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Charolaise is leaning by the window on a wooden chair, blowing cigarette smoke out the window. For the sake of her furniture, but to really take in the world that now makes her home. Though another benefit comes along in being able to people watch for anyone who might come into her domain, and on cue someone she recognises. A familiar red shirt and leather trousers, watches out for the cars that barely occupy the roads any more, as zie crosses the road towards Charoliase's flat. Zie gives her a quick wave, and she smiles as she gives one back.
As zie disappears into the building, The Minotaur inhales and lets out a huge sigh. This is a bizarre situation, what's even gonna happen? The global amnesia means she doesn't even know how long she has been furious at this Cat, but it had to have been a while, a year even, a whole year of spite and now she just... Has to turn it off. It takes more than she'd like to admit to not give in to bitterness and give Chloe both barrels. Like how dare zie, how DARE zie. But to swat away a happiness she knows is within grasp, to give into that sourness, is some moron shit. Everything's different, when the floor beneath you has been swapped, and you didn't even notice, why not choose to be happy? Especially when it's an obedient little toy boy, swallowing your dick kinda happy? Moron shit, absolute brain-dead shit to ruin that.
Chloe lets herself in and surveys the room, it's like a student flat thing, with the on suite bathroom, but like it's big? Like huge? Who is this for? The makeshift kitchen is roomier than zir dedicated kitchen. That's just a kitchen, the hell? Chloe walks up to The Bull by the window, there's silence between them that sticks, until Chloe shrugs.
―I can't be fucked with this pre-amble stuff. Chloe announces. Like I'm supposed to stand here and do small talk, like. As if I care what the rent is on a place like this, well I guess that's not a thing for us anymore, innit? No bills, see what I mean? Just wanna get what I came here for.
―Yeah? Do you not think I'm owed an apology? Charoliase asks.
―I can give you one; I'm sorry. But it's not like I wouldn't leave the Malcontencious every time if I did it again, not sorry for leaving, just sorry for how I did.
―So you're not here to apologise, why did you come here?
Chloe strolled over to Charolaise and grabs her face to kiss her, the surge of cigarette on her breath travels its way through Chloe's sinus, its home.
―Cos I care abo... No. Cos I love you, you idiot.
―What if I'm still mad?
―What better way to make up?
―What if I don't trust you won't hurt me again? That Butters or someone I don't even know about, that they won't give the order and you'll hurt me again. What if after all this I'm still not a consideration in your life?
Chloe collapses on zir knees, shuffling closer to Charolaise, before placing zir claws on the inside of the waistband of her jeans. Zie presses zir face against the slowly growing bulge in The Bulls jeans.
―Please, everything's so new and different now, there's so much I can't remember anymore, so much I completely missed and who knows if I'll recall it again? I just NEED to feel something familiar again, something I already know, something my body instinctively craves whether it remembers it or not. Please, I need this.
Zie looks up to Charolaise from her jeans, as zie softly kisses what is barely being contained by her trousers. The Bull can sense this isn't some bratty bottom routine that Chloe has been known to recite. There is a genuine pain behind zir words and longing in zir gaze, she softly sighs to herself, as she places her left hand behind the back of Chloe's head, as her right hand unfastens the top button of her jeans.
―I guess it can't be helped, Little Kitten.
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-A lost memory recalled-
Chloe darts into the back alley, as the squad had agreed on during the briefing. Zie looks in a riiiiight state, covered in bruises from batons and cuts from being hoisted across the debris. Despite that Chloe's body language is celebratory, exhausted, but brimming with accomplishment.
―WOOOOOOOOO! Chloe screams. Mate, you should've seen it, absolute scenes. 6 Coppers all ganging up on me, but I could've lied and said it was all choreographed and I bet you'd all believe me. I've gotten so good at the like stabby in-between the kevlar shit, that's what's so easy about Humans! You do any damage to them, and they melt in a puddle of Humanity over the sheer audacity that we'd be able to hurt them. FUCK, we're getting so good at this, babe!
―Heh... Yeah... I saw.. Ya out there... Was... Dead mint. Charolaise weakly replies, between breathes.
Chloe's optimism bleeds out of zir in real time, as zie turns zir head slowly, afraid of what it might witness. Sure enough, Charolaise lies bleeding in the alley, with a short sword impaled in her chest, ripping through her leather crop top.
―No... No no no, fuck off mate, no NO! Chloe screams as zie runs to The Bull's side.
Like... It's a dead ass sword, no fucking about, some cartoon ass looking sword with Romanesque visual flairs on the hilt. Where on earth did this come from, they were fighting Humans this time, weren't they? Unless, oh god. The reports from the boss where true, the Humans were getting backed by the Angels. Worse, they're not content to observe their handiwork from Heaven.
―Don't panic... Kitten... I called backup. Charoliase explains.
―But, your heart... Chloe asks.
―It's still there... But... Each beat... I can feel... The cold... From... brushing... Against...
Chloe visibility cringes at the description.
―Chloe.... Wait... Till... Get here...
Chloe nods and grabs her hands with both of zir paws. Chloe focuses on the warmth of The Bull for dear life. Ever since Butters left this has been the closest thing zir has ever had, if she died here, it'd be too much for zir little heart. Don't you fucking dare do it now, don't you DARE.
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-Present Day-
Chloe is in what has been passed around colloquially as "The post-cum giggle feedback loop" where zie keeps bursting out in small giggle fits. Hehehe... Hehehe... Hehehe. All while their mind and body try and parse the euphoric pleasure zie is surrounded by right now. The Cat lays zir head upon Charoliase breast as they lay both naked in her bed, and zie does mean breast. HRT is a god given alchemy, and it just feels different from when zie used to rest zir head back when they were y'know like pecs. Which was hot! Do not get it twisted, but now there's a softness and comfort to her chest that feels like resting on the clouds of Nirvana, if you'll permit Chloe being an absolute lesbian about it. Zie were naĂŻve, there's nothing familiar here, instead lies a body that finally got the affection and care from itself that it always needed. Charolaise the Monster lays under them, not a body, not a thing for conflict, it's Charolaise, a Monster who is loved and loves in return.
It's The Minotaur herself who breaks the snapshot of bliss, hoisting Chloe off her chest as she sits up on the bed.
―Listen, there's something I really got to tell you. She begins. I reckon now's as good a time as any.
She gets off the bed and starts to do ooohhhhh big stretch, as she puts her hand on her elbow and leans left and right. Her tail whips a little with each swing, almost tagging her own arse each time. It's a nice view! Chloe notices she doesn't shave her hoofs like she used too, now having a mane in its own right covering each hoof. She is so hot, Chloe wants to cry. But she's trying to have a serious convo right now, focus!
―So, after you left the Malcontencious, we didn't really ever link up again, right? You never told use you were leaving or where you went... Did you not wonder how I managed to bump into you? Charolaise asks.
Chloe immediately sits up as all the good vibes melt away, there can be no good ending to this line of thought.
―I was told by someone you were here, she never gave me her name. But she were huge, like as big as me. A Bengal Tiger, in a full red suit, she had this way of standing. I can't explain it, but I think she were a boxer? Does this ring any bells?
―Genuinely I have no clue. Chloe replies. Did you recognise her? Did she hang about The Malcontencious?
―If she did then I never rolled in the same circles as her, but I can't imagine she knew us all from anything else right? I'm doubtful she's MCP, didn't have the right vibe.
Charolaise heads back to the window, without getting dressed, grabs and lights up a cigarette as she leans out the window.
―But, she spoke of you. She asked if I wanted revenge. Charoliase reveals.
―Fuck, no shit? She was trying to get a hit out on me?
―That's the short of it I reckon, she just told me where you were and just said I was free to do what I wanted to "the one who betrayed you." Now rap with me here Chloe, if she was Malcontencious then it'd be a shared thing right? Like "The Traitor" but she spoke with distance, like it ain't had nowt to do with her.
―What the ffuuuccckk? I promise I have no clue who this fucker is, but then again the amnesia... Would we?
Charolaise shrugs towards Chloe, signalling, "You got it."
―Have you heard anything from the others? Rammsy or Chord? Charolaise asks.
―Did Rammsy not stay with you?
―Naawwh nawh. Even tho the war is over I don't think he and his gang, ever stopped being Malcontencious, innit? I couldn't follow him.
―Well, I doubt she got in touch with Chord, lest this Tiger was a Griffon in disguise. She's gone off to one of them experimental cities in the skies, like for Avians. I ain't heard from her in yonks.
―Well... Maybe it's nothing to worry about.
Chloe appreciates Charoliase acting aloof about it, but the idea someone was trying to get to them... Don't feel great! It's one thing that happened for drama, like in the old days in Essex. But post: Doing A War, the implications are worrying to say the least. Right now the amnesia's a blessing, zie knows zie hurt the people closest to them, what about all the things not worth remembering? The people who looked up to zir in the Malcontencious? Gaia wept, what about those zie killed? They weren't always Human. Not just who zie remembers, but those zie has strategically left in the fog.
If a conscious mind was behind the amnesia, Chloe is starting to understand why they did it.