Bacon Thief ~ Rufus x Reader ~

Chapter 2

I-I think It is a cat! W-what should I do? Should I get Amelia and mum, or should I bring her to them? Whatever I do, I can't let her suffer the same fate that I almost did. I lightly pick her up in my mouth and run home as fast as I can. The cat starts to move around in my mouth and the wires make my gums bleed a bit, I think she's waking up, but I won't stop running to look. I run and run, the adrenaline was fueling my body, bones anywhere it could. I see our yellow house in the distance, I'm so close!

I reach the house and start scratching on the door. Nothing. I do some more scratches. Nothing. I put the cat down gently and start barking as loud as I can. I hear mum coming to the door, I think she tells me to stop, but it's hard to hear over her screams after she sees the cat.

~ 1 WEEK LATER ~

I wake up with my head laying on the basket with the bandaged cat in it. Every day she gets closer to recovery, and every day I get more curious to what he will be like, oh yeah, it's a he. 

"I'm going to school now, see you later mum!" Amelia yells from downstairs. I run down as fast as I can and almost trip mum over, but she's fine.

"Bye Sunny.....ok now don't give me those puppy dog eyes, you know I can't take you to school, no matter how hard you beg. Bye, awww I wuv you baby girl!" she walks out the door and I miss her already, mum says I have something called septeratianel anxiety, but I don't know what that means, so it doesn't matter.

I run back upstairs to see Cat, and- He's awake! I start to run around in circles to indicate that I'm happy to see him. He does the same, well he tries to, but I think he's still too injured to dance around with me.

"Cat! I have so many questions! What's your name, whats your age? What breed are you, are you nice, what's that thing on your nec-" I question him while thinking of more things I wanted to ask him. He takes a breath.

"Storm, my names Storm, I'm about the same age as you, I'm a Norwegian Forest Cat, and this thing around my neck is an Amulet." He replies, I like him, he answers all of my questions and has created a new one.

"Amulet? What's that! Can I try it on? What does it do? Why is it green?" The Amulet is what intrigues me the most, it also looks really pretty.

"The Amulet is a magical gift given to the cats by their good friends the dragons." He tells me in a whimsical tone. Wait. Dragons are real? He must have read my mind because he gives me a soft smile and continues.

"Yes, dragons used to be real. They left the Earth when human started to hunt them, and their population was going down fast. They gave these to the cats, and we learnt how to protect them, but recently, my family was taken away. When they were taken, my brother threw me his Amulet and he said, 'My brother! Give this to someone who deserves it, and someone who can use it for good and has a good heart.' That was the last time I saw them, I had no family so I lived the street life until I got into a dog attack and was hurt very badly. But then you found me, and I think I've found somebody with a good heart to use the Amulet for a good purpose." He told me. Wait, so I get to keep one? Awesome!

"Wait, so what do they do?" I say in an excited tone.

"You can use them to switch between animal and human, give it a try!" He puts the Amulet onto my neck and I try to switch. Nothing? He seems confused himself. Then he realises what he did wrong, he helps me 'meditate' but I think it did nothing, because it did do nothing. 

"It's fine, you should get some rest, you still have a lot of recovery to do before you can go back out onto the streets again. Good night!" I say with a smile, trying to act like it didn't bother me, when it did a little. He seems a little disappointed but says good night back. I am about to go take a nap when I hear Amelia come through the door.

"Sunny?" I hear her call from downstairs. I run down as fast as my body can take I reach the bottom and start getting lots of pats from Amelia.

"What's that around your neck?" She notices my Amulet and goes to grab it off of me, but I quickly move away so she can't. She shrugs and we walk to her room where she tells me about her day which was her first day back from holidaying, and how she met a new boy named Manny. We have dinner then we go to sleep on her bed and start going to sleep.

I slowly wake up and start to stretch my arms when- wait... WHERE DID I GET ARMS FROM???