Fraternizing With the Enemy
Hearing the noise (and sensing a confrontation), Sir Purr strode into the room and sat at the foot of his object of affections. With a nervous twitch, the teen bent down and picked him up. He quickly climbed to her shoulder and sat, staring with icy eyes at the woman and digging his claws into the adolescent's sore shoulder slightly to keep his balance and remind her that he was there.
"I-I-I know it's yours, b-but that's my room," stuttered on the dark haired girl. She swallowed and watched Sir's feet before she tried to speak again, "and...you can't provide that kind of a thing..." the tips of her ears turned violently red, "sex, I mean..."
The cat on her shoulder kneaded extra hard and she glared at him. He didn't look at her, concentrated on Artemis.
The hit woman's eyebrows knit tightly together. Sex? She wanted sex? Her nose scrunched in strong distaste and Artemis looked over the girl with poorly concealed confusion. She had known that Noah was... That she had...
Her thoughts were disjointed and halting. "You can't provide" The words rang through her mind in rote. Her shoulders set rigidly and Dixon was barely aware of her body leaning away. Can't provide. "NO." It wasn't meant to be verbal, but the single syllable burst spontaneously from her lips. She bit her teeth around the silence that followed, wishing that she had kept her mind focused. The pulsing anger was eating away at her each moment, leaving a crumbling hole in it's place. She knew she could rebuild easily enough, she'd done it plenty of times, but the pieces that fell away were like an handcrafted pattern of gold leaf. The woman was seeing the rotted and weak surface underneath and knew that the beautiful outside would have to be a different pattern. The artist that had done the original piece didn't need her anymore. Noah was a big girl now.
She didn't care, a spark was catching.