Growing Pains

[kaitlyn]

Lucy was not having a good day. So far she had argued with her parents, snuck out of the house to buy a new top, argued with her parents, and snuck out again. Not the best start to the day. A bell jangled cheerfully as she entered the bank. Not that you could call anything in Hostile Bank cheerful. A attendant glanced at her dissmissiveley, until she saw the Jack Wills top and jeans. Lucy recived a grin that was so fake it was a suprise it wasn't made of plastic, and a cheery 'Hello, would you like to open a current account with us today?'
'Umm, actually I would like to make a transaction between my current Super Saver account and my checking acc-'
Lucy tailed off suddenly. She began to feel an odd sensation, like she was in an oven that was gradually getting hotter and hotter.
Oh crap. Not now!!
Beads of sweat formed on her forehead and rolled down her faces like tears, and she stumbled slightly. She felt even hotter. Uncomfortably hot.
'Womens.....trouble....back...soon..' she panted, and sprinted at full speed towards the omnipresent W.C. She was barely insideone of the cubicles, when she collapsed, nearly hitting her head on the loo.
Agony was the first sensation. Red fire licked up her body and thousands of tiny needles pierced her skin in a thousand different spots. Then fresh pain as her bones cracked and reformed themselves into odd postions. Her spine lengthened and her body compressed itself like a tin can into an entirely diffrent shape. Finally her shoulder muscles controted and bust out of her skin, unfolding around her.

At the end, all that was left was a little black cat with extraordinary butterfly wings lying spread-eagled on the floor.

A whisker twitched.
Then another.
Lucy hauled herself off the floor and stared at the world with new eyes.
Ow. I was hoping for it to be a little more painful than last time.
She flapped her wings lazily.I never thought being crazy would be so painful..ah well. She twitched her whiskers as she stretched luxuriously, and used her powerful new leg muscles to leap easily onto the toilet lid. She couldn't use her wings in this cramped space, and she didn't fancy crawling underneath the door (goodness knows what was on this floor), so she guessed she would have to wait it out.
Ha. Bet it would suprise the cashier if she found out what I meant by 'woman's trouble'! Classic. Then suddenly, she flinched. If black cats could go pale, she would be as white as a sheet by now.
Someone had just entered the toilets.
Lucy froze. If this person opened the cubicle door, she wasn't going to find the encounter very funny, after all...

[wolflegend]

Katelyn was in the stall next to the black cat cleaning her gun beacuse she was bored (Not like she could do it in public and not get in trouble) when she heard a shifter shift beside her. She looked under teh stall and grabbed the small winged cat before a lady opened the stall next to her. Kateln covered the cat's mouth and turned her to look at her. She put her finger to her mouth as to say shhh.

Katelyn put the cat in her jacket as she opened the stall door and slid her gun back into its holster. She ran out the back way, making sure she wasn' noticed by anyone. She ran past a couple hallways and finally made it outside.

She set hte cat down and then said, "What are you trying to do? Get yourself killed?" Katelyn asked her, a bit out of breath.

[kaitlyn]

Okay. Fine. Just pick me up, shove me into your jacket, run off down the back, and ask me if I want to kill myself. Go ahead.
Lucy hadn't tried to speak in her other form, so she was pleasantly suprised when she opened her mouth and said angrily 'What, do you think I like to change into a winged black cat in the ladies loos? It's not my bloody fault that I have to change into this'-she gestured at herself with an elegant black paw-'at every bloody hour of the bloody day!!' She bristled her tail fur slightly and lashed it side to side. She did not enjoy being stuffed into people's coat pockets; it wasn't exactly the most fashionable way to get around, and besides, her jacket smelt of gunpowder or something. Her whiskers twitched in frustration as she stared up at the girl.

[wolflegend]

Katelyn pursed her lips as she looked up and down at the cat. "I can fix that, you know?" She told her as she bent down and kneeled in front of the cat. "You sure make a cute cat," Katelyn smiled as she pet the cat on the head.

Katelyn rested on the side of the wall. She was tired. She had to chase down three people already today and she was off duty for the rest of the day. She would be bored, she had nothing else to do. She really needed to get a boyfriend.

Katelyn mused a chuckle as she closed her eyes, thnking about her thought. Her having a boyfriend? Who would want to put up with her constant on the run things and her getting hurt everywhere she went, but the healing in a few days? She could think of one person.

[kaitlyn]

Lucy tried to twist out of the way of the hand looming above her, but it was too late. 'Yeah, enough of that. You can fix it? How?' she demanded, staring up at the girl with angry eyes. 'I have a life to get back to, you know.' Her tail fur had gone down, but her tail still flicked from side to side. Her wings waved from side to side gently. Lucy remembered them suddenly, and thought about the first time she had turned into the winged cat shape she currently occupied. She longed to test them out, but if someone saw her, she was dead meat. 'So,do you do this thing, or something? Or am I just going crazy?' she queried, feeling herself calm down. ' 'Cause as far as I gathered, normal people don't do this,'. When you hit sixteen, you will start to change into a winged cat. Don't worry, it's perfectly normal...not.