Fluffy Bunny Thoughts

[daniel_stacy]

He had stopped drinking human blood for a girl who was MIA.

Of course Daniel figured that was his fault, too. Get too loose with your relationship rules and suddenly there weren’t any at all. If their involvement could be construed as a relationship… He was fuzzy on that. Nevertheless, Daniel had given it up for Holly, and now there was no Holly, but he was still trying to hold out because there might (?) be a Holly at some point in the future and at this point, he was proud of his restraint. Not killing people might be the only prowess Daniel could muster.

But things got touchy when the butcher ran out of blood.

So here Daniel was in a pet shop, holding a brown bunny by its midsection, pretending to be in earnest search of a furry companion. The bunny’s eyes darted back and forth. Its nose twitched. Daniel inspected its undercarriage because he didn’t know its gender. Why that mattered when the idea was to eat it, he didn’t know.

“Have you ever cared for a bunny before?” asked a saleswoman in enormous glasses.

“No,” he said. “I had a dog once.”

“They’re nothing… like dogs,” she condescended.

“Really? Because my dog humped everything in sight, too.” Daniel smiled at her, trying to charm her. It did not work, so he said, “I’ll check out a library book,” just to get her off his scent. He carried the bunny to the shop window and looked outside. Daylight savings time meant that he had to shack up longer, so it was 9:30 already. The shop closed at 10:00. If he was going to drain this critter tonight, he needed to make up his mind.

A pretentious woman in a fur stole walked past the shop. Daniel covered the bunny’s eyes. "Look awaaaaay," he cried.

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Re: Fluffy Bunny Thoughts

[melodymagic]

She was amused at his answer to the assistant, who had handed Melody the invoice for the items with barely a glance at her. She was counting out the money onto the docket, and pushed it all back to the distracted girl.

"I'm Melody," she told him, "and I guess you know where I work," she added, "and it was nice meeting you too," she told him, picking up the packages and putting them in the messenger bag she had slung over her shoulder. She went to stick out her hand, figuring that he seemed like the type who wouldn't attack her outside the store, or on her way home, if they had shaken hands, though she had no idea what made her believe that. Perhaps the way he'd taken her fingers and pressed them to his throat, or the simple fact he'd actually told her what he was, she didn't know. but it just seemed like the thing to do. Until she realised his hands were full of his purchases, and Socrates' cage. So instead the hand thrust turned into a sort of wave and she giggled a little. "Can I give you a hand with something?" she offered instead, her hands conspicuously free.

Re: Fluffy Bunny Thoughts

[daniel_stacy]

"Ah..." He winced. With the door propped open, there wasn't much he could ask for. Daniel needed to hop public transit, drop off Socrates at his apartment and get a bite to eat. If Melody followed him outside, she might start looking delicious. "I think I got it."

As if on cue, his stomach growled, loud and long.

Daniel shook his head. He was left to duck out of the pet shop, looking much like a teenage boy backing away on a dance floor after too much contact.

Re: Fluffy Bunny Thoughts

[melodymagic]

Melody shrugged, and watched him depart, then turned and thanked the assistant. "I'll ring through the order again next Tuesday," she told her, and turned toward the door, reaching into her pockets and pulling out a timetable to check when the next bus was. After checking it she returned it to her pocket and headed out, humming to herself and wondering if Maddie was going to be working at the coffee shop the next day.