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[BlueSano]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!... I LOVED THE LAST PART!!!!! MORE I DEMAND MORE!!!! >:) ... great work waste .... can't wait for more :D... i especially got surprised when you started talking about "luke" and then connected the two so well :D.... really fantastic ^^ keep it up :D

[sai1or1ove]

Awesome. you really bring it to life, way to go waste.

[kitty-kat]

*drools*............*passes out from bliss*

[Waste]

Alex nodded, the movement felt sloppy. He frowned and put his hand to his head. “Luke Willard.” He’d heard that name before, he watched Luke glance over his shoulder, no he hadn’t heard the name Luke before, just the Willard part.

“I think your friend is looking for you.” he said, Alex looked around, way too fast, he suddenly felt light headed and nearly fell off of the chair, Luke put a hand on his shoulder to steady him. “How much have you had?” he asked.

Alex took a moment to comprehend then couldn’t hide his gasp “That was alcoholic.”

“What else would it be?” Luke laughed and got off of his stool. Alex got down too and felt himself swaying as the room seemed to flip upside down. Nekos were notorious for being light weights, in the most extreme sense, for some reason their bodies just couldn’t handle drink at all.

He felt Luke hold his shoulder to steady him, “You‘re…” his soft voice was drowned out by the sudden burst of drum and bass, the music struck Alex and he felt himself shudder all over, he caught Jade’s eye as a surge of energy ripped through him, he looked round at Luke and grabbed his hand

“Come on!” He pulled Luke across the dance floor towards Jade and then grabbed Jade’s hand and began jumping up and down, Jade was nodding in time with the music and Luke, who was a little tipsy, threw his arms up and began waving them around, every now and then Alex would catch his eye and they’d smile at each other as if they’d known each other all their lives. It felt to Alex as if they had, as each time he looked at Luke something inside him tightened.

The next song was a little slower but still upbeat, the three of them carried on dancing, sweat beading on their faces, a girl joined them and Luke wrapped one arm around her waist. “Guys this is Tammy.” Luke introduced her, Alex scanned his eyes over her and she grinned, long blonde hair, petite body, she was quite pretty. Her eyes flicked from Alex to Jade and she winked.

It continued like that for the next hour, the four of them dancing and laughing. Alex was completely unaware of the time passage, but before he knew it Luke had one arm around his shoulders and he had his arm around Luke’s waist, Jade and Tammy were in much the same position, swaying from side to side. Jade wasn’t intoxicated, just high on energy, Alex however sill felt as if he’d fall over at any moment.

“What’s wrong with your head?“ Luke asked suddenly, Jade and Tammy were sitting by the bar and it had just been him and Alex for some time now. Alex reached up to touch his head as he gave Luke a questioning look, he found that his hood had lifted up a little where his care free mood had let his ears twitch up. It took him the space of time that Luke took to rip his hood off for him to realise why not having a hood was bad. He heard Luke gasp, Alex quickly pulled his hood back on and looked up at the suddenly very human and dangerous boy.

“Luke, L…I..I” He stammered then felt Jade’s hand on his back.

“Time to go.” He shouted above the music, giving Alex a push, Alex stumbled forward, his legs giving way as he fell into Luke, he felt the boys arms go around him and knew that this was it, Luke would hold him until the authorities turned up. But instead Luke pushed him away and looked down at him.

“Alex?”

Luke swept his eyes over the nekos face and felt his gut wrench, it wasn’t like he’d never seen a neko before, it was just that they weren’t allowed in these night clubs, plus he wasn’t exactly allowed them as friends seeing as his father was a Lord working to ban nekos from human towns all together.

He wanted to ask why, although he wasn’t sure what he was asking about, why are you here could be the best start but he didn’t get the chance as the boy was swept from his arms by his friend. “Alex!” Luke shouted after him but the two had already reached the stairs, Luke didn’t bother to look for his friends he just began to push his way through the crowd, he saw Alex fall up the stairs and sped his pace, reaching the bottom just as the two nekos reached the top.

Luke ran up the stairs “Alex! Wait!” his friend reached the door, his hand gripping Alex’s upper arm, Alex turned and looked down at Luke catching his eye he looked as if he was going to say something but his friend pulled him out into the street. Luke burst out just two minutes after them, to find them both gone, he looked around the street but found only a few groups of teens walking around.

Luke walked in the direction of the nearest neko settlement, he wasn’t exactly sure why finding Alex seemed so important but… he paused, a noticed board had caught his eye, specifically a picture on it. “Alex?” Luke said quietly as he walked a little closer, that was definitely the neko he had spent the night with. Although maybe a little different, this Alex Rose had wide pink eyes and a genuinely happy smile on his face, his hair was neater and he looked about 16. Luke scanned the pin up for an offence but didn’t find one. He frowned and ripped the poster off of the notice board. The reward was 3000 pounds, his dad would know what the neko was wanted for. Just so he didn’t seem too suspicious he took down a picture of a sweet blonde who was only wanted for 500.

Luke made his way home, the recent events had sobered him up and he was ready to face his father, he checked his watch, hell he’d even make it home in time to have dinner with him, a late dinner but that was still something.

When he got home Wendy was waiting for him, he nodded to her and she gave him the once over, he noticed her eyes hesitate on the paper in his hand. “Your fathers in his study, you’re lucky he didn’t seem too annoyed that you weren’t there tonight. He was preoccupied with other things.” Luke didn’t like the way she said ‘other things’ but ignored it for the moment and headed up the stairs to the first floor. He then went down the hall until he reached his fathers study, he knocked on the door and waited. His father loved to keep people waiting so he knew he was going to be standing there for a few minutes. He knocked again, impatiently this time, a few seconds later he rose his fist to bang on the door when his father finally asked him in.

“Lucien,” Lord Willard’s eyes flicked to his son as he pulled his gold framed glasses off, he set them on his desk and rested his chin on his laced fingers, he was waiting for an explanation.

“Father, I lost track of time.”

He nodded as if he understood “I haven’t heard that one before.” He said, his voice laced with sarcasm. He sighed “So why are you here? You didn’t only come to apologise,” true, he never apologised.

Luke nodded and came forward “I was walking home and I saw the notice board, you know the one with the nekos on it?”

At the mention of nekos Lord Willard suddenly looked interested, “Yes?” he urged his son on.

Luke put the two wanted posters on his desk “I just wanted to know what sort of crime puts a price like that on your head.” he pointed to Alex’s poster and felt his stomach clench as his father surveyed him, he was waiting for the questions, but instead of asking Lord Willard settled back into his chair, picking up Alex’s poster he put his glasses and examined it.

“Alex Rose.” He said quietly, “He was condemned the night of The Accident.” He always called it an accident, not like his wife and son died or anything, just an accident, like it could be fixed, it made Luke want to yell at him, but he held himself back.

“What did he do?”

“He broke into a house with his friends and older brother, Mr and Mrs Green came home and it ended… badly.” His voice saddened, he met Luke’s questioning gaze and continued “Mrs Green is the only surviving witness, she watched the boy shoot his brother, and her husband.”

“He… he shot his brother?”

“Shot and killed.”

[kitty-kat]

*sniffles* will he ever learn the whole story

[Waste]

Luke swallowed, not sure if he wanted to know anymore “Not intentionally?”

“Mrs Green heard two shots and saw the two bodies fall, she said that the young neko tried to resuscitate his brother, then left when the sirens came too close.”

Luke nodded, then pointed to the blondes poster “And…and what did she do?” He tried to look as if he was interested when his father explained about the robbery the blonde was caught in the middle of, but all he could think about was Alex. No wonder he’d looked such a mess, he knew he shouldn’t but he felt sorry for the guy. Then something else crossed his mind, why did it matter? Better yet, why hadn’t he reported seeing Alex in the club?

“Actually we caught her just today.”

His fathers voice snapped him back, “Here?” he asked.

Lord Willard nodded, “Brung her in about an hour ago, funny you should pick her poster to show me.” It was only then that he started looking a little suspicious.

Luke shrugged “I picked the lowest amount on the board.”

“Yet the second highest?” True Alex’s friend had been higher, Jade Cole.

“I didn’t see a higher price.”

He nodded “I see.” then gave a small wave “If that’s all you can go.”

Luke hated that, the way he could just be waved away. As he went out of the room he felt his phone vibrate, he pulled it out of his pocket, Tammy. “Hey.” he said making his way up to his room. He felt completely drained and Tammy picked up on it almost straight away.

“Where did you… Are you alright?”

“Did you leave the night club?” he asked. Going into his room he laid back on his bed and took a deep breath.

“I’m coming to yours.” she sounded a bit embarrassed but the alcohol had given her enough confidence to… well invite herself round. And there he was thinking she had gotten boring.

“Nice, can I ask why?”

“I didn’t get to see enough of you tonight.”

He laughed “You were way too preoccupied with Jade to care.”

“Jade?”

“That ne… the dark haired guy with the top hat.”

“Oh him! Yeah” she giggled. “He’s nothing, I’ll see you in a bit Luke.”

Luke disconnected and relaxed against his bed, he took a few deep breaths, he was glad Tammy was coming around, he needed some sort of distraction.


Pain shot through his head and he rolled over with a small groan, then something in his stomach squelched and he jumped up, scaled the rocks outside the cave and almost fell over when he hit the ground, the sun was pounding against his back as he doubled over and threw up the little food that was in his stomach, and the little amount of alcohol he had consumed.

Alex staggered when he landed back in the cave, he felt eyes on him and raised his head to look around. None of them were laughing like he had expected, Tux was sitting at the far end his head bowed, now and then he’d glance up but most of the time he kept his eyes on the floor.

Even Jade peeked up almost mournfully, “What’s wrong?” Alex asked, his own voice hurt his head and he winced, no one answered at first then Sam stood, moving her gaze over everyone she came to rest on Alex, apparently she’d already told Jade.

“Honey didn’t come home this morning.”

Alex winced as her sharp tone cut his head, and then his gut. “Why did she go out?”

Tux got to his feet and came forward “She went out to look for you and Jade last night, seeing as you took off without letting any of us know where you were going, and she hasn’t come back.” His voice was laced with accusation as his eyes flicked from Jade to Alex.

“I…”

“How could you do it Alex?” Ollie asked, “I’d expect it from Jade but you just put us in so much danger by going out there like that, and getting drunk! Seriously Alex how old are you?”

“I didn’t mean to get drunk.”

“But you meant to go to a club!” Ollie glared at him from his space on the floor.

“And you hung out with Lucien Willard” Tyler added.

Sam’s ears perked up, “Lucien Willard? Willard!” she slumped to the floor, “Alex do you have any idea who that is?”

Alex shook his head, his ears dropping, his eyes on the floor now.

“That’s the son of Lord James Willard, the human that’s fighting to make every neko in the country an exile,” Sam explained, her voice swept over the cave, covering it like a blanket, Alex felt like he was suffocating and shook his head. “Neither you or Jade can go back to town again, what’s the betting that Lucien Willard has already reported you?”

Alex had to lean against the rock pile, this was too much, “Luke wouldn’t.”

“Luke would” Tyler laughed dryly. “Bet your ears on it.”

Alex shook his head again and turned to climb the rock pile, he felt someone grab the hood of his jacket. He slipped himself out of the jacket and made it to the top before Jade grabbed him around the waist and pulled him down, “Where do you think you are going?”

“I have to find Honey.”

“It’s peak time Alex, you’ll die if you go out now.”

“Good, let him go.” Tux spat, “Take Jade with you.”

Jade looked around, his ears perked “What was that?” he growled. He went to walk across the cave but Sam put her hand on his chest to stop him. Alex looked up at Tux who stood with his hands by his sides, fists clenched.

“What if they caught her?” he asked “What do you think they’d do to her? They know we travel in packs! They’ll want to know where her family are.” He choked up on the last words, even Alex wasn’t sure he liked the way it sounded, Family, he looked around at the others, he’d known them all for at least three years, could this really be called a family? Could their cave really be called home?

“We need to find her.” Jade said as Sam dropped her arm, “I’ll go out with Alex when it gets dark.”

“That isn’t good enough.” A low growl was humming in the back of Tux’s throat.

“What else can we do?” Jade asked, “Fight about it? We shouldn’t fight amongst ourselves.” he shook his dark head and leant against one of the walls, his back curving with it, he was the tallest of them, at about 5 and a half foot, the ceiling of the cave stood another foot above his head at its highest point.

“It would make me feel better.” Tux snapped.

“If you could even land a punch.”

“Like you can boast, it isn’t like you have the claws for it.” Tux touched on the one insecurity that Jade had, his inability to grow claws.

Now the cave hummed with the growls from both nekos “It’s a shame you can’t go out and help look for your girlfriend.” Jade shot back, bringing up the fact that Tux had been seen in Gallerie, so he couldn’t go back there. “Don’t worry, we’ll tell her how worried you are.”

Tyler got up then “That’s enough.” he snapped, “Jade was right before, we shouldn’t fight amongst ourselves, it will just break us down and then we wont be able to work as the unit we should be” He let his eyes linger on each of them as he said it, “We’ve already decided that we will let Alex and Jade go out at sun down, although maybe we shouldn’t let them go alone.”

“Are you saying we need a baby sitter?” Jade shot.

Before Tyler could answer Ollie cut in “I’ll go with them,” he looked to Tux, “We’ll find Honey.” it was a promise, although Alex noticed that he didn’t add that they would bring her back. He hoped she had just gotten herself lost, or spent too long in town and forgotten to come home before peak time, although he highly doubted it, everyone silently knew that she probably wouldn’t be brought back. They wouldn’t kill her, but it would be just as bad. It wasn’t like humans really looked after their neko prisoner.


Like darkened shadows the three nekos made their way into town, Alex had traded in his white jeans for black tracksuit bottoms. He still wore the striped roll neck and black hooded jacket but he had cut the ears off of the hood.

Jade had put on a black jumper under his blazer and now wore a cap on his head to cover his ears and Ollie had swept back his mane of white hair and covered it with a beanie hat. It wasn’t the dark clothes that made them look suspicious, it was the fact hat they all wore head coverings. Like the night before Alex and Jade were moving swift and cautiously, they all moved together around the neko settlement until they came to one house in particular, a known sanctuary to all nekos who wouldn’t report it.

Tom Cat opened the door of his run down, but bigger than average, house when Ollie knocked, he was a shabby man wearing tattered clothes with a mess of brown hair that hid his ears, his wide almost completely black eyes surveyed the three, he waited.

Jade stepped forward and pulled his hat off, he pressed his fist to his heart “When it’s our turn…” he held his hand out to the man, who smiled, flashing a set of sharpened teeth.

Tom Cat pressed his fist to his heart “… I will fight with you brother.” he extended his hand and they grasped each others wrists in a friendly manner, the old neko’s eyes flicked to Ollie and Alex. “Will these brothers also fight?”

Alex and Ollie removed their head coverings, Alex saw recognition spark the elders eyes “Until the last of them.” Alex said first, Ollie followed suit and Tom Cat nodded. He let go of Jade and backed into the gloom that seemed to cling to the doorway. Jade glanced over his shoulder and followed with Alex and Ollie just behind him.

The three had thought it best to visit Tom Cat first on arriving in Gallerie, if Honey had been arrested he would know. They walked down the familiar musty hall and into a small living room, two nekos were already seated there, Tom cat settled into a black leather arm chair, leaving Jade, Alex and Ollie to stand awkwardly by the door.

The living room was much like the rest of the house, as far as Alex knew, the colours were faded and the surfaces dusty, it was scented with cigarette smoke and a kind of sweet incense that together made it an almost sickly place to be. Alex recognised the other nekos that were present and nodded to them in turn.

One was known around the settlement as Audrey Parks, she was a kind of mother, looking after everyone and was often laden with kids who wanted just some of the woman’s attention, like all nekos she was small and thin, at about 38 her hair was grey and wispy, she smiled warmly at Alex and he forced a smile back, he was someone she had always called a lost cause, the type she had tried to look after once but refused to have the help and was spiralling out of control because of it.

Alex didn’t know the other neko too well, he knew she was young and had only recently fallen into a circle of crime, he’d heard Tyler and Ollie talking of her as someone they expected to soon have a picture on the notice board, which meant she’d have to move away or stay in the cave with their pack.

“So what can I do for you boys?” Tom Cat asked, his tone of voice gentle and welcoming, although it was rumoured that he could have quite the temper on him, something Alex had never witnessed.

“Honey Turner,” Jade said simply, knowing that a name was enough information for the man.

Alex saw Audrey shake her head and knew the answer Tom Cat would give “Ah, Yes we were jus’ talking ‘bout her.” his eyes flicked around the room, “She was picked up jus’ this morning whils’ walking through our settlement, ol’ Audrey ‘ere says she saw it”

Audrey shook he head again as the eyes of the room moved to her “I’m sorry boys, I know she was one of yours, I’d gladly beat some sense into any neko who reported her,”

“Do we know what they will do to her?” Ollie asked.

“As far as I know they ben questionin her all day, prolly ‘bout oo she’s with, where they are,” Tom Cat tried to make the statement as gentle as possible, but they all knew the implications it carried.

“I hope your girl has hard skin.” The young neko said quietly, she received a whack to the back of her heard from Audrey for that one. She gave the woman and sharp look before turning her head back to the three boys. “I’m just saying what everyone here knows.”

“Well if we all know then there’s no real need to say it is there?” Audrey shot.

“There’s nothing we can do.” Ollie said quietly.

“She won’t talk.” Jade assured him.

“We need to get her out.” Alex spoke for the first time since entering Tom Cat’s home. He felt everyone look at him and raised his chin “There is something we can do, we can try and get her out.”

“No one has broken out of Gallerie Prison ‘fore lad.” Tom Cat shook his head.

“Has any one tried?”

Tom Cat shrugged “I spect no one has been dumb ‘nough too.”

“Then there is no hard proof that it can’t be done.” Alex sent a pleading look in Ollie and Jade’s direction. “You know we can, with Tyler and Sam as well.”

Ollie looked away but Jade’s eyes hardened “I will fight with you brother.” he said quietly, remembering the way he had greeted Tom Cat before, it wasn’t just a secret greeting used to show Tom that the people about to enter his house could be trusted, it meant exactly what the words implied.

“Madness.” Audrey snapped, “How do you plan on even getting a layout of the prison?”

Alex bit his lip, but to his surprise Ollie answered that one “Tom, has Alex been reported recently?”

Tom Cat shook his head “Not as far as I know, and believe me my knowledge goes very far.”

Ollie’s lips tugged into a smile “What do you know about Lucien Willard?”

[kitty-kat]

oh noes....will it work O.o

[tenten24]

come on... stop ending these things at the good and suspension parts.. come on... no fair.... and u really need to take my advice and publish these.. do u kno how far u could go in life with this...i think u should keep writing these and then publish them.. these are amazing... so plz make more.. i really want to kno wht happens...

[Waste]

“I can’t believe I’m doing this.” Alex shook his head, staring up at the tall metal fence that ran along the back of the grounds owned by Lord James Willard. He looked to Ollie and asked for the third time “What makes you so sure that he isn’t just going to shoot me?”

“If he didn’t like you he would have reported you by now,” Ollie shrugged.

“And that’s what this whole plan is based on?”

“Alex, we have discussed this, it’s the only way we can even come close to finding out about the prison.”

“But it isn’t like he’s just going to be all ‘ah yes here are the plans, here is the key to the front door, and hell why not even take some knock out gas with you for the guards!’” Alex frowned, his jaw set as he waited for a reply.

“That is why we make him trust you, look we know the boy practically hates his father, he has even been known to show a liking to nekos and when has Tom Cat ever been wrong?” Ollie asked.

“Just because he hasn’t doesn’t mean he cant be!”

“Alex just go.” Jade snapped, crouching he made a cup out of his interlocked hands, “Remember if you die at least Tux will be happy.”

Alex bit his lower lip, if I die, he thought to himself, like it would be much of a loss, he put his boot into Jades hands and gripped the metal fence. Jade gave him the boost he needed to get over the fence, he dropped down the other side and held his crouched position. As far as he knew there weren’t any alarm systems in operation because there were people home and awake. So getting to the house was easy, after all only four people lived there and one of those people were disabled.

The house was only two storeys tall, and the only light that was on at the back of the house was the one that came from the window in the roof, Luke’s bedroom. He really didn’t know how Tom Cat knew but the guy had a whole filing cabinet devoted to the residents of Lords Street. He supposed it was good to be in on things when living the life of a criminal.



Luke was sitting at his desk doodling in his sketch book. He hated being confined to the house but his father really was adamant that he be present for dinner. Luke rolled his eyes and added a nose to the guy he’d roughly sketched out, he thought for a moment then added in cat ears. Sighing he rubbed them out and leant back in his chair, looking up he could see through the window that had been fixed into his ceiling.

Luke yelped and fell backwards off of his chair, staring down at him was a boy with red wine eyes, a scruff of messy black hair, and cat ears. “Alex?” Luke hissed as he got to his feet. He looked up at the window and reached up to unlatch it.

Alex pulled it up like the hatch of a trap door and dropped into the room, Luke caught the window before it could crash against the frame and gently lowered it down, leaving the latch. He looked down at Alex as the neko looked up at him.

“What are you doing here?” he snapped, keeping his voice low.

Alex really hadn’t thought this far ahead, Ollie and Jade wanted him to get Luke on their side, how he was supposed to do that he did not know, “I… I was wondering why you didn’t report me.”

“What makes you think I won’t now?”

Alex swallowed but kept his head up “Because you aren’t that type of person.”

Luke frowned “You met me last night, I felt sorry for you so I didn’t report you, end.” He caught the nekos eyes and knew that Alex knew it was a lie; he brushed a hand over his recently flattened hair “Look I don’t know alright? It just didn’t seem like the right thing to do.”

Alex smiled, it surprised him how easily he managed to do it, and picked the chair , that Luke had fallen off of, up. “You should have seen your face when you saw me just then.”

Luke frowned “I could always chose to report you if you become too annoying.” Alex’s ears twitched up and Luke found himself thinking that it was slightly cute.

“You would give me time to become annoying?”

Luke was about to reply when his phone vibrated on his desk, he laughed when Alex jumped about half a foot into the air and gave a small squeak, the sort of sound only a neko could make. It instantly made Luke’s stomach clench as he remembered that Alex really shouldn’t be there. He picked his phone up and flicked it open to see the text from Tammy, he sighed and flicked it shut again then slipped it into his pocket.

“So why are you really here?” Luke asked.

Alex opened his mouth to answer then paused and bit his lip, he dropped his gaze “I need your help.” he admitted, his ears flattening against his hair.

“With what?” Admittedly that surprised him, the neko was asking for help, did he seriously believe Luke could help him? What could he possibly help him with? Alex looked away at the question and took a deep breath.

“My friend has been arrested…”

He trailed off when Luke cut across “That blonde girl? Honey isn’t it?”

Alex looked up at him then “Yeah, how…?”

“I saw you’re picture on the notice board and she was there too.” Luke shrugged, he didn’t want Alex thinking he had purposefully pried into his past, but he’d want to know how he knew about Honey.

Alex surprised Luke by nodding and carrying on with what he was saying before “We have to get her out.”

Luke’s bright green eyes widened “You want to break her out?” He shook his head “Why are you telling me that?”

“Because we can’t do it any other way.”

“Why me?” Luke bit his lip, he wanted to help, he really did. His mind had been on the neko boy all day. “I can’t help you, my father owns that prison and…” he paused, sudden realization, “That’s why you need Me.” so he wasn’t there to see Luke, he was there to see Lucien Willard.

“Luke, I need my friend back.”

The doorbell went and Luke knew that their guest had arrived for dinner he looked away from Alex “You better leave.” he said quietly, “Don’t worry I wont tell anyone that you were here.” He stood looking at the door, until Alex spoke from above him, he couldn’t stop himself from looking up at the tattered neko boy who now sat outside, legs dangling into the room.

“Luke, if you don’t want me to come back lock your window.” Alex said before swinging his legs outside and letting the window go, Luke leapt forward again and caught the window grumbling to himself as he lowered it down gently, he reached for the latch, then thought better of it and stepped back, still staring up at the window.

[Valor]

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