BPRD Headquarters - Newark, New Jersey | Saturday

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Even though Liz was looking forward to returning home for a visit and getting to be with Prompto for the full weekend unlike last time, she knew how awkward this visit was going to be. Liz got them cleared through security, holding onto Rain’s carrier where Rain was meowing excitedly when she realised where she was and led them to the familiar plain white building, stopping before she opened the door to the lobby.

“Well I suppose this is it,” she said softly, turning to Prompto, “if you still want to do this that is,” she hoped that the prospect of spending a weekend playing with newborn kittens and the rest of Hellboy’s cats would be enough to keep him distracted from Abe and Hellboy finding out about everything that had happened the previous weekend.

[for Prompto who is modded with permission. NFB due to distance!]

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"Oh," Prompto whispered out with relief, and a nod, and a slight hesitation, because it felt kind of weird, saying 'good' to something like Abe being overwhelmed, but.... "...good..."

That felt kind of sad, though, didn't it? It wasn't even that big of a project, he easily got it done in his spare time, but hearing this definitely made Prompto glad that he'd managed to do it for Abe. And maybe already had him wondering if there was anything else he could do for him.

Which lead to a small snort of amusement.

"I was going to say," he explained, still whispering, "that maybe we should invite Sidon next time so they could hang out or something, but if Abe's overwhelmed by that....Sidon might make him explode."

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Liz tilted her head, “you know I’d be very interested to see what Abe makes of Sidon,” she admitted as Hellboy came to a stop outside his quarters where there were a group of cats meowing and waiting excitedly for him “maybe if we get through this visit and see how Abe handles the rest of it?”

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And the sound of kittens inside? Was definitely a pretty big distraction, and Prompto's grin got increasingly excited as the prospect.

"For sure," Prompto agreed. "But I think, first, before any of that....let's meet these kittens!"

Sorry, Sidon, the plans for your prospective romance friendship with a psychic amphibious creature was going to have to wait!

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“Well here we are,” Hellboy said, bringing them over to a basket where five tiny kittens were and Clay, who was guarding the basket. “Three boys and two girls. I've named two of the boys Vulcan and Orion,” he pointed out the two kittens , “and I named one of the girls Brooke,” he said proudly.

It seemed Clay had been relegated to cat sitting duties instead of Hellboy sitting duties but he didn’t seem to mind and only looked up to say hello to Prompto and Liz when they entered the room.

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"Ohmygooooooooooooods," Prompto gushed, and he would have been unable to hold that back even if he tried, so he didn't even bother. His knees weakened a little, sinking him down just a little bit with a swoon. "Look at how tiiiiiny they arrrreeeee. Oh, the pictures do not even do them justice! Hi, there, little buuuuddies!"

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The kittens meowed softly in response and Brooke lifted her head up slightly to look at the new people who had come into the room.

Liz smiled fondly as she watched Prompto interact with the kittens, “they’re adorable,” she said as she sat down next to the basket, Rain had wandered covered to her and sat in her lap, “what do you think of your new brothers and sisters Rain?” she carefully moved Rain closer to the basket, Rain sniffed it and let out a contended purr before she settled back in Liz’s lap.

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"Oh," said Prompto, almost immediately, with a look toward Liz, "that's definitely going to be little Noctra and Lucius."

Especially since that shamelessly modded darker one almost had a cranky look on its face that could only be a Noct-name.

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"Noctra and Lucius,," Hellboy mused as he looked at the little kittens, "I like those names, has a nice ring to them" he declared. "Vulcan, Orion, Brooke, Noctra and Lucius,"

Liz smiled up at Prompto when he said the name of the twins, "that's perfect," she grinned, patting Rain who was almost asleep on her lap now, while Liz was patting Rain an older black cat came up to Liz and started purring so Liz was using her free hand to give the other cat scritches.

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Prompto grinned back at Liz, pleased and mostly relieved that she didn't seem to mind him pulling out those particular name for the kittens, or that she didn't think it was a weird choice, and also just for the fact that it was now she who was dealing with some double cat duty. Leo had started twining around his feet a little, too, so he picked him back up, lest he be completely cat-free for too long.

"They're great, though," he told Hellboy, as if he needed to be told that. "I bet you're stoked to have even more to add to the family."

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“Absolutely, it’s always great when the family expands,” Hellboy smiled fondly as he looked around his growing cat family, “I’m nearly at 30 cats now,” he added, “I think I could get there in the next year,”

“Manning would love that,” Clay said, a little bit nervously as if he half expected the agent to walk in right there, “if these guys are anything like the rest of the family they’ll be trying to break into his quarters,”

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Prompto snorted a little at that. Break into. Suuuuuuure, that's definitely what it was and not at all encouraged to slip in there by other parties, definitely.

"Just so you know," Prompto stated, for the record, "I'm not picturing a bunch of cats dropping in on his room, like, all wired up and stealthy like meta for Mission Impossible, and how's that a photoshoot for these guys?"

Was Prompto going to try and pull off a super-spy cat heist photoshoot by the end of the weekend now?

Oh, Prompto was definitely going to try and pull off a super-spy cat heist photoshoot by the end of the weekend now.

Maybe the next time he was in Fandom, he could swing by the shelter and convince Sidon to let him do a counterpoint with the puppies as the bad guys the cats were heisting against!

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Hellboy was definitely trying to look completely innocent …he totally had nothing to do with how the cats kept breaking into Manning’s quarters.

Really.

“…you know I’d really like to see that played out,” Hellboy considered, “that would be a pretty impressive photoshoot,”

Even better if it was in Manning’s quarters.