, do I ever want to."

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Poor danny :(

ds update: i found one for sale and i have dug out all my games and stuff

i am ready.