Reddit Challenge #33

Reddit user Muezza submits:

"a cat sets off a series of events that lead to its owner's violent death"


His owner called him 'Whiskers' but that wasn't his name. His name was Leon, not that it mattered because Leon was of course a cat and therefore lacked the capacity for speech.

When Leon awoke in the morning, he set about his day's work. First there was a dump to be taken, then a walk around his small territory was to be had. The walk around his domain was the most important event of his day, necessary to keep that prick Jack Combs in check. Leon knew that his owner had left a piece of cheddar on the counter the night before and Jack would surely be planning a heist. By walking past the mouse hole in the morning, he let Jack know that he would not be fooled.

His mousy rival had his head out of the hole when Leon approached the kitchen. Upon making eye contact with Leon, Jack ducked back in his hole. Leon's domain remains within his possession, at least for the time being.

Next on his morning task list was the daily protest. Like all cats, Leon despised his owner with a fiery passion equal to that of the flame of one thousand suns. To show his hatred, Leon would enter his owner's room early in the morning and walk all over him. Despite Leon's best intentions to disturb his owner, the poor soul seemed to enjoy it most of the time.

Today was different, though. When Leon jumped up the bed, he landed on a strange object. Unbeknownst to his cat brain, this was a cell phone, and Leon had dialed a number his owner didn't want dialed. Furthermore, with his owner asleep, Leon didn't realize that the screaming man on the other end of the line was a cold-blooded killer.

Thirty minutes later his owner was awake and about the house, sorting his powders, pills and leaves as he did every day. Leon figured he was some sort of botanist but Leon being a cat, had bigger concerns. Just as the mobster he had inadvertently called was arriving at the house, Leon awoke from a short nap and headed toward the kitchen to check on Jack Combs.

As Jack exited the mouse hole and spotted Leon, Leon knew he was going to get a meal today. Leon however, was unaware that the man who had just come in had a gun, and was demanding his owner's entire stash of 'botany materials.' Like any cat, Leon ignored the increasing volume of yelling between the humans and focused on the mouse. Leon was in the zone when he lunged at Jack Combs and just as the meal was in his reach...

BAM!

Leon's owner was dead.

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