No Pets Allowed
Prompt: Your landlord mistakes your boyfriend as a pet.
Gender: gn!Reader
Prologue:
He came to visit you in your homeworld – a world of humans with no ears or tail. You were excited to show him your home, but then the landlord showed up for a surprise visit. You quickly told him to hide behind the sofa.
The landlord scanned your apartment while talking to you. Everything looked in place except a pair of ears behind the sofa.
“What is that?” they asked, pointing towards the ears and frowned. “Did I not make it clear that no pets were allowed here?”
Without panicking, you quickly replied, “Oh, that’s not a pet. It’s a stuffed toy for my friend.”
Hearing the words ‘toy’ and ‘pet,’ his ears perked up.
- A deep frown forms on his lips. How dare you two call him – the great Leona – a pet and a toy?
- He is tempted to jump out and teach both of you herbivores a lesson, but his laziness gets the better of him.
- You try to get the landlord to leave, but to your dismay, they are in a talkative mood.
- An hour later, you see the owner out and speed walk to your boyfriend. “I am so sor-”
- Leona is fast asleep with a cute, irritated expression on his face.
- As you walk away to get a blanket, you hear the lion prince murmur something along the lines of, “Herbi, how dare you call me a toy?”
- Pet? Toy? Ruggie finds the word choices to be odd but brushes it off rather quickly.
- He starts to wonder what exactly it means to be a pet in your world.
- After your landlord leaves, Ruggie asks you, “What does it mean to be a pet in your world?”
- You explain to him that pets are companions, and in return for their love, you need to care for them.
- “Does care include food?”
- After you nod, Ruggie asks, “All the food they can eat and want?”
- You give him a puzzled look but nod again, “Yes, all the food they can eat. Why do you ask?”
- Ruggie shakes his head and smiles, “Just curious. The pets here are lucky.”
- He quickly looks away, but not before you notice the sadness in his eyes.
- Jack gets annoyed at hearing those words and jumps out from behind the sofa.
- “The hell ya two just call me?”
- The owner is shocked and jumps back a good foot. “That’s no toy!”
- “Oh…um, he’s my boyfriend,” you explain. “You see…I don’t want anyone to know that I have a boyfriend. I am so sorry for lying.”
- The landlord doesn’t react to your explanation or apology and continues to stare at Jack. “He…has ears and…a tail…”
- “Oh, h-he is a cosplayer…right, a cosplayer!”
- Jack sees you stumbling to explain and feels guilty for causing you trouble.
- After the landlord leaves, Jack looks at you with lowered ears and mumbles, “I am s-sorry for causing you trouble…”
- His ears perk up again. “But I am no toy OR pet!”