“You do realize you’re on the fast track to becoming a crazy cat lady, right?” Alice shouted at Dana from her bathroom. Alice was there to pick up Dana, they were going to meet Shane at Tina and Bette’s house.

“Don’t listen to her Mr. Piddles. She just doesn’t understand our love.” Dana cooed to her long time companion who pivoted his head and glowered at his food and tummy scratch dispenser with a look that she read as “stop baby talking me you feeble minded little peon, it hurts whenever I take a piss”. Dana often imagined Mr. Piddles would talk like a comic book super villain with an English accent if he could talk. She didn’t know why.

“I’m just saying, you should keep a one cat limit until you get a girlfriend.” Alice said as she flushed the toilet and went about washing her hands and freshening herself up. Mr. Piddles hunched his shoulders and hissed menacingly towards the bathroom, as though furious at Alice for even suggesting that his pet Dana would ever dare bring another cat into his domain.

“Don’t worry, Mr. Piddles. You’re the only cat for me, yes…” Dana said, stroking the cat’s head. Appeased, the feline uncoiled from Dana’s lap and slipped onto the couch beside her, slinking off to burry his head into the throw pillow until the shape changers were gone and he had full run of the place, as was his right.

“Sooo…” Alice said as she emerged from the bathroom and walked up to Dana’s couch. “How you doing?” She asked as she spun on her heel and collapsed next to Dana. Mr. Piddles was not amused at the sudden vibration and leapt to the floor and scurried into Dana’s bedroom, planning on doing unspeakable things to Dana’s bed sheets in retribution once she left.

“Umm…” Dana said, eyes shifting from the left to the right. “Good?”

“That’s…good.” Alice said, but despite the air of nonchalance she put forth she couldn’t restrain herself any longer. Her plan, to segue from small talk into the larger issue crumbled in the face of her own impatience.

“Oh, fuck Dana! We’re worried -I’m worried- about you in your whole little self hating lycanthrope world right now!” Alice finally shrieked, causing Dana to jump a bit at the sudden change in her friend’s disposition.