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It would be funny if Desmond's the cat while his ancestors are the puppies
Retirement was a foreign word that would have never left any Assassins’ lips.
Yet, here they were, retired and living the peaceful life Desmond never had.
No.
He did have a peaceful life.
It just so happened that Abstergo took him away from that life and plunged him deep in the middle of a shadow war he had never wanted to be part of.
But it was all water under the bridge.
Sure, he could send the rest of his years cursing every single Templar and wishing they would all die but he was pass that.
He had reached… zen…
Or the cat equivalent of ‘zen’ anyway.
He had done his part and had died for the sake of the world.
Now he had joined Shaun and Rebecca in their retirement, letting the ‘youngkins’ continue the fight.
Shaun and Rebecca seemed to have complete trust in the new mentor, some dude named Elijah, so Desmond would trust them and just…
… laze around and get enough sun for his afternoon nap.
The two had driven out of their home early this morning, leaving Desmond food (canned sardines, Desmond wasn’t going to eat that damn cat food) and water for him to eat and drink while they were gone.
His memories of the time he was a kitten were quite vague, flashes and muffled voices. All he knew that he was a ‘retirement gift’ given to Shaun and Rebecca by the mentor.
He would assume that the mentor knew who he truly was but Shaun and Rebecca were the ones to call him ‘Desmond’.
They joked about how they wouldn’t name a corgi ‘Desmond’ even if they were held at gunpoint but Desmond has no idea why that was a joke.
It didn’t matter.
Nothing mattered.
Being a cat meant behaving like a cat and that includes having this… desire to just laze around until it was time to eat.
Were all cats like him?
Probably not.
Desmond supposed he was just a lazy cat.
He deserves to be lazy.
This was his retirement.
He heard the car being parked but didn’t bother to get up.
There was the telltale sound of the keys hitting each other as they unlock the door.
And Desmond’s fur rose.
He smelled them.
They were ‘new’.
Unfamiliar.
‘Strangers’.
But at the same time…
Something inside Desmond knew who they were.
They came barreling inside, ignoring Shaun’s shout of ‘heel!’ or maybe it was ‘hey!’, Desmond didn’t really catch it because of the chorus of…
“Desmond!”
“Desmond!”
“Desmond!”
“Desmond!”
Desmond has no idea what has happened.
Before he could even react, they had descended upon him, slobbering his face with furious licks and little nips of his ear.
It didn’t hurt.
But his face was drenched.
In a sea of yipping puppies calling his name and furiously wagging tails, Desmond managed to stare at Shaun and Rebecca (who was holding her phone and most definitely recording the entire thing).
He let out a small meow and immediately closed his mouth because one of the puppies got close to licking his open mouth and Desmond didn’t want any of that.
“Desmond, meet your baby brothers.” Rebecca cooed, “Altaïr, Ezio, Connor, Edward-”
Desmond blinked at the familiar names.
That…
That was just a coincidence, right???
(the puppies were rescued by an Assassin who had been given the mission to burn down an Abstergo laboratory and they were being used as experiments. He didn’t know what else to do with the puppies so he called Shaun and Rebecca and they just… adopted the puppies.)
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