This was inspired by the “Surrender” square of my February Valentine’s Bingo Card. 306 word drabble, this continues the story started in Cause of Ignition: Unattended Flame.
Diagnosis: Carbon Monoxide Toxicosis
Stupid Rupert had been right-wrong, and Priscilla hated him for that.
As the night had worn on, and the flames died under the power of the water snakes, Mistress had approached them in their ow-don’t bite-stay still boxes and given Priscilla several chin and shoulder scritches through the grating as she talked to many strangers. Looking back maybe Priscilla should have tried harder to purr for her at that moment, maybe it would have made Mistress love her enough to prevent what happened. Because she’d left Priscilla in the ow-don’t bite-stay still box, but she’d removed Rupert from his and taken him away. Rupert was right, Priscilla had been abandoned.
An unknown man loaded Priscilla, in her ow-don’t bite-stay still box, into the belly of a too fast-too loud-go far that had a big red paw print on its side. Priscilla had thought in that moment that whatever creature left a paw print that large on such a scary beast was mighty, and she wished she felt that fearsome. Instead, she’d yowled and cried the entire time the too fast-too loud-go far had her captive in its stomach.
When the monster finally stopped, Priscilla discovered that Rupert had also been so, so wrong. She hadn’t gone back to the no petting-not home-no hope place. It was worse. The strange man unloaded her, and she’d smelled it as the doors into a brightly lit building had slid open, the Chemical Stink-Ouch Stabs-Bad Touch-Panic rooms. Priscilla had yowled as loudly as she could, she’d thrown her fluffy black body against the metal grating of her ow-don’t bite-stay still box, and she’d clawed at the arms of the strange man. Her only thoughts: she couldn’t be here! She’d never surrender!
Was what she’d done so bad Mistress would leave her all alone at the Chemical Stink-Ouch Stabs-Bad Touch-Panic rooms?
Not Safe For Words 
[…] This was inspired by the “Rescue / Recovery” square of my January Story Sparks Bingo Card. 656 words, it is the completion of the story started in Cause of Ignition: Unattended Flame and Diagnosis: Carbon Monoxide Toxicosis. […]