A Spell Gone Wrong or Not -- prompt courtesy of onecrazycanuck

[charisstoma]

One onecrazycanuck posted this:

This happened.

Title: A Spell Gone Wrong or Not
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 416

The breeze tickling his ears is what woke Winston to the smell of earth and green things. A glass bottle glinted wickedly in his view as he pushed himself up with effort.

When did it become so difficult to get up, he asked himself and noticed that he sprawled with only his front paws wedging him up. Wait! Paws!

It was a hoarse cry of a meow that came from his mouth in disbelief.

I do not have paws and I don’t meow and why is it so hard to get up?

An ache in his tummy heralded unpleasant things and he rolled up, gathering legs under himself so as not to heave up vomit onto his body and saw furry legs; his white, dirt stained, furred legs.

“You’ll be okay in a bit,” an amused voice told him. “It takes a while for the effects of stuff like that stuff to wear off.”

Oh… right, Winston put things together. The party. A party that had been put about on the internet. The ultimate Halloween Party to end all parties with wizards and magic, it had said. Who knew wizards and magic were real? He’d blamed it on really great special effects and that was before someone had given him a bottle of something and told him to drink. He was as stupidly naïve as Alice in Fucking Wonderland.

“Now, now. Don’t go wandering there,” said the voice, “tummy settled?”

A hand gripped the back of Winston’s neck and yes there is a reflex that freezes kittens and cats into immobility. He managed a low growl at the treatment as he dangled in air with only a pair of brown tweed pant legs to watch from his vantage point as they walked across a wasteland of dirt and sparse green grass. After a while he had to shut his eyes, his tummy did not like watching the Earth move under someone else’s feet.

“I promise your tummy will feel better and whoever did this will be punished. Whether or not we can get you back to being fully human, I’m not sure. We might have to settle for feline familiar-kin. The pregnancy,” there was a feel as if of shrugging.
“Until then,” Winston was lifted higher and a finger delicately put on his nose to get him to open his eyes and into the face the voice came from, “Welcome to one of the Wizards’‘Verse’s most lauded Academies and an education like you never imagined.”

Part 2

Comments

[frogs_of_war]

A spell to turn someone familiar and catnip at the same party? Someone is going to get in trouble. Sadly enough it looks like Winston already has.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

It's a whole new life for Winston. Maybe he'll like it. And then there's the kittens. Hopefully they'll be familiars.
Never a good thing to drink things at parties that you don't know if the drink has been doctored or in this case wizarded.

[meridae.livejournal.com]

What worries me is, as Papa Bryan knows only too well, that the only substance known to turn humans into cats is familiar tomcat pee. Someone's really spiking drinks with that???

[frogs_of_war]

It's topical, isn't it? No need to be ingested? So maybe it wasn't in the drink, but Winston got some on him after drinking whatever the punch was spiked with, he sat down in a cushion that had been sprayed by a familiar so far into his cups he thought marking "his" territory was a good idea.

I'd rather think the whole thing was a series of accidents (Winston drank something too strong, sat or leaned against spray, got lovey with someone as drunk as himself - or even the tom gets frisky with the new familiar that spells like his territory), because the idea that someone got Winston drunk and turned him familiar in order to get him knocked up bothers me.

Don't you think Charis needs to let us know how this happened. And whether a pregnancy can be detected this quickly. What if the kitten(s) have nothing to do with this incident?

Charis, we need to know.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Does ingesting it have longer lasting effects or even permanent ones? hmmmmm

Could be a prank gone wrong.
Could be someone who was looking for a human test subject to try out his thesis project on.

Imagine the catnip effects could have been accidentally ingested. And who knows how long it took for the potion to take effect so that the kittens had time to gestate a bit.
I've watched werewolf movies where the unfortunate, not that I'm saying that Winston is necessarily unfortunate, victim of a werewolf didn't know what their full moon experiences were just that they didn't remember what they'd done and their clothing was worse for wear.
Winston might have been wandering around preggers in his cat form before the familiar human/cat mind gestalt clicked into place.

[frogs_of_war]

Maybe they know that ingesting it makes it permanent and it's all hush hush so young familiars don't attempt it.

If it was the last option: What was Winston given that blacked him out for that long? and could it effect the kitten(s)?

[onecrazycanuck.livejournal.com]

*sits down and looks up at Charis*

Story time? Yay! Story Time!

Wait a minute....where's the rest????

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Will work on it but it's going to if not already raining like a big dog so don't know when it'll get posted. Got side tracked by a beating heart prompt.

[onecrazycanuck.livejournal.com]

Saw the beating heart story. That is an acceptable side track. Dark, moody and yet sexy at the same time. I do love me a dark, mysterious man.

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

This.
My internet is down at home because of rain.
Hopefully it'll be up later as I've written more of this fic but it's on my home computer... the one without internet access.

*GRINS* Glad you liked the beating heart one. Am not sure what the dark, mysterious man is to have a demon lover and maybe we shouldn't discuss where the heart came from.
Dark Wizard perhaps. No more evil than a necromancer but hmmm.