Theres a kitten monster child running. The runs and runs and runs. Alone, scared, hurt. Dodging every person and everything. She stays to shadows ro remain hidden. Her black fur and tiny size making it doable.
She runs for what feels like forever until she bumps into someones leg (Vasilios) and falls to the ground with a grunt and rubs her noggin where she bumped. She doesnt realize shes been seen.
Vasilios is tall, not as tall as he could be thanks to his perpetual slump, but definitely stands out of the crowd. Despite the fact he wears a poop emoji hoodie and cargo pants, and doesn't look all that threatening, most people - monsters anyways - know and avoid him.
So he isn't expecting the bump to his leg, and as he turns his unlit sockets down he sees the kitten.
He feels the endless boredom that consumes him recede as he watches it rub its head and he squats to poke it... in the spot it was rubbing.
The kid follows his instructions, though Vasilios thought it would've been funnier if she'd eaten the nasty tasting stuff... He may have licked it himself before.
Once she's looking better, she almost speaks, so she's already doing better than he was at her age.
He leans over and squints at her a moment as though he was thinking really hard and then points at her, gently poking her in the chest. "Fluffbutt."
Then he stands up and jerks a thumb at himself and adds "Vasilios." Then he grabs his collar out from under his hoodie and yanks it so it's visable. Its a plain brown leather color with a tag across it that he says outloud. "Mutt."
He wonders idly how Cicero would take adopting another stray, and then decides he doesn't give a fuck. She wasn't going back to where she came from, and Monsters in this timeline didn't exactly do adoption agencies. Besides, there was something telling him this was going to be funny as fuck.
He walks over to the fridge and digs around in it for a moment before coming up with a container of tuna fish - one of the few things his brother made that he'd eat without being told because it didn't require much chewing.
Popping off the lid, he sits the container on the table with Iris and says, "eat."
Iris smells the food and her eyes light up. She goes absolutely savage on the tuna, eating quickly like the foods gonna run off.
She purrs loudly as her tail sways. She eats so quickly she gives herself hiccups.
Shes a messy eater. Nomming it off her toe beans. Her belly grtting a smidge rounder.
She looks up at Vasilios at the last bite and does grabby hands, wanting to be picked up. Shes messy now from eating on top of being dirty from being outside. She smells like a dumpster.