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At first, Remus and Naja hadn’t been friendly with each other.
“Why is it hissing at me?” “because you keep calling her an it, you dumbass.”
Deceit pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance. Feeling the urge to hiss at the side well up inside of himself as well as he watched his cat do it.
He’d invited Remus into his apartment for the first time about ten minutes ago. The two of them usually sitting in the living room or Remus his domain before Deceit had realised the other had never actually seen the inside of his apartment.
For 8 of the 10 minutes he had been inside, Remus had been making baby noises at Naja. Trying to get her to come over to him.
The cat just looked at him as if the noises were deeply offensive and had turned around. Her tail swiping back and forth in annoyance as the move only made the Duke double his attempts to get on her friendly side.
Deceit had felt a migraine coming up when he had to explain to Remus that no when a cat 'wags’ their tail it's not out of excitement or happiness like with dogs.
She’d accepted his invitation after twenty minutes of begging and under the conditions that he only pets her back, she’d get a freshly plucked bit of catnip and she scratch him as soon as she’d gotten ahold of the little bit of treasure.
And while she trotted over to Deceit, jumping into his lap and rolling onto her back, pawing at the catnip happily, Remus stared at the scratches on his hand in wonder.
“She likes me!!”
“No, she fucking doesn’t. She just scratched your hand, Remus.”
“Well every good friendship begins with chaos, doesn’t it? Ours certainly did!”
Deceit could only sigh again. Rubbing at his temple and scratching Naja under her chin lightly as Remus licked at the wound to get rid of the blood.
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While they didn’t start friendly, both of them were bound to become close friends.
The first time she actually got into trouble was because of Remus.
The creative trait had been running around the mindscape all week. His reveal to Thomas having him so excited he could barely sit still.
When Remus got hyper like this, he began to put some of his ideas into action.
And these were usually quite harmless. More pranks than anything gory or gross.
That didn’t mean that Dee appreciated it when he found all of his mugs our on the balcony, a note with the words 'it’s muggy outside today’ stuck to the glass doors making him groan in annoyance.
Deceit liked his coffee.
Deceit also liked mugs with various things and patterns which meant that there was quite a lot of mugs to put back into his cupboards.
What Deceit didn’t like? Was that he had to case Naja around the apartment for half an hour while Remus watched in delight, sitting on the couch as if they were performing theatre and he wasn’t witnessing Dee getting so annoyed that he started to let his usually hidden lisp slip out.
“Naja come here you ssssstupid cat!”
“That is no way to talk to a lady Double Dee’s!” Remus replied, laughing loudly as Naja jumped up onto his lap, sat down the mug and miaowed in agreement.
“Thissss wouldn’t have happened if you weren’t sssssuch an idiot remusss!” “Which means I would have gotten a far less entertaining day. So thank you-” he pointed at Dee before he scooped the cat sitting in his lap up into his arms, getting up from his seat, the mug left on the couch “-for entertaining me all this time and thank you-” he gave Naja a pet. The cat giving him an unimpressed look but not biting or scratching him, “-for being my new favourite animal. You’re an absolute queen you little demon.”
At that she did purr, Deceit letting out an offended gasp and Remus practically bouncing in excitement at finally having her like him.
“Now, my lady, I believe this is your stop,” Remus said, after having walked to her bed and carefully putting her down.
Naja only flicked her tail once, staring Remus straight into the eyes as she got up and stepped right out of the cat bed to walk over to a carton box and jump into it.
“Dee. She’s amazing. I might need to steal her again to fuck with the others if she keeps this up.”
“Don’t you dare steal the only sane creature in this mindscape from me, Remus or I will have your head.”
Naja miaowed at that. If in agreement or protest Dee wasn’t sure, but he took it as a win as Remus waved his hand towards her in dismissal. “Yeah yeah, I’ll go. You two have to fun working on your evil schemes. Look after the old man for me will ya Naja? He gets so lonely here.”
Dee grimaced when Remus made an overdramatic pouty face and wiped his hand across his face as if he was wiping away tears before walking towards the door. Giving Deceit the middle finger while opening it.
“Love you too you ass!”
“Yes, Dee I like my butt too. Bye loser!” “Hope you Choke and die!” “Hope Naja suffocates you by lying on your face!” “Don’t be late for dinner today k? I’m making tacos.” “Guacamole?” “Of course I’m not an animal.” “You complete me.”
And with that Remus was gone. Leaving Deceit to look at his cat as she gracefully hopped out of the box again and walked towards the cat bed with all the innocence of a kid caught with their hand stuck in a cookie jar, reminding Dee why exactly he loved her so much.
“You’re a little brat, you know that right?”
Naja simply rolled up into a little ball, one of her ears flicking towards him in vague irritation. Her way of saying shut up in tired.
So Dee stood up from his chair, walked towards the kitchen to prepare for dinner and set aside a few small pieces of fish for the small pink ball in the large cat bed that had started to purr again as soon as Remus had left.