King Arthur Drabble: Domesticated

[amari_z]

Title: Domesticated
Word Count: 100
Notes: For ka100 challenge 37a, "cats and dogs"





"What is that?"

Arthur kept petting it. "The visiting commander's son's dog."

That was not a dog. Lancelot remembered dogs. Dogs were great, fierce predators—not over-eager, shameless, tail-wagging things.

"Isn't he lovely?" Then, apparently speaking directly to it, "Yes, yes you are."

Lancelot grimaced at the deranged tone. The slobbering creature was licking all over Arthur's face.

Quite as stupid as it looked, it turned to Lancelot hopefully and bounded forward, tongue lolling. Lancelot had the door slammed behind him before it got within a foot.

He shuddered as he walked away. He wouldn't be kissing Arthur anytime soon.

Comments

[evil-jacquie.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD - I can never listen to Arthur again without hearing him say in THAT voice - "Yes, yes you are." Too perfectly them. I do think Lancelot will get over his revulsion eventually, won't he?

[amari-z.livejournal.com]

: ) I dunno, though. He's kind of stubborn and the more Arthur pets it the less he'll like it. And then there's the whole natural enemies thing . . . .

Glad you enjoyed it!