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“Good news the tea that was thrown at him is temporary, Cole should return to normal in a few days,” Cyrus announced as he and PIXAL came back in with the results of the tests he just ran on the earth ninja.
“Days?! Can’t you fix it now?” Jay exclaimed as Cole ran over to him and wrapped his arms around his small waist and pressed his face into the crook of his neck, a loud purr emitting from his chest. Causing the shorter ninja to blush.
There was a robbery in the downtown sector of the city and of course, the ninja was sent to deal with it, but during their fight, one of the robbers pulled out a bottle and threw it at the ninja pursuing them, which so happened to be Cole. He was coated in a grey mist and coughed like he was choking when he breathed the stuff in, Jay stayed behind to help what he could while the rest ran ahead. When the mist cleared, Cole was wheezing while on the ground, Jay went to rubbing and patting his back in what little he knew how to help when he saw something nestled in Cole’s wild black mop of hair, and they were moving. “Cole?”
His breathing had returned to normal but when he went to look up at him Jay’s breath caught in his throat when he saw Cole’s grey eyes now had slits for pupils and the two things in Cole’s hair were cat ears, and in the corner of his eye he could see a matching tail slightly moving. “Jay?”
“Don’t worry Cole, we’ll get this figured out-,” he went to pull out his communicator when he felt strong arms grab him and drag him to the ground with a yelp. Cole’s arms wrapped around his stomach as he nuzzled his face into the back of Jay’s neck, “C-Cole!”
He then heard the loud rumbling coming from his best friend, was he purring? He tried to squirm out of his hold but he couldn’t. Damn him and his superstrength! Luckily he didn’t drop his communicator and called for his team. Zane picked up, “Jay? Is Cole alright?”
“Um, how do I put this…”
The team had caught the robbers and they were hauled off to jail, and when they went back to where Jay and Cole were, to say they were surprised and amused would be an understatement with Jay being held like a teddybear, and Cole refusing to let go. Until it came to trying to get Cole to move to get him checked up.
The raven had to be pried off of his teammate and to say he wasn’t happy was nothing, with how he was hissing like a cat while trying to get back to Jay’s side even trying to swat at the others. He at least calmed down when Jay approached and told him he’ll be right there when he comes back, but still confused as to why it was him in particular that he seemed to want. The raven left but kept looking over his shoulder and hesitating to let Jay out of sight.
After the news, they left Borg towers and went back to the monastery, Cole carried Jay to his room, much to the lightning ninja’s embarrassment, and much to the teasing from the others. So here they are now. With Jay now being held in Cole’s lap on the earth master’s bed. The blue ninja huffed, board but thought as Cole hadn't said a word since he said the blue ninja’s name, he glanced over his shoulder and saw Cole’s closed eyes, he looked so content, with soft purrs rumbling from his chest. His bright blue eyes then flickered up to the twitching ears on top of Cole’s head, could he feel them?
Reaching up he gently brushed the tip of his finger against it, it was so soft, and it twitched again, giggling lightly this time he scratched at the ear, making it twitch more and the purring become louder. He could feel Cole’s smile on the back of his neck, and he could see the happy wagging of his tail. The freckled ninja got an idea, would Cole, as he is now, play with cat toys, or be affected by catnip? He chuckled at the thought, of Cole hopping after a wind-up mouse toy or getting high off the herb, he’ll ask Kai when he sees him if he could get some since as of now he couldn’t move.
He stopped with the petting and glanced at the time on the clock, reading 5:58, Zane should be making dinner. He let out a yawn as his eyes started to feel heavy, despite not really doing anything since Cole was hit with the tea. He should ask someone to bring him his handhelds or phone when someone came to check up on them or brought food. He settled back into Cole’s hold, the now half-cat nuzzling him again and readjusting his grip. He closed his eyes, the sound of purring lulling him to sleep, just hearing Cole whispering, “My mate,” before it all went black.
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