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Pawsitive Thinking by turifer for frogy
Fandoms: You Could Make a Life Series - Taylor Fitzpatrick
31 Dec 2021
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The annual Canucks Paws and Pucks photo shoot is coming up. Jared is not looking forward to it.
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“You know,” Jared says, “the cat would probably come out if all of you idiots stopped crowding it.”
Dima says, “Why don’t you do it, then, if you know so much about cats?”
Jared is unimpressed. If Dima wants to goad him into doing something, he’s going to have to try harder, and Jared says as much. Honestly, he feels a bit of fellow-feeling toward the cat. Neither of them particularly want to be there right now, and neither of them particularly want to give Dima the time of day.
Dima, of course, has never dropped a subject a day in his life. “C’mon, Mathematics, you so smart, you try!” he taunts. “Or maybe you don’t think you can manage?”
And then, of course, the rest of his idiot teammates decide to join in.
“If I try to get this cat out, will you all shut up?” Jared glares at everyone.
Dima says cheerfully, “Not at all!”
Jared huffs and turns away, and Dima adds quickly, “Okay, okay, we will shut up about this if you try.”
Jared sighs, then says, “Okay, but you idiots need to move away and give me some space.”
He crouches down by the cabinet and takes a look. There’s a very large tuxedo cat crouched underneath. Jared shoos his teammates away and holds his hand out. The cat comes to investigate, and before he realizes what’s going on, there’s a very large tuxedo cat purring and trying to climb on him.
“Wait, that actually worked?” says Dima, coming closer.
The cat glares at him and extends one very pointed claw, and Dima retreats.
“Oh my god, you’ve found your soulmate,” Gabe snickers. “That cat is as grumpy as you are, Math. It’s your mini-me!”
Well hell. Now they’re all going to give him crap about it. Why did Jared ever like Gabe?
“You don’t like me, you just dislike me less,” Gabe says heartlessly.
Jared is pinned under 20 pounds of purring cat that won’t give anyone else the time of day. He tries to get up. The cat meows piteously until he sits again, and then promptly jumps on his lap. Jared is no slouch, but that’s a lot of cat to jump on your lap. And of course, Dima has gone to get Bryce.
“He is like mini-Mathematics, so grumpy to everyone, you have to see!” Dima enthuses while he drags Bryce over.
Great. Now Jared will never hear the end about this at home, either. And they haven’t even started the photo shoot.
Bryce comes over and sits down, a cautious distance away, and scootches over carefully to try to pet the cat. It … does not go well. Everyone else is cackling, but Bryce just looks … starry-eyed? What?
“He reminds me of you when we met,” Bryce says.
Jared blinks. Gabe cackles. Dima howls with laughter. Jared is never living this down. Ever.
He is going to get up and leave. He is going to walk out the door and never talk to any of these assholes again.
Really. As soon as his cat gets up.
No! Not his cat, it’s just a cat, not his, not…
Well hell. Jared guesses he’s adopting a cat.