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I attended a writing panel at New York City Comic Con yesterday. One of the things that was preached over and over again was the importance of always putting something up everyday, even if it's only a page or two. I'm not sure I'm up for doing that everyday for the rest of my life, but I think I can do it for a full week, at least. And why not do it with the story closest to a comic book that I have? Hope everyone enjoys, and as always, all constructive criticism is welcome.

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My girlfriend is a super villain.

It was a thought that had kept me up most of the night, and the first thing that went through my head when I stirred awake the following morning. I'd always known her as Katie Felid, a smart, beautiful redheaded human who had for some reason taken interest in me, Xavier Spitz. I was a pretty boring husky furry who worked a comic and game shop in Sapphire City, and I felt blessed to have her as my girlfriend.

What I didn't know was her villainous alter ego, known simply as the Mewstress. She was a panther furry, famous for some pretty high stakes thefts and for her loyal minions, all female cat morphs of various sorts. There were also rumors floating around that she would sometimes capture or torture security or bystanders, making her highly feared by the general public. And considering the large number of superheroes and villains who called Sapphire City their home, it meant something that the Mewstress remained infamous for quite a long time.

Her notoriety had dropped a lot in the past year or so, however, being replaced by more current and dangerous villains. I was much more concerned about being a good boyfriend to Katie, and I seemed to be doing a good job of that. She must have been really hurt yesterday when I told her I had to work and acted like I had no idea why that day might have been important, but it was a deliberate misconception on my part. I'd been saving up to buy a necklace I knew she'd wanted, and planned to present it to her at a surprise dinner later that night.

Here's a link to a longer, more fleshed out version of what happened(https://www.sofurry.com/view/538816), but for those who just want a brief summary or are part of the tl;dr crowd; I made it to the jewelry store, and was just finalizing the purchase when the Mewstress' minions came in to rob the place. When one of them grabbed the necklace I had been saving months for, I made the stupid mistake of trying to grab it back, and got knocked out cold for my troubles. When I came to, I was in an old fashioned torture room, with the Mewstress threatening to turn me into her personal scratching post. When she sent her minions out of the room, however, she instead freed me and, in her concern for my well being, revealed her true identity to me.

From there, Katie filled in a lot of details that had been kinda murky about our relationship and explained some of the misconceptions about her. Her fearsome reputation was mostly to keep authorities and lesser heroes off her tail, and only threatened torture to victims just to make them talk or keep their mouth shut as needed. Her decline in criminal activities had come from dating me, and wanting to move toward something a little closer to a, "normal", lifestyle. In fact, she said the only reason she had her girls rob the jewelry store I was in was to treat herself after my supposed forgetfulness of our anniversary("Some girls eat a pint of rocky road when they get heartbroken. I steal" was her explanation).

After laying out a good hunk of her secrets, she seemed to think our relationship was done. I still loved her, though, and while I wasn't exactly thrilled to find out about her super villain alter ego, I wanted to make things work. We went to our anniversary dinner afterward, though it was certainly a little awkward. We'd went our separate ways after dinner, leaving me home alone to stew over the whole thing some more before exhaustion finally set in.

Glancing at the clock near my bed, I shook my head and tried to push those thoughts back for now. I still had to go to work, and I couldn't think of a decent lie to get out of it. I needed something more normal and non-super villain related right at the moment anyway, if only to give my mind something else to focus on. So after rubbing the sleep from my blue eyes and finally dragging my silver and white furry butt out of bed, I made my way toward the shower.

About fifteen minutes later I was showered, dressed in my nice polo shirt and jeans, and had just finished brushing my brown hair. All that was left to get some breakfast, then catch the bus to my job. I'd still kinda be dealing with super villains at the Secret Lair Comic and Game shop, but at least most of them were fictional. That'd be a nice, normal day, especially compared to the craziness of yester...

DING DONG!

"Hmm?" That was my apartment doorbell; who could that be this early in the morning? Maybe Katie, if she wanted to talk things over some more, but as I made my way toward the door and peered through the peephole, I saw it was a young woman I didn't recognize. She was a semi-cat morph, with white cat ears and a tail on an otherwise human body. If I had to guess her age, she was probably in her mid twenties like myself.

"Um, hello?" She seemed harmless enough as I opened the door, seeing she was wearing a simple red t-shirt and jeans. "Can I help you?"

"Xavier? Xavier Spitz?" I nodded in confirmation, getting a big smile from her. "Great! This is where I need to be, then!"

"Um, it is?" Before I could react she slipped past me into the apartment. She moved quickly from place to face, seemingly in awe of everything in my apartment. "Hey! What's going on?!"

"Oh! I'm sorry!" The woman seemed slightly embarrassed as she turned toward me. "I just got so excited to see my new place to live. You have such wonderful things!"

"My name's Clara." She bowed slightly as she gave me her name, which did nothing to help my confusion. "Mewstress sent me over. I'm your personal minion, Master!"

...Man, I haven't even my coffee yet...