Cats And Dogs

Jennifer finally made up her mind. "I wanna meet Con." was the sole thought that occupied her mind for days, and now, the perfect opportunity arose. "Markus? There's a nice food stand over there. Can I have some?" - pulling on my shirt, she gesticulated at the instant noodles stand located at other side of the street. I acknowledged the obvious request and turned towards it, not noticing her gaining more and more space between the two of us, and then, slowly, vanishing.

She ran as fast as she could, knowing that she wouldn't have much time before I noticed she's gone, made her way into the airport we were standing in front just a minute ago and rushed on board of the closest plane she could find. Sneaking past the stewardess during the ticket control, she managed to get on board and headed straight for the cockpit. Giving out a loud "meow?" in front of the cockpit's sealed door, she caused the co-pilot to open it, checking "which stupid passenger smuggled a pet into the cabins this time". Being pushed back inside the second he opened a door, he gasped as claws drove into his chest and Jennifer took her breath: "THIS IS A MEOWJACK! I WANT YOU TO TAKE ME TO SOUTH AFRICA! OTHERWISE I WILL SIT HERE AND DO MY BEST TO ANNOY YOU FOR THE NEXT TEN SECONDS IT WILL TAKE THE SECURITY TO REMOVE ME!". The laughter that followed was beyond compare, and barely catching her breath, the pilot noted "We're heading for Johannesburg, ZA.". "Well, okay then. I guess. Can I stay and try to annoy you anyway?", she asked, "The passengers kept looking at me - as if they would have never seen a Neko before. It's darn creepy back there.". Obviously, she couldn't, so she sat onto the emergency chair right next to the cockpit, commonly used by the stewardess looking at the screens showing the toilet's security footage.

Meanwhile in Johannesburg, Conor received a cryptic message feeding the dogs: "Come to the airport as soon as my plane touches down!" - Having received this message literally out of nowhere, soon realized he didn't have much better things to do - Just to realize that he has no clue which plane she was talking about in the first place. Preparing for the worst, he called the SANDF warning them about a potential alien invasion, knowing full well what can happen if Jennifer is too far from the only one able to control her once she has a mood swing - and stop her from calling in such an invasion for being mistreated. Having been lectured about the punishments linked to prank calls on an emergency line, he got on his way after a short, yet determined "Well, I tried to warn ya." right before hanging up the phone.

Half way to the airport, he finally had the obvious idea: "I could bring a few of my dogs. Damn, it could even save the world, quite literally.". So he turned on-the-spot, leashed three dogs to his belt and went to the airport. Right in time, as J seemingly just left the plane, ran in his direction, screamed and sprinted back to the still-docked plane. "Mission accomplished. Now, back home.", he thought for himself, getting on his way once again.

"What are you doing in here again?", the pilot asked as Jennifer ran into him and clinged to him in fear. "Dogs. I want to be back home."

And believe me, this is a story she never forgot. For it is rubbed under her nose as a running gag each second time she's mentioned in private.