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It was a sunny day in their apartment. Well, he says apartment because his room now looked as if it was one. The old 'make it look like Thomas his own living space' shtick they had been pulling had quickly begun to bore him.
He'd changed it around a couple of months ago without regrets and now here he was, drinking coffee while he slowly made his way through the apartment.
The spacious kitchen had enough room for him to freely move around even in his less... conventional form and enough windows to bathe the entire apartment in warm orange light as he moved around the kitchen island.
"Naja?" he called out her name as he looked around his living space, putting the coffee down on the counter for a moment. He hadn't seen her all morning.
This was only unusual because she always came to greet him when waking up. His dreams frequently interrupted by loud purring and a face full of a cat trying to show her affection rather aggressively by shoving her entire flank into his face.
He shivered in the slight morning chill haunting his apartment. Stretching his arms far above his head to try and get rid of some stiffness and slithering towards the double glass doors he'd thrown wide open.
The balcony said doors lead to was big enough for him to sprawl out comfortably, the world beyond it showing whatever city he liked best at that specific time.
Right now it wasn't a city at all but rather fields full of flowers and small patches of trees. A few rabbits bussing about in the flower fields and one particularly brave squirrel climbing onto his balcony, sitting on one of the few empty pots between all the potted plants he had cramped in that space.
His own hissing, fangs exposed and eyes glinting with amusement at wanting to sho away the small animal, was interrupted by another, slightly quieter but way more vicious hissing sound as Naja jumped from where she had been sunbathing on one of the warmed-up stone tiles to try and grab the squirrel, claws out and paws outstretched in an honest attempt to look as threatening as her ancestors had done.
She didn't quite succeed in the last part but did manage to scare away the squirrel. The poor creature hurriedly running down the drainpipe and hoping into one of the nearby trees.
"There you are you little gremlin," Dee coed, more affectionate than anything else as the cat turned around, he heterochromatic eyes looking up and into his own before running towards him.
One smooth jump and she was on the railing of the balcony. A second jump and she was balancing on his shoulders, purring while she rubbed her flank against his head making him laugh and pet her affectionately before slowly making his way towards the kitchen again, now with cat balancing hanging across his shoulders.
"You gave me a scare this morning dear," he busied himself with making himself some toast while talking to her quietly. The silence only disturbed by his own voice, Naja her purring and the quiet sound of the soft spring breeze rustling the leaves of his beloved plants outside.
"You can't just do that to me ya know? Just not show up like you always do. Almost thought Remus had finally realised how cute you are and kidnapped you."
Naja miaowed loudly at that. Showing her offence to her owner assuming she'd ever let herself be taken by Remus of all people.
"Yeah I know, you're way to smart for that. Well, at least the others haven't figured out that you're not a snake yet so they won't try anything."
It had been a mistake Deceit had found too funny to correct when it had first come up.
He'd just wanted to leave the scene. The excuse of having to feed his cat had been one he'd deemed good enough to use so he'd used it.
Only he'd said Naja instead of simply saying cat and, after Logan had asked if he gave her dead mice or baby chickens and Roman had expressed his disgust at the thought of a snake swallowing one of that whole, he'd found the assumption to be amusing enough to let them talk about this nonexistent pet snake of his.
His toast was done. Making his way towards the balcony again, he let Naja jump of his shoulder and land on the ground, the cat watching him intently as he put down his plate and coffee mug before sitting down in his wooden sunchair and humming appreciatively as he felt the pleasant warmth of the sun start to warm him up to a temperature that could be considered human.
He was just about to doze off, long snake tail on full display filling up half the balcony and black long sleeve so much more comfortable than his usual outfit, when suddenly a weight was added to his stomach and all the air left his lungs.
"Jesus fuck Naja. Warn a dude next time you decide to try and cannonball onto his organs will you?"
Naja looked back at him with big confused eyes before laying down, rolling partly onto her back and began to wash herself.
"Hey, gremlin. Do you mind?"
She paid him no mind, simply finishing her washing up and curling up on his stomach afterwards. Basking in the early morning light and the warmth of the slowly climbing sun.
It was kind of nice.
And moving now seemed like such a bore since he had gotten this comfortable.
So he simply sat on his sunchair. Yellow snake tail twisting and curling over the balcony and around the various potted plants coloured slightly yellow due to the sun reflecting off of it, the coffee and toast next both exactly right and the cat purring on his stomach, the soft pink lump rising and falling with each breath as one blue and one yellow eye blinked up at him sleepily.
And he scratched her behind the ears, earning a slightly louder melody of purrs as he closed his eyes. Simply enjoying the nice morning and the warmth on his skin as the steam coming from the coffee mug slowly curled upwards into the morning sky.