Nekopara fanfic

Chapter 88

(???? catgirl's perspective.)(November. During a thunderstorm.)

I was washing dishes after dinner while Master watched a sports channel on the tv when I heard a deafening clap of thunder. I yelped and dropped the plate I had been washing. The instant it hit the ground, it practically exploded into a million tiny pieces. I jumped backward and knocked Master's gun off of the counter.

*BANG!*

The snub-nosed revolver went off as it hit the floor and I screamed as the bullet passed through the center of my left hand. I collapsed to my knees, thankfully not getting any shards of the broken plate in my legs.

Master turned around with an angry look on his face.

"Useless little b****, can't do anything right, I've had it with her..." He muttered, walking over to me.

"Get the hell up!" He shouted.

He grabbed my wrist and yanked me to my feet, causing the gunshot wound to hurt more. I screamed in pain.

"Will you shut up!!!" He shouted, turning on the sink. He stuffed a washcloth in my mouth and put my hand under cold water. 

Another scream of pain was muffled by the washcloth. 

He dried off my hand and wrapped it in gauze as tears streamed down my face, then yanked the washcloth out of my mouth.

He growled angrily as he glared at me.

"Please, not the belt again!" I said, flinching.

He removed his belt, but instead of beating me with it like he usually did, he shoved me into a sitting position and tied my wrists to the radiator.

"Don't move, or you'll regret it," He said.

I nodded and he walked off for a moment. He returned with a black leather collar, a chain leash, a strip of black cloth, and a pair of handcuffs.

He pulled the collar around my neck and pulled it tight, then hooked the leash on it. Master unbound my wrists and pulled me up, handing me his black pull-on sweatshirt, which I put on, then he shoved my hands into the front pocket, handcuffing me, then tied the black cloth over my eyes, pulling up the hood.

"We're going for a walk..." Master growled.

I trembled in fear as he dragged me outside, leading me... Somewhere...

After a few hours of walking, I heard someone say something, but I couldn't hear exactly what they said. Master started to run, choking me for a moment before I was able to keep up. I could hear the heavy *Thunk Thunk Thunk Thunk* of boots running behind us.

"YOU SON OF A B****! I'M GONNA KILL YOU WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!" A male shouted.

"Master... Is he shouting at me...? Or you...?" I asked, scared.

"That doesn't matter. What does matter is us running faster!" Master said.

We suddenly stopped.

"OHS***OHS***OHS***!!!" Master cursed.

"What's going on?!?" I asked. I heard fast, heavy footsteps moving toward us... Really quickly...

"Just keep your mouth shut!" Master said, looping an arm tightly around my neck, yanking the hood of the sweatshirt down and pressing something to the side of my head.

The footsteps stopped, but from the sound of the last few... Whoever was chasing us, was only a few feet away.

(Qrow's perspective.)

I glared at the man I had been pursuing as he pressed the revolver against the catgirl's head a bit harder, cocking it with his thumb.

"Don't you f***ing move! Not another step or I'll blow her brains out!" The man shouted.

"M...Master... P-please... T-tell me you didn't bring me out here t-to... K-kill m-me... R-right...? M-master...?" The catgirl said.

The man quickly moved the gun from her head and shot her. The bullet hit her leg as she screamed and fell to the ground. I drew my custom-painted Smith&Wesson .500 Magnum, cocking it.

"Bad move, dumbf**k," I said, shooting him in the head.

The catgirl screamed again and kept screaming, but her scream eventually started to fade as she realized she was still alive. I didn't blame her for not realizing she wasn't the one who got shot.

If I were her, since she was blindfolded, I probably would've thought I was the one who got shot too.

I tucked my gun in my trench coat and walked over to the catgirl, untying the blindfold. She had light bubblegum-pink hair and purple eyes. She looked almost like Chocola, except she was wearing blue jeans and a black short-sleeved shirt. 

"It's alright... You're still alive and you're safe now," I said, examining her wound.

  I attempted to gently pull her hand out of the sweatshirt pocket, but it wouldn't budge, not without her other arm moving with it, at least.

"Master cuffed my hands inside the pocket..." She whimpered.

Evelyn's forest bowie knife materialized in my hand since she kept her knives literally sharp enough to decapitate someone cleanly in one swing.

I turned the blade toward myself and began to cut away the pocket, then used bolt cutters to bust the cuffs off.

I checked the wound in her hand, removing the gauze.

The worst of the two injuries was the one in her hand, since it smashed through the middle bone in her palm, while the one in her leg... She was really lucky since it didn't go deep enough to break the bone.

I gently took her hand in mine.

"Ow ow owwww..." She whimpered.

I pulled off my glove using my teeth and used magic to fix up her hand, then gently lay her down on her back. I used a pair of surgical tweezers and removed the bullet carefully, then used an X-stat to stop her bleeding.

I gently wrapped gauze around her leg and tied it, then picked her back up.

She snuggled into my chest and I hugged her.

I remembered an old buddy of mine, a P.I. named Ace.

I pulled out my phone and called him up.

"Yo, Ace. You still looking to take in homeless catgirls?" I asked him.

"Yeah, why?" He replied.

"I've got one looking for a home. She was abused by her previous master, and he tried to kill her," I said.

"That's awful! Of course I'll take her," He replied.

I walked to Ace's house and knocked on the door.

"Hey, here she is," I said, gently setting her down.

"Aww, you're a cute one. Don't worry. You'll be safe here," Ace said to her as I walked away.

I walked back home, having had enough excitement for the night, and went to bed.

(This chapter's a bit meh, but hey, gotta do something, seeing as I'm coming on 7k reads. I can't thank you all enough for the support. :D)